My Omens

My constant struggle when writing PWP

Add in the comments if you think you look your age and what others guess

Gente recontra mamagüeba be like: "Noooo, you can't ship Haddotin cause of the age gap, Tintin is a teenager", A FUCKING TEENAGER???? DUDE, CAN WE REALLY SAY THAT TINTIN IS A TEENAGER WHEN LITERALLY ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THEY TELL YOU ABOUT HIM IS THE FACT THAT HE IS A JOURNALIST (GRADUATE), THAT HE LIVES IN (HIS OWN PAID) APARTMENT, AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF HE HAS AN EXCELLENT HANDLE ON FIREARMS AND PILOTING AIRCRAFT, LIKE, OH, TINTIN?, THE SAME GUY WHO LONG BEFORE HE MET HADDOCK WAS ALREADY TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD (WITHOUT ANY ADULT SUPERVISION)?. CHAMO DE VERDAD LAMENTO TENER QUE DECIRLO DE ESTA FORMA, PERO ES QUE TIENES QUE SER LICENCIADO EN SER GAFO SI CREES QUE ES UN CARAJITO, I'M SORRY, BUT I CAN'T IMAGINE ANY 15 Y/O KIDDO DOING THAT SHIT. At the very least that guy must be 24 y/o.

ALSO

ENCIMA

thank god you're safe.

May i add this to your thesis

Not to mention

The ever-classic

Jared Harris as Captain Anderson ⏐To the Ends of the Earth (2005)⏐ 12/?

@aye-aye-captain

The Terror Crack!Vid #13

Jared Harris as Captain Anderson ⏐To the Ends of the Earth (2005)⏐ 9/?

I've been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I've watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.

take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:

looks like a strong man, right?

in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:

in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:

it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.

and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:

maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.

if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.

I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.

I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:

than this:

also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.

(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)

so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.

and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I'd rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.

100%. It’s like that article, Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny (Modern Action and Superhero Films Fetishize the Body, Even As They Desexualize It) by RS Benedict.

@batmanisagatewaydrug does a good summary of it (along with the article “We All Simp For Alfred Molina” which has similar vibes) in their Doc Ock titty essay

And this isn’t bodyshaming, because modern movie standards are nothing to do with what anybody’s body looks like naturally. It’s dehydration, disordered eating, and steroids. I’m sure there are people who like the look, but personally I think it’s the opposite of sexy or even appealing and it’s certainly not healthy.

Roseline Lawrence by Learon Coleman