PipjePipje

24 | Chinese | I draw stuff, mostly. Likes games and movies (●°u°●)​ 

[pipjepipje]

I miss Jackson Brodie... my frustratingly tragic, self-destructive, kind-hearted, by-god-he's-trying-his-best little soldier boy...

(Yes that's a reference to the brilliant fanfic by @teawithmagician that derives from Case Histories you should go read it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/76934061 )

[m-grossi]

#7

[lady-lazarus-13]

I didn't realize it got posted!!!

[pipjepipje]

lmao he highlighted everything 😂

Does he send photos to the group chat or sth...?

[lyledebeast]

Seeing this clip the other day took me back to a few years ago when I tried to watch Dangerous Lady (1995) because Jason Isaacs plays a gay man in it. I say "tried" because not too long after the scene featured here took place I had to tap out because the homophobia got to be too much.

Some homophobia is to be expected in just about any representation from this decade (whether from characters in the story or filmmakers, and Dangerous Lady has some of both), but this takes the cake. When we meet Michael Ryan, he's a teenage boy being groomed by the head of a London crime family. Years later, when this man wants to retire, Ryan believes he will leave him charge of the business. When the man decides instead that he wants to go away and take Michael with him, Michael plans a vehicular homicide for him with his brothers. When he survives, Michael strangles him in his hospital bed. That's all well and good, but some years later Michael also kills Johnny, the man featured in this clip, because his jealous brothers suggest he cannot be trusted. I'd had enough by that point, especially knowing that Michael then dies from an HIV related infection during the 1980s at the series' end. Every bad thing ill-wishers in the 90s claimed happened to gay men all the time actually happens to Michael Ryan, and yet . . .

There isn't a hotter scene between two men from the whole decade that I've seen. The opening shot is a close up on Johnny's hand on Michael's lower back wearing the ring Michael's first lover had given him. They are naked. The white satin top sheet is doing more to highlight how thick and round Michael's ass is than to conceal it. As the camera pans back it becomes clear they are lying with their heads well below the pillows, near the side of the bed. Michael's feet, which the frame of the mirror in which we are seeing them cuts off, are likely hanging over the edge. Their positioning suggests that Johnny fucked Michael from behind and then they fell asleep like that. There is also a bottle of whiskey on the bedside table, with the stopper sitting next to and an empty glass, indicating that at least on of them had been drinking heavily the night before. I wonder if this might connect to the internalized homophobia Michael shows in an earlier scene with Johnny at a gay bar where the two argue about whether to attend an anniversary party for two acquaintances. The liquor gives him an opportunity to disassociate himself from his own desires.

There was so much potential for nuance in this story about a gay Irish mob boss in 1960s-1980s London, and it is perhaps best realized in this brief scene. The director manages to imply so much about Michael and Johnny's relationship without either one of them having to say anything. I can't help wondering if this isn't another case of straight writer/gay director. If that's the case, anyone who has seen The Patriot from just five years later can tell you the saga of gay directors lavishing cinematic attention on Jason Isaacs' ass did not end here!

[pipjepipje]

(!Spoiler!) 🤔Michael in the series didn't die from HIV, is that from the book (I haven't read it, it's on my list tho)? But nice analysis of that shot! I didn't notice the detail about the booze before (was too distracted by... well...)

I'd still recommend watching the series in full though. It has its flaws and is too short to flesh out the characters properly, but all the actors did a solid job with what they had. It's frustrating to watch Michael spiral out of control near the end (for obvious reasons), but I must admit I liked the ending (not just because Jason Isaacs got covered in blood in a suit and looked really good...). Michael did a lot of harm to others and himself (selling himself at a young age, committing crimes, pimping, hurting/killing people), out of survival for him and his family in his eyes, and he certainly had a cynical view on the world (how can he not when even his priest was involved in organized crime too). But he clearly knows what he's doing is wrong / sinful and wants to... be resolved of them, or be punished for them, idk. He tried to confess later to his priest and got told off because he obviously has never believed in a religious heaven/hell. And in his last breath he tried to do confession again, but didn't make it, or... didn't want to make it? It was a bit ambiguous.

Anyway, whether it was a conscious decision or madness, Michael chose to die (and doom his brothers too) in the end. Out of spiteful revenge to Geoffrey, or guilt about his sins? Idk... To me, it makes him quite complicated, and it's a series I come back to from time to time.

😂I'm not good at analysis, ah well...

[brushbanshee]

redbubble: print ¦ shop

PEW PEW

No seriously I love drawing this man with a weapon.

I think the colours turned out okay? If not it's the heat's fault 🫠🫠🫠

[brushbanshee]

WIP because Irish temperatures are unusually hot, so sleeping is a luxury for people with cold houses.. 🫠

[brushbanshee]

Can't sleep. It's like 4am and I cannot sleep. Brain go brrrrrrr.

So have some Captain Gabriel Lorcake.. I'll finish it when my thoughts aren't vibrating.

[4nti-ft4gile]

Experimental/Old Posters

Stickers - Prints

[ghooostea]

collab with the AMAZING Zak /@mournedknight. He did pre-Murkoff Coyle and I did the right side. Go follow them fwehehe

[brushbanshee]

It's sooo late and insomnia/sickness is kicking my ass.. So have a Daddy Lucius Malfoy sketch 💚

I legit love drawing the snake head on that cane, it's too much fucking fun

[alessa-not-me]

「Flow」

Happy Birthday to Kimi Räikkönen.

Commission, please DO NOT use or re-upload.

Artist Twitter: @Sykine_R

[siegfleur]

hello kimi ☀️

[brushbanshee]

Brain go brrrrr.

So. I've always been HELLA worried about drawing Jason Issacs Captain Hook in case I fucked up and made it more generic but.. This turned out alright, I think?

And happy belated birthday @zoe-creates, without you, I'd have never attempted this, this one's for you 😘

[pipjepipje]

OMG guys this is literally old man yaoi

Vaughan-Lawlor and Isaacs film thriller in Dublin & Meath

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Jason Isaacs are filming a new thriller, Silverback, in Dublin and Meath.

"When architect turned stay-at-home dad Rob (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) meets his new next-door neighbour - the notorious criminal Terry (Jason Isaacs) - the two quickly become friends."The aura Terry exudes speaks to something Rob fears he has lost, while in Rob, Terry finds a fellow father to confide in - a man whose ordinary, decent life he admires. However, it isn't long before the menace of Terry's world comes calling on their sedate suburban existence."

[brushbanshee]

Anyone fancy a bourbon?

Lorca strikes me as a Late night bourbon kinda guy

[brushbanshee]

Whoops my hand slipped

[zoe-creates]

Oop my hand slipped 🫠

Based on this screenshot—