#Pure Adult

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 02.26.23

Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sounds) Soul Glo Diaspora Problems (Epitaph) Evan Caminiti Varispeed Hydra (Dust Editions) Jerry Goldsmith Morituri OST (Tsunami) Bohemian Flesh Bohemian Flesh (Ojet) Onsegen Ensemble Awalai / Duel / Fear / Realms (Pink Tank) Magma Kartehl (Seventh Records) Ennio Morricone Grazie Zia (Cam) Flummox Rephlummoxed (Needlejuice) Pure Adult II (FatCat) Mandy, Indiana EP (Fire Talk) John Zorn Bagatelles Vol 9-12 Box Set (Tzadik)

[omegaradiowusb]

JULY 8, 2024 (#380)

Brain Bent: "Quality Assurance Audit" Pom Poko: "Champion" M(h)aol: "Pursuit" Objections: "Idiot Fill" Nothing To Report: "Fold Paper" Sacred Paws: "Wet Graffiti" Omni: "Compliments" Pool Holograph: "Stage Fright" Water From Your Eyes: "Warm Storm" Memory Cell: "Vacant Space" Sunwatchers: "World People" Dancer: "Passionate Sunday" Current Affairs: "Get Wrecked" Water Machine: "At The Drive In" Beige Palace: "Local Sandwich" Gauche: "Rectangle" Open Head: "Dun" Waltzer: "Act Like Me" Bodega: "Cultural Consumer III" Floatie: "Over The Terrain" Finom: "Haircut" Lawn: "Running My Luck" True Dreams: "Pavement" Robber Robber: "Backup Plan" Pure Adult: "Hot Crusade" Marbled Eye: "Foundation" Flower Festival: "Too Far" Cola: "Pallor Tricks" Kaputt: "Highlight!" Legss: "Hyde Park Coroner" Memory Cell: "Echo Chamber" Queen Serene: "Double Life" Hissing Tiles: "Rist" Microwaves: "New Strategies" (Minneapolis) Uranium Club: "Viewers Like You" Drahla: "Grief In Phantasia" Class: "Public Void" Landowner: "Dopesmoker" (666% faster, no distortion)

It's another deluxe Omega Summer broadcast of new-, current, and favorite sounds and artists from the world of post-punk and d.i.y. Music for meet-and-greets, group hugs, waving hi, shopping at fruit stands, catching subway trains, or bicycling through Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, or what have you.

One more Summer deluxe show before we air our two-part broadcast season-ender. We never done anything on this scale before, and we're looking to make it one of our biggest programs ever. No hints, no giveaways. Tune in on Midnight August 5, 2024 to find out.

Thanks to all tuning in to Omega and WUSB. See you in two weeks.

July 22, 2024 (Midnight EST): deluxe Omega.

August 5, 2024 (Midnight EST): ???

August 19, 2024 (Midnight EST): ???

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

[innovacancy]

Pure Adult Cambridge, MA 24 February 2023

[valaquenta]

Pure Adult - Hot Crusade

[senorboombastic]

What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod: DITZ

What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod: DITZ

Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel that what influences them is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, off the back of releasing their debut album ‘The Great Regression‘ last year, we’re delighted to have DITZ guitarist Jack Looker and engineer and producer Ben Hampson talk us through a number of records…

[venacoeurva]

You know when you’re falling asleep and a random image or meme blips into your vision? Yeah

-Please do not reupload/edit/use without proper credit and linking back. Ask first.-

[khaopybara]

❝I'm being led on by an oblivious straight girl.❞

KATO SHIHO as AYAKA and MORI KANNA as HIROKO episode 1 of AYAKA IS IN LOVE WITH HIROKO

[sapphire-drawings]

How did adult!Webber manage to befriend bb!Wilson after that traumatic introduction?! 8O

Almost a year later. Here's the continuation of How Mr. Webber and baby Wilson met

Here's the first part cause you won't remember, it's been so long

But this is the First part of the continuation, there'll be another 2 more I think so... just wait... if you care, if not that's fine by me

Anyway, I'm proud of these pages lmao

Imagine the thorns on the postern's vines for me, please

[blueskittlesart]

at a certain point i think we need to acknowledge that art is very rarely created accidentally. if you can see a theme in a work than that theme was, more likely than not, at least somewhat intentional on behalf of the creator. you don't put a piece of yourself out into the world without thinking about what it means at least a little bit.

[dairyfreenugget]

(Alt texts under the cut)

Little baby

Little baby baby man

Alt texts in order

ID start: A doodle of a newborn, non-void Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight. They're held in four hands by their father, The Pale King. They're smaller than his palms, tiny and round with closed eyes and round, nobby horns, and a short fluffy mane around their neck and down their back. They're squirming in his grasp and holding one of his thumbs with their muzzle pressed against it. End ID.

ID start: A doodle page of a newborn, non-void Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight. In the first doodle, they're held up in one hand by The Pale King, squirming and grasping at his fingers as their squeak, their mouth wide open and tiny teeth and mandibles visible. In the second doodle, they're laying on their tummy and quinting their eyes, looking quite grumpy, a text next to them says "Just opened their eyes and unhappy about the light". In the third doodle, they're being feed meet by their father, they're tiny enough that he has to use only one of his fingers to help them get the tiny meat chunks as they bite on his finger and hold his knuckles for support. End ID.

