#tw: man chest

[springypaws]

I got stuck trying to figure out the shading of the blanket on this, so I offer you the closest thing I have to a finished product rn (aka the colors) 🤲

Will I ever finish this? I HOPE SO because I love them. Dearly.

[mpreg-nouveau]

Since I'm in a Kurt Wagner mood...If y'all don't think Kurt Wagner's Catholicism isn't a huge crutch for being abandoned by both his mothers you are dead wrong.

Dude probably has a little figurine of Mary he talks to and prays to on occasion. Hell maybe has his own little collection of them. He fell into the "Mary is every Christian's mother" mindset hard. Probs refers to her as his mom sometimes reflexively. Dude has a rosery on him at all times and probably prays with it whenever he thinks too hard about his abandonment to comfort himself. Knows the Fatima prayer and hail holy queen. Has visited the various Mary centric holy sites and absolutely believes in the story of our lady of Guadalupe, Fatima, and the crying Mary statue.

You can talk shit about the Catholic church all you want to him. Talk shit about God and religion and he will nod along and listen respectfully. You say shit about Mary tho he will stab you.

[transsongtaewon]

It's a beautiful day, warm and sunny, almost perfect if only Yoojin didn't have to work.

At least the kids are having fun, Yoohyun and Yerim fooling around somewhere behind him. Yoojin thinks it's nice they like to play with each other so much. After all, it is very important for young people to have fun and exercise.

And as long as Yoojin is around they don't even cause that much property damage!

He's not exactly supervising them right now, being busy talking to Officer Song, but he's sure his presence is enough to prevent the worst. Yerim's delighted battle cries assure him that everything is fine.

Yoojin is almost done anyway, presently trying to steer the discussion away from boring legal matters towards the dear Officer maybe taking a break sometime? Perhaps even go on vacation?

...and then a spray of water hits Officer Song square in the chest.

It pastes the already flimsy dress shirt tightly against his skin, turning it all but translucent under the onslaught and leaving nothing to the imagination. His chest goes from prominent to omnipresent, the thin fabric revealing two dusky nipples, visibly hardening due to the cold water. The water runs down toward the stomach, leading the eyes to Officer Song's defined eight pack, each muscle easily discernible and glistening in the sun, the shadows cast by the peaks and dips of his stomach writhing tantalizingly with each breath.

"Oh shit Officer Song, that was totally Yoohyun's fault!"

Yoojin cannot tear his gaze away from Officer Song.

He gapes in horror.

The man before him is dangerously dehydrated.

[bluerose5]

Grabbed this one and shared it in discord, but I will share it here too because in terms of voice acting and animations, I feel like this scene is not talked about enough! I love him so much, your honor. 🥺🖤

[cerealbishh]

"Live..."

[sillycatt8]

this. it’s not ‘feeling insecure’ it can send me into a panic attack and it will sometimes make me want to harm myself.

[zappedbyzabka]

....

[ourfag]

i think part of the resistance i’ve seen in response to the view of ed as an abuse victim—not just the view of izzy as someone who abused ed, but of ed as someone who was abused by him, as opposed to interpretations that pursue an image of Nuance and Complexity (unnecessarily, because their dynamic has heaps of both, but there seems to be a popular impulse to conflate complexity with shared culpability) by characterizing their relationship as being toxic/unhealthy in equal reciprocity, or as “mutually abusive” (oxymoron)—i definitely see the influence of racism there, but i think the racism is also working to amplify an adjacent issue where we tend to receive very specific cultural messaging about What An Abuse Victim Looks Like, and ed is excluded from a lot of that criteria.

he’s outspoken. he’s boisterous. he’s Very Cool and he Wears Leather. he’s physically bigger and browner than the person mistreating him. he spends the first season with a big grey beard, he’s covered in tattoos, he projects the image of A Man’s Man, to say nothing of his being a man in the first place. we see him get aggressive and we see him get angry (and sometimes we even see both at the same time). we see moments where he’s surly, prickly, insensitive, arrogant. his survival techniques and trauma responses incur collateral damage to other people, and in the second season this extends into affecting people we actually sympathize with. he’s extremely private about expressing fear. without examination, his professional relationship to izzy seems to position him as the one with the power slanted in his favor.

