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my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.
sometimes the best place for an "oh" moment of realization is while reeling from a punch and tasting blood in your mouth. it's kind of like a fucked up first kiss.
fat tummy peeking out from the bottom of someone's shirt should receive the same appreciation that's given to tasteful cleavage in a low-cut top or a little bit of asscheek poking out from tiny shorts. this would improve society
i made this post while thinking gay thoughts about my girlfriend's fat tummy and didn't expect it to take off, but i am very glad to see that the Has Excellent Taste community on this site is so large
My first question to someone whoâs like, âYou should give up writing and learn to code!â would be to ask, âIs that how you entertained yourself during the pandemic? With long videos of people coding? Or did you read books and watch TV and movies like the rest of us?â
Glass of Supervicious Fluid
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Venom: EDDIE, I FEEL FANCY, EDDIE
Please imagine some warrior culture (e.g. Klingons) getting super into video game esports in a relatively war-less setting and just getting insane about it
Like everyone at first thinks "haha, they probably don't understand video games because they're a bunch of bloodthirsty brutes" and it's a fuckin Space Orc Sweep at the Space Esports Tournament. Orc Devin, a scrawny nerd of an orc, gets absolutely HOISTED by his yoked-to-the-nines parents who are just so proud that their weakest son is their most victorious warrior. His fighting is done with more finesse, battling with his hands, mind, and eyes instead of RIPPLING BICEPS and POWERFUL GUTS and BARREL-CRUSHING THIGHS, but he battles nonetheless. His space hometown honors him with his own sword and a plaque. They rent out a space billboard bragging about how Orc Devin kicked everyone's asses and was the Most Badass Motherfucker in this cool new digital warfare they are now starting to get probably too-into as a culture.
WHERE NATURE DID NOT FAVOUR HIM AT BIRTH, HE SOUGHT OUT BATTLE NONETHELESS.
CRUSHING NOT THE BODIES OF HIS OPPONENTS, BUT THEIR VERY MINDS AND SPIRITS.
LIMITED NOT BY THE REACH OF A SWORD, HIS CONQUESTS AND VICTORIES SPAN THE UNIVERSE.
A NOBLE WARRIOR INDEED.
if completing tasks feels so good and reminds me completing tasks is easy then why is starting them the emotional equivalent of sending my first born to war
things show only fans might not know and that upsets me
crowley:
in the book, when aziraphale suffocates the dove at warlockâs party, itâs CROWLEY who takes it from him and resurrects it (iâm forever bitter they changed it bc itâs so understated but such a lovely character moment)
thereâs not a lot of physical description of the characters but we know that crowley is young, has dark hair and good cheekbones, wears snakeskin boots that may or may not be his feet, and can âdo really weird things with his tongueâ đđ
also when he gets annoyed/stressed, he starts to hiss
when heâs in his flat freaking out about the impending apocalypse, he tries to calm himself down by alphabetising his collection of soul music. yes really
he didnât take credit for the spanish inquisition. in fact, heâd never even heard of the spanish inquisition until the commendation arrived, at which point he went to check it out and was so horrified by what he saw that he fucked off to the nearest cantina and got drunk for a week
is an absolute little bitch of epic proportions. like in the show a lot of his lines are delivered all cool and sassy but in the book heâs literally just bitching about everything all the time. with the paintball bit, when aziraphale says he knew crowley was always secretly nice, he doesnât flip out and push aziraphale against a wall, he just bitches some more, because he bitches all!!! the!!! time!!! âoh lord heal this bikeâ? bitching. the only times heâs not bitching is when heâs throwing a temper tantrum or gleefully pranking people
ânothing but dust and fundamentalistsâ
he slept through almost the entire 19th century because it was so boring, except for 1832 when he got up to go to the toilet
â⊠Bee-elzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me⊠âFor me,â murmured Crowley. His expression went blank for a moment. Then he gave a strangled scream and wrenched the on-off knob.â ;a; my poor son i just wanna protect him
back in the day, the most popular fancast for him was benedict cumberbatch. this was exactly as awful as it sounds
