#Appreciating Backs

[aaronashea]

Appreciating Backs

When I was a young lad, and before I knew what it all meant, I found myself enthralled with men’s backs.  Shy and intimidated by my own gender, checking out men from the back was generally safe and non-scary.  Seeing men of larger size fascinated me.  There was a power in their bulk!  They seemed to demand a larger place in the world.  They stood out from the crowd (whether they wanted to or not).

Few of us seem to realize how we look from behind.  It is a hard thing to see, unless you have the appropriate mirrors.  I am often surprised when I see a photo of my back - not the thing I am familiar with regarding my body.  (that is NOT me above, nor are any of these images).

Seeing clothing pull and stretch in response to a broad male torso always catches my eye.

As well as how the the body moves and jiggles from behind.  People watching is always more interesting when there are large men around!

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[sickfreaksirkay]

“no rapping tonight"

why?

"you rap about arthurian knights everytime, it's embarrassing"

ok

[after one beer]

uh oh y'all i go into a trance a lot

[celstialmusings]

credit

[thatonekimgirl]

let's pay some respect to these little moments

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[dreamatduskk]

had to skip the tail

[mienar]

close-ups of a commission i did a while back! 🌱

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[catcrumb]

[afterthelambs]

What makes Akechi nav so good is that he sounds like he's having so. much. fun. Every time i watch a playthrough, people's stunned/ amused reactions to 'Just everyday Akechi' are so funny. Because yeah at that point you've probably been playing the game for 100+ hours and the story has gotten more bleak than ever before. So there's just something fresh about having a character go fucking ham for once and start screaming hysterically. It also helps that his line delivery stands out from the others who are all varying degrees of upbeat or determined. He definitely made palace exploration 100x more entertaining and I would literally pay so much for a DLC or whatever that allows you to set Akechi as nav permanently

[transmechanicus]

If you wanna see the hot emo tgirl selfies you need to accept that there’s a solid 18+ months before that point where she’s kinda mid and you gotta cheer her on regardless

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

‘Poseidon left a party in Ethiopia because the sea vibes went rancid after Odysseus set sail’ feels like a bit I would make up, but no. That actually happened.

[graciehart]

I feel like one thing most people don’t fully comprehend is just how incredible it is not only that Simone Biles does what she does, but that she’s able to do it at 27. Gymnastics is a brutal sport and there’s a reason very few gymnasts even make it to college gym, and even fewer are able to compete all four years. It’s easier to get hurt, you’re more likely to have previous injuries that have caused lasting pain, and you’ll have gone through puberty and needed to adjust to the changes that causes in your body. It makes her coming back that much more special.

[justabiteofspite]

"Astarion doesn't do big romantic gestures."

My Durge still trying to get graveyard dirt out of her ass crack after being lovingly pounded into it by Astarion who wanted to share with her this deeply joyful and meaningful reclamation of himself after sharing a vulnerable declaration of his love, at this place he hasn't shown anyone else but her: "Then what the actual fuck was that???"

[peterstrahmspen]

Scott Patterson, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell and James Wan at Saw blood drives.

[transtief]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.