The Tower

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

side by side these look so nice together what da freak!

I think the weirdest form of fatphobia I keep bumping into is writers suddenly becoming deeply concerned with physical realism when a fat character is involved even in contexts where everybody's physical capabilities are explicitly bullshit. "They're fat, it wouldn't make sense for them to have super speed" and it would make sense for the 98-pound twink to be able to run at Mach Fuck? That's something skinny people can do in real life, is it?

Bringing you guys a lil sneak peek of my entry for the @melmedardazine was so happy to be invited to participate.

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ごちそうさま

its gonna be ok you dumb piece of shit

"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably

not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs

Some angel doodles to fight off art block

possessed by a racecar(tragic)

"ARNGHERRANHGERGNAHGHGERNAGH"

Baby

Killing you killing you killing you

Stop Using Effeminacy As Visual Shorthand For Decadence And Moral Decay 2025

Want to write a story about some perfumed eunuch who's actually really clever and solves crimes or something.

Listen, all of you people mentioning Hercule Poirot or Sherlock or the guy from London Spy: let me introduce you to what I'm calling "the Caracalla Threshold" after the depiction of the Roman Emperor Caracalla in the film Gladiator 2:

If he's not at least THIS effeminate, I don't want to hear about it.

This feels like a parallel to the post about how female protagonists are too masculine and we need more feminine women protagonists "to show girls that it's okay to be feminine"... and then the examples of "masculine women protagonists" were Black Widow, Rey, and Captain Marvel.

Why. Why are we doing this. Why is the bar for "gender nonconformity" on the floor.

Hercule Poirot is not an effeminate man. He is a conventionally masculine, gender-conforming man who is snobbish. Black Widow is not a masculine woman. She is a conventionally feminine, gender-conforming woman who fights. Stop this. Stop this. Stop this. Meet some actual feminine men and some actual masculine women and reset your baseline.

Commentary by my partner: "An interesting parallel here is 'a woman is masculine if she has a skill I associate with men' vs. 'a man is feminine if he has a negative personality trait I associate with women.'"

Completely bewildering to me that *Caracalla* of all emperors was chosen to be depicted this way.

Like.

Caracalla.

Whose portraiture and presentation is aggressively masculine and soldierly. Who is one of the most recognizable emperors in sculpture because of the grumpy-ass scowl that he always has making an X clear across his face.

Like there's NO reason to make this fucking guy

look fucking femmed up unless you want to use effeminancy as a visual shorthand (and excuse? I haven't seen the movie) for his tyrannical cruelty. But he was extremely masculine, it was his whole THING. If anything, they should have gone in the opposite direction, a commentary on the excesses of masculinity, if they were going to bring gender presentation into at all.

But I suppose that wouldn't serve in a movie that I have to assume was glorifying masculinity.

Yeah, Gladiator 2 was so committed to equating manliness with virtue that it literally flipped history on its head and argues that the problem with third-century Rome was that actually there weren't enough ambitious generals declaring themselves Emperor.