Boys, romanticize yourselves. You are a king. You are a warrior. You are an enchanter. You are an angel. You are a god. You are all of these things and more, you are the stuff of fairytales.
This dovetails with something I read once, written by a gay man, about how it wasn’t until his late teens and early twenties–after a combination of studying art in college and being exposed to gay culture–that the thought even occurred to him that men in general, and by extension, he specifically, could be thought of as physically attractive and sexually desirable in the same way that women commonly are, and how damaging it was to him to believe for so much of his life that male bodies are inherently sexually disgusting.
Which, incidentally, is a belief I’ve noticed that a lot of guys seem to have tucked away in the back of their minds, and it’s never not slightly tragic to me when a guy I’m utterly ga-ga over is shocked to realize that someone could see his body as physically attractive, in exactly the same manner and degree, as he sees his female partners’.
While patriarchy robs us women of our agency and bodily autonomy by constantly reminding us that we exist, in its eyes, so that men may consume our very flesh, on the flipside, men are robbed of the opportunity to receive desire. Patriarchy frames sexual desire as a plan to violently conquer, to invade, to ride in with torches and salt the earth beneath you; and in so doing, it makes it difficult to believe that you are desirable if you have never suffered sexual violence, or at least been threatened with it. We need a better way to think of desire, of sex, of relationships, because what we have now does right by no one.
All of this!
This, this this this
It breaks my heart to know how so many guys go without realising how amazing and desirable they are. Sometimes all I want do is hug a sad looking boy and tell him that he is wonderful and his shirt really suits him. Compliments don’t cost a thing.
I think this is really important… I kinda don’t really like myself ;____;
In the dog world, humans are elves that routinely live to be 500+ years old.
“They live so long…but the good ones still bond with us for our entire lives.”
“These immortals are so kind we must be good friends to them”
My heart wtf
Not gonna lie, this fucked me up a bit.
POV Fantasy slice of life book when?
“Now I am old. The fur around my muzzle is grey and my joints ache when we walk together. Yet she remains unchanged, her hair still glossy, her skin still fresh, her step still sprightly. Time doesn’t touch her and yet I love her still.”
“For generations, he has guarded over my family. Since the days of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he has kept us safe. For so long we thought him immortal. But now I see differently, for just as my fur grows gray and my joints grow stiff, so too do his. He did not take in my children, but gave them away to his. I will be the last that he cares for. My only hope is that I am able to last until his final moments. The death of one of his kind is so rare. The ending of a life so long is such a tragedy. He has seen so much, he knows so much. I know he takes comfort in my presence. I only wish that I will be able to give him this comfort until the end.”
Sean Bean hiking up to the Lord of the Rings sets bc he’s afraid of helicopters is even funnier when you hear that Viggo Mortensen did the exact same thing, except Viggo’s reason for hiking to the sets was bc he wanted to be authentically travel-worn
Like literally you have Boromir doing this pretty cool thing bc he’s scared to death of the alternative while Aragorn just does it for The Aesthetic™
The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”
Fun fact: white people (specifically Northern European white people) have a genetic mutation that allows them to digest lactose even after weaning, which is abnormal for all mammals and also most humans. It’s theorized that because Northern Europe doesn’t get a lot of sun, an alternative source of vitamin D (like milk) would be a useful trait. It’s a very recent mutation that would only have happened after humans started domesticating animals like cows and goats.
