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Oh yeah, I finished my Chun-Li cosplay and had a photoshoot with it on Halloween in London’s Chinatown. It was really neat and the bonus shots with the kids are great. They made my entire night <3
And another bonus… I was rather shocked with my flexibility.
Now THAT is one Hell of a character! 😎
reblog this post and tag it with how you like your steak, how you like your eggs, and how you like your coffee
PEOPLE TAGGING THIS POST RARE, OVER EASY AND BLACK REALLY ARE STRONGER THAN ANY OF US EVER WILL KNOW
I dont like much the beef cause it’s strong taste. I absolutely adore eggs poached in a brothy and thick chicken noodle soup and well, I just enjoy the smell of coffee, but not drinking it. ♡.
And you, dears?
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For me its rare to medium rare. Eggs….ill pretty much eat them any way except for eggs benedict and as far as coffee, I like medium roast to dark and with french vanilla. Also like mocchacino
Medium Rare, Poached or scrambled, no coffee. Hot chocolate instead. Or tea.
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Im crying this is so beautiful
unpopular opinion but i think the film and tv industries should have better labor laws even if it makes it harder or impossible to depict certain things
i dont care if it makes it harder to produce game of thrones or whatever, acting should not leave women traumatized
Okay I know this is about acting and people are getting more traction about it (sexuality safety coordinators are a job! yell about them. demand your shows get them) but
Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died.
Not usually on set, but afterwards. Because we don’t have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices when “unsafe” means 16 hour days. Or more. For weeks. Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.
I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because they’ll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home. And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.
I know you mean acting but please. Don’t forget the crew. We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families. Burnout is high. Chronic illness and broken bodies are common. Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant. Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.
The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades. Which means longer days.
Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.
There are labor laws but what they do is levy fines. Those fines are either factored into budget, people are bullied into not reporting actual hours, or crew members see them as incentive to take those jobs because more money and cost of living is high. (Also this industry has a crew culture of dick measuring by sticking your wang in a blender and boasting about how many 100 hour weeks you pulled.)
this can be applied for people working in animation as well. Like I know people who work at Pixar and they straight up work 12 hour days and go into work on weekends to meet their deadlines. The incredibles 2 made over a billion dollars and Pixar still cut jobs due to “budget”. The entertainment industry is a business at the end of the day. There here to make money and they are going to do it at the expense of workers because they know no one is going to do anything about it.
This is why I get pissy when people have a go about British TV shows only producing 10-12 episodes per season at most, instead of 24. Do you know why? Because the UK has fucking labour laws.
When I worked on BBC Causalty, as soon as it hit 5pm, everything stopped. The producer/director etc would have a quick meeting to decide if we’d go into overtime or schedule it in later in the week. And I got an extra payslip in the mail for every minute of overtime I did, even though I was paid a weekly rate.
I don’t care if it means producing less content. I don’t care if it means it costs twice as much - if treating your creatives and your crew like shit is needed to make your show, then your show doesn’t deserve to get made.
And that’s aside from the fact that actors are often exploited, neglected, coerced into doing scenes they’re uncomfortable with etc or outright abused by directors for the sake of ~performance.
No art is worth that.
Yep this! Even in propmaking studios across the UK, working times are set from 9 till 5, unless a deadline is near and otherwise not made. You can CHOOSE to do overtime, but you don't HAVE to, and you will be paid for it. When I visited LA, it was very different. It was EXPECTED of you to sometimes just work all-nighters or through the weekend, and it wasn't considered something that deserved extra pay (150%-200% rate). It's just... you sign your life to the industry and they expect you to give it to them. I wouldn't mind working in LA every now and then, but only under British rule so to speak. I will have to work the LA hours, but I'd be insured and paid through a British firm. Forn now however, I just work in the UK, where I can have a life alongside work and achieve my goals in kickboxing as well.
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Okay but seriously folks - as often as I joke about this movie stirs my loins and as weirdly popular as this text post got a while back, I wanna rap with you all about why the George of the Jungle remake is a pretty important piece of cinema.
It’s literally the only movie I can think of that is based completely around the unheard of “FEMALE gaze.” Granted, while I’m a huge movie buff I’ve not seen every movie ever made. But even so, even if there’s another example of the “female gaze” in cinema that has escaped me it’s still damn impressive that a kids movie from 1997 based on a Jay Ward cartoon from the 60’s managed to turn gender representation in media on it’s fucking ass!
First things first, let’s look at our leading lady and love interest - Ursula, played by Leslie Mann.
Let me just say that while Leslie Mann is adorable and a talented actress, she does look a little less conventional and a little more plain compared to the bombshells that Hollywood likes to churn out. Leslie, in comparison, looks much more like a real women you’d meet on the street. She dresses pretty conservatively and plain throughout the film ; Wearing outfits that are more functional than fashionable for trekking through the jungle, pulling her hair back and so forth. Not that if she was dolled up and more scantily clad it would give her character any less integrity, but can we appreciate how RARE that is in the male dominated industry of film? Just think about all the roads a film about a woman in the jungle COULD have taken but didn’t - no scenes with her clothes strategically ripped or anything! You can say this is a kids movie, intended for children and that’s why the sensuality of the female lead is so downplayed but there are PLENTY of kids movies that handle women in a very objectifying and sexualized manner despite the target audience is pre-pubescent. Like, a disgusting amount. So I don’t think “it’s a kids movie” is why the film doesn’t take ANY, let alone EVERY, opportunity to showcase the main female character’s sex appeal…
…especially considering the sex appeal of the film rests squarely on the well defined shoulders of our male lead, George of the Jungle played by Brendan Fraser in the best god damn shape of his life!
*Homer Simpson Drooling Noises*
Whenever members of the reddit community try to compare the sexualization of women in fiction to the design of characters such as Batman and Superman, I always want to just sit them down and show them this movie. Because THIS is what the female sexual fantasy looks like, and Batman and Superman are male power-fantasies. Look at him - his big blue eyes, his soft hair, his lean, chiseled physique built for dexterity rather than power. He’s wild and free, but gentle. It’s like he fell right out of that steamy romance novel your mom tried to hide from you growing up.
Hell, the whole plot seems to be designed around how damn hot he is! First, for the majority of the film, he wears only a small strip of cloth to cover the dick balls and ass. Everything else is FAIR GAME to drool over for 40 minutes. Then, after he meets Ursula she takes him with her to San Francisco just so we can enjoy him in a well-tailored suit (as seen in the gif set), running around in an open and billowy shirt along side horses while Ursula and all of her friends literally crowd around and make sexual comments about him, and my personal favorite, ditch the loincloth entirely and have him walk around naked while covering his man-bits with various objects while one of Ursula’s very lucky friends oogles him and makes a joke along the lines of “So THAT’S why they call him the ‘KING of the Jungle’…”
And yes, it’s also a very cute and funny little movie. Out of all the movies based on Jay Ward cartoons, it was the most faithful to the fast-paced humor and wit of the original source material (yes even the new Peabody and Sherman movie which honestly I thought was too cutesy-poo.) But that’s not why this movie is popular with the gay community or why we all became women in 1997. It’s just really cool that there’s a film out there where the sensuality of the female form takes a back seat for the oiled up, chiseled, physique of Brendan Fraser (in his prime that is)
One thing to add: in the scene mentioned above where the ladies are watching him in the billowy shirt running with the horses, it pans back to about 50 feet away to two guys in suits at this party looking at the women and one of the guys says, “Man, what is it with women and horses?” So not only does this movie highlight the female gaze, but it blatantly points out that western male sensibilities don’t have a clue what actually appeals to women.
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he’s non threatening
as mentioned above, he looks built for dexterity rather than power, but he’s still a 6+ foot tall extremely muscular man, and not once are you worried for Ursula when he’s with her
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let’s take a look at his rival - Lyle is a cravat-wearing trust-fund kid (who, interestingly, is into Ursula’s fortune more than her, which kind of makes this a gender-swapped gold-digger thing too). He’s blonde and Ursula’s mom LOVES him. He’s more uncomfortable and less prepared to cope with the jungle than Ursula is, in his pastels and shiny shoes.
