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[witchofprose-deactivated2020041]

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[untitled12573]

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

[allekha]

Darlene Parent (née Gilbert) skating in pointe shoe skates. 1950s or 60s? This video gives me several different conflicting thoughts:

“Wow! That’s so pretty! She looks like a ballerina on a music box.” “Those must be so difficult to balance in. How does she skate in them?” “It must take a lot of strength to skate in those for very long.” “Her poor feet!”

It’s hard to find much more information about this video, but apparently the skates were her own invention, and she had an ironsmith make the blades and reinforce the shoes. She practiced ballet for many years and skated with the Ice Theatre of New York; I don’t know if the skates were made for a show or for kicks or what. She later became a skating coach and is apparently still teaching.

[magicmoon65]

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[humansoflatecapitalism]

[actuallyhoratio]

tumblr is god awful because it is full of americans who think their absolute, niche, personal world view is how the world is, completely, with no deviation, and theyre not going to hang back and not tell you, they will, at length, in great detail.

[agnesmontague]

so i just learned that after disney+ debuted disney shut down a huge chunk of its tv channels around the world such as disney channel and disney XD including the ones in south korea, so for old times’ sake i just spent a good hour or so watching channel shutdown compilations and 90% of these worldwide disney channels just…. got absolutely no sendoff whatsoever. many of them got their plug pulled right in the middle of a show without even waiting for the episode to finish airing and there was no ending jingle or even a voiced-over announcement, only a sudden cut to a soulless monotone blank screen with “this channel is no longer available.” like the stuff of childhood nightmares 

you’d think a company with such a family-friendly image would take the time to at least explain briefly to its very young audience that all their fave shows will be moving to another service or something, hell, at least do it for advertisements’ sake so that kids can pester their parents into buying disney+, but disney does not care about you and it does not care about your children and it will absolutely snatch the last shred of comfort from a kid’s hands if it means they don’t have to spend an extra $400 recording an ending announcement in different languages

and honestly i am just sitting here with my heart in my throat like. none of our current art is truly permanent, is it. we like to think that we have better documentation and archiving technology than generations past but all it really takes is for one megacompany to slap some copyright tape over its comic book villain safe and then toss that safe in the ocean for all it’s worth. youtube could potentially choose to do the same and simply wipe its entire site clean overnight. adobe decided to throw flash in the garbage and decades worth of internet content just…. disappeared from reach. i am begging every digital creator out there to backup your content to as many outlets as you possibly can. use different cloud services that aren’t owned by one company. use physical usb drives and hard drives. if programs you used to open your work become obsolete at least document what it was so it can be passed on and remembered by people who want to. jesus christ i need a drink

[actuallyhoratio]

you’re a cool one @agnesmontague! Over 10,000 notes on a post, me with 3 followers and im derailing it? get over yourself. enjoy ranting into the void about your fear of impermanence! 

[agnesmontague]

so i just learned that after disney+ debuted disney shut down a huge chunk of its tv channels around the world such as disney channel and disney XD including the ones in south korea, so for old times’ sake i just spent a good hour or so watching channel shutdown compilations and 90% of these worldwide disney channels just…. got absolutely no sendoff whatsoever. many of them got their plug pulled right in the middle of a show without even waiting for the episode to finish airing and there was no ending jingle or even a voiced-over announcement, only a sudden cut to a soulless monotone blank screen with “this channel is no longer available.” like the stuff of childhood nightmares 

you’d think a company with such a family-friendly image would take the time to at least explain briefly to its very young audience that all their fave shows will be moving to another service or something, hell, at least do it for advertisements’ sake so that kids can pester their parents into buying disney+, but disney does not care about you and it does not care about your children and it will absolutely snatch the last shred of comfort from a kid’s hands if it means they don’t have to spend an extra $400 recording an ending announcement in different languages

and honestly i am just sitting here with my heart in my throat like. none of our current art is truly permanent, is it. we like to think that we have better documentation and archiving technology than generations past but all it really takes is for one megacompany to slap some copyright tape over its comic book villain safe and then toss that safe in the ocean for all it’s worth. youtube could potentially choose to do the same and simply wipe its entire site clean overnight. adobe decided to throw flash in the garbage and decades worth of internet content just…. disappeared from reach. i am begging every digital creator out there to backup your content to as many outlets as you possibly can. use different cloud services that aren’t owned by one company. use physical usb drives and hard drives. if programs you used to open your work become obsolete at least document what it was so it can be passed on and remembered by people who want to. jesus christ i need a drink

[mctreeleth]

Even though 90% of the internet is on like 5 platforms now, if there is a webpage you have bookmarked that you keep going back to, back it up on the Wayback Machine so that we can keep accessing it even if the website shuts down.

Similarly, if you have some old page bookmarked but now it goes nowhere, try popping the URL into the Wayback Machine to see if they have an archive of it.

[actuallyhoratio]

a lot of art isn’t permanent. think of theatre. 

[agnesmontague]

mm yeah theatre scripts are burned after every performance so no copy remains and one production company owns 50% of all scripts which are thrown into a bonfire once every few fiscal years when the company decides it doesn’t want anyone performing those plays ever again

[actuallyhoratio]

@agnesmontague but in the tags you literally said you know the theatre production is part of the unique experience, so you knew what I meant and you got all sarcastic and angry for something you already understood. You seem super chill and cool. Go have that drink now maybe

[agnesmontague]

so i just learned that after disney+ debuted disney shut down a huge chunk of its tv channels around the world such as disney channel and disney XD including the ones in south korea, so for old times’ sake i just spent a good hour or so watching channel shutdown compilations and 90% of these worldwide disney channels just…. got absolutely no sendoff whatsoever. many of them got their plug pulled right in the middle of a show without even waiting for the episode to finish airing and there was no ending jingle or even a voiced-over announcement, only a sudden cut to a soulless monotone blank screen with “this channel is no longer available.” like the stuff of childhood nightmares 

you’d think a company with such a family-friendly image would take the time to at least explain briefly to its very young audience that all their fave shows will be moving to another service or something, hell, at least do it for advertisements’ sake so that kids can pester their parents into buying disney+, but disney does not care about you and it does not care about your children and it will absolutely snatch the last shred of comfort from a kid’s hands if it means they don’t have to spend an extra $400 recording an ending announcement in different languages

and honestly i am just sitting here with my heart in my throat like. none of our current art is truly permanent, is it. we like to think that we have better documentation and archiving technology than generations past but all it really takes is for one megacompany to slap some copyright tape over its comic book villain safe and then toss that safe in the ocean for all it’s worth. youtube could potentially choose to do the same and simply wipe its entire site clean overnight. adobe decided to throw flash in the garbage and decades worth of internet content just…. disappeared from reach. i am begging every digital creator out there to backup your content to as many outlets as you possibly can. use different cloud services that aren’t owned by one company. use physical usb drives and hard drives. if programs you used to open your work become obsolete at least document what it was so it can be passed on and remembered by people who want to. jesus christ i need a drink

[mctreeleth]

Even though 90% of the internet is on like 5 platforms now, if there is a webpage you have bookmarked that you keep going back to, back it up on the Wayback Machine so that we can keep accessing it even if the website shuts down.

Similarly, if you have some old page bookmarked but now it goes nowhere, try popping the URL into the Wayback Machine to see if they have an archive of it.

[actuallyhoratio]

a lot of art isn’t permanent. think of theatre. 

[byjove]

I’ve seen this new trend of girls posting videos like “I hate my boyfriend for bringing all of his stupid boy things into our apartment when we moved in together 🙄” and then pictures of his hot wheels collection or a Halloween skeleton or an extremely cool pirate flag. Give him to me you do not deserve him.

