Magical girl enthusiast

Jazzy/16/bi

[winter-wise]

Rating versions of The Man Who Laughs

cw for facial disfigurement, obviously

The Man Who Laughs (1966)

His name isn’t even Gwynplaine, and that is NOT a smile.

-1000000/10

L'homme qui rit, (1971)

Why is he dressed like that? Why would they dress him like that? Just some off-white onesie with a cartoon mouth painted on? What the f*ck? They had 5 years to reflect on past mistakes and all that meant was that they messed up in slightly newer, slightly weirder ways.

-1000/10

Classics Illustrated: The Man Who Laughs, version 1

This is just a regular man who just happens to be smiling. Zero effort was made here, so that’s how I’m ranking it.

0/10

Classics Illustrated: The Man Who Laughs, version 2: electric boogaloo

Okay, so they put some thought into this one. Blond like in the book, and the smile is a definite improvement on lazy version 1, but I can’t rank it any higher because why are his eyes so close to his nose? why are his eyes so close together? I don’t think people’s skulls work like that.

3/10

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

The OG portrayal of Gwynplaine on-screen. Apparently Conrad Veidt hated N/azis so all I can say is thank you for your service.

8/10 (Not ranked any higher because this look inspired the Joker and I can’t fcking stand the Joker, not your fault Mr Veidt but there it is)

L'homme qui rit (2012)

A happy boy with messy hair. I know this movie ends badly but I’m just glad to see Gwynplaine be happy even for a little bit. He also gets credit for absolutely going OFF in parliament.

9/10

The Man Who Laughs (2018 musical)

Now HERE is a Gwynplaine who knows how to dress. Love the coat and the super-long red scarf for face-covering purposes. I haven’t seen the surgical scars done anywhere else before, and I really like it.

10/10

The Grinning Man

The pretty waistcoat… the excessive eyeshadow… the slashed-open face… Is it accurate to the book? No. Do I care? Also no. This man went face-first into a scythe at the tender age of five. How does he kiss Dea when he doesn’t have lips? I don’t know but I accept that he manages it anyway. Nothing but love for this excellent Gwynplaine.

10000000/10

[lamus-dworski]

Polish folklore, customs and mythology

For all of you who are interested in the Polish or Slavic folklore, customs and mythology, I invite you to check the articles linked below. This is a growing list of my short articles at lamusdworski.wordpress.com. I’m updating that post from time to time with new articles appearing in the blog. To make sure you have the newest version click this link that will bring you directly to the current list of articles on my wordpress.

Customs and festivals around the year:

Candlemas Day and gromnice - ‘thunder candles’ (February 2nd)

Holy Mother of Gromnice (Thunder Candles), or the Divine Mother with Wolves (supplementary to the article about Candlemas Day)

Drowning and burning of Marzanna (around March 21st - first day of spring)

Palm Sunday and the symbolic 'Easter palms’ (last Sunday of Lents before Easter - usually late March or early April)

Pisanki - the decorated Easter eggs in Poland (March/April - connected to Easter that is a movable feast)

Śmigus-Dyngus, also called Lany Poniedziałek - Wet Monday (Easter Monday)

Siuda Baba. How the informations about a 'pagan’ Slavic Priestess survived in Polish folklore (Easter Monday around Wieliczka in southern Poland)

Rękawka, a Slavic spring festival in Kraków (first Tuesday after Easter, celebrated only in Kraków)

Gaik - the “May tree” (accompanying various celebrations of spring, around April-May depending on region)

First spring blessing of cattle (around May)

Zielone Świątki, so-called Green Week (on Pentecost, movable: usually in May)

Corpus Christi, and Polish folk rites and beliefs (movable: 60 days after Easter)

Midsummer celebrations in Poland (around 21st June)

Wianki (wreaths) and Polish folk beliefs connected to summer solstice (supplementary to article about midsummer)

Symbolism of bread and rituals of the harvest season (July/August)

Day of the Divine Mother of Herbs (August 15th)

Dziady / Zaduszki / Pominki - the Forefather’s Eve  (November 1st - 2nd)

Andrzejki - feast of love divinations (November 29th/30th)

Mikołajki - St Nicholas Day (December 6th)

Night of the Witches in southern and eastern parts of the country (night of 12th/13th December)

Wigilia - Christmas Eve (December 24th)

12 Dishes served during the Wigilia (December 24th)

Star symbolism and Christmas gift-bringers from folklore traditions  (supplementary to the articles about Christmas Eve and St Nicolas Day)

Straw as a 'magickal barrier’, and other Christmas decorations (supplementary to the articles about Christmas)

VARIOUS CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS

(other customs that are rather hard to pinpoint on the calendar)

Short list of old superstitions

Ritual bread called 'kukiełka’, given to a newborn’s family (from Nowy Sącz area in southern Poland)

Protective symbols drawn on the floor with sand (from the region of Kujawy in north-central Poland)

Protection of houses in the region of Mazovia

Pająki - protective decorations made of straw

Bridal flower crowns and a few words about wedding rites for a bride

Painted cottages

Rosette / 6-pointed star, a protective symbol

[for more check also my tag ‘customs’]

Old tales and legends:

Lech, Czech and Rus, the white eagle and founding of Gniezno (first Polish capital city)

Warsaw Mermaid

Wawel Dragon, legend from Kraków

King Popiel and the Mouse Tower

Mr Twardowski

A city turned to stone - legends from Stone City Nature Reserve

Legends from castles on the Trail of the Eagles’ Nests in Polish Jurassic Highland

Wołogór, Mountain Spirit’s helper (legend from Silesia)

Magickal Fern Flower blooming on the nights of summer and winter solstices

Witches’ sabbath and old-Slavic religious centre on Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain)

[for more check also my tag ‘tales and legends’]

Mythological creatures:

ogniki (błędne ogniki) - demons comparable to ignis fatuus

płanetnicy - supernatural beings called 'shepherds of the clouds’

zmory - demons feeding on human vitality during sleep

boginki - female spirits / demons connected to childbirth

latawce - demons of the wind forces

biesy - primeval spirits, evil forces of nature that hide in untouched parts of nature

południce - midday ladies, demons of betrohed women who died before wedding

strzyga - a demon similar to a vampire, often travelling in a form of a bird

bieda - a shapeshifting demon bringing misfortune and poverty

biali zimni ludzie (white cold people) - demons being a personification of illnesses

Kashubian mythology: Slavic mythology from northern Poland

[for more check my tag ‘Slavic mythology’]

Native Faith:

List of resources about the pre-Christian beliefs in Poland / West Slavs

3 'specializations’ of spiritual leaders in Slavic Native Faith

[more under my posts tagged 'slavic paganism’]

Nature:

Wisent (European wood bison) and aurochs (extinct wild ox), and their relations to Polish geography, culture and folklore

Linden trees in the Polish folklore and culture

Halny wind, and its mysteries

[more under my posts tagged 'nature’ or ‘fauna’]

Art and music:

Mazurki, the trance music of the countryside

Celebrations of midsummer in art

19th-century Polish countryside in art

[check more under my posts 'Polish art’ or ‘Polish music’]

Regional clothing:

Quick overview of folk costumes from Poland (warning: picture-heavy)

Patterns of Polish embroidery

Gallery of processions in Polish folk costumes for the feast of Corpus Christi

[for more check my side blog @polishcostumes​]

Folklore in present-day Poland:

Growing trend: handpainted wedding dresses from the region of Podhale

Slavic tattoos by Polish artists

[more of the modern usage of traditional elements under tag ‘folk design’, and for more examples of traditional deco check ‘folk decorations’]

(updated mid-May 2019)

[queenelsawestergaard]

This auction is for a custom, one of a kind 16-17" Disney Store Customized OOAK Princess Odette doll from The Swan Princess! The doll is BRAND NEW, never used, never played with, and made just for this auction!

This ONE OF A KIND CUSTOM LE Style Princess Odette is wearing her signature white satin gown, designer style, with shimmery white embroidery all over the bodice and skirt, with brocade jacquard underskirt with hundreds a faux gems in crystal diamond and gold and silvery gimp trim all around! Around her waist and hips is an attached turquoise persian green sash with faux AB matching cat’s eye gemstones and a giant golden teardrop faux gem at her waistl! Her sleeves are teal velvet with royal blue faux gems embedded throughout as well as white satin and organza shimmery sleeves, also adorned with persian green satin trim and faux crystal gems! She wears royal blue slippers on her dainty feet and a matching heart shaped faux gem pendant necklace with a swan handpainted on!

Perfect unique gift for the Swan Princess fan in your life!

To bid on this doll or to view more photos and information on her, please visit:

www.ebay.com/itm/123182154969

Thanks again for looking! God bless!!!!!

@love-disney-dolls @disneylimitededitiondolls @jg-omniaart @dreamsandimagination 

[queenelsawestergaard]

Just made this Swan Princess Odette “LE” Style ¼ doll for auction on eBay! www.ebay.com/itm/202289825524 She’s not a Disney Princess, but she is from the Fairy Tale ‘The Swan Princess’, and this particular version is an animated movie from the 1990s. I’ve never actually seen this film, but this doll is popular!! We’ve made at least 15 'Princess Odette’ 11.5" custom dolls for commissions during the past several years and thought it’d be neat to make a ¼ scale doll of her, too! I wanted to make her in the “LE” style which mostly means an extra fancy and decorated dress style. Hope you all like her! If you’d like to see additional photos, including close-ups and in box views, or to bid on her, please visit our eBay auction: www.ebay.com/itm/202289825524 Thanks again! God bless!!!

@love-disney-dolls @disneylimitededitiondolls @arianbutlerart @theswanprincessodette-blog @theswanprincessodette22 

[queenelsawestergaard]

Next up are Odette (The Swan Princess), Eilonwy (The Black Cauldron), and  Megara (Hercules), custom 1/6 Dolls we made for commissions.

Eilonwy is a Mattel head on 10″ Mattel body; Megara is a Mattel head on an 11″ Mattel Model Muse body; and Odette are Disney Store Heads on Disney store 11″ bodies. (one side glancing, one forward looking)

[blacksuppository-deactivated202]

is this what the cool kids call ""toxic yaoi"

[dib-thing-wannabe]

I read your tags for my recent post about birchum. Your so real and for that, I'm gonna keep on with the queer birchum content cuz it's bout damn time people start to Queerize conservative art and it's beautiful.

TRUUUUE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK SOLDIER

[lightofasia-deactivated20250401]

can we get all the like south park fujoshis to get really into the shitty conservative family guy knockoff that the daily wire made. itd be really funny

[moonlightsdreaming]

Sailor Moon Stars | Sailor Star Song

[chocolate-milk-dewormer]

I have a question about at what point in fiction does a magical or robotic prosthetic turn into a full on functioning limb? or when does it stop being considered a prosthetic and start being a replacement limb?

[silvermoon424]

Lol, even Naoko doesn’t like those ugly (nearly) noseless dolls!

But it’s so cute when she talks about the little girl and the costumes!

[silvermoon424]

“Quietly watching over someone from afar is a kind of love, too.”

[ofpaintedflowers]

a griffith from the last decade and another from yesterday

[warningsine]

the collection

[t00thpasteface]

got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me

[dovelylittlebird]

Oh ancient one what wisdom do you hold?

[t00thpasteface]

99% of callout posts are bullshit and just petty personal drama someone is escalating to get even on a grudge. do not engage with these, do not freelance as a cop

DNIs do not work. accept this. internalize that people you don't like will see your posts and engage with them. this is unavoidable and the sooner you make peace with it the freer your mind will be. block the freaks and don't sweat the small stuff

building a tight knit circle of fellow weirdos who vibe with your particular quirks and taste is infinitely more rewarding and sustainable than chasing the biggest numbers

don't respond to bad-faith arguments or bad takes; just block people, blacklist tags, filter post content, and move on. don't feed the trolls (or the bigots)

don't hate-follow

don't tag your hate (ex. if you're posting about how much you hate a ship, don't tag it as that ship, etc.)

don't feel obligated to keep following someone who posts stuff that upsets/depresses/angers/bores you just because you know them really well, or because you're mutuals, or because you used to like what they post. following is nothing personal and neither is unfollowing

op doesn't know you; avoid parasocial relationships

don't pick fights or reblog posts just to disagree/argue

spread joy and positivity in your circles

disable anonymous asks

[charliejaneanders]

This is some of the best social media advice (and advice for being a human among humans generally) I've ever seen.

[neil-gaiman]

All of this. For people asking how I've survived here for over 12 years...

[sailormoonsub]

Tuxedo Mask watches proudly from the top of a nearby streetlamp. A single tear rolls down his face.

[silvermoon424]

And from that day forward, Mamoru was relentless about cultivating Chibiusa’s talent for sappy speeches.

[kittiwittebane]

Since Disney made this it’s Canon. Canon Huntlow kissiessss!!