Reblogged weenie-kun
quastion
Source: reddit.com
Reblogged dentist-brainsurgeon
Source: x.com
Reblogged dentist-brainsurgeon
My art for @bowelfly ‘s 2025 “Hydraphone” game!
Was quite surprised to find out most of the other submissions for this game have been wizardly insects, but I’m always happy to draw a cowboy newt.
Reblogged susiron
Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?
that genuinely is it
yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body
childrentalking
lets bring back sheetwares
also chlamys:
and exomis:
fightthemane
trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins
Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day
awhiffofcavendish
Wear blanket. Conquer world.
That last one looks dope
Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.
And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!
ancient Egyptian robes
This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:
(auto generated captions)
Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.
Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi
It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.
I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.
If you’re struggling to think of clothing ideas for your fantasy people, consider using giant rectangles!
Reblogged susiron
on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.
No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.
btc-official
“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass
the moral of the story is that a breathable atmosphere is important to one’s general well-being
Reblogged ghostlywastewonderland
my cat still doesn't get that we have different definitions of 'acceptable breakfast time'
Reblogged plagueislost
I like this guy, he so nice
Reblogged
Like fighting a mirror
Source: instagram.com
Reblogged dragonpyre
Reblogged dentist-brainsurgeon
We need to bring back the athletics body type post
This one
Tumblr has 10+ image limit had to add these on too
This photoshoot unlocked something in me the first time I saw it. The idea that EVERY body here is what "peak physical condition" looks like.
Reblogged dentist-brainsurgeon
Reblogged rainydaydecaf
I think A Knight's Tale is the best movie I've ever seen.
Now, thematically, it's not an exceptional movie. It's good but not great, it's insightful but it's not particularly artistic or profound.
What it is is a story that knows exactly what it wants to be from the word go and accomplishes its goal flawlessly. It's the film version of watching of an old tradesman build a porch.
Historical accuracy is just, not a concern, because they don't care. The love interest is hot and she looks like a time traveler but what's important is that she is hot. The transcendent elements of a sporting event are Queen played at full volume and shirtless drunk dudes with face paint and beer bellies so the movie has that despite the fact that this is a jousting tournament not a football game. Jeffery Chaucer is a maniac MC with a gambling problem.
They are telling a story and we all kinda know the plot beats before it even starts, but they're doing the job well and everyone is happy to be there. No one is reinventing the wheel and you could easily throw the plot into any setting you choose, and that's the point. It's a well-told story and the fact that it's told well makes up for the fact that it's somewhat of a mediocre story.
We all know the craftsman is gonna make a porch, and the porch is gonna look like a porch and it will serve the purpose of a porch. but the dude knows what he's doing and it is a joy to watch
tbf I think the portrayal of Geoffrey Chaucer was the most historically accurate thing about that movie. He was a mad lad with quite a lot of time he couldn't account for.
You'd be amazed how much of that movie IS accurate as heck. Not the costumes, the petty love interest girl doesn't wear a single medieval dress I can recall. (She's an epicenter of anachronism- Jocelyn is an extremely masculine/man's name until like this last two centuries, for example. No excuse for whatever her hair was doing.)
No no, I'm talking about the Zeitgeist. The spirit of the thing. The social struggles. The gambling problems, the life on the road, the tournaments, the way it made rockstars out of anyone who could win, and how it was basically the same to those people as our sports and rock concerts today. And the best portrayal of Geoffrey Chaucer.
As a hobby medievalist it's one of my favorite films.
And Rufus Sewell was hot as fuck.
And Rufus Sewell WAS hot as fuck.
Reblogged
My favourite Jonathan Harker moment has to be when Dracula jumps out of a window and Jonathan, previously seen openly weeping in the halls of Castle Dracula, takes a big knife and chases after him by jumping through the same window.
No use of doors. No consideration for his own safety. He’s doing to stab that bitch if it’s the last thing he ever does.
Reblogged batsintheshadows
STOP TELLING ME I LOOK LIKE THIS DOG
transconstellation
Reblogged
gorillaz-and-cupcakes-fan-deact
Not like that film was a one-off either.
I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on a French stage play from 1973).
Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in "The Lion King":
And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration) which is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:
Count Victor Grazinski isn't putting up with your transphobia (or you being a dick to Robert Preston).
