Cumcore𔘓Lipidcore {repost}
Skinny body, fat fashion. Oil is the body, flesh is the bone.
This was initially posted on my website, 30 April 2024. It has been editted for clarity and to remove personal details.
The other night, I had typed up an aggressive complaint about the entitlement of online voyeurs. Instead of posting it, because I do not want to actually offend anyone, I will simply pull some quotes from it for you, dearest prison warden reader, to enjoy :
1 . "People" (not me, ofc) are so entitled. They demand, and demand! AND NEED! The endless neediness is only sexy (to me) when one is groveling, begging, pleading, and profusely apologizing, wracked with an unrelenting guilt for their neediness. You're thirsty? That's actually pathetic. You SHOULD feel ashamed for breathing. All that air...and you're... just, what? Inhaling? Like a slave? Fuck you. If you're so needy, and want, so much, you ought better to figure that out for yourself, by yourself, and stop expecting and wanting other people to satisfy your needs for you. You, in fact, are not a baby. If you can't entertain yourself in near total isolation, maybe you don't deserve socialization.
2. Not to be objectively more unique than you, but I'd rather talk about how a single person is like... an ant, ... on autopilot, ... in the terrestrial hive, babbling a fountain of saliva and oozing out filtered water and blood; evaporating, slowly, with each ray of sunshine—and, how, and potentially why—we are slowly cannibalized by the oxidizing atmosphere, while simultaneously pinned down to this grotesque, putrefying surface by the oppressive chains of gravity. Can you imagine the reality? Carcasses nailed down to the rotating earth, whip-lashed through space as their corpses slowly atomize and turn to microscopic dust particles, swirling inside the atmosphere. It's very real.
3. No one cares, and if you think you care, it’s only because of one of the following:
✄┈┈┈┈ You're horny.
✄┈┈┈┈ You're hungry.
✄┈┈┈┈ You're lonely.
✄┈┈┈┈ You're sick, and the virus is brainwashing you into wanting social interaction for its own survival and reproduction.
⤷ The virus is biological; the "virus" is memetic: Either way, you only want to exchange with another person to replicate an ideology or a germ infection. You are a vessel, to billions of parasites, and your mouth is an orifice for transmission; your eyes are a lure to attract prey to infect, etc, etc. It's so sad to be such a utility. Don't you think? *๑♡՞
4. Personally, I think everyone online should be doxxed, on site. I want a government ID on the landing page. Tax records under the display name. All of it. No more of this anonymity. I want legitimate people/ users only. No bots. Social security clearance necessary.
Narcissism only exists in media
There is something truly deranged about socialization. People think anonymity liberates the psyche from social norms, which serve to censors cruelty and incivility. To truly adhere to the atomic isolation of the digital age, it ought to be argued that "Other People" are the prison bars that enforce self-censorship, conformity and group-think, all in an effort to subdue the individual and lower them to the mediocre standards of the homogeneous group. And because the homogeneous group is mass-produced by the global consumer industry, the individual is submerged in a globally homogeneous group of consumers; so, in any case, this means that merely socializing with another person forces you to become part of this industrial scale socialization output. Infected.
By socializing, you enter the production chain of consumer socialization, which feeds development of consumer products and trends. Socializing: Never Once. You're literally giving Netflix free ideas when you text your friends. I hope you know that. And I hope you feel so, so bad...
Speaking of Netflix - - Crocs and those Kanye West inspired Cum shoes sort of look like Netflix, but in clothes version. I'll post a collage later, to discuss this further.
Cumcore / lipidcore
I've been thinking about fatness against. Particularly because I have been called "thick," by multiple men. I've also been actually fat, and I think I'm currently fat. I was maybe "thick" a few months ago, but I think I've gained weight again, since not walking for hours searching for someone to rescue me. In any case, I did finally get my husband to admit that he likes fat, because for years, he denied it, which made no sense, because obviously he liked fat if he liked me. I'm so sick of talking and thinking about my appearance, but Fatness reminds me of Nourishment which reminds of Deterioration and Rot. Which brings us to what I refer to as #Cumcore, #Sugarcore, #Buttercore, or #Lipidcore. This trend can look like a bio-hazard bag of fat removed during liposuction.
