#2024 the gay movies Renaissance

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My media this week (9-15 Jun 2024)

actually me this week. week full of office meetings. did not like.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Murder on the French Riviera (Miss Underhay Mystery #16) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt do a bit of off the books espionage on the French Riviera. I find this series relaxing - it's entertaining, predictable, charming & superficial.

🥰 the warmth of your doorways (cicer) - 00Q, 384K (WIP) - fake marriage that starts as a QPP, fairly quickly becomes romantic, eventual even sexual as they both heal trauma & become domesticated; great slow burn journey to get there, never got bogged down, just took its time. Loved being in JB's POV as he slowly becomes domesticated, realizes he doesn't hate it, grapples with that, realizes he's actually in love with his husband, starts working thru & healing trauma. WIP (possibly abandoned) but honestly where it currently ends makes for a reasonably satisfactory stopping point. I liked that the author was very clear upfront that QPP aren't inferior in any way but that this is the story they wanted to tell about these characters.

💖💖 +15K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

You Were a Kindness When I Was a Stranger (DevilDoll) - TW: Sterek, 8K - another forever fave reread; a bdsm arrangement-to-lovers

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Romancing the Rainbow (with Alyssa Cole, Dominic Lim, Cat Sebastian & Rebekah Weatherspoon) [author panel hosted by Wade County Public Library]

Girls5eva - s1, e3

Thousandaires - s1, e2

🎧 PODCASTS ���

Desert Island Discs - Greg Davies, comedian

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Am I OK? is a coming-out movie for adults

Short Wave - Illegal Wildlife Trade Is Booming. What Does That Mean For The Confiscated Animals?

The Allusionist - 196. Word Play 6: Beeing

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Secret Nazi Weather Station Named Kurt

The Sporkful - Book Tour 2: How’d You Get So Good At Failure?

WikiHole - Renaissance Faires (with Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Michael Ian Black)

Here & Now Anytime - Diddy's downfall: 'Vibe Check' weighs in

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion 5. | Behind the Hedgerow

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion 6. | Lyme

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Our favorite graduation moments in pop culture

Short Wave - From The Physics Of G-Force To Weightlessness: How It Feels To Launch Into Space

⭐ Switched on Pop - Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Black Cultural Archives

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion 7. | Lady Russell Returns

99% Invisible - The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars

Today, Explained - Was that antisemitic?

Vibe Check - We Have Different Gay Voices

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #16: Everything

Dinner’s on Me - Sarah Paulson

⭐ Slow Burn - Gays Against Briggs | Bonus Interview: Silvana & Larry

⭐ Wild Card - A rare dive into David Lynch's mind

Wild Card - David Lynch on the afterlife + Bowen Yang's childhood memento

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep16 "Everything"

Song Exploder - Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over"

Clean Water Works - Dam Removals and the Cuyahoga's Comeback

Dear Prudence - I’m Sick of Feeling Like I’m Always the One Doing All The Work in Dating. Help!

Endless Thread - Looking for a Man, Finding a Record Deal

It's Been a Minute - Conservatives want to burn flags too; plus, the power of a singing POTUS

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Inside Out 2 And What's Making Us Happy

Short Wave - Why You Shouldn't Worry About Invasive Joro Spiders

Dinner’s on Me - Justin Long

Hit Parade - I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition

Welcome to Night Vale #250 - Father Kevin

🎶 MUSIC��🎶

Disco 2024

Pop Radio • Deep cuts

Kylie Minogue

[starshitranger]

Why thank you @random-chaos-and-stuff

So as a “theater kid” there are a ton of musicals that I think would make amazing animated movies. Did you know that Disney as an animation company exists because of a genius gay composer named Howard Ashman? It was he and Alan Menken who were behind the Disney Renaissance, which revitalized the Disney company and brought classics like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King (etc). These all happens because it was there idea from working on musicals like Little Shop Of Horrors that they should take Broadway and bring it to the Big Screen, thus creating Disney as we know it.

Rant aside, the point is that animation has the unique ability to push the audience’s suspension of disbelief, allowing the visuals to get increasingly creative, beyond the literal sense of the scene.

There are some amazing animatic on YouTube that illustrate my point brilliantly with songs from some of my favorite musicals. To name a few of many greats: @claudiacacace ‘s great Be More Chill and Starship animatics, @yellow-py ‘s Twisted animatic, @MorciAnimations ‘s Heathers animatics, and @Shnikkels ‘s Beetlejuice animatic. Seriously tho, there are so many. Look up any musical you love and animatic and you are sure to find masterpieces.

Of course I am biased to my favorites, but to name a few personal wishlist picks:

Starship (where I get my username from): with the musical using puppets to portray non human characters, animation has tons of potential to styalize and give life to its characters.

Be More Chill: my personal favorite musical( not best by a long shot). There are so many possibilities considering the nature of this Sci-fi story and more specifically the SQUIP, who’s technology and presence inside the main characters brain can be explored in a way the stage just can’t. Again see above for my proof.

Beetlejuice: similar story, the more fantastical the story, the more potential in the visuals.

Little Shop: previously mentioned, but PLEASE GIVE US ANIMATED AUDREY 2!!!

Even beyond these fantasy story, there is still so many good cases for the more “realistic” musicals:

Mean girls: remember the 2024’s awful