I think an under-discussed component of “Twink Death” is that whatever allowance we are awarded to express femininity and androgyny is tied to youth. It can be charming in a “boyish” way, but it’s a phase we’re supposed to grow out of when we reach a certain age and revert to the generic category of men. Are many afraid to age because we live in a youth-obsessed culture and want to remain fuckable? Well yes, but I see a real fear that suddenly our gender expression will be seen as embarrassing or perverted. It’s also of course fucked up that gender expression should be tied to body type to begin with!
Anyway let’s talk solutions. Obsessing over the word “Twink” is a symptom of people’s only exposure to gay culture being porn and Grindr. Offline, the word you’re looking for is QUEEN. The term doesn’t depend on age, body type or race. It’s sometimes honorific, sometimes bitchy, always from the heart. We all need to get offline and meet role models who prove we have long, flamboyant gay lives ahead of us. Queens with robust social and sex lives, fat queens, balding queens, queens with thick regional accents, Black queens and fems to whom we owe the world, all of them. Feminine gays who are afraid to age: your femininity will not wither away but ferment and flourish into something powerful and inspiring. Live in defiance of a culture that says femininity has an expiration date. Who cares about being a twink? Be a queen.
I finally got the book that I wanted to read three years ago… but I’m not sure I got the book that I needed. So I took some ~artistic liberties~ and drew the scenes I wanted to see.
i don’t think “flex” is a strong enough word for whatever the last three minutes of my life was
That was one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen.
I REALLY need people to watch a documentary called “Waking Sleeping Beauty”: it was made by artists and producers actually from the studio at the time these movies were being made. “Rescuers Down Under” walked so “Beauty and the Beast” could run.
And the animators working on this weren’t even at the Actual studios: management at the time made a decision to kick the animators out of the Disney Animation Studios Building (the same building where they made all the older classic animated films like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty) and made them work out of warehouses in Glendale to make room at the big Studio buildings for Hollywood stars of the 80s/90s that were essentially bankrolling Disney with their live-action successes.
1990 saw the release of “The Rescuers Down Under,” which utilized new ink-and-paint computer technology as a way to streamline the process and bring the animated film into the digital realm, cutting out the need for traditional cel painting. The film failed to turn a profit at the box-office (marketing was pulled almost immediately when its first weekend gross was around $5 million), but is historical for its first use of the CAPS (Computer assisted paint system) system to be utilized in a full-length animated feature.
CAPS was a huge part of what made “Beauty and the Beast” even possible.
Waking Sleeping Beauty dives into SO MUCH that was happening at the Walt Disney Animation Studios from the 1980s through their rebirth ten years later.
We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what’s happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.
What’s happening?
Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.
In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.
Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?
Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don’t worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.
What do us Tumblr users do?
Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site’s culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.
I’m new from Reddit, what do I do here?
CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.
Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don’t mistake you for a bot
This is one of the first posts I’ve seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I’ve decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don’t even know what a reblog is but I’ll find out in time. It’s a learning process
a reblog is what you just did! it’s similar to a retweet on twitter and it’s the main way things spread on tumblr
absolutely love it when people are like why do you like this fictional character so much look at all their bad qualities. my brothersister in christ their bad qualities are why i like them
“what do you see in them” only the very worst. i hope this helps
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