jeepers, gang!

CRASH INTO ME REAL HARD

that water is not doing jack shit to your stomach lining, your body is simply too much of a thermal reservoir. the water is already increased significantly in temperature by the time it reaches your stomach.

in order to actually freeze anything inside your body you have to be drinking liquid nitrogen. ice water is fine!

the "zombie" in zombie stage is easy to comprehend when you cast off preconceptions about what zombies are typically like in other media. it is said explicitly in the trailer: they are essentially a new group of people for the upper class to exploit, placed even lower than the lowest existing class in society. undead and inhuman, they are the ideal worker.

there is also specific emphasis put on the upper class being physically "upstairs", and the underworld that is literally "underground" with the lower class, as seen by one of the shots in zomst r1. we also see the zombie being sold from the top down, juxtaposed with a rat mizi kills - just like in alien stage, the aliens (humans), and now zombies, form the lowest rung, and are treated as animals.

another aspect is how infection works and does. infection consists of the body turning into gemstone. these parts are subsequently cut off, framed or sold as regular practice within the idol industry. the idols are literally objectified - they turn into the physical product that is sold, which in turn chips away at their humanity.

infection seems to spread via a single bite, as literally written in the screenshot above. additionally, the infection pattern shares a similar shape to the 'roots/veins' mizi conceptualises relationships as in karma. it is then no surprise that zombification is shown as a result of sexual violence, that which strips away autonomy and leaves you unmoored from yourself. infection is inherently the crossing of boundaries, the undermining of interiority, and the corruption of intimacy. the trauma inflicted and then exploited by the industry is the centrepiece of zombie stage. in this universe, there are no zombies without the discussion of sexual abuse, and of class.

Specifically, the female head of a modeling agency was on record saying that "there's nothing for girls with long hair except cheesecake, and they're too little for cheesecake"

The association between specifically long hair and eroticism in the 1950s was not something I was previously aware of so I went looking at pinups of the era. I definitely remembered thinking that Bettie Page seemed to have longer and less tightly curled hair than most 1950s actresses or even just women in candid street photos, and sure enough, when I went looking… Far more women with long or at least longer than average hair for the era, in pinup photos and artwork

This makes me wonder about a lot of things, mainly if there was a respectability element to women having short hair versus long hair at the time (which is the complete opposite of what we would expect nowadays, since we're so conditioned by eras when women having short hair was somewhat scandalous to think it was always that way). But most of these pinups have specifically women with long hair worn down, and it was not socially unacceptable to see a woman with long hair done up in a bun or a French twist at the time

But then why wouldn't there be any modeling jobs for women with long hair besides "cheesecake," if they could simply put it up and be considered as respectable as a woman with short hair? Was it perhaps a situation of "respectable but not fashionable" where it WAS technically accepted but not generally desirable for brands? If so, why?

It seems like a situation where the "woman with short hair" could be sexy or not based on context, "woman with long hair pinned up" was not necessarily sexy but was not considered fashionable, and "woman with long hair down" was inherently sexy (and also the only type of modeling gig available for women with long hair – I found another magazine article showing off a budding model with long hair that said something about "of course she'll have to cut it if she wants any other modeling jobs")