#1950ies

[bhaaldursgays]

What's that? Stop romanticizing the 1950ies through a crime boss durgetash lens? No I don't think I will.

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for January 17th. It's that thing where someone moves his thumb up and down on a bent fist like it's talking. A lot of fun. Good, childish fun.

I think in a way, I am a childish guy. Although after a while, that turns into me just trying to hold on to my youth by still enjoying the stuff I enjoyed when I was a kid. Or, honestly, a teen.

Sometimes it feels like a lot of the problems nerd culture has nowadays with "toxic fandoms", like Star Wars or DC Comics, is because some fans haven't accepted that they've grown out of it and can't recapture the magic.

But that's one way to put it. I could also make the argument that the Star Wars franchise isn't really focused on entertaining kids, just nostalgic adults. I like Marvel a lot, and I think that's one way I manage to "stay young" as far as interests go, but I'm not too sure Marvel is what kids are into. As far as I understand, kids nowadays like online gaming, korean dramas and novels about gay nobles.

Back in the 1950ies, Rock n' Roll was getting really popular among teens and kids, and Pat Boone would cover rock n' roll songs in big band style so the older generation could enjoy it. If I had been my age during the fifties, I'd probably have grown up listening to big band music, so Pat Boone would be pandering exactly to people like me. In a way, Marvel is like the Pat Boone of this generation - pandering to adults while taking superficial aspects of the stuff kids like and pretending it's for them.

[redwidow616]

What time period would you want to steal the clothes from?(like what time periods clothes do you really like and want to wear)

Definitely the 1950ies i love their fashion so so so damn much you don't understand

[qosmiq]

I am quite happy to present you this new book.

The photonovella of a 1950ies science fiction film that never was, "Missile from the Mysterious Planet" tells of the adventures of Space Captain Gillian Sandra and Space Ranger Marks in their fight to save the Earth from an incoming hyperspace missile and to discover where it may come from. Using photomontage done with the help of Midjourney, Photoshop and diverse other visual sources, "Missile from the Mysterious Planet" has a black and white photorealistic feel true to the space opera from the Cold War era and brings us to the future we dreamed before reality caught up with us.

Available on Lulu, Amazon and Barnes & Noble

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/missile-from-the-mysterious-planet-ghislain-barbe/1143726922

[androidsvsvikings]

So, the women are NOT allowed to wear what they want?! Are we somehow going back to 1950ies?!

Hell world.

I know SEVERAL afab nonbinary people who, as soon as they came out as nonbinary - immediately began dressing in ridiculous hyper-femme outfits they never would have worn before.  A lot of people see this and say shit like “Theyfab” or say they are only nonbinary for attention.  After all, look how femme they are.

But to me, this makes perfect sense.  When you are forced into the category of “woman” against your will, femininity is a chore.  It’s a job that you have.  As soon as you say no, I’m not a woman, suddenly femininity isn’t your job anymore.  It’s not a requirement.  It’s just a fun hobby you can get into.  Or a little treat sometimes.

[amaliazeichnerin]

Feminine energy? Masculine energy? No, thanks.

Currently questioning my gender identity, which is new to me. (Yes, this can be quite a journey, I guess.) Yesterday I saw a YouTube video where the youTuber criticized relationship advice on TikTok which had role models like from the 1950ies, focussing on "feminine energy" vs. "masculine energy". These TikTok videos were quite ridiculous or even harmful and I also thought, "I don't want feminine energy for myself. I also don't want masculine energy. Just not interested in any of that."

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Anyway what that talk about sci-fi and the future reminds me of is the story of that children's book author in early 20th century germany who wrote coming-of-age stories for little girls, and as she wrote about her characters' whole lives, she wrote them well into the future. She did this without making any predictions, though, creating a sort of eternal present. Her 1940ies, 1950ies and 1970ies germany looked exactly like the germany of 1919.

In real life of course, she was Jewish, and after writing books literally enjoyed by millions, she would be disgraced and murdered in the Holocaust

[midcenturyblog]

Marco Oppens Een dag op het vliegveld l950-60, ill g by janwillemsen

[breygraphicarts]

o. t. (the painter), remixed, digital collage, 2021 #digitalart #blackandwhite #colours #form #graphix #hardcopy #collage #remix #structure #vintage #advertising #collage #1950ies #remix https://www.instagram.com/p/CWs_ZoThQ4z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[darksideofthecoffeebean]

I love this so much. He's just as handsome as Katrine. ❤️ I like to imagine that they shared a very long and happy life after the war. I guess it took some time for Chuck/Amal to get accustumed to life in France but he's an open-minded guy and he trusts Katrine blindly.

Oh, this gives me so many ideas... Based on the actors' ages, Katrine and Chuck would've both been born around 1900. That means they both lived through not only one but two world wars.

