#heathers 1988

[janartworld]

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[sophsun1]

Heathers (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann

[florencemachines]

Costume appreciation series: Heathers (1988) dir Michael Lehmann

Costume Design by Rudy Dillon

[phrogthegene]

asian jd has returned

i'm back on my bullshit. yippee

"this was funnier in my head" no actually this was funnier when my brother said it to my dad when he tried to teach him karate

[nightunleashed]

[prom-is-slavery]

dont you ever EVER ask me to draw these two doing anything but staring with tension

[queer-cosette]

I think the appeal of the male protagonists in things like Heathers and Labyrinth and Lisa Frankenstein is partly because... they take the female characters' emotions seriously. Like I'm not saying that they always make the best decisions about helping, but they take their girls seriously. Veronica is stuck with her image as a vapid party girl when she's slowly beginning to deeply loathe herself and those surrounding her; Sarah has her privacy dismissed by her stepmother simply because she's older than her toddler half-brother and shouldn't want to be selfish for once; Lisa is expected to just stop grieving the deeply traumatic loss of her mother because it's time for her to start playing happy families as a normal sister and daughter. And JD and Jareth and the Creature all listen. JD encourages Veronica to break free from what's expected of her and stands with her when no one else will. Jareth appears and offers to fulfill Sarah's unrealistic fantasies with magic. The Creature devotedly listens to every word Lisa says and protects her from anyone who has hurt her. Yeah, JD kills three people and has Veronica forge fake suicide notes to cover it up, and Jareth kidnaps Toby with the intention of turning him into a goblin, and the Creature goes straight to murder as his method of protection (in particular using methods that might even retraumatise Lisa), but that's all for plot reasons. There wouldn't be a story if there was no conflict. The fantasy is found in the way they listen when no one else will, and how the female protagonists have their negative emotions taken seriously when everyone else dismisses them.

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

I love you closet lesbian queen bees, killed before your time and haunting the narrative forevermore. I love you beautiful ghost girls with blonde hair and crazy homoerotic tension with your best friend. I love you Heather Chandler and Laura Palmer and Lilly Kane and Alison (Courtney) DiLaurentis and Jackie Taylor. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you