Paola Revenioti: The Greek transgender activist on blowing up sexual taboos in the name of art
During the 80s, transgender Greek artist and prostitute Paola Revenioti published the trans-anarchist fanzine Kraximo. Funded by her own prostitution, the zine pioneered the fight for gay and trans rights, combining interviews with Greek poets and intellectuals alongside Athens street hustlers and her own photography, since compared to the work of Larry Clark and Walter Pfeiffer. Today she continues to work as an artist and activist, making Athens-based documentaries with her "Paola Projects."
i hope u’re not offended but at this point u’re my point of reference when searching for vids/photos or whatever 😭 do u mayhaps have that vid of the brazil 2013 podium, mark’s last race, when seb asks the interviewer to interview mark first and she was like “(seb) is so gentle mark, are u gonna miss him?” and then mark shyly nods mouthing “yes”?????? could’ve sworn i’ve seen it somewhere but i can’t find it anymore tears. anyway no pressure, hope u’re enjoying being in germany!
Of course I'm not offended! Actually, tbh you actually have made me see a lot of new content, and it's a lot of fun to look around, so ty in return 🤭
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Charles: "I was in my last year of karting, I became vice world champion in KZ, then I was watching F1 on Canal at that time, we were hoping and dreaming of one day arriving in F1 and even more at Ferrari.” [x]
Excerpt from Sebs interview with Playboy ca. 2011 (the carfucker part)
Playboy: What is special about Formula 1?
Vettel: The speed, and connected to that the forces that are exerted on you. On some tracks, there's corners that make you renounce your faith when you stand next to there and see how we drive through there. Sometimes it's hard even for us drivers to understand how that's possible. You think: They have to be crazy, that isn't possible! But then you do it yourself. With the enormous force exerted on you when you step on the brakes and turn in, your brain is shouting: "Stop, that doesn't work!" But the car shows you that it does work. To go to that limit is something very special.
Playboy: What do you feel in these moments?
Vettel: That's indescribable. It's like trying to explain to someone how it feels when you - let's say get close - with a woman for the first time. You can try to explain it but someone will only know the feeling when they experienced it themselves. This feeling I get when I'm racing gives me so much fun and satisfaction like nothing else in life.
Playboy: Is a Grand Prix victory better than Sex?
Vettel: That always depends on how it feels respectively. But the races take very long, some almost up to two hours. And I don't know if every man can hold on that long consecutively...
I just got annoyed at George RR Martin for pushing the damn red hot poker narrative, realized that this interview is litterally 10 years old and now I'm just sitting there, still annoyed but aware that this is kind of a really useless emotion lol
While the interview tv series looks pretty good, I can't help but be peeved about Claudia's casting. I know they can't cast a really young actress for various reasons, but imo, part of the abject horror of her character was that she was eternally trapped as a five year old. The older she gets (Kristen Dunst around 11 and Bailey Bass at 19), the less the absolute dread of her existence, and the truly monstrous act both Louis and Lestat did by condemning her to be 5 for all time, has a role in the series. The 2022 version really leans into Lestat's betrayal as a father figure, not as a manipulator who caught Claudia in his crossfire
Obviously I don't want a poor 5yo stuck acting, but that's why I think an animated series could have been a good choice for a remake of Interview
I assume George meant that in the context of their relationship
probably. still a very funny way to phrase it. like i dont think even in that context would jaime’s side be the only one he certainly has to deal with lol. i think what threw him off in general is the question itself like “so where do u see them headed” is basically the lite version of “whats their endgame gonna be” like what is he supposed to say? plus idek if the question was about the relationship itself or them as individual characters
That moment when you waited ten years for both Kingdom Hearts III (actually, it ended up being a bit longer than that. But Nomura-san finally noticed that it had been a very long time since KHII at the ten year mark) and the fourth Madoka Magica movie. Heck, Final Fantasy XV, too.
I just wanted to say I've read this ask you replied to about falling out of a fandom and this hit close to home for me. I've been deep in a different fandom for about 9 years, after 7 I felt myself slowly drifting away, and it hurts, it hurts so much and you only understand if you've been through it too is the thing. But it's been this life ever since I've been a teenager and real life has started falling apart a little as well so I desperately needed to come back to my only source of comfort; music and with that fandoms. Don't get me wrong, I've been following All Time Low since around Future Hearts, but not like massively. But now it feels like none of the years were valid because I've been very lowkey with it and everyone's been here for so long and has all those stories about how much they mean to them and all those songs that got them through a tough time when that has been a different band for me and it makes me feel like an alien a little bit. This may sound very stupid, I apologise, but I guess I needed to get this off my chest as well.
No, I understand completely! Thank you for sharing this with me. I’m not trying to make this about me, but I relate because I’ve been listening to all time low since sometime before 2012 but I didn’t get like DEEP into the fandom until 2015 (also future hearts era!). And I felt like such an outsider because I had only seen them once and never met them. There were people my age who had met them like thirty+ times and followed them on tour for years. It made me feel so inferior. It’s been nearly eight years since I joined the fandom and I’ve only seen them in concert twice (granted my 2021 show was canceled). When I felt so inferior, I was in my first couple years of college and POOR, and I didn’t even have a reliable car, so there was no reason for me to feel inferior, but there was almost this idea that if you didn’t go to every single show and have a million meet and greet photos, you weren’t good enough. I also was super into Jalex and the fandom was SUPER not Jalex-friendly back then, so I felt even worse. Anyway, I say all of this to say that there’s plenty of time for you to make those memories and get those meanings for the songs. It just takes time. I hope this helps, and I also hope that you feel better. My DMs are always open if you wanna talk. ♥️