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This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.
THIS ONE!!! THIS IS THE ONE THAT WORKS!!!!!
I reblogged him the day i started treatment and 1. GOT TO MY APPOINTMENT ON TIME 2. FOUND A FREE PARKING TICKET SOMEONE LEFT IN THE METER FOR ME AND 3. GOT FREE STARBUCKS AFTER MY APPOINTMENT!!!!!
Precious clover kitty is cute as hell y’all
I’ve been working on this photoset for days now and I’m so happy to be done and to share these with you guys finally !! ;u; I wanted to combine my first and my current fandoms into something nice for Pokemon’s 20th anniversary. They’re both very dear to my heart and while one is older than the other, I can’t wait to see what becomes of both of them in the future !
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weed, max-hatred, gay, death
gay, dog, rich, crime. What the hell am I going to get into this year?
“weed on a gay” and “ape” What in the fuck am I gonna see?
The Japanese musical of The Little Mermaid handled the whole “swimming on stage” really well~
I started watching to see the swimming but then I couldn’t stop listening to this amazing voice gosh DANG
@modmad wasn’t kidding, y’all. Holy shit, her voice is amazing. And the swimming on stage thing was done super well.
How The Addams Family does BDSM right
This post originally appeared on LondonFuse.
Morticia and Gomez Addams art print by Etsy seller ParlorTattooPrints
The depiction of BDSM in popular films suffered a blow from which it will not easily recover with the release of Fifty Shades of Gray. While it was unfortunately many people’s introduction to the topic, bloggers from all corners of the internet have derided the relationship pictured in Fifty Shades for what it really is: abuse masquerading as kink. But twenty-four years ago, a family comedy centered on a couple who liked to torture each other for pleasure gave audiences a much healthier glimpse at BDSM.
Netflix describes the movie as “Stepping out of the pages of Charles Addams’ cartoons and the 1960s television series, members of the beloved, macabre family take it to the big screen.” Some scenes from the 1991 film The Addams Family are indeed straight out of the Charles Addams comic on which it’s based, like when the family douses a group of Christmas carolers with a cauldron full of steaming liquid. Others — like Morticia trimming the heads off of roses to arrange the stems in a vase — are exact recreations of the ‘60s TV series.
But what separates the film from the Family’s earlier iterations (besides, you know, colour) is the reciprocal nature of Gomez and Morticia’s relationship. The tired and offensive trope of an uninterested woman pursued by a lascivious man has appeared over and over again since the advent of television, and though Gomez and Morticia always exhibited a love and respect for each other stronger than nearly all TV couples, even the ‘60s version of Morticia had to rein Gomez in from time to time. Obviously this has a lot to do with the media mores of the time… but unfortunately, those sentiments still prevail today. And that’s why the The Addams Family film is so unique in its depiction of relationships.
The Addams’ lawyer Tully and his wife Margaret exemplify a sadly more familiar and cynical marriage: two people who ostensibly can’t stand each other but feel forced to stay together. The loathing is definitely mutual: when Margaret asks rhetorically, “Why did I marry you?” Tully responds, “Because I said yes!” The “unhappily married” cliché exists to varying degrees in most American media, to the point where Gomez and Morticia’s contrasting relationship is noteworthy.
The Addams constantly become enrapt with each other, getting sidetracked by each other’s allure, recalling their first meeting fondly, waltzing presumably numerous times a day. Morticia’s first lines of the movie, as the ever-present ghostly light with seemingly no source illuminates her eyes, describe Gomez’s sexual behaviour the night before: “Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate howling demon. You frightened me.” The camera zooms closer while she adds: “Do it again.” That’s right: the very first lines between the couple aren’t just a rare example of a man and woman who have been married for some time who can actually stand to be around each other. These lines, and the couple themselves, are an example of consensual BDSM.
The passion between the two has been famous since the television show, and the movie does an excellent job highlighting it as well. But unlike the ‘60s television show, Morticia seems as willing as Gomez to derail the conversation and submit to whatever distracting passion arises. The famous “Tish, that’s French!” lines are not, in the film, an example of Gomez’s passionate obsession with Morticia while she sighs and shakes her head happily. Morticia is an active participant and instigator when it comes to their conversation-stopping carrying-on. She’s just as happy as he is to make the others, and the audience, wait for the action to move forward, while they engage in behaviour more suited in media to new, young love than to a mom and dad.
Morticia takes it upon herself to confront Fester and initiate the film’s climax. The villains overpower her instead of listening to her, and strap her to a rack to torture her so that she’ll tell where the Addams family vault is hidden. Of course, following in the Too Kinky to Torture trope, Morticia isn’t phased by the stretching (she famously referred to the torture room as “the playroom” in the ‘60s TV series). Fester, however, is extremely anxious about hurting Morticia. The whole reason she allowed herself to be put in this “predicament” that for her is regular foreplay is so that Fester’s resolve would be weakened even more so against his overbearing and abusive mother. When Gomez turns up to “rescue” her, it’s less that she needed rescuing and more that Gomez needed the thrill and motivation to get out of his Sally-Jessy-Raphael-watching funk and defend his home. In this way, Gomez is more of the damsel in distress than Morticia ever will be. This is also the only time that Morticia dissuades her husband from continuing their flirting. As Gomez is loosening her straps while Fester confronts his mother, he’s clearly distracted:
Instead of scolding him like a typical wife character, Morticia reassures him that there will be time to continue the torture scene.
