#can you tell i rewatched

[fights4users]

Thinking about them again your honor.

It’s about how Lora/Yori is always the guide, always knows just where to go and what to do and how Alan/Tron happily go along with it. They trust she knows best (they’re also a total sap about her)

It’s the “if I’m not holding your hand right now I’ll explode”. They’re so touchy and my heart can’t take it? Lora/Yori has a tendency to cling to his arm, press herself into his shoulder and it’s absolutely everything.

Also no one talks about how funny the arcade scene is, Lora is just giggling and dragging him along as Alan is going through increasing stages of ‘oh my god what have I got myself into- what is this guy’ — this arcade serves all ages and demographics and somehow he still sticks out! In this case it’s a reverse where Lora is the one to ‘protect’ him and I’m going to loose it.

[cherryblossomshadow]

#the idea of perfect masculinity is born of fear just as much as the idea of perfect femininity #they’re like heaven: you can’t observe it or measure it but you have to live in fear that you don’t reflect it (tags courtesy of @romanceyourdemons)

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The best music is always whatever you listened to as a teenager, and the best style of clothes is whatever style young adults wore when you were a kid that you thought was coolest

Fashion runs in 20 year cycles, I don't think that's a coincidence (comment courtesy of @cloverandcrossbones)

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This reminds me of a post I read once about children’s cartoons — basically people tend to bitch about how shows these days are ‘too political’ and they wish shows could be like the ones they watched when they were kids, which they perceive to be non-political. When in reality children’s shows, and all shows really, have always been ‘too political’ (meaning they have always recognized the political state of the world, no matter what they might have to say about it) and what people actually miss is the childhood perception that everything was perfect and innocent because they simply didn’t realize the shows were making ‘political’ statements.

And it’s like, men aren’t becoming less masculine, your very one dimensional view of the world is being challenged and you don’t want to accept that your heroes and role models are real people with complex lives and emotions (comment courtesy of @adeametea)

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I've spoken about it afore but also I think another aspect that drives this is also just a very innate feature of human development. Human males tend to gain physically masculinised features over a much longer period of development than we realise. Like, what's said in the video is all accurate but it's also just a thing that people tend to look at the previous generations of men in their 30s, 40s and 50s, and then compare them to the latest crop of 20 year olds and go "these men seem less masculine, masculinity must be dying!".

But male secondary sexual characteristics like facial hair, jawline, skeletal structure etc. continue developing well into your 30s. Sure men have generally stopped growing in height by the age of 20, but most are going to get broader at a skeletal level for a while yet. Facial and body hair patterns associated with physical masculinisation as regularly take several decades to really finish coming in cis men.

So combining the ever changing social standards and ideals of masculinity with the physical evidence of people's own eyes that these young men just look less visibly masculinised than older men and people are primed to leap to the conclusion that masculinity is somehow dying. Personally though I think it's the physical observation comes first and then the social stuff is people's attempts to confirm and rationalise what they're seeing.

#lgbt stuff #I guess #kinda? #it's a whole thing anyway that you'll see comparisons between someone's grandfather's generation and the modern generation #and it's like a picture of grandpa aged 25 and some 17 year old teenager #like yeah no duh grandpa looks more manly he's had like 8 years of further physical development #I'm 33 and trust me when I say I look way more masculine than I did aged 23 just because of the passage of time #both in terms of finally being able to grow a beard and literal changes in my skeletal structure

(comment and tags courtesy of @hedge-rambles)

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Transcript below the cut:

yeah men aren't men hmm just our generation yo I like to fix the source. Men becoming masculine Men used to be a lot more masculine

professorneil: These takes are always really amusing, because they are actually so close to getting it. Because yes, something of a previous generation's notion of manhood and masculinity is being lost. But what they're missing is the historical context. Because this is not a bug. This is not a problem unique to this particular moment. This is actually a feature, a part of the design of masculinity.

We were complaining that men are too feminine back in 2004. Also in 1984, 1965, 1950, 1940, 1932. You can see that we were always blaming women for it, too. 1922, 1910, 1902, 1993, 1886. And, just for funsies, here's Hippocrates making the same complaint in 400 BCE.

