#romantic ethos

[haggishlyhagging]

One asks the same questions again and again, over a period of years, in the course of a lifetime. The questions have to do with people and what they do — the how and the why of it. How could the Germans have murdered 6,000,000 Jews, used their skins for lampshades, taken the gold out of their teeth? How could white people have bought and sold black people, hanged them and castrated them? How could "Americans" have slaughtered the Indian nations, stolen the land, spread famine and disease? How can the Indochina genocide continue, day after day, year after year? How is it possible? Why does it happen?

As a woman, one is forced to ask another series of hard questions: Why everywhere the oppression of women throughout recorded history? How could the Inquisitors torture and burn women as witches? How could men idealize the bound feet of crippled women? How and why?

The bound foot existed for 1,000 years. In what terms, using what measure, could one calculate the enormity of the crime, the dimensions of the transgression, the amount of cruelty and pain inherent in that 1,000-year herstory? In what terms, using what vocabulary, could one penetrate to the meaning, to the reality, of that 1,000-year herstory?

Here one race did not war with another to acquire food, or land, or civil power; one nation did not fight with another in the interest of survival, real or imagined; one group of people in a fever pitch of hysteria did not destroy another. None of the traditional explanations or justifications for brutality between or among peoples applies to this situation. On the contrary, here one sex mutilated (enslaved) the other in the interest of the art of sex, male-female harmony, role-definition, beauty.

Consider the magnitude of the crime.

Millions of women, over a period of 1,000 years, were brutally crippled, mutilated, in the name of erotica.

Millions of human beings, over a period of 1,000 years, were brutally crippled, mutilated, in the name of beauty.

Millions of men, over a period of 1,000 years, reveled in love-making devoted to the worship of the bound foot.

Millions of men, over a period of 1,000 years, worshiped and adored the bound foot.

Millions of mothers, over a period of 1,000 years, brutally crippled and mutilated their daughters for the sake of a secure marriage.

Millions of mothers, over a period of 1,000 years, brutally crippled and mutilated their daughters in the name of beauty.

But this thousand-year period is only the tip of an awesome, fearful iceberg: an extreme and visible expression of romantic attitudes, processes, and values organically rooted in all cultures, then and now. It demonstrates that man's love for woman, his sexual adoration of her, his human definition of her, his delight and pleasure in her, require her negation: physical crippling and psychological lobotomy. That is the very nature of romantic love, which is the love based on polar role definitions, manifest in herstory as well as in fiction—he glories in her agony, he adores her deformity, he annihilates her freedom, he will have her as sex object, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it. Brutality, sadism, and oppression emerge as the substantive core of the romantic ethos. That ethos is the warp and woof of culture as we know it.

-Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

#andrea dworkin #foot binding #female oppression #romantic ethos #male domination #human cruelty

[verdantglow]

Joel SmallishBeans mentions that he looks at fanart on tumblr.

“He’s here!” People scream, “Scatter!”

As everyone runs away, I, unmoving, look him dead in the eye & say,

“Let him watch.”

#okay this is really dramatic but like. #Joel is of the age & personality to 100% understand what he’s getting himself into here #& if he wants to look at all my art of him romantically arranged with Etho #who the fuck am I to stop him??? #also I know I am sooo not the only one doing this #there are at least several handfuls of us who feel no shame associated with Joel witnessing us #doing whatever fan things we happen to be doing #Joel SmallishBeans #SmallishBeans #hermitblr #hermitcraft season 10 #Hermitcraft #verdant rambles

[bakuvex]

The start of an ice track :^)

#hermitcraft fanart #etho fanart #ethoslab fanart #ethoslab #hermitcraft etho #hc etho #renthedog #rendog fanart #hermitcraft rendog #ren fanart #platonic or romantic on your taste

[theminecraftbee]

Etho's head is still strangely fuzzy, filled with something like a combination of cotton and bloodlust and hunger. He's sitting in the middle of their base. Cleo is tearing down the dripstone, complaining the whole time that Etho hadn't even built it right. Grian is fretting over his magma cube, even though his task is done. They both keep checking the door, and also checking on Etho as they wait nervously to find out if the apocalypse that had happened that past session was going to actually wear off now that the task was done.

Etho sits in the middle. The bloodlust and hunger is swirling around, sure, but the thing he feels most is the cotton. The fuzzy not-quite-there feeling. Something fuzzy and strange and slow, like his thoughts are made of syrup and death and safety, and...

And it hits him all at once what has happened, when Cleo puts a hand on his shoulder, tells him that they'll keep him safe until it wears off. The bloodlust and hunger are far away, replaced with that blank sense of safety. He leans into the touch. "Thanks, Cleo. That was all pretty wild, huh?" he says.

He doesn't really hear the responses. He feels Cleo's cold, dead hands, and even though they really shouldn't, they feel soft.

It hits him all at once. He'd say he's not sure how it happened, but he knows. He may have a reputation as cold, a loner, a survivor, but what he really is--everything he loves goes up in smoke, is the thing. Dogwarts, Bdubs, Joel, TIES--all of them, up in smoke around him, flames licking at his feet. It's nice if he can pretend he doesn't care. It's nice to pretend he's cold. That it won't hurt him this time. That he won't watch the smoke and fall apart this time.

Someone who doesn't know him, they might even believe it.

Cleo walks over to say something to Grian and Etho holds them in his vision and--breathes. The cotton isn't wearing off, but looking at them, he doesn't feel hungry at all. And he'd say he doesn't know how it happened, but he does.

It's love, all over again.

He wonders how much it'll hurt this time when it's done, but right now, he feels blessedly safe again. Grian and Cleo get into an argument. He watches the red of Cleo's hair and decides he made an okay choice, this time, for the thing that's going to kill him in the end.

Her hair already looks like fire.

He rubs his head and leans back where he sits. He should keep his mouth shut while he's still half-zombie, so that he doesn't say anything stupid like that out loud. He's pretty sure Cleo wouldn't appreciate it. Or maybe she would. You can never know, with a zombie like that one. That's part of what makes her perfect.

#secret life smp #secret life spoilers #ethoslab #a bee fic #I AM FEELING SOME KIND OF WAY ABOUT THEM OKAY. #you can read this as romantic or as platonically as you'd like btw #i am just. feeling something about cletho #and also about etho who has a REPUTATION for being a cold-blooded survivor but always seems to be attached to SOMETHING he loses #and loses part of himself with.

[kojitheopossum]

they’re soooo normal about each other

#i hope bdubs ass is fat enough o7 #<- insane thing to say #bdubs #etho #secret life #secret life fanart #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #trafficblr #the life series #ethubs #bdouble100 fanart #bdoubleo100 #ethoslab fanart #ethoslab #trafficshipping #hermitshipping #this doesn’t rlly look romantic but that’s the intention #my art

[starcrossedandstupid]

Joel and Etho never got off that boat istg

#joel smallishbeans #ethoslab #smallishbeans #etho #Joel #eefo #boat boys #hermitcraft #hc #hermitblr #hermits #double life #the relation #they are obsessed and refuse to admit it #the characters? #idk what’s goin on there but it’s certainly silly #the ccs/people? #not romantic but they still live rent free in each others heads

[oligarbagerat]

happy pride month to them and them only (when they said they should have matching shirts this is what came to mind btw)

#etho does art #trafficshipping #trafficblr #double life smp spoilers #double life smp #dlsmp #double life spoilers #double life #they are my little weeble wobbles #impdubs #i think #bimpulse #what the fuckis that ship name #impulsesv #bdubs #bdoubleo100 #bdubs and impulse #lots of tags #gay gay homosexual gay #this post is romantic

[bed-of-ashes]

sooo I made a whole post about SL cletho and I've just watched all of Cleo’s LL and I'm having Thoughts so you're all gonna suffer for it

They've got this "you're good with me and I'm good with you" thing going on. Every season as I can recall they're never actively hostile toward each other beyond teasing jokes. They default to allying with each other when their main alliances fall apart, and they both just sorta know they won't be hurt by the other. They never discuss this on camera, but it's always true. Cleos always welcome in the white castle and they go there just to chat with Etho sometimes, she didn't want to let him get boogey'd by Pearl, he helped them on red life.

