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All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

renthony

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

renthony

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

renthony

To the people who bring up Sans Undertale as an example of a Tumblr Sexyman who isn't skinny:

Sans has no canon human skintone to my knowledge. He is a skeleton and does not have skin. But the Undertale fandom is famous for its long list of detailed AUs and character reinterpretations. So...when was the last time you saw a Black depiction of Sans? Sans may be short and squat, and therefore not the tall and skinny sexyman archetype, but when the fandom reinterprets him as a living human man instead of a skeleton, is he commonly depicted as a man of color? Or is he typically a white man? Do you think Sans would have reached the same popularity if he was canonically a Black character?

"Tumblr sexyman," when I first saw the term rise in popularity over a decade ago, was very specifically a criticism of tumblr's whiteness. It was a critique of the intersection of racism, misogyny, and fatphobia within fandom.

I'm not saying "you're evil if you participate in a sexyman poll," but I am saying we should maybe talk about the way that any critique of fandom bigotry has been stripped away from the term in its current popular usage.

persephoneme

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears

theta-scenario

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'. And it's free!

by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.

fangirlinginleatherboots

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

fangirlinginleatherboots

One time she said she used to be into BL and another employee down the hall asked what BL was and I yelled back "ITS YAOI" which reduced the teen to yelling "ITS SOFTCORE! SOFT CORE!!" So I yelled back "ITS SOFTCORE YAOI" anyway I get why dads are like that now

miyoriia

brightlotusmoon

flootzavut

Tumblr: we are a no porn website now

Porn: you cannot kill me in a way that matters

chaosciara

[video id: A video of giant spherical jaw breaker candies melting over an extremely hot cone. The cone is red with heat, sometimes catching on fire throughout the video. Throughout the video the jawbreaker bounces and vibrates up and down on the cone. It also bubbles and spews melted jawbreaker liquid everywhere, including dripping down the cone and over itself. Intermittently excessive smoke and steam obscures the melting jawbreaker before clearing once more. It ends with someone holding up the melted jawbreaker to the camera showing the giant tunnel-like hole now running through its centre, and the colourful layers inside the candy. The video was uploaded by “Florida Fox Anthill Art” on TikTok and is titled “BHRC [Big Hot Red Cone] vs jaw breaker”. end id]

[image id: Several tumblr tags related to the video described above. All tags allude or address the, likely unintended, sexual nature of the video. For the purpose of readability no usernames were included. Tags read as follows:

#1: “finally: dragon boyfriend”

#2: [melting face emoji]

#3: “How I bounce on it with weak hips and a nerve disorder”

#4: “we need regular porn back on this website”

#5: “no comment”

#6: “pretty sure this is against tumblrs guidelines [hot and sweating emoji]”

#7: “sighs deeply / I should call her”

#8: “the foley artists simulating roadrunner topping wiley coyote”

#9: “bouncing on it in a self destructive manner”

#10: “ya / vid”

#11: [all caps] “normal porn back I beg you”

#12: “I should call her…”

#13: “we need to get normal porn back on this site”

#14: “this is way better than regular porn / I’ve seen a zillion naked people before but this is a brand new experience”

end id]

bovineblogger

What if there was a cow that could fly?

um. uhh um. fat bumbalbee

bovineblogger

fat little bumbalabee

i-havenothingelsetopost

bumbalamoo

bovineblogger

HOLY SHIT???!!!!!!!

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by Tove Jansson

hollow-head

it's mouth season

(95º and 77% humidity)

spring-ephemeral

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

that feeling when a song makes you want to write, but then you want to reread one of your old fics to remember characterization, and suddenly it's 9pm and you're tired - but you still wanna write.