the reason there were so many queen songs in the show is bc thereâs this whole bit in the book about how any cassette that gets left in a car for longer than two weeks morphs into a best of queen album. crowley had a bunch of eclectic tapes (he likes velvet underground, joy division, and handel) in his car but they turned into queen. and at the end of the book? âCrowley inserted a cassette labled âHandelâs Water Musicâ, and it stayed âHandelâs Water Musicâ all the way home.â MY HEART
his CANONICAL NUMBER ONE NEW YEARâS RESOLUTION AS WRITTEN BY PTERRY AND GAIMAN is to accept that superglueing valuable coins to the sidewalk then watching events unfold from a nearby cafe is not proper demonic activity
aziraphale:
his hands are apparently plump and very well manicured
wears a camelhair coat. fandom has also collectively decided he wears argyle sweaters even though this is never once mentioned in canon
upon meeting aziraphale, most people get three impressions: 1) that he is british 2) that he is intelligent 3) that he is gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. heâs not british and angels are technically sexless unless they really want to make an effort⊠but he is intelligent
at the start of the book, he hasnât sworn for six thousand years. the first time he swears in six thousand years is âbuggerâ. the second time is âoh fuckâ when he gets shadwellâd
after he gets shadwellâd he doesnât immediately possess madame tracy. instead he bodyhops across the world and at one point possesses an american televangelist on live tv and proceeds to deliver an amazing smackdown of the commercialisation of religion then ends with âgosh. am i on television?â i love him
HEâS the one to suggest killing adam. mr stuffy angelâs NUMBER ONE IDEA for dealing with the problem is to MURDER AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY
his bookshop is actually just a place for him to store his collection of rare books (including a collection of bibles that have misprints like the wicked bible and the standing fishes bible). he doesnât actually want anyone to buy them. so he opens at weird hours, makes his shop constantly smell bad, and gives people death stares whenever they step inside to make them leave as quickly as possible.
also mobsters keep threatening his shop to try to make him leave. he thanks them politely, shows them out the door, and they are never seen again.
he does his taxes on an ancient mac, which is the only technology heâs ever adopted, and theyâre so scrupulously accurate heâs been investigated five times because the governmentâs sure heâs getting away with murder somewhere
along with benedict cumberbatch as crowley people used to fancast him as martin freeman. 2013 was a dark time.
absolute asshole. complete stinky bastard man. heâs SO CRUEL to crowley itâs unreal, and he doesnât even realise half the time. when he admits at the end before the showdown with satan that âiâll have always known, deep down inside, that there was some good in youâ. not there was some good deep down inside crowley. that DEEP DOWN INSIDE AZIRAPHALE was the knowledge that crowley had some good in him. my heart!!!!!!!!!
miscellany:
back in my day we didnât have any of this fancy ineffable husbands shit. we called it air conditioning and we liked it
read @irisbleuficâs crown of thorns verse. its the ultimate go fic
ITâS CANON ACTUAL CANON that after the book crowley and aziraphale moved into a cottage in the south downs together so uhhh yeah Theyâre Gay Karen
i love them so much. im begging you please read the book itâs so good
The reason that alphabetising his music collection didnât work to come him down, is the fact that Crowley ALREADY alphabetises his music.
Dancing demons are described as âmoving like a white band on Soul Train.â
Both Aziraphale and Crowley are absolutely fleeced by Shadwell because they couldnât be bothered to actually look at the names of the âsoldiersâ that worked (or didnât) under Shadwell. This results in Crowley having to listen to Madame Tracey babble about her day.
Because he uses the original WFA pay scale, this fleecing actually only amounts to about sixty pounds a year.
Crowley has to have two phone lines, because one of them is forever being called by telemarketers.
Even though he probably has no idea how to use it, Crowley updates his incredibly stupid computer every few months, because thatâs what Cool Guys do, and Crowley really wants to look Cool.
Aziraphale blows up a traffic wardenâs ticket book, and it amazes Crowley so much it makes the angel blush.
