-longer read but really fantastic and fun analysis of Cronenberg’s work, eroticism, transformative sex, and consent :D
-Not as engaged with August Blue as I was Hot Milk but Debbie is for the girls with mommy issues
well-written article analyzing cronenburg's films and contrasting them with today's sexual politics and lack of eroticism. passage i enjoyed: In fact, we are not impermeable packages of preformed desires, importing our likes and dislikes around with us from one encounter to the next like papers in a briefcase. An erotic craving is inextricable from the ferment that foams up when oneself is sluiced into another. Not only is it impossible for us to know whether an encounter will be deflating or transformative but we cannot know what sort of metamorphosis will ensue if the sex is as jarring as we can only hope it will be.
By becca rothfeld for the New Yorker. EVERYONE (in my niche pocket of the internet) is talking about becca rothfeld - as they should! She’s incredible go read it
I wish I could re-rec with an image but this is in reply to @MARIAMARIA’s rec. I had to dig way back in my photos to 2022 and find the clay cow tools I made. Unfortunately, I abandoned them so they never got fired but maybe I’ll re-visit the project once I can afford pottery classes again.
