Twinkdom

Coordinate term: beardom

Maybe it’s the turning 25 and forever-bidding adieu to twinkdom, but nothing lasts forever.

God, that period of my life-- Mikey and I were separated, and I clung desperately to the last vestiges of twinkdom: knee-high tube socks, wife beaters, and that goddamned bottle-opener necklace, declaring my obvious devotion to the bar scene.

So whilst the rejection of twinkdom and the prioritisation of youth in gay culture, which was part of bear culture's development, is replaced with a positive celebration and eroticisation of maturity in bear porn, […]

He was less of a twink than Kris—and Kris suspected twink was basically Rayne’s type—but that wasn’t a fair comparison. Kris was like, the Platonic ideal of twinkdom.

Twinkdom is also a short-lived phase of life; time is the twink’s ontological threat.