Aziraphale does NOT like being cold.
The Bentley is entirely capable of driving itself.
Crowley has only ever filled the tank up once, and that was because heâs such a GIANT FUCKING DORK that he wanted to get the James Bond bullet decal stickers to put in the back window.Â
Aziraphale created Shropshire.
Aziraphale isnât a technophobe, or living 150 years in the past. One of the ways Crowley woos him into his plan is by pointing out that Heaven doesnât have CDs or daily crosswords, or movie theaters.
Crowley evidently plays arcade games.
Az has actually been running his bookshop since at least the 1650s.
He seems to conveniently forget that he swears while drinking. He refers to the Kraken as a Great Big Bugger. He loses all of his posh primness when drunk, and becomes an argumentative little shit.
The entire bit with the little bird and the end of the universe. That scene is gold.
âPotentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality, waiting to be shaped,â said Crowley. He shrugged. âAnyway, whyâre we talking about this good and evil? Theyâre just names for sides. We know that.â I love this line so much.
Aziraphaleâs idea of banishing demons is to just strongly hint that he has work to do and that it had gotten late. Crowley always got the hint.
After the world doesnât end, Crowley and Aziraphale just sit their asses down on the air field tarmac and share a bottle of wine.
good omens heritage post
Co-signed, OPs. All of this.
Lokiâs type is either people who could top him or people who are just as messed up as he is or a combination of both
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Comic by Gemma Correll.
It hurts. All this. Everything I see, everything I hear, touch, smell. The conclusions that I'm able to draw. The things that are revealed to me. The ugliness. My work focuses me. It helps. You say that I'm using my gifts. I say I'm just treating them.
For those following the SAG and WGA strikes thereâs new shit a-brewing, this time targeting background actors (aka extras).
Some may know that one of the issues SAG is fighting is that studios want to take virtual scans of background actors and use them in perpetuity (meaning forever) without any additional compensation to those background actors. So you would just see a bunch of AI generated humans in future movies based off of a background actor that worked one day.
This is already shitty because working as an extra for 3 days on a union set (if you receive a union voucher each day) is one of the main ways to qualify for SAG eligibility. This means that a lot of actors working background do not yet have union protection and likely do not have an agent or manager to protect them. Disney has already allegedly told background actors to do this on the set of Wanda Vision: https://www.avclub.com/wandavision-background-actors-say-disney-scanned-them-1850709900
The argument over digital replacements of background actors and extras is a major sticking point in the SAG-AFTRA strike
Hereâs where it's worse.
There is one main company that supplies background actors for major union and non union productions. Central Casting. They love to brag about their very long influence in the industry - in old movies dating back to the 40s you can hear jokes about hiring extras from Central Casting.
Central Casting has been including an electronic document for all actors in their database to sign as part of onboarding. Signing it gives Central Casting the right to use your images, your videos, and YOUR LIKENESS in perpetuity, forever. They would OWN your likeness. Instead of it being a studio supplying the AI background actors, it would be Central Casting instead.
Receiving any work from Central Casting in the future is conditional upon signing it. No signature = no extra work = no extra income for union actors trying to make health insurance minimums, no union extra work for pre-SAG members.
312 likes, 15 comments - aw_casting on August 27, 2023: "Sounds like, maybe itâs time for all these background actors to give a call to Cent
SAG already reached out to Central Casting to tell them to stop. Central Casting refused.
Edit to say: this is not new. Itâs part of actors onboarding and is called the Photo, Image, and Video Release. Itâs phrased to sound like you are just giving them permission to use your image and video for CCâs website and promotional purposes. But the actual language is much broader. It's only recently being brought up as a point for discussion because some casting directors (who are generally supportive of the strike) started pointing it out.
Central Casting is owned by Entertainment Partners which is also a giant software conglomerate and owns a lot of the software used to organize background casting and pay actors. https://www.ep.com/company/about-us/
ship dynamic that im weak for: middle-aged people who are Weird About Each Other
Woo Brain: "My home is haunted"
Rational Brain: "Most ghost phenomena is explained by infrasound and carbon monoxide leaks"
Wizard Brain: "Ghosts are made of infrasound and carbon monoxide."
