24 going on 42

personal side blog/trans male (he/him)/INFP I follow back from @straight-into-the-animus!

[62-cents]

Okay I know we as transmascs have Marty McFly and Luke Skywalker for idols but consider:

d'Artagnan from The Three Musketeers

EVIDENCE:

Short king (five foot)

Ready to fistfight God

Literally three minutes in Paris and he takes offense at everyone

Has to learn to get his thoughts and brashness at his percieved 'lack of masculinity' under control

Immediately finds a group of like minded people and joins up w them (like that queer commune we all join up with)

Immediately links up and pays attention to the oldest and most mature seeming man for a role model (ie Athos)

Vague homo-eroticism no matter what he's doing

Drinks respect women juice

Dramatic as fuck

Need I say more.

[bloodydeanwinchester]

random spn episodes: 9/327 ⤏ 14x04 mint condition

[ofbuckkeep]

SUPERNATURAL - S4E01 Lazarus Rising (this is not a supernatural blog but i am rewatching season four...)

[ofbuckkeep]

SUPERNATURAL - S4E01 Lazarus Rising (this is not a supernatural blog but i am rewatching season four...)

[sky-is-the-limit]

“People say you don't know what you've got until it's gone... truth is, you knew what you had, you just thought you'd never lose it.” -Nitya Prakash

[inacatastrophicmind]

[sky-is-the-limit]

[valend]

Bob Dylan moodboard for his birthday etc etc

[soldierboys]

THE BOYS 5.05 One-Shots

[lost-shoe]

The Boys - The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies (3.05)

[kamillahn]

Chace Crawford as The Deep in The Boys (4.03)

[artpepkin]

New fixation reveal in the big '26. Sorry everypony in advance 🫶

[crosnt]

bad image quality sorry but this scene literally looks like this

[forelxsket]

The poet is a king, the king is a soldier and the soldier is a poet.

Dean Winchester you always deserved to be the one to make it out.

[angeltiddies]

remember when dean's little heart was failing and he was walking around half smiling wearing a little grey hoodie with bags under his eyes and he had lost all hope and his dad didn't even come check on him and he

[angeltiddies]

WAGGHHHHH @castiellesbian

[cinematicnomad]

SUPERNATURAL ✧ 1.12 FAITH

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[sydney-y2k]

Prevsie I'm not gonna lie you might actually have a point with this. Give yourself some credit!

[devonia]

The premise of the post is flawed. Not only is it very difficult to prove such a statement, but what evidence there is suggests the OP is completely wrong.

Olderthannetfic and friends did some stat exploring and, yeah, no. If anything it looks like fics with graphic depictions of violence are taking up a higher proportion of fics than they used to.

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💬 35  🔁 72  ❤️ 167 · It really is the Gilmore Girls resurgence thing: people want to live in a walkable town with cute third spaces and a re

There is a real trend towards fascist garbage in culture generally, but there isn't really any evidence for the claim made by op.

[polysucks]

sorry to call you out but i think your tags are too important not to be seen as well

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

[headspace-hotel]

Saw this post and I had to go in the notes to see if anybody actually investigated.

what y'all are talking about in regards to pastoralism and coffee shop AUs is like. The broad concept of romanticizing things or of presenting an idealized version of them.

And like, yeah, fascists definitely romanticize some things, but when talking about fascism we gotta delve a little deeper than "this thing has a similar 'feeling' to this other thing, so therefore they must have similar underlying ideologies."

But more to the point, I don't know that there is a shift toward fluffy or escapist stories.

[naryrising]

And without knowing the context of who wrote or who is reading that coffee shop AU, you can't say why they enjoy it or what they're getting out of it. Do you not think there might be a slight difference between a retail worker writing a fic where their own job or a very similar job is actually fun and rewarding and leads to love, and a lawyer or doctor writing that fic, and an independently wealthy person who has never actually worked a day in their life writing that fic? Do you think it might actually make a difference what any of those people is looking for in their preferred form of escapism?

In summary:

1. No actual evidence of an increase in this type of fic or of a change in its level of popularity.

2. No information about who are the primary audience or producers for this type of fic, or what they themselves think about it.

3. Sweeping conclusions based on vibes and "this thing reminds me of another thing" rather than actually any kind of evidence.

Do the work if you want to make the claim.

[theashesofthefirststar]

This post does a great job of explaining why the whole cozy game/fic = fascism feels so reductive. It also assumes that people engage with 1 type of media only. A person enjoying escapism doesn’t mean they don’t engage with other types of stories for different reasons.