I think it made especially Katrine grow up fast. Her father and fiancé (Justin) died on a mission in the last days of WW1 while she had to look after her mother and early teenage sister, Phoebe.

I imagine this experience of hardship made Katrine decide to live her life to the fullest, which is why she moved to Paris in the 1920ies and threw herself into the party scene. She tried to make a living as a bar singer but - while talented in many areas - had to realise that singing wasn't among them (just watch Kate Mulgrew as a country singer in "Dallas". 😄). It's still a sore spot for Katrine which is why she's a tad too salty with Mademoiselle DeNeuf.

Interwar-Paris is also the time and place where Katrine becomes politicised. She meets and befriends Tuvok (a highly educated man from one of the French colonies in Africa), who introduces her to the political circles that will later form the Resistance. It's also where she meets Mark, who becomes her second fiancé.

When Nazi Germany takes over Paris in 1940, Katrine and Tuvok flee to St. Claire in the south of France, where they open the 'Coeur de Lion' to run their Resistance cell. Mark joins the French Army and is soon lost. When Katrine meets Chuck, Mark has been missing for over four years and she has to assume that he's dead. When Mark returns, Chuck and Katrine were just married and run the 'Coeur de Lion' together. After an emotional reunion, everyone's just happy that they're all still alive and remain friends. Mark moves to Québec to start a new life.

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Ah, I think that's enough for now. 😄 I'd like to have Chuck a background as a Native American but I don't know enough about how that might play into the WW2 scenario and how he grew up.

There are also many questions still open: Do Katrine and Chakotay have a child? What do they do in the 1950ies, 60s, 70s and 80s?

I'm pretty convinced they'd be a part of the civil rights movement in the 60s/70s. How do they eventually die?

AU white tux killing game chakotay

Amal Miller, the show runner of Le Coeur de Lion, as well as leader of the underground French resistance

[marxist-lonelynist]

20th Anniversary DEFA Poster of the movies ‘Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse, Führer seiner Klasse’  (1954/55)

[federer7]

Grossglockner, Austria 1950ies

Photo: Josef Dapra

[oldtvlover]

Well, tonight a movie set in the 1950ies but made in the 1970ies: The Lords of Flatbush from 1974! Cast: Sylvester Stallone - Stanley Rosiello Henry Winkler - Butchey Weinstein Perry King - David 'Chico' Tyrell Paul Mace - Wimpy Murgalo Susan Blakely - Jane Bradshaw and many more 

Story: A group of four young men form a gang, enjoying their free time together. Yet for Stanley and Chico there's more behind a romance. Stanley got his girl pregnant and well, he's kinda slowly forced into marrying her. However, Chico finds a girl he's interested in, yet can't say the right words in front of her. Both he and Jane are kinda new into it, and well, as for Jane, Chico needs to grow up. There are some disputs within the group but in the end, they all come together at Stanley's wedding. 

Two interesting facts here: 1) Perry King and Henry Winkler know each other from Yale, having graduated there. 2) Chico should have been played originally by Richard Gere, yet he and Stallone "didn't hit off" as Stallone explained. His role was re-casted and Perry King stepped in. Well, Mr King made three movies in 1975. One I saw already. Foster and Laurie, meaning two are left. 

P.S. The Lords felt a bit like "Grease", but only a bit.

[androidsvsvikings]

Trans people and TRAs are the biggest enforcers of gender roles. “This gnc woman would look weird in a dress, must be a man.” What in the hell is that 1950ies misogyny?!?!? Women can be masculine and wear whatever they want, that doesn’t make them men. 

How are we back here, with the same old gender roles enforced on women? Backwards, misogynistic ideology.

"Let trans men speak for themselves" while literally accusing some random ass lesbian of not being female because "this person would look odd in a dress".

[representativecharacters]

Character: Larry Trainor

From: Doom Patrol

Representation: Gay, Burn victim -- victim of radiation

Their Importance: Larry does not age normally due to his powers he gained when his flight crashed and a spirit from space found home in his body (they both live in his body) so in the 1950ies/1960ies right before he had his accident he had a lot of internalized homophobia, he had a wife and 2 kids but dated a male coworker on the side and none of those relationships never got the right love from him bc of his self hatred and fear and anxiety. 

It’s only in the series in 2019/2020 he came out to the Doom Patrol as gay, it took him so many years to accept himself. Larry is also a burn victim from his flight crash and has heavy scarring all over his body. The space spirit entering his body also made Larry emit radiation and has to wear special bandages all over his body whenever he leaves his special made bunker room for the safely of other people.

Thanks to @saltyyagi for the write-up!

[themotherlobehq]

Compton Boole Headcanon

Compton and his wife married in the Psychonauts’s world’s 1950ies out of convenience, because their environment expected it of them, and because they did want children. They raised their child(ren) together and started living separately from each other once the child(ren) were old enough, pretending Compton’s job keeps him away and busy.