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my favorite thing about this is that each of them is walking in a different direction, it’s like these girls are off to conquer the entire goddamn world
They’re gonna meet in the middle
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Near where I live, there is a fairy penguin settlement; and people send in knitted jumpers for the rehabilitated ones to keep warm.
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The gay desire for muscle gods came out of the AIDS epidemic as a shallow means to determine who was healthy and who was not.
Please elaborate!
When AIDS allowed for opportunistic infections to occur, many PWAs (people with AIDS) would find it near impossible to keep weight on, often resigned to wasting disease and constant gut infections. This combined with AZT’s propensity to induce a lack of appetite during its height meant many people with AIDS were unable to lead a healthy life, especially in regards to muscle mass.
As a way to counteract the “image of AIDS,” gay men in the 80s and 90s (continuing into the 2000s, etc) became infatuated with body builder physique as a means to determine immediate who was sick and who wasn’t. While muscle-bound physique tends to be the preferred norm in today’s society as a whole, the role it became as the “gay image” would not be so dramatic if not for the AIDS epidemic.
This is true and I don’t think many realize how true it is. An artist by the name of David Goldstein had most of his friends pass away during the height of the epidemic in San Francisco. Many of his friends and the men around him subscribed to this subconscious belief/paranoia of the day regarding “appearing” healthy. He later created a series of works of art, The Icarian Series centered on the leather from workout benches in an SF gym that many gay men frequented during the time. It’s stained with hours of sweat.
This is a good write up about the series/David.
Goldstein collected his skins from the Muscle System, a San Francisco gym located in the predominantly gay Castro district, the epicenter of the American AIDS epidemic during the eighties. Each piece in the series is named after the machine from which its skin comes–Incline, Hack Squat, Bench. Until recently, the goal of exercises performed on these machines was the creation of the attractive and healthy body. But AIDS has severed the link between these twin concepts.
For the HIV-infected the goal is likely to be the creation and maintenance of the attractive, healthy-Iooking body as a signifier of normality in the face of a frighteningly abnormal condition. Goldstein alludes to these oppositions in his series title: Icarian is the name of the work-out machine manufacturer whose benches he’s skinned, but it also refers to the mythological youth who briefly soared, and then fell.
A picture of one of the pieces. It’s eerie.
I’m interested in this theory
reblogging again for the added commentary
This is true, but as always no single explanation is alone sufficient. I feel it’s important to remember muscle fetishism long predates the catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic. Think the physique pictorial magazines of the 1950s and 60s - bodybuilding / interest in ‘health’ was the veil of respectability homoerotic desire wore in American culture at that time.
Indeed - HIV/AIDS and the bodybuilder aesthetic were closely tied together in the late 80s and 90s, not least because many doctors in gay urban centres began to prescribe steroids to their patients, both HIV- and HIV+, to help them bulk up and build muscle mass while they were healthy and/or negative, so that any muscle-wasting that may happen at some point due to seroconversion would start from a place of signifcantly increased muscle mass.
Moreover, many HIV+ men who had prescriptions for steroids and who were no longer able to work would sell their roids on the black market to other gay men as a source of income. So there was suddenly much more supply in the market.
But as deadlifts-and-derrida notes, no single explanation alone is sufficient. And these things never ramify in only one direction. As someone who came out in the early 90s and lived through the period pre-cocktail, one of the other signs of an HIV- status that circulated was bodyfat – since many HIV drugs caused fat loss, particularly on the legs and other areas. And so men who were extremely lean were often assumed to be HIV+ and men who were pudgy or chunky were assumed to be not — despite the fact that it was never that simple, of course.
I have long wondered if that fact was one of the (many) factors that contributed to the rise of the Bear movement… In addition to it being a reaction against twink/muscle culture…
Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.
There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !
Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:
exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!
SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!
It’s too beautiful. I could cry.
I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!
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Beauty and the Beast but they’re lesbians
And the Beast is still this 8 foot tall hulking monster with horns and massive claws and fangs and when she turns back into human she’s still buff as shit and her girlfriend is small and they open a library together also the candle and the clock are gay
This is what people mean when they talk about the “gay agenda” if you want a story about gay people make your own don’t steal someone elses idea
Alright, listen up you sorry excuse for a burnt crepe
The animated version of Beauty and the Beast is dedicated “To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful.”
Why?