But he talks over Ursula, insists he knows what’s best for her, ignores her autonomy. In spite of the fact that Lyle Van de Groot is a rich, educated, social climber who cares deeply about his clothing and appearances he is a point-by-point checklist of unhealthy masculinity in a way that beefy, inarticulate, uneducated George could never be. Ursula is off on her own doing her own thing and Lyle hires two FUCKING POACHERS to track her down in the middle of the jungle while she’s working (or on vacation? It’s never made clear because he interrupts her before she can explain why she went on the expedition). Lyle ignores the local guides, claiming his experience with a bridge in Maui means the bridge they’re on is safe - which leads to a significant injury for one of the guides. He then tells Ursula the guides are conspiring against him, trying to make himself and his poachers seem safe and the Africans who make up the rest of their party seem dangerous.
Check that body language! A post above points out that we’re never worried about Ursula when she’s around George. That’s because Lyle talks to her like this. Look at his aggressive lean! Look at him literally looking down at her! She’s tilted away from him in the least threatening position possible and he’s so aggressive about whatever point he’s making. When he finds her after he pushed her toward a damned lion he kisses her and she pushes him away. Want a textbook example of gaslighting? Here you go: she says “don’t get all smoochy with me! I remember what happened with that lion” and he responds “What are you talking about? I was fighting that lion the whole time - you were just so terrified you don’t remember.” Then he shoots George! And then he kidnaps Ursula and attempts to force her into marriage!
Now look at how George and Ursula interact (slightly NSFW):
Even though he’s a big strong dude and he thinks he’s doing what’s okay he lets her set the tone for their interactions. He accepts that he’s out of his wheelhouse and even if he doesn’t understand it he does what she says is culturally appropriate. He learns from her! He listens to her! Compare Lyle leaning into Ursula above to this image of George and Ursula talking:
He’s listening to her, all of his attention is on on her, but he’s totally nonthreatening. His torso is turned toward her but he’s not invading her space, his hands are clasped, he’s smiling, and she’s the one leaning into him. Look at that smile she has, look how happy she is to be listened to. Her posture in both images is vulnerable but in this one with George she’s vulnerable because she has chosen to share with him instead of because she feels threatened.
When George rescues Ursula from Lyle at the end of the film it isn’t a typical damsel situation - George doesn’t have a knock-down-drag-out fight with Lyle, he swings into a tree and offers Ursula a hand so she can reach up and save herself (and before he does it he acknowledges how much it’s going to hurt and *whimpers* and looks human and scared). And you’ve gotta remember that George rescues everybody. It’s not just Ursula - he also rescues a parasailer and gets shot rescuing Shep and Ape. He just likes helping, dammit!
AND this movie offers a perfect counter to the “nice guy” thing - Ursula starts engaged to a jerk who her mom thinks is a “nice guy” the moves on to actual nice man George who isn’t *just* nice - he’s also patient, listens to her, has his own skills and talents, is okay with being goofy, has his own social circle and isn’t totally dependent on Ursula, and looks amazing. Ursula doesn’t go with George just because he’s a *nice* guy who rescued her from an asshole, Ursula goes with George because he’s an interesting, fun person who is supportive of her different way of being an interesting, fun person. AND he’s emotionally available. Google image search George of the jungle and see how many smiles you can find, see how many open looks of confusion there are, see how much sadness you can see in George’s face. Now look for images of Lyle. His two expressions are a smirk and cartoonish fear. I know this is a cartoonish kid’s movie, but it is SO powerful that the hero shares his emotions while the villain masks every emotion but fear. Lyle doesn’t want to open up, he doesn’t want to be vulnerable, he wants CONTROL. George wants to learn, to protect people he cares about, to explore new places, to laugh when he’s happy and to be sad when he’s sad, and that he does that while being a broad-shouldered, physically powerful dude who is NOT totally self-involved is just…
Like, look, I didn’t sign on to tumblr dot com for George of the Jungle discourse, but I’m just now realizing that this movie may have done the most for destroying my conception of stoic masculinity and gender roles as a child.
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i just read this entire post
I, in fact, did sign on to tumblr dot com for George of the Jungle discourse.
I saw this movie at just over 30 with my Mom who was mid 50s. We BOTH thought this was one of the sexiest guys we’d ever seen, despite the fact that this was a “kid’s” movie. (Might I remind you that the audience for the original George of the Jungle cartoon was not really kids. Jay Ward’s stuff always had a more sophisticated under-layer than your normal kid’s cartoon.)
