tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8205893607151355863..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: The bottom-up war on Thanksgiving (libtard foot soldiers, not top-down war by academia / media)agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-86092092831078699892022-12-10T20:44:19.104-05:002022-12-10T20:44:19.104-05:00Great insights here, grateful, thanks. Great insights here, grateful, thanks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1979597062667111512022-12-10T18:33:08.194-05:002022-12-10T18:33:08.194-05:00Irys sang that one, and "Phantom of the Opera...Irys sang that one, and "Phantom of the Opera" as well, about a year ago! Then Gooba sang both in October, and most recently. Now Bae as well. I don't know if Mumei sang them during her recent "musicals only" karaoke cuz that was for members, and nobody reuploaded clips. But if she's into musical theater and has an emo background, seems like a natural fit!<br /><br />Hololive karaoke is the new opera. Online opera. Zoomer opera. Whatever-we're-in opera. More of an anthology performance, but that's standard for "the pops" -- playing the faves.<br /><br />Broadway has been dead for at least a decade, maybe longer. The Disney renaissance was the last organic, large-scale musical "theater" culture from the American empire (and of course those standards are all part of the Hololive karaoke scene). There were a handful of Hollywood movies that employed the musical format in the 2010s (including Hologirl karaoke favorite La La Land), but they didn't catch on like '90s Disney, or '80s Broadway / West End (let alone earlier).<br /><br />True, there's little original music for today's online virtual musical theater, but that's due to our entire culture being past its peak for creativity (crashing asabiya, or collective cohesion -- no one can cooperate at huge levels, as is required for new musicals, operas, movies, TV series, or even video games).<br /><br />So it's only natural that it takes the form of today's high opera -- which is performing classics from composers who created their works over 100 years ago, when the European empires were still at their peak, before they all collapsed during WWI.<br /><br />It's also bringing these songs to an audience that, on average, has probably never had an interest in them, or even been aware of their existence. But then they watch Gura sing "Think of Me," and think, "Man, that one really tugs at the heartstrings -- I wonder where it's from?" and watch the movie, a taped performance, or listen to the soundtrack, or somehow or other engage with it.<br /><br />And they're not a tiny niche group performing for a self-styled elite -- they're the most popular group of Vtubers out there. Which also makes them some of the most-viewed streamers of any kind, virtual-avatar-sporting or face-revealing.<br /><br />It's one of the few mainstream outlets that's bringing respectable culture to mass audiences -- last time we saw that was the Midcentury Warner Bros cartoons bringing 19th C. classical / opera music to a TV-dinner audience. Now it's bringing Broadway to the cheeto-dusted keyboard audience. xD<br /><br />Luv u gurlz 4vr...agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71000083035719874402022-12-10T01:21:36.104-05:002022-12-10T01:21:36.104-05:00Just feeling a little wistful-yet-hopeful after Ba...Just feeling a little wistful-yet-hopeful after Bae sang "Think of Me" during karaoke tonight (musical theater / movies only). Gooba sang that during karaoke in October, too.<br /><br />It's what we'll all be thinking of, as it were, when online only consists of interacting with AI / simulations, or a Holodeck in meatspace.<br /><br />Holo girls aren't bots, AI, or mere avatars -- they're real people, who just happen to be wearing a costume for their masquerade ball, which they graciously host us at throughout the week.<br /><br />The only circumstances that could separate us are the further social disintegration, which could spread online and not just IRL, where we're only interacting with bots of various kinds. In that case...<br /><br />Think of me, think of me faking<br />Convos with AIs<br />Imagine me always on guard<br />To hide your old replies<br />Reload that save<br />Go through those folder piles<br />Think of the memes we'll never view<br />I will never host a page<br />Where I don't think of Goobagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-56547161218060155862022-12-10T00:32:22.764-05:002022-12-10T00:32:22.764-05:00Do Zoomers get nostalgic for tamagotchis, since th...Do Zoomers get nostalgic for tamagotchis, since they were a real tangible object they could hold in their hand, keep on their person, sleep next to in bed, etc., if they were so inclined?<br /><br />Nowadays, and getting worse going forward, simulated pets are stored in some server who-knows-where, accessed through some online account -- and not using hardware that is dedicated to this function. Just their all-purpose smartphone, PC, or laptop.<br /><br />It was bad enough that they had to rely on having feelings for, and taking care of, a simulated pet instead of a really-living pet. (Of course they probably had the real deal in their homes as well, but before long, that might be out of the question.)<br /><br />Pretty soon, they'll have only a simulated pet -- but with no distinctive physical "body" for its "soul" to inhabit and feel at least plausibly real.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-34239596601561505852022-12-10T00:09:07.978-05:002022-12-10T00:09:07.978-05:00There was a fair amount of illusory social and kin...There was a fair amount of illusory social and kinship stability during the 2010s and 2020, due to the central bank being a sugar daddy to the top 10-20% of society. Certainly for the bottom 80-90%, they never even got to enjoy this illusory stability during the post-2008 depression. But now even that nouveau riche group is coming apart after 2020.