ID start: Two doodles of The Pale King from Hollow Knight as a child. In one he's a newborn baby, tiny and stubby with a little nubby crown, and a short fluffy mane aroubd his neck that runs down to his centipede fail, his eyes still closed, he's laying on his tummy. In the other doodle he's bigger, toddler aged, with a bit shaper features than the newborn but still rounder, his crown is short and still rounded, and his mane is fluffier and longer, and he has big round eyes; he's sitting hunched over with the second set of his arms lifted up and he's looking up and to the right, his sharp brow gives him a sort of pernament grumpy face. End ID.

[jgthirlwell]

02.21.23 Pure Adult opened for Gilla Band at Brooklyn Made and were excellent!

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

Cartoon Network Shows I think that should have another season or be made into a series.

Or be made into a comic series or graphic novel trilogy. Or have another season on Adult Swim like Samurai Jack. Also these shows needs to become a series or have more seasons.

Reblog, Comment, and ❤️ that they should stop cancelling and/or removing good animated shows from their owns streaming platforms!!!!

[reksink]

A Little Survivor (With Grand Gourmand Bonus💚)

[eightspringdays]

People who infantilize autistic coded characters are the weakest link in society's chain.

How are you gonna look at this mf

And then tell me he's too uwu to do anything. Open your eyes, expand your brain; he thinks of the MCnasty too. Let him say fuck !!!!

[eldest-of-katts]

okay because people have shown up in my dms talking smack I'm going to make one blanket statement on the 1000 year loli chilchuck thing.

yes, there has been a problem with young girls being put in suggestive positions in anime with the "uhmmm she's actually a bajillion years old" excuse. yes, other characters don't treat chilchuck like an adult. yes, he is short with big eyes.

However, chilchuck consistently acts like a grown man. he- in both the manga and the anime- straight up just is an adult. He looks like an adult when he is any other race during the swaps in the manga. When the other characters get turned into half-foots they look similar to chilchuck. He is explicitly stated to have more dungeon and general life experience than laios, and he acts like it.

The 1000 year loli trope explicitly functions as an excuse to prey on people who are inexperienced and unable to advocate for themselves. Chilchuck is a parent, is a union organizer, has explicit boundaries that he enforces rigidly, and he is treated as an adult man by everyone who doesn't have a fantasy racism-focused character arc/issue.

I can see how if you haven't read the manga and seen that he has an established life that he later reveals (and haven't paid attention to him in the anime lol) you could get a mistaken impression about him. Marcielle does too in the source material! It's part of her character at the start of her arc that she has issues with longevity!

The thing that irks me a little about this interpretation is that it leans into the child-coded discourse that was prominent a while ago (she's short!!!!! but has boob???? ILLEGAL!!1!) and it does a disservice to the themes of infantilization as a policy maneuver hurting the working class.

I saw chilchuck and his labor advocacy for half-foots both as a metaphor for racism (obvious take ik) and for ageism.

The working gen z as a cohort are being infantilized and pushed out of job markets due to infantilization, similar to half-foots in the show. gen z is being maliciously portrayed as too young to vote, enter office, know themselves, know their rights, and take advantage of their resources. Simultaneously, child labor protections and protections against workplace abuse are being rolled back in the US. In Japan, young people are being worked to the bone for nothing and are becoming disenfranchised as a generation while simultaneously expected to be the labor faction that supports the postwar generations in their old age.

Chilchuck's being treated poorly I saw as a clever commentary on the ways infantilization allows for protections to be stripped away under the guise that "oh it's just a job for teenagers- they don't need more than minimum wage" or "let the kids rescue the economy! they're always complaining about that job market!" while simultaneously stripping away rights under the guise of protection- "We can't have that on the internet! think of the children!" "to protect these young people we must raise the age of medical consent for hormones/reproductive health decisions!"

Kui's work with this series spoke to me on many levels, and specifically, the infantilization issue touched me in a way that few other pieces of media have. The struggle to be taken seriously in a stem field as someone young, as someone female, and as someone who had a high-pitched voice to the point I did years of voice training to be taken seriously, chilchuck's character resonated. I (kinda) understand your instinct to think "SHORT! CHILD! RALLY THE MASSES AND KILL THE PEDOS!!1!" but in this case, it's misdirected- mostly because the author was trying to use this misdirection to prove something to you, the reader.

Kui consistently makes cutting commentary on modern issues, the show's take on food neutrality as its headliner, but also the author's takes on cultural issues and the environment (with a focus on our place in the food web as animals). I feel that reducing chilchuck's very conscious position as a tradesman and an activist discounted due to his apparent age down to "1000 year loli ewwww let's send this random tumblr user suicide bait" just displays a lack of critical analysis of the show and a level of disrespect towards Kui and the work as a whole.

TL:DR- stop sending me kys messages I'm fucking that old man