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A Celebration of Curves and Bounce
For those of you new to The Cloud here’s a taste of what to expect every now and again – beams and raises the curtain onstage
Here are a marvellous and tickling set of gifs created by the artist Nina Paley as part of her contribution to the Women’s March last year and her event ‘The Goddess Animated‘ with Zsuzsanna Budapest
There’s no two ways about it, Nina has brought to life these Goddesses and given them both charm and humour. You can see the woman in them far better alive and kicking/grooving than still. She says of the twenty-four wonders – “Goddess gifs to use for whatever. Free Culture. No permission needed. Go crazy. I love you.” – Thank-you Nina – Hurrah! Here’s a link to the full set, enjoy – Free Goddess Gifs
And lastly I give you the Venus of Willendorf – 25,00 years old and still got it three times (a lady) over!
I’m sure we all have a favourite, though it’s hard to settle on just one I find.
Esme takes a photo of the all the faces in the audience, blows it dry and puts it on a T-shirt for herself
And here is a music video from Nina’s upcoming film Seder-Masochism.
Nina certainly knows how to promote fertility. 🙂
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Well many are fertility Goddesses, so she’s just given them a cracking make-over in essence.
-Esme dancing to the beat with Carmen upon the Cloud
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You have a Gif(ted) and werped sense about you. I would have to choose the dancer with the gaping vag as the best, worst gif I’ve ever seen! Thanks for sending out the unseeable
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Hahahahaha. I think it’s amazing such ancients can be transformed by a simple bounce or two. They might be a bit much for some folks, which in itself I find interesting.
Esme Cloud laughing at Jim’s favourite mesmerising as she is
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Nina Paley brings a whole bunch of wonderful work to the world, incisive and fun. A real wimmyn who knows wonderful stuff, and tells and shows. Here’s one with words and curves and more wonderful stuff:
https://youtu.be/EWF8_lGX8yE
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Oh I like that one a lot Bill! Wondrofurling whimmyn who wear their fantabulous features with powareful pryde.
-Esme boogying away with Bill and Lisa upon the Cloud.
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😱
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There’s a prompt for you Fandango. – *laughs a lot *
Esme Cloud bringing inspiration in a thousand ways
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Oh My God this is effing BRILLIANT! Thank you and excuse the French. 😀
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I knew you’d love it! I had the exact same reaction myself when I first saw them all. Still do every time I look again.
Boom!
-Esme dancing till dawn with Meeka upon the Cloud
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-giggles- great minds my friend!
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This is a brilliant idea. Outside of Hinduism, any sort of female deity is a strange thing for most people to think about. Putting them in motion like this is a great idea. Interestingly, Victoria was telling me that female Gods were the head gods prior to more “civilization” (i.e. when farming came along). I mean when you think about it seems really strange to have a man create life, when in fact life is actually being created inside the human female. Given the emotional joy over the safe birth of a child, it would make sense to worship a fertility Goddess primarily given how often both women and baby were lost to the birth process in the old days. It was actually probably better odds before cities came along, but still it was dangerous business and in many ways it still is. Either way, if there was every a classic case of male overcompensation, male God creator seems to be it. lol
Of course the other possibility is that women are the ones that decided to switch it over to a male deity (obviously a bad decision in the long run) because men were then spending too much time groping the Goddess statues and less time doing their chores. This also seems likely.
Now personally I am more of a leg man, so the Hindu Goddess in the video is what did it for me. 🙂
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Yes, I know about the female Gods being the originals. Mother Earth, birth and re-birth and the cycles of the moon. And no children, no tribe, no immortality through bloodlines. It was bound to piss men off eventually. Hahahahaha, and I’m glad you find it brilliant too, I’m not sure all men would, or all women for that matter, which is s shame.
Your other possibility is very you. – takes his sticky buns away
Legs is it? I like the drinker because she’s drinking, and her friend to the left is positively gravity-defying in exuberance, so she’s got my vote too. All shapes and sizes, it’s quite magnificent all in all.
Thank you for coming over, I appreciate your two penneth Swarn. – beams
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Haha…the Cloud giveth just as the Cloud taketh away. I knew my sticky buns wouldn’t last.
I think one of the reasons I appreciate Buddhism is that the Buddha has always seemed kind of genderless to me, even though of course he claimed to be no deity, in general I think that if there were a supreme being gender wouldn’t really factor into it. Another reason why I think God is what we want to see not something that really is.
When you look at Judeo-Christian religions it really does seem like it’s an attempt to deny both immortality and creation to women at all, and make it really all about men. Eve, who is supposedly the mother of all mankind is instead a sucker for a serpent and the first one to disobey God dooming all future offspring of humankind to be born into sin. The creation story in the bible actually becomes more offensive the more I think about it. Everlasting life is somehow through the father, and yet a lot of father’s just knock up women and then run off “like a rat out of aqueduct.” If religion isn’t going away, I wouldn’t mind at least giving the next 2000 years to one of these dancing deities. 🙂
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Amen to that sir.
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“Either way, if there was ever a classic case of male overcompensation, male God creator seems to be it.”
What better way for authoritarian rulers to gain the loyalty of men than to devalue women (and goddesses) and giving men the “god” given right the rule over them, as noted in Genesis 3:16.
Or as Christopher Hitchens once said: ‘Men invented (authoritarian) religion so that they could own women’.
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Superb! I guess this is where this little guy comes in…
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Hahahahaha, yes indeed. I don’t envy his tailor.
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John! How can I get me one of those!?????
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It’s a self portrait he whittled in wood.
Esme beaming broadly upon the Cloud
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Oh MY!!! From the finest Aussie or Brasilian wood??? Hahaha. Ya know, we have some outstanding Giant Sequoias, one in particular known as the General Sherman. Wood there be a General Zande down (under) there somewhere? (no pun intended)
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This is a fantastic start to my day! I opened one of the files full screen and she can actually move around! Flipping fantastic. (Flipping is a form of effing). 😉
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I have heard of flipping, but being the retiring sort, hidden away from the cheek of the world up here on the Cloud, such vices are rarely employed by Esme. She does lie a lot mind you – winks
So pleased they’ve all brightened your day! What Professor Taboo will make of them all I dread to think. Hahahahaha.
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Me in a mirror. Ha!
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A bounteous beauty then!
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From Victorian porn to this in a single step! And it’s not even Spring yet.
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You sound like you’ve been busy. Hahahahahaha.
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I was referring to content of these last two posts. And of course showing I had been reading/watching. 🙂
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I know. I’m sorry to say I was teasing you. Feel free to throw a custard pie in my face.
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She may rest assured that she is in no danger. He may like to act the clown but he is far too much of a gentleman for that. He has placed the pie in the refrigerator for later. None of this effete peeled grape nonsense.
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Thank you sir. Very good of you. I agree about the grapes, they’re awful enough normally, let alone peeled.
Esme bowing and curtsying upon the Cloud
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Since I lack the ability to harbor concupiscent thoughts (a birth defect), I find these Fescennine gyrations incomprehensible.
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Fear not dearie, you’re missing nothing.
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You’re missing nothing…
Or not.
I should have said incomprehensibly seductive. How imprecise this language of ours is where matters of attraction are concerned. Besides, on a sun-drenched cloud, all is permissible, even the impermissible. And remember that I was the first to push back against the flat-earth crowd, being myself a firm believer in the salubrious properties of curvature.
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Aha! I knew it. One has to be flexible when a Wiz, so bending letters seems perfectly reasonable – nods
‘incomprehensibly seductive’ – Hahahahahaha – Esme jots this down as the basis for a bicep tattoo for herself
Your work in curves is, of course, a marvel in its own right and has been heard to play pool pretty well too.
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This post seems kind of prejudiced — against bulimia and anorexia. How very dare you.
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Barring the skinny Minnies of which there are two, however many women are naturally slight.
Esme Cloud knowing more about women’s bodies than Mr Pink and sad he isn’t enjoying the dance
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Swarn, have you ever read Susan Griffin’s “A Chorus of Stones?” Good read. Cheers.
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And esme, too too fun. Personally I like the pulsing vag. 😇🥰
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I find her hilarious as she seems so joyous about it. It’d be some party I can tell you!
Esme sticking to robotic dancing and the tango upon the Cloud
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😂
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Fackin hell you could spend all day on that website. Lovely tits. Thanks mate.
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Appreciation is no bad thing.
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I so, did NOT want this one to pass without comment but I would much prefer to set you down and talk about these. 😀
masodo bows toward the lively goddesses upon cloud
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Lively. I like that. Hahahahaha, yes they are lively, joyous I’d say in fact. Talk away!
