#beard journey

[derlejoe]

Cody Price

source: instagram

#ig favourite #beard #beard growth #hair growth #beard journey #big beard #long hair #handsome #tattoos #beardtransformation #hair transformation #yeard #babyface #beard vs no beard

[petricorah]

ngl i did not expect izzy hands to be my favorite character in season 2, but here we are. [id in alt]

#izzy hands #ofmd izzy #izzy fanart #ofmd fanart #our flag means death fanart #myart #ofmd izzy fanart #his voice sounds so good? I was NOT expecting that. and now i want to download it #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #last season i didn't like him/didn't have too many opinions #but this season i look forward to him on screen the most? and i'm loving his attitude and journey #the SONG??? can we talk about the song???? agghhhhh #this is my first time drawing him im not sure i have him down yet.... #he's supposed to be smiling on the right but it's not showing up with his beard alas :(((((

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles: A Director’s Journey

#Jensen Ackles #JensenEdit #Jensen in baseball caps #Jensen Ackles: A Director's Journey #Bearded!Jensen #My Edits

[mintaikcorpse]

I don't think the fandom talks enough about how Mei can turn into a gigantic fucking dragon

#or that might just be a me thing #like i always forget she can do that and then i remeber “oh yeah shes a dragon!” #like dope power and all but i wish her main design had more dragon elements to it #like Ao Guang has scales on his face #and Ao Lie has green eyes instead of black eyes #idk i love mei but i jist wish she had more dragon elements #i do like how her hsir resembles dragon horns and a dragon beard though #that's one of my favorite things about her design #mei #lmk mei #mei lmk #lego monkie kid mei #mei lego monkie kid #lmk #lego monkie kid #jttw #journey to the west

[goodmorninglovelies42]

Just thinking about Ted Lasso as Dorothy and Beard, Nate, and Roy as the Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man. Have we done this yet?

#ted lasso #saw a post on Twitter speculating that Jason changed the ending #when nothing makes less sense to me #for 1 Ted’s whole journey is about fatherhood #dealing with his dad issues and becoming a better dad #he had to go back to be a present father #and in a more meta sense it’s a classic hero’s journey #he had to return home! #like Dorothy he had to come back to Kansas after his trip to oz and learning all he did on that trip #and beard is from Kansas too #but he needed to get his brain in oz and stay there #and Nate needed to gain self confidence #and Roy not only walked like the tin man but needed to get in touch with his feelings! #roy kent #coach beard #nate shelley

[zefny4]

him :)

#eisen #sousou no frieren #frieren anime #freiren #frieren fanart #sousou no frieren fanart #frieren: beyond journey's end #dwarf #bearded man #beard #cute #silly little guy #anime fanart #anime art #anime

[monopolyjailhouse]

#me #bearded men #black men #loc journey #work selfie

[darlingofdots]

I am not the least bit sorry to say that Admiral Laurence giving orders and arranging supply and battle plans in three different languages is incredibly attractive

#temeraire #dottie rambles #second only to bearded farmer laurence imo #added bonus that the russians prussians and chinese show him the respect he desefves #*deserves #even when the english aviators don't #he's reaping the rewards of his journey! #he's SUCH a good commander we knew this! #and he hasn't had opportunity to show it in like 7 years

[coachbeards]

thinking again about ted saying beard's preference for relationships are quick, that they don't last more than five minutes "or they'll lose their flavor" ...

thinking again about beard saying "in all my happiest memories, i'm single"

thinking again about ted being the one true constant in beard's life. through relationships, through phases, through experiences, etc. whatever hobbies or lives or masters beard has had, nothing remains in his life like ted does. nothing!!!

#beard has been a lumberjack and a dancer and he raves and he has all these weird experiences and journeys #but just KNOW beard'll always end up back with ted

[sailor-arashi]

#eisen #beard #frieren #sousou no frieren #frieren at the funeral #frieren beyond journey's end #葬送のフリーレン #sailor arashi gifs #gif warning

[derlejoe]

Livinho Souza

source: instagram

#ig favourite #beard #handsome #big beard #beard growth #beard journey #beardlove #beardenvy #long beard #megabeard #beanie+tattoos

[crudely-drawn-ben]

Between Freiren and Dungeon Meshi we are currently blessed with some great anime featuring truly top-tier dwarf design.

#frieren: beyond journey's end #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #little guys with big beards

[threadbareturnbacks]

Black Sails and Facial Hair - Part 3, (Long) John Silver

One of the important aspects of character creation in Black Sails is that it proports to show not the Pirate Of Legend (a la POTC) but the Origin Of the Pirate Legend. But nothing can be created in a vacuum, you cannot reference pirate legend without engaging in some sort of historical storytelling that connects to the modern audience, which is, at its heart, the stuff of pirate legend. Narrative is an ouroboros, constantly eating its own tale. 

John Silver shows up bright eyed and busy tailed and a perfect picture of a late 18th century sailor, down to the black shoes. His hair is a little too short, but reasonable and he’s rocking just a shade of a five o’clock shadow, but nothing untoward for a merchant ship in 1715. He’s a bag of snakes and like any good bag of snakes, he could get off in any port in the New or Old World and slip into the crowd without being noticed. He is, like Flint in 1704, perfectly suited to his surroundings. Flint’s crew take him at face value, but we know that this is a skin he wears that gives him more freedom than the bewhiskered pirates around him.

Throughout the first season, he stays pretty well shaved and clean. I mean, look at our boy after 5 days at sea and a shipwreck. This is the face of a man who plans to disappear into civilization as soon as he can.  He even tells Flint, “I’ll find somewhere else to survive” - His appearance isn’t predicated on fitting in or telling a story, it’s predicated on survival. He’s handsome enough, but no one would look twice if they didn’t need to.

Unfortunately for Silver, everything he says comes true. And when he says “I don’t want to be a pirate”, well, I’ve got bad news for you snake man. He might say that out loud but his face tells a different story. After the capture of the galleon and his little Stomp Stomp routine, he stops shaving. It’s subtle at first. He’s still bright eye’d and bushy tailed (haired). But his hair is longer, his face is rougher. He’s starting to ingratiate himself with the crew, starting to become essential to Flint, starting to even find a place of belonging and in doing so, he drifts further from the safety of anonymity.  

By the end of S2, he’s teetering on the edge. He’s got the mustache but compared to almost the entire crew, he’s still relatively respectable. However, look at how different it shows up in the light verses the dark. He might look like a citizen in the day, but at night his true self comes through and it’s all pirate.

Just as Flint’s door is closed at the end of s2, so is Silver’s. He can never again be an anonymous citizen, a snake in the grass. He might be able to integrate, but never again without notice. And he reflects that in his face. A full, patchy beard, very long hair barely brushed or contained - this is not a man who can step off a boat in any city and blend in. He’s clearly not taking care of himself.

Amputees are occasionally depicted in 18th century illustration - often in two distinct ways: The Good - employed and respectable (and clean-shaven) and The Poor - unemployed, whiskered, and dirty. Silver’s decided that since he can’t blend in, he might as well lean into the stereotype.   

Additionally, there are instances of white men with beards living in the ‘civilized world’, particularly England and North America, but their lives are not easy. The beard is an essential feature of their Otherness, often Jewishness, and choosing to exist with that facial hair is a conscious statement. Whether as a statement of faith or as embracing his new condition, his beard is a clear rejection of reintegration or assimilation.

Contrast Silver’s unruly mop to Flint’s managed goatee, which he keeps neat and clean. The two of them, to an early 18th century observer, would make a terrifying pair, appearing as a mad Jacobean and a feral beggar, both ready to kill and not to be trusted under any circumstance. Quite literally the stuff of cultural nightmares and a sign of society unraveling. 

Madi’s presence helps a bit, as does his standing as Long John Silver in Nassau. His hair is more managed but the beard does not get any less wild. And he mostly stays this way through the rest of the show.  

(a side note: the slick hair from the doldrums on is actually a factor of the production. Many outdoor scenes were filmed in the wind and to avoid Silver’s hair flying everywhere, it was slicked back, from Fathoms Deep)    

By the time his in the forest, dealing himself his own emotional death knell, he is as uncontained as we see him. The beard and the hair are one, there is no pretense of return or control. He has become undone, he is scrambling to grasp at the last tendrils of his humanity.  

Which makes his final scene all the more fascinating. Because the last we see of John Silver makes him look downright professional. He’s still rocking the beard, but it’s trimmed, his hair is in a neat tail, he is no longer wearing heavy layers, or even sagging his back all that much. He looks, for lack of a better word, civilized. Certainly far more civilized than we have any right to expect him to look after what we’ve seen.

He’s made his choice. He has chosen the safety of society over the wild uncertainty of war and resistance. He’s back, in essence, where he started. Able to walk into any port in the known world and be just another invalid, returning from war. 

But the last year has done a number on him. He’ll never fully integrate. He hasn’t quite abandoned his pirate self (the beard remains), but he’s willing to work within the rules. He’ll never be fully in the system, but never fully out of it. He’ll always be on the shore, never on the sea or on land. He’ll always be a character archetype, never a full person. His existence is now essentially liminal, just as he wears a beard and a ponytail, a combination that is exceptionally odd for the period, but just perfect for our last view of the famed pirate king. 

Part 1 - History of Beards

Part 2 - Captain Flint 

#black sails #black sails meta #black sails history #long john silver #john silver #fashion history #ya'll had enough beard meta yet? #i think silver's facial hair journey is a trip #i lost my shit when i saw the last scene of him with a nice neat queue the first time #it's the clearest 'im trying to fit it' thing we see him do #and such a contrast to flint who's last scene is such a fuck you to civilization and rules of propriety #they become each other's mirror #this show is going to destroy me i stg #black sails beards

[kat-rose-griffith]

Oh no no no no Dorothy is going to have to go back to Kansas isn’t he. I’ve known since the beginning that Ted Lasso is a beautifully deconstructed Wizard of Oz, but I’m genuinely not ready for this

#ted lasso #each character going on a journey for heart courage and/or a brain influenced by a Kansan that has their own growth to do #the discovery that the great and powerful Oz (Rupert) was just a pathetic man the whole time #each character finding that what they needed was in their reach the whole time they just had to believe #and then Dorothy going back home once she and her new friends overcame evil and learned what they needed #it’s all so beautiful but I can’t handle it #at least he’ll always have Toto (beard) with him

[how-now-brown-wow]

I went to Mexico and felt kinda sexy for the first time in awhile

#big boobs?!?! .... chile #okay ive been on a body recomp journey and i feel like im actually seeing results which makes me cry #also im sorry but im gonna be gross and tag this with basic tags bc BABY NEED VALIDATION #gay #desi #bengali #beard #hairy #bear #thick #me #my face

[poisoncupids]

say what u want about it but jiper really is for people who didn't know they were gay until after the majority of their teen years

#jason grace #piper mclean #jiper #heroes of olympus #jiper stans i'm sorry for putting this in your tag. and sorry about the rest of the tags you're about to read #please look away if u believe they truly love each other i don't want to step on ur sandcastles #but anyway #the literal years i spent picking and choosing my crushes rather than just having them. i see u jiper. #something about !! if a goddess had tampered with my memories and told me i was supposed to be dating a boy i would have thrown myself into #it headfirst too. and that goes both ways!! #i love jiper so bad bc it's not even a beard situation it's just that no one has ever told my poor little meow meows that They themselves #could be gay. the representation we (i) needed. #and this is why. in the universe where it happens. nico changes jason's life so bad #he thinks he's finally figured out who he is #only to have it all turned around when he discovers what a crush is *supposed* to feel like. and that that's what he feels for nico #and sure it hurts to be stuck finding himself *again* after everything #but at the other end of that journey he's in a truer form #one that sits more comfortably in his own skin #okay. shutting up bc this is a fic now. #this post went jiper -> personal information i didn't need to share -> jasico #always back to fawking jasico. when will the gay people in my brain leave me alone!!!!