"I know you enjoy that kinda thing" "what, I enjoy rudeness?" "Don't you?" "I mean, don't *you?*"

Also just him betting on their life is so funny 💀

They are The last nonred alliance in the server, despite not being allies the entire season

He tells them AND other people that he's scared of her. Like?? Etho the minecraft man himself genuinely does not want to get on their bad side, to the extent he makes deals with her that are just "here I'll give you potions if you don't go after me for just this episode"

Etho’s panicked "BACK AWAY EVERYBODY IM DANGEROUS- oh, Cleo. Cleo, come with me." Man calms down IMMEDIATELY realizing it's them.

When they're ghosts, Cleo goes "oh Etho! I didn't see you die!" and he says "I got killed Cleo, I didn't survive :(" stuck out to me for some reason

He is the only one she takes compliments from. They don't even accept compliments from Scott or Pearl, but Etho keeps going "ooh that was good Cleo!" and "nice job with that one Cleo!"

bouncing off that he goes so far out of his way to make Cleo feel like a useful member of the team I'm. crying

"I thought I ran into lava but it was Cleo’s hair" I laughed so hard

Theyre just such good friends, like. In general they're very similar people in that they click really easily, they tend to gravitate toward each other in these Life series because they just generally trust each other. they have such a good foundation that you can put them in any situation and they'll still be rock solid. Cleo & Etho, man.

#trafficblr #life series #traffic smp #life series smp #life smp #zombiecleo #ethoslab #cletho #hermitshipping #i gUess. #i dunno this isnt a shippy post its more a their dynamic in general regardless #like i said last time. romantic familial platonic queerplatonic #all works! could be any! just cleo and etho yknow #they make their own type of relationship #last life #amarambles

[aoneko-lee]

"I want people to tell their children terrifying stories about the things we did for love."

#I don't ship them and never did #But I saw this quote a few days ago and I had to do it #I don't see it as romantic but as a forced alliance that is toxic for both #and maybe I like a little how unhealthy it was #boat boys #smalletho #ethoslab #etho #etho fanart #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans fanart #double life #double life fanart #trafficshipping #traffic smp #my art #artists on tumblr

[silverclaw202]

I was listening to the song and just thinking about these two and I had a vision

Refrence frame below cut

#etho fanart #ethoslab #Etho #bdubs #bdoubleo100 #bdubs fanart #ethubs #hermitshipping #trafficshipping #doesn’t have to be romantic #whatever you prefer #hermitblr #trafficblr #hermitcraft #looser baby #hasbin hotel #maybe? #i’ll tag it anyway #silver arts

[variousqueerthings]

there’s so many ways that queerness exists in texts, unintentionally and intentionally, coded and uncoded and partially coded and baited and confused and limited and expansive, and then there’s whatever is happening with Hawkeye Pierce, M.D. of the 4077th MASH unit

#hawkeye pierce #MASH #there is of course also the constant mist of gender/sexuality queering that hangs over the narrative because of its structure #its structure as comedy (often subject to whimsical departures from acceptable gender/sexualities) #its structure as anti-establishment and anti-conformity #its celebration of non-conformist personalities and lives and its redefinitions over and over of madness and mutual aid #its structure - of course - as found family #its structure as an island in a sea of militant and fascistic surrealism and answering the questions of: #well what does the alternative to that violence look like? #so the idea of intentionality/unintentionality sort of doesn't matter #because it's creating a manifesto/ethos of sorts that speaks the same language as queerness #and it's down to the DNAs of its structures #(not even mentioning the structures of echoing the realities of those making it -- ethnicities - romantic lives - cultures and religions - #friendships and political beliefs - family structures created on the set of the show itself) #but yes hawkeye pierce is depicted as fascinatingly overtly queer and comedy is (like horror... which....) an acceptable space #for him to be this #(which -- when the horror and tragedy takes more of a front seat his funny-man queerness is somewhat diminished #but a. still very much present b. given an air of drama that legitimises it further c. underpinned by seasons and seasons of existence #d. embedded in that self-same DNA of the structures -- he IS the main POV character #which means he's carrying so much of that idea of non-conformity/civilish disobedience as good and right/whimsy/gender-and-sexuality/etc #so you see... there's whatever is happening with hawkeye pierce M.D.

