[ SECRET POST #6469 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6469 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #925.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/QokvhzQ.png

[(Anonymous)]

I can't tell - is this a bad picture of the actor or just another case of someone not knowing what "twink" means?

[(Anonymous)]

English is a descriptive language, not prescriptive. The term has expanded, it is time for you to accept that.

[(Anonymous)]

So what has "twink" expanded to mean now?

[(Anonymous)]

"Cultural appropriation" is also descriptive, and it's what you're doing right now. Stop it.

[(Anonymous)]

The term hasn't expanded, straight people just didn't understand what it meant and now it's been warped past it's original meaning.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering the same myself, only I thought maybe *I* misunderstood what "twink" meant. This just looks a very ordinary dude dressed like an elf.

[feotakahari]

Very few people IRL actually look like a “twink,” and they all seem quite young. I can understand the term broadening so it’s usable.

[(Anonymous)]

...speaking as a queer dude here, they all should seem quite young because the definition of being a twink includes being a young man or having a very youthful appearance. Twink doesn't really apply to like 99% of people in their thirties, as much as many queer dudes in their thirties might wish it did, and oh boy, lots try. Often embarrassingly.

[(Anonymous)]

That is what a twink is though: a young, usually skinny man, which none of the characters I ever see getting called a 'twink' actually are. The broader populace got ahold of certain types of gay-slang and have been misusing it ever since.

[(Anonymous)]

They don't know what twink means, it's very clear lots of fandom doesn't even understand the gay-terminology they keep co-opting.

[(Anonymous)]

It would be funny if it wasn't kind of gross. I bet they think any woman in a blazer is butch.

[(Anonymous)]

As if most of these people in fandom aren't gay or another type of queer and haven't heard the words being used by older gays. Maybe you oldbies should explain what the words mean instead of just using them and expecting them to understand? Or don't use them outside of your hand-picked circles of gay friends who have passed the Gay Language Test.

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[(Anonymous)]

the actual definition of a twink as used in the gay community: a young gay man in his early to mid 20s who is thin, pretty, boyish and often appears underage.

fandom's definition of a "twink": any man i think is hot!

sorry, fandom, but i liked when words used to mean things.

[(Anonymous)]

He's a twink by elf standards, OK.

[philstar22]

Honestly, I'm finding this version of Elrond closer to the book than the movie version, so I'm loving him too.

[(Anonymous)]

He looks like a pug.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. He's got a rather beaky, prominent nose. Pugs don't really have that.

[(Anonymous)]

It's the five-head. Makes the rest of his face look kind of squished together. Combined with the wrinkles, the overall effect is a little puggish.

[(Anonymous)]

puggery!

[(Anonymous)]

That is one strange looking middle-aged man.

[(Anonymous)]

31 is middle aged?

[(Anonymous)]

You fired from the hip, without really reading the secret, and thought we were talking about Celebrimbor again. You can admit it. You're among friends here, you can just say it.

[(Anonymous)]

Why does he look like he should be playing an officer who’s going to betray his men in a movie about WW1?

[(Anonymous)]

This is off topic to the secret but I am appreciating these Rings of Power secrets because I'm slowly learning who each character is.

XD

Huge LOTR fan when I was in high school, but I haven't bothered to watch RoP. However, a friend is watching the show (he never read the books, enjoys the films but doesn't like them as much as other fantasy films) and he is having a hard time remembering which character is who.
I'm vicariously experiencing the show by listening to him talk about the show. XD

I get what he means when he said, "I didn't like the actor they got to play Elrond in the show."
Like, Hugo Weaving worked for me because I hadn't watched "The Matrix" nor read the books before watching the show. His regal elf man who is Liv Tyler's dad made sense to me.
I understand for RoP it was a long, long time ago, but yeah...IDK dude doesn't work for me purely based upon this photo.