As an aside, if you want to see these in detail, just go to twitter and look up Paul Fairie (@/paulisci)

Now what makes those examples particularly interesting is not just that it is the same complaint being made over a period of 2400 years. It's how the specific details that are referenced in the complaints actually goes to demonstrate how changeable masculinity is. Because there are the standard cliches: "Men are doing too much housework." Um, "they're being encouraged to be emotional." And there are the funny ones, like "Men should not wear corduroy pants," "part their hair down the middle," or "wear embroidered bathrobes." But then there are also those complaints that go a long way towards showing just how fluid gender is. Like the 1977 comlaint that men aren't able to garden. Or the 1886 complaint that it's the women who are talkative in public and not the men.

On a similar note, the sportswriter Joe Posnanski once wrote that every baseball fan is convinced that the game used to be perfect in the past. And when pushed to explain the moment when it was perfect, it is nearly always when that fan was 12 years old. Before they began to question their heroes or recognize that they were real people with flaws, both their sports heroes and their own dads.

That fantasy of a past masculine order that was perfect, that nostalgic desire for it, is the exact same. It is every bit as illusory and elusive, because there is no there, there. Because if there is one consistent feature in all these iterations of masculinity, it's that

it is never achievable. It is only ever aspirational.

And that achievement is particularly impossible, when it always lies in the past.

Watch this to learn how to put down toxic masculinity and internalized misogyny. As with “the kids these days are terrible” beginning circa prehistory (thanks Plato) this points to “men aren’t masculine anymore” and tracks it backward.

I keep saying nothing ever changes to those who know history.

[nottspocket]

@habken’s soul eater au has been giving me massive brainworms for a while, so I finally drew something for it! Enjoyyyyy

[jellyfemmedyke]

The Hobbits being so transmasc coded it's unreal. While they're technically hobbit men, the human men treat Merry as lesser in a similar way that they treat Eowen.

The parallels between the two are immense. Fighting for the right to be seen as equal to the MenTM. Eomer and Theonden telling them they have no place in battle, that it's for said Men.

Both of them attacking the Nazgul and taking him down together, proving that they're equal they're worthy of respect just like everyone else. I could go on. I'm gonna lose it.

[gossippool]

hi welcome back to leanne rewatches deadpool & wolverine and goes insane about every single detail in this movie. in this edition: how logan's clothes reflect the trajectory of his character

1. the suit—inside

so we start off with the scene in the bar where logan appears to be wearing what we're used to seeing him wear. flannels, leather jackets. his outfit and even the setting is not at all unfamiliar for him. but, as we later find out, he was wearing the suit underneath all those layers the whole time.

during his talk with laura, he reveals that he wears the suit to remember those he'd lost, and as a reminder of what he'd done. he's had the suit on permanently for god knows how long, hidden under his clothes. at this point he bears the suit like a cross, suffering in silence under the guise of normalcy, yet sacrificing what's left of his identity by reducing himself to what the suit represents; by taking all the jabs and nasty looks people throw at him that he thinks he's too deserving of to combat.

2. the suit—outside

after wade pulls him out, he has the suit on display for quite a while. on one hand, it shows the fight that's in him now as a contrast to his passivity in his own world. on the other hand, it's also a sort of vulnerability: what that suit stands for and by extension what he himself is is now laid bare to the world. out in the open for people to question. maybe that fight that's in him now stems precisely from this vulnerability.

this vulnerability is both good and bad for him: it causes him to lash out at the questions from wade that he's not ready to answer. it also leads him to open up to laura and finally speak about what happened—who knows if he's ever said any of it out loud before. fun! even with just the suit, we're already seeing some development.

and THIS is where it gets interesting.

3. the white shirt—his mind

the first time we truly see him without the suit is when cassandra nova looks into his mind. i've been going back and forth on whether this is logan's own manifestation of himself or if it's cassandra's, and i still don't know. i think the distinction does matter, but in the end what it conveys is the same.

firstly, another layer of vulnerability again. he's already on his knees for cassandra, submissive—now in his mind he's also stripped as bare as he can be (i think we all know white shirts can sometimes leave little to the imagination). cassandra looks at him and says "you're hiding ... from all the ones you let down." how interesting is that?? if we go all the way back to the first scene, he hides his suit under normal clothes. and he hides this version of him in his mind even further underneath all of that.

secondly and as an extension of that point, white symbolises purity. cleanliness. even a promise of new beginnings. let's tackle this from the two possible perspectives.

if this is logan's manifestation of himself, it would be so intriguing that this is how he appears. maybe it means that despite it all, there's some good in him. maybe it means that deep, deep down, past all the shame and the guilt and the grief, there's still a part of his mind where he can just be.

on the other hand, the white could also symbolise a second chance—like i said, a promise of new beginnings. i made a post about this scene here, but the basic point is that cassandra is offering him something that no one else may ever be able to offer him. a chance to fully be himself, to silence the voices. the white is such a stunning visual representation of what she is saying logan could be if he stays with her. which makes it even more poignant that he doesn't.

4. the time ripper

after this scene, he's in the suit again, necessarily. but then! BUT THEN!!!!! the time ripper!!! y'all need to understand the significance of this scene in all its nuances FR! here you can look at his abs again:

but the thing is we know by now what the suit represents. all his failures, all his guilt, his inability to let go of his past. it represents him. isn't it just so fitting that it's at this point where he saves the fucking world that the suit breaks away. it breaks away from him. he's free. this not the same as him just taking it off, because with it breaking into pieces he literally cannot wear it anymore. this is not just a hugh jackman body appreciation, this is logan finally moving on. this is him realising that he is not a failure, that he is not his failures, that he has something else to live for.

5. him

and oh my god, we finally make it to the extremely satisfying ending. after all of that, we finally come full circle. he's in his normal clothes again, the wife beater and the flannel, except this time without anything underneath. he's no longer defined by that one incident, defined by his mistakes and the people he let down. he is just him.

[snoffart]

The kids of Gravity Falls!!

[spacedlexi]

wanted to draw something new today :)

[rad-batson]

*Bruce and 9yo Dick playing chess*

Dick: Okay, I'm gonna take your pointy, sad-faced guy for my horsey guy.

Bruce: Stop, stop. *pointing to Bishop* What is this piece called?

Dick: I call him Dwight.

[kugiscki]

i cannot wait for yor’s eventual backstory chapter because holy shit. if twilight’s was heartbreaking, yor’s might just send me into psychosis.

this whole idea of this young girl who is forced to grow up extremely fast and single handedly fill in the gaps her recently deceased parents left in her and her little brother’s lives. to drop out of school so she can take on dangerous jobs and ensure her brother is happy despite all the turmoil he’s faced. to have sacrificed everything she could’ve been to guarantee her brother always had a roof over his head, warm (although often inedible) food, and a bright future ahead of him.

then, for her to reach adulthood and feel all the work she did was for nothing because, in her peers eyes, she’s inadequate and bizarre. she doesn’t fit the societal expectations of a woman; she’s considered too masculine, too ditzy, too independent and a woman who doesn’t need nor want to rely on a man—all things looked down on by society at that time.

but then her inner conflicts are finally seen by loid who also had to grow up way to fast. and then she finds a family where she is accepted for who she is—shortcomings and all. and now it feels like everything she did to reach this point in her life finally has meaning: to give back to the next generation of kids what she did not have the luxury of receiving— a stable life without the constant threat of war looming over them.

in short… that chapter and its implications will destroy me.

[skywerse]

helping hands

[wigglybunfish]

What if i drew grown up Little Einsteins. If i drew Big Einsteins what then

[buckleydiazmp4]

the reason poolverine is so appealing is also because in all of his two-decade run in the xmcu they have given logan some of the most boring and rushed relationships with women (because it was the 2000s and the mold that they followed for rugged manly protagonists meant an astounding lack of chemistry between them and their love interests in favor of giving them the "dead wife who has a montage at the beginning of the movie" treatment etc etc) and then they put him in a 2 hour long film with a guy even more insane and fucked up than him and they matched each other beat for beat. say what you want about the mcu but they achieved a level of chemistry between logan and wade that fox couldn't reach in 20 years with like four different love interests. which is also a petition for them to either go the gay route or finally let logan find a woman he has good chemistry with and who can pass the bechdel test

[scoobydoodean]

[bidamonalbarn]

two little xmen sketches (two pookiebear #1 babyboys)

[dogearedheart]

Dean, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon.

[frankiebirds]

every day i think about elle and morgan going on vacation together and at least morgan wanting reid to come with. what were their intentions. were they bisexual in nature. also im also almost certain that this is the first time morgan calls reid "pretty boy" and it's while he's inviting him on vacation with him. it's 2005/2006 you cannot be this bisexual at your government job.

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yeah i think elle also wanted him to join them.