Grown so ugly.

It is like baptism by fire, but ugliness instead of fire! I give in totally!

In high school my friends and I were obsessed with the cuteness of Japan. We tried to emulate their cute street fashion. But my friend made the GENIUS observation that if we lived there we would probably "embrace ugliness" and hate all things cute. I thought...today...I don't have to move to Nippon to make this real! I have no religion.

enjoy your decline. it's the only reasonable response.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, March 23, 2003

i never take my own advice.

thankfully this also still seems to be true

my ugliness level is holding steady.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, May 6, 2003

n high school my friends and I were obsessed with the cuteness of Japan. We tried to emulate their cute street fashion. But my friend made the GENIUS observation that if we lived there we would probably "embrace ugliness" and hate all things cute. I thought...today...I don't have to move to Nippon to make this real! I have no religion.

― *floods world w/tears* (Abbbottt), Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:39 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i had a friend who did this, mostly in terms of personal style. in thrift stores, etc. she would always spot the ugliest thing in the room and buy it and she'd wear all her ugly items together in various arrangements. the effect was sort of pretty, though. she was v v beautiful so i guess that influenced things.

well beautiful people can wear anything

yeah i guess that is the lesson

except cargo shorts

I <3 this thread.

this phrase pops into my head all the time tbh

haha mine too

I was thinking about this sort of thing today, also, and how liberating dropping all that is. All of it...and how it transforms the way you look at others. I never realized it to such an extent until just earlier today. My entire life more or less has been obsessed with the opposite.

we talked about it in the plastic surgery thread but i'm still v intrigued about the liminal area between socially-deemed necessary cosmetic surgery (my face was shaved off by barbed wire (this is a real case)) and the unnecessary (i want a facelift why because it intersting)

I can't believe I never wound up posting to this thread. Amateurist looks very nice, actually. I know comments like that are no help, since it's less about the reassurance of others than it is about living up to whatever personal potential you're trying to unlock, but . . . Amateurist is great-looking, I think.

And if everything he says is true, he might be out-of-shape enough to make a good running partner for me! Whaddayasay, let's get together over by the lake and do, say, 500 yards every weekend? Then maybe some cigarettes and chili cheese dogs.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 11:23 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
why don't you just marry him already

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 12:21 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i miss nabisco

i can't wait to be an old man. like really old. like unable to move around easily, white hair coming out the ears old. i like to think all of this stuff is just a distant memory then.

i miss ms jessica harbl ;_;

i used to say that i couldn't wait to be an old lady but i'm beginning to think i was fronting.

yeah i've been told by friends that i'll make a great cranky old man and used to think warmly of being just that but i just went to the doctor because i sprained my MCL and now i'm like wait getting old is kind of a thing and i need to forestall some of that garbage

yeah i mean this fantasy is sort of predicated on a.) being so old and ugly you just dont care but also b.) having jack lalanne's physique

which doesn't really match up

rip he was a strongo

jack lalanne i mean

i didn't think you were frontin! i think my fantasy was predicated on having lived a v accomplished life.

xxp

so basically we wanna be hideous cranky old people who dont give a shit while also being able to do one-armed push-ups

yes.

And pet our trophies and plaques and degrees whenever we need a break from living in the high desert and solving crimes/righting wrongs.

haha yes and yell at people on the bus because we don't give a fuck

jbr and rrrobyn and I plus I forget who else? are gonna be cane-wielding injustice-fighters. Anyone else who wants to go better get on this train while it's still going!

xp but skip that awkward middle aged period when we're basically adolescent old people

i think it's impt to fight injustice at all ages, so why wait?

I'm just waiting on the cane-wielding part tbh

i saw a guy carrying a cane today who clearly did not need a cane and for a split second i was like "that's not a bad look"

but then i thought about all the accessorizing that would have to go along with a cane

And pet our trophies and plaques and degrees whenever we need a break from living in the high desert and solving crimes/righting wrongs.

― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:06 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is actually my dream btw

I'm also waiting for my crone stage, when I will gain the power to make people ashamed of their sorry selves with the strength of my withering glare.

really feel like you can already do that, Laurel; i just get a vibe

yeah i think some of these are things we can achieve now

but then i thought about all the accessorizing that would have to go along with a cane

Just get a sword or gun cane, then you won't care.

always wanted to be doc sarvis

http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/08talk-yaeger-tmagArticle-e1308073734375.jpeg

laurel is no crone but she does have a withering gaze iirc

Is 80:

http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/cd62_org21-e1308072587156.jpeg

idk - I think being an old woman can be pretty awesome for some people.

well beautiful people can wear anything

― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:48 PM (27 minutes ago)

yeah i guess that is the lesson

― horseshoe, Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:49 PM (27 minutes ago)

Law 1: Genetics.

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm117186788/10-laws-enduring-success-maria-bartiromo-paperback-cover-art.jpg

This thread is not about Beautiful People, no one is surprised when they are still in the 90th percentile of good looks at any age. This is about embracing the power that comes from surface ugliness, partic that which is brought on by aging past the point when society grants you the privilege of believing in your own allure.

actually i think it was about amateurist having a quarter-life crisis

well there's that

We've moved on. Also I seem to have misplaced my sympathy for 25-yr-olds mourning their lost youth. I can't think where I put it.

well to be fair he's 33 now.

you kids quiet down

i was 25 when i first posted to this thread too, but i had already achieved a zen-like acceptance of my advanced decrepitude