#blue collar love

[coolcarabiner]

i love u butches who work in factories i love u butches who work in warehouses i love u butches with jobs as mechanics and machinists and glass blowers and package handlers and bakers and electricians and welders i love u butches who do physical labor because we've managed to carve out a niche for ourselves in these industries.... i love u working class butches!!!!

[cultofthorns]

seeing all the 7-s maid outfit fan art but no love for what’s truly sexier

[d469son-daddyshelper2]

[daddy469son2]

[bunnyrafe]

babydoll leaves rafe little notes like this!!! teehehe

babydoll does this constantly even though it gets her punished every time ‘cause rafe hates when his coworkers / crew catches a peak of them— one time she even throws in an up skirt polaroid… she was thoroughly and utterly fucked after that.

just as she planned

[lewmagoo]

via atta boy’s insta story!

[froody]

Thinking about this post I saw once that was like “My ex-husband refused to fix the door for 10 years. This carpenter I met fixed it on the first date.”

[outer-edges]

yes ellie must drive joel crazy when they’re traveling with the stupid jokes and all the questions and stuff but consider this: joel definitely drives ellie out of her damn mind I guarantee u this man points at random shit and he’s like “I worked on a house just like that” or “they did so and so to this building for this reason” and other dumb construction shit.

[boobilby]

My traditional attempts, they look so ugly in the pictures… that’s what filters are for don’t question it

[pianokantzart]

Do you think Mario's portrayal in the movie was a little too different from the games? I understand that they needed him to have a more well rounded personality, but I just can't help but wonder why they didn't make him more of a soul who is defined by having this sort of contagious positivity with a skip in every step. Think characters like Joy (Inside Out), Pinkie Pie (MLP), Steven Universe, Star Butterfly, Mabel Pines, Rapunzel (Tangled) and so on.

Mario of course still has a can-do determinator attitude about life, and he does still have his moments of excitement, but it's a lot more subdued. He spends a lot of the movie being rather irritable, somewhat impatient, and burnt out. Of course this can still happen to characters that are defined by being consistently upbeat and positive, but that's only when they hit very serious rock bottom moments.

Do you think the sequel should try and make Mario's personality a little more like his portrayal in the games or should they just stick with what they did for the first one?

I think a more happy-go-lucky Mario could work, hypothetically, but not with the backstory he was given in the movie, which leans pretty hard on him being an underdog in every sense.

The difference between Mario and all the characters you listed is Mario was neither sheltered, nor put in any position where he was encouraged to continually exhibit a bubbly, positive attitude.

Mario is a Brooklyn man who has just recently managed to work his way up from hard labor to blue collar, and has spent most of his life having his dreams and ambitions dismissed and put down.

He's by no means disillusioned with the world, but he's built up defenses to make sure everyone knows that neither he nor his brother are easy targets to be bullied or walked all over. He is optimistic, but he's swimming against the current, and it's worn him down. (Heck, judging by the concept art, it looks like there were plans to make him even more exhausted and despondent than he was in the final product.)

But now that Mario's in an environment that values his ambition and optimism, he's got room to develop into something closer to the Super Mario we're all familiar with. As much as I hope for some slight change in character between movies, I can't say I'd be too disappointed if he stays the same on account of how much I really really love Hothead Stressball McDaddyIssues Mario. But I'm banking on him being at least a good deal happier now that he's living in The Mushroom Kingdom.

It's a nice little mini-arc to give him in what was essentially Mario's origin story.

[smokinggiant]

The new apprentice mechanics learned a lot from their mentors, including how to smoke like a man.

[fraye-complex]

I just really like it when a guy is soaked in sweat and covered in dirt. Is it too much to ask to see a couple grubby guys here? Where are they? Why are you all so clean?

[mysicklove]

i love it when men r muscular and sweating and panting and when they wear tight shirts that show off their chests and sweaty and dirty and *gunshots*

i also like catboys and twinks tho too don’t worry guys :3

[momotonescreaming]

The way I'm such a sucker for Buck realising that Tommy wants to be wooed and romanced and taken care of

[bunnyrafe]

ik we haven’t talked about babydoll + blue collar rafe in a min, but i feel like babydoll goes on shopping sprees with blue collar rafe’s card (or maybe her own card connected to his account that she gets like weekly allowance on, idk why i love the idea of getting an allowance from rafe i’m just a girlnxnx) while he’s at work, but honestly i also feel like blue collar rafe doesn’t even think of anyone besides his precious babydoll!!!

oh my god. rafey giving babydoll an allowance, but also never being able to say no when she keeps asking him to raise it… in fact sometimes he just sighs, opens his wallet ‘n throws some cash at her because he can’t be bothered to get on his banking app. old man cant use his phone.

can just imagine the gossip that goes on in the mall about her because she’s always shopping up a storm and spending so much. people think she’s probably a dancer or with a drug dealer because how could she possibly have this much money to blow through… but then she yanks rafe into VS and all the associates finally get a face to go along with their theories. all 6+ feet of him with his boots still on. clearly a man who works so hard to help his princess of a wife keep a lavish life. he doesn’t even pick up on their whispering but babydoll does— of course she does. aside from the possessiveness simmering within her, she doesn’t care that much because she’s the one with the pretty rock on her finger and the one he follows around like a guard dog.

[novablair]

Is it Friday yet??? 😭 DM me and distract me from the week days