A nice breakfast to make your Doc-Martens-wearing, Oscar-Wilde-reading, 70s-music-listening, Taylor-Swift-stanning, probably-queer friend.
It's a type of breakfast that Remus Lupin, a member of the Marauders (from Harry Potter) makes for himself at Hogwarts in the extremely popular All the young dudes fanfic by the brilliant MsKingBean89 on AO3.
It consists of a crunchy piece of toast that is divided in four equal pieces. On each of the four pieces there is a different breakfast spread; marmalade, jam, lemon curd and butter.
Person A: I feel like eating a magical, gay wizardbreakfast today.
Person B: Moony toast today, then.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”