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‘Thanks to the two most famous roles of her career—the enigmatic woman referred to only as A in Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad and the middle-aged widow stuck in domestic routine in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles—Delphine Seyrig is often thought of as an inscrutable performer. But this versatile French actress was also capable of great emotional immediacy and openness in her roles.

‘The daughter of an archaeologist, Seyrig was a cosmopolite at a young age, having already lived in Lebanon, New York, and the south of France by the time she was twenty. She then studied acting in both France and the United States (at the Actors Studio). Her first screen performance was in the 1958 beat generation short Pull My Daisy, also featuring Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, shot in New York. A few years later, Last Year at Marienbad—in which Seyrig plays a woman wandering the fever-dream-like interior of a château, where she may or may not have been before—made her an icon of the French New Wave.

‘Seyrig would go on appear in films by François Truffaut (Stolen Kisses, one of her most romantic parts), William Klein (she was never more delightfully off-kilter than in the satiric Mr. Freedom), Luis Buñuel (as the ever-gracious hostess in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Joseph Losey, Jacques Demy, Akerman, and other important film directors of the sixties and seventies.’ — Criterion Collection

‘Delphine Seyrig was born into an intellectual Protestant family. Her Alsatian father, Henri, was the director of the Beirut Archaeological Institute and later France’s cultural attaché in New York during World War II. Her mother, Hermine de Saussure, was Swiss, and the niece of linguist/semiologist Ferdinand de Saussure.

‘Delphine was the sister of composer Francis Seyrig. Her family moved from Lebanon to New York when she was ten. When the family returned to Lebanon in the late 1940s, she was sent to school at the Collège Protestant de Jeunes Filles, which had been founded by Protestant pacifists and social justice activists in 1938. She attended the school from 1947 to 1950.

‘As a young woman, Seyrig studied acting at the Comédie de Saint-Étienne, training under Jean Dasté, and at Centre Dramatique de l’Est. She appeared briefly in small roles in the 1954 TV series Sherlock Holmes. In 1956, she returned to New York and studied at the Actors Studio. In 1958 she appeared in her first film, Pull My Daisy. In New York she met director Alain Resnais, who asked her to star in his film Last Year at Marienbad. Her performance brought her international recognition and she moved to Paris. Among her roles of this period is the older married woman in François Truffaut’s Baisers volés (1968).

‘During the 1960s and 1970s, Seyrig worked with directors including Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Duras, and Fred Zinnemann, as well as Resnais. She achieved recognition for both her stage and film work, and was named best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in Resnais’ Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour (1963). She played many diverse roles, and because she was fluent in French, English and German, she appeared in films in all three languages, including a number of Hollywood productions.

‘Seyrig may be most widely known for her role as Colette de Montpelier in Zinnemann’s 1973 film The Day of the Jackal. In turn, perhaps her most demanding role was in Chantal Akerman’s 1976 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, in which she was required to adopt a highly restrained, rigorously minimalistic mode of acting to convey the mindset of the title character.

‘Seyrig was a major feminist figure in France. Throughout her career, she used her celebrity status to promote women’s rights. The most important of the three films she directed was the 1977 Sois belle et tais-toi (Be Pretty and Shut Up), which included actresses Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda, speaking frankly about the level of sexism they had to deal with in film industry. She also directed with Carole Roussopoulos an adaptation of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas. In 1982 Seyrig was the key member of the group that established the Paris-based “Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir”, which maintains a large archive of women’s filmed and recorded work and produces work by and about women. In 1989, Seyrig was given a festival tribute at Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, France.

‘Seyrig died in Paris in 1990, aged 58, from ovarian cancer (although some sources simply state “lung disease” or “following a long illness”). She was interred there in Cimetière du Montparnasse.’ — collaged

 

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Further

Delphine Seyrig Filmography
Delphine Seyrig page @ Facebook
Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return
Delphine Seyrig @ The Fashion Spot
‘delphine seyrig is fucking amazing’ @ chained & perfumed
Delphine Seyrig @ Wikipedia
Mais qui est Delphine Seyrig?
DELPHINE SEYRIG, INCONNUE CÉLÈBRE
Delphine Seyrig @ The Criterion Collection
Audio: Le secret professionnel de Delphine Seyrig et des divas en voie de disparition
DELPHINE SEYRIG – CINESTRANGER
À propos de «Delphine Seyrig, portrait d’une comète»
Dephine Seyrig, de Marienbad au féminisme
MES INTERVIEWS IMAGINAIRES : DELPHINE SEYRIG
Delphine Seyrig @ Find a Grave

 

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C’était quoi Delphine Seyrig?

Delphine Seyrig on feminism (in French)

Delphine Seyrig sings ‘Une fourmi et moi’ (1971)

Agnès Varda avec l’actrice Delphine Seyrig (1972)

Tombe de Delphine Seyrig au cimetière de Montparnasse

 

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Interview
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21 of Delphine Seyrig’s 50 films

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Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie Pull My Daisy (1959)
‘In January 1959 Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie started production on Pull My Daisy. It was a defining moment for Robert: a statement of an artist continuing along his own path, seemingly changing horses in midstream. His book of photographs The Americans had just been published the year before. As a still photographer, Robert had previous directorial experience working with models and settings for assignments and advertising work in the magazines. He had also started a few experimental personal short films. Pull My Daisy brought together neighbors and painters from the local downtown art world who had agreed to perform in a scene from a Jack Kerouac play (the Beat Generation which was never produced). It was an odd mixture of beat poets, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, who played themselves, and painters such as Larry Rivers playing Neal Cassady (Milo), his wife Carolyn played by ‘Beltiane’ who in reality was a famous European actress Delphine Seyrig (Last Year At Marienbad). Others in the cast included the Bishop ‘Mooney Peebles’, really Dick Bellamy, an artist’s dealer and gallery director, the bishop’s mother played by Alice Neel, a painter, the Bishop’s sister played by Sally Gross, a dancer, musician David Amram playing jazz legend Mezz McGillicuddy, and a touching appearance by Robert Frank’s little son Pablo. After the film was edited, Jack Kerouac came in and recorded a voice-over narration, which is a classic in spontaneous improvisation.’ — John Cohen

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Alain Resnais Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
‘Hailed as a triumph of the modernist aesthetic, Last Year at Marienbad is formally severe and utterly modernist. Its characters are nameless and locked in a zone of their own, a zone that may not even be of this world. At a baroque resort, an unnamed man “X” tries to convince an unnamed woman “A” that they had an affair last year and agreed to meet at the resort and leave her current paramour “M”. She doesn’t remember him at all, but what he tells her has the power to create a past for her and to blend it into her present. They are all caught up in a surreal loop of disjointed time. The characters move like somnambulists through a hermetically sealed world that seems totally surreal. Reading the obsessively thorough screenplay, one gets the feeling that Alain Robbe-Grillet is striving to remain faithful to some unnamed rubric whose invisible influence shapes every move his characters make.’ — Senses of Cinema

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Alain Resnais Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
‘Alain Resnais’s Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director’s follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig stars as an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose past comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France’s recently ended war in Algeria. Featuring a multilayered script by Jean Cayrol and inventively edited to evoke its middle-class characters’ political and personal realities, the fragmented, emotionally powerful Muriel reminds viewers that the past is always present.’ — Criterion Collection

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Joseph Losey Accident (1967)
‘Here we have the most successful film by the strongest English exponent of the ‘Art’ picture in the ’60s, Joseph Losey. When Accident came out it was heralded as a masterpiece, the finest work yet from the American left-wing director who started over again in England after being blacklisted in Hollywood. As much a Harold Pinter creation as Losey’s, Accident is an intriguing drama among some unusually tight-lipped people, perhaps weighed too heavily in the direction of Meaningful Emptiness, but always engaging and emotionally suspenseful.’ — DVD Savant

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Francois Truffaut Stolen Kisses (1968)
‘”[It is] quite simply a film that hopes to resemble a song,” Truffaut said of Stolen Kisses, and it was a measure of Truffaut’s dedication to cinema (or indifference to the world) that he produced this insouciant work as Paris erupted in the student riots of 1968. Kisses sends the director’s alter ego Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now a gawky 20-year-old, on a twin search for the perfect woman and the ideal job — he must chercher la femme and chercher le boulot. Kicked out of the army, Antoine finds employment as an apprentice detective, and is hired by a man to find out why nobody likes him. The chic, vivacious Delphine Seyrig plays the unhappy man’s wife, with whom a bedazzled Antoine falls head over heels in love. Watch for the sly opening homage to Psycho, along with other typically Truffautian cinephilic jests. “Strong, sweet, wise and explosively funny” (Vincent Canby, The New York Times); “Entirely beguiling … tender, hilarious, graceful, reticent” (Penelope Houston).’ — TIFF

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Luis Buñuel The Milky Way (1969)
‘The first of what Luis Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty) about “the search for truth,” The Milky Way (La voie lactee) daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism with ribald, rambunctious surreality. Two French beggars, present-day pilgrims en route to Spain’s holy city of Santiago de Compostela, serve as Buñuel’s narrators for an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Buñuel’s most memorable (stigmatic children, crucified nuns) and hilarious (Jesus considering a good shave). A diabolically entertaining look at the mysteries of fanaticism, The Milky Way remains a hotly debated work from cinema’s greatest skeptic.’ — The Criterion Collection

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William Klein Mr. Freedom (1969)
‘William Klein moved into more blatantly political territory with this hilarious, vicious Vietnam-era lampoon of imperialist American foreign policy. Mr. Freedom (John Abbey), a bellowing good-ol’-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine (a satirically sexy Delphine Seyrig) to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown of kitschy excess. Delightfully crass, Mr. Freedom is a trenchant, rib-tickling takedown of gaudy modern Americana.’ — Criterion Collection

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Jacques Demy Donkey Skin (1970)
‘Jacques Demy’s original musical fantasy Donkey Skin offers many delights, from its opulent set and costume design to the luminous Catherine Deneuve in a dual role (playing both the Queen and her daughter Princess “Donkey Skin”) and Jean Marais, still effortlessly commanding the screen a quarter century after Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. In fact, this film allows Demy to pay loving tribute to Cocteau, one of his favorite filmmakers, whose spirit permeates almost every frame. Demy wrote both Donkey Skin’s screenplay and lyrics directly for the screen, collaborating with his longtime musical collaborator Michel Legrand, who scored ten of Demy’s fifteen features, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. In this film, Seyrig is given, metaphorically, only one note to sing as the Princess’s sassy supernatural helper. But Demy seems less interested in giving the Lilac Fairy any kind of a resonant characterization than in paying homage to an even earlier (French) tradition of film fantasy, namely, the pioneering special effects of Georges Méliès (1861–1938). Note the many times the Lilac Fairy “magically” changes costumes during her patter song: Demy, like his distant predecessor, simply stops the camera, has Seyrig change costume, then continues shooting.’ — Jim’s Reviews

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Harry Kümel Daughters of Darkness (1971)
‘Made in 1971, Daughters of Darkness feels a lot more like Nicolas Roeg’s thriller Don’t Look Now than anything Hammer was making at the time. Set in an off-season Belgian seaside resort hotel, the film has a very small cast and a relatively low body count, but it has an air of gloom and doom and strange surrealism permeating the entire film. Director Harry Kümel used historical events of real so-called vampires and weaved them in with a story about very disturbed individuals who seem perfectly happy at first but then their true proclivities come to the surface when a vampire countess and her familiar. Daughters of Darkness lacks the violence and gore of many of its vampire contemporaries but ends up being exceedingly more troubling and interesting. The vampires are shown to be the evils of high-society, the excesses of Western aristocracy turned into blood rituals. Countess Bathory isn’t depicted as deviant because she’s a lesbian but rather because she manipulates and corrupts the youth of the world for her own use. Ilona isn’t her friend but her slave, and Valerie isn’t a love interest but a prize to be won. It’s a strange, troubling, and thought-provoking movie.’ — The Nerdist

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Luis Bunuel The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is an episodic savaging of the well-to-do French middle-class. An old surrealist, Bunuel builds a puzzle box of a movie, full of stories within stories, dreams within dreams. At several points, we cut to one of his dyspeptic gentlemen waking from sleep, horrified by what he–and by extension, we–just saw. Amusingly, the dreams often go several scenes back, including another guy waking up in bed, so that the second dreamer was actually imagining the first dreamer and his disturbing vision. Not unlike watching a film where the characters might suddenly become aware they are being watched. Or if the viewer could turn around and discover that he or she is being filmed.’ — Criterion Collection

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Don Siegel The Black Windmill (1974)
‘The Black Windmill is a 1974 British thriller directed by Don Siegel, based on the novel Seven Days to a Killing by Clive Egleton and starring Michael Caine as MI-6 agent John Tarrant whoes son is kidnapped. The ransom is half a million pound sterlings in uncut diamonds which is the exact amount that MI-6 prepared for funding some operation. Only special service personnel is aware of the diamonds, and Tarrant’s boss Cedric Harper (Donald Pleasence) suspects that Tarrant himself staged the kidnapping.’ — imfdb

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Chantal Akerman Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece, a mesmerizing study of stasis and containment, time and domestic anxiety. Stretching its title character’s daily household routine in long, stark takes, Akerman’s film simultaneously allows viewers to experience the materiality of cinema, its literal duration, and gives concrete meaning to a woman’s work. We watch, for three hours and twenty-one minutes, as Jeanne cooks, takes a bath, has dinner with her adolescent son, shops for groceries, and looks for a missing button. Each gesture and sound becomes imprinted in our mind, and as we are lulled by familiar rhythms and expected behavior, we become complicit with Jeanne’s desire for order. The perfect parity between Jeanne’s predictable schedule and Akerman’s minimalist precision deflects our attention from the fleeting signs of Jeanne’s afternoon prostitution. They nevertheless loom at the edge of our mind, gradually building unease. Jeanne Dielman constitutes a radical experiment with being undramatic, and paradoxically with the absolute necessity of drama. Made in 1975, when the artist was only twenty-five years old, the film upped the ante on neorealism’s mandate of “social attention.” Akerman’s real-time, matter-of-fact presentation of a woman’s everyday seemed to mock the timidity of the neorealist demand for “a ninety-minute film showing the life of a man to whom nothing happens.” In postwar film and video, banal kitchen scenes (in Umberto D., 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Semiotics of the Kitchen) are signs of an inclusive realism, a new politicized energy. Akerman’s “images between images,” those scenes neglected in conventional representation, gave this impulse a strong feminist accent. But more than a corrective to traditional cinema, Jeanne Dielman is a lesson in structural economy: the full visibility given to daily tasks exacts, as its cost, the more sensational scenes of Jeanne’s prostitution. These encounters last the time it takes to cook dinner.’ — The Criterion Collection

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Marguerite Duras India Song (1975)
‘Of all the films that Marguerite Duras wrote and directed over two decades – from La Musica (co-directed with Paul Seban) in 1966 to Les Enfants in 1985 – India Song was the only one to enjoy any sort of popular success. A small box-office hit in France in the mid 1970s, it remains a minor cult movie to this day. It is easy or, rather, impossible not to be seduced by the film’s lustrous visual surface and its deceptively hummable tango-inflected score. A quintet of swooningly gorgeous actors, led by an impossibly chic Delphine Seyrig, drift about in a lavish Art Nouveau villa. They sip champagne from crystal goblets, puff languorously on cigarettes and dance sedately to Carlos D’Alessio’s catchy tunes. They slip, at odd moments, out of their clothes (courtesy of Cerruti 1881) to pose in some vaguely eroticised tableaux vivants. None of the actors speak; instead, voices from off-screen comment on the action in hushed, reverent tones. Whoever these unknown speakers may be, they seem to enjoy the wondrously outré spectacle as much as we do. To quote David Thomson, India Song has “levels of nouveau roman and fashion show” that no fan of hardcore cinematic glamour could hope to resist.’ — Senses of Cinema

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Carole Roussopoulos & Delphine Seyrig SCUM Manifesto (1976)
‘Scum Manifesto is the title of a 1976 short film based on Valerie Solanas’s manifesto/book of the same name, and directed by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig. In the film, Seyrig reads several passages from a French translation of Solanas’s manifesto.’ — collaged

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Marguerite Duras Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976)
‘A deeply sensitive introspection around the themes of presence and absence, memories, life, love, death and permanence. Not a movie to see, but sensations to live. Something about what can’t be said or show. If you don’t like it, your are only half living. If you like it, you are already half dead. A unique magical object. Sad and beautiful. Pure poetry.’ — IMDb

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Marguerite Duras Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)
‘Writer-director Marguerite Duras creates a languid drama on the travails of love. In contrast to the slow-moving tale about the love life of a lethargic woman, Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay), a long-suffering mom of three, there’s the snazzy flute score by Carlos D’Alessio that plays throughout and it starkly contrasts the downbeat story.’ — Dennis Schwartz

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Ulrike Ottinger Freak Orlando (1981)
‘Freak Orlando is a trip into what cinema can be if you are uncompromising enough to be daring: A feast for the eyes and a chain of creative explosions of art direction, mise-en-scène, costumes, situations, associations, citations, imaginations and insanity. Based loosely on the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando and Tod Browning’s 1932 cult film Freaks, the film sends the unique Magdalena Montezuma (who you might know from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Werner Schroeter) on a journey of constant transformation and change. Some stations of her odyssey are a nightly park filled with illuminated electric stoves, a banquet on the top of a gasometer, a psychiatric home and, finally, a contest for the ugliest people of “Freak City”. Ottinger uses the freak as a metaphor for society’s outsiders when she draws from art and film history, sociology, women’s and gay rights and creates a truly queer exploration of sex, gender and the body. She uses these as sites of cinematic constructions and fantasies. Bearded women and self-scourging leather gays are accompanied by Japanese dancers and so-called midgets. Disabled bodies, Siamese twins and old men in black wedding dresses belong to Ottinger’s enigmatically crazy inventory as much as crucified opera singers, hermaphrodites and naked servants who are all part of a festive congregation in an abandoned, half-filled indoor pool. All this is arranged as a form of theatrical performance that is seen through the camera eye of a photographer and arranged as tableaux of great attraction and beauty that are cinematically orchestrated like an opera.’ — Toby Ashraf

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Delphine Seyrig Be Pretty and Shut Up (1981)
‘In 1976, French actress Delphine Seyrig interviewed 22 actresses (Ellen Burstyn, Maria Schneider, Juliet Berto, Jane Fonda, Shirley McLaine, et al) about their role in the movie industry, and the demand to “be beautiful and shut up”.’ — MUBI

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Chantal Akerman Golden Eighties (1986)
‘After her successes in the 1970s, Chantal Akerman turned toward the pleasures of popular cinema with a playful series of comedies and love stories, culminating in this extraordinary multi-character musical, set entirely in a shopping mall. A stylish, bittersweet look at the romantic tribulations of an assortment of shop owners and retail workers, the film evokes The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in its charm, but with a distinctly feminist bent. With songs co-written by Akerman and Marc Herouet, the film leads us through the tangled predicaments of clothing-shop owner Jeanne (Delphine Seyrig), who finds herself torn when her long-lost G.I. love, Eli (filmmaker John Berry), looks her up after 40 years; her son Robert (Nicolas Tronc), who is infatuated with Lili (Fanny Cottençon), a salon manager who in turn is having an affair with its owner, married gangster Monsieur Jean (Jean-François Balmer); hairdresser Mado (pop singer Lio), who has a crush on Robert; and coffee-bar proprietor Sylvie (Myriam Boyer), who pines for her boyfriend who’s gone to work in America. For this utterly delightful passion project, which she described as a postmodern cross between women’s cinema, Jewish literature, and musicals, Akerman collaborated with an extraordinary/unlikely dream team of writers—Desperately Seeking Susan screenwriter Leora Barish, veteran Truffaut/Rivette/Resnais scenarist Jean Gruault, former Cahiers du Cinéma critic Pascal Bonitzer, and filmmaker Henry Bean (The Believer).’ — Film Society Lincoln Center

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Chantal Akerman Letters Home (1986)
‘Akerman’s rarely screened adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s off-Broadway play, based on Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother, is a compelling example of stage-to-film transcription. Enacted by Jeanne Dielman star Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig, this exposition of one of the director’s key themes—the bond between mother and daughter—is rich with personal resonance.’ — BAM

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Ulrike Ottinger Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)
‘In this tri-lingual epic, seven western women travel in the Trans-Siberian Railroad and are kidnaped by a tribe of Mongolian female warriors. As fantastic as this tale sounds, it is as much substantiated by historical and ethnographical research as it is just another one of Ottinger’s fictions of transformation, metamorphosis and the problem of dealing with otherness. In this film these strands are most benignly brought together and woven into a scintillating tapestry of cultural interrelation. Where railroad and caravan meet – both metaphors for trans-formation – the intitial clash, the fear of the uncertain other continent, turns into festivities as a result of receptive and accepting attitudes. Instead of combatting each other, customs and costumes reflect each other as in a mirror.’ — Frieda Grafe

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p.s. Hey. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. So sorry about the panic burst, hope you’re mellowed now. No, the pace of editing is going to vary wildly, I think. Right now we’re working on a long sequence that has a lot of dialogue, and with the dialogue heavy scenes we tended to do a large number of takes and angles/shots, so it gets laborious. Yesterday we spent most of the day working on one relatively short scene, and we still weren’t able to finish it. Bug chasing is definitely still a thing, but my impression is that a lot of the chasers are on prep so it’s more like fantasy bug chasing. ** _Black_Acrylic, Yes, who would have that thought that little porn had it in him? ‘Succession’ blab has wiped Tina Turner blab off the top of the social media topics chart, at least in my feed. ** Misanthrope, Sleep is everyone’s mama. I have yet to peep at Alcaraz because RG is unfortunately occurring at the same time as RT editing, so there is hardly a margin. I’ll look for Holger Rune — what a good name — but it sounds like I won’t have much trouble picking him out. ** Nick., Hi! I can count he number of times my knees have buckled at the sight of someone else on one hand so it sounds serious, ha ha, but seriously. Really? I’ve never seen ‘Almost Famous’ but I thought, yeah, it would be endearing or something. You were totally coherent but remember that I’m a big fan of experimental writing. ** David Ehrenstein, Video not available. That was fast. ** Bill, Isn’t that Buggles song sort of like ‘Home on the Range’-style eternal or something? Psst, he got responses, but they were boring, and I thought he deserved better aka nothing. The editing slowed to a crawl yesterday, but that’s reality. ** Mark, Dave Eggers started it? Huh. Dude’s all over the place. Exactly, about the animations. Yeah, I try not to think about it, but Fales’s destruction/censorship of my scrapbook still does make my blood boil. And its crudeness suggests it was done in a rage or something. Fucked up. Thanks for the commiseration. ** Okay. I’ve restored an old post about the great, great French actor Delphine Seyrig for you today. She rules. See you tomorrow.

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bimbofagboy, 18
Slim, shaved smooth with pretty pale skin. Total girly fagboy with wide hips and sexy fem legs. Super femmy demeanor, limp wristed, valley gurl voice. I have worked so hard on my slutty fem look and now I am looking to find that perfect, sadistic master who wants to completely decimate me.

I am a total virgin thanks to my parents insane control. I have had the fantasy for YEARS to be BRUTALLY gangbanged by a group of nasty, total perverts as a virgin and have my complete debasement filmed as a documentary style porn. NO LIMITS, NO SAFEWORD, no mercy, no way out. I want to be slapped, choked, called names, screamed at, humiliated, made to beg and scream and plead for your punishment. I want to be totally defiled, my mind broken, my pretty make up smeared all over my face, covered in cum, my pretty virgin pussy ripped open, gushing semen and blood and TOTALLY DEMOLISHED…

…Then I want to send it to my parents so that they truly know what their “perfect son” really is.

Comments

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looking for extremely horny huge hung Black men 💙❤️🖤
let’s talk about 🏈 or my ass🤭❤️
ideally would like to be hypnotized and raped with no memory after.
would be so hot.

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Brainlessfuckpig, 19
My name is Jamie, I’m 19 and am taking a gap year to live life before the slow decline into adulthood.
Before I got rescued I was sex trafficked internationally from the age of 10 to 16.
I’m into pain and suffering. CBT, whipping, stomping, cutting, anything that causes pain really.
My hobbies are fishing and playing billiards.

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Ballsoff – May 18, 2023
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Brainlessfuckpig (Owner) – May 18, 2023
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Ballsoff – May 17, 2023
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Poweroff – May 12, 2023
Who’s ready for a whole lotta ass

 

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DadsLittleRapeSon, 18
Unfortunately already 18 years old, would love to be much younger😞. Would love to find a man with a real son early teens or younger and role play as him, wearing his clothes and you calling me by his name. You raping your little tender son daily and forcing him to say that he loves it and wants to be dad’s perfect rapeable son❤️. (I’ll add more to this bio, I am very scatterbrained).

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I am tentatively interested but I need to see your feet first. I am very particular about feet so if I don’t respond after you send feet pics please take the hint and do not harass me.

Gopdheavern – May 10, 2023
Hey young gay man: I want to be transform you into a dumb donkey, and treat you as one. Literally. On all fours forever, naked, braying, and doing whatever a donkey does.

xxm01 – May 7, 2023
Silly goose, extrovert and prefers going outside instead of inside the room, likes to wear hoodie.

 

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KODI, 18
Off topic but does ANYONE KNOW what ever happened to KODI from BROKE STRAIGHT BOYS???

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KODI (Owner) – May 6, 2023
After I ended posting my question here about him I kept googling and searching about “kodi” and I finally found everything I have always wanted to know (his real name, natal chart what he looks like now.. ) even though I didn’t expect I would find that most people who work on the industry of sex have very low and pitty lives and he isn’t the exception to the rule.

First things first, his real name is Nikolai Kovalevsky was born in Russia the 1st of February 1990 (yesterday he turned 30). He had to endure a very harsh childhold since his mother gave birth to him when she was a youngster of 14 years of age, his drunkard pathetic father died when he was a baby and he had two sibillings. The vast majority of his childhood years he lived, along with his sibillings, with his grandparents due to the fact his mother was arrested every single time for robbery. From time to time he had to steal food. Also, he had to work as a gardener to support his studies, his food and his sibillings. At the age of 12 (2002) he thought he might be able to escape the shithole where he was living when he got adopted by an american affluent whose surname is Wheeler. His fostered father gave him his surname renaming him Nikolai Wheeler. However, he wasn’t adopted by a regular guy he was adopted by a degenerated pedo who raped him and molested him and shared him with other pesos during the span of 3 years. He didn’t press charges on Wheeler once he became an adult because he was paid off by him. To make matters worse, in an interview “Kodi” gave to an online newspaper, in 2013 when police went to imprison Mr. Wheeler, and even after they found tons of pictures of “Kodi” being raped by himself and all kinds of men in his house “Kodi” claimed to still love him and regarded him as his father who gave him the chance to learn English, to live in the States, to leave the nasty place where he was living and to become a great golf player. Probably due to the nefarious life he had to endure, he became addicted to booze. He drank a lot. Back in 2017 while being way too drunk he ran down a man in his car and he escaped the scene to be caught by the feds some hours later. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 years in prison (he is bound to be released in 2036).

Kingdan – May 3, 2023
I did a scene with Kodi towards the end of his porn career. I fucked three loads into him then held him in my arms to keep him calm while the cum leaked from his hole. Maybe you’ve seen it.

 

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Blindfolded-Hetero, 18
handsome and real hetero for using like meat

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mistakenidentity (Owner) – May 13, 2023
I find everything interesting.

IntenseControllingSadisticAthleticMaster – May 13, 2023
I fucked him to death then cpr’d him back to life.

mistakenidentity (Owner) – May 9, 2023
This is where my suppression guided me.

mickeythewizard – May 9, 2023
Made him swallow my spit and loogies
Made him swallow snot from my nose
Puked in his mouth and made him swallow it
Stepped on a plate of food and made him eat off my sneakers
Beat him until there were marks all over his body
Fisted his ass until it bled then bred him

Cyclistguy92 – May 5, 2023
Electro slut can survive a Screamlabs X1 and Crank Generator and can Max Out an ET312b

mistakenidentity (Owner) – May 2, 2023
I love what I’m told to love.

Hotforit – May 2, 2023
Loves being tied up, loves being choked, loves heavy impact play, loves hardcore, creampie, belly bulging, gangbang, plays well with other pigs.

 

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MasterJerrycumpdumpboythisweekend, 18
Master Jerry is offering up this hot fresh 18 yo hole for all tops to dump your loads in let’s give this slut 100+ loads!

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MasterJerrycumpdumpboythisweekend (Owner) – May 14, 2023
Not necessarily. You only have about a 1 in 70 chance of infecting a bottom. It doubles if you have other sti’s like gono/chlamydia. That is still a small number. The highest percentage chance of giving it is from getting your blood into his bloodstream. If you bring a needle, blood slam yourself then him, your chances of giving him hiv are very high. Like in the mid-90’s percent chance high.

losertom – May 14, 2023
Hi Master Jerry I’ll be there I really want to poz him I have a viral load of over 700000 would that be a guarantee of infection?

 

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Playing4Keeps, 21
I enjoy the idea of being snuffed but I’m not super Into body mutilations like beatings and being sliced up. As well as genital mutilation, it just doesn’t excite me as much.

I mostly just want to be loved and snuffed and not tortured. 🤔🤔🤔 Am I weird for this kinda low key attitude towards death??

I also still have my v card, who wants it?

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DBR151 – May 22, 2023
I think I just made him cum for the last time.

Menace2TheParty – May 16, 2023
What about a pool? Drowning is fun for everyone.

DangerFag – May 11, 2023
Nothing weird about not it. I personally don’t enjoy pulverizing the bodies of the guys I snuff into mush, making it hard to even tell that it used to be a person, but I know others love that.

DefyingFaggotry – May 9, 2023
It’s not weird at all. You’re allowed to enjoy your death however you want. For some, that’s being chopped up and torn to shreds. For others it’s a gentle fucking and then being snuffed as they orgasm. It’s all relative, and I guarantee you’ll find someone that shares how you enjoy things.

 

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Girllookingboy, 18
18 still look 14ish looking for ltr with kinky top that needs a girlboy pushy ti wreck and fill on reg.

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Girllookingboy (Owner) – May 15, 2023
Have a bf he have no idea that he eats my hole with others loads inside.

Girllookingboy (Owner) – May 13, 2023
I love singing and I just made my first single, it’s on spotify.

Girllookingboy (Owner) – May 12, 2023
For best results choke me like you wanna kill me.

Girllookingboy (Owner) – May 10, 2023
Also want to collect loads to bring back for a top to play in with his fist.

 

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MoneySlut, 18
When you look at me, what do you see?

A small, slightly built and somewhat cute boy. Not a powerful, muscled boy with tattoos, piercings and a body built for real punishment. But something that looks as if it would snap in half if used too hard. A delicate little pussy. But just think of what you could do with me if I became yours.

I have been made use of by a Master who enjoyed keeping me as a featureless doll though the use of a rubber hood. He would become almost feral and maul me like a wild beast. My cock, balls and nipples have been tortured. My boy cunt has been stretched and dug into. Only when he had me wretching and gasping and squalling would he stop. But only for a while.

I’m bored out of my mind. Pay me enough and ill do anything.. If you’d like to see pictures of what my ass looks like when the cheeks are spread wide then we can go from there. You can take it slow or you can shove half your hand up my hole at the start of our first hang. Whatever. Just looking for a cure to my boredom and more money in my pocket.

Now, when you look at me , what do you see?

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DexterChia – May 24, 2023
He hugs firefighter boots to sleep.

MoneySlut (Owner) – May 18, 2023
Very messy atm.

xlfuckernomercy – May 17, 2023
Going back to the beginning literally put a hood on him and ball gag or whatever you have… ugh the sight of him of not being able to move or see or talk or hear while having stuff shoved up his ass is unmatched

MoneySlut (Owner) – May 8, 2023
Kick me in the face with your boots if you look like a Tom Of Finland art. Put out your cigarettes on me if you let me take a drag first.

Keepemlocked – May 1, 2023
people that know him say he is a fag slut . hahahaha I would say he is open minded.

 

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Smooth_total_bottom_now, 19
Kanye dressed me up like a doll

I’m not sure if I’m looking for something ongoing or if I’m just looking to get used extremely hard then kicked out but I’m sure someone here will help me figure it out

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Smooth_total_bottom_now (Owner) – May 25, 2023
Okay I figured it out, I would love to be tied up by a guy who alternates between shoving a dildo up my ass and licking my pussy all day everyday with no stopping for the rest of your life. Only message me if you are not afraid.

uuuuuu5 – May 18, 2023
Be you, you don’t like cunt take them anyway, ass-fuck them

roughrapist – May 18, 2023
He’s a girl or what do you call it, ftm. When he told me, I was pissed because I’m normally repulsed by sex with women, but he’s so cute I ate his pussy until my stomach was like an aquarium.

 

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TheRain, 18
I am an autistic boy, butt and mouth never been used.

I don’t really know how to break the ice with a man, so I thought I’d ask you some questions, maybe it will help us get to know each other better..

1. What do you prefer in bed, oral or anal?

3. How long do you usually fuck in the ass?

3. If anal starts to hurt, what do you suggest we do, take a break and then do anal again, do we stop and finish you with my mouth or do we continue until the hole widens?

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topblkmale – May 12, 2023
I’ll pass. If your ass is that tight there is NO WAY its clean at the depth that I go.

TheRain (Owner) – May 9, 2023
When I was 12 years old a man in my neighbourhood paid me to not change my underwear for a week and give them to him. Does that count as being used?

 

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slickedbackboy, 19
Trichophiliac boy have an immense fetish for men with heavily gelled and combed slicked back hair.

 

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BoyMeatSack4Sadist, 23
MASOCHISTIC Sub Boy for Brutal, Twisted, Sadistic, Nasty, Sick Sadist — call me MEAT

Meat is not looking for a MASTER —— Meat is looking for a SADIST to hurt me emotionally and physically. I don’t care what’s done to me or how bad gets for the rest of my life till the day I die.

Examples can include extreme breath control, extreme forced intoxication, extreme bugchasing, extreme starvation, extreme torture – this No LIMITS MASOCHISTIC Boy Meat Sack is up for anything dangerous and damaging.

Take me to the darkest depths of depravity.

If outside the State of Texas a Major Airport shuttle lot will be used for protocols and pick up.

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BoyMeatSack4Sadist (Owner) – May 13, 2023
Rape, murder, it’s just a text away (so send one)

piggyguy – May 12, 2023
any idea if its possible to fist a guy, double fist, make a prolapse, a long one, and cut it, attach and disembowel him through ass, if the hole stretched enough, empty his insides without trace outside, maybe fist him till the shoulder and pull everything out?

Stomper – May 11, 2023
In case it’s relevant, know that during a rape murder, especially with extreme fright, and strangling, the sphincter muscles may lock tightly around the murderer’s penis and may not release for a while. This condition is known aa “penis captivis”. To avoid this strangling should theoretically begin after the male penis enters the anus. This tightening takes place sometimes during the “death throes”. Eventually, after death, complete relaxation of the muscles will commence.

BoyMeatSack4Sadist (Owner) – May 11, 2023
My dream is to fly to a Master that picks me up at the airport, strips my clothes and kills me slowly for a week in his holiday house

 

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antifragile, 18
I’m 18 years old I’m a straight guy but I need some help to treat women with respect I drinks a lot socially and have lots of one night stands and generally treat women like rubbish I’m getting adult and want to settle down and marry and start a family but the path I’m on is never going to allow me to do this so I’m seeking help from a dominant strict man to mould me into the perfect gentleman I need help with everything from how to speak to people and how to act in public with a woman I’m very willing to learn and would appreciate all the help on offer in return I’m willing to do whatever it takes I know this opportunity isn’t going to attract much interest but I’m out of options so thought I’d try this because I do not want a situation where in 20 years from now the only thing I would have achieved is a loose butt hole.

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GinandTonic – May 20, 2023
Relax, darling.

 

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NoLimitsKidnapee, 19
I’m in a relationship with a guy my age but I would leave him in a second if I was on a descent into the depths of eternal sodomy for the worship and pleasure of becoming a fountain of pure sexual energy with no real existence beyond taking loads from anyone or anything for the world to see. HAIL SATAN THE GLORY IS INSIDE THE CUM WHORE.

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SlutMaker – May 8, 2023
I think that this opportunity should not be missed.

PitofDespair – May 6, 2023
If you can wait until July the build start of the Pit of Despair Version 6 was delayed due to moving and some medical issues, but on start now to start in July.

 

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Classicguymove, 22
I’m having trouble with my bf and I need a rough top or two or three to help I’ll pay

He is a worthless pathetic disgusting faggot piece of shit, filthy scum, the lowest creature on the planet

Ghb and poppers so he’s helpless and drugged up would be good but they’re not mandatory (though someone to fry his brain would be hot)

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Classicguymove (Owner) – May 16, 2023
At the moment I’m mixed up and full of self loathing and guilt. I’m full of despair. So so unhappy

Classicguymove (Owner) – May 11, 2023
I have a fantasy that he gets kidnapped by the Cartel and sent to a Cartel fortress. He’d be naked bound helpless outside day and night to be raped and forced to service large male animals. And all the time the Cartel would be keeping him smoking white rocks. Or maybe forcing him to take blotter papers with dots of hallucinated drugs to keep him so high twenty-four hours a day. In Mexico many could come by day or night and gang rape him in both holes and force him to suck and swallow everyone’s cum and piss and he would not know if it was day or night

Classicguymove (Owner) – May 11, 2023
I’m in a position where my bf can disappear right away and there won’t be any questions as to where he’s gone

 

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DiscoverMe, 22
Hey people.

My name is Luck and I’m attracted to women so much and to point that I’m even attracted to myself as a pseudo woman.

What awaits you is a young, naturally blonde and horny boy who needs to be put in makeup and lingerie and fucked. I’m hairless, I only leave my light blonde pubic hair so you can see for sure that I’m naturally blonde.

I’m physically attracted to women and not men but I have an obsession with getting fucked and can never stop thinking about getting fucked.

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Anonymous – May 19, 2023
Join the convoy and you’ll understand why people love the beach 🏝️.

 

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Youth, 18
If you want sex tell me you not want sex.

 

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hurtmehorribly, 22
I’ve been owned for the last two years by my mistress/girlfriend. She has offered me a ten year contract when my current contract expires on 18 June 23. She wants me to look around to be sure first and knows that whilst I’ve always thought of myself as straight I have found when with a strong dominant man it is like catnip if he is cruel and violent and sadistic in a way a mistress never can be. I have also found the humiliation a master can inflict is deeper and more destructive. So with her permission I am here to see.

Full disclosure I am not allowed to meet before my contract ends and am only looking for a master who would want me living with him full time. I am also not allowed to show nude pics without her permission (sorry sir).

My name is Ben.

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hurtmehorribly (Owner) – May 19, 2023
God, I love being handcuffed.

joseph – May 8, 2023
If you don’t watch Game of Thrones you won’t be interested in a word he says.

 

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Dontdothatwithme, 18
I’m a radio star, be video.

 

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Likemehateme, 19
hellouu , i am a goth emo trapped in a young body , unfortunately , and sooo , eat mcdonals and sooo , smoke from time to time , cut myself from time to time , somehow broken and dead , patched together ,

Currently still living with my violent alleged producers, own little or almost nothing, ( and sooo, yes, particularly bad, since birth, missed everything and wasted all the time)

I’m not someone who openly says now give me , oh yes and something else I can think of > anal stuff/games might be possible at some point (or forced on something? let’s see ) , my buttocks fears and everything is a problem, which is why anal is (regardless of whether it’s forced with bondage and everything) only with people who are more than 100% determined , also because of dirtiness and or accidents and knowing that everything can happen, or in the hectic brutal heat of the battle of (¾) desecration , 🪢

endless , many , ideas , fantasy s , hard and extreme , and so on and so on and so on , (you can force ,/, bondage and make no fear scary), but since it is in this world ee nothing will be, and urgently need my broken style / crash child style and sooo continue life 🎮🏳️‍⚧️🐾🐺, and maybe you will also experience sad sexual scenarios, or something like that, , , , , maybe get me high in the extreme and everything

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Grandpa73 – May 20, 2023
Looking for a grandson. I like grandsons who need grandpas cock hard or soft. I like to know a boys story. Usually a boy arrives, strips, then kneels. If any of this appeals let me know. Great fat belly here, short gray beard. I do like a boy with a foreskin but not a deal breaker. I like all grandsons of all types. I do have a particular fondness for very weird grandsons like you. Soft girly ass is good, small balls too. There is a beauty hidden inside you that can ONLY be expressed in terms of grandson. Stop hiding from yourself. Maybe more on this later.

 

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roughnviolent, 18
im a virgin for starters, and im 18 too. i hope that doesnt mean youll treat me like a virgin though, i hope youll decide to forcefuck my ass until its unrecogniseable and rape my throat until i talk like an 80 yo cigarette smoker :p also if youre going to message me dont be a bore and start off with something interesting. i dont mind doing it outside if you dont. i don’t show nude first but apart from that i do. btw you’d never know it from my looks but im interested in death if you got it if you can’t tell

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Anonymous – May 14, 2023
He was Edrian Naydenov, 17 from Bulgaria. Jumped from 8th floor yesterday. He was autopsied and bathed naked on morgue table. Will go into the ground tomorrow, May 27, to become a smelly corpse and melt.

Peytonfucksyouhard – April 19, 2023
He enjoys being pissed on then tied to trees and have pictures taken and trashed, spanked/ slapped and face fucked until he gags and pukes then is forced to lick it up enthusiastically.

roughnviolent (Owner) – April 11 27, 2023
im awaiting diagnosis for ADHD and autism spectrum disorder so if you have an issue with this then you are not the right person for me

 

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JamesJoycey, 18
I’m looking for a man to invite me to the cinema.

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JamesJoycey (Owner) – May 10, 2023
When I call myself JamesJoycey, I mean it.

JamesJoycey (Owner) – May 7, 2023
I absolutely respect you all however love is not being fucked until you can’t walk.

 

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Letstalkbaby, 19
Hey guys 🥰 Suck my ass for all I care 🖕 I’m nasty 😉

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Inchargeofyou – May 26, 2023
I have sequestered drugged tied up gagged raped beat etc him recorded it etc. and once I’ve had my fill I will be exhibiting him.

Inchargeofyou – May 16, 2023
If you were to spend every waking hour screaming and crying that would be fine by me. What makes me think you can handle this kind of abuse? You can’t. No one can handle what I’m gonna do to you.

Inchargeofyou – May 14, 2023
Unworthy son of a fucking you whore will definitely bow to this master not for any reason but because I said SO!!!

 

 

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Love turning the sun over Vienna into a roving spotlight, G. ** Misanthrope, Whew on the kindly kidney front. Right, I need to turn on the Roland Garros feed. A tennis-obsessed friend thinks I’m going to start rooting for Alcaraz, and I’m interested to find out. I love ‘bad’ singers. I’d rather watch a live feed of a karaoke night than thirty seconds of ‘American Idol’. Hope your day follows suit. ** David Ehrenstein, That link didn’t work but ‘The Nervous Set’ is a nice title. ** Jack Skelley, Jackfruit nachos: editing started off very happily. I aways try to nix the obvious artists in my posts if I can possibly do so. I’ll look up Kathrine Kesey. Yeah, the first round of process talk was really fun and interesting. I think we must pursue that especially since there are members who haven’t shared a peep yet. Very good interview! I read it yesterday! Everyone, Cool world literary legend Jack Skelley was interviewed about the imminent (re)publication of his equally legendary novel ‘Fear of Kathy Acker’ @ Hobart, and it’s a fine, chewy interview so do read the thing. Here. Your blog spewing cohort, Dennis. ** A, Hi. Oh, no sweat, great, whatever’s best. I’m not behind James Nulick’s request, no, so the town, or, rather, the nation, must indeed be chattering. ** Bill, Yes, how do yours stack up? Oh, okay, on the Whit. Every place that doesn’t sell food or cigarettes did seem to be closed, so it was some kind of biggish deal. I, of course, find the descriptor ‘multi-page paragraphs’ a kind of a siren’s call, so I will look into ‘Checkout 19’. Thanks. ** Sypha, Dilbert was on my blog?! I barely know what Dilbert is, though. That Shakespeare book’s existence does trigger my ultra-nerdiest side. Yes, and Ange gives the most opposite kind of performance in ‘RT’ vis-a-vis the one he gave in Michael’s film humanly possible. Very versatile lad. ** Nick., Hi. Thank you. French snacks lack the horrifying quality of American snacks, but I’ve grown fond of them. Placated can be a useful state. Objectivity has many virtues. Well, subjectivity too. So you can’t lose? I watched the first two episodes of ‘Succession’ when I was in LA because most of the cast members of our film were obsessed with it, but that’s all. Seemed solid. Anyway, I like the cut of your day. It gave you a nice writing tone. My room? It’s kind of this room that’s more like a hallway between the living room and the bedroom. Lots of windows, lots of light. Nothing much in it except for my desk and four house plants, one currently with flowers. On my desk are this laptop, some books I’m reading, my cigarette pack, a bendy lamp, a photo by the artist Frances Stark of her and the artist Charles Ray, and a drawing by the artist OB DeAlessi of a young girl strangling a little boy. It works. Tell me about today’s virtues or lack thereof. ** _Black_Acrylic, Oh, yes, we performed ‘Kindertotenlieder’ @ Tramway, and when I was in Glasgow for the ‘PGL’ screening, Zac and I tromped over to it to see some show I can’t remember. Nice joint. That HK sculpture does look pretty fucking impressive. ** Steve Erickson, In my memory, 1972 is when the Dead took the nosedive. But, yes, it could’ve been earlier. I think basically when Pigpen died, that was the end. Editing’s first day was super exciting. We’ve got the first 11 minutes in initial shape. All I had hoped for so far. Agreed about Godard/text, and, yes, that Snow is wonderful. ** Darbz 🦕, Nice dino. Very, very interesting about pigeons, thank you so much. Yes, they seem insanely attentive. As I may have mentioned, there’s this pigeon couple who live just outside my window and have their babies there so I see them a lot, and I find them very impressive. That pigeon taster from your book is most promising. Ooh. Sad about the age gap person, but, yeah, there’s a lot of social pressure to deal with on that one. You’ll be fine, trust me. Pigeon ping pong: whoa! I’m going to use in some blog post. Thank you, pal. Bring June on! Wait, it starts tomorrow! Score! ** Right. End of the month, slaves, the usual drill. Make the best of them. See you tomorrow.