#it's too early in the morning

[jackaxed]

The responses to this are really bumming me out. Even within the queer community people are having a hard time understanding that masculinity is also a performance, and the very fact that masculinity is seen as more neutral and anodyne is part of what gives it the cultural power it has. Just like whiteness is the assumed neutral viewpoint in most media, and everything outside of it is considered a "special interest" piece ("it's a Race Piece, and we're just not looking for a Race Piece"), masculinity is assumed to be some fundamental function of life which everything else is outside of or in opposition to. But, of course, it is not that. It is just another defined role within society with tightly regulated scripts of performance, one which has been given political prominence in order to advance patriarchal agendas.

And because it's the 'baseline' then apparently it has to be "boring", and many of you seem to think that it can't be queered, or that queer masculinity doesn't have the same revoltionary potential as queer femininity or even queer androgyny. Also, don't get me started on "it's not as revolutionary to see a woman wearing pants". Like, 1) drag king performance so clearly goes far beyond that, 2) people are still shitty about "women wearing pants" and continuously have been shitty to anyone perceived as a woman who performs masculinity, especially when it goes beyond the bounds of cishet tolerability, amd 3) it feels very telling that people are saying "masculinity is so boring" and the only example they can think of is a eurocentric stereotype of a guy wearing a business suit, like that encapsulates an entire globe's worth of culture and ethnicity-linked forms of masculine performance and expression. And even then, you're going to act like a drag king queering eurocentric masculinity-- the form of masculinity most frequently advertised to and forced upon the residents of colonial and/or colonized nations-- somehow doesn't count as a radical rejection of gender roles or a reclamation of masculine expression and power?

I am really getting sick of seeing the fight against cishet patriarchy turned into this blanket anti-masculine rhetoric that positions masculine queer people as inherently non-radical, like queer masculinity is not itself a radical rejection of patriarchal norms. This is not to say that queer people cannot perpetuate patriarchal forms of power, that we do not have problems with femininity-bashing and misogyny and transmisogyny within this community, because we absolutely do! But what is it with so many queer people trying to recreate Gender Essentialism, But For Queer People This Time where masculinity is boring and trite and utterly potential-less and femininity is divine and Other and therefore the only potential avenue for radical action. It's weird gender essentialist shit that fetishizes and Otherizes femininity while demonizing masculine expression. "Masculinity is base and boring and radically inert" is bordering TERF shit and anti-butch shit. I don't know why we've always got to raise up one side in favor over the other instead of recognizing the value of each other's identities and walking into the future hand-in-hand.

I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it

[sparks-olivarpente]

I keep thinking about what that young guy told me: stuff should belong to whoever need them. Like, it's so obvious, and it made me think "most people keep things they don't need" which... Obvious too but... Why? Fear? Obviously but... Why???

[poormeowmeowcollector]

Did you convert to Judaism? I remember a post a few years ago but don't remember if you ever did

There was a time I was considering it, and I'm still not opposed to if I have the opportunity but converting to Judaism is something that requires a lot of time, which I need to spend on my university. Also, I doubt if converting is free of charge and I do not have the funds to even consider it. And finally, I reside in Greece and the Jewish population here is not known for the size.

Generally, I believe wholeheartedly that Judaism is (from what I've gathered from the wonderful Jewish creators I follow here and on other platforms) a beautiful religion and one that fits my soul better than orthodox Christianity (Greece's main religion). But, unfortunately, I cannot find the time, the funds or the people for entering (should I be allowed obviously, because it's a closed religion).

Maybe I'll start considering again if I get the opportunities, but for now simply learning is more than enough.

Disclaimer: the fact that I've come to appreciate Jewish culture and religion does not mean that I personally think Palestinians don't deserve to live. There's a thing called "all people are equally worthy of appreciation and respect and you should fight for the rights of all people". Thank you very much.

[ayo-edebiri]

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) dir. Shawn Levy

[theballadofjohngeorgeandyoko]

Hi btw

[crabsnpersimmons]

me: i got a busy day outside of my cave today, i don't have too much time to draw. let's just keep it simple today

one hour and a half later:

...

anyways

off to work for me

[thelostconsultant]

[emacrow]

First, It was Barb was doing night checks on wayne manor cameras surveillance pt 2

Previous post pt 1

She was in a bit of awe when she saw the newest very rare exotic flower Alfred got bloom under the light of the full moon, revealing beautiful crystallized like petals blossom, only for her widening eyes to take noticed of a tiny little pixie like child to pop his little head out of the center of the flower.

His hair was unnatural white fluff like a dandelion in her opinion, eyes glowing an otherworldly green, freckles that sparkle like the stars themselves, ears a bit long and pointy, wearing a odd clothing with a needles strapped to his back, that she could barely catch in camera, the static buzzing sound from her cameras was making it a bit difficult to hear what sound the tiny little fairy boy made as he floated above zooming around the garden a bit like he was excited.

It made barb's inner child squeals, screaming, flipping her tiny princess table at the possibly of Nederland being possible.

Curious little bug, floating around like the fairies in Disney like except of the Glow pixie dust like she seen on the movies, he left a trail of blueish green light that faded away rather quickly with the way he was flying into the slightly opened kitchen's window...

Wait a goddamm minutes..

Barb immediately switch cameras to the kitchen, looking around, only to see it went through the hallway already, switching cameras again, checking the living room, the hallways, only to catch a glimpse of trail glow zooming around.

Crap crap. OK, no need to panic Barb. What do curious pixie like fairies out in the human world.. bring the season right?!, play with children like that Bell fairy did? Finds and take lost things and secretly repair lost things?..! Fairies are weak without pixie dust, they don't live long without it, each fairies has a different part of the seasons, and if you don't believe in them then they immediately die and that cause imbalance in the world without their influence unless you truly believe in fairies to bring back one fairy.(she went through a whole fairy obsession phase as a kid, she still mourns the lost of the create your fairy open world game)

The fairy must've Found a new type of pixie dust to fly without wings if she could recall that one sequel with the new pixie dusts colors thing..?

It was like a game of Where Waldo except where the little mythical fairy boy that couldn't possibly- no no barb don't think about the taboo words, if you think about it and this poor mythical being dies due to your words then the guilt will haunt you Forever.

3 hours in the catch the glimpse of the fairy boy, flying back at to his little flower holding a tiny cube of sugar, a shiny tiny object that she can't get a clear of, and a plump blueberry the size of his little head as he lands in the petals that were closing around him. Crystallized back close as if to guard this little fairy being with its own life.

Right when the full moon glimpse was gone out of the sight of the garden from the sky when the smog cloud from the city covering once more.. Barb is writing that down in her notes..

Part 3 link Here <-

[densewentz]

[xrnoodle]

NAMI, THE NAVIGATOR - The woman raises her head, shifting under a thick quilt.

NAMI, THE NAVIGATOR - Do you need something, sir?

EMPATHY - She spent the previous night awake, entirely focused on her work. That concentration has been disrupted by you.

[vellichorom]

@satisfiedskye reintroducing me to THE OG fuckable old man

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

[cherrycha0s]

guys did anybody read v. e. schwab's newsletter

what do you mean she's watching hannibal for victorious research purposes???

[ryebreadedd]

Some of you guys act like you have to fulfill a yaoi quota every time you engage with something

[uservillanelle]

JODIE COMER photographed by Cass Bird for ELLE UK 2024 July/August issue.

[mizzfizz]

touya who slinks himself on you, head in the crook of your neck, arms around your waist and follows you around your shared apartment while you make breakfast