But what’s even more exciting, for me at least, is when Gomez and Morticia’s mutual attraction and respect is again evident in their kinky sex life. “Don’t torture yourself, Gomez,” Morticia orders: “That’s my job.” This movie doesn’t only offer an example of a loving, respectful BDSM couple — something painfully rare whenever kink is broached in film — but a loving, respectful, switch BDSM couple. That is to say, it seems as though each member of their exquisitely enviable partnership takes turns acting as the dominant and submissive role.
Much has been written in the blogosphere about what a good feminist role model Morticia is, and I agree entirely. But I would like to enthusiastically add that she takes the role of Dominatrix at least some of the time, and that it’s not played for a laugh or to emasculate Gomez. The passion, love, and respect the Addams couple famously has for each other extends to their role-reversing kinky sex life.
More than two decades later, filmmakers could really benefit from taking a page out of The Book of Addams and show us kinky couples who are also consensual, loving, and respectful. Though of course, none will approach the wonder that is her “mon sauvage” and his “cara mia.”
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from @offbeathome http://offbeathome.com/2015/09/addams-family-bdsm
This is the most perfect thing.
I’ve been in love with the Addams family since I was a kid, and the amount of perfect this is, making new points to an old favourite, makes me want to cry. I love it.
Especially of note is the observation that Morticia and Gomez are switches, because I think there’s a general misunderstanding that this is not a thing.
Always Reblog Addamses. And this is but one of the many reasons why.
My wife & I have always seen Morticia & Gomez as the best marriage on screen, BDSM or not… but especially the BDSM.
I love the Addams Family, so does the girl. Whenever we look at them, we look at them as a model of how we want to be. Open about our desires, free from worries about what people think about us- and knowing above all, that no matter what- we are loved and wanted for who, and what we are.
I take pictures to remind myself that I’m an adult. An adult with a cthulhu scarf.
Just remember, other adults will see and love the scarf. Most children on the other hand will not have any idea of their significance unless they have an adult of quality teaching them.
Being fair, I taught my nephew early. Which is why for Christmas when he was 11, he got a Shoggoth tentacle stocking and the HPLHS Christmas albums.
I take pictures to remind myself that I’m an adult. An adult with a cthulhu scarf.
Wait, excuse me, Cthulhu scarf? May we have more explanation/pictures/links to this marvelous creation?
Happy Hallowen from Domino! I dressed up as Bowser Jr.
Oh my god, that look on your face in the last photo is adorable. XD
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SPOT ON PUMPKIN
Omg that’s so fuckin’ cute
THE SHOELACES!
That is so many ridiculous kinds of cute! I just hope the poor little munchkin didn’t trip. :c
From the desk of Rebecca Sugar: My piece for tomorrow’s Gallery Nucleus show is a stamp! Bring your own paper and get your own piece right there! The cooler the paper the cooler the piece!
Just a reminder, the Cartoon Network Halloween Art exposition and costume contest is tomorrow from 2pm-4pm! Come on by and say hi!
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/513/exhibition
I think we can all agree that Rebecca Sugar is one of the most ridiculously wonderful people in existence.
America’s Favorite Halloween Candy by State, 2015.
i dont know any american state names besides texas and california, but im moving to the state of Skittles
idaho and north carolina are fucked up and disgusting
I’m in candy corn hell
snickers is a solid choice, good job home state
Hershey Kisses are boring and gross. Fuck you, Mississippi. Too many goddamned people with no fucking taste buds here.
Sesame Street: *adds autistic character*
Me: Oh boy, this could be ba-
Sesame Street: *character is a girl*
Me: Wait w-
Sesame Street: *works with ASAN instead of Autism Speaks
Me: I can't beli-
Sesame Street: *Makes videos highlighting children with autism, including nonverbal children and people of color*
Me: This is
Sesame Street: *has a whole website dedicated to reaching out to autistic children and their families*
Me: I'm not crying you're crying
what the fuck is happening on doctor who
Every time I see news on DW I’m just like ‘Glad I got out of that one.’
Why not make the TARDIS look like a car while you’re at it
the whole police box thing is so passe
motherfucker
Thank you, Moffat, for further cementing my decision to not watch this abomination of a show you’ve dressed up in “Doctor Who”‘s clothing until you fucking leave.
THINGS WE WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN!
^^^^true
I hope that’s true for the purple ketchup.
I’m actually impressed with how comprehensive this “only 90s kids” post is
The gas station by my work sells surge now!
I feel so, so fucking old. Also, they have Fruitopia at McDonald’s still.
I could be one of three people in the world who actually liked Pepsi Blue. And I can name the other two.
It’s okay, Vani. I liked it, too.
THINGS WE WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN!
^^^^true
I hope that’s true for the purple ketchup.
I’m actually impressed with how comprehensive this “only 90s kids” post is
The gas station by my work sells surge now!
I feel so, so fucking old. Also, they have Fruitopia at McDonald’s still.