Cumcore elements
Color palette :
Beige
Cream
Offwhite
Gold
(Warm) silver
(Warm) gray
Butter (fat) yellow
Flesh tones
Types of fabric :
Organza
3D printed plastics
Plastic
Cling wrap
Tulle
Silk
Satin
Polyester
Rubber
Nylon
Body tape
Decorative themes :
Bandages
Corsets
Lingerie
Ruffles
Lace
Lace-up
Ribbon
Transparency
Wetlook
Cutouts
Athleisure
This is one fashion trend which makes obvious that bodies are mere hangers for petroleum (lipids-hydrocarbons). The more one's culture relies on hydrocarbons, the more the body must be austere (a working theory of mine related to "unnatural" inversions — where organic life (human bodies in this case) become the skeletal infrastructure and oil becomes the body & "flesh"). Related to the dislike of fatness: fat actually takes away from polyester, as fatness not only makes survival during heat more difficult (related to climate change, as a consequence of polyester production), but being fat while covered in petroleum (polyester) increases bodily temperature. You wear fat. You do not become fat. Let us also remember that oil is fat. Oil wants you skinny, so that you can wear more of it, inject more of it, cover your skin with more of it, so you produce more of it, and need more of it. Oil wants you fat because it wants to be inside of you, it wants you to inhale it through oxygen masks and anesthesia, in pill capsules and bottle caps... Just do whatever it wants and everyone will be hurt.
Personally, I love cumcore and would like to implement more of it into my wardrobe. There have been some pop-ups of it probably throughout history, but I remember Kim Kardashian's wetlook really inspiring me with it, and then noticing it even more apparently with Julia Fox.
What I find interesting is that this is 100% related to Kanye West, and pornography, which if you're unaware, there exists a popular cling wrap-plastic wrap suffocation and bondage fetish nearly identical to these types of looks. I'm sure it's been confirmed that sexual fetishes are related to "capitalism", and product manufacturing processes, so, it's unsurprising both sexual fetishes and fetish-fashion mimic the industrial proliferation of petroleum based products and the resultant pollution of those same products.
To the prior point: Kanye West. I was never a fan of his casual style, and in fact, I resent the fact that most people wear casual clothes; especially men, and their penchant for athletic sweatsuits. I resent athleisure, and Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian, with her SKIMS line (her clothes look like collected human hunting trophy skins), for normalizing it. Their mainstream consumer fashion influence, however, is the mid-way point between pure sweatsuits, Crocs to blatant plastic clothing. To me, the gradient starts on the left, with Kanye West's 2015 luxury homeless apparel, Crocs and those terrible modern shoes (sort of Wall-e peasant dress), then lululemon & more lingerie inspired athleisure (coquette pilates girl type), then further right, with luxury lingerie and body sculpting fashion, then full on into cumcore and fatcore.
In the same direction, sweatsuits are, typically, at least, cotton polyester elasthane blends, while body sculpting lingerie, nylons, and most athleisure and almost always, and primarily, polyester-petroleum based, and Bianca Censori's plastic dress obviously is pure plastic (unless it's something organic, like silk, mimicking plastic, which would TRULY be perfection).
It's also interesting to note that as cumcore has become more prominent, so has thinness re-emerged as an ideal. To restate the obvious: you wear fat, which is to say, you wear decadence. Your body is infrastructure for product; it is not the product. Furthermore, cumcore is about wearing the ghost of life, wearing the simulation of life, on a lifeless, "sterile" body. Human bodies become literally infertile through chemical pollution (ironically, by absorbing toxins through clothes, ingesting them through plastic bottles, skincare, makeup and related hygiene and beauty products, inhaling nanoplastics in the air) while we wear symbolic representations of fertility (cum as male fertility and fat as feminine fertility). Which, when put together, are symbolic of fossil fuel capitalism and the necrosis of organic life, as it descends ever downward into mass, planetary extinction.
To put it more simply: the human body increasingly becomes lifeless and signifiers of reproductive health, such as sperm and "quality" fats (used for fetal brain development & baby development during breastfeeding), are decoratively worn on the body to represent a life that can no longer be maintained, nor reproduced. This necrotic, synthetic simulation of life becomes a decorative and romantic ideal in fashion, art, porn and whatever...
Another key element is the fact that the Kardashians are oil saleswomen. Makeup, skincare, beauty products, along with polyamide and elasthane (SKIMS), in addition to televisions, iPhones, etc., are all entirely reliant on fossil fuels. You think you're buying lip plumping glossy blowjob bubblegum, but it's actually pure oil. Personally? I love that. The earth should be infertile, and devoid of life, like a corpse wearing makeup, all dolled up with formaldehyde (also petroleum based). Mechanical necrophilia.
That's not to say that the "real" decadent bodies of fossil fuel capitalism are going without representation. One clear example comes from the mind of Michaela Stark. In a way, her fashion is sort of antithetical and the shadow to the lounge-fetishwear of cumcore. While cumcore is all about placing the inside outside, Michaela Stark's fashion seems to me, half-baroque-rococo and half distortion of the human body through modernity. Her designs transfigure the flesh in a similar way as does plastic surgery (which is, you guessed it, also primarily petroleum based, like, it's not called "plastic surgery" for nothing?), bit without actually having to undergo surgery. And though her work isn't confined to corsets, as history would have, with the progression of linear time circling always closer to entropy, so does too, the complexity of transfiguring the organically living form.
Though I admire Ms. Stark's work, I have a feeling her work will remain avant-garde and niche. It will, like everything else unusual and extreme, remain at the fringes, accessible to the poor (via instagram, and as pictured in the symbolic association pictured with the "BRING BACK GISELE" t-shirt) and the wealthy (her pieces are delicately crafted and reserved for them). There is no problem with this, I don't critique it; I only mention it to point out the discrepancy between clothes like sweatsuits and SKIMS (expensive, yet fast-fashion adjacent and fast-fashion fuel), and the baroque and rococo inspired bondage, exemplified by Ms. Stark. There is also the economic subtext, which is that Stark's work clearly aligns with "what is," where luxury often/usually exploits "what ought." (as mechanism for shame and self-effacement, and another attempt at excavating and degrading the present to elevate the not-yet-still-un-real future).
As far as petroleum imagery goes, Stark's fashion is emblematic of petroleum disfiguring the human form, whereby petroleum has the agency. Kanye's normalized plastic porn is humanity exercising some agency, as it "seems" to negotiate its position under fossil fuel consumption, or totally surrenders to it, as embodied by sweatsuits and Crocs: humanity submits and is covered, veiled by plastic. In Kanye's world, we erase and disfigure our bodies to wear petroleum, we sink into the comfort of petroleum: subtly in sweatsuits, with plastic shoes, or obviously and blatantly, like Julia Fox & Bianca Censori do. In Stark's world, we are shown how bodies have been (polluted), mutilated, shaped, inflated, and distorted by petroleum. It's the hydrocarbons (and fat) that are more agentic in her world. The oil itself is the playground, the oil is “alive”. Which is why fashion and "fatphoria" like hers will remain at the cutting edge: her human subject is passive, feminine, excessive, and decadent, whereas in the Kanye-Kardashian world, their bodies are sculpted, tones, austere, restricted. This is actually just spiritual economics.
I could also argue here that Stark's work celebrates and re-inforces the subjugation of human life, and terrestrial life, under fossil fuel capitalism. Though she herself is not obese (her BMI looks about normal, maybe overweight, if I want to overestimate); I notice that she works with obese and undeniably fat people. Personally, I tend to err on the side of believing that obesity is, in fact, related to fossil fuel culture. I don't want to delve too deeply into this, because I honestly just wanted to type about myself... But merely to quickly sum up: One of petroleum's deepest values is organic inertia and mechanical speed (airplanes, cars, computers), in addition to cheap production (fertilizers, single use plastics, mass manufacturing). The convenience of fossil fuel capitalism allows for a formerly unimaginably sedentary life, all while subsidizing an overabundance of garbage, both agriculturally, spiritually, and materially. This means, simply, that we move less, we do less physical labor, and our food is less nutritious. Obviously a recipe for weight gain, but, let me also come out and admit this: I, also, like fat. I prefer "thick" and "fat" women. I like all types of men, but it is the most animalistic to me when a man is incredibly hard (in all ways) and athletic or muscular, and his female counterpart is plush, wavy, and soft. I love the contrast of masculine harshness with feminine softness, and not in the metaphysical sense. I like a physically hard man and a physically fat woman.
Stark's work clearly loves the human beings of our contemporary world, and whether or not we have come into existence because of fossil fuel capitalism, the fact remains that we are all alive, and therefore, are meant to exist as we currently do. Therefore, wise jury of my dear readers, it is morally correct to love and admire people for who they are, and to appreciate their forms as they are, no matter how or why those forms have taken such shape. In any case, being as that I'm quite tired, and would like to close this subject off for now, I just want to tie into the fact that, not only is allowing feminine-associations to have agency disallowed in our culture, but fat will always be associated to the poor and "surplus" humanity, which, I think I touched on in a previous post: Human Financial Product.
It could maybe even be said that Stark's work is a mere continuation in the cumcore trend, on the high end of it. This is perhaps more likely, but given that she uses fat as a medium, which means she is using hydrocarbon as a medium, I do think it's somehow different because she uses the fat to mold... Maybe I'm a bit tired & will have to come back.
https://open.substack.com/pub/galahaderidanus/p/the-black-goo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lqmpk
Unhinged
I like it