I don't know what this is.

Becky • she/they • 22 • ace spec • multifandom

[soofyahn]

Roy is quiet for a minute, apart from the occasional profanity while Jamie works on his knee. Finally, he says, "I think intimacy is when someone knows things about you that you didn't want them to know, but in the end you're glad they do." Jamie digests that, massaging more slowly. "You didn't want me to know you couldn't ride a bike," he says.

art for the fic Blowing in the Wind by @jedusaur

[jedusaur]

GUYSSSSS OMFG LOOK WHAT IZA MADE it's fucking GORGEOUS omg omg omg!!! look at Roy's FACE, it's the exact right combo of suspicion and vulnerability for that moment in the story, and the lighting from Jamie's disco app, and the coziness of the slanted ceiling with the exposed beams, I LOVE IT SO MUCH

honestly I kinda misrepresented this fic in the title and tags—I thought it was hilarious to just tag it "fucking in a windmill" and nothing else, and I've always been partial to a stupid pun title, but the combination of those decisions does sorta sell it as a PWP when actually it's a fairly earnest exploration of the concept of intimacy and what it means to open up to someone despite fear. and that comes through so beautifully in this piece, the guarded closeness of Roy's body language while Jamie is totally comfortable physically but still unsure where they're at emotionally. I have a lot of fondness for this fic, and this art makes me feel like I succeeded in saying what I wanted to say with it, because it so accurately captures what I saw in my head. absolutely lovely <333333

(gonna call this my fic throwback for April even though it's only been two years since I posted it, because I do suspect a lot of folks missed it thinking it was just a PWP XD)

[radgepacket-deactivated20241030]

big day today

[buryymeinblack]

queued for the next wednesday the 12th

[buryymeinblack]

happy wednesday the 12th everyone

[when-you-fail-again]

[some-lionheart]

[bagofbonesmp3]

there's something about morticia and gomez, miss piggy and kermit, howl and sophie that is not at all cishet. at their core they're for gay people

[m-e-w-666]

[never-heart-blog]

Don't forget Jesse and James

[pan-galactic-enby]

🖤🤎❤🧡💛💚💙💜💙💖🤍💖💙

THE GAY AGENDA

BI 4 BI & T 4 T

🖤🤎❤🧡💛💚💙💜💙💖🤍💖💙

[itshype]

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered:

[starlittirade]

I read something funny about rocky artificially increasing Graces lifespan and I wanted to doodle it ,,, okay that’s all

He’s so whimsical I love him

[gamechangershow]

earwigs | game changer

[a-murmuration-of-sorts]

little alex horne voiceover?! in my game changer? more likely than you think!

[arainywriter]

ALEX HORNE VOICE OVER IN THE NEW GAME CHANGER???

[darthbecky726]

I just got back from watching Muppet Treasure Island in theaters and this was my first time watching this film. I am so glad I got to watch it in theaters and that my audience had so much fun with it! there was so much audience laughter and just so much joy in the air. 1000/10 this justified my AMC a-list membership for sure

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Muppet Treasure Island (1996), dir. Brian Henson // Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), dir. George Lucas

[blondebrainpowered]

Tim Curry and the Muppets.

Tim Curry and his Muppet caricature.

Tim Curry played Long John Silver in the 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island and provided a number of character voices for the TV series Dinosaurs. Curry also reprised his role as Long John Silver in the Muppet Treasure Island CD-ROM game.

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

People talk about how Michael Caine treated the Muppets like actors and how Tim Curry treated himself like one of the Muppets, but I haven't seen people talk about of the films approach the source material in the same way.

The Muppets' Christmas Carol researched 1800s clothes to make the costumes accurate for both Muppet & Human actors & had Gonzo quoting Dickens's prose straight up. There were some jokes in there but for the most part the story maintained an atmosphere that you'd expect from a traditional Christmas Carol adaptation.

Muppet Treasure Island, on the other hand, plays fast and loose with the text, with Muppets fighting pirates with ninja starfish, A Latin music style absurdist song sequence & Squire Trelawney thinking a man lives in his finger. The basic story remains the same but there's plenty of new material in there to paint a whole new picture, usually with a comedic twist.

In summation, The Muppets' Christmas Carol is A Christmas Carol movie featuring Muppets, while Muppet Treasure Island is a Muppet movie inspired by Treasure Island.

[songofsaraneth]

pleased to report that in Tim Curry's memoir he is tight-lipped on every single love affair he's EVER had, except of course for the one with Miss Piggy during the filming of Muppet Treasure Island, which he rightfully insists was a quite passionate encounter

[blondebrainpowered]

Tim Curry reveals his ill-fated affair with Miss Piggy during the filming of Muppet Treasure Island, 1996.

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia