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I'm trying to take the high road but I'm like, dragging myself bleeding and sobbing along the high road while looking so so longingly at the low road
#AND that fucker taking the low road is going to get to Scotland afore me. very annoying.
We raise our cups to them 🌹
wait for me, I'm coming
ten years apart 😭
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
#someone pointed out once that he chose his female name because he liked it#whereas the other man just picked the female version of his existing name#because it was easier and that was his main concern#lot of interesting gender stuff going on here
Oh yeah there was a lot of "Hayes Code be damned, all of us making this film are queer/friends with queers and we're going to have some fun with gender identity" in this film. That's why it still holds up. It's not a story based around getting a laugh out of dressing men up as women so they can be clowns - there's an integrity to the cross-dressing. Daphne is an identity Jerry realized he had when he put on a dress. Every time he chooses to keep his wig and outfit on and maintain his feminine mannerisms while alone with Joe, it shows his comfort in this identity, and it elicits laughter from the audience through the dialogue, ie. the audience isn't laughing at the fact that a man is in a dress, but at the characters as fleshed out characters and human beings. The laughter comes from the situations the characters are put in and their reactions to them, not from a parody of womanhood presented through a male perspective. Similarly, Osgood's classic line at the end of the film is an affirmation that he likes Jerry as he is, even if he's Daphne. It's a way of getting the audience to say, "this is fine, we're comfortable" through laughter to something socially unacceptable in its time.
Joe's masculine identity, meanwhile, is used to highlight his misogyny and force him to understand it (and the same with Jerry, but as he's less of a womanizer, there's less of a point to be made with him). In a world where men and women often had separate social circles that overlapped only when romance was on the table, putting a man like Joe in a female space where he's privy to the conversations and emotions that his actions elicit gives him a lot to contend with and understand because he can see the consequences of his actions as raw pain and secondhand, instead of as anger being spewed directly at him. Again, the joke isn't that he's a man in a dress, or that he's parodying womanhood, it's that as a selfish misogynist he's put in situations where he's forced to empathize with the experience of womanhood in order to convincingly enact it for his own safety.
There's a whole lot more to unpack in the metaphor of these two men having to pass as women because their lives are at stake if they don't.
Okay so for one of my screenwriting and film studies sections I wrote a paper comparing the language of clothing and feminism from Wilder in two of his films, The Apartment and Some Like it Hot.
Now I am not going to spew out a wall of text on the subject or anything, but I did want to point out that he did not just "sneak things by" the code, he actually deliberately REFUSED to abide by it at all for this film, he willfully refused to even apply for the certification, he knew it wouldn't pass, and he knew he wouldn't bend to let it pass.
He and the studio took a gamble that a Wilder-Curtis-Lemmon-Monroe flick would do box office and get play without the "seal of approval" from the code folks.
And he was right.
Hey! If you like this and you like Some Like It Hot; you should know that it was also made into a musical that is currently on tour!
The story has been updated and Daphne is a canonically trans woman (though granted, they do not use the term), and her relationship with Oswald (the man who want to marry her in the above gif set) is played as an unabashed, adorable romance.
They have also updated it to be a more racially accurate depiction of the Jazz club scene, so both Daphne and the Marilyn Monroe character Sugar Kane are both black. Not race blind casting; it's in the script, and Sugar Kane has a incredible solo on her experience with segregation.
It's a beautiful, touching, inspiring story, and one of my favorite adaptations, in any medium.
J. Harrison Ghee (shown as Daphne in the YouTube preview) also became one of the first two non-binary actors to win a Tony award! (J. Harrison Ghee won won Best Actor in a Musical and Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked, both in 2023.)
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Sea Slug Critter Adoptable PRICE: $45
you’ll be getting- the full res ref sheet, transparent png of the design, transparent versions of the main animated gif and turnaround gif, the files for the 3D model, plus full rights to the character, do whatever you want with it and the model!
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One just has to love a woman who tells a massive murderous dragon to “Sit!”.
Lady Sybil, I love you so
They have my heart <33
Cats of Baldur's Gate 3
Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture
ohhhhhh my godddddd
Mozu: 名古屋展 (2021)
A recent illustration I made to submit to a show about disability
I wanted to depict pain and work. It wasn't selected, but I still wanted to share for any who relate 💕
(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.
Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.
We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.
Benjamin Sullivan, the honorable and somewhat mysterious court magician was married last Saturday to Lettie Hatter, formerly of Market Chipping. The other court magician was also there, presumably as a guest of the matron of honor, Sophie Pendragon nee Hatter, the bride’s sister. They seemed wrapped up in some sort of disagreement for most of the ceremony though.
Despair has its own calms.
