Clickbait Alarm, Be Aware
AKA Barbie goes BDSM
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Really cool bylines. Not that anybody cares. And yes, Pride & Prejudice is
a rather odd topic for a femdom blog. What triggered this post is a newspaper
article. No single respectable publication can resist the power of the
clickbait headline. The Guardian's first 'guiding newsletter' [1] of the year ahead on what's hot or not in Cultureland is a prime
example. "Bondage Bronte, to more comeback tours – what will be 2026’s big
cultural hitters ?" And yes BB sis is inventive. [Sort of.]
TV
and sex are pretty much the same. In one respect. You may not like what I
like, which makes the article in the Guardian look like a first year
assignment for junior journalism college. Let me grade it. 2/10. For getting
out of bed.
"Who better to entrust the adaptation one of literature’s most celebrated works to than Miss Marmite herself, Emerald Fennell?" Who cares? Despite that, the misery continues.
"Well, arguably many, many people, but there is a certain boldness from Warner Bros in handing the Saltburn director the reins to their Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi-starring Wuthering Heights (13 February) – not least because she has immediately used them in an S&M bondage scene. Expect that and plenty of other moments that will make the Brontë purists blanche in a movie event that will dominate the discourse like no other."
Who cares? Clearly nobody because if you follow the link there are exactly zero comments. Clearly BDSM clickbait is much less effective now that the world is on fire. An analysis of the price we pay for not supporting Ukraine from day one would be much more usefull. Or else, read a book. Suggestions anyone? Sadly, even serious journalists seem to be enslaved by the algorithm these days.
Tame Impala - Dracula
Don't worry, no Kate Bush or Charlie XCX today. Just a track I absolutely love, Tame Impala's Dracula. And yes, Haloween is long over.
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| Tame Impala - Dracula [click to listen] |
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One thing I've come to regret is joking about Elon Musk and the 42 billion he spent on buying Twitter. Mr. Musk is a morally bankrupt person to say the least. Just today I read on CNN how Russia is using Starlink's communications system to fly killer drones deeper into Ukraine despite the fact that "under US sanctions, Starlink cannot be sold or used in Russia."
Notes
[1] Guiding newsletter? How about the freedom to choose for yourself dear newspaper?
[2] Today's image is one of the strongest and most powerful ones I've ever come across. What a wonderful woman, as if she walked straigth out Bridgerton, a TV show set in the "early 19th century in an alternative London Regency era, in which George III established racial equality and granted aristocratic titles to people of color due to the African heritage of his wife, Queen Charlotte." A much better timeline for infinite reasons.