"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
— Carl Jung (via writingsforwinter)
"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautiful things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness."
— Hayden Carruth, Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays (via heteroglossia)
(via repetition-is-holy)
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
— Dita Von Teese (via energiesoftheuniverse)
(via notthisonetheotherblog)
Mr. Sexsmith is on fire, and we’re not just talking her titillating new Lesbian Bondage book Say Please. Blogs and readers are raving about her anthology across the internet. Here are just a handful of the several reviews the book has received thus far.
http://kellidunham.com/2012/04/saypleas/ ”You should buy, steal, borrow yourself a copy of Say Please. … 100 percent more sexy, populated with real characters.”http://theblackleatherbelt.com/review-say-please-lesbian-bdsm-erotica ”You know what I love best about this book? I love that it exists.… Every book is like a message in a bottle, and we cannot know upon which shores its message will wash up. Somewhere out there is a baby perv, who’s gonna find this book, and think, OMG THERE REALLY ARE PEOPLE LIKE ME AND SOMEONE THINKS WE ARE IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO PUT IN A BOOK! There are at least fifteen of them, because 23 of them wrote about it and then one of them put all the stuff between the covers of a book! And then they’ll sit there for a minute, and it’ll blow their minds when they realize, wait: there must be more than 23 of us plus me, because nobody would publish a book if only the people in it and some random nobody like me were interested. “http://sexpositiveblog.com/post/21208451591/say-please-virtual-blog-tour ”Reading this anthology is thrilling, and each story has different flavors to satisfy everyone.http://lulalisbon.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/92/ ”I dipped into Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica almost as soon as I ripped open the paper shipping envelope…I finished the book on a bus trip, relishing the public debauchery of it…If I were a queen, I’d be beheaded for this. Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica is a great look into contemporary erotica. The variety of themes and plots was interesting enough to not be repetitive, yet they flowed together beautifully.”http://madeofwords.com/2012/04/18/say-please-rocks-it-somethin-fierce/ ”My rating: 5 of 5 stars. BDSM is not always my thing. But good writing is, and this book is chock full of it. You might be wondering why I read it, if I’m not generally turned on by leather, or pain, or the wide-variety of things that BDSM is. To be honest, the first reason is that it was edited by Mr. Sinclair Sexsmith. They are like King Midas: everything they touch turns to gold.…So the moral of the story. Even if you’re ‘not into that,’ you should still pick up a copy of this book and read it.…So wake up your inner voyeur and take a peek into these character’s bed rooms. No matter what you’re into, you won’t regret it.http://ftmbutchdude.com/2012/04/19/say-please/ ”This book is delicious. There is no other word for it. …Every story… left me worked up, wound up, and aching for more.”Want a chance to put your word in? Leave a review at Amazon.com and spread the word!Want to see Sexsmith in the flesh discussing sex, politics and fucking with gender? Check out the list of her several appearances across the U.S. here
“… the question shouldn’t always be “Why are you sharing this?” but maybe should be “Why wouldn’t you share this?””
Thank you, Rachel, I often need that reminder myself.
rkb:
Not to make this too meta, but a) thank you, Seska. That means an incredible amount to me, especially from you. b) It is also an answer to a question I and other people have been asking me: why is X or Y public? Why do you have that impulse? What are the pros and cons? What do you get out of it?
I’m not totally sure why, but I do know that it’s an intrinsic part of me. It helps me and sometimes that’s not an instant dose of help, but rather a slow build. It’s not that writing gives me all the answers or necessarily makes anything better per se, but for me, it’s better than the alternative. And as I think about sharing certain things on a broader level, I am asking myself that question, over and over. I don’t always come down on the side of sharing, or sometimes I do, but in fictional form, but this sentence from Seska reminded me that the question shouldn’t always be “Why are you sharing this?” but maybe should be “Why wouldn’t you share this?”
Reading Rachel’s posts as of late (I have been following her for a few years) is becoming a part of my own figuring out who I am and what I want out of life because the status quo is no longer working process.
rkb:
Realizing that this year is teaching me how much I value growth, independence, self-sufficiency and strength. I’d rather make myself smarter than anyone else. It’s weird when those light bulbs go off when you’ve spent so long in damaging ways of thinking. It’s so freeing, because you don’t even…
