#eli smith

[distracted-obsessions]

My character type: Liars and conmen and other types of criminal who are secretly touch starved puppies but they're bad at expressing their emotions so they bite when people get close

[deadgodjess]

a family can be a human man, his werewolf husband, his ornery cat and his husband's obnoxious & obnoxiously hot werewolf ex.

[k00336611]

ELI SMITH

Eli Smith is an artist base in Philidelhia, USA. He works mainly with oil paints. Smith has OCD and tourrettes syndrome. It is common for people with one neurological disorder to have other issues such as OCD, autism, adhd ect.

The first picture of this post, 'TS sit still' is a painting representing how Smith feels and copes with his Tourette syndrome. I relate to this piece as a person who also suffers with tourrette syndrome.

[dkafterdark]

you're one of the few people I've seen actually talk about charlie adharas wolf series. have you seen any art of Eli? I've been so curious and love that he's a bigger guy

I have not but I haven't looked, so I'm going to go searching! Eli is such a delight! I would love to see fanart of him wearing his signature robe from Pack of Lies. honestly any art of Eli would be wonderful. I still crack up thinking about him in peak drama queen mode, or the first time he meets Coop

[nedison]

There Stands The Glass - Wildernauts (2024)

Peter Stampfel, Eli Smith, and Walker Shepard covering Webb Pierce?? YES FOLKS, HERE IT IS!! The first runaway smash hit of 2024!!

[dkafterdark]

"We heard you left Helena recently and joined the pack of her grandson Mr. Oliver Park and his, ah, human mate, Dayton. They do seem to keep busy, don’t they? Tell me, are even half the rumors about them true?”

“I have no idea. I begged and begged, but they never let me watch. Some people can be so conventional in the bedroom.”

Pack of Lies by Charlie Adhara

[transstudiesarchive]

Resistance and Body Joy: An Art Series

A Project by Eli Smith

The normative body is an image that is fed to United States citizens through media, culture, and the current context of society and who holds power within it. Often, this body is illustrated as a white, cisgender, heterosexual, able, thin body – a body standard that very few people can meet. When it comes to the transgender body, there is an especially high instance of shame associated with the reveal of this body in gendered spaces that expect cisgenderism. When the trans body can be shown, it is often in the context of pornography, nonconsensual exposure, or violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people. In the cis imaginary, transgender bodies should be passing and invisible in order to be deemed appropriate – but with the cost of hormones, surgery, and material goods such as clothing and make-up, the reality of seeking a cis-passing body can be nearly impossible. Additionally, not all transgender people feel the need to alter their bodies to pass as cisgender.

Existing in a trans body can often mean internalizing shame, trauma, and low self-worth because of what types of bodies are valued in our society, which includes what bodies are seen as desirable for intimacy. This becomes a question of how to find joy in the transgender body, and especially in the transgender body that isn’t cis-passing, heterosexual, white, thin, and able. In Eli Clare’s essay, “Resisting Shame: Making Our Bodies Home,” he writes that “I want [transgender people] to find places of resistance: places where our bodies, families, and communities become home… let us pay attention to shame as an issue of health and wellness, community and family. Let us create the space to make our bodies home, filling our skin to its very edges” (458-465). Here, Clare is putting an emphasis on the power of trans people and the allies of trans people to create spaces of resistance – spaces where trans bodies can be loved, desired, and celebrated outside of a hypersexualized, shameful, or violent context.

Resistance comes in many forms, including art. What bodies are displayed in museums, portraits, and magazines tell us what bodies should be celebrated. In response to this, and to create a space for my own resistance as a gender nonconforming femme boy, I have created a series of six pop-art pieces that showcase a variety of transgender bodies. Beneath each image is a quote from a transgender person about where (and how) they find joy in their identities as transgender individuals.

These pieces feature nude bodies in natural, relaxed poses. The hypersexualization of these bodies is absent to make room for the celebration of nonconforming bodies and the immense beauty that comes with them. I would like to reiterate that these bodies are desirable, in and of the way that bodies are beautiful because of their unique, diverse attributes and the home they provide to us. I hope that, within a transgender studies archive, these pictures will reach trans youth looking for images of bodies like theirs – and upon seeing them, know that their body is valuable, beautiful and worthy of empowering, consensual intimacy. “We are not the ones dysphoric about our genders,” Clare emphasizes in his piece, and I would like to emphasize this too – “dysphoria lives in the world’s response to us” (460). Within this project, I hope to turn that dysphoric response on its head. I want transgender joy and body joy to become an attainable reality, especially for those whose bodies least resemble the norm our heteropatriarchal society tries to impose on us.

Clare, Eli. “Resisting Shame: Making Our Bodies Home.” Seattle Journal for Social Justice, vol. 8, no. 2, May 2010. D2L.

. . .

The quotes following each image are responses to a prompt asking where transgender and gender nonconforming people find joy in their identities.

“Being able to educate others.”

“Not being alone in the struggle.”

“I feel empowered by my trans identity.”

“The community and love.”

“Being trans has brought depth to my life. I see the world differently now.”

“Having to deal with less patriarchal nonsense in partnerships and friendships.”

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