That sucks :(NYC isn't going to be the most representative sample of the east coast as a whole. New Yorkers are famously desensitized to pretty much whatever and anything more conventional than a bologna sandwich as hair accessory (at least 1 documented occurrence) is unlikely to turn heads.
I def experienced quite a bit of that in Long Island when I visited friends in the 90's, not that I wore anything too out there. But I later lived in a couple of pretty conservative towns in northern Nassau County (and one very small town that's really hippie) and it wasn't an issue. I don't know if times changed, or if it's the age difference.
So I know what you mean, it totally sucks, it's just been a while since I personally encountered that so maybe I've become overly optimistic about the state of things.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 19 June 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Actually living in these quite affluent parts of Long Island, my lifestyle and living conditions were very incongruous, more or less like a squatter. Car-free, at other times heat and plumbing-free also. I probably looked more 'different' than I realized at the time, but it was very conspicuous in other ways too, and I was constantly surprised at how tolerant the neighbors were.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
To what extent I encountered resistance... It was mostly young kids who were obnoxious.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
grew up just outside nyc and lived there for a time before moving to LA. pretty sure the first time anyone ever called me a faggot was when i was visiting SF for the first time.
i tend against ostentation generally but i've thought a lot about my clothes this year and how boring they all are and how i want to change that. but i also find clothes shopping fundamentally stressful - i know some people love it and are super-good at it but i have never really been one of those people. i just want some fun, stylish, durable clothes that are like...not fast fashion but not bank-breaking either.
― donna rouge, Saturday, 19 June 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
What's convenient for you to get to in terms of stores? What general silhouette r u thinking?
― surm, Monday, 21 June 2021 04:39 (three years ago) link
It's summer y'all
― surm, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
texting with a beautiful boy I met at a friend's political debut
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
I see - and what age does boy mean nowadays?
― surm, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
Anyone know what this one's about?
holding poppers while posing for pictures with pop starts isn't a personality but y'all really stay in love with a mediocre white man who said racist shit in the past— the morally corrupt juan barquin (@woahitsjuanito) July 19, 2021
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
from a followup tweet: this guy (no, me neither):
lol @ dumb bitch jordan firstman being a super spreader https://t.co/0htv0ZNYFS— the morally corrupt juan barquin (@woahitsjuanito) July 19, 2021
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
lol that Tweet's by a friend/former student/local film writer
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
(no, me neither)
Truly.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
Apparently it's this https://www.distractify.com/p/jordan-firstman-tweets
tbh I'm just glad I'm old now
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Hello! Do we have a summer thread yet? Cuz it's summer y'all, and "my hair is comin' down" (name the movie and actress without googling and win a fun gif of what I think best represents your posting style! ππ°
― surm, Monday, 2 August 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
hi surm! i have no idea but i'd appreciate a gif
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 2 August 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
New thread?
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Monday, 2 August 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
yes plz
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 2 August 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
is there a new one
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
haha you do it i suck at titles
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
Lucky for you, I got all these daddy issues: Queer Summer, 2021 (LGBTQQIAAP+++)
fill er up!
― surm, Thursday, 12 August 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link