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'Get up, ser Duncan.'

A problem I have when reading romance novels is I cannot empathize with disliking someone but finding them attractive regardless. If I dislike someone I'm like "You are like a wadded up ball of sweaty socks and I want you to burn in a pyre, undying and screaming for days"

parkchanwoohoo

"He infuriated her, though she was willing to admit he was a handsome man" I couldn't begin to tell you what the people I dislike look like because I see red instantly. If you were like "Is he the blond one" I'd be like "idk he's the one who most looks like he should die"

joanna-lannister

— FATHER FIGURE by Taylor Swift

jjadmanii

THE QUOTES 😭😭😭

cannibalchicken

stitchthisfiona

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

cleolinda

lotus0kid

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lotus0kid

sashaforthewin

jack-of-no-cows

ghirahimbo

madseance

sodamnrelatable

but it was NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE

and it was YOUR HEART ON THE LINE

i really FUCKED IT UP THIS TIME

didn’t I MY DEAR

didn’t I my -

secondlina

Time to wiggle like you have never wiggled before.

transgenderchainsawman

This year for pride month I want trans people to be alive. Thank you.

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inthefallofasparrow

Not like that film was a one-off either.

mxtomituck

I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on a French stage play from 1973).

Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in "The Lion King":

And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration) which is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:

Count Victor Grazinski isn't putting up with your transphobia (or you being a dick to Robert Preston).

Unfortunately, the representation of drag and female impersonation (as it was often called pre-Stonewall) is scant in mainstream American cinema due to the Hayes Code. There are definitely more, but these are biggest, "family-friendly" names I can think who have starred in major motion pictures as drag performers.

asparklethatisblue

can I add another?

Some Like It Hot (1959), it got in trouble with censors and still went ahead, but it featured a lot of Gender and a character getting really into this whole “being a girl for real” thing, as well as the implication of a a gay engagement being on the table

but like? It has Marilyn Monroe in it and banger music and it’s a classic! I only know from my mother bringing it up and also a tiny bit of exposure to russian tv channels, but I think it was also popular in the Soviet Union? So she’d seen it as a child and loved it so much she watched it with me when I was also just a child.

(not to mention big traditions of children’s theatre with drag performance)

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You can't mention Some Like It Hot without mentioning the last line in the movie, the bit that absolutely settles where the movie stands, the *perfect final line for a movie.*

"Nobody's perfect."

(The context: Two men dress up as women, yes, it's a whole joke things, it was 1959, go with it. But one gets really into it. And when a man proposes to him, yeah, he claims he wants the guy's money, but you can tell, he wants this new life. And in the end, he's escaping on a boat with this guy (and the male and female leads who aren't as interesting) and he has to tell the guy the truth. Can't marry him because... She has bad habits! (Nope, he doesn't care.) She can't have children! (That's fine, we'll adopt a bunch!) Trying to let the guy down easy, but he's not having it. He's in love. Love demands compromise, and he's fine with that. So what's left? "I can't marry you because I'm a man!" "Nobody's perfect.")

And that's it.

Nobody's Perfect.