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I… I can’t…
I can’t stop…
…
stop starring…
(the man falls outta his chair onto his palatial kitchen/dungeon floor with eyes bugged out and tongue hanging and flopping about)
And his head is STILL bobbing in rhythm with all those…
hypnotic Calisthenics of the Goddesses!!! 🥴😵
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I did wonder if I might be responsible for your death by pointing you this way.
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My, my, MY!!!! I am feeling so very immaturely FERTILE NOW for my advanced age!!! This is better than those blue oval-shaped prescription pills the Doc wants to hand me!!! Woooooooooooo!!!
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Chuck the meds Prof, the ancient Goddesses will see you right as rain, just keep the gifs on your phone for when you need a quick pick me up.
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Oval shaped? I’m reckoning you’re supposited to do something else with those ones.
Squinting through the lifted bi-focals, you’ll better succeed in discerning the pill shape as more a ‘smooth diamond’ with ‘re-sizer’ stamped into it. < Sorry, after checking in the dusty pouch of this old timer’s wallet (through monocle) it reads ‘pfizer’.
@ Esme, the standalone inversely pulsating figurine (stone siren) on row 3 ought to come with an exclusion zone as I fear she once had compadres alongside her, swelling out their wares in hypno-paradiso-bird stylee, only to be drawn up by a back-waft (jet engine style) to disappear in to some sort of fecund forever. Competition swallowed effectively.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Only you could put such a premise so beautifully MM. I honestly don’t think the party would be the same without her.
‘only to be drawn up by a back-waft (jet engine style) to disappear into some sort of fecund forever. Competition swallowed effectively.‘ – You’ve topped Mr Pink for best comment of 2019 now. The bar has been set.
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Btw my Lady,
This is on a different note or wave of the aether so please excuse my faulty compass. 😉 Seeing that you and I were former Soul Mates in a previous era of sophistication, class, and peculiar machines of invention and progressive imagination — the Victorian Age of course — I wanted to mention to you an exquisite new film that is right up your Cloudy sphere. Though the film is set in 17th century England, the Director and Producers took some clever cinematic license to mix in a few anachronistic themes, especially in the profanity-laden vernacular and outlandish, deliciously dark, one-upping rivalry tossed in with sexual-overtones! HAH! Me thinks you would very much enjoy this version of British Royalty. I only wish that I were on your side of the Pond to watch it together. ❤
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Ah yes, I’m not watching the trailer as I want to watch the film, and cannot bear a trailer that does more than reveal the title and music; these days they show all the best bits (slaps him)and leave naught to see at the cinema. Have you seen it? Yes? It has won awards and Olivia Coleman is a ‘favourite’ of mine of old as she starred in a comedy series I state to be one of the funniest Britain has produced, you will like its title – Peep Show. Hahahahaha. Thank you for thinking of me, I’m sure you’re right and I’ll enjoy it immensely. Esme is honoured to be your soulmate, along with all eighty-five others who insist it is the case beams and hands over a clockwork sticky bun. I would go with you to watch it if you were here mind you as I think it would be riotous to do so.
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True, they do spoil all the fun before one even has a chance for FOREPLAY! And then one must traverse the removal of hats, jackets, skirts, vests, corsets and crinolines — assuming the gentleman has a 10-foot wing-span to get PAST the hoops & petticoats! — oops, there goes my pocket-watch my Mistress gave me! DEAR GOD, there must be actual skin in there… SOMEWHERE, but I am literally spent, exhausted and I can no longer remember what it was we were headed for or what I’m supposed to do!!! 🥴
Yes, that’s often what Trailers do. I believe there is a “condition” many salt-n-pepper men, perhaps Silverbacks with no black whatsoever(?), develope in those advanced years. What is it? It starts with a P and the second word an E… I believe. 🤔
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Pedants. That’s one of the things they become.
Hahahahahaha.
The time it takes to get through all the contraptions and layers only makes for more enjoyment I’d have thought.
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Hahahaha! Bifocals? Monocles? I’ve never seen them before! When did I get those!? 😮 😉
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Oh, this made my day. I laughed ’til I hurt. Have saved to my YT favs.
“Take the chain off your brain.”
😂🤣
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Good! I hope you’re dancing along too Victoria – laughing
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Thank you for tickling my fancy Esme. Sway on 💛
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I’ll give you a nickel if you tickle my pickle, but I’ll give you a dime if you take your time! (stolen from Swarn’s notebook)
Thank you Val ❤
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I LOVE this. Oh my god this is wonderful.
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I knew you would! Hahahahaha, glad you came now eh?!
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