[throwbackjoe]

Buckle up, folks. I’ve got a lot to say on this…

I’m not one of those guys who subscribes to the “Man Cave” idea. That theory that once you’re in a relationship, you’re required to forfeit 99% of your own home and be grateful to have one room in which you can be yourself and have your own possessions on display. I think if you’re in a relationship, you have a right to make your home reflect your personality and interests as much your partner does. I’ve run into a couple of instances where a woman thinking a man has no right to his own possessions has not gone over so well and it was hysterical.

I once knew a guy who worked in the telemarketing department of a company I worked at. One Friday night after work, he told me about how he ended up breaking up with his girlfriend.

This guy was like me, very clean and orderly and liked things a certain way but he wasn’t volatile about it or anything. He and his girlfriend decide to have a weekend sleepover at his house, a trial run in his mind for moving in together. She showed up and the red flags sprang up immediately. “Where’s your bag?” he asks. “For a weekend? I don’t need one.” she says. His mind reels. “So you’re not gonna change clothes…or shower…or brush your teeth…?” “No. Why would I do that in just a couple of days?” He tries to be okay about it but then she starts “cooking” and the kitchen looks like a war zone. Then there’s the fact that her B.O. seems to get stronger by the hour.

The last straw comes towards the end of the weekend when she walks around his place, eyes his Elvis Presley memorabilia collection and says “If I lived here, all this Elvis shit would get set out for trash, I’m not wasting space on all that.” When it finally comes time for her to go back home, she says “This was fun! Can’t wait to do it again.” “Yeah, about that…” and he dumped her in his own driveway.

He said if he had to choose between hygiene and an Elvis collection he’s built for years and her, he’s gonna be happier being single, cleaner and having his collectibles around than he would be with her.

Another instance happened when I had a garage sale and one of the things I was selling was a talking football player action figure from the 90s that someone had bought me under the presumption that because I was boy, I was into sports (I was not). The action figure was brand new in the box because that was how little I cared about playing with it despite my mother’s best attempts. A woman shows up, sees the action figure and loses her shit.

“Oh God, I am so sick of seeing these! My husband has the whole set and all I want to do is throw them in the trash!” A guy at the sale overhears this and says “Well, I’m sure your husband has a list of things that he’d like to get rid of that you’re partial to but he doesn’t say anything because that’s the give and take of being in a relationship” She blows him off and says “I should be the one to decide what goes in the house and what he can buy, THAT is how marriage works for ME.” The guy changes his argument. “Maybe on your husband’s list of shit that needs to go, you should be at the top of the list…” Everyone else at the garage sale (including me) was now watching silently and wondering when the throw down would happen…

“What did you say?”, she asks him a bit taken back. “I said if I was him, I wouldn’t take that shit that somehow being married to you means forfeiture of my belongings and personality and substituting it all for your bullshit. I’d sooner throw you out than my action figures.” After picking her jaw up off my driveway, the woman hurumphs and storms back to her car. I high-five the guy for making an excellent point after she leaves.

I have a lot of collectibles myself and am currently in the creative habit of going through my childhood Power Rangers and Pokémon toys and putting the ones I absolutely want to keep in shadow boxes and hanging them on the wall as conversation pieces and selling the rest.

I have Funko Pops. I have lunchboxes. I have special edition magazines and comic books in floater frames on the wall. I have more books than I have time to count or read. I have tub after tub of Halloween and Christmas decorations because that’s my favorite time of year. I would never throw all of this stuff away because I’ve purged plenty already and kept what I wanted to keep. It’s all a reflection of my personality and my story. If someone came into my life and said our life together would mean giving all of this up and doing what he wanted, I would consider that a toxic situation and I would end it before I got in too deep.

Men, gay or straight, can find themselves in toxic, abusive relationships, this is not a phenomenon only experienced by women. It just seems that way because men, especially straight men, rarely speak up about it and mistakenly settle on what they assume is some unchangable default result of being in a relationship. It’s not.

I would never move in with someone and tell them to throw everything out that has been a part of them or spoken to who they are in order to make room for me. I am all about organizing and making a space feel cozy, functional and fun and would go out of my way to make sure we both had space for our things and our personalities and stories. One does not have to overshadow or overpower the other in order to make a relationship between two people work.

So, the next time someone says “It’s me or the Star Wars action figures on that one shelf that aren’t bothering anyone but I hate that that shelf isn’t all about me anyway” say “May The Force not hit you in the ass on the way out” as you show them the door.

[rudjedet]

My dad broke up with the girlfriend he had when he was 20ish because she said "the motorcycle goes or I go". And not because she genuinely didn't like motorcycles, no! Because a friend of hers told her bf to get rid of the bike or lose her, and that guy choose the girl. Dad's ex saw it as a power play she could pull on my dad as well. He turned her out on the spot.

[digdeepergravedigger09]

I used to think guys just didn’t have any interests?? Or hobbies?? Because of all those images of homes where the wife designs everything and there’s basically no touch of the husband there anywhere, and how it was implied that that’s “normal”.

[cookingwithroxy]

I just reblogged this but then I thought and I just have to make this addition?

Yeah, that last comment, that's how fucked up our society has gotten, because men have to conceal or hide or at best get ONE room to put their stuff in, and even then it's treated as terrible and regressive and should not be allowed. The 'Man Cave' aka the one space in a person's house where they're allowed to express themselves and their hobbies and it's treated as a terrible thing because he's 'excluding' his wife from it, while the things that are in there are NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE ELSE.

We have allowed people to brainwash us into two dumb ideas, one that men are expected to give up everything that they love for their significant others, and the second that it's a burden on women that they have to determine how everything is in the household. Because that is also how it is in so many cases.

[skepticsub]

Felt this meme would be important here.

[ranpoismyblorbo]

The meme is perfect here and this thread as a whole makes me realise how screwed up society is and also how happy I am to not be living in such a household

[actuallyhoratio]

okay, but just think for a minute: Any of these ‘homes’ where the women ‘control the decor’ - are there any actual signifiers of the woman’s interests or are the homes just suitable for public consumption?

[sawasawako-archived]

people really just read books like “no thoughts head empty 🤪”

[sawasawako-archived]

between white women on tiktok saying they only read books for the romance and people on tumblr forcibly applying ao3 tropes to narratives i’m beginning to think maybe you all should’ve paid more attention in 10th grade english class

[bernard-black-books]

I was talking to this girl on hinge and we got onto the topic of books (i work in a bookshop), and she asked me if i had any favourite tropes to read? And for the life of me i couldn't figure out how to respond? Like Ms, i dont read fanfic, i dont understand what youre asking. I dont think 'tropes' can be used interchangeably with 'genre'. We dont have a section at work for shit like 'enemies to lovers' im sorry thats not how real literature works

[werewolfmack]

I thought this post was gonna go somewhere relevant and interesting for a full second, but I guess not. Tropes are older than dirt. The idea of a trope has existed as long as humans have been making things, and it’s not empty-brained to ask what tropes someone might enjoy reading. For example, someone could answer: haunted houses. rivalries that span decades. tales of revenge. generational family dramas. coming of age stories. stuck in a snowstorm with a killer. The word trope is just a way people currently talk and think about concepts in literature that we’ve been thinking and talking about for ever. It just adds a layer of specificity. If you can’t comprehend someone asking you what tropes you like to read, you might not totally understand what a trope is, and that doesn’t make the other person dumb.

What I was hoping this post might touch on is how people cling to book reading as a hobby that will make them automatically smarter or more superior than those who aren’t, no matter how little mental engagement they actually put into reading. There are people who shit on novels like Things Fall Apart, The Jungle, and Invisible Man for not being “entertaining enough.” There are people who base their entire personality on being an avid reader who chose to never think critically or challenge themselves. There are people who think reading makes you more empathetic by default, when in reality anyone, even terrible people, can project themselves onto the hero if they can’t think critically about their own life and choices.

