Not in Gothic, Dern was Claire in Haunted Summer (like THREE movies about this came out in the 80s LOL - in the third one Hugh Grant was Byron and Liz Hurley was Claire) where Alice Krige was Mary Shelley and Eric Stoltz was Percy Shelley. I know that knowing this off the top of my head and having seen all of these…

Natasha Richardson played her in an 80s film called Gothic, Gabriel Byrne was Byron and Julian Sands was Percy Shelley. :)

I’m a sex worker (and not one of those high class fancy ones) and I’ve actually thought about this. I would have to literally be on the brink of actual starvation to accept a booking from Donald Trump. Every single awful booking I’ve had - not including the ones who actually assaulted me obviously just the gross ones…

I am a sex worker (and not one of those high class fancy ones) and I have thought about this very question. Unless I was literally on the point of starvation I would refuse service to Donald Trump. Thinking back over all of the grossest clients I’ve had - excluding the ones who actually assaulted me obviously - I…

That is such a fucking weird photo of him and I can’t put my finger on why, what is going on in it that is unsettling me so?

I frequently get mail misdelivered to me, as in both the apartment number and the street number totally wrong. It’s only a few buildings down my street so at first I did just walk over and pop it into the correct letter box. But after the fifth or sixth time, as well as making a complaint to Australia Post I began…

“Disliked: World’s tiniest text,”

Oh there are a lot of repercussions to this that non-sex workers haven’t thought of. As some have been pointing out in interviews and social media, we have been the canaries in the free speech mine.

This - it’s sexism. Women are conditioned to think that the less space we take up the more beautiful/desirable we are and that it’s comical/unattractive to be equal or physically larger than a male partner.

Yeah that was a nasty little jab of victim blaming wasn’t it.

The flagging is/was a very complicated process, and it’s way easier for a john with an axe to grind to write a defamatory or incorrect review than it is for a provider to get it taken down. TER also introduced a scoring process by which providers cannot receive a rating above a certain number unless they perform…

I hate TER with the heat of 1000 blazing suns, but when I heard its advertising section was shuttered I felt sick for all the SWs whose circumstances did mean they chose to advertise there, and for the fact that the power imbalance becomes even more dramatic between workers and the men who can write whatever toxic and…

Women* doing what they want to with their own bodies. See also: reproductive rights.

Having now lost a primary means of independent advertising, lots of sex workers - me included - are now receiving offers from other websites for advertising at grossly inflated fees, and from individuals offering to “manage” us and “help” us find bookings for a cut of our earnings or other, how can I word this…

On the whole I liked it, definitely better than the concert tour from a few years ago that reached a bit too hard to modernise the story and find updated parallels for everything.

This article has made me briefly fret over the mystery of how the stock sound effect of a dog being hurt was achieved in the first place for people to use in their movies and games. I hadn’t actually thought about that before.

I think one of the factors why some people get annoyed about this stuff is that there’s this social expectation that getting married is one of the best things you can ever achieve, and it “needs” to be celebrated, validated and rewarded in a certain way that there just isn’t an equivalent for for single people. Like,…

Was so weird how the movie changed protagonist Richard from a Brit to an American, and Beach community leader Sal from a chubby American to a skinny Brit.

This is the one I went to as well, I remember they also had a big block of ice in a tub of temperature controlled water you could put your hands in to feel how cold it would have been.

Unashamed Titanic nerd here, have been since I was a tween. I even travelled interstate to see the Titanic exhibit when it came to Australia a few years ago, just not to the city where I was living.