#tadzio

[vicomaco]

So, it's not too late! I'm 33 years old and I'm in my first dnd campaign! This is Tadzio "Dachbodenmaus", my thief gnome. He is extremely feminine, flirtacious, pansexual and an acrobat. I hope the story will not develop around violence and big swords because actually I'm there for the dating simulator. No, even if it seems it's still not made with inks and paper, I'm not there yet, but it's working, boiling in my head. I will reach a no return point soon, pray for the rise of my collapse. And in the meantime maybe I'll go on using this space to rant about my full-time job for comics. I just wanted to ink a bit without loads of documentation, so the medieval outfit is not accurate, maybe even the holster for the sword is a mess? I don't know, don't break my balls with that. Hoping the pumpking season is treating you gently, a kiss to your buttcheeks, ciao!

[papering-the-wall]

Death In Venice Japanese book cover

Japanese Magazine Kinema Junpo 1971 September Issue

[alfredsnightmare]

Death in Venice (Tony Palmer, 1981)

[fawnl3t]

Tadzio doodle !!!!

[staygoldralph]

morte a venezia

[pansyprincey]

[rotatiffantome]

reading this book & relating to Tadzio made me realize my life circumstances are probably not what one would consider “average”

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

now jimin is such an interesting character like he really logs into social media to post about anything but his own face how is he not obsessed with his face? I just know that if I had a face like his I would force every living creature to look at me 24/7, baby is way too humble sometimes I even wonder if he really really knows how stunning his face is cuz wow

It's easier to talk like that from an outsider's perspective. But I think reality is a bit different. Jimin doesn't come across as a narcissist either.

You saying "I would force every living creature to look at me 24/7" made me think of this documentary I saw recently. It's called The Most Beautiful Boy in The World and it's about Bjorn Andresen, the one who played Tadzio in Death in Venice. I wanna talk about that for a bit, I'm using this ask as an excuse.

The boy's grandmother wanted to have a celebrity/actor in the family, so she took Bjorn to the casting call. Luchino Visconti saw him and knew immediately he was the one. They asked him to take off all his clothes, except underwear, so they can take some shots. He was only 15 at the time. Filming went well and then when Death in Venice premiered at Cannes, it turned into madness. I think that's when Visconti called him the most beautiful boy in the world and that label turned into a curse. The boy was thrown into the lion's den, full of people who wanted to be seen next to him, taken to parties and flaunted as this otherwordly creature. Everyone wanted him or to be in his proximity. What was unfortunate was that he had no adult to take care of him. And for an adolescent who hated absolutely everything of that life but who also believed he was supposed to listen to what he was told, it turned into a nightmare.

He became an "object" of fascination because he was considered androgynous and the character he portrayed in the film had an effect on people's perception of him. Tadzio was Beauty and Death all together, this untouchable being. In the documentary it's explained how his visit to Japan and the work he had to do there was considered probably among the first instances of fans getting crazy over an idol. There's footage of that. He also became the inspiration since the 1970s for a lot of manga. So many famous characters are based on his face.

The guy hated it because he was reduced to his beauty. I won't tell you what happens to him later in life, perhaps you'll want to see the documentary, but his story is heartbreaking.

To circle this back to Jimin and his beauty, often time our own perception of us and the perception other people have of us does not align completely. I will assume that Jimin is aware of his beauty, but somehow I doubt he wakes up everyday thinking he needs to be worshipped for his looks. That's the fan's job which is a daily habit at this point. We are obsessed with looks and beauty, whatever that may mean to us. In Jimin's case we talk so much about his appearance and often times I would see the world "otherwordly" used when describing him. It was impossible not to think of Bjorn Andresen. What I hope is that Jimin had such an upbringing and a life that didn't in turn let the adoration get to his head. So far, he seems fine.

[dzadezdta]

[haakanlindell]

Björn Andrésen w Jessica Vennberg. Once The most beautiful boy in the world!

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[guy60660]

Ugo Rondinone | © Tadzio | Financial Times

[anokha-swad]

www.singulart.com/de/kunstwerke/tadzio-nuno-fum%C3%A9e-1595880

[plutoniuminjection47]

instead of coping with trauma like a normal person I will simply say I know how [insert character] felt and then move on

[shitpostroundhouse]

1) That would be an interesting, creepy, and uncomfortable day. Let's see, though. The one actual coworker who is only 50 is the kinda straight guy who more awkwardly than not praises the gay-asexual-intersex-/queer-intersex/-lesbianj-trans/ community ("GAI-QuILT Community"), in this such a way, "Hey, I don't care who you love or who you sleep with. To each their own, right? It doesn't affect me. Why are people so upset all the time?" (Gary, you're gay. Yes, think about it. You don't like your wife. There's at least two guys here whose butts you pat at least once a week, even though nobody else has ever done that here in the 92 years of this medical claims office...

2) Now you're a pederast. You wrote a poem about a 15 year boy. Not just any poem. Was any of us supposed to read this? I mean, he's a lovely, lovely boy, but following him around Venice during a plague, well heck, maybe that's the next project...

new yaoi just dropped

[fawnl3t]

[tursasyda]