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@aromatasemebro.bsky.social
trans alt girl, writer. hands have come up from the dark before and slid away again, why not yours? links: http://linktr.ee/aromatasemebro
![Q. You were saying a little while ago: "Rather than crying about faded pleasures, I'm interested in what we ourselves can do." Could you explain that more precisely?
M.F. Asceticism as the renunciation of pleasure has bad connota- tions. But ascesis is something else: it's the work that one performs on oneself in order to transform oneself or make the self appear which, happily, one never attains. Can that be our problem today? We've rid ourselves of asceticism. Yet it's up to us to advance into a homosexual ascesis that would make us work on ourselves and invent-I do not say discover-a manner of being that is still improbable.
Q. That means that a young homosexual must be very cautious in regard to homosexual imagery; he must work at something else?
M.F. What we must work on, it seems to me, is not so much to lib- erate our desires but to make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure [plaisirs]. We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.
Q. Can one see the first fruits of strong constructive relationships in the United States, in any case in the cities where the problem of sex- ual misery seems under control?
M.F. To me, it appears certain that in the United States, even if the basis of sexual misery still exists, the interest in friendship has become very important; one doesn't enter a relationship simply in order to be able to consummate it sexually, which happens very easily. But toward friendship, people are very polarized. How can a relational system be reached through sexual practices? Is it possible to create a homosex- ual mode of life?
This notion of mode of life seems important to me. Will it require the introduction of a diversification different from the ones due to social class, differences in profession and culture, a diversification that would](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ojmzd4t7tdbautptz6ppbzl7/bafkreifjgnccjd7cci2wwasedckw2eepmtqjcqp4xuu3qjpaebovgvxkfi@jpeg)
this is essentially two reviews in one because I was bowled over by Auntie Mame into speechlessness when I saw it last month
December 6, 2024 at 3:26 AM
this is essentially two reviews in one because I was bowled over by Auntie Mame into speechlessness when I saw it last month
I don't usually like to do rankings, but the prompt of favorite songs from 2000 to 2024 called out to me. One per main artist
December 4, 2024 at 8:07 AM
I don't usually like to do rankings, but the prompt of favorite songs from 2000 to 2024 called out to me. One per main artist
such a crazy hard line that it went straight to bio
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
such a crazy hard line that it went straight to bio
questions I am always asking
November 28, 2024 at 6:01 AM
questions I am always asking
it bears repeating that I've got tits
November 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
it bears repeating that I've got tits
I'm still in disbelief over this photo I took from my former subway stop in Ridgewood last December. didn't edit it even a little bit. Andreas Gursky btfo'd
November 19, 2024 at 2:43 AM
I'm still in disbelief over this photo I took from my former subway stop in Ridgewood last December. didn't edit it even a little bit. Andreas Gursky btfo'd
yeah I know I gotta clean my mirror
November 15, 2024 at 1:07 AM
yeah I know I gotta clean my mirror
quite a few of you
November 14, 2024 at 7:58 PM
quite a few of you
getting into the history of philosophy
November 6, 2024 at 4:47 PM
getting into the history of philosophy
if you want to help me make it through the 31st when I get paid 🙏
August 29, 2023 at 2:25 PM
if you want to help me make it through the 31st when I get paid 🙏
couldn't do this one without sinking to messier depths
August 21, 2023 at 6:00 AM
couldn't do this one without sinking to messier depths
we need to triage these winless queens
August 3, 2023 at 8:59 PM
we need to triage these winless queens
"now for a silly one"
July 29, 2023 at 11:02 PM
"now for a silly one"
they should pay me $1000 for finding this fuckup in the English translation of 2666
July 29, 2023 at 1:22 PM
they should pay me $1000 for finding this fuckup in the English translation of 2666
will have nothing left over after paying rent & deposit this coming month, hoping to raise $300; anything helps!
July 27, 2023 at 3:27 PM
will have nothing left over after paying rent & deposit this coming month, hoping to raise $300; anything helps!
guy whose ultra-specific hobbyhorse is that ABBA is a radfem band
July 24, 2023 at 9:28 PM
guy whose ultra-specific hobbyhorse is that ABBA is a radfem band
this verse bowls me over every time
July 24, 2023 at 7:41 PM
this verse bowls me over every time
Mitski should lean into this blunt political shtick so hard that she ends up becoming the system of the down of the mid 2020s
July 23, 2023 at 10:05 PM
Mitski should lean into this blunt political shtick so hard that she ends up becoming the system of the down of the mid 2020s