Me, finally getting into Kdramas: "idk how they have such a chokehold on me since I started watching a year ago!
Also Me: grew up on BBC period pieces, watched The Office for Jim and Pam, loved The West Wing and waited 6 seasons for Josh Lyman and Donna to get together...
Currently watching The Matchmakers (2019) and I need to say that whoever says Rowoon can't act is incorrect.
After watching That Winter, the Wind Blows, I needed a laugh and this is just the thing. The FL is phenomenal as well and I can't wait to get into ep. 3
Is it weird that I've started checking actors' ages in romance kdramas before I tune in because sometimes I just don't want to be watching a show and realize they're 15 years younger than me?
(unless it's a coming of age story, and I know what I've signed up for)
Don't want to accidentally be falling in love with youths 🤣
The story of the modern suit begins with tight pants, as men’s legs became markers of class, civility, and sexuality.
Curious about the LEG-acy of the early modern suit? You've stumbled on the right post. 🦵
This new article in JSTOR Daily explains how fitted breeches and visible calves played an important role in shaping ideas about masculinity, class, and social belonging. The early modern suit developed alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century expectations about how men should appear in public, including how much of the body could be seen and how that body should be read by others.
Visible legs were closely tied to ideals of strength and grace. Well-shaped calves suggested physical capability and skill in dancing, both of which carried social implications. Pale, smooth silhouettes echoed classical art and reinforced ideas about refinement that were deeply shaped by race and empire.
If you’d like to see where the argument gets its legs, the article links directly to scholarly material on JSTOR.
people talk about and excerpt the smutty passages from like romantasy booktok hits or whatever and sometimes it's to be "lol look at this embarrassing porn" and other times it's like a self-serious lit person being like "well certainly one can infer that the books' explicit erotic content is much of their appeal 🧐" but nobody is willing to do the real work of like actually discussing why these scenes are bad at being pornography and not sexy or titillating at all. i mean i guess clearly they are successfully this for probably literally millions of people so that's not quite the right phrasing. but it's like the reason i don't read this stuff isn't because it was written to be jerkoff material it's because it's lousy jerkoff material. and it's lousy jerkoff material in ways i actually think are somewhat interesting to discuss from a craft perspective such as an abundance of cliche and a tendency for individual character dynamics to disappear once the fucking starts and an overreliance on banal physical description of insert tab A into slot B. but nobody is ready for this conversation because either they think it's embarrassing or morally wrong that romantasy jerkoff material exists or because they have extremely low literary standards for jerkoff material. everybody on earth it seems falls into one of these two categories except, of course, Me And My Mutuals