Shallow Runs Deep

You could literally kill someone who has a seizure disorder with that video of Austin at the wedding.

Luckily, I was sitting down when I opened Instagram cause that strobe lighting made my world turn white, and it triggered a bout of vomiting. 🤢

She's literally rage baiting everyone and it's exhausting.

I don't want to have to unfollow people because of it, so could people please mention her name or tag her in the post so I can filter it. I'm sorry, but that's the way Tumblr works.

Also, grey rocking is a great way to cut off someone's narcissistic supply if anyone would like to try it.

I promised not to say inappropriate things, but who takes a photo of someone sitting on the back of a couch wearing a watch....

when their hands are obviously protecting precious goods.

This was deliberate, I tell you!

They should have just put the shot of him slowly caressing the band closed in this location and I'd have invested in this collectors piece.

We go through this every 3 to 6 months.

She's not an Austin blog.

She started out as a blog that shit talked Austin's career. She did about five of those, all of which we blocked.

She gained traction when she started shit talking about Kaia Gerber cause gossip pages in the fandom can't break up with her.

And then she latched on to Alice.

She goes quiet when Austin drops something cause it takes attention away from her.

Then she comes back with something to rile up the fandom.

She's submitting her own anons.

She knows nothing about Austin.

Favorite photo from ten years ago

The Variety Fandango Sundance Studio Presented by Dockers, Day 2, Park City, Utah, America - 24 Jan 2016

Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images

I know the long hair is controversial, but I’ve used this photo as an inspiration to write some of the most emotionally devastating Sebastian Kydd fiction that I can imagine. His expression is hard to read.  Is he sad, angry, hurting, or just pensive? It all depends on the person looking and the way they read his expression.

I’m always intrigued that more people don’t write about Sebastian. I think it’s because it feels “icky” to write about a teenager, but teenagers grow up and become men. Sebastian is one of the few characters Austin played where you can create his life story. Once he leaves Carrie, his life is a blank slate. You don’t need to create an AU (although you could), there’s no need to change his back story because it’s full of trauma, and if you want to make him evil, you can use that backstory as a way to do it. You can rescue him from that trauma, or use the trauma as a way to make Sebastian rescue people. You can do anything you want with him from age 18 on and will all be canon, because there is no canon.

There’s a 16 year age gap between the age Sebastian was and Austin’s age now. That’s 16 years of photos to inspire just about any situation.

I don't get it.

I’m going to start this by saying that I’m sharing my opinion in this ddofab. We all know everybody has one, and we don’t always have to agree with each other, and just because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean their opinion is wrong. We all like different things, and just because I don’t like something that you love doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with me or you, we just have different tastes. 

Consider this my version of Unpopular Opinions.  

When I first saw this photo of Austin I gasped. Not with joy, but with horror. My immediate thought was “oh no, no, no, no, no, Austin, you can’t be wearing that. You look like my dad.” I mean, if my dad had been white, 6’2 and looked like Austin Butler. 

Photo by: Vanity Fair, the Hollywood Issue, November, 18, 2025 (This is behind a paywall, so I can't actually see who the photo credit belongs too.)

I’ll concede that it’s the rearview perspective, but that outfit…well, this was what my dad wore every…. single… day… of… his… life. Granted the shirt was usually some sort of plaid shirt, but the only time he wasn’t wearing blue jeans and a button up was when he wore a t-shirt that had a front pocket where he’d store his cigarettes (if he hadn’t rolled them up in his sleeve). Sometimes the tee was in a dark color, but mostly it was white, because Sears and Roebuck always sold them in packs, and why would a man waste his time shopping somewhere else when he could buy his Craftman tools with their lifetime warranty in the same place as his clothes.

My dad and Austin shared the same ethos about clothing. He would have tease him relentlessly for paying thousands of dollars for clothes that the original owner paid $20 bucks for, but he’d have given him a ‘proud of you, son’ if he’d been alive to see Austin wearing the same outfits repeatedly on the Caught Stealing press tour.    

Anyway, my point is that I can’t look at Austin in this photo and not see my dad. I love my dad. I was a daddy’s girl, but I don’t wanna be lusting after looking at Austin and thinking of my dad. It kills the mood real fast.

This one may get me kicked out of the fandom. 

I apologize in advance to my mutuals, but….

I appreciate the man cleavage, but this black leather Givenchy by Sarah Burton jacket should have stayed on the couch it was made from. I look at this picture and I’m like, “babe, somebody gave you some really bad advice that day”. The smolder only works if you can see his eyes. Was the one eye being exposed supposed to happen, or did his sunglasses slip? It’s confusing. 

Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

I’m telling you that even Austin knows this jacket was a bad idea. It’s why he took it off and paired it with a white tee shirt when he left the after party. The white tee shirt and leather pants were sexy. This jacket, not so much.

Tell me there’s a difference between this couch and that jacket. The couch looks better. It doesn’t have wrinkles, and you can sit on it. It has a purpose. It serves a need. The only thing that jacket does is make me wanna take it off of him, and I mean in that a completely non-inappropriate way. That alone means it needs to be confined to the closet of things to never be seen again.

Lemieux et Cie, Rousseau Leather Sofa, $8420.00

I know I'm cheating, but photos are pictures, and movies are moving pictures, so I’m technically just redefining my terms. 

The conversation lasts less than 30 seconds.

Austin: What is your, what's your history with cooking?  Action: I was a chef my whole life.  Austin: You're a chef your whole life.  Action: This is what I always wanted to do. Austin: And what type of, like how did you start and then where did you get into and how did you learn? Action: I just wanted to fuck. So I learned how to cook.  Autin: Really? Action: Yeah. I needed something other than this gorgeous face, you know. Come on, Austin. Not everyone's fucking, uh, a supermodel like you, baby. 

The beauty happens at about 13 seconds in. 

The expression on Austin’s face when he registers that Action’s says he just wanted to fuck. Austin hesitates for a second, the cogs in his mind turning frantically as they try to come up with a response. He knows he’s being filmed. He knows he needs to respond, but he’s not Action, so he doesn’t know what to say (or can’t say what he’s thinking) and he freezes. It lasts for just a few seconds, but my obsession with it has lasted for more than eight months

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched this video. I’ve analyzed it second by second, and I’ve become obsessed with watching Austin Butler eat. I’ve never really understood people's obsession with food until I saw Austin eating this meal. The way he stares at his food before he takes a bite, his uninhibited reaction to what he loves, the joy that shines through when he takes the first bite. The sounds he makes. He has the proper manners, but if the camera wasn’t there, he’d be licking the plate. 

This isn’t the first time I’ve featured this video on ddofab. I could analyze it forever because there are so many nuances. Just watch the video, and watch Austin’s expressions and you’ll see why this is my favorite photo of the year.

Hottest co-star

Warnings: This post is borderline PG13 / R. Also, I mean it to be light hearted, so don’t freak out.

Let’s be honest. If you’re putting anything other than Callum Turner here you’re risking being kicked out of the fandom.  

Does anyone even remember any of Austin’s other co-stars? No? Didn’t think so.

I have a prediction for the future. When Miami Vice ‘85 comes out, it’s going to be a battle royale between Callum and Michael as to who’s the hottest, and it’s going to be really fun for those of us on the sideline. The content we’re going to be fed will be delicious. 

This is the only acceptable photo of Michaeland Austin because....curls.

Callum and Austin: Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Apple TV+)

Michael and Austin: Photo by wme and sinners movie (Instagram)

Picking one of Austin’s co-stars as hotter than the other is like inviting hornets to nest in your attic. They’ll stay up there silently building a colony until you piss one off, and the next thing you know, you’re being swarmed. People are passionate in both their love and hate of Austin’s co-stars, so I’m going to create a new verb tense - Future Manifesting.

As in, I’m manifesting this future collab.

So what makes Charlie Austin's hottest future co-star?

Have you seen him?

Photo by: Ryan Pfluger for Variety (September, 30, 2025)

This is what Ryan Murphy had to say about him.

Sound familiar?

Photo by: Unknown

I'm not the only one who sees the perfection of this pairing.

St Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, gifted us the first sighting of them at Paris Fashion Week in March 2026.

Photo by Aitor Rosas Sune/WWD via Getty Images (GQ, January 28, 2026)

Tell me you can't see them matched together and not swoon.

Charlie: Photo by Unknow Austin: Photo by Focus Features

They're even beginning to dress similarly. They're so hot, they'd melt the movie screen.

Charlie: Photo by Carter Smith for Nexflix Tumdum

Austin: "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" (August 12, 2025) Image: Getty

Clothing credit: World Vintage, LA (Austin bought that sweater. They need to keep him out of the knitwear section.)

Charlie is an Aries and Austin is a Leo, so they balance each other out. 

Charlie is uninhibited, so we get great quotes like: 

“…..I also try to make love as often as I can. That's an important part of fitness…..” (Men's Health, March 7, 2017)

And 

“When I was 18 I was getting f*cked in the ass, completely naked on national TV, you know?”  (Attitude, September 7, 2017)

I need them on stage together, doing a press tour, just so I can see Austin’s reaction when Charlie says something like that. It’s like an ache in my soul. The blush on Austin's face would light up the sky.

I'll leave you with this.

Austin's wearing Charlie's shirt. A shirt he bought at World VIntage L.A.

I'm telling you he's sending me signals. He's telling me it's meant to be.

Best on screen kiss

Sometimes I wonder when Austin says things if the innuendo is deliberate or just my desperation.

I love how, after the kiss, he looks at the camera as if he's saying, "Oh yeah, I did it. What you gonna do about it?"

And even on his knees, Feyd will always take control.

“Dune: Part Two”

Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

“[The kiss] with Stellan Skarsgård? Oh yeah!” Butler said when asked about improvising the moment. “He’s game for anything. He’s the best…it’s always about how you’re trying to affect somebody else.”

Quote from: Austin Butler Confirms Kiss w/ 'Dune 2' Co-Star Stellan Skarsgard Was Improvised | Access Hollywood Time Stamp 2:09

Tranquility

I’m not confused about the date. Tumblr and I just had an argument about how much Austin one post could take. Silly Tumblr…there’s no such thing as too much Austin. 

When I started making this post the MYSLF Eau De Toilette Intense campaign film hadn’t come out yet. 

What a difference a week makes. 

YSL Beauty's marketing department owns me in a way that I'm not ashamed to admit.

These ads do unspeakable things to my mind, body and soul.

They are sexy, seductive, and erotic.

But more than that, they make me feel alive, and there have been times over the last few years that I didn’t think that I would be. 

I've watched Austin dance, laugh, and cry over a million times through each ad, and every time it’s reminded me that it’s okay if I’m not able to do any of those things,

I’m not someone who shows my emotions easily. I’m the rock that holds everything together while the world falls apart. Some of you can relate to that, some of you can’t. Not everyone’s path is the same. 

But I’ve been tried over the past week by the “OMG, AUSTIN’S NOT BEING THE MAN THAT I WANT HIM TO BE SHOW I BETTER SLAP A LABEL ON IT SO I CAN MAKE FUN OF IT TO MAKE MYSELF FEEL SUPERIOR” crowd in the fandom. In all honesty, I get tried by them everyday, but this week was hard, because I don’t understand tearing down something that brings someone else joy. And this was too close to my heart.

It would be easy for me to let you steal my joy, but I’m not gonna. Instead I’m going to share the inspiration for Dancing with Myself with you, because I feel like some of you need it. 

Keep in mind this song was written in 1978 /1979. 

Regarding the inspiration behind the song, Idol told Rolling Stone that he went to a discotheque in 1978 in Japan, and saw them "dancing to their own reflections in the mirror and not really with each other." For the lyrical meaning, he remarked, "I think a lot of people think it's about masturbation but it really was about these disenfranchised youth dancing and that was their world, really." He conceded, "But I mean, there's a masturbatory element to it, too. There's a masturbatory element in those kids dancing with their own reflections. It's not too much further to sexual masturbation. The song really is about these people being in a disenfranchised world where they're left bereft dancing with their own reflections. These kids were almost disaffected from each other and with their own reflections."

“Disaffected from each other and with their own reflections.”

What a lonely place it must be. 

I hope for you that some day you find the peace and tranquility that I get from watching these ads that you like to mock. I hope you find just a minute of the joy that they bring me. 

I’m gonna go watch Austin spin in the rain with his shoes off cause I slowed that video just to see him in a wet, white shirt.

YSL MYSLF

MYSLF L’Absolu Fragrance | Campaign Film ft. Austin Butler

MYSLF EAU DE TOILETTE INTENSE | Campaign Film ft. Austin Butler

Credit: Billy Idol Instagram

(thanks to @brokbrainy credit for the original post of the video)

YSL advert #austinbutler dancing with myself remix with original vocal -BFI

MYSLF EAU DE TOILETTE INTENSE | Campaign Film ft. Austin Butler