<br /><br />Just think of what 10 years of this climate is going to do, and then those born around 1990 can imagine what it'll be like as a 40 year-old in 2030, as far as marrying, having a family, a stable social / family life, etc. You're going to be even worse off than my cohort is now.<br /><br />And those born closer to 2000, turning 40 around 2040, fucking forget about it. Only the super-wealthy will be hanging on by that point, as far as social and kinship ties are concerned. Everyone else is going to be relying on their pets, online relationships, or outright AI / simulations for their connections to things outside themselves.<br /><br />And in that totally fragmented and alienated world -- like Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the fact that I actually had a really-living cat to share my life with, and not just a robotic replicant in the shape of a cat, will make me feel pretty damn high-status after all.<br /><br />Also the fact that the destination of my online feelings was a real person, not AI, and actually noticed me, and to some degree reciprocated the good vibes (without having to pay her, as though it were a market transaction either).<br /><br />If you thought today's 40-somethings were in an unenviable, just wait through 10 to 20 further years into this dystopia, and you'll be seething with envy at the 40 year-olds of the early 2020s, who still had really-living pets and online interactions with really-living people.<br /><br />Start preparing now, or you'll get caught off-guard. And unless your family is generationally wealthy, don't plan for there being a central bank sugar daddy by then either. That was mainly to prop up the Boomers' living standards. They'll be gone in 10-20 years, and the central bank isn't about to start propping up X-ers, Millennials, or Zoomers indefinitely to the tune of trillions printed per year.<br /><br />In the meantime, you don't have to be such a doomer about these revelations. It can make you appreciate, be grateful for, and show love to the things you have now that you -- or your counterparts -- will not have after 10-20 years of societal disintegration.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-20648033057410929042022-12-09T23:55:14.090-05:002022-12-09T23:55:14.090-05:00Anyone under 40 reading that, thinking "Gee, ...Anyone under 40 reading that, thinking "Gee, hope things are better when I'm that age," you'd better prepare for an even worse situation.<br /><br />I never would've thought, felt, or acted like my pet was the greatest living thing in my world, during my 20s or even 30s. And the tiger-bear found his way into my life 7 years ago, so I had plenty of opportunity to make him the highest creature in my life for half of the 2010s. But did not, although we've always had a close bond.<br /><br />It was the total disintegration of social bonds during the hell year of 2020, that marked the end of anything human. Covie may be ovie, but that was only a pretext to begin with -- the permanent destruction of my family is only cementing itself in late '22 and '23, when we should be healing and strengthening and seeing more of each other, if it had been about the coof and its restrictions.<br /><br />This has nothing to do with the stages of an individual's lifespan, like there's some certain age where you only have your pet, and people younger than that age think, "Man, I hope I don't ever get to be that age!" 40 year-olds in 1980, '90, and 2000 were born on third base, and have been and will always be the wealthiest generations in world history. They had families at this age.<br /><br />Once it gets to the 2008 depression, the crisis erupts right away. Someone turning 40 in 2010 had to really give it their all to overcome the obstacles to marriage, family, etc. But imagine turning 40 during the year that ended our society, 2020.<br /><br />You would've needed the strongest buffers imaginable to protect yourself from family destruction -- to come from a rich and/or high-status family, or to marry into a right / high-status family. Part of that is the material provisions per se that wealthy families enjoy, but it's more about the stability that wealthy families prioritize in order to ensure inter-generational wealth transfer / stewardship.<br /><br />If the family has been rich for generations, then simply staying together as a family *is* the family business. Succumbing to familial disintegration trends would mean not just the end of their kinship bonds, but the end of their material subsistence.<br /><br />Obviously I don't come from such a family, and did not marry into one (never married, no kids). Maybe if the central bank was your sugar daddy during the QE program of the 2010s and 2020, that could've made you feel comfortable enough to marry and have kids, although I doubt it. But at any rate, interest rates are going through the roof, and the central bank is withdrawing those trillions of QE dollars from circulation, so there goes your sugar daddy -- and your marriage and children, if you only got to that stage as a nouveau riche beneficiary of QE. Generationally wealthy families can withstand the central bank unwinding QE, since that wasn't the source of their long-term wealth.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-58122865619614604202022-12-09T22:31:05.642-05:002022-12-09T22:31:05.642-05:00"Are You More Affectionate Than a Housecat?&q..."Are You More Affectionate Than a Housecat?" -- the new reality dating show coming to screens everywhere next summer.