Unfortunately, the representation of drag and female impersonation (as it was often called pre-Stonewall) is scant in mainstream American cinema due to the Hayes Code. There are definitely more, but these are biggest, "family-friendly" names I can think who have starred in major motion pictures as drag performers.
can I add another?
Some Like It Hot (1959), it got in trouble with censors and still went ahead, but it featured a lot of Gender and a character getting really into this whole “being a girl for real” thing, as well as the implication of a a gay engagement being on the table
but like? It has Marilyn Monroe in it and banger music and it’s a classic! I only know from my mother bringing it up and also a tiny bit of exposure to russian tv channels, but I think it was also popular in the Soviet Union? So she’d seen it as a child and loved it so much she watched it with me when I was also just a child.
(not to mention big traditions of children’s theatre with drag performance)
And NOT ONE of you has mentioned
2005 movie adaptation of 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical! Lesbian couple! Kind-of-gay-kind-of-het-with-a-side-of-trans-it-was-the-90s-the-definitions-are-squishy couple! Every single couple in it is interracial!
1999 teen comedy satire about being a lesbian! Ridiculously fucking funny!
YOUR MOM'S CHICK FLICK COMEDY-DRAMA!! 1991!! The woman on the top left was in love with the woman on the top right! It's implied that the woman on the bottom right is the elderly woman on the top left! In the book the two women on top are explicitly lovers! It won two Oscars and three Golden Globes! This movie passes the Bechdel test basically every thirty seconds!
YOUR MOM'S ROMANTIC FANTASY-DRAMA! 1992! A young bride switches souls with an old man and she and her newlywed husband have to figure out how to connect! Those are two of the biggest stars of the era on that cover!! You will notice the word "joke" appeared nowhere in this description!
1994! The only "it's a man in a dress" humor comes from a male bus driver developing a crush on the titular character! There's nothing dark or deviant about the fact it's Robin Williams in drag even if the plot wouldn't pass muster today! The comedy comes from a very cishet American dude trying to navigate life both as himself and a "cishet British nanny who's a widow" at the same time!
1982 comedy! Christmas release! Similar plot to the abovementioned Victor/Victoria! Main character actually learns and grows due to his experiences as a woman!
Legal drama! 1993! You probably STILL know the names on this poster! That's Tom Hanks playing a gay man with AIDS who's suing his former employer for sexual discrimination! That's a Black man playing his lawyer!
1973! If you're wondering what the fuck a Jesus movie is doing here, it portrays Judas as being in love with Jesus! Judas is Black! He's also a sympathetic character who's doomed by the narrative! My mom remembered seeing it in theatres and told me there were massive protests, not because of Judas, but because Jesus is shown being royally pissed off! And by the way...
THEY DID IT FUCKING TWICE!! The remake is from 2000 and it kinda sucks but it also garnered basically no outrage (except from musical theater fans pissed about the weak casting) in spite of the fact it's significantly more explicit than the original and suggests that whole "in love" thing was reciprocal!
Now let me tell you what ties all of these movies together, except for the second Jesus Christ Superstar and also But I'm A Cheerleader because my mom was deeply biased against teen comedies:
THEY WERE ALL ON MY SHELF WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. A VERY AVERAGE MIDWESTERN FAMILY OWNED ALL OF THESE.
And you'll notice I didn't mention Angels in America, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brokeback Mountain, Jennifer's Body, Saved!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Flawless, or Torch Song Trilogy. I only provided movies my family owned.
In many ways, we have moved forward. But in a very real way, here, we also need to go back.
Honorable mention to:
Also the Reagan years. And you can lean into the fact that the guy is in a relationship he has to hide because people wouldn't understand it, but the real standout is the character of Hollywood Montrose.
He's not gay. He's thrilled. And yes, it's played for laughs-- but he is very much the Gay Best Friend to a male character, and the only person who says anything negative about him is one of the villains, who is nothing but an assholes, and gets called a bigot to his face by the lead. (And is too dumb to realize that it happened until he walks away.)
Another honorable mention, since it wasn't as mainstream as those other films, but this honest-to-gosh gay RomCom took a humorous and heartfelt look at gay culture at the height of the AIDS crisis (Patrick Stewart, playing a gruff gay elder, is predictably, brilliant):
Jeffrey (1995), tagline "Love is an adventure when one of you is sure and the other is positive"
I didn't see it on the list but the broken hearts club and queer as folk were another two that I remember in college from the 90s/early 2000s.