Circle of protection against capitalism
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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Dir. Beeban Kidron
This was such a formative movie
This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.
To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.
This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.
Okay, Iâm not done feeling about this.
If youâre younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.
Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.
And this man didnât just agree to do a movie where the only time heâs not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a manâs voice, and itâs not during those three minutes.
And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida BohĂ©me and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipesâ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida BohĂ©me was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.
When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesnât like it.
Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.
âReady or not,â she says. âHere comes Mama.â
And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when sheâs done, she sees this:
And you can FEEL her pride.
All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.
the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesnât meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once
This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasnât constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you donât have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.
You donât have to like it. You probably arenât capable of âgettingâ it. And to be honest, I donât want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like âback then.â But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.
On Wesley Snipesâs role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.
âI grew up in the â70s and even within the street culture, there was a lot of flamboyancy,â Snipes told TODAY of his perception of drag before filming. âPimps wore the same furs as theprostitutes wore.
âSome of the great musicians of the world, like Parliament-Funkadelic, were very androgynous. So it wasnât really new for me to see men dressed as women or men dressed as drag queens.â
Snipes attended the famed LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and then State University of New York at Purchase. He wasnât a dance major, but most of his friends were. âThat exposed me to the world of glam, vogue, drag, transgender and gay people, LGBTQ⊠but it wasnât in fashion those days. But it existed and I was around it.â
Not only did âPriscilla, Queen of the Desertâ pave the way for âTo Wong Foo,â so did films like the 1968 documentary âThe Queenâ and âParis Is Burning,â the 1990 doc that chronicled ball culture of New York and the various Black and queer communities involved in it.
Even though he was known for his action roles, Snipesâ portrayal of Noxeema wasnât the first time he played a drag queen. In 1986, he made his Broadway debut in the play âExecution of Justice,â playing Sister Boom Boom, a real-life AIDS activist and drag nun who acted as the showâs voice of conscience. Snipes pointed out, âSister Boom Boom did not have Noxeemaâs makeup kit.â
On whether he got any pushback for stepping into Noxeemaâs pumps, he said, âNot so much professionally but the streets werenât feeling it, and there were certain community circles. The martial arts community⊠they were not feeling it at all.â
âIn fact, when the movie came out and they would come down the street, I would see them in Brooklyn sometimes, they started listing all my movies. I noticed they would always skip that one. I would correct them, âNow you donât got the full count!ââ
Lesser-known than his co-stars at the time, Lequizamo didnât really anticipate becoming a transgender icon, but he did know that they were working on something special when they started filming.
âDrag didnât really exist in movies,â Lequizamo, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal, told TODAY. âThere were straight men pretending to be women to get out of trouble or into trouble but this was not that. I was trying to make Chi-Chi a real life trans character and Patty and Wesley were trying to be real drag queens.â Never fully articulated in the film, Chi-Chi Rodriguez has always been perceived as transgender, something that ending up making an indelible mark on LGBTQ people in the late â90s as trans representation in media was limited.
âChi-Chi was a trans icon, but she also showed us that gay men and trans women can both perform and work in drag side by side, and that those relationships are symbiotic,â Cayne explained.
âIt was a powerful thing. I get lots of fan mail from LGBTQ teens telling me how my character helped them come out to their parents,â Leguizamo said. âThey didnât feel like they were seen, so that was a beautiful gift from the movie.â
Lequizamo also articulates that if âTo Wong Fooâ were cast today, a trans actor should be cast in his role. (And that just may happen, since Beane is developing a musical for Broadway.) âAnybody can play anything, but the playing field is not fair that way,â he said. âNot everybody is allowed to play everything. So until we get to that place, it is important for trans actors to get a chance to act which they donât. In the project Iâm doing, Iâm making sure that the person playing trans is a trans person so we can make it legit, make it real. That just needs to be done right now.â
Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic