in the end
The third Harpy from the flock that flies among the stars has landed! She is probably going to be the last of this particular set, but of course not the last Harpy I will ever draw, I love them too much!
country-discourse fans tryna get me to care about can-openers and i refuse
Today in Things Everyone Should Be Aware Of: in 1981, Librianna: Bitch of the Black Sea was released with great fanfare, claiming to be the first X-rated film shot behind the Iron Curtain. It was so counter-cultural, so filthy, so disruptive to the status-quo, that the actors and filmmakers apparently had to flee the Soviet Union to avoid the depraved punishment of their sex-starved Communist government.
It’s a pretty great story.
Aaaand a pretty American story.
See, Librianna: Bitch of the Black Sea was made in America. By an American porn studio, with American actors, all credited under what are clearly the most Russian-sounding names they could think of. The whole ~subversive Russians making sexually-liberated pornography~ thing was part of the story. And I mean, come on, it fits right in; it’s 1981, what’s hotter to America than anti-Communist propaganda?
So if you’re ever feeling down, just remember that a porn studio dug around in the American subconscious during the Cold War and pulled out the image up there. If that doesn’t make you smile, I don’t know what will.