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1491719142675393172022-12-09T22:25:08.563-05:002022-12-09T22:25:08.563-05:00Dog people really have no idea how affectionate ca...Dog people really have no idea how affectionate cats are with their owners. While taking a nap on the couch today, my tiger-bear jumped up when I'd barely pulled the afghan over me. Climbed on my stomach, gave me a massage for a little bit, purring loudly the whole time, then laid belly-down on me, looking me in the eyes. Afterwards, rolling onto his side, laying his chin down on me, stretching out his front paws to hug me while he drifts away to slumberland.<br /><br />When I wake up before him, I eventually have to move around some so my limbs don't get tired. He senses that and immediately turns back onto his stomach, sprawling out to try to pin me down -- so his bed can't move away from underneath him. Dammit. It takes a bit of rocking to one side, inclining him at a decent angle, for him to relent and jump off at last -- not before giving me a pitiful look right in the eyes, and trying to re-position himself as if I'm just going to keep laying there forever.<br /><br />He has more personality, respect, gratitude, reciprocity, and affection than a lot of people in our status-striving collapsing empire. The main reason why people are so into their pets these days -- they're unaware of, and don't participate in, these tiresome enervating status contests, polarization trends, and all the other things that are going to hell in a handbasket in our society.<br /><br />It's getting to the point where I love him more than anyone or anything else. Not a sign of a healthy, normal society -- but that reflects badly on society's elites, not on me personally. I'm very grateful to share our lives together, to the extent possible across species.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-37642008289463408382022-12-09T18:11:44.421-05:002022-12-09T18:11:44.421-05:00Dogs are also much more toil than cats, fitting fo...Dogs are also much more toil than cats, fitting for toiling families. Dogs give easy affection and don’t care all that much how you treat them compared to cats but require a LOT of effort put into them. Walks, grooming, picking up poop, dog parks, kennels and crates, toys, feeding routines, etc.<br /><br />Cats require little in terms of physical needs or hard toil put into them but have a lot of emotional needs. Cats not properly socialized as a kitten never will truly trust humans no matter how much toil is put into it. You can obedience train a cat either. Cats can be entertained by or appreciate humans though who are on their wavelength and figure out how to treat them well and then they reward you with affection.Vladimir Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-14102860404765064832022-12-09T04:19:27.316-05:002022-12-09T04:19:27.316-05:00To wrap up, what about that dysfunctional dynamic ...To wrap up, what about that dysfunctional dynamic creates daddy's girls and mama's boys? Well, when the same-sex parent is saying you, a child, are headed toward the impersonal harsh vortex of the market, and I, your would-be same-sex protector, ain't gonna do anything to protect you from it when that day comes -- it makes the child want to seek extra reassurance and protection and shielding-for-their-dreams from the other, opposite-sex parent.<br /><br />Typically it should be like an apprenticeship, where the father mentors the son, and the mother mentors the daughter. But this isn't supposed to be any old apprenticeship -- it's family, therefore sacrosanct against outisde forces that would destroy familial bonds, like the market.<br /><br />In the stable household, the same-sex parent does not tell the child they're going to be on their own once the brief apprenticeship is over. They play the role of mentor, but also let them know that they can always rely on the same-sex parent's support materially and morally once they're confronting the market.<br /><br />That does not induce the apocalyptic fear of being inevitably thrown into the market's vortex, so they don't seek the extra reassurance and shielding from their opposite-sex parent. There's no sense of urgency, chaos, and discontinuity, but harmony, predictability, and stability.<br /><br />Oh, one last thing! Do daddy's girls and mama's boys prefer cats, while mama's girls and daddy's boys prefer dogs? On average, it seems like it. Because the former are more anxious in their attachment style, and want a very cuddly social affectionate pet, like a cat, and unlike the dog that will never sit on their lap, give them a massage, purr, and meow like a helpless widdle baby kitten.<br /><br />The latter, more stable in their attachment style, want a pet that is around and reliable but not cuddly or cute or clingy, that keeps a certain level of distance. And that's dogs, on average.<br /><br />There could be a finer-grained thing, where the former want clingy pets regardless of them being a cat or dog, whereas the latter want pets that are more aloof or independent regardless of their species. I'm just saying, since cats are more cuddly and affectionate than dogs, this probably shows up at which species is preferred, too.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-78980928673902709642022-12-09T04:03:15.989-05:002022-12-09T04:03:15.989-05:00Coming from a long line of daddy's girls and m...Coming from a long line of daddy's girls and mama's boys, I have no great insight into how the other type of family works.