jessejbrown.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Indecisive neurodivergent mongrel. Supports the dolls. Often writes. Occasionally draws. Sometimes cosplays. Rarely focuses. Will bite your enemies in exchange for food.
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Ok but that pope coat is a SLAY
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Awesome 😁
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I hope it's not rude to suggest my own, but it is horror with sci-fi elements (genetic engineering gone wrong) featuring adult protagonists and lizard monsters. It's Sean of the Dead meets the island of Dr moreau. www.waterstones.com/book/eat/jes...
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, reviews are for the readers. Yes, a positive review brightens our day (it does for me anyway), a negative review can feel crappy, but we shouldn't really be checking. You can be a perfect peach as they say, & someone will prefer pears instead.
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Love all of these
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I get so tired of the general narrative that art has to be financially successful to be considered good. So often I find the 'flops' (treasure planet & Titan AE being perfect examples) are incredible. They tend to stay in our hearts far longer than so many box office block busters.
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7) These systems thrive on creating division between people. They directly profit from our collective self hatred & bodily shame.
Your body is like a machine. It has functions. It requires maintenance & care. It can be altered,decorated. Do so with joy. Treat it with kindness.
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6) Something really, really healthy to do is to see & feel real bodies in a nonsexual setting, in a non-advertising/capitalist setting.
Unlearning the conditioning that all intimate/physical touch is sexual is also revolutionary. Capitalism & patriarchy thrive on our bodies being products.
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5) For trauma survivors (myself included), touch becomes weighted. It becomes poisoned, something to fear.
Doing the course I'm doing has undone a lot of that trauma just in being able to be touched by another without it having an ulterior motive beyond "I need to get to your spine to find Du3"
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4) We are very far removed from a time where humans lived in tribes & ritualistically groomed eachother. We are touch starved (& there's enough true crime stories to know why we avoid it, so it's understandable).
For many of us, the only physical touch we are exposed to is sexual in nature.
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3) Real bodies also tell us stories about another's life. We see scars, lumps, dents, bone ridges that tell us where they were once broken, out of line vertebrae and slipped disks.
Because of this, palpating another body in a medical setting is a truly freeing experience - I'll elaborate further:
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2) You see a lot of other people's bodies, real bodies. Not bodies that are presented to be attractive or sell you anything, just bodies as they are, as they function. You start seeing bodies as the muscles, bones and fascia that they are. It is beautiful and fascinating. Real bodies are gorgeous.
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Yes
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Agreed, & the traditional publishing industry recently doesn't seem to be the standard of excellence it keeps insisting it is. I'm seeing more cutbacks on advances, a drop in quality of editing & a rise in ai cover design.
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This line work 😩💖
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Aw hell no block that bitch immediately
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Bond, however, was definitely not expecting that
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I'm doomed
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Literally - will I watch one episode of an anime I've been waiting ages to see? Nope. Will I watch a 4 hour long deep dive into the downfall of an online influencer I've never even heard of? Absolutely
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Same 🤣😭 I never seem to finish anything
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LITERALLY
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Aw dang it
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Absolutely!!
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Disgusting behavior from Reading University, there's literally no reason why they had to change anything.
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Oh thank fuck the bus is here
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She KEEPS COUGHING bear in mind the bench takes up the whole bus stop and I'm not in the middle of it I'm at the very end of it