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OK SERIOUS QUESTION MAGGOTS
…who are THE tumblr sexymen?
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imleotyler · 4 months
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Hey boys
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nikki-vicious · 26 days
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iChatSweet still so sexy, Active for all services
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anatthema-art · 2 years
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Tumblr Men Taxonomy
Ever since the rise of the Spamton fanbase i’ve been seeing a lot of debate on if spamton should be considered a Tumblr Sexyman or not and i think everyone saying he’s NOT is correct, but i’ve been talking with some friends and have realized a pattern in what i’d like to lovingly call a new “branch” of tumblr men/people because it’s an exceedingly common character archetype i feel us as a userbase need to acknowledge and treat separate from your oncelers and the like.
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These guys? they’re all classic Tumblr Sexymen right? well, by consulting the primary sources  talking with my friends who were on the website and in the fandoms during the golden age of tumblr men, i’ve realized a massive part of sexyman culture people FORGET is that their appeal doesn’t just come from them being lanky bastard twinks. (we’ll get to sans later)
Their main appeal from a fandom perception is their actual or perceived HUMANITY. That sounds a little weird considering half these characters arent even human, but hear me out. Characters like the onceler and komaeda from dangan ronpa are just... dudes? Like they’re fucked up dudes, but they’re just GUYS. Sans too, even though not a human person, is still a very ORDINARY guy underneath the fandom-imposed angst. the appeal of these characters came from people seeing a spark of relatability and normalcy underneath all their Issues(tm) and fanwork, while portrayed as the “I can fix him” mentality came from a genuine place of exploration into what these people could BE
characters who AREN’T human, like bill cipher, wheatley, and dare I say the goddamn clock from DHMIS were QUITE LITERALLY humanized to explore a potential reality where they COULD be more of... PEOPLE despite their human nature. If they had become popular in THIS day and age, dare i say they fall into our SECOND category more (and as these interpretations of them are fanon i dare say they DO double class considering the disconnect between these common fan headcanons and fans which prefer the source material versions)
and then you get to characters like alastor or jack frost, who were once entirely human, then becoming inhuman entities, and that small bit of something left in there provides intrigue to explore them as people beyond their fun personality exteriors. 
Now, here’s where I’d like to propose the divide. Some of these characters gained less fan notoriety than others (especially because toby fox seems to be the main supplier of these guys) but they have often been labelled TSMs when I see a pretty distinct through line between them, with a little bit of wiggle room
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The name i’ve been lovingly calling these guys is Disney Channel Eldritch Horrors. I am very open to new propositions however as the name implies that they are both from the Disney Channel and eldritch horrors which isn’t always correct. I haven’t found a similar name that conveys the same VIBES yet, so if anyone has any ideas for a better name i’d love to hear it. basically, the gist of this trope is that we have some weird little guys who are probably inhuman nightmares who’s appeal comes from sheer force of personality. this is where you get your weird little clown men and goofy loveable abominations. (i feel like some homestuck characters might fit this bill but i know absolutely nothing about any of them)
some of them MAY have some sort of tragedy involved in their backstory (spamton, flowey) but the main appeal of liking the character i’d argue comes more from the sheer strength of their characterization, rather than that stuff. Spamton is the closest to breeching this, but i feel for spamton fans i see way more posts about how people wanna throw him in a microwave than discussing the deep ramifications of his backtory (plus, he wasn’t ever a human person either.) Flowey on the other hand, the fandom has split asriel and him SO far as to be entirely separate characters despite the divide being less of a thing in canon, and people who are fans of just flowey tend to focus less on his backstory. 
now you’ll see i’ve also included discord in here, which is to demonstrate that i don’t think the body type for these guys has to exclusively be “some little shaped dude”, because discord tows that line, but his appeal still stays in that sheer force of personality, and he’s also very much NOT a human being. as mentioned earlier, the canon versions of wheatley and that stupid clock also probably fit this bill more. Bill Cipher is where i see this divide the strongest, between the canon character and fan reactions and he’s such a popular character that his fanbase CAN be split between these two camps i think. 
disney channel eldritch horrors i think, can be classified more on creator intent with their existence rather than fan reaction like a classic TSM. some of these characters gained more popularity than others but there’s a very specific crowd who forms to liking these characters over the TSM variety.
now, one last proposal in taxonomy, is that the twink body type vs lil shaped guy is an indicator of which category a character may fall into but it is not the primary factor and can be overridden by personality 
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sans is a weird lil guy in classic toby fox fashion, but i think his status as a Tumblr Sexyman should not be questioned since his fandom was the closest thing to the replication OF the onceler fandom and his appeal was very steeped in his more darker aspects of the character. fizzarolli on the other hand, is very much a lanky beanpole dude, but he also is a stupid chaotic jester man who’s sheer VIBES overpower his body type and his popularity is for that personality. this is a rare phenomenon, but i realized it to be the case through some friends’ OCs, as calling some characters “tumblr sexymen” felt incorrect the deeper i thought about it
so uh... thank you for coming to my ted talk? i have a weird fascination with fan culture around these two specific camps of characters and i felt that i wasn’t able to express why i loved my weird jester men so much until now, as i felt my attachment to them felt a little conflated with a different TYPE of fan culture, and so i spewed my word vomit into something somewhat coherent. 
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sweetmipickles · 6 days
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Face card is a 10/10 and the middle tastes just as good as my looks 😊
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weaselbeaselpants · 4 months
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Forgotten/unwanted sexyman (according to tumblr)
A thread. We add to it. Add more especially those which are horribly underrated in relation to Sans or Jack Skellington or Alastor or whoever. This isn't about them. This is for men who are 100% someone's blorbo crush in the making.
Captain of the Dead from Petit Vampire
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So this ndead big hat boneman scoops up dismayed single mother who's kid is about to be killed cuz she pledges herself to whoever saves them both and he takes advantage of that cuz he's a revenenant.
As soon as said mother and child are on his ship and in his stewards he immediately apologizes about the circumstances, doesn't expect anything of her or for her to even like him cuz, I mean, he did this to her, but vows to protect them from their now supernatural stalker forever. SHE then talks him into making her his wife for all eternity because HAWT DAMN and he's all blushie and wowed and happily adopts her now eternal child like the good himbo daddy he is.
Holy fuck.
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I just started Little Vampire but ho my fucking god we have a winner here folks. Watch it if you can find it and have the means it's so worth it. This is gonna be a new one for me.
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mywaysthehighway · 9 months
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incognitonoggin · 1 month
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omg ilyt … i need that man to rough me up biblically. - prev request anon lolz
Aghh FORREAL !! I want him so bad 😔
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nicollilerikos · 2 years
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….baby
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king8kong · 1 year
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nikki-vicious · 22 days
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What you want
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supernaturaldestiel · 2 months
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Birthday boy 😍
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maccachibchan · 3 months
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entropyfolk · 9 months
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The problem with this generation is that tumblr kids are not clamoring for the crow guy from maleficent
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superiorgoobus · 1 year
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The pinned post: no minors allowed, I'm into adult shit
The blog: hey guys what's your opinion steak? I like steak. Do you like steak? Let's talk about how to cook the perfect ribs.
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