<br /><br />But my impression is that the same-sex parent doesn't try to throw that child into the cold harsh market vortex outside of the home. The dad teaches his son useful guy stuff, pushes him to get a job, etc., but doesn't go psycho "football dad" mode -- or "distant father" mode, let alone "deadbeat dad" mode, which is equally throwing his son into the market vortex outside the home, rather than playing a protector role.<br /><br />The only difference between the football dad and the deadbeat dad is the former is trying to prepare his son for when he gets abandoned to the harsh market vortex, while the latter says "you're on your own" in the vortex. But neither is trying to keep that vortex at bay, creating a protective bubble against it within the family household.<br /><br />Likewise, the mom teaches her daughter useful girl stuff, pushes her to get a girl-appropriate job, get married, etc., but doesn't go "dance mom" mode -- or "distant / absent mother" mode, let alone "wicked stepmother" mode, all of which are casting the daughter into the market vortex outside the home, rather than shield her within the family.<br /><br />The families with mama's girls and daddy's boys are more stable, while the ones with daddy's girls and mama's boys are more dysfunctional. But the latter don't mind it *that* much -- it takes all types to make the world go round, whaddaya gonna do about it?agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-33190879320515658972022-12-09T03:53:44.820-05:002022-12-09T03:53:44.820-05:00The match between daddy's girls and mama's...The match between daddy's girls and mama's boys can be seen between the generations as well. So, when a daddy's girl has a son, he'll become a mama's boy -- and her own father was probably a mama's boy.<br /><br />When a mama's boy has a daughter, she'll become a daddy's girl -- and his own mother was probably a daddy's girl.<br /><br />When a mama's girl has a son, he'll become a daddy's boy -- and her own father was probably a daddy's boy.<br /><br />When a daddy's boy has a daughter, she'll become a mama's girl -- and his own mother was probably a mama's girl.<br /><br />The transmission mechanism (genes or culture) doesn't matter, the point is that they're adapted to each other.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-72349195509363347122022-12-09T03:43:04.060-05:002022-12-09T03:43:04.060-05:00To temper the view somewhat, and steer away from d...To temper the view somewhat, and steer away from daddy's girls, you see a similar mirror-image thing with sons. Namely, the father is the cold hard utilitarian one, preparing him for entry into the dehumanizing market. "Football dads" a la "dance moms".<br /><br />The mother is the warm-hearted one who just wants to let him have his fun in a hobby or career, playing a more protective role against the array of market forces.<br /><br />In mirror-image fashion, this produces mama's boys, preferring the parent who gave them a protective bubble from the cold harsh market outside the family sphere.<br /><br />Rather than cuteness per se, the mama's boy deploys a boy-like sense of adventure and wonder and excitement, risk-taking in a childlike sense (not going for a big promotion at work, but taking on the bad guys, becoming king of the woods, or something fanciful and playful like that).<br /><br />The dad dismisses it as an act that will get him nowhere in the real-world job market, the mom enjoys having her wish indulged that he remain a rambunctious adventuresome boy with stars in his eyes, however impractical they may be.<br /><br />Daddy's girls and mama's boys seem to attract each other, whereas mama's girls and daddy's boys attract each other.<br /><br />Within each pair, the male feels differently about either parent than the female does. The mama's boy prefers the mom, whereas his daddy's girl gf prefers her dad. The mama's girl prefers her mom, and her daddy's boy bf prefers his dad. So they're not the same at that level.<br /><br />BUT, they *are* the same at a higher level, namely are they impractical dreamers who wander nonchalantly through life, or are they cold hard utilitarians who don't have time for that nonsense?<br /><br />Sure, when they're teenagers, maybe dating the opposite type can introduce some variety as the spice of life.<br /><br />But if you're going to be serious, settle down, start a family, etc., you can't have opposing worldviews like that. Dreamers find dreamers to establish a dreamer household, toilers find toilers to establish a toiler household. It's not a case where opposites form a complementary whole where each one tempers each other, and improves the whole. They would be too much at odds with each other to pursue a common goal as a family / household.<br /><br />Entertainers don't marry their accountants, they marry other entertainers. And accountants don't want to get mixed up with an entertainer -- they want another accountant, doctor, lawyer, etc.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-59398968406325185512022-12-09T03:23:57.681-05:002022-12-09T03:23:57.681-05:00Remember the lyrics to "Girls Just Wanna Have...Remember the lyrics to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" -- both parents are getting on her case to grow up and settle down. But her response to her mother is more blunt, "We're not the fortunate ones", i.e. what's the utilitarian point you're trying to make? None of us is going to make it big anyway, so why slave so hard trying?<br /><br />To her father, she reassures him, "Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one". She's not engaging him in a utilitarian argument, because he's not making one to begin with (being the dad, not the mom). He's worried about who she's going to marry and have kids with, but she's disarming him by saying she's not ready for that yet, and so she's still daddy's little girl, so forgive her for living a wild and crazy lifestyle.