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The Nib ( @thenib ) is doing a whole month of queer comics and I was honored to contribute this one! You can read all of the other comics I’ve done for them here, and here is my comic from last year’s Pride Month. You can find more of my comics, including my Genderqueer series, on instagram and you can support me on patreon or on ko-fi if you’d like to help me keep making this work :)
Maia, congrats on this incredible work. Your art is absolutely fantastic.
nakedsasquatch it’s ya man
Okay but seriously folks - as often as I joke about this movie stirs my loins and as weirdly popular as this text post got a while back, I wanna rap with you all about why the George of the Jungle remake is a pretty important piece of cinema.
It’s literally the only movie I can think of that is based completely around the unheard of “FEMALE gaze.” Granted, while I’m a huge movie buff I’ve not seen every movie ever made. But even so, even if there’s another example of the “female gaze” in cinema that has escaped me it’s still damn impressive that a kids movie from 1997 based on a Jay Ward cartoon from the 60’s managed to turn gender representation in media on it’s fucking ass!
First things first, let’s look at our leading lady and love interest - Ursula, played by Leslie Mann.
Let me just say that while Leslie Mann is adorable and a talented actress, she does look a little less conventional and a little more plain compared to the bombshells that Hollywood likes to churn out. Leslie, in comparison, looks much more like a real women you’d meet on the street. She dresses pretty conservatively and plain throughout the film ; Wearing outfits that are more functional than fashionable for trekking through the jungle, pulling her hair back and so forth. Not that if she was dolled up and more scantily clad it would give her character any less integrity, but can we appreciate how RARE that is in the male dominated industry of film? Just think about all the roads a film about a woman in the jungle COULD have taken but didn’t - no scenes with her clothes strategically ripped or anything! You can say this is a kids movie, intended for children and that’s why the sensuality of the female lead is so downplayed but there are PLENTY of kids movies that handle women in a very objectifying and sexualized manner despite the target audience is pre-pubescent. Like, a disgusting amount. So I don’t think “it’s a kids movie” is why the film doesn’t take ANY, let alone EVERY, opportunity to showcase the main female character’s sex appeal…
…especially considering the sex appeal of the film rests squarely on the well defined shoulders of our male lead, George of the Jungle played by Brendan Fraser in the best god damn shape of his life!
*Homer Simpson Drooling Noises*
Whenever members of the reddit community try to compare the sexualization of women in fiction to the design of characters such as Batman and Superman, I always want to just sit them down and show them this movie. Because THIS is what the female sexual fantasy looks like, and Batman and Superman are male power-fantasies. Look at him - his big blue eyes, his soft hair, his lean, chiseled physique built for dexterity rather than power. He’s wild and free, but gentle. It’s like he fell right out of that steamy romance novel your mom tried to hide from you growing up.
Hell, the whole plot seems to be designed around how damn hot he is! First, for the majority of the film, he wears only a small strip of cloth to cover the dick balls and ass. Everything else is FAIR GAME to drool over for 40 minutes. Then, after he meets Ursula she takes him with her to San Francisco just so we can enjoy him in a well-tailored suit (as seen in the gif set), running around in an open and billowy shirt along side horses while Ursula and all of her friends literally crowd around and make sexual comments about him, and my personal favorite, ditch the loincloth entirely and have him walk around naked while covering his man-bits with various objects while one of Ursula’s very lucky friends oogles him and makes a joke along the lines of “So THAT’S why they call him the ‘KING of the Jungle’…”
And yes, it’s also a very cute and funny little movie. Out of all the movies based on Jay Ward cartoons, it was the most faithful to the fast-paced humor and wit of the original source material (yes even the new Peabody and Sherman movie which honestly I thought was too cutesy-poo.) But that’s not why this movie is popular with the gay community or why we all became women in 1997. It’s just really cool that there’s a film out there where the sensuality of the female form takes a back seat for the oiled up, chiseled, physique of Brendan Fraser (in his prime that is)
One thing to add: in the scene mentioned above where the ladies are watching him in the billowy shirt running with the horses, it pans back to about 50 feet away to two guys in suits at this party looking at the women and one of the guys says, “Man, what is it with women and horses?” So not only does this movie highlight the female gaze, but it blatantly points out that western male sensibilities don’t have a clue what actually appeals to women.
ALSO
he’s non threatening
as mentioned above, he looks built for dexterity rather than power, but he’s still a 6+ foot tall extremely muscular man, and not once are you worried for Ursula when he’s with her
ALSO
let’s take a look at his rival - Lyle is a cravat-wearing trust-fund kid (who, interestingly, is into Ursula’s fortune more than her, which kind of makes this a gender-swapped gold-digger thing too). He’s blonde and Ursula’s mom LOVES him. He’s more uncomfortable and less prepared to cope with the jungle than Ursula is, in his pastels and shiny shoes.
But he talks over Ursula, insists he knows what’s best for her, ignores her autonomy. In spite of the fact that Lyle Van de Groot is a rich, educated, social climber who cares deeply about his clothing and appearances he is a point-by-point checklist of unhealthy masculinity in a way that beefy, inarticulate, uneducated George could never be. Ursula is off on her own doing her own thing and Lyle hires two FUCKING POACHERS to track her down in the middle of the jungle while she’s working (or on vacation? It’s never made clear because he interrupts her before she can explain why she went on the expedition). Lyle ignores the local guides, claiming his experience with a bridge in Maui means the bridge they’re on is safe - which leads to a significant injury for one of the guides. He then tells Ursula the guides are conspiring against him, trying to make himself and his poachers seem safe and the Africans who make up the rest of their party seem dangerous.
Check that body language! A post above points out that we’re never worried about Ursula when she’s around George. That’s because Lyle talks to her like this. Look at his aggressive lean! Look at him literally looking down at her! She’s tilted away from him in the least threatening position possible and he’s so aggressive about whatever point he’s making. When he finds her after he pushed her toward a damned lion he kisses her and she pushes him away. Want a textbook example of gaslighting? Here you go: she says “don’t get all smoochy with me! I remember what happened with that lion” and he responds “What are you talking about? I was fighting that lion the whole time - you were just so terrified you don’t remember.” Then he shoots George! And then he kidnaps Ursula and attempts to force her into marriage!
Now look at how George and Ursula interact (slightly NSFW):
Even though he’s a big strong dude and he thinks he’s doing what’s okay he lets her set the tone for their interactions. He accepts that he’s out of his wheelhouse and even if he doesn’t understand it he does what she says is culturally appropriate. He learns from her! He listens to her! Compare Lyle leaning into Ursula above to this image of George and Ursula talking:
He’s listening to her, all of his attention is on on her, but he’s totally nonthreatening. His torso is turned toward her but he’s not invading her space, his hands are clasped, he’s smiling, and she’s the one leaning into him. Look at that smile she has, look how happy she is to be listened to. Her posture in both images is vulnerable but in this one with George she’s vulnerable because she has chosen to share with him instead of because she feels threatened.
When George rescues Ursula from Lyle at the end of the film it isn’t a typical damsel situation - George doesn’t have a knock-down-drag-out fight with Lyle, he swings into a tree and offers Ursula a hand so she can reach up and save herself (and before he does it he acknowledges how much it’s going to hurt and *whimpers* and looks human and scared). And you’ve gotta remember that George rescues everybody. It’s not just Ursula - he also rescues a parasailer and gets shot rescuing Shep and Ape. He just likes helping, dammit!
AND this movie offers a perfect counter to the “nice guy” thing - Ursula starts engaged to a jerk who her mom thinks is a “nice guy” the moves on to actual nice man George who isn’t *just* nice - he’s also patient, listens to her, has his own skills and talents, is okay with being goofy, has his own social circle and isn’t totally dependent on Ursula, and looks amazing. Ursula doesn’t go with George just because he’s a *nice* guy who rescued her from an asshole, Ursula goes with George because he’s an interesting, fun person who is supportive of her different way of being an interesting, fun person. AND he’s emotionally available. Google image search George of the jungle and see how many smiles you can find, see how many open looks of confusion there are, see how much sadness you can see in George’s face. Now look for images of Lyle. His two expressions are a smirk and cartoonish fear. I know this is a cartoonish kid’s movie, but it is SO powerful that the hero shares his emotions while the villain masks every emotion but fear. Lyle doesn’t want to open up, he doesn’t want to be vulnerable, he wants CONTROL. George wants to learn, to protect people he cares about, to explore new places, to laugh when he’s happy and to be sad when he’s sad, and that he does that while being a broad-shouldered, physically powerful dude who is NOT totally self-involved is just…
Like, look, I didn’t sign on to tumblr dot com for George of the Jungle discourse, but I’m just now realizing that this movie may have done the most for destroying my conception of stoic masculinity and gender roles as a child.
Like
Damn.
2nd reblog because this is even better.
George of the Jungle discourse is definitely what I signed up to this hellsite for me thinks
Our MOTW campaign has been on hiatus while we’re moving which caused me to realize that I have literally never drawn my shambling mess of a bard from the weekly D&D campaign I’ve been in for over a year
The fae smiled, sharply: “Give me your name, child.”
“Uhhhhh. Stick.”
“What.”
“Does Leaf work better? I’m just kinda looking around this clearing. Look, I’m trans, I haven’t decided on one yet, I’m throwing some spaghetti at the wall, you know how it is.”
Fae are born with features sharp and narrow, yet this one seems to soften as Moss looks at it. Its grin— sharp, teeth gleaming, its eyes— cutting, searching, the jut and pull of its jaw enough to scratch glass. It does not blink. Branch does not blink. It softens.
“I said, give me your name, child.”
“I still haven’t picked one,” Grass defends, even now still hoping for a way out of a faeries deal.
“No. But your parents did. Give me your name, child, and it shall no longer be yours. The entity of your name shall no longer exist, and you will be free for whichever name you choose— Leaf, or Stick, or Lichen.”
“…oh.” says Petal, and in the next moment a name falls from their lips. It is not their name. It never has been. The fae is sharp and cutting and witty, that moment of softness an imagined slight.
“Very well, child. Be warned of mushroom circles, should you lose your name again.”
“Okay,” Mushroom smiles, and the Fae pulls itself away from their reality in a swirl of feathers and silk.
When they go home for the first time in two months, their mother frets over them in a way she had not since they were a child, and she calls them by no name at all.
Goddamn. This is my favorite version of ‘faeries take your name’, that’s it, we can all go home now.
The fae said trans rights
she’s literally just eating mushroom ravioli
“she was like PERSEPHONE because she was ALIVE and I was like HADES because I was DEAD”
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Characters to ship with Hermione:
Ron Weasley
Ron B. Weasley
Ronald Weasley
Ronald Bilius Weasley
Ronald B. Weasley
R.B. Weasley
Ron Bilius Weasley
R. Bilius Weasley
Sir Ronald of Weasley
His Majesty, King Ronald I
One, absolutely valid.
Two, I would very much like to read an AU fic which includes His Majesty, King Ronald I.
King Ronald I is secretly awfully sad when you consider it.
Because, to make Ron, you need Arthur and Molly, and you need his inferiority complex from which his humility stems (which is why he could be laidback enough to hang with Peasant!Hermione or Scholar!Hermione).
… now, it’s King Ronald. The First.
King. To be crowned King, you have to be a Prince first. And the eldest Prince is the first runner-up to be King.
Which means that in King!Ron’s AU, all of Ron’s brothers have died.
(Yes, I become hilarious at 11 PM.)
Oh.
Oh no.
Let’s not do that.
Let’s do, like, the older inheritance law where the lands were divided among all the brothers on the king’s death.
So, like, King Ronald I has this tiny little kingdom with, like, a village of 6 households and half a donkey. (Percy’s tiny kingdom has the donkey on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and alternate Sundays.)
Harry has the next kingdom over, which is huge, but he inherited it when he was a year old and in practice it’s governed by, like, Dumbledore until he’s old enough or something. Or maybe featuring Uncle Vernon as an evil usurper who has to be deposed at some point.
Harry spends most of his time ditching his court and hanging out with Ron. They go on quests and things, because let’s face it, Ron’s kingdom basically runs itself, unless someone forgets whose week it is to have the donkey.
They meet Hermione when they save her from being burned at the stake because she keeps lecturing everyone in her village about hygiene and knowing way too much about herbs and stuff.
From @mythingfaye‘s tags:
#i need more King Ronald the first#and his tiny kingdom#which sits on this laaaaarge gold/gem mine#i prefer Knight Harry#his parents had the kingdom#vernon usurped it#Harry doesnt know he is Heir/king#but too late#he is already a sworn Knight to King Ronald
Yes, yes, yes! This is much better.
Okay, there’s more now.
Harry and Ron definitely meet at some sort of tournament. Maybe Bill’s throwing one, trying to find a husband for Ginny (see below). Harry isn’t planning on, like, marrying some princess or something, but entering tournaments is kinda what you do when you’re a masterless knight who’s just fled Uncle Vernon’s kingdom. Anyway, jousting isn’t that hard, you just skip the bit where, after Dudley misses you by about seventeen feet, you jump off your horse and lie on the ground groaning anyway if you know what’s good for you. Ron and Harry bond over heckling the entire tournament, and then Harry’s like, “Oh, snap, you’re a king?” and Ron’s like, “Yeah, wanna work for me?” and Harry’s like “Yeah, cool!”
Ginny, being a princess, doesn’t get a kingdom of her own, which sucks. She’s supposed to find someone rich to marry. Ginny basically says, f*** this noise, runs away, cuts her hair, and becomes a wandering knight. Literally everyone except Harry is totally on to her. 100% of her brothers recognize their little sister with short hair, a loose shirt, and an extra pair of socks. Harry totally buys it. He develops an enormous crush on her anyway.
Ron and Harry, and possibly Ginny, go on quests because Ron’s minuscule kingdom is broke and they want to find some treasure or something. They end up finding Hermione (see above) who comes back with them and the four of them find a secret treasure trove or gold mine or something under Ron’s teeny tiny kingdom and there is much rejoicing.
Me, wondering how smeyer is going to explain why Edward ate Bella’s tear: I bet it’s like the closest he thinks he’ll get to tasting her blood or something.
The horrifying reality:
making your kids attend their victims’ funerals is some interesting Vampire Parenting but also…imagine having your murderer attend your funeral
The tags… I can’t-
“You May slurp me like a Capri sun”
I should be singing sea shanties somewhere with the lads.
i still think tonks’ skills remained criminally underused in canon
I love Tonks
You, a mere muggle: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Me, a Ravenclaw and an intellectual: Giuseppe Stromboli and the Briefcase of Meatballs
Midnight Sun is so horny
Me at Edward
i love ginny shes trans also fuck t.erfs also please check @transwizardtournament with their idea of a donation drive! the auction starts tomorrow, monday 22nd, and u can check out different artists (me included) and bid for artworks! while supporting trans organisations yoo
Fierce Trans! Ginny for @lesbianlilyevans – thanks for claiming this art in the @transwizardtournament ❤️❤️❤️
part of my HP jacket collection
