dubstepcicada:

lots of artists can fill their work with aching homosexual tension, but no one else can make the impending sodomy look quite as classy and exquisitely dressed as Leyendecker can. God bless you, sir.

LEYENDECKER OH MY GOD THAT RIDICULOUS LITTLE SHIT. THIS GUY IS A LEGEND HE’S THE BENCHMARK AGAIMST WHICH I WILL ALWAYS COMPARE ‘ARTISTIC BALLSINESS’.

THIS GUY LIVED AND WORKED IN THE EARLY 1900s. BEING GAY WAS ILLEGAL AND UNACCEPTABLE AS FUCK, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE JUST CASUALLY LIVED WITH DEAR OLD CHARLES BEACH ALL HIS LIFE, NEVER MARRIED, AND WHEN HE DIED SPLIT HIS FORTUNE BETWEEN HIS SISTER AND BEACH.

HE MADE A SERIES OF ADS WITH A FICTIONAL GUY CALLED ‘THE ARROW COLLAR MAN’ AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS IN FUCKING HISTORY. THE ARROW COLLAR MAN WAS A GODDAMN ICON HE GOT FANMAIL AND PEOPLE WOULD CUT OUT THE PHOTOS OF THEIR FAVOURITES AND HANG THEM ON THE WALL. HE INSPIRED A MUSICAL FFS IT’S CALLED HELEN OF TROY.

HE MADE THE ARROW COLLAR MAN INTO A GODDAMN ROCK STAR IS WHAT I’M SAYING.

AND YOU KNOW WHO THIS LITTLE SHIT WENT AND BASED IT ON?

YEP. CHARLES FUCKING BEACH. HE BASED IT ON HIS BOYFRIEND. IN A TIME WHERE BEING GAY BASICALLY GOT YOU HUNG DRAWN AND QUARTERED THIS LITTLE SHIT GOT PEOPLE HANGING UP DRAWINGS OF HIS BOYFRIEND AND SENDING FANMAIL TO THE FICTIONAL VERSION OF HIM.

IT’S A CENTURY LATER AND I’M IN AWE OF HIM. HE MUST’VE NEEDED HIS ENTIRE ESTATE JUST TO HOUSE HIS MASSIVE GODDAMN BALLS HOLY SHIT.