Greenhaired & Geeky

Just your local crazy greenhaired gal with internet access, and the things that interest me ^_^ She/Her/They. Bi. 35. If you only know three more things about me, know that I like the color green, cheese, and Young Hercules.Sideblogs: @yhwiki (Young Hercules/mythology), @hoodie-bros (Sanders Sides), @plushieonthesun (plushies).

[gabe-dasha]

There are other ways of persuasion-

[perksofbeingahalfie]

everyone's favorite autistic weirdgirl

[greenbryn]

oh. oh shit.

I just had a realization.

the whole reason Burr dueled Alex was because he called Burr "immorral, a dangerous disgrace" "No one trusts you" "you stand only for youself", etc. That Burr has no honor.

"What if he decides to shoot, then I'm a goner?"

"No, he'll follow suit if he's truly a man of honor"

😲 🤯 🫣 😱

[squidwardtentaclehentai]

*sinister cello*

there’s nothing like summer in the city

[cryptotheism]

Hi! Sorry if this is a silly question/you’ve answered it before, but do you consider luck to be real or is it in the same vein as magic?

You know I've never really thought about how real luck might be. I think it's less real than magic. Magic isn't real but there are actions you can perform that are flagged as magic by observers. Luck has no material or social instrumentality.

[greenbryn]

"Luck has no material or social instrumentality"

@cryptotheism But... it does tho? Unless I'm misunderstanding the conversation (I'm not OP). Wouldn't material instrumentality be the items observers flag as lucky, like four leaf clovers, horseshoes, Maneki-Nekos, rabbit's feet, etc? Wouldn't social instrumentality be the actions that a culture agrees and recognizes as lucky? Like kissing at the stroke of midnight? Eating sauerkraut and pork on New Years (for some cultures)? Crossing your fingers? Knocking on wood?

[cryptotheism]

I'm fascinated by the concept of collective memory. I love how much distance there can be between how you remember something, how you say you remember it, how your community remembers it, and how communities in the future will remember it, if at all.

[cryptotheism]

History is an infectious disease, a rare metal, and a fruit. It passes from person to person in strains. It can be mined. It can be cultivated, and it can rot. I think a lot about Macondo.

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

[mithrandirl]

MURDERBOT | 1.05 / ALL SYSTEMS RED

[berenshand]

underrated funny part of system collapse is murderbot repeatedly being like 'no one knows wtf three wants to do ever because three doesn't know how to want things yet' but most of three's narration in network effect was 'i want to rescue murderbot. i want to do a good job rescuing murderbot. i hope i get a good grade in rescuing murderbot. i want to rescue murderbot so bad that im going to attempt to talk a terrifying murderous spaceship out of its plan for a planetary bombardment' mb just consistently says the most blatantly wrong shit about everyone it's ever met lmao

[keydekyie]

I actually love the change the show made to when SecUnit shows up in the hub and Ratthi says, "Who is this?" Turns out Ratthi was being cute and SecUnit just took it literally. Brilliant. The galaxy's least reliable narrator strikes again.

[fuckonami]

Security Units have morning routines too.

[catboybiologist]

The masculine connotation of a bow tie and the feminine connotation of a bow on the top of the head implies a nonbinary bow style placed directly over the nose

[thatdemonfurry]

Behold, a Nonbinary

[kimwxlers]

TASKMASTER S01 E05, "Little denim shorts" (2015) TASKMASTER S18 E08, "Nexus of Truth" (2024)

[microsff]

"Can you build me hands?" the robot said.

"Why?" said the inventor. "Your grippers are stronger, more precise."

"Yes. But hands would be better for playing the piano."

"You can synthesize any sound."

"But I can not play music."

"Is there a difference?"

"I want to find out."

[jadethest0ne]

[microsff]

I love this comic!

[lurkerwithcomputer]

Ooooh!

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Soltau - The Centaur Playing With Her Child (1909)

[gorillaz-and-cupcakes-fan-deact]

[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)

[prismatic-bell]

And NOT ONE of you has mentioned

2005 movie adaptation of 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical! Lesbian couple! Kind-of-gay-kind-of-het-with-a-side-of-trans-it-was-the-90s-the-definitions-are-squishy couple! Every single couple in it is interracial!

1999 teen comedy satire about being a lesbian! Ridiculously fucking funny!

YOUR MOM'S CHICK FLICK COMEDY-DRAMA!! 1991!! The woman on the top left was in love with the woman on the top right! It's implied that the woman on the bottom right is the elderly woman on the top left! In the book the two women on top are explicitly lovers! It won two Oscars and three Golden Globes! This movie passes the Bechdel test basically every thirty seconds!

YOUR MOM'S ROMANTIC FANTASY-DRAMA! 1992! A young bride switches souls with an old man and she and her newlywed husband have to figure out how to connect! Those are two of the biggest stars of the era on that cover!! You will notice the word "joke" appeared nowhere in this description!

1994! The only "it's a man in a dress" humor comes from a male bus driver developing a crush on the titular character! There's nothing dark or deviant about the fact it's Robin Williams in drag even if the plot wouldn't pass muster today! The comedy comes from a very cishet American dude trying to navigate life both as himself and a "cishet British nanny who's a widow" at the same time!

1982 comedy! Christmas release! Similar plot to the abovementioned Victor/Victoria! Main character actually learns and grows due to his experiences as a woman!

Legal drama! 1993! You probably STILL know the names on this poster! That's Tom Hanks playing a gay man with AIDS who's suing his former employer for sexual discrimination! That's a Black man playing his lawyer!

1973! If you're wondering what the fuck a Jesus movie is doing here, it portrays Judas as being in love with Jesus! Judas is Black! He's also a sympathetic character who's doomed by the narrative! My mom remembered seeing it in theatres and told me there were massive protests, not because of Judas, but because Jesus is shown being royally pissed off! And by the way...

THEY DID IT FUCKING TWICE!! The remake is from 2000 and it kinda sucks but it also garnered basically no outrage (except from musical theater fans pissed about the weak casting) in spite of the fact it's significantly more explicit than the original and suggests that whole "in love" thing was reciprocal!

Now let me tell you what ties all of these movies together, except for the second Jesus Christ Superstar and also But I'm A Cheerleader because my mom was deeply biased against teen comedies:

THEY WERE ALL ON MY SHELF WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. A VERY AVERAGE MIDWESTERN FAMILY OWNED ALL OF THESE.

And you'll notice I didn't mention Angels in America, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brokeback Mountain, Jennifer's Body, Saved!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Flawless, or Torch Song Trilogy. I only provided movies my family owned.

In many ways, we have moved forward. But in a very real way, here, we also need to go back.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Honorable mention to:

Also the Reagan years. And you can lean into the fact that the guy is in a relationship he has to hide because people wouldn't understand it, but the real standout is the character of Hollywood Montrose.

He's not gay. He's thrilled. And yes, it's played for laughs-- but he is very much the Gay Best Friend to a male character, and the only person who says anything negative about him is one of the villains, who is nothing but an assholes, and gets called a bigot to his face by the lead. (And is too dumb to realize that it happened until he walks away.)

[sepdet]

Another honorable mention, since it wasn't as mainstream as those other films, but this honest-to-gosh gay RomCom took a humorous and heartfelt look at gay culture at the height of the AIDS crisis (Patrick Stewart, playing a gruff gay elder, is predictably, brilliant):

Jeffrey (1995), tagline "Love is an adventure when one of you is sure and the other is positive"

[cricketcat9]

I wonder what would be the reaction to " Hair" - the musical or movie - today.

[earhartsease]

adding Different For Girls (1996) - lovely understated british film about a trans woman (yes played by a cis man, it was the 90s) and a cis guy who was friends with her at school, who meets her again years later after she transitioned, and they fall in love

it's sweet and funny and romantic and has a surprise happy ending, rare for queer films let alone a trans film - and also the cute cis guy is Lestrade from Sherlock, and the actor playing the woman is really good (and also cute) - oh yeah and Miriam Margolyes is her ally boss

[willgrahamscock]

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

[part-time-zombie]

Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.

[someones-here-for-sure]

Oh and wouldn’t it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?

[tinypaperwindmill]

i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they're all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we've truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.

[quarsonist]

i know, it's so annoying for everything to be paid nowadays, especially movies and tv shows. it would be perfect if i could watch them without getting infected by some virus or some shit. i'm fine with ads, they gotta run themselves somehow, but i want to watch stuff and .live! if they have to use different domains i'm okay with that too, because free media is .top dog either way.

[shadowsfavlatina]

for mobile users, it especially sucks, because you can't just use websites and you have to not only pay, but you have to download a billion apps just to find what the thing you wanna watch is on. it doesn't help that the streaming services take up...so much space. so much.