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Creator of various things, but mainly sapphic audio stuff for the moment. 18+, MDNI
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July 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
brazenember.bsky.social
Why do I have this specific reference and chapter? Why can I tell you it's in pages 56–60 specifically? Because this was genuinely in one of the readings for my degree. Here's an excerpt from page 58 that I think sets the tone for this.
Once more, modern practices offer useful methodological parallels without presupposing transhistorical or transcultural stability, since these practices themselves show the inadmissibility of such presuppositions. A linking of play and sexual behaviors that involves a creative and consensual use of violence has been studied most closely in scholarly treatments of BDSM, particularly those from an ethnographical perspective.58 The resonance of such studies extends well beyond their ability to speak directly to the masochistic aspects of courtly loving and sometimes use broader sociological methodologies (like sexual scripting). Here, BDSM shares some aspects and practices with LARP, in which sex, pain, and violence are more often simulated than “real,” but are similarly live and present in a way that, for example, online gaming’s violent and sexual content is not.59 LARP and BDSM share with courtly song the temporary creation of another world that contains erotic possibilities not ordinarily present in everyday reality, which provides a site of imaginative pleasure, whether during the performance (the song, the BDSM scene, or the “in-game’“ time of the LARP) and in recollection. Both LARP and BDSM can involve “safe words” that prompt a cessation of the game, as well as involving a set of pre-play contracts and limits.
June 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
brazenember.bsky.social
There are some things that barely make sense (see attached excerpt), but there's reason behind what is said, whether it be metaphor, misplaced truth, anything. Combine that with your own understanding. Dismissing potential meaning prevents you from learning more. Even in nonsense, there's reason.
An excerpt from Barthes' "The Grain of The Voice": "The lung, a stupid organ (lights for cats!), swells but gets no erection; it is in the throat, place where the phonic metal hardens and is segmented, in the mask that signifiance explodes, bringing not the soul but jouissance."
May 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
brazenember.bsky.social
i think these cats would be better advisors tbh
(game in the image is Streetpass Trader, but they call it Market Crashers in the US for some reason.)

(but I think I see the reason now)
April 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM