TeddE
@TeddE@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It could be a throwaway.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yes. It is very possible for average dudes to look incredible naked, even to traditional beauty standards. Plenty of gay photographers take on this challenge and have portfolios filled with such shots (presumably in part for the challenge and in part for the subject matter).
Technically this is a tangent to the question you asked, save for the case where they do nude self-portraits. Nonetheless, I have been to a few homes where all the walls filled with their own photos of basically average gay bears in posing in very artistic ways that I’d assume were professional models, if not for the fact that I could identify subjects to their local ‘online dating’ profiles. (And to be clear, while some photos definitely have ‘I’m here to fuck’ energy, many more were going for tender vibes and artistic poses).
Guys with [good, interesting] tattoos appear to make great photography subjects - I suspect that it gives the artist something to compose the rest of the shot around. Unless you’re a modern prude, tattoos don’t carry the stigma they used to, they’re [often] artistic, and broadly well-fitted to the male beauty aesthetic.
Wish I could give you names and such, but in my defense I generally wasn’t visiting to see the wall art.
- Comment on Must have apps 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had hit and miss with Ventoy. I love it and it’s my goto, but I have a handful of ISOs that it’s effectively just storage for - then I use Balena Etcher, Rufus, Raspberry Pi Imager, or sometimes classic dd to burn it to a smaller USB - but if I had to pick one tool, I’d recommend Raspberry Pi, Rufus, or Balena Etcher to a new user just trying to get the job done.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 2 weeks ago:
She’s told that someone on earth would die and she doesn’t know them. The twist is that while it’s implied that it’s a random person, it’s revealed at the end that it’s the last person to press the button.
- Comment on Immaculate 3 weeks ago:
Right? For ‘they slept her way to the top’, to work, the organization has to be littered with people who are willing to trade the best interests of the organization for an evening of their own personal sex lives. But it’s not their fault for selling out the corp - it’s the fault of the entrepreneur who’s successfully working the broken system.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 1 month ago:
This box from Pandora once contained all the world’s doomscrolling.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 1 month ago:
Access to information - Internet access should be made a human right
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 2 months ago:
Who told you to say that‽
Who do you work for!?!
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 months ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Fat labrador topilogy 2 months ago:
I checked your topological sign and you’re such a torus.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s just 6-7 for millennials
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Do you accept ‘ha’ as a counterargument? If so, I might make repeated counterarguments
- Comment on We live in the future! 3 months ago:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet William Shakespeare
- Comment on An oopsie occured 3 months ago:
If you can’t be bothered to step out of your comfort zone and travel .3 AU to pick up your food, I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe you want the crippled driver to spoon feed it to you.
(/s, obviously)
- Comment on Invest now before it's too late! 4 months ago:
Now we know why the coppers have all the weapons.
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 4 months ago:
I think avenue Q said it best, “The internet is for porn”.
Sure, PornHub is not the only thing you can do on the Internet. Some of the more formal studies are functionally run by marketing groups, who are likely more skewed to advertising demographics.
Example: the fundamental backbone of the internet upgraded as part of the CERN Large Hadron Collider project construction, to distribute the massive amount research data being generated to scientists across the world - but Cloudflare doesn’t count that traffic when preparing it’s statistics)
All I’m saying is: you could do a lot worse than PornHub as a research authority for trends in this subject.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 4 months ago:
For example, Oliver has magic hands
- Comment on Leather Dad(dy) 4 months ago:
The term is hood. This is a motorcycle hood
(😈)
- Comment on Meetings 4 months ago:
Perhaps oy only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 4 months ago:
Conventions with tons of them!
- Comment on Head chog 5 months ago:
Unfortunately, while it’s pronounced Chog, it’s spelled Gehog - is was considered a shrewd choice by the Erinaceidae family what seems like millions of years ago, but now it’s just another spelling quirk.
Just promise me to not provide us the same insightful breakdown of their cousin, the moonrats.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 5 months ago:
Back at the beginning of the modern LGBT umbrella, gays were given the stereotype of all being hookup obsessed kinky motorcycle enthusiasts, the ‘leather daddy and boi’ look. It’s good to look tough when protesting for your right to exist.
Around the 90s the jazzercise fit athletic picky eater gay became a trope on television - your classic twink.
The problem with both those poster boy stereotypes is they’re both positioned as kinda in-your-face and combative, so gays that just wanted to live life emerged - fat, unthreatening, and likely to invite you to their BBQ - the modern bear.
Meanwhile, the internet is just becoming a thing and in the early days ‘nobody on the internet knows if you’re a dog’ as the expression goes. Without a corporal body as reference, people are reduced to their chosen name/handle, their profile pic and whatever thoughts they posted. Internet culture filled the gaps with anime girls and cats - creating the perfect culture for mascot suiting to evolve into a new niche.
Finally, pup play stems from the biker boi kink of gimp play (sensory deprivation), someone stitched leather ears onto a gimp hood to reduce a (consensual adult) person to ‘just an obedient animal’ with the original look meant to dehumanize and anonymize. Ironically this play has gone through radical transformations and softened as most modern pup hoods are colorful expressions of individuality. Today pup play is a great sampler platter of kinks and adult activities in general (including many that are family friendly). It’s a great way for stressed adults to step away from adulting for an evening and just play.
Also, don’t take my description as fully gospel, all of these movements are complicated with regional variations, and since these are generally voluntary labels and useful stereotypes, you’ll find plenty of people who see these differently or wish to gatekeep, etc. So take this all with grains of salt
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 5 months ago:
Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek pretending that pup, furry, and bear aren’t often just the same type of person in different moods.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 5 months ago:
They could be a furry. A wholly different thing. 😅
- Comment on I assume it's corn 5 months ago:
Bubba?
- Comment on Graffiti 5 months ago:
I can’t speak for Fediverse, but I recall that Reddit would add a randomly chosen modifier to the output, such that the total score is correct, but the specific upvote/downvote counts are off. My understanding is the bit of fuzz gives some anonymity by uncertainty against specific types of attacks.
I assume something similar here.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 5 months ago:
Sata Clausen
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 5 months ago:
Ain’t that the naked truth?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 5 months ago:
Hindsight is…
- Comment on Pika Pika 5 months ago:
Well, went and did research (gasp!) and found I had been lied to! Or at least to say it’s complicated. My statement does have merit in that yes! The most popular cameras from 2019 average 25 megapixels, and that puts it neck and neck to several uses of film (frequently animated uses).
I still think my primary argument is unchanged, but the precise details of my statement are somewhat hyperbolic. In my defence, “better than film” has been the marketing for at least a decade and there are things that digital photography shine at.
Still, thank you for keeping me in check.