Mads "Short-Monarchist" Viande @Manurweibling@monads.online

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be on the lookout. you could accidentally enter Martha's Vine Yard at literally any time

@Manurweibling reality is fake and gay just like astrology and I'm a cancer gemini aries

<Opens my trench coat that is entirely lined with birds> hey fellow gays, want an owl? £5.50 each + £3 postage if it's the UK. Perfectly safe to post, and they don't need breathing holes in the package like regular owls.

Email: willowscraftsandcreations@protonmail.com to order or ask any questions, invoices will be sent via paypal. #art #sewing

owl description in the following toot.

man indoctrination into gender starts young. the gender lines of commercials on kids tv is so stark

@Manurweibling the great thing about having no gender is that every kiss i have is gay

rarely, im a human

Tom of Finland is why Western gay drawn porn is Like That, they picked up on the anatomic exaggeration but not anything that makes Tom of Finland good

Class Comics (and its stylistic precedents that are school-of Tom of Finland, but NOT actually Tom of Finland) plays an unacknowledged role in pushing men-who-love-men into furry as an alternative option for gay erotica

Tom of Finland: remarkably little emphasis or detail placed on the eyes in most of his famous work, they're just shadows on the flesh of the face and points of deeper shadow/indications of eyelashes that tell the viewer where the figure is looking and what he's feeling
Class Comics: you know what this hypermasculinized homoerotic art needs? Big Dead Cartoon Eyes

Western gay porn comix artists: hey, you got superhero comix in my Tom of Finland!
also Western gay porn comix artists: hey! you got Tom of Finland in my
[I am already walking away, shaking my head in disgust]

nobody:
nobody at all:
not a single goddamn soul:
Class Comics (et al.): So I adapted Tom of Finland's sensitive shading and pencil-work into sharp-lined ink with no midtones, possibly with garish color slapped on top

if you wanna do pen and ink gay erotica, as a starting point, why not simply adapt Tom of Finland's subject matter in Aubrey Beardsley's artstyle

me as a gay teen: *finds gay webcomics* :/
*finds Class Comics* ›:f
*finds Tom of Finland"* ‹ : 0
*traces historical throughline from Tom of Finland directly to this unemotive hypermacho dead-eyed bullshit* ... >:C

me as an adult: *has incredibly tart opinions about Class Comics*

if lesbians get to say that mullets look good, I get to think frosted tips slap