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dragoncuspid · 2 months

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F word

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fannyrosie · 10 months

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Something more casual (and masculine) with very minimal makeup

During the several episodes of smog and dangerous air quality due to forest fires around the whole of Québec, my allergies to smoke/pollution caused my eyes to swell and crust, so I couldn't wear eye makeup and contacts for a while. My health was also bad, and I didn't dress up much during that time. However, on that rainy day, the air quality and my health were both "decent", so I helped my sister on her quest to find glasses that fit her face (we succeeded).

Outfit rundown Trench: Axes Femme (from 8 years ago) Linen pants: second-hand Uniqlo Cardigan and blouse: both from 1861 (+10 years ago) Hat: old Rudsak (can't remember from when) Boots: Sperry Topsider (from 10 years ago) Stamp patch: second-hand Jane Marple All other jewellery: Design Festa Ribbon is from a MM dress

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gayvampyr · 2 years

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i actually hate when people interject with “the patriarchy hurts men too!” in every discussion about womens systemic oppression. like yeah, it does. but you don’t need to bring it up every single time we discuss misogyny as a reason people should *really* care about dismantling the patriarchy. like womens suffering isn’t enough of an issue, it has to affect men before it’s actually taken seriously. im just sick of having to cater to mens victim complex and validate their feelings of oppression before any real work can be done. isn’t it enough that we’re suffering? cuz it doesn’t feel like it is

#idk im rambly but i’ve been thinking this for a while now and honestly unless you’re talking about mens oppression on the intersection of an #alternate axis like race or sexuality #i don’t want to hear about it #‘men are oppressed because of toxic masculinity and gender roles!’ yeah forgive me if im not exactly weeping with sympathy for my oppressor #because the system that they use to oppress me is what keeps them in power but also tangentially hurts them #like the ways male privilege affects women vs men are on completely different planes #not at all comparable #text post #misogyny #feminism and stuff #top posts

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puppayy · 2 months

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masc posting

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the-daily-male · 23 days

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Today's daily male is Ambassador Spock from Star Trek: Alternate Original Series!

for @groovyqueer

#daily male #spock #Ambassador Spock #spock prime #leonard nimoy #star trek #star trek alternate original series #men #masculinity #mod howl #slay I didn't know this guy existed

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fortunaestalta · 5 days

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#artists on tumblr #ai artwork #alternative #fantasy art #“Arte Masculine Nouveau”

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zahri-melitor · 7 months

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I’m…hmmm…trying to think of how to say this, but the whole “leather jacket and fade cut = lesbian!” argument is emblematic of an issue I’m seeing more and more, which is this shift by some folk to enforcing even tighter gender norms but also divided by sexuality. It’s an approach that completely strips characters of their historical connections and place in period, which is one of the strengths and unique factors of decades-long running properties that are eternally set in ‘now’.

It’s just such a surface read to take what a character wore in 1993 and apply fashion assumptions from 2023 to that character, and it misses the reading of what that outfit meant to contemporary characters 30 years ago. Now it can be fun to joke in hindsight about how it reads now, but personally I find it more interesting to see interpretations of how that character’s style evolved over time. (There’s some great write ups about for eg Dick’s looks over time, which moves with fashion but is readably the same dude just in different time periods).

I get it. I get people want to look for representation. But also you lose so much story by just placing modern assumptions on old outfits. A Lois Lane from the 50s/60s wearing trousers and a Lois Lane today wearing trousers have different meanings, even if both work as reads on Lois’ character.

#dc dress history #now it’s perfectly possible to also look at Kon from a 90s lens and say ‘that kid is queer’#I also don’t want to privilege one read completely over another #but if you’re ONLY looking at fashion from a modern eye you miss alternate reads #and the issue is taking ‘that’s not a perfect modern masculine presentation’#and running straight off to ‘QED Kon’s not a man’

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trans-androgyne · 2 months

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Genuinely what is it other people are seeing from transandrophobia that I haven’t seen all the months I’ve been in these tags. Has anyone reblogging the posts calling it transmisogynistic actually looked through the tag or read about the theory from any one who uses it. Now it’s calls for violence and saying trans men choose to be men and are immoral for it. I am screaming into the void.

#transandrophobia #where is the transmisogyny. please fucking point to where #what alternate definition are these people using #bc I use & have only ever used ‘the intersection of transphobia & misogyny’ with the newer addition of ‘+ non-hegemonic masculinity’#not trans women are oppressors or trans men can’t be transmisogynistic or anything even having anything to do with trans women #I feel like I’m going insane #how did literally just wanting to talk about my experiences as a transmasc who experiences misogyny got me here somehow #intracommunity issues tag #vent #mine

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r34p · 3 months

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My type

Source: @sarsh on Pinterest

#dark aesthetic #alternative #dark moodboard #fem dom #femme dom #male sub #masculine #masc sub #punk shit #chained #chained up #leather boots #combat boots

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prismoswag · 1 year

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Monster high motivational posters

#monster high #motivation #neurodiversity #neurospicy #clawdeen #draculara #frankie stein #deuce gorgon #toxic masculinity #transgender #trans rights #alt #alternative #altfashion #gender roles

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your-subby-creature · 10 months

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Put your mitts (hands) on my mits (man tits)

#Creature rambles #is this a good joke or am i just sleepy #i made myself laugh w this one bc i was thinking of moob alternatives #Mreasts mits must the possibilities are endless for these hunks of masculine fat n nerves

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dragoncuspid · 1 month

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Learning to love my hair in its natural wavy state more

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aq2003 · 4 months

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horrific news. i loved rex is not your lawyer and i'm sad there isn't more

#i would kill rex if he existed in real life but he is so entertaining to watch #tbh he has all the traits of a Quintessential David Tennant Character #a) neurotic little freak b) probably autistic c) bad at masculinity d) terminally bitchless e) genuinely intelligent behind the cringe fail #like the 'smart but terrible around other people' trope can be done VERY wrong a lot of the time #but whenever david does it it's so good. that one post was right he could play sherlock but b*nedict c*mberbatch couldnt play the doctor #edit: i probably need to clarify beyond the 'horrific news' but there are so many issues with just this pilot writing wise #and i get why it didn't get picked up. but in the alternate universe where this show is real #i wouldve watched it. loved it. rated it 3 stars on letterboxd

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likealittleheartbeat · 1 month

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"Scholars often dismiss physique references to ancient Greece as a mere ruse or rhetorical framework--a "classical alibi" or "discourse of validation"--to avoid censorship. But an examination of the lives of the founders, contributors, and members of the [physique studio and pictorial] Grecian Guild [1955-1968] tells a different story. The Grecian Guild was instrumental in helping a community of men struggling to find a discourse to explain and valorize their sense of themselves, particularly men outside of urban gay enclaves. Benson and Bullock [the founders of the Grecian Guild] took a discourse about ancient Greece that gay men had been using for nearly a hundred years and gave it mass distribution. They used it like gay men used reference to "the Greeks" or Mary Renault novels--as a way to signal their homosexuality. It was a rallying cry that brought in customers and helped them imagine a better world. As historian and biographer Benjamin Wise argues about the way Alexander Percy used the language of Hellenism, it was "a way of speaking out and covering up at the same time."

Invoking classical traditions in order to make an argument for gay rights has been largely forgotten in the twenty-first century, as such a line of argumentation has become politically and historiographically problematic. Indeed, much of modern LGBT historical scholarship and queer theory has asserted that a homosexual identity is a creation of a modern, capitalist world--that homosexual behavior in ancient cultures was understood in very different terms from the way it is today. Invoking classical antiquity also smacks of a Western bias that privileges European ancestry over other cultural and historical influences. Such arguments also raise the specter of pederasty and pedophilia--or at least age-discordant relationships--that play into the hands of gay rights opponents who relentlessly use the argument that gays recruit children to fight gay rights measures...

Despite these changes in cultural understandings and sensibilities, the use of the classical Greek trope to name gay organizations, periodicals, and commercial ventures continued for decades, even when the need for an alibi had eroded if not disappeared. The lambda or lowercase Greek "L" became one of the primary symbols of the 1970s gay liberation movement. During this same period Seattle's largest gay organization was the Dorian Group, and a Jacksonville, Florida-based gay magazine called itself David--a reference to Michelangelo's Renaissance statue--an indirect link to the classical tradition. Like the Grecian Guild, David offered membership in a fraternal organization with features such as a book club, a travel service, conventions, and even legal aid. As an online website, it continues to serve as one of Atlanta's premier LGBT news and entertainment sources.

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While severely limited by the forces of censorship, the desire to create opportunities for customers to correspond, meet, and get acquainted attests to the palpable wish of gay men to connect with each other during this period. If few members attended a Grecian Guild convention, the possibility of doing so resonated widely. As a teenage Grecian Guild subscriber in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Michael Denneny read the articles so carefully that he underlined the important parts. "That was proto-political organization, the agenda was very clear to me, and I think to everybody else who joined," Denneny remembered..."These magazines were really important to me," Denneny recalled. "They brought this whole possible world into being, which I'm not sure I could have visualized otherwise."

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

#queer history #thinking about aang and zuko's connection to the deep past #aang's strange displacement from his people and history #that means he has this distinct lived connection to a by-gone civilization and idyll #and then zuko's obsession with the air nomads #going to all their temples #and in the natla collecting all the nomad and avatar relics #then later their exploration of the sun warrior past #another ancient civilization whose philosophies they seek to adapt #and how both of these relate to aang and zuko's exploration of their gender and alternatives to contemporary masculinity #these fascinations with lost civilizations bring aang and zuko together too #and even force them to address assumptions about age-differences...#just a lot to unpack #just about how exploring other cultures and history thoroughly dislodges one's construction of reality #and opens up possibility

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barbedwirechain · 1 year

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it’s jock passing season so here i am

#my face #butch4butch #alternative black boy #queer masculinity #transmasculinity #transmasc #dykefag #jock passing #body mods #piercings #punk dyke #goth faggot #androgyny

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fortunaestalta · 18 days

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#artists on tumblr #ai artwork #alternative #fantasy art #“Arte Masculine Nouveau”#portrait study

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