Ri Young-hoe @noxy@witches.town

@ravenna @ikea_femme Yeah and at least on masto I'm not going to get suspended because I told a Nazi to choke (which has happened to me on birdsite twice)

@ravenna @ikea_femme *waiting with bated breath*

@Aleph I'm not suggesting those spaces are "safe" in any meaningful way, in fact an on-campus frat house is safer in one sense because it's owned by the university, and security will show up within minutes if they're called. The lack of any real threat of police presence also makes the entire situation safer.

oh wait this is the full one, where she says

YOU SHOULDN'T LET POETS LIE TO YOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

I never noticed that her voice in this video is extremely ASMR lol

this interview is what made me fall in love with Björk, the woman

https://youtu.be/s2lRscaX0uI?t=16s

that time Björk made a song about me

"Venus as a Boy"
from the album Debut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5aPaDwAkU

fun fact, Björk's favorite book is The Story of The Eye by George Bataille, in which a main character pleasures herself with a dead person's eyeball (among other things). this makes it sound awful but it's actually an excellent book.

ANYWAY, Bataille's erotism inspires the song, and the video was supposed to be inspired by the book, hence the eggs.

the director made her fry the eggs, because she hadn't read the book. Björk was upset because the eggs had to be whole for it to make sense. afterward, the director DID read the book, and agreed.

@alyx @ikea_femme Yeah I hate that part because I love Hawk SO MUCH and it's disingenuous and ahistorical af to make the Native character the transphobe. But I don't recall even feeling uncomfortable with it, and normally I would probably just turn the show off

@ikea_femme Yeah that's the part about it that's undeniably harmful; putting a cis man in drag to portray a trans woman is indefensible. And if you have sensitivity about your voice in particular, I can see how that specific character might trigger it. The drag is honestly not as bad as it usually is when shows/movies depict trans women - visually I think she might pass if she weren't obviously David Duchovny. But the voice is a dead giveaway.

are there other Björk stans lurking about? I always want to have in-depth discussions about her music but most people just think of it as "weird"

I present the song that changed my life and made me into a permanent Björk stan

"Enjoy"
from the album Post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yby59UUZO3M

#nowplaying #bjork

@Aleph Oh me too. And you're totally right, this is a small town so it's that sort of thing. If there WERE decent bars and clubs here, I think it might actually help the problem. As it is, men and women are roughly 80% fraternity/sorority-affiliated, so they eat and sleep and hang out on different sides of town. They only interact in class, and when they're all drunk and on men's territory (sorority houses can't have parties). A recipe for disaster.

@tobascodagama yeah this isn't even about the next day being light, it's always seemed to me that the students just literally can't wait a full week between blackouts

@ravenna Lulz I only use it pejoratively to describe online spaces like r/TheDonald. Which ironically IS using it in good faith since that's exactly what they are.

@Sapphaos >.< her poor liver

Managing all of the library's outgoing interlibrary loans (i.e. all of the books, DVDs, scans, electronic documents etc. that we loan to other libraries) is really interesting. There are so many books and just general topics that I probably would never have thought to read or learn about if they hadn't crossed my desk on the way to some grad student somewhere.

@Sapphaos It's crazy. As a student there were a couple of times when I happened to be free on a Wednesday night and friends of mine pressured me into riding the drunk bus out to a party with them...

I would walk in the door to the party, immediately turn around, leave, and get back on the bus lol

@kara_dreamer @KaylinEvergreen me too! best of luck to her!!!

@Aleph Yeah, here too. There are only a couple of bars here, and the students don't even go to them - it's frat central so they all go to frat houses owned by the university (the big red brick/white pillars kind) or at off-campus houses rented by frat boys. And the school wonders how they could tackle our horrendous sexual misconduct problem...