People can just be into romances, that isn’t inherently stupid. Nor are knowing what tropes they enjoy. That’s just how some people engage with books, and we shouldn’t be looking down at people for that. I have way more issue with the white goodreads users who rate Things Fall Apart as two stars and start their review “I guess I’m racist for not liking this.” I too am annoyed at the failure of public education, and I too was flabbergasted when someone on reddit asked “what’s the point of comparing two very different books to each other” when I pointed out that American Psycho kinda has Lovecraftian themes. But you’re falling off the mark here, to go on about how you hate tropes because they can also be applied to fanfiction tags. 🙄 This attitude is how people start calling themselves sapiosexual.

[headspace-hotel]

“That’s not how real literature works”

If you think “real literature” doesn’t “work” that way, you’re not thinking substantially about literature, neither in individual instances nor in the broader scheme.

What do you think a tragic hero is? What do you think a quest narrative is? How do you think we can conceive of Seven Basic Plots? What do you think Comedy and Tragedy are? Do you think the Aeneid popped out of nowhere without referencing any of the patterns of Greek epics that made it compelling to its audience? Do you think Shakespeare was popular because his plays were “original” ideas with storylines that would have been surprising to his audience? Do you think fairy tales sprung out of the air as discrete individual units? Do you think no one has ever written anything that follows the patterns of Greek epics, Shakespeare, or fairy tales intentionally? Do you think “literature” contains no works that intentionally evoke an existing pattern in their plots and characters?

“Genre” as bookshops use it is not somehow superior to “tropes.” Fantasy, Westerns, Paranormal Romances, those categories are like, less than one or two centuries old and also damn near useless for anything except marketing. Genre is a hot fucking mess and pretty artificial. Tropes on the other hand? Those have always existed. They are, quite literally, inherent and natural parts of stories.

What “genre” is the Epic of Gilgamesh? What “genre” is the Odyssey? Fantasy? Do you think it is in any way appropriate to “genre” these stories using categories that would have been nonsense to their ancient audiences? What the fuck is fantasy?

Over and over again, we have told stories about heroes destroyed by their hubris, about mortals struggling against the inevitability of death, about the antics of trickster deities, about clever young boys outwitting giants and other malicious characters, about young girls swept into royalty, about brothers in conflict with one another, and the ability to identify these patterns and explore why they have persisted is…basically what literary and folklore studies is.

Just because you consider fanfic or romance to be “lesser” doesn’t mean they can’t be analyzed, or that the mechanical components of those things don’t exist in Real Literature. 10th grade English class clearly didn’t do any good for the people that did pay attention, if people are growing up thinking tropes were invented on fanfiction websites.

And it’s just a depressing point of view to be so preoccupied with how people “should” tell stories that how people do tell stories is not even interesting.

[xiaq]

All of the above is A+ but I'll add one more thing: do you know what I just finished filling out for my publisher? Of the book that will be in bookstores next year? Paperwork listing the genre and...the tropes. For marketing and sales purposes. This is standard procedure. It's how my book will be marketed online upon release. It's how my book will end up on suggested title lists. It's how Amazon's algorithm knows that such-and-such book is the bestseller in two niche categories and 20th in a broader category as well as 56th overall in YA titles. So aside from the fact that "tropes" have existed far longer than "genre" as folks have stated above, the people/companies who make "real literature" right now literally require authors to provide lists of tropes included in the novel at the front end of the publishing process.

So if you're working in a book store and don't think tropes exist outside of fic, that's a self-own so devastating I'm getting secondhand embarrassment right now.

[actuallyhoratio]

yeah but the point is maybe, if you’re an adult, and are talking to someone about books in a bookshop just use the word genre instead of trope?

[tox-supremacy-deactivated202211]

You don’t hear it a lot: but England is a terrifying place to live. And I know reading that single line will have some people snickering as if what I said isn’t true. Maybe we aren’t as bad as some places: that much is true. We don’t have gun crime, racism isn’t as much as heard of (though it definitely exists in a stupid amount). But that’s also because you lot don’t hear about it: you don’t hear it unless you’re in the country or from the country and keeping up with everything.

