#tenderoni

[fashion4standusers]

drag king Tenderoni

[gypsysmiles]

I saw Chromeo last night and it was magical

[dragkingsrule]

Tenderoni, Chicago-based drag king

Image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

Artist links: website, Instagram, Twitter

[slutnali]

[overnitereligion]

st johns, pdx march/april 2014

[sparklyslug]

See the pattern, unacknowledged but pretty well established is this: he’s got Eddie while he’s here. Days. A week. A couple of weeks, even. And it’s like a fucking dream. But there’s always the waking up. There’s the band, there’s the road, there’s the demands of life on a guy who actually is making it happen. Eddie’s happy for it, and Steve’s happy for him. But neither of them are happy with saying goodbye the mornings Eddie has to go. Which is why they mostly don’t.

Did you know if you listen to Leaving On a Jet Plane on repeat enough times, you'll fuck yourself up enough into spitting out just under 4k of tender goofiness about it?

[thatsnotbuddies]

@atreebreathing said jack/hanny pond skating and kissing in the moonlight and I said raaaahhh and had to draw it ❄

[hinakyuu]

how dare u show me THE vgk player during my cats game. ouch. OUCH

[areiphilos]

they'd cancel you for not agreeing with their Dallas headcanons

i would be CRUCIFIED. AND I WOULD BE RIGHT.

[greenlikethesea]

29 for ao3 wrapped?

favorite passage i wrote this year!

from headfirst into shallow pools, re: eddie noticing steve's knees at scoops ahoy:

“That’s the point , baby,” Eddie says, heaving a sigh that’s pure embarrassment. He still won’t look at Steve. “I saw the scar on your right knee. Sure, I know every little detail about all of your scars now, but I didn’t then. And even from that far away, your knees had freckles. They were…misshapen, and bony, and…yeah, ugly. I had this image of you in my head as this untouchable golden god. But you had ugly knees. You were just a boy.”

The love that bubbles up in Steve is so overwhelming that he has to catch his breath. Despite everything, though, Eddie can’t read his mind, so he’s still talking while Steve processes that bombshell. 

“And I had to leave. I couldn’t tarnish that moment, you know? I didn’t want to be the reason your smile left your face. I couldn’t look at you when there was a chance of you looking back.”

[izzymetimbers]

I think this person understands the show and David Jenkins' intention. DJ said season 2 would be about love in your 20s. Season 2 Ed and Stede are discovering their own identities. And right now they love each other, but their wants in life don't match. Who they are becoming individually is growing them apart. You can love someone, but also fall in love at the wrong time in someone's life. What happens when the person you love changes in ways that you can't keep up with? And sex isn't a cure all for nuanced interpersonal problems. I appreciate that DJ subverted that romcom trope.

it's also worth remembering, right, that ed and stede both wanted that night. ed gives stede a nod before stede kisses him. he kisses back enthusiastically. he goes to bed with stede. we see him sitting a little shyly, on stede's bed - still fully dressed, even, where stede's lost his shirt.

look at how achingly tender that face is. it's ed wanting to take care of stede the way no one took care of him; it's stede wanting to protect ed where he's failed in the past. it's a near-death situation drawing the love and need and desire out of them like bleeding a fever. it's accompanied by a romantic song. the imagery we're giving is fireworks. it's fucking fireworks for them.

the morning after, ed makes breakfast in bed. shares with stede the beautiful moment of his mermaid vision, which is an incredible show of vulnerability. you see the first sign of ed Having A Realization when stede says avoiding near-death situations isn't likely in their line of work.

then they go out to the republic of pirates, but ed takes stede out of the town and into the countryside, to a place where he feels safe. ed high-fives a child who isn't afraid of him. stede tells ed about writing him love letters. they're having a great day together, they're laughing, they're having fun.

it's not really until after ed sees stede becoming famous, until he sees stede stepping into the role of The Pirate, that he starts to pull away. jackie says he's trying to be a regular dude, and that sounds good to ed. trying something new. he wanders off to go watch fishermen and these shots are weird until you see that he's focusing on the twine the fish are caught up in - just like the twine he left stede on their breakfast tray, just like the twine he wrapped up his leathers in. and stede, who is feeling accepted and powerful and capable for the first time in his life, pulls back too.

they each want to be something the other is trying desperately to leave behind. how does anyone reconcile loving someone who loves the parts of yourself you hate the most?

when the fireworks clear, all you have left is smoke.

for ed and stede to find something real, something they can hang onto, they're going to have to put in the work. that's how you build the happily ever after. brick by brick.

[stopfunkinwmyheart]

it'll be a brother with an iten I've never seen in my entire life. I'll be like "heyy can I help ya" buddy will rly deadass be like "ye so I need one of these but smaller. it has to be the one for a rounded corner as well, it can not be the standard. this is crucial bcos I am doing rounded corners and will not be working w a flat surface. now ideally I want this exact iten, I can't remembered if I got it here or not bcos it was 35 years ago. I'm not sure if they even make them anymore. I don't even know what it's called or what it does. I'm unsure why I even want to complete this project. I don't even remember who I am or how I got here. do you know if these keys are for my car? who am I? you don't know who I am? who gave you this job? where is your manager little boy......."

[onlythestarsarewatching]

So like I've always had this strong connection to those early 2000s reality dating shows like I Love New York and Flavor of Love.

I want a show of my own. I'd call it Taina's Tenderonies.

Hulu, call me. Peacock, call me. Tubi, call me. I have big ideas.

[sparklyslug]

Wow thank you to EVERYONE who told me to watch Big Eden GOSH

[justlet-melive]

i havent reeallly drawn for fun in one thousand years and in that time forgot what the Human Skull is. drawing through the pain for tenderoni though :,^ ]

[f4irytkii]

so once you've had a roni, you will never give her up ᅠ★     ໒꒱     ♱     ᭄

ଡ଼ ꉂ she's a special kind of girl that makes her daddy feel proud

you know, the kind of girl that stands out in crowds ✦𓂃

ִֶָ 𑁍 . found a tenderoni and the roni is so right

i think i'm gonna love her for the rest of my life ɞ 𓉳 ะ 𓏲