#will wears makeup and likes it

[starsarefire824]

Demons of Change and Wildflower Eyes: Chpt. 5

Before Will can say anything, before he can get too lost in the feel of Mike’s thin thigh brushing along his, Max holds up her drink dramatically, knees going to her chest as she rolls into a sitting position, her feet almost knocking Mike in the head. He ducks back and turns his attention to her. 

“I love this stupid fucking song!” she shouts and stands up. She puts her drink on the floor and Will likes the way her hair is ruby-colored in the purple light and fog machines. “We’re gonna dance!” she yells through the jumpy pop synth that’s turned up so loud it vibrates Will’s chest. 

Will shakes his head and sinks further back into the couch shyly. He peeks around quickly to see if he can spot any of his friends. Maybe they’ll rescue him.

“Max!!” Mike groans loudly. 

“Come on you idiot!” she screams, and jumps into his lap again. She knocks the breath out of him and he bleats in pain. She squeezes his face between her hands and shakes his head. The skin of his cheeks and his lips twist in her grip. He wraps his hands around her wrists and tries to pry her off. “Max!” he complains again, but Will can tell he’s smiling.

“I demand as your best friend that you dance with me right now!” she growls at him, then hops back to a standing position. 

“Alright, alright, alright,” Mike moans, standing up and shrugging the leather jacket off his back. He drapes it over the back of the couch and is left in his thin white t-shirt tucked into black jeans. 

Will crosses his arms over his belly, trying not to stare at Mike’s attractive waist or broad shoulders, and waiting to let them go. But then Max catches his eye. “You too!” she says happily, and tugs him up off the couch with a surprising strength. 

The weed and the liquor hits Will all at once when he stands and he falls into her and Mike a little. Mike takes hold of his arm in a strong grip and stands him back upright. “Sorry,” he murmurs.

“Don’t worry about it,” Mike shrugs with a bleary-eyed smile on his face, and that’s when Will realizes he must be as far gone as he is. 

Suddenly, Mike’s torn from his vision, jerked away by Max towards the dance floor. Before Will can realize what’s going on, Mike takes hold of his hand too and pulls him with them. Max shuffles through the crowd of people and they find themselves enveloped in dancing bodies all around them, some jumping, some in groups and some hanging off each other in slower, intoxicated dances.  

The three of them end up in a circle and Max raises her hands above her and starts jumping, shaking her head and her hair whipping wildly around her shoulders. Will can’t bring himself to look at Mike, but sees him moving in his peripheral. He closes his eyes and falls into the quick beat of the song, the sweet drink in his veins mixed with the cloudy focus of the weed lets him attune his body to the sound of it. He lets himself fall. Up and down, back and forth, the music reverberates through his chest and he finds the sway of it in his hips, forgetting everything else. His mind goes blank. His hushes his thoughts like a lullaby coaxes a baby to sleep and all he can think of is how his body moves in time with the beat, how Max pulls him closer and how he can feel the heat of Mike’s skin next to him. 

Max raises her hand in a fist and screams the lyrics to the ceiling. “I say, we can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind!” She looks at Will and scrunches her nose, blue eyes lit up in the flashing light. She grabs both their hands in her fists and jumps with the breath of the music, their bodies thrashing together. “Because your friends don't dance!” she wails, and then pushes her face towards Mike. They press their foreheads together and Mike joins in.

"And if they don' dance. Well! They're no friends of mine!” He sings with her and then they separate. Mike throws his arm around Will and coaxes him to jump higher, their bodies colliding and sweat starting to drip at the small of Will’s back and along his cheeks. He finally opens his eyes and meets Mike’s gaze. Mike takes hold of the back of his neck and sings more lyrics to him, and the rest of the room fades away as the three of them disappear into the tune. It’s a dumb song, something Will wouldn’t ever listen to on his headphones, but somehow the beat is enticing and he doesn’t think he’s had this much fun with anyone since before he was stolen by the Upside Down. 

And Will finds, in this moment, he just doesn’t care. It’s as if something’s opened up inside of him, and all his nervousness, all his pain, all his worry storms out of him with every little movement and slam of his foot on the floor. He’s enjoying the way Mike and Max’s skin is slick against his, how his sweater is starting to stick to him. He tugs at his collar and pulls the sweater over his head, quickly pulling his undershirt down where it rides up his back. His makeshift hat falls off with it and he throws it in the general direction of where they'd been sitting. Mike smiles at him then, and suddenly the music changes. 

@wheelersboy thanks for the song help 😋

[freshbeeth]

i mean for fuck’s sake

[egophiliac]

at this point I'm not going to finish this, but I need everyone to know that I don't CARE that it was Kamejim, this scene has been replaying itself in my brain for the past week --

[frostedpuffs]

every time someone makes a point to say that "Marinette doesn't wear makeup, she isn't like other girls" I want to SIGH because not only does Marinette Actually Wear Makeup in canon, it is exhausting that it is 2023 and people are still doing the "not like other girls" thing

[dandylion-s]

something i can appreciate about the witcher is that the world of it is authentically grimy. Geralt is always streaked with viscera. Jaskier's hair is always greasy. Villages are always muddy. Even the elves are fucking filthy. Everyone except Yennefer who is serving medieval fantasy cunt 24x7

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 6

Let's make it some in-world memes this time :)

[thepunkmuppet]

the reason why transfem elias is my favourite theory for gwendolyn is because think about the implications.

so let’s say this alternate universe reveals that elias is actually transgender, and would present/identify as female if they had the opportunity to figure themself out and transition (elias was reportedly very young when jonah possessed them)

then the idea that in the tma universe they not only didn’t live long enough to do that, but THEIR BODY WAS TAKEN OVER BY SOMEONE ELSE WHO THEN PRESENTED IN A MASCULINE WAY AND LIVED AS A MAN USING THEIR FACE AND BODY FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS?!? FUCKING TERRIFYING

as a trans person myself, even though the real elias was dead the dysphoria that idea gives me is absolutely unreal, and really creeps into serious body/existential horror territory which i think would be really interesting and very in-character for a writer like jonny to explore.

[eeternalferret]

possibly the most attractive he's ever looked....don't know what that says about me

[lesbianchemicalplant]

I get that “you can just not wear makeup, it's okay to not wear makeup” can sometimes be the exact thing that someone needs to hear, or to be reassured about. but some people are really condescending about when and how they pull that out and who they say it to

like, there is a social reality of misogyny that women are punished for not appearing a certain way, with all the more severity as a function of class, racism, transmisogyny, etc.

that punishment can be the difference between employed and unemployed. having food and not having food. being treated as less competent and less worthy as a person not only by men, but also by other women and people of any gender in general

and tbh, it's especially fucked how some transmisogyny-exempt people say this to trans women, particularly toward those of us with facial hair / stubble that stands out very visibly from our skin. like a trans woman wearing makeup is obviously just too dumb, shallow, misogynistic, and femininity-obsessed to know better, so they take it upon themselves to remind her that “you can be a woman without wearing makeup! :)” in the same voice they use to tell a toddler that the mushy peas are good

do you think trans women wearing makeup while going to job interviews or working customer service positions (or even, yes, trying to exist in public life in general) are all just stuck-up assimilationists with Bad Ideas about gender? do you think it's only trans women with pointedly transmisogynistic values about “passing” who would ever wear makeup or dress a certain way to try to be treated less horribly by the world around us?

especially if you're vividly aware of how you yourself are punished for not wearing makeup—how do you not extend that awareness to other women? including other women who would pretty fucking obviously be treated even worse for it than you are? (how seriously have you considered that some women might be treated worse for it than you are? treated worse by someone like you, even?)

“you can just not wear makeup” “you don't need makeup, there's nothing about your face that needs fixing” okay well hiring managers will absolutely discriminate against me for not wearing makeup to job interviews, but thanks for enlightening me I guess

[shngrtto]

Never, never, never give up ✝︎🌙

[bogkeep]

every time i read an autobiographical comic about a transfeminine person practicing putting on makeup as a visual metaphor for the difficulty of Performing Womanhood i can feel my whole heart vibrate with sympathy. like. one of the absolutely most common Girl Experiences is feeling like you're never girling right or enough. there's so many rules and expectations and there's fucking makeup. i could never wrap my head around makeup!! not even for gender reasons, it's just this whole culture i don't understand. trying to grasp makeup feels like being a street urchin at an extremely exclusive high end restaurant crying because i don't know what fork to use and they won't let me eat with my hands. my seventh grade classmates tried to help me be girl by taking me shopping for nice clothes and mascara and i couldn't even wear it for a week. not only do you have to go through the intricate rituals of application but you have to remove it at the end of the day??? and everyone acts as if this arcane knowledge is something inherent to girlhood that you're just born knowing and feel naturally inclined to do??? i don't understand!!! i don't understand!!!!! people treated me as if i was being rebellious and making a statement but i just do not understand all the powders and inks and pencils and gunks and creams and brushes!! they feel bad against my face and i'll flinch from anything getting too close to my eyes. it doesn't matter how many offers for help i get or how many tutorials there are, i never wanted this for myself! i shouldn't have to do this! i can be a person without it just fine if you let me!

watching anyone trying to learn how to do makeup from scratch is like watching someone learning a new language. if you think it's hard it's because it is hard and don't let them tell you it's not, just because they've been speaking it for a long time

[findafight]

I am a hardline Steve is a "boring queer" truther. Yes he's bi and genderqueer!! Does he change pronouns? Nope! It's easier to use he/him and he doesn't care. Does he wear anything other than high waisted mom jeans and sweatshirts? Absolutely not. Just because gender means next to nothing to him both for himself and in regards to attraction doesn't mean he's going out of his way to do anything about it. He knows he looks like Just Some Jock but he's comfy!! His ass looks good! What more is there to clothes than that!

He goes to bed at ten and wakes up at six-thirty for a run before work. His favourite show is M*A*S*H. The most outlandish thing he's done besides Monster Killing is name his rescue cat WoodChipper because it kept trying to eat his porch.

[echosong971]

Makeover

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this is ship art, please don't tag them as siblings <3

[turtleblogatlast]

I honestly love the clothing styles of each of the turtles in this show and I love how these styles really incorporate their personalities as well.

Like, obviously Donnie has the best sense of style, yeah? Think that’s something pretty agreed upon here. Everything we see him put together is very meticulously crafted and clean. That goes with his personality because Donnie is a very meticulous person in general, and he knows what he likes very, very well, and knows how to flaunt it in turn. Him commenting on colors he enjoys or disapproving of outfits that the others see no problem with also shows how he just generally has an eye for this kind of thing. He doesn’t just know what looks good on himself, but also what looks good on others - and I think this ties into his love of gift giving too. Donnie also has a flair for making sure that his things have his “mark” on them, and his clothing is no exception. All that he wears and how he wears them screams “Donnie.”

Mikey is really fun because his styles are honestly a pendulum between super simplistic and incredibly out there. And often, you’re going to see a lot of color or patterns to both. And in my opinion I think that all reflects really well on Mikey’s character - he’s got a colorful personality but even more than that he’s incredible sure of who he himself is. Mikey’s style, I feel, is less what looks good as clothes and more what sparks joy in Mikey himself. His bright stickers he wears are a testament of that! He’s comfortable in his own skin and his style reflects this perfectly, whether he goes for a more out-there look or a more toned down one.

Now, for Leo. Okay, I think I’m actually in the minority here I feel because Leo’s style isn’t really that bad? Hear me out- if you actually look at what he wears, try taking out, like, one accessory. Suddenly, that outfit works! He even manages to put together many good outfits in the series, but his “bad” ones are the ones that tend to stand out, alas (just like how his mistakes tend to be big ones oop-) Basically, my personal look at him is not that he’s inept at styling at all, but that he has a “too much” gene. And like everyone else, this sense of style is completely like him, too. Going too far to impress when all he needed to do was slow it down some to think things through. (And funnily enough, a lot of his outfits take random aspects from his brothers too - “nothing without them” huh?)

For Raph, I feel bad for him since pretty much all of his clothes are inevitably going to be ripped, but he makes them work pretty much each time. Like Leo, Raph tends to go more sporty with his looks, but I also noticed that his stuff often goes in that in between of comfy, cool, and cute. His pajama suit in particular comes to mind in terms of “cute” as it’s more something you’d see younger children in rather than older kids, and I think it can be a subtle nod to the fact that for all Raph tries to seem older, he’s still just a kid too.

I could probably go on, but these are just all off the top of my head - I love how the boys’ personality’s come out in so many different ways.

[luchsyy]

i think every single person who was ever shamed as a little girl for liking feminine/"girly" things, while also being forced to be feminine, while ALSO being pitted against / forced to compete with other girls, should be allowed to kill whenever they want. btw.

[beaft]

after some experimentation, i've found that "clean-shaven and hair hidden under a beanie" gets me gendered as male way more reliably than "hair loose, full moustache". no idea why long hair provokes such a strong "that's a girl" reaction, but there we go.