aca-girlfriends - Tumblr blog

[aca-girlfriends]

Behind the scenes with Anna Kendrick for her Kate Spade Holiday Campaign

[aca-girlfriends]

                                               hero for hire

                                                  (no joke) 

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

Bechloe AU: She tells herself it’s because she’s trying to be more studious, but that’s not the real reason Beca Mitchell ends up at the library everyday. And Chloe definitely notices her tiny little stalker.

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

Anna Kendrick as Cinderella in Into the Woods!

[aca-girlfriends]

If you had one superpower, what would it be? (x)

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

Anna Kendrick in  Moves Magazine (x)

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]

Pitch Perfect's Missed Opportunity

I was honestly shocked and horrified when Chloe didn’t kiss Beca after they won Regionals. I thought she was rebuffing Jesse because she wasn’t interested, not because she wasn’t sure. I felt the same feeling I felt after watching Grease- shocked that John Travolta ended up with the girl when the whole thing was ridiculously loaded with gay subtext. 

The two of them have a meet cute in the shower, naked, singing while looking deeply into each other’s eyes, beaming. This scene is almost too gay to function. Pitch Perfect could have done something with this. This trope- walking in on someone in the shower and discovering some hidden talent (in this case a great voice and perky perfect breasts)- is one of the few times heteronormativity does not prevail. Guy walks in on a girl in a shower? Sexual harassment. Girl walks in on girl in the shower? Upsetting but forgivable invasion of personal space. 

This is them spotting each other across campus. Homosocial content is anything that shows social relationships between two people of the same sex without the constant no homos or chatter about boys they like. The homosocial atmosphere in the movie is impossible to ignore.

This is them the night Beca gets into the Bellas. So why are we still scanning for lesbian subtext (aside from the fact that its deeply fun?) We don’t need to. There are shows that present canonically LGBT characters (see Glee, Faking It, PLL, that’s probably all of them) and seeing a white gay couple on TV isn’t such a big deal anymore. So why bother? 

Pitch Perfect was written for women. It was also, and more importantly to the folk who have to market it, written for mainstream audiences. So going to see it, in a theater full of women, who clapped for Stacey’s hotness and laughed when Beca and Chloe flirted, was progress. Slow, necessary progress. 

Let’s talk queerbaiting (aka when a show takes two ostensibly straight characters and creates scorching romantic tension that will never go anywhere in order to satisfy gay viewers see Sherlock). I don’t think qualifies because neither character was ultimately identified as straight and the shower scene was presented as more endearing than romantic. 

This is Beca after someone announces that they can’t sleep with Trebletones. Her eyebrows are doing a thing where she’s reminding Chloe that they are still totally allowed. 

In Pitch Perfect 2 Chloe should sing Jessie’s Girl. Just saying. 

[aca-girlfriends]

[aca-girlfriends]