By the way the reason you should care about AAA games being horridly broken and unstable isn’t just because you’re being ripped off, but because it’s the most common sign of horrific workplace practices like crunch that are absolutely abusive management and which both lead to shittier games and more importantly, the ruined health or even deaths of the actual game developers.
“When my nineteen-year-old son turns on the kitchen tap
and leans down over the sink and tilts his head sideways
to drink directly from the stream of cool water,
I think of my older brother, now almost ten years gone,
who used to do the same thing at that age;
And when he lifts his head back up and, satisfied,
wipes the water dripping from his cheek
with his shirtsleeve, it’s the same casual gesture
my brother used to make; and I don’t tell him
to use a glass, the way our father told my brother,
because I like remembering my brother
when he was young, decades before anything
went wrong, and I like the way my son
becomes a little more my brother for a moment
through this small habit born of a simple need,
which, natural and unprompted, ties them together
across the bounds of death, and across time …
as if the clear stream flowed between two worlds
and entered this one through the kitchen faucet,
my son and brother drinking the same water.”
that one substack piece about heard/depp was one of the best things ive read all year tbh. maybe even the best opinion piece ive ever read in my time on the world wide web
I am actually legitimately going apeshit over the fact the department of justice funded an entire project to use an algorithm to determine someone’s Likelihood of Overdose and the medical community readily adopted it to the point that if they disobey the Computer Algorithm that thinks this actual cancer patient is a Drug Seeker, their license could be threatened. And it does not take into account things such as chronic illness, rare illness, people moving, people living in rural areas, or terminal cancer, and also doesn’t seem to consistently log whether a prescription came from a MD/DO or DVM?! Or else just generally treats the veterinary use of controlled substances (of which there are many) as suspicious and potential drug seeking. And also cops can access that shit whenever they want. Without a warrant. And they openly bragged on their HOMEPAGE about how their software could identify PTSD and calculate a higher risk of drug abuse based off that. I figured something like this was in use but I should have known it was going to be as cartoonishly evil and dystopian as fucking possible. Like holy fuck.
I wish everyone involved in the denial of life changing and lifesaving medication to anybody, including denying such medication to users of illegal drugs and people who use their medications in ways other than the way they are prescribed, a very I hope your nose gets bitten off by a rottweiler
anyways. drag kings have been around for decades & are equally as important as drag queens. drag masculinity faces serious erasure & that’s a problem. support your local drag kings
whenever I see people reblog this or my other post about this with some variation of “oh i didn’t even know drag kings existed!!” it makes me so sad. I’m glad u know it now but like, the fact that people don’t even know drag kings exist? how many people do you thing would get into drag if they knew drag kings and drag masculinity was a Thing? how many more people would get to explore their masculinity via drag?
Some kings to get you going.
Landon Cider, Buck Wylde, Miles Long, Koco Caine, Murray Hill, and Spikey Van Dykey.
I should also recommend Beau Jangles and Mudd the Two Spirit, my two personal favorite kings!
Beau is very much inspired by Cab Calloway, so you know. I, Heidi Ho myself, just have to be obsessed.
Mudd is an indigenous king and honestly? His looks are FUCKING INSANE I love him.
Drag kings haven’t just been around for decades, they’ve been around for over a hundred years.
As an aspiring professional queen myself, the erasure of drag masculinity is quite literally offensive to the artform as a whole. Kings have contributed so much and they deserve better.
They have been around for over a hundred years!
In the 1800s, drag kings were called “male impersonators” (and likewise, drag queens called “female impersonators”), and they would work the music halls (like, variety acts, comedy and theatre) - mostly singing silly or risqué songs like “Burlington Bertie from Bow”, “Following in Father’s Footsteps” or “Jolly Good Luck to the Girl that Loves a Soldier” - and many of them also did panto, acting as the Prince Charming, or Peter Pan (as is traditional), things like that
One of the early ones was Bessie Bonehill in the 1890s
Here she is, from an image search -
Later on, there was Ella Shields
And Hetty King, who worked until the 1930s, 30 years on the halls