<br /><br />I thought Cyndi Lauper would've been a gemini like Gura, but she barely missed it -- June 22 (cancer). No clue whether Cyndi Lauper fits the profile for cancer, because the only one I looked into was gemini, because that's what my oshi is. Who cares about the other signs? ^_^agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-15456905372868826452022-12-09T03:10:12.345-05:002022-12-09T03:10:12.345-05:00So that ties into the "father as protector&qu...So that ties into the "father as protector" role. Treating her like a Dickensian child laborer, exposing her to the harsh realities of life, etc., would be abdicating that role. He's the protector! Let her have her afternoon of singing Willy Wonka -- the cold hard logic of "the dishes are only getting dirtier" has to be kept at bay for another few hours, according to daddy's protective bubble role, otherwise it'll crush her singing hobby.<br /><br />I guarantee dads are more supportive of their daughters pursuing a not-so-profitable "career" or line of work, hobby, pasttime, etc. In the dad-mind, daughters need protecting from the ubiquitous dehumanizing forces of the market, or else they can't cultivate their singing, dancing, and other things that will never get them much money.<br /><br />If the moms do support their daughters in such endeavors, they play the psycho "dance mom" or "cheer mom" role, where they want to thrust their daughters into the cold dehumanizing commodifying market, and are trying to steel their daughters' nerves for being treated like a faceless and fungible cog in the great big impersonal system of, e.g., trying out for a prestigious ballet corps.<br /><br />So if the girl does have an overweening ambition about becoming a top ballet dancer, she'll have to rely on her mom, female instructors, and maybe a gay guy, none of whom will be vulnerable to her cuteness overload attack. They'll crack the whip, make her the best she can be, at the expense of turning her into a market commodity. Their role is quality control, to make the product the best it can be before it's brought to market / given its initial public offering.<br /><br />But most girls don't get into gymnastics, cheer, ballet, singing, acting, etc., in order to claw their way to the top of the status pyramid. They just want a safe space to become a princess for a little while, in between waking up early to get ready for school, washing dishes, and the rest of the mundane grind.<br /><br />And for this vast majority of girls, they need to rely on the good ol' protective dad to keep the market forces, naysayers, and whip-crackers at bay (most of them women, principally the mom).<br /><br />One of the major ironies of feminism -- "letting girls dream big" is always something their dads are going to indulge, more than their moms. It's not even close!agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-50117569583511515082022-12-09T02:51:30.301-05:002022-12-09T02:51:30.301-05:00And of course not all daddy's girls have to be...And of course not all daddy's girls have to be singers, but they'll be putting on some kind of cuteness performance. As simple as opening their eyes wide, smiling wide, using a singsong voice, drawing out syllables ("Pleeeease daddyyyyy....."), giving an exaggerated overly excited hug, jumping up and down while clapping, and so on.<br /><br />Seems like the common factor is giving off signs of being a childlike, baby-ish even, rather than a subtle and composed grown-up. You wouldn't hurt a widdle kid, would you?<br /><br />In some other context, she may not need to get out of some chore, so she doesn't have to crank up the childlike traits. But when she finds herself in a bind about chores and work -- crank that cuteness up! You don't assign chores to wiw bahbies, you assign them to older children and adolescents. If she puts on a goo-goo ga-ga act, and it's convincing, then there goes her chore duties for the time being! Hehe.<br /><br />Still, why does this work so well against the dad, and less so against the mom? It's not because the mom knows it's only an act, because she may have pulled that act herself as a young girl. In that case, cluing the dad into it being an act to weaken his resolve would toughen him up to her assault. However, the dad can be fully aware of the fact that she's launching a deliberate attack on him, that she's not really a small helpless widdle child, but still succumb to her attack!<br /><br />Something about that performance tugs more at the male than female heartstrings. It's related to dads being more sad about their daughter growing up, and having an idealistic wish that they would not, while moms look at it matter-of-factly. Acting childlike and cute toward daddy indulges the dad's wish for her to not leave his watch and turn on her feminine charms in a more adult way, and for some stranger outside of the family.<br /><br />Moms know and accept that will happen at some point, they just want to manage that process to get her the best outcome possible.<br /><br />So it's about women being more practical and down-to-earth, while men are more idealistic dreamers and wish-casters? There's no burning wish from the mom that the daughter can indulge, whereas at some point she senses that the dad has an bottomless wish for her to stay daddy's little girl forever -- so if she strings him along with that fantasy by turning up the childlike cuteness overload, she can get something from him, but not her mom.<br /><br />Like I said, we can be fully cognizant of these dynamics, but that doesn't allow us to change the laws of nature. We're too vulnerable to the childlike charm act -- and wouldn't want it any other way, sigh.<br /><br />Imagine wanting to join the ranks of heartless wicked stepmothers for whom everything with the daughter is a cold utilitarian matter, nose to the grindstone, suck it up and deal with life not being fair, and so on.<br /><br />Yeah, they have to feel that and learn that at some point -- but they need to be protected, exuberant princesses, too!agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-54548994993214304592022-12-09T02:06:38.592-05:002022-12-09T02:06:38.592-05:00The daddy's girl phenomenon, continued. What i...The daddy's girl phenomenon, continued. What is it about this kind of performance that weakens the defenses of most dads, but not so much of the moms?<br /><br />Moms might find it cute in a different context, but I mean where the parents are trying to get the daughter to start her homework, wash the dishes, clean up her room, etc. The daddy's girl isn't just about being cute, it's about the dad giving the daughter a pass on some responsibility because she launched a cuteness attack on him and won.<br /><br />Imagine trying to keep the pressure up on your daughter to wash the dishes or whatever, when she breaks out into singing the Willy Wonka soundtrack:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OTBmAHbC_4<br /><br />She knows she's aiming this at a male audience to weaken their defenses! Somehow it's different than trying to showcase her talents for her mom... maybe in the latter case, it'd be more about the technical skills. But then the mom would only respond, "Yes, dear, now you've improved your technique very well -- but what does your vibrato skill have to do with washing dishes? Get to work, young lady."<br /><br />The technical skills are still on display in the daddy's girl performance, but it's more about the attitude or emotional delivery -- "look how cute I can be, how could you *possibly* ask me to get my hands dirty washing dishes?!?!?!!?!! :)))))"<br /><br />The dad can't respond as the mom did, about how singing skills have nothing to do with washing dishes. He's being asked to evaluate her cuteness, not her singing skill (primarily). Did she not overwhelm your cuteness detector? And you can't ask something so cute to get so sludged up scrubbing dirty dishes, picking up her room, etc., can you?<br /><br />At least, you can't ask her to do those things right here and now, when she's in full cuteness mode. When she winds down and isn't doing her literal song-and-dance routine, then you can press her to do her chores. She won't be feeling super-cute by that time, and she can't argue that "I'm too cute to do manual labor" anymore.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-68196409448725517052022-12-08T16:51:25.984-05:002022-12-08T16:51:25.984-05:00Kiara demonstrating how caked up she is, relative ...Kiara demonstrating how caked up she is, relative to her 3D model, is example 34869704 of dancers being butt people rather than boob people.<br /><br />It's not about the glute muscles per se -- it's about the sense of rhythm, which doesn't have to involve your glutes at all.<br /><br />There is simply a whole big bundle of traits that go along with being a butt person, and their opposite traits that go along with being a boob person.<br /><br />That's why I suspect Mumei, Irys, and Kronii are butt girls -- without asking them to demonstrate or confirm, or in any yabai sense at all. Just as a scholarly prediction about which traits are correlated with which other traits. They're all good singers, along with Gura, who already is loud-and-proud about being a person-of-buns rather than a person-of-breasts.<br /><br />Irys and Kronii also seem to be more into the fitness / sports games that involve IRL body motion.<br /><br />Mumei not as much on the sports side -- she may be balanced between the two.<br /><br />I actually believe Fauna about being a boob girl, it's not just egging on her "mommy milkies" fans. More cerebral than corporeal, like being a bit clumsy / fumble-fingers, while preferring to write scripts and narratives (for ASMR, Halloween shorts, etc.). And rarely includes dance standards in her karaoke setlist.<br /><br />BTW, I don't mean this as a size contest -- there are butt girls without badonkadonks, and boob girls who don't have mommy milkies. It's a ratio -- more in one region than the other, drawing attention more to one region than the other.<br /><br />This is an irony in a sub-culture that tends to cater to boob people -- most stereotypical "anime girls" meant to be sexualized have huge boobs, not huge asses. And yet on the talent side, behind the virtual avatars, there's plenty of butt girls represented. Not merely "boob girls who have C cups instead of the GGG cups of their avatars," but belonging to the whole other category, where they have more around back than up front.<br /><br />That is even more pronounced in the Hololive type of streamers because part of their appeal is singing and dancing, inherited from the idol phenomenon in Japan. Well, once you start selecting based on singing and dancing, way more butt girls are going to make it to the big leagues than if the appeal were only about verbal skills and chatting.<br /><br />Boob people are more exclusively found in media (like podcasting) than entertainment, because media doesn't involve singing, dancing, or anything else physical.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29366924019694925472022-12-07T20:14:16.404-05:002022-12-07T20:14:16.404-05:00Also Gura, please start taking some zinc! It's...Also Gura, please start taking some zinc! It's the best single thing you can to boost your immune system. Either preventing sickness, or winding it down fast if you do get sick. Every supermarket has it. Best to take it with food.<br /><br />It may be too late to nip this one in the bud, but it should help wrap it up sooner than later. And please, take it every day from now on, no matter what, to lessen the chances of getting anything.<br /><br />Do you keep aspirin around? That will help with the fever / aches. If not, please keep some of that handy too, just in case.<br /><br />I don't mean to GONCERN so hard, but we all want our princess to be in the best shape possible. Maybe your parents already told you these things, but more voices will convince and motivate you better. :)<br /><br />Get well soon, sharky!agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29238437459206427412022-12-07T19:35:00.555-05:002022-12-07T19:35:00.555-05:00Thanks to Gura for normalizing the word "pant...Thanks to Gura for normalizing the word "panties," which has been the target of Puritanical policing for what seems like 20 years by now. I just searched Twitter for "panties" and "word", and they're still at it -- how awful it is, gives them the ick, only used by creepy guys, etc.<br /><br />The only way it's still used by those libtards / woketards is in the longer phrase "get your panties in a bunch / twist / etc." For the item of clothing, it has to be "underwear" or in typical Millennial kiddie-fication fashion, "undies".<br /><br />I searched YouTube for the word and the names of other Hololive girls, and several of them use it freely, too. Gura, Irys, Sana, and Kiara quite a bit. Fauna, Mumei, Kronii, and Bae as an echo of someone else (like Sana) saying it first. Ina, Calli, and Ame not very much or at all.<br /><br />Looks like the pot-stirrers are most likely to use it, and once they get the ball rolling, most of the others will join in as well.<br /><br />Maybe it's a generational thing? Boomers had no problem saying it. Somewhere during Gen X, maybe those who imprinted on 3rd wave feminazism, they started insisting on not being addressed as "ladies", and on never ever uttering the word "panties". They acted so hysterically, like merely uttering the word is going to rape all women because of how pervy they thought it sounded (earlier gens didn't find it pervy). So insane.<br /><br />Most Millennials are that way, too. But the Hololive girls are the very end of the Millennials, and start of the Zoomers. So they wouldn't have imprinted on that '90s era of feminazism and its aftermath in the 2000s.<br /><br />There was that whole exhibitionist mania of the early 2010s -- the No Pants Subway Ride, Free the Nipple, going topless around NYC, not wearing a bra, etc. That's the style of feminism that the girls born in the second half of the '90s / 2000s imprinted on.<br /><br />So not only do they not have any hysterical hang-ups about the word "panties," they don't have this taboo attitude toward any word referring to intimate clothing.<br /><br />How refreshing! And coming from cute young girls, too, not as the hysteria says only creepy old men.<br /><br />They don't constantly use the words, go out of their way to use them, pander to coomers, etc., as though it were a provocation. It's not a fetish or obsession. It's just the normal way to think and feel and talk about something that's totally natural and not shameful! Nothing to make a big deal out of, in any direction.<br /><br />...Also the generation to FINALLY start bringing back the bush. Not as a fetish, but as part of living au naturel, back to nature, RETVRN to tradition, etc.<br /><br />I keep beating readers over the head with these observations because if you aren't watching these girls, you really have no idea how much attitudes and behaviors are changing already -- for the better! You won't hear it among podcasters, because they're all Millennials or maybe X-ers.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-13048423291016405552022-12-06T04:06:15.651-05:002022-12-06T04:06:15.651-05:00The Phoenician of Unleashin' is back from the ...The Phoenician of Unleashin' is back from the dead on Twitter! Free speech haters on suicide watch, hehe. Welcome back!<br /><br />She's a derangiac, derangiac on the board<br />And she's bantzin' like she was never banned before<br />She's a derangiac, derangiac -- her encore<br />And she's bantzin' like she was never banned beforeagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4595328734813846602022-12-05T02:31:05.892-05:002022-12-05T02:31:05.892-05:00And how could I forget some motivation?! The first...And how could I forget some motivation?! The first is the go-to inspiration for dancing, and the second plays into Mumei's persona as a tee-hee girl-next-door who erupts into psycho-mode when the time is right. Both from the same movie, naturally -- Flashdance (which I reviewed as the darkest-lit mainstream movie ever, in an old post linked below).<br /><br />And yes, I did just dance all around the room after 2am, while looking up these YouTube vids. They're classics of "just let the spirit possess you" (speaking of Mumei's loss of sanity in the Phasmophobia stream, hehe).<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miax0Jpe5mA<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evyKPVS_M7E<br /><br />https://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/03/flashdance-darkest-lit-mainstream-movie.htmlagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71920910563001783432022-12-05T01:57:19.869-05:002022-12-05T01:57:19.869-05:00FWIW, I think Mumei has dancing talent, but that i...FWIW, I think Mumei has dancing talent, but that it's lying latent and untapped.<br /><br />She's a visual rather than verbal learner, she has always made drawing a hobby, and she can sing really well (technically, and performatively before a crowd / not getting stage-fright, etc.). These all point to her leaning toward the corporeal side of the "cerebral vs. corporeal" spectrum.<br /><br />Only thing I'm unclear on is if she's a butt girl or boob girl -- and no, that's not a sly request for such information. Just saying that's one part of this analysis that has a "do not know" value in the data. (All dancers, gymnasts, athletes, etc. are butt people.) <br /><br />In any case, she's mentioned that growing up, her environment steered her away from singing and musical theater. The same environment would've kept her from testing her talent at dancing, too (Puritanical). So, just because she doesn't currently enjoy cutting a little rug when the right tune is playing, doesn't mean she can't.<br /><br />It could just be a mental obstacle -- overcoming her upbringing, finding confidence, trusting the audience, and so on. But she has managed to accomplish that for singing, so I don't see why she couldn't do that as well for dancing.<br /><br />Singing and dancing are found so often in the same person, especially if they're inclined to musical theater. There's just no way she does multi-hour karaoke sessions from musicals, but also has two left feet. I don't believe it for a second.<br /><br />My advice to people in that situation: have one shot of liquid courage to loosen your inhibitions, stay home with no one else around, and put on some very danceable music (for me, it was 2nd wave ska, Franz Ferdinand's first album, and other intersections of dance and rock -- for Mumei, it might be ABBA and disco, '90s techno / Eurodance, idk).<br /><br />Don't look in any mirrors, just let the music take over your body like it's working your puppet strings. Since dancing is a natural activity, you'll do certain motions and carry out certain sequences instinctively (to maintain balance, to provide a little variety by alternating, to get more attention by stretching an arm or leg further away from your torso, etc.). You don't need lessons to get into the basics.<br /><br />In fact, don't bother learning any established step dances, routines, or choreography. Just get your body into the activity first, and when you're comfortable enough in your body while dancing, then you can learn ballroom dances, choreography, etc. (I never did, always stayed in my own gymnastic / club leader style, but anyone who asked assumed I had some kind of dance training).<br /><br />Like any kinesthetic skill, you have to practice to develop it, and keep at it in order to maintain it. But it never really goes away, just gets rusty at worst.<br /><br />It blows my mind that such a voice was kept silent for so long -- I'd hate to think there's a dancer in there that's been caged up as well.<br /><br />I believe in Moom. I only got into it when I was 23, roughly the same age as her. You don't have to have trained since kindergarten, if you just want to go dancing rather than join a pro ballet corps. It'll take practice and mental obstacle overcoming -- and maybe a little help from a shot glass. But if she achieved that for singing, she can for dancing too!agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-39014546473989879472022-12-05T01:19:40.135-05:002022-12-05T01:19:40.135-05:00Imagine not loving holographic girls (real girls w...Imagine not loving holographic girls (real girls wearing holo costumes to an online masquerade ball, where they graciously host us every night)...<br /><br />Too many wholesome and cursed-but-cute moments to mention tonight with the Goobinator (after the official game was done, during the even longer socializing-with-fans-and-colleagues portion).<br /><br />It reminds me so much of playing bideo gamebz back in the '80s and '90s, when it was still entirely IRL -- "You wanna come over after school and play some Street Fighter?" It was just a pretext for hanging out and socializing with friends. Play the game for an hour, then do whatever else for a few more hours, with no concrete plans.<br /><br />I'm not sure if Millennials had that experience when they were in their entirely-online phase of video games, like in the Wii / PS3 / Xbox 360 era. Did they play online for an hour, and then drop the game, but continue shooting the shit for another hour or longer over their gamer headsets? From the memories I've heard, their time was mostly devoted to the game itself.<br /><br />LAN parties were over by that point, too. Maybe Millennials could've experienced the "video games as a pretext for hanging out" atmosphere in the '90s or early 2000s, but I doubt their helicopter parents allowed them to do so very often. For the tail end of Gen X, our parents had no input -- one kid invited the other kid, and the parents respected their kids' separate social lives, allowing them to invite friends over (within reason), without having to get special permission from the parents.<br /><br />Now it's like one girl shows up in another girl's chat, asks to play a game later, and most of what they do is socialize rather than get sweaty and tryhard with the game itself. Or if they do focus on the game hardcore, it's only for an hour, then there's 3 hours of unstructured spontaneous fun afterward. Hehe.<br /><br />Seems like the period of 2005 to 2019 was the hardcore / angry / ranting / sweaty gamer era, whereas the '90s / y2k and now the 2020s are more low-key / mellow / casual-friendly video game cultures.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-46539397298556210022022-12-04T18:50:55.680-05:002022-12-04T18:50:55.680-05:00"Livin' in the Flood Zone of Love, and I ..."Livin' in the Flood Zone of Love, and I Ain't Got No Insurance" -- from my forthcoming country crossover album.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com