Time Warp

[fictional]

Time Warp Wives.

What do you lot think of this? I am at a loss. I never know what to make of these people. On the one hand, I admire their dedication to detail. For another, I am really into vanished worlds as well. (Hello, cosplay! Dressing up is awesome. Recreating lost worlds, equally so.) In addition, it's nice to live in a time, where people can be this weird, and not get, y'know, stoned to death or whatever. I support people's constructed, fictional lives, no matter what fashion, as long as they're not hurting anyone, - and it's great that they've been able to find people of like mind to live with etc.

BUT. They are crazy. tin. hats. Like, I get the desire, but not the 24/7 of it all, you know. Obsession can be taken too far.

Here's the other thing. It's like the male-dom thing in bdsm. Like, I've been known to find it really hot. BUT. in sex! Not in real life, right? Politically I find it to be repugnant and stupid. (Femme-dom too, for that matter, but you know what I mean.) For me, the great thing about recreation of these vanished times, means that we can keep the things we like for play, and lose the things we don't. Also I like running water, the internet, eyeglasses & contact lenses, etc etc.

I just don't know.

Thoughts?

Comments

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it! They're talking like they're making a moral choice, to live in a certain way to support their politics, but they are so incredibly bourgeois. It's like people who refuse to shop at Walmart. Now, I'm all for the refusal, but really poor people? Don't actually have much of a choice there. Scratch a Walmart abstainer, and you probably find someone who is firmly middle class. ('Cause the rich people weren't shopping at Walmart to start with.)

I judge *and* knit. Is that bad? Sometimes I judge while I knit. It's a good combination, though -- knitting keeps me just busy enough that I don't experience the urge to judge out loud.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Too right about the walmart thing. I sometimes feel that way about a certain school of vegan. I have a number of vegan friends, but sometimes, certain sects practice it, and the accompanying moral high ground in such a way that makes no allowance for the practicality of eating whilst poor.

I've tried knitting before, but I suck; I have a lot of trouble managing the needles. And I think I pull on them too tightly, and everything just gets really tight, and then I can't get the needle back in, and it is terrible.

I really love handcrafts, but I am bad at them. In college, I and a gaggle of friends used to sit in the lounge and watch Buffy and cross stitch. It's...uh... never managed to prevent me from judging out loud though. Probably I am doing it wrong ;-)