Villainous Thing | Follow at your own risk

さてさて秋の丹波路、つづいては岩瀧寺・独鈷の滝でございます。

よく近くを通りますが訪れるのは初めて。入山するや否やその素晴らしさに息をのみました。

Ganryuji Temple & Dokko-no-taki Waterfall.Tamba City.

It was beautiful foliage and waterfalls.

さてさて撮影会も中盤へ。遅めの朝食をすませたあと天気予報とにらめっこしながら次の撮影地へと連れて行っていただきました。

これまた非常に魅力的な被写体たちを前にウキウキしつつ、同時にやまねぇ雨に辟易…かと思いきやここにきて小降りに。

さぁ旅はいよいよ終盤戦！そしてその前におひるごはん!!

…次回、旅の結びの投稿でございます。

The photo session was now in the middle of the day. After a late breakfast, we stared at the weather forecast and were taken to the next location.

We were excited to see the very attractive subjects, but at the same time, we were fed up with the constant rain. But fortunately, the rain started to stop.

…Next time, I will post the conclusion of the trip.

hyperactive student~😆🔋✨

Little fanfic things that make me smile:

Ghostbuddies chillin’ out and watching movies :)

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

#someone pointed out once that he chose his female name because he liked it#whereas the other man just picked the female version of his existing name#because it was easier and that was his main concern#lot of interesting gender stuff going on here

Oh yeah there was a lot of "Hayes Code be damned, all of us making this film are queer/friends with queers and we're going to have some fun with gender identity" in this film. That's why it still holds up. It's not a story based around getting a laugh out of dressing men up as women so they can be clowns - there's an integrity to the cross-dressing. Daphne is an identity Jerry realized he had when he put on a dress. Every time he chooses to keep his wig and outfit on and maintain his feminine mannerisms while alone with Joe, it shows his comfort in this identity, and it elicits laughter from the audience through the dialogue, ie. the audience isn't laughing at the fact that a man is in a dress, but at the characters as fleshed out characters and human beings. The laughter comes from the situations the characters are put in and their reactions to them, not from a parody of womanhood presented through a male perspective. Similarly, Osgood's classic line at the end of the film is an affirmation that he likes Jerry as he is, even if he's Daphne. It's a way of getting the audience to say, "this is fine, we're comfortable" through laughter to something socially unacceptable in its time.

Joe's masculine identity, meanwhile, is used to highlight his misogyny and force him to understand it (and the same with Jerry, but as he's less of a womanizer, there's less of a point to be made with him). In a world where men and women often had separate social circles that overlapped only when romance was on the table, putting a man like Joe in a female space where he's privy to the conversations and emotions that his actions elicit gives him a lot to contend with and understand because he can see the consequences of his actions as raw pain and secondhand, instead of as anger being spewed directly at him. Again, the joke isn't that he's a man in a dress, or that he's parodying womanhood, it's that as a selfish misogynist he's put in situations where he's forced to empathize with the experience of womanhood in order to convincingly enact it for his own safety.

There's a whole lot more to unpack in the metaphor of these two men having to pass as women because their lives are at stake if they don't.

Okay so for one of my screenwriting and film studies sections I wrote a paper comparing the language of clothing and feminism from Wilder in two of his films, The Apartment and Some Like it Hot.

Now I am not going to spew out a wall of text on the subject or anything, but I did want to point out that he did not just "sneak things by" the code, he actually deliberately REFUSED to abide by it at all for this film, he willfully refused to even apply for the certification, he knew it wouldn't pass, and he knew he wouldn't bend to let it pass.

He and the studio took a gamble that a Wilder-Curtis-Lemmon-Monroe flick would do box office and get play without the "seal of approval" from the code folks.

And he was right.

Question, what exactly is the difference? Google just wants to show me Romantasy.

Well, the trick is that genres are creative conversations, not checklists of tropes, so the real answer to that question is "it's the type of fantasy that was being written by this specific group of popular fantasy authors, most of whom personally knew and frequently collaborated with each other, during this specific period of time".

That said, there are a few recurring features that can be identified. Not all of these will be present in every example of the genre, of course, and whether they add up to a distinct strand of fantasy or a subgenre of high fantasy or what-have-you is a debate I'd prefer to leave to those who have more time on their hands, but to hit some high points:

posting this for no particular reason

— Haruki Murakami

Simonn🖤 NO SPOILING!! I only just finished case 4 and haven't started case 5 yet

I was inspired by this fan art I saw on Pinterest of him with two feathers in his hair like he has bunny ears and I just needed to see him actually w bunny ears. But then I needed him with rolled up sleeves bc Im not immune to toned forearms, I felt like I was a man in the 1800’s seeing a woman’s ankle because hes always covered up

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me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in: