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Writing Dirty With Rachel Kramer Bussel: The Autostraddle Interview

“Bondage specifically is a really interesting topic. First of all, you can incorporate so many different material items. You can pretty much tie someone up with anything, so as erotica, I think that’s interesting. And the other part – what I’m most interested in, both personally and in writing – is the psychological side. Bondage especially lends itself to writing about the kinds of reasons that people want to be restrained or want to restrain someone else. When people can do that really well, it speaks to people who are into bondage, but it also speaks to a wider meaning, because it taps into so much more than just our sexual side – it taps into ideas about power and giving up power and who you’re willing to do that for and why. ”

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Betty: Whatever you’re running from … you’re safe here now. I’ll make sure. (1x01)
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Betty: Please, Kate, don’t leave. I love you. (1x06)

Sit back and get yourself a drink because this is going to be a meta-post. HALLWAY PARALLELS! When Betty tells Kate that she is safe in that first episode, the small smile she gives after Betty says that indicates that Kate, whether she knows it or not, is drawn to Betty just as much as Betty is drawn to Kate… in a completely romantic way. She is moved by Betty’s gallant declaration of protection. No one - besides her mother - has ever cared about her this much.

In the season finale, when Betty confesses her love, Kate’s face again betrays her feelings. Her face in the last gif isn’t someone who is disgusted by the confession, but someone who doesn’t quite know how to express what she is feeling. Her heart wants to yell “I LOVE YOU TOO”, but every other instinct and society and, you know, her dad who is standing right there, is counteracting this and she just can’t say it, even though I am sure she is feeling it too.

— So does anyone else think that Betty kissing Kate was the first time Kate has been kissed in a romantic way ever? Unless, she said something to contrary during the series and I wasn’t playing attention.

— As much as I think Ali Liebert owns the last scene in every way, shape and form, I have to say that Charlotte Hegele was also amazing. She lost her “Kate” glow and was just a shell. The light in her eyes that had been there all season was gone.

— As much as the ending tore my heart out, I think it would have rang completely false (for now) if Kate didn’t have this exact reaction to Betty’s kiss. Society, her upbringing and just about everything else in life is “telling” her that this is wrong and she just isn’t strong enough (yet) to fight that.

— MY HEART. MY CREYS. MY SOUL IS DYING.

Have you been to the Oakland Occupy? What are your feelings on what’s been going on there vs what the mainstream media has been reporting?

yes i have! however i have not been recently, because i have been here on this machine and i suck as a person. but i did go this time:

http://www.autostraddle.com/occupy-oaklands-awesomeness-triumphs-over-its-fringe-craziness-119219/

i think the mainstream media is lying about occupy, like nationwide. i mean when it gets warmer we’ll all get back into it, but i’m like 95% sure that we’re being fed propaganda by the mainstream media ‘cause they’re ultimately owned by corporations with vested interest in such things. anyhow, everyone i know who has been to an occupy site anywhere, and the occupy sites i’ve seen are not what we read about.

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You see, we are all given a certain amount of fucks to give in one lifetime, and it is up to us as individuals to determine how to distribute them (trust me, I’m a doctor of fuck-giving). Some people call these ‘priorities.’ I call them 'fucks.’ Improper fuck-distribution leads to such things as unnecessary stress, feelings of futility, existential crises, bad hair days, and perhaps even Seasonal Affective Disorder. In this article, I will seek to teach you proper distribution technique so that you and your loved ones can stop giving 'em (like that) and have more time to give them…like that. Let’s begin.
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