Because the lyricist for the movie was Howard Ashman, a gay man who died of AIDS, only a few months before the release of the movie.
The version of the story you love has always had queerness in it.
It’s a story written by a gay man dying of AIDS, of someone who was cursed, whose time was running out and their death was coming, and the world wanted to hasten it along instead of helping, instead of loving him and understanding that he was never truly a monster.
It’s never belonged to you, not all the way. The soul of the Beast is queer.
“Oh, but the original version of the fairy-tale”
Fine, fuck you.
Gay version of the Little Mermaid, then.
You know, the one which was written by Hans Christian Andersen, a gay man who watched the love of his life marry a woman.
The original version story ends in tragedy, but with the idea that while the mermaid could not be with the man she loved, she does eventually gain a soul and find peace, when he was a gay man in a time when that felt denied to him.
Disney changed the ending of the Little Mermaid, the lyrics of which were also written by Howard Ashman, and gave her a true happy ending.
Now, let’s honour the inherent queerness of the story and acknowledge that we are in a time when gay people can be happy, they can be with the ones who we love, and make that the story.
Damn right that’s part of gay agenda. Gays in space. Gay mermaids. Gay Beasts. Gays goddamn everywhere there’s a good story, because it’s about damn time.
Watch as we take over every story that you thought belonged to you and make them delightfully, blatantly, queer, just to fuck with you, specifically.
Happily ever after.
Also:
Fairy tales and Shakespeare cannot be stolen. (An argument can be made, given the way Shakespeare magpied his way through folklore, given the way his narratives have slithered into Western consciousness, that at this point, they’re the same thing.) They are works transformed by the telling.
Would you tell Disney they stole all their stories? How about Robin McKinley? Stephen Sondheim? Me? All the people who work in fairy tales, who use them as building blocks, as common ground to set a stage, we’re not stealing, we’re continuing a grand and human tradition.
This isn’t “the gay agenda.” If anything, this is “the straight agenda.” Laying claim to a thing that human nature itself says has to change and shift and flux and grow to survive, and saying “oh, no, if you change this one thing, this load-bearing thing, the story is destroyed.”
Fuck that. Ain’t nobody strong enough to kill these stories.
The straight agenda: aggressively make everything straight and then accuse everyone else of being the ones with an agenda
I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.
I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isn’t a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses
He punched the wolf out of the wolf man omg im dying
!!!!!!!!PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD THIS!!!!!!
Gay men in Russia are being rounded up and put into concentration camps. I’m so beyond upset and I’m asking you to help spread this information in hopes that it will bring this disgustingly horrible situation more media attention and put additional pressure on Russia to investigate these camps and shut them down.
There is a petition to stop the persecution here and the Russian LGBT Network has a donation page here (it looks pretty legit to me and is associated with a Facebook page with 12,000+ followers, but if anyone can find more information confirming the validity of it that would be beyond appreciated.)
These men are all the way across the world but they’re part of my community and they need our help. They don’t have the same luxuries (basic human rights) that we do and they are in desperate need for us to help speak up for them.
You can read the full article here or google the topic for more information. Please.
This doesn’t have nearly enough notes, PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS OF THIS
I included the petition as a means to help draw attention to the matter with quantitative results, but I realize that sending messages directly to your government representatives is probably a more effective way to gain legitimate results.
I’ve drafted this email which you can copy and paste and send to your government representatives. You can find out who your representatives are and their contact info at commoncause.org (that link will take you right to the search page)
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all
Thank you, Ewan McGregor!
Pay attention though because this is important, this reaction. People like Piers do it all the time.
He’s low-key claiming that his right to freedom of speech is being attacked. It’s one of the most popular strawman arguments to throw out in this modern reality.
Did Ewan McGregor once say that Piers isn’t allowed his opinion? No. did he say he SHOULDN’T be allowed his opinion? No. He said he didn’t want to talk to him. That is not stopping someone from having an opinion in any way.
But, “they want to take my right to speak freely,” is WWAAAAAYYYYYY easier to fight against then, “no one wants to talk to me because I’m a repugnant human being.”
Trying to claim “censorship” when people criticize your opinions or don’t want to talk to you is a CLASSIC technique. Don’t fall for it.
Have always loved Ewan MacGregor.
Also? “You’re just an actor.” The fuck. As if actors don’t hold some of the most influence and have to be aware of what they’re supporting and promoting. What a fucking prick.
