I’m struggling. There is so much going on in the world, in my family, in my head… and I feel so alone.
Long distance is never easy, but long distance during a pandemic while trying to be responsible citizens of the world? I do NOT reccommend.
I’d give just about anything to be held, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon. Not seeing L this year – not kissing him, not feeling his arms around me, not having him next to me in bed –is an incredibly hard pill to swallow. There’s a lump in my throat every time I think of him.
It can be difficult to fight off the feeling of hopelessness.
I don’t ever feel pressured to explain myself on my blog, but this is why I’ve been pretty quiet for a while. The submissive and sexual state of mind is elusive when there’s so much energy and focus directed towards simply surviving the year.
Is anyone else having the issue where sims are idling for a long time before doing what you ask them or they’re just straight up refusing to do it? As far as I know all my mods are up to date and it’s getting really frustrating! It wasn’t happening before the patch and right now my game is close to unplayable and I have no idea how to fix it :(
anyways. drag kings have been around for decades & are equally as important as drag queens. drag masculinity faces serious erasure & that’s a problem. support your local drag kings
whenever I see people reblog this or my other post about this with some variation of “oh i didn’t even know drag kings existed!!” it makes me so sad. I’m glad u know it now but like, the fact that people don’t even know drag kings exist? how many people do you thing would get into drag if they knew drag kings and drag masculinity was a Thing? how many more people would get to explore their masculinity via drag?
Some kings to get you going.
Landon Cider, Buck Wylde, Miles Long, Koco Caine, Murray Hill, and Spikey Van Dykey.
I should also recommend Beau Jangles and Mudd the Two Spirit, my two personal favorite kings!
Beau is very much inspired by Cab Calloway, so you know. I, Heidi Ho myself, just have to be obsessed.
Mudd is an indigenous king and honestly? His looks are FUCKING INSANE I love him.
Drag kings haven’t just been around for decades, they’ve been around for over a hundred years.
As an aspiring professional queen myself, the erasure of drag masculinity is quite literally offensive to the artform as a whole. Kings have contributed so much and they deserve better.
They have been around for over a hundred years!
In the 1800s, drag kings were called “male impersonators” (and likewise, drag queens called “female impersonators”), and they would work the music halls (like, variety acts, comedy and theatre) - mostly singing silly or risqué songs like “Burlington Bertie from Bow”, “Following in Father’s Footsteps” or “Jolly Good Luck to the Girl that Loves a Soldier” - and many of them also did panto, acting as the Prince Charming, or Peter Pan (as is traditional), things like that
One of the early ones was Bessie Bonehill in the 1890s
Here she is, from an image search -
Later on, there was Ella Shields
And Hetty King, who worked until the 1930s, 30 years on the halls
