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Delving

FUCK!!!!  This is hard!!! Yes, she said it, as I am a 'she'. Goddamn!  I am frustrated to hell with this world building/secondary character design/story fleshing.  I envy Jill with her eureka moment, having everything hit her at once.  Perhaps that would be my undoing.  I would barf with nerves at the scope of it all and run away. It's great, having my little meditations every day.  It's a ride to ask a question, hear an answer, and even draw the responder or subject without my usual level of prefectionist anxiety.  It is just sooo damn pieced out and... and TEASING!  Auugggghgh! X(  I'm so passionate about this that I want to share it with people, especially my supporters!  but I don't have a complete body to even pen the first chapter with.  (I actually wrote a first chapter, but, you see, certain elements are lacking.  Rushing now would cause massive holes in world mechanics, if not a story dead end.) I want to post my less *private* pictures of this int

Superwomen and the "fix him" myth

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I don't know what came first, but "Honey I'm good" by the Grammar fellow is cute, it's refreshing.  Other songs are jumping on the faithfulness wagon, but they list their reasons in a creepy way.  It focuses on "she's supportive and sexy!"  which, okay, if my bf wasn't BOTH of those things, he would not be my BF.  I'm a lady-dick like that.  I guess my disquiet is in the emphasis of their domestic skills and sexiness, and not about what the male counterpart contributes (besides being so swell as to not fuck others behind her back.)  Sure, it's one song, it's short, what all can they say?  Glitter and glory and sexy aren't strange topics of pop songs.    But it just seems like a subtle poison.  "I won't stray, cuz you a 10 and do the dirty things for me."  wait-what? Exhibit 1) David Guetta "Hey Mama" "Yes I do the cleaning, yes I do the cooking" in the same song as "Yes I"ll be what