#gurlesque

[agirlnamedbone]

Jolie Ruin

[heavenlylibrary]

I don’t like what the moon is supposed to do.

Confuse me, ovulate me,

spoon-feed me longing. A kind of ancient

date-rape drug. So I’ll howl at you, moon,

I’m angry. I’ll take back the night. Using me to

swoon at your questionable light,

you had me chasing you,

the world’s worst lover, over and over

hoping for a mirror, a whisper, insight.

But you disappear for nights on end

with all my erotic mysteries

and my entire unconscious mind.

How long do I try to get water from a stone?

It’s like having a bad boyfriend in a good band.

Better off alone. I’m going to write hard

and fast into you, moon, face-fucking.

Something you wouldn’t understand.

You with no swampy sexual

promise but what we glue onto you.

That’s not real. You have no begging

cunt. No panties ripped off and the crotch

sucked. No lacerating spasms

sending electrical sparks through the toes.

Stars have those.

What do you have? You’re a tool, moon.

Now, noon. There’s a hero.

The obvious sun, no bullshit, the enemy

of poets and lovers, sleepers and creatures.

But my lovers have never been able to read

my mind. I’ve had to learn to be direct.

It’s hard to learn that, hard to do.

The sun is worth ten of you.

You don’t hold a candle

to that complexity, that solid craze.

Like an animal carcass on the road at night,

picked at by crows,

taunting walkers and drivers. Your face

regularly sliced up by the moving

frames of car windows. Your light is drawn,

quartered, your dreams are stolen.

You change shape and turn away,

letting night solve all night’s problems alone.

- I’m Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy

[reblogetablissement]

[jaded-idealism]

Via Tramp Stamp Granny’s instastory- February 1, 2019

[foxandcatlibrary]

30th Book I Read in 2023

Title: Gurlesque

Authors: Lara Glenum & Arielle Greenberg

Notes: Loved this one!

[undeadgoathead]

I wrote a book review for Emily Corwin's scintillating new poetry collection, Tenderling! Her style is feminine, mysterious, and dark. Link in bio. . . . #emilycorwin #tenderling #poet #poetry #poem #feminist #gurlesque #surreal #fairytale #imagery #metaphor #symbols #symbolic #symbolism #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookstagram #undead #goathead #stalkinghorse #linkinbio🔥🔥🔥🔥

[nazilakivi]

Interview om kærlighed, det tøsede, social awkwardness og mere med @broadlydk i @vicedk Et af mine yndlingsbilleder er taget af @apinyacolada og stylet af @sofiejacobi 💖💗💖 #gurlesque #interview

[ajw720]

On to happier topics.

I find it absolutely fascinating that D chose to start his birthday at a real piano bar where he isn’t treated like a singing monkey, doesn’t have an upcharge for ice, no over priced drinks, no pin up girls on the wall, not a trace of personality disorder, and no boob’s soup, golden shower, or tug n blow to be had.

[migleefulmoments]

I love that Abby criticises the bar for having Disney themed nights as if little kids are going to show up or something. It's still a bar that serves alcohol, children will never know that a bar which has burlesque nights also hosts Disney nights and when they are old enough to realise they probably won't care.

Oh Lord, I can’t with this argument that the bar has a personality disorder and that it is a big problem.  She always says 

ajw: “The personality disorder is precisely as you describe, you can’t claim D/isney and Br/aodway and then do some variety of “burlesque.”  It is one or the other, both do not work”. 

 NEWSFLASH...it’s an over 21 Bar in progressive CA...it’s not Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World catering to families with preschoolers dressed in princess dresses. 

I would say the bar has a very defined personality- it’s a fun piano bar for everyone but it is reaching out particularly to the LGBTQ+community to be a safe space for top-notch, fun theme-nights for the LGBTQ entertainment.  Every bar in the world is allowed to define who they want to be and then if it is interesting to customers, they will come. If it isn’t, they won’t and they will either amend their business model or go out of business.  It’s as simple as that. No bar can make everyone happy -nor should it strive to. But to be angry because it is bawdy and gay is really rich of Abby-and don’t get it twisted- she is pissed because it celebrates the LGBTQ community and it’s sexy.  The community is more sexually liberated than the average straight American as they aren’t beholden to the bullshit patriarchal rules of sex in America. They have less shame and guilt about their own sexual pleasure. The Christian message straight America mostly lives by “sex is bad but reproduction is good” is not something they concern themselves with because sex and reproduction are not related in same-sex couples. From my position on the outside of the community, I see joyous sex and pleasure without the guilt or limits and slut-shaming as long as both adults are consenting. Nobody is doing purity hyman checks in the LGBTQ community!  All of this raw sexuality and openly gay people expressing their sexuality makes Abby upset and anxious because she has hard and fast rules for relationships and sex.  The only gay couple she “knows” had sex by touching noses to toes and prefer holding hands. That makes gurlesque WAYYYYY too much for her little heart to hold and naked women on the walls? NO f’ing way. We cover ourselves in public.    

