So, I found myself questioning why my friends and I had such different interpretations of tumblr sexy men/women, so I did some digging.

It seems that Sexymen & women can be broken down into three distinct time periods, and based on when you were thrown into the depths of this wretched site, would determine your interpretation of the concept.

The first time period: Pre-2015

[Note: This is my era] Now, those that emerged in the tumblr community during the early years had a different style of sexy men than what presents itself today. Due to the obscurity of fandoms that existed at the time, sexy men & women seemed to be all about humanizing the monstrous/villainous. This could have a lot to do with early cringe culture, openly stating you were into monsterf*cking, or that you liked villains because they were evil was still seen as quite a taboo topic, so; it wasn't uncommon for artists and other tumblr users to turn the taboo into something more appropriate. Bill Cipher & Tony the clock were often drawn in an anthropomorphism aesthetic, The Onceler was stripped of his inhumanity and twinkified & characters like Cecil Palmer, who were faceless monsters, were put to human faces.

2015 aka the Sans Era

[Where the majority of my friends sit] This era, was redefining the sexy men & women era, as undertale was filled to the brim with monstrous beings on all sorts of morality scales, and the preconceived idea of monsters = taboo shifted. So, when artists and writers etc. started to express their fascination with sans, not much of him changed. They drew him as the skeleton man he was and that's it. It was a period of monster acceptance.

Post 2015- The Monsterfication Era

Let's face it, after people started to accept liking monsters in general, the monsterf*cking community emerged. It felt safe to express themselves, as the community seemed relatively fine with undertale content that they allowed themselves to talk about the more kinky/taboo/ or just weird parts of monsters. As such, the sexy men & women community changed to incorporate monsters of all shapes and sizes, and tumblr users started to monsterfy characters who were generally seen as mild monsters or somewhat eldritch beings into something beyond humanely recognizable. Examples like danganronpa characters which are mostly human, but sometimes are depicted as beyond such, and the Magnus archives which take supernatural beings and transform them into incomprehensible creatures. etc.

Summary

So, it's easy to see that debating on when you emerged on tumblr and what fandoms you have centered around that the definition of a sexy man or woman may be different to you than others. It might be a monster turned human, a literal monster depiction, or something unfathomably not human, but all are sexy men, and all are valid.

Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

Huskerdust 💗💗💗💗

Its like miraculous ladybug with how bad his vision is- (Died over the layout good luck trying to read it in order im sorry- TwT <3)

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

I don’t know if there really is any science behind workout routines separated by sex, but even if there is benefit to doing exercise “for women” i don’t give a shit. and i will intentionally seek out guides made For Men. because by and large, this is how the different video thumbnails shake out

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so...

there’s this set of pixels…

(Worf voice) SLAY

I don't think I've ever been part of a community quite so charmingly unhinged as the Gale girlies. We saw an autistic man approaching middle age who says things like "pish posh" genuinely and laughs at his own corny jokes and went truly feral. That's right professor infodump on me some more I wanna see that finger in the air I'm gonna love you and cherish you and make you cry from overstimulation you sad fuck you mama's boy you cat dad I need you carnally AND emotionally let's have a spot of tea and fuck nasty in your library

Some can't handle Astarion having wrinkles and Lae'zel being a Who from Whoville meanwhile cool people watch their OCs make out with this thing

Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

damn. david was so right for this.

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

toot toot!

shush they’re huddling

fav skz // Seungmin goes a little sexy