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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • A common response with doms I’m friends with to “I’ll do anything you want” or “I have no limits” is to ask which finger they want to lose. They don’t actually do anything, but it’s a way of teaching that there are absolutely things you don’t want done to you that other people may want to do to someone and you really need to learn to convey at least the basics of what you want and don’t want both for your safety and to avoid making the dom do all the work of figuring out the scope of the scene.














  • The Dispossessed hit me like a truck, but I wouldn’t call it theory. It’s political fiction that’s subtle about it by using sci fi, but I think calling it anything but a novel/fiction does a disservice to such literature. It does that which all message based fiction aspires to: lies to you in a way that makes you think about the world and see everything differently. I love all of LeGuinn’s books that I’ve read, though I felt Omelas was overrated. I’ll also plug Graeber for easily accessible theory written in modern language for modern life. Bullshit jobs hit hard.

    And yeah, theory matters, but only if you do praxis. Do the hungry care more about who you feed them, or that you feed them? Do your coworkers dream of a dictatorship of the proletariat or do they just want their voice heard in the workplace? If all you do is read theory, you’re a book club. The least you could do is mail some dictionaries and whatever other books to prisoners while you discuss the theory. Offer them some zines while you’re at it. What is in your heart and your mind are irrelevant until your actions reveal them.