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Dec. 1st, 2012 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionWhat are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
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Date: 2012-12-01 08:31 pm (UTC)Liking anything that's coded girly or feminine or minor still comes with a lot of cultural baggage.
It's taken me a long time to admit I love the color shell-pink (to look at but, oddly, not to wear), emotional melodrama (in fiction but, explicably, not in life: Victorian sensation novels, contemporary mythpunk [well, some of it], the movie Labyrinth, Aurora Leigh, Dorothy Dunnett), and internet videos of slow lorises eating rice balls:
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Date: 2012-12-02 08:23 am (UTC)That loris is a favorite of ours. I think we both cried a little when we first saw the rice one.
What's a mythpunk? How can I castigate what I do not understand!
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Date: 2012-12-02 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-02 09:33 pm (UTC)I liked EBB's clearly self-awarely sexual train passage though.