[whalewhalewhale]

Of course Grian just has to talk about how Etho also joined in. "At one point, Etho joins and he was the last one to leave" so does everyone else but his mind is always on Etho. This man will never stop fangirling about him, I see.

#I need to put them in a box together RIGHT THIS INSTANT #man's soo smitten that he just will talk about any crumbs of interaction he has with etho #ethoslab #grian #hermitshipping #because I ship them. they're romantic to me #gritho

[verdantglow]

Okay, but so like.

SmallEtho/Boat Boys except Gem is Etho’s younger sister & helps Joel harass his ex-soulmate.

Just consider the shenanigan potential of Joel & Gem teaming up to mess with Etho.

Is Joel trying to win Etho back or is he trying to ruin Etho’s life? We just don’t know!

But Gem is 100% along for the ride & always ready to offer suggestions for whatever the scheme of the day is.

#could be platonic or romantic #either way #Joel is Very Normal (not at all normal) about Etho #& Gem thinks that is totally hilarious & is so there to add fuel to the fire #smalletho #boat boys #hermitshipping #trafficshipping #gods I wish I still had writing mojo #I would totally fic this #verdant rambles

[wjokeo]

the ethubs brainrot hit again

#i’ll never stop thinking about them #cant believe it’s been 11 months since last life started #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #etho #bdubs #ethubs #<- platonic or romantic idm ^_^ #trafficblr #last life #llsmp #wjokeo art

[setworldspawn]

ETHO & BDUBS, FROM GRIAN’S POV

The thing about Etho—Grian slowly realizes—is that he’s much too complicated to be characterized as a stone cold serious redstoner.

But Grian has known Etho for a while, studied him for a while. He thinks he knew Etho well enough to have him figured out, but that was before he met Bdubs.

“Tall and short” is what most people call them in passing. It references their height; Bdubs stands almost a foot shorter than Etho. Though it’s not the only striking different between them: they’re almost as opposite as day and night.

Bdubs is loud, bubbly, all his emotions are surface level and he’s not afraid of that. He loves a good party, and seems to charm every single person he meets. Etho hides in the corners of these parties, watching from a distance as Bdubs puts on a show.

Day and night, sun and moon.

They’re such opposites that Grian would have depicted them as natural enemies.

But every time Bdubs enters the room there’s an unmistakable glistening of fondness in Etho’s eyes, and he relaxes as if all the weight he’s been carrying has been lifted off his shoulders.

Grian isn’t an idiot. He knows they mean something to each other that could never be described on paper, or even words. Every single defence Etho has built around himself crumbles away so easily when Bdubs is with him.

He’s not a different person, just less stoic. Grian thinks he likes Etho better when Bdubs is around. There’s a different side to him; a vulnerable side, an human side.

Grian had just never imagined that Etho would ever commit to something like that.

But, he is often wrong. With Etho, a lot of people are wrong.

#this is just a fun little thing I wrote for a fic that I never published #ethubs #implied #trafficblr #grian pov #hermitshipping #etho and bdubs #can honestly be platonic or romantic

[chilling-in-the-void-alone]

2021 fanart redraw because I'm still in Last Life hell

(and they get to hold hands this time!)

old 2021 fanart under the cut (I did post it here back in 2021 but I don't want to go find it)

The old art <3

#last life smp #last life fanart #last life smp fanart #trafficshipping #its not really meant to be shipping I've just been desensitized to hand holding being a romantic gesture from holding hands with the bestie #but i'll tag it anyway just in case. you read it however you want though lol #ethubs #ethoslab #bdubs #bdouble0 #ethoslab fanart #etho fanart #bdouble100 fanart #bdubs fanart #my art