Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
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:
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.
Listen, I understand being curious about celebrities’ lives. If you see a celebrity doing a bunch of gay things you might think “hey, maybe that artist is queer” but that’s as far as it should go. You should never harass, or threaten, or force anyone to come out. That is fucking disrespectful and wrong. Queerness is about including anyone who feels that they do not fit into normal society, there is no one way of being queer. It’s not a box, it’s free and open and that’s the beauty of it, so how about we fucking stop forcing queer people to come out, or label themselves, it’s none of your business.
Everyone always talks abt the ways ADHD makes you forgetful or hyperactive, but one thing I dunno if I’ve seen anyone talk about is the self-gaslighting that can happen, how you get so used to having forgotten/missed something that if you hear a piece of information that contradicts what you’ve heard before, you have this instinct to accept the newer info as the right one because maybe you just forgot about something. You get so used to people seeing you as stupid that you’re tempted to not speak up or ask about or argue against something that’s incorrect out of fear of looking like an idiot.
They should’ve let Kira kill Dukat at the end of the cult episode, it would’ve been a fitting way to end his weirdass wraith arc. She should’ve been allowed to kill him and spit in his face as he dies about how he was FUCKING CREEPY for his obsession with her (esp with all the stuff that happened with her Mom??!?!!!!). She of ALL the characters should’ve been allowed to avenge Jadzia and the suffering of the Bajoran people. She said herself she may be able to forgive other individual Cardassians but NEVER DUKAT. I don’t care, whatever the writers did with him could not be NEARLY as satisfying as letting Kira Nerys kill that loser like she’s been vibrating out of her skin to do since episode 1 of season 1
it’s actually insane how much the “run away with me” trope gets to gay people like fucking. yeah. you’re right. what are we all looking for if not an escape from this fucking. everything. with the one we love. yeah
