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Chris Evans is the guy who accidentally released a pic of his d to the world that one time lol

Accidentally Like a Dick

the physique pictures of the 50s and 60s often captured bodybuilders and such, yes, but Mel Roberts and a few others were attracted to a different type— street toughs, men on leave (or kicked out) from the military service, hippies and dreamer types, etc. The homosociality of these worlds is well-documented, particularly in LA and San Francisco, which as major west coast ports allowed for a blossoming homosexual underground to form. Key word being underground: the world of the homosexual was also the world of the criminal class.

I agree that all of this is very clear in his work. The other thing about it, which i alluded to earlier, is that it closely resembles fashion photography. he's almost the inverse of someone like Ryan McGinley, a fashion photographer whose work resembles twink porn. How times have changed!

I first encountered McGinley through a solo exhibit of his snapshotty early fine art photography at the old Whitney, i think. it was Larry Clark-adjacent, mostly about the kind of invincibility that young people feel; the subject matter wasn't his friends and lovers themselves so much as their reckless abandonment. Like, i think it's pretty safe to say he's not making any kind of statement about how skinny white boys can be sexy, too, as though it's such a radical concept in the 21st century still (because i agree that context is important)

Shit like this otoh kinda pisses me off

like T, a-list Holywood stars are not on my radar a lot of the time. I know who Jake Gyllenhall is, of course. And Ewan McGregor. the others- ??

oh wait, I know who Paul Rudd is too
except i always get him mixed up with Paul Giamatti

i'm not a celeb guy to be real bcz i don't watch anything. probably the 10th time i've said this on ilx, but toshiro mifune is an all-timer for me. i know ilx user silby agrees on that one.

i love silby

rly don't know how i feel about McGins

i'm generally a lot more into physical culture types than actors. there's this one parkour guy i follow on insta uhh tim champion. he's really hot.

xp silby's a good poster it's true

Can't think of a celebrity i'm really hot for rn (i would say if i could!)

dating sites and apps have made me wary of mirages and cardboard cutouts, maybe that's the reason.

otoh i feel like the Moldy Peaches guy sometimes, i see a picture of a celebrity i know nothing about and wanna write a love song to the person i imagine them to be.

it helps that i don't know who anyone is.

sure you're at the pinnacle of some kind of culture industry niche but can you mine coal with a pick-axe for 8 hours and then come home and tend the garden with me is how i feel about it basically

i need another hero!

Toshiro Mifune is def my #1 male actor of all time and absolutely the most bangable

I was saying this last night to the bf! His favourite male actor is Seth Rogan, interesting choice

Respective females, his fave was Bette Davis. Idk who mine is, I’d have to really think hard on it. J Smith Cameron is up there but she’s hardly in anything

We also talked about best nepo baby actors. He said Isabella Rossellini and I said Laura Dern so tonight we’re rewatching Blue Velvet

big yes to mifune

i’ll watch barbara stanwyck or isabelle huppert in anything

love laura dern. i would definitely let her top me.

i would totally make out with Seth and propose to Betty.

I don’t know who my favorite actor is, but the famous actor whom I would let do anything/would do anything to is absolutely Keanu. Old or young. He is a smokeshow and always has been and he is also apparently a lovely person.

otm

You know he got his start in some gay Toronto theatre stuff, lots of very cute photos around of Keanu Tweeves

Here it is: https://www.instagram.com/p/B500eE9he9n/?igsh=MXJiOWV1eGVzc3Uxbg==

Bf’s bday is tomorrow. He’s a notoriously difficult person to please, gift-wise, so I elected this year to shower him with quantity rather than quality (necessarily), which is kind of more his style:

Bar of vintage No. 5 soap
Two cans of clam chowder
Witch hazel
Frankincense
A nice labradorite
A handmade silk robe (that one was $)
An old but tiny bottle of Bal a Versailles
A large bottle of Hendrick’s ltd. flavour gin
Twelve nice knobs to fancy up his IKEA dresser
A stainless steel linked ring
Smart flannel shirt
Incense and tray
Hedgehog dog toy
Cookbook (Mildred’s)
Short stories (Joy Williams)
Black soap
Barely roasted Ethiopian coffee beans
Some fancy weed

Oh and a nice jar of preserved cherries

Here it is: https://www.instagram.com/p/B500eE9he9n/?igsh=MXJiOWV1eGVzc3Uxbg==

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Keeks for pay!!! he totally pulls it off.

I met donna rouge last night! He's so sweet.

https://i.imgur.com/nM6oIsk.jpg

off the charts cute. splendid hat alfred!! dr's garfield shirt is perfect.

Short stories (Joy Williams)

so good

i wish there was a super gay version of "the boys are back in town", can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

I think it's called "The Bois Are Back in Town" iirc

hehe

Exceptional content <3

my heart!

<3

:) so nice to finally meet the dapper lord sotosyn himself!

THE DAPPER LORD wow that has a ring to it

hell yeah it does, Alfred i think you've earned yourself a new title!

super cute pic, boys 🦸

My bf and I, we have infrequent sex, every couple weeks maybe? But I try and make it count when sex happens.

Last night I topped him so good that he was stuttering afterward, and he made me spontaneous pancakes this morning for breakfast.

I’m eating pancakes and thinking “this is the most prestigious reward a top can receive, a pancake breakfast”

I'd trade the pancakes for a topping anytime

🏆

hope a good topping sesh is a sign that you're feeling a bit better lately fgti

map you're always so intuitive

i do find that exciting and hot fgti way to go

my weekend was spent with the throup, wherein i discovered that some spit and "just the tip" is hot and a nice spontaneous way to do a little butt stuff without the muss and fuss of cleaning out, wow tmi. then yesterday morning we all looked at art books, donatello's david sculpture (yowza), some michelangelo and some hellenistic greek sculpture. art history is not my thing so it was nice to have young pine (and an edible) open me up to it. buff dudes, i jokingly wondered if they were juicing back then, young pine told me it was probably just proportion math and solid anatomy studies. i fell ill with a cold over the course of the morning unfortunately and now i'm at home instead of at work (good) and a little stuffed up (bad).

xp thanks swen, you're always a blast of fresh air

i LOVE art history and when people talk to me about it. also - "teasing" in the tmi / sexual sense is totally hot to me.

you're feeling a bit better lately fgti

Big yes and small no. February was tough, I was changing meds and felt pretty depressed and moony. I was supposed to start working on "new songs, new set" and I just generally was dragging my feet about it all, and didn't know why.

And then I started and things went nuts. In studio ten hours a day, completely lost interest in anything else, amazing results, like some really good music is being made. It feels oddly harrowing, like I'm careening haphazardly along writing new things. I'm into it.

that's the way it feels when i start a new writing project, fgti. which i am about to do— a long and intense process of figuring things out...and then Lyn Hejinian's passing spurred something in me and i found my container. so!

<3

i too am on a creative streak lately, and i think you guys are so impressive with your resumes. i'm in a new stage where i'm transitioning styles of music from experimental/electronic/bad (lol) to more organic/electric piano/vocals thing. i think it's stemming from listening to "rock" music lately

anyway one day i will have something to show for it , music has been such a struggle for me! but you live you learn - better late than never

just really love how creative you guys are

the fever of productivity and flying close to your sun! mine is in bodywork lately. i feel like i've opened a whole new world since i started focusing on breathing a certain way. suddenly all sorts of good things are happening and it's sweeping me along. i even did squats this morning, which was really rough since i'm feeling like shit with this cold, but i needed to. the squats themselves were great but i was barely keeping it together between sets lol. the idea of doing personal training has been on my mind lately. i think i might be a good one. i need to move on from my current career.

love the idea of personal training. and i just switched professional paths and feel more stimulated than ever i think. but i've also continued to pull all nighters for work this week/the imminent apartment move and am a few hours away from googling "how little sleep can you go on without dying". the self medication is officially out of control, like if this were an episode of 90210 i would def be intervened right about now. or actually written off the show. luckily there are no cameras around and i can do whatever the fuck i want. :D

good luck swen, hope the come down is easy on you.

it's totally fine, i'm def over myself.

i think it's amazing that you're working with breath, it's one of the coolest practices to me. during the pandemic the only thing that brought me calm was watching my friend's pranayama videos on youtube.

breathing and getting into my body, the last respite of peace when everything else sucks ime. i'm glad you're fine. never get over yourself, you're too good to get over ;)