most damningly, we see him react multiple times to izzy’s abuse with physical violence. this is behavior that gets referenced all the time in the construction of narratives condemning subjects of physical abuse, let alone emotional abuse. which is why writing that intends for its audience to interpret a character as being unambiguously A Victim Of Abuse will often, for simplicity’s sake, avoid showing the character regularly engaging in anything of the kind.

and again, all of these departures from the image of The Model Victim are compounded by his being a man of color.

without any of the shorthand designed to point a big flashing arrow at his mistreatment, all we have left to work with are the words and actions we see from ed and izzy onscreen. who instigates conflict, and how does the other respond? how are they able or allowed to respond? how do we see them speak about each other to outside parties? does one go out of their way to control or isolate the other? what consequences does either party stand to face in saying “no” to the other? in acting against the other’s wishes? in trying to leave the relationship? when either of them attempts these things, how do we see the other respond?

i realize and appreciate what people are driving at when they garnish their analysis with disclaimers that they’re not saying ed’s just a poor innocent abuse victim, they’re not saying he’s a perfect angel who’s never done anything wrong, and that’s true, but these are points already contained implicitly in statements like “this show’s protagonists act like human people” and “ed’s emotional struggles are portrayed in a realistic and believable way.” my assumption is that these disclaimers are anticipatory responses to worst-faith interpretations of any discussion that attributes any victim status to ed whatsoever, so i definitely sympathize with their inclusion, but a (very small) part of me still worries about them potentially reflecting or reinforcing a belief that there is any way for someone to behave towards their abuser that imparts a responsibility for them to make right whatever damage the abuser receives, or for that matter any degree of ambiguity over their status as an abuse victim in the first place.

part of what i find so gratifying about ed as a character is that i don’t feel like the show’s writing is pressuring me to consider that ambiguity at all. which was a really nice thing for me to discover!

and tbh—did using ed to deconstruct The Model Victim even factor into the writers’ agenda?? ive got no clue. im guessing no? ??maybe?? probably not?? but if you create a main character whose central premise is that he feels trapped in a performance of exaggerated masculinity that he’s desperate to escape, and then you set him up with a character premised on embodying a tangible obstacle against that escape, then i guess that’s the natural shape your story’s gonna be inclined to take

[imkrisyoung]

It sucks that I have chest dysphoria.

It sucks even more that because I have sensory issues and chronic pain I can't bind very often.

Often when I go out I'll usually just wear a sports bra and a baggy shirt over it.

[dilutedbeanibeans]

what’s up with this guy

[fyodior]

i think the reason i cling to male characters so much despite being sapphic is that im like literally obsessed with the idea of a man loving me and being nice to me. something that has never occurred

[codgod]

i’m sure youse already know this, but nobody should feel bad for having been a fan of wilbur’s in the light of what’s happened

yeah, with hindsight it’s easy to pick apart his actions, and stories his friends have told, to look for signs that he was hurting people. plenty of people are gonna think they should’ve known sooner, and others are gonna claim they knew all along that he sucked, but in reality there is no way anyone could’ve known until shelby came out about the abuse she faced. he’s someone many people, including myself, looked up to on some level and you’re always gonna wanna see the best in people you look up to, and that’s okay. you don’t have to feel guilty for that

the thing to do now is to give yourself the time and space you need to move forward from here, and give what support you can to the people that were harmed by him

[tsbs-shipfessions]

Solar x Jigsaw Ruin x Eclipse

I just love thinking of Jigsaw as an emotional manipulator. Not an obvious one either. Like I would fall for this man in a heartbeat. Solar wants to bring Sun and Moon back? Oh yikes sorry, Jigsaw flirted one too many times and now he doesn't know what to do. But then Eclipse? He hates Solar and doesn't know what to think of Jigsaw. But they coerce (dubcon and then maybe full con) him into sexy time once and he's attached. Like there goes two possible threats and now he's got guard dogs. As long as he spoils them and gives them all his attention they'll be loyal to a t.

[sirquacklesdefoof]

Hello transgenders. We’re officially 8 weeks post top surgery.

[creator-indy]

Doodled my body type

[ghost-inthe-hall]

Roman and his patterns