As a non-binary trans masc person, it’s terrifying to even step out of the house and I’m not even publicly out yet. The amount of trans and homophobia around England is insane and terrifying: it’s to the point where everyday I’m reading the news and another LGBTQ-related attack is somewhere on the front page. Another transgender person has been murdered in cold blood or another lesbian couple has been beaten up on the tube in London. As someone who has been constantly penalised and put down for trying to be who I am, as well as outted against my will, it’s scary to read these things everyday. It was heart breaking to watch GMB every morning and see Piers Morgan invalidating my gender through an argument with someone who was trying his best to defend me. It was cringe-worthy hearing the comments coming from my own “friend”‘s mouth when I tried to come out.

JKR was a perfect example of just the power of the hate in this country: her voice - and her supporters voices - were so loud that they got the government to backtrack on their plans to allow me to change my legal gender easier. Because it invalidated sexual assault survivors and their hardships. I was sexually assaulted when I was 8: and again when I was 11. Believe me when I tell you, letting a transgender woman use the fucking woman’s bathroom is NOT invalidating your assault. That sounds like a you problem, not theirs.

The government is actively enabling the persistent LGBTQ hate in this country. In the last four months there have been several online petitions which they have HAD to look at due to 100k+ signatures. Each time their only was response was “No, we support you, but no. Too much work.” If you refuse to recognise me as existing- to recognise that I am a law abiding person who deserves to be able to legally be me- then you are not supporting me.

The NHS has a wait time of anywhere from two years to ten years for gender clinic appointments: just to get put on hormone medication, you could be waiting up to 7 years for one appointment. Unless you go private that is. Not only is private extremely expensive, but the NHS practitioners have every right to DENY your referral / diagnosis because it wasn’t done by an NHS professional. So even if you do go private, there’s no guarantee. A lot of transgender people are resorting to illegally obtaining hormone drugs from dealers. We’re that desperate.

It’s gotten so bad that OTHER COUNTRIES are acknowledging that it’s unsafe to live here. Two years ago a British transgender women sook asylum in New Zealand based purely off of her gender identity and WAS SUCCESSFUL. Portugal also accepts asylum seekers based off of gender identity. That is how bad it is here. Transgender people are dying everyday. This is how bad it is.

There’s so much more I can rant about but it’s 7am and I haven’t slept. I’m tired. But I just spent three hours crying over this shirt and how not only me but hundreds of thousands of other Transgender people in England have it bad; and there’s no one here to help us.

[strigla-deactivated20210906]

boosting the fuck out of this tbh

[actuallyhoratio]

this is true ... and also, sometimes weirdly not true. I work in a poverty stricken area. most of the parents of the kids I teach visit foodbanks regularly. we have our own foodbank for them. 99%of these parents are white and probably voted for brexit. our kids are, to be blunt, not kind and have other things to worry about than being kind. they’re angry all the time. we have 4 transgender students. i run our LGBTQIA+ youth group. i had to explain to them the fear that some people have. they have not experienced bullying or harassment in our community.

[irl-magicalgirl]

KING SHIT

[throesofincreasingwonder]

[ID: a headline reading "Sir Ian McKellen insists Hamlet is bisexual as he returns to play the young prince again at the age of 82 in age-blind version of the Shakespeare play". Below it are two pictures of Ian McKellen as Hamlet- one of him in this new production, sitting and holding a cup of tea, and one of him as a young man, wearing a fringe jacket. The second photo is in black and white. /End ID.]

[actuallyhoratio]

age blind?! as if old men aren’t shoe-horned into everything. 

[assignedmale]

[actuallyhoratio]

or to teach students to revise?? for exams???? that they will have whatever they do in life???? When people make these posts have they actually been inside a modern, good school. 

[cisarovna]

[archaeo-geek]

I’ve read that Agatha said she loved being married to an archaeologist because the older she got, the more interesting he found her. And I think that is one of the best quotes about love that I have ever heard.

[actuallyhoratio]

ya know she was a massive snob and a racist, right?

[bookmqrk]

do you still say reading is one of your favorite activities/hobbies even though you haven’t actually read in months but you used to read like a book a day when you were younger so much so that it became a personality trait and now you for some reason cannot for the life of you make yourself read but you’re still emotionally attached to that part of you and hope by speaking it into existence you’ll someday rediscover that happy version of yourself or are you normal?

[actuallyhoratio]

im an english teacher

[blackrebelz-deactivated20240608]

Male Cleanliness, An Ongoing Thread

Its been about 7-8 times seeing the post about men who don’t wash properly for reasons that don’t make sense…. and although funny, it’s also gross and sad because I know there are black men out here who just are missing the cleanliness mark. This is a patriarchy issue… so all races are affected in large numbers I’m sure but I offer this as a public service post for any black man who might need it + black men who pride themselves on taking good care of their hair, skin, nails pls add on to this post @ will.

  The Importance Of Daily Washing/Showering

Bacteria collects on the skin. Dead skin cells also accumulate and contribute to body odor, as well as acne and other potential hygiene problems (ringworm, athletes foot, etc. ) 

Soaps I highly recommend:

ALAFFIA AUTHENTIC  AFRICAN BLACK SOAP-EUCALYPTUS TEA TREE 

you can get bottles of this for 7$-8 @ target and other places and they last a long time. The bar version can be found for 3.99 I highly recommend the tea tree oil infused one because tea tree oil is antimicrobial.

Yardley Oatmeal and Almond Bar Soap

This soap can be purchased cheaply at most dollar stores but it is quite good and removes dirt better than a good number of brands…  all the different scents are good, oatmeal has soothing properties, which is something to keep in mind for people with eczema or sensitive skin.

Aveeno Moisturizing Bar

Similar to above, maybe a better quality of  ingredients… can be found for $2-3 or a little more depending on where u shop

 Dove Soap

Do not sleep on dove soap. Its better than whatever ‘manly’ soap you are currently using. Period

Lava Soap

  Imma b real with ya’ll I’ve never used this one but I see it in hardware stores and I know its some males who won’t use half the ones I suggested because you see them as too ‘feminine’ and such… Red packaging = manly so you’re welcome.

      Soap, Lather & Scrubbing…

You need a soap that's going to lather well, that is going to really move dirt and one that leaves a pleasant scent. Most male soap washes ( Axe, Zest, Lever, Old Spice…. all that shit really) smells like someone threw a bottle of cologne on a moose. These companies assume you don’t really clean and just pile on the fragrance. Do yourself a favor and learn how to really wash.

That’s why besides Alaffia, I recommend you force yourself to use a bar of soap for at least a month… no bodywash shower gels!!! Unlearn bad habits. 

Tools besides soap that reaaaally matter:

Pumice Stone + Brush

If you stepping into a shower and not using one of these on your feet then fam you are not clean. Waaaaay too many men do not even know what a pumice stone is. Google it. watch a youtube tutorial on it.

Silicone Face Scrub

I went into detail about soaps but you need a separate soap for your face. Something that cleans deep and has an active ingredient to counteract gunk that gets in your pores and causes acne. The reason I’m not giving examples is everyone’s skin on they face is soo different you can only get the right one by trying face washes and sticking to the one that doesn’t irritate your skin.

Washcloth (Glove Shown Cuz I Don’t Trust Ya’ll)

Showering without a washcloth is anti-black. You need one. Lather heavy with soap and scrub. You repeat this on all surface areas until the cloth has no film or dirt from your skin. Seriously. The glove I think is good for guys because you just put it on and focus on getting really clean.

Back Scrubber^^ 

There are different kinds but I recommend the loofah sponge. Same rules as the washcloth and this time the focus is on your back.

Nail Clipper/ Cleaner

Should be self-explanatory. Every few days check to see if you have nails that need to be clipped. keep dirt from under your fingernails.

Washing Genitals + Soap and Water Featuring Your Own Ass

The washcloth rules of lather+ scrub until there is no remaining residue is particularly important when it comes to your genital area. You have to get this right. Tie your self-esteem to it. Aaaaand You cannot be a grown man and think that respect can ever be attained by you in this world if applying the soap +water + washcloth principle to your own ass is something you refuse to do.

A lot of dudes refuse to take baths because its ‘not manly’ but I promise you, applying what I’ve said earlier while in a bathful of water you may come to realize that you been playing yourself this whole time. The tub will probably be dirty af if you’ve never approached washing this seriously before.

Finetuning

Take the washcloth to your ears. Same Rules As Above

Take Your Jewelry Out And Scrub Those Areas Too

If you are particularly hairy… body hair wise… consider if that fact is contributing to body odor… if it is… Real talk. U need to cut it. Thats all imma say on that.

Bathe/ Shower Twice a Day At Least From Now On. Your Shower Should Last @ LEAST 15-20Mins Bruhhhh < < you should be reading that and saying ‘bet, 30mins.’ Not ‘bet, 8mins.’

Cologne is grown. Get one that ain’t stank. Until you learn the difference get 

(A Pro-tip Best Believe It) ^^^^

Find A Quality Shampoo For Black Hair. I know a bunch buuut…

This about the limit of how much game I’m finna give away for free to ya’ll niggas. Anyway you’re welcome😂😂😂😂😂😂

[frantastique]

There are these things called Salux Japanese exfoliating towels. They are cheap, durable, easy to purchase (They have their own site or you can find on amazon). I like to cut them in half to get more use but if you are big, they are long so you can get to all of your parts. Also after you follow all this lovely advice, PLEASE don’t forget to moisturize. Don’t negate your hygiene efforts by being hella ashy.

[blackrebelz-deactivated20240608]

👏👏👏👏👏👏 ^^^ Thats a great tip. See black women always going above and beyond 😉 😊

A lot of dudes I know use palmer’s cocoa butter for lotion but I recommend 

^^ oils that can be ingested are often safest for the skin. I forgot most dudes don’t know about that.

  Yeah after you get out the shower you want to hold that moisture in guys. ++ I wouldn’t use coconut oil on the face because it can have a clogging effect on pores. 

[facelesskinkyblackguyblog]

I use raw almond oil instead of coconut oil tho. It’s really helped my skin stay alot more smoother and moisturized because I really don’t like the smell of coconut oil lol

[gregwuzhere]

Just wanna say you a tough dude if you can use Lava soap on your body, the stuff is abrasive as hell. It’s primarily for greasy, dirty hands, we used a liquid version of it at this auto shop I used to work at.

[oxfordsandafros]

Hemp seed oil is a great moisturizer as well

[johncollege]

Fo stank booty niggas

[allegoryblack]

This should not be a real post. Sharing to save a life. SUPER PRO TIP. Brush your teeth at least twice a day for ~2 minutes each time (tongue to). If you smoke tobacco or otherwise go a couple more times. Try oil pulling for Halitosis. (Google it, You’re welcome)

[goldnpoc]

Also oil is not for everyone! 🗣

I repeat OIL IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. Especially, COCONUT OIL. I know the black community raves about that stuff, but there’s been several cases (me included) having a reaction to coconut oil rather it was a allergic reaction or just that your skin is sensitive and does not like coconut oil. Coconut oil has something in it, I can’t remember which makes some people scratchy, dry their skin up more, cause hives. So try different oils like stated like olive oil, jojoba oil, etc for skin. Also make sure your skin actually liked oil. Some people get drier using oil ironically.

But if you lazy and don’t feel like trying to find the right oil for you just use a butter like:

shea and cocoa are really good for the skin.

[blackrebelz-deactivated20240608]

A great addition ^

[actuallyhoratio]

dnt shame people - body hair does not contribute to body odour. it is there to help us stay clean.