@warriormale George in the jungle breaking down toxic masculinity sort of??? Maybe?
I need to see the movie to give a complete assessment but based on what was shared above this is what I think.
George is a good example of a Manly Man.
If he’s from the jungle, its safe to assume he definitely knows how to fight, to protect himself and others.
His Manliness comes from fight skills, a trained and conditioned body (fighters really do look like George, physically) and the Moral Virtues of Humility, Integrity, Selflessness, Self Control and showing Respect. The impressions of George’s character traits in the movie reflect the Moral Virtues to some extent.
The scene of George trying on clothes in a store is very typical for fighters. Clothes are designed to make Men look better physically than they really are. The clothes actually cover up the trained body which is beautiful to look at. Fighters look “too good” in clothes. This “too good” look apparently was portrayed in the movie with real success!
George is an excellent example of a Manly Man, a departure from Toxic Masculinity reflected by drug induced or poorly conditioned bodies, arrogance, lying, selfishness, lack of self control and a constant show of disrespect. Any Man who shows these traits is unmanly. There are many Men in the media and government who exhibit Toxic Masculinity, who, in most cases, do NOT even know how to fight and defend themselves and others.
Manliness is the ability and the willingness to fight.
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Lubs me some George.
Great write-up, going to have to watch this!
I’m just going to add that fighters do indeed, look great.
I was about to be M A D but this is truly good advice.
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Egads, when Russian followers in Ukraine shot down MH-17, there was an uproar and while Russia still denies their involvement, the Netherlands has absolutely found them guilty for doing so, as only Russia owns that type of BUK missiles. Not that anything came of it... but people are quick to say 'yeah but Russia are the bad guys' clearly the US has done something similar, but lol, good ol' US-of A with their saviour complex will never admit to being faulty, now will they?
When you toss your plastic trash into a recycle bin, you think it gets whisked away and transformed back into more useful plastic items. But this little recycling saga mostly isn’t true and trusting it is a mistake. Shedding light on recycling will help you make better decisions.
Excerpt from this article by Forbes:
Myth number 1: You might think your single-use plastic water bottle goes off to be shredded, melted, ground up into tiny plastic pellets and these good-as-new plastic pellets are re-made into other useful items. Yay, right? Nope.
While it is true that your plastic water bottle is one of the few types of plastic that can be recycled, the quality of the plastic degrades once it’s been used. Recycled plastic is generally down-cycled into lower quality, lesser value plastic.
Myth number 2: You can try tossing those fun bright orange, purple or blue containers of laundry detergent and shampoo into the recycling when they’re empty. But, guess what? Most likely they won’t be recycled.
Intense or dark colored plastic is difficult if not impossible to reuse. Think of mixing paint. The darker the paint is, the more difficult to change the color to a new color. Only white or natural plastic is of high enough value to bother putting it through the recycling process. Instead of being recycled, your bright colorful plastic might sit bundled up at your local recycle center for a few days before being trucked off to the landfill.
Myth number 3: Single-use plates and utensils labeled “biodegradable" must be a sustainable alternative, right? Well, no. The the term “biodegradable” is a misrepresentation.
Many if not most of those “biodegradable” plates and utensils sold as sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic aren’t really compostable or recyclable. The idea behind bio-plastic products is that they’re supposed to break down. But truthfully, they only break down in a very high heat industrial composting facility. For us regular people with backyard compost bins, these plates and utensils will not decompose.
All these embryos that become females are going to be pissed that they had more rights as a embryo than they do as born women.
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So basically, God's angels want me to dress up skimpy, lure out Donald Trump and kick him in the face and nuts as part of the plan? I'm up for it.
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It's not really target. But I still like these kinds of comebacks.
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British citizens protesting against leaving the European Union, London
It’s not even a functional democracy because an average of 60% Brits did NOT vote in their local elections, despite the endless complaining about protecting their democracy and the ‘will of the people’.
More like 30% of the people who can be bothered to vote. At home, they warn that if turnouts are less than 50%, thr democracy will suffer. My hometown’s last local elections had a turnout of 60.1%. That seems to be near unheard of here on the South coast.
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