CRYING OVER DICK.
For the record, 1950s/‘60s romance comics are the biggest treasure trove of perverted nonsense in all of pop culture. Stories of loss and longing created for young girls, written and drawn mostly by grown men, freighted with creepy stereotypes and questionable morals, and distributed in a package designed to be overlooked by adults.… Read the rest “”
… Read the rest “How old are you?”Old enough to have stolen a porn magazine from a Times Square sex shop because there was no internet.
My teenaged shoplifting phase was centered on violating the porn rack at the Waldenbooks in the mall.
“And I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo, who in the forest of Rieti lived as a hermit and boasted of having received directly from the Holy Spirit the revelation that the carnal act was not a sin— so he seduced his victims, whom he called sisters, forcing them to submit to the lash on their naked flesh, making five genuflections on the ground in the form of a cross, before he presented them to God and claimed from them what he called the kiss of peace.”… Read the rest “”
Every now and then, I take the dog for a walk in the rain, and I’ll find the trail is empty… the side streets are vacant… even the birds are quiet. The world is still and peaceful beneath my feet, like all the life has been drained from it.… Read the rest “Infinity War”
The problem with being the perfect man for your time is that your time can end long before you do. At 91, Hef was past perfect.
But for the twenty years of his prime, he filled a lustful, thoughtful, man-shaped hole in the American tapestry.… Read the rest “”
… Read the rest “”She reads a book about torture and learns that “the more a captive is raped, the more likely she is to experience pleasure.” She continues: “Pleasure as a means of survival. The more she is raped. The more pleasure. Does this mean I have felt the most pleasure in the world?”
Confession: At your suggestion, I changed my mind and bought Kafka on the Shore instead. Turned out to be a sub-par audiobook, though, so I’m going to need to get a regular ebook version.
But you get full credit for prompting me to read something new to me; I went with Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem.… Read the rest “How is 1Q84 going? -H💕”
I am slightly embarrassed by my reading list; there’s not a ton of literary value in the books I’ve consumed throughout my life.
Just to give you an idea of how bad it can get, the lowlights include all ten of Hubbard’s Mission Earth books, and as a teenager, swear to God, I paid to read slightly reworded versions of the same fucking David Eddings book ten fucking times.… Read the rest “What sorts of novels do you read? Are there any favourite authors or a specific genre or time period you really enjoy?”
No matter the medium, the best Daredevil stories have always been about broken people trying to make a place for love in a world of hate. And failing, no matter how hard they try.
[Still from Netflix’s Daredevil, page from Daredevil: Love & War by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz]
The mating call of the Lonely Tumblr Dom.
