Shaun Tan (Chinese Australian) – Never Leave A Red Sock On The Clothesline from Shaun Tan’s 2013 book Rules of Summer, 2012 Paintings: Oil on Canvas
Author: mooncustafer
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.
just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.
“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”
oh my god
“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.
‘I’m going with you,’ he said quietly.
‘I can’t pay you.’
He smiled. ‘I thought I was a partner?’”
OH MY GOD
according to apparently every adaptation of a search of el dorado, i think we can conclude that maybe the real el dorado was the homosexuality we found along the way
#i’m adopting this as a term for someone working to understand their sexual orientation #‘oh megan dated dudes exclusively in college but these days i hear she’s on the road to el dorado’ ( @buetterfliege )
From now on, every person figuring out their sexuality is on the road to el dorado
the real treasure was the gay we found along the way
“My very cool grandpa in the 1950s holding a fish, smoking a cigarette, with a book tucked into his pants and cigarette pack in his sleeve.”
I like the impressed onlookers too.
I’d like to point out that fat suits are not only offensive af, but have also been something that’ve legitimately kept fat actors from getting employment. Every time a play, movie or tv show features a thin actor wearing a fat suit in the role of a fat character, that’s one job/acting opportunity a real fat actor could have been paid money for. Let me repeat: because fat suits exist, fat actors don’t get jobs.
(and what’s funny is that it almost definitely costs a lot more for a thin actor to be put in a fat suit and made up realistically on a regular basis than it would to just pay a fat actor to show up and act while fat)
“I will build my cabin next to Giant-Skeleton-In-a-Hat Mountain.”
I saw this beautiful fanart by Matsuyama Miyabi of the Adams Family in kimono. But I was kinda sad that Thing didn’t get his own little kimono, so I drew him in one.
:[screaming delightedly forever]:
!!!
Charles Addams is smiling down on Thing and his kimono.
“Act one to you, Mr. West. But when the mists rise and the sudden silences fall… look for me.
“
look at their cute little hands. they only want love. they are aloof; some are dleighted and pursing their hands together. tiny smiling coffin people. living in the bronze age. dying in the bronze age.
which ancient philosopher would you most like to get drunk with
so there owudl be like, good answers to this, where i woul look good, like hipparchia of maronea. CYNIC LADY. sleeps in cloak. sex outdoors. good quality. …….or i mean the guuy who jumped in a volcano to prove he was immortal MAYBE that was empedocles, i’ve forgotten google.
but ok the big obvious contenders aka socrates, no, drunk OR sober, no, i mean, i would, but it would be…..rapidly sobering…………i don’t want to UQESTION my BELIEF SYSTEMS and LIFE CHOICES or WHY WOULD I BE DRUNK
aristotle is like such an influence on my favepoeple but if i had my inhibitions lowered i woudl fitght him in dennys. there sin’t denns in the UK so thats determination. int he five guys we have here.
plato would kick my ass. yes i’m fighting him. karl popper lives under my BED.
so i’m gonna get trashed w lucretius my beauteous classics princess second only to feuillyova light of my heart aka mr eat CHEESE don’t sacrifice your DAUGHTER avoid the esclaating vioelnt POWER PLAYS of LATE REPIUBLICAN ROME and invent QUANTUM THEORY. also he can’t go outside without ebing obstructed by dogs getting it on!!! big mood.
Mooncustafer 