****My comments in italics & parenthesis******

Anonymous asked:

The bar makes me angrier than it should, I'll admit. Like if you want to be a sexy, cabaret lounge, more risque piano bar, then that is fine. Be that. I am not offended by nudity on the walls or even naked women on the bar. But then don't call it family friendly and start having Disney nights in the next breath. It's so bizarre. I'm all for having theme nights, but it needs to be in line with the establishment. Not this identity crisis this venue seems to have. It's so odd and unappealing to me.(Parroting back Abby’s words perfectly)

ajw: There are two issues with the bar, it has multiple personality disorder, utterly and completely and a lot of it is offensive.  (She finds female sexuality and LGBTQ sexuality “offensive” b/c she can’t understand they are taking back the words that men use to define us and belittle us as sluts and whores).  

The personality disorder is precisely as you describe, you can’t claim D/isney and Br/aodway and then do some variety of “burlesque.”  It is one or the other, both do not work. (Yes, yes you can.  If it’s your business you can do whatever the market will bear). 

No, I am not saying every pic of a naked woman is offensive, to each their own, not my taste, but I know many people do like this sort of thing.  But they have theme nights with offensive Names (d*ke night and corporate ladder/Corporate hoes), they use derogatory stereotypes (flannel shirt night), they have drink names that are misogynist (ones referring to large breasts, others calling women sluts), and the one picture i posted i think is body shamming as it is depicting 2 perfect women and telling us to achieve greatness. (Here her homophobia is on full blast. Straight women don’t get to decide what is offensive to lesbian women and since a lesbian woman hosts Open Dyke Night and Flannel shirt night, Abby needs to back off the generalizations about how offensive it is and admit that SHE”s offended by lesbians acting like lesbians.  She prefers them to blend in with straight women). 

And that doesn’t address the immature and childish touches that are plentiful. Or the rude bar staff. Or that there is an upcharge for ice.  Or that the AC has been broken for over a year. (Here we have Abby’s tendency to read something once- whether it is from a credible source is irrelavant0 and then turn it into a never-ending consistent thing. Rude bar staff? There are one or two fake Yelp reviews about rude bar staff and lots of comments on social media about how great the bar is as well as the staff gushing about working there. The AC was broken the first night. I have seen no credible proof that it continued but again, customers can choose to either go there or not go there knowing AC doesn’t work. You can’t vilify a bar you will never go to because they don’t have AC.   The upcharge for ice story isn’t very credible either and it was one Yelp review. I suspect the individual was a Darren fan who got a drink that was more expensive than they used to and they freaked out and wrote a nonsense reivew after being embarassed.) 

Anonymous asked:

What's the Cinderella thing

ajw: Just a joke about the sex club nonnie, contrasting D/isney night with the decor.

Anonymous asked:

You don't remember when Cinderella stripped down to pasties and a thong at the ball, but fled at midnight, leaving the prince to scour the land for the girl who fit her 8-inch platform stripper-heel shoe? Tbh, his trips to the bar don't bug me anymore. He only goes when there is a celeb or a vip who pays (the orig post of Sat's pics thanks a guy who is an Apple exec who, I am guessing, paid for D's "random" appearance that night). His "I'm there most nights I'm in LA" days are long gone.

ajw720 answered: Hahahaha!  Oh Nonnie I love you.  Now that i think about it, i recall that story well, if I remember correctly, before she stripped down, she was in silver sparkles, beads and feathers.  Now remind me, was she more of a gyrating with the beer tap on top of the bar kind of princess or one that simulates sex with an innocent teddy bear?

On D, you are right, at this point, he goes when there is a special guest.  He really has cut it down a ton, which considering he has an actual job makes sense.

Just discovered this trip to the bar, that featured ERW and a British music exec Rob D/ickins may just have been to promote a B/owie cover band featuring ERW that is going on tour. And guess who is another member of the band?  Ding Ding Ding, Platonic Roomie B/enny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (x). What a surprise!

flowersintheattic254

I love this type of coincidence @ajw720. You couldn’t make it up 😂.

Will M will be congratulating B publicly again on his success and will they use D’s SM so D can congratulate him personally. I’m eye rolling

notes-from-nowhere

She is so proud of her ma… oh, sorry, I got confused.

leka-1998

Gotta support his straight 🔥 music.

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Btw-Mia didn’t post this for Ben. It’s Ben’s own post but once again Mia is demonized for behavior she’s going to possibly maybe might do.

[meltdownwillbeawesomethisweekend]

so abby's offended by derogatory stereotypes all the while insisting darren's gay because he wears nail polish or colorful, tight bathing suits. and now she's claiming (in quite a reach) that a photo in the bar is "body shaming". this from the woman who informs us that Mia is HUGE next to her TINY husband. not fat shaming at all, but Mia is absolutely enormous and would never fit into her husband's clothes (though she does). also she looks terrible and needs to "dress her body shape". abby, stfu

And her and her merry bunch of hags don’t want to see Mia in a little black dress cause they don’t want to be forced to see such an horrible vision, but no fat shaming ... at all ... she just doesn’t have the body for that.

Abby and the hags are just awful people who just can’t stand “done to them” (Not sur anyone is doing anything except in her overly active imamgination and her constant need of victimizing herself) what they do to other people all the freaking time.

I’m not even sure what pics she is talking about O.o, I love all the photo in the bar, so wtf is she on ? Didn’t she blew enough smoke from her ass about that bar ? Not enough gurlesque to bitch and make a tantrum about the bar in the last few months ? Why does she need to be angry and offended over everything ?

Does she need to deflect the accusation of her own body shaming and misoginy by accusing Mia of doing it ? She is full deflect mode nowadays, accusing everyone of doing what she’s doing on a daily basis, and without even noticing it. Abby and self awareness, will never meet each other.

[agirlnamedbone]

Kristin Hatch (The Meatgirl Whatever, 2013)

[heavenlylibrary]

“If anyone thinks they need to write reviews, teach classes, edit magazines or translate books in order to write good poetry…then maybe they should just take a rest from it.”

- From Preface 1 by Chelsey Minnis

[jaded-idealism]

Via Lulu Bernard’s instastory (December 05, 2018)

Instagram.com/lulureneeb/

[yogrl335]

Here we go

So Abby thinks that TSG is gross and disgusting because it has scantily clad women doing “gurlesque” on occasion. But she can insinuate about Darren and blow jobs and this is classy? She talks about Mia’s body size and how she can’t dress well and then posts Amber Riley’s response to fat shaming? Does she even stop to read what she and her acolytes write?

Last month she and her crewballs posted pictures of Darren looking up towards the balcony during curtain call on Chris’ Birthday. Of course she also posted opening night pictures which, oddly showed him looking up. I saw HATAI twice and he looked up both times as well. Perhaps, just perhaps he was acknowledging the audience up there. Or would you prefer to believe that Chris was hidden in the rafters at least four times? And no one saw him arrive or leave?

Imagine their relationship: Darren spends time in Europe, in Mexico, in the Philippines, in New York and LA. He is never seen with Chris. Never. No meals out, no shows, or concerts. No public spotting at all. For nine years. Meanwhile Darren has only ever been seen with one woman in more than nine years. In restaurants, at parties, at shows and concerts. In cities throughout the US and abroad. Someone please explain why Chris Colfer, a smart, talented and rich our man would stand for this. Abbynormal and company talk of contracts that go on forever and are in fact unenforceable. Now they talk of threats which caused Darren to marry Mia. Honestly, I have never seen such hysteria. Unfounded accusations, libelous statements, ridiculous rantings from supposedly adult women.

[gleekto]

I wonder why they celebrate D’s birhday in TSG on the 6th rather than 5th his actual b-day.

I assume he has others plans and/or he likes Gurlesque - Honestly don’t think it’s too deep!

[reblogetablissement]

What I’ve learned from reading Gurlesque is that working with specific aesthetic categories (feminine, cute) is not an endorsement of neither the structures that the aesthetics uphold or are a product of. Instead they can be used as caricature, as a way of mocking and portraying the grotesque reality of experiencing said aesthetics and the impact they have on their audience. Paradoxically I have less trust in my work when it’s leaning towards this very gendered aesthetic, like I don’t truly believe in the potential of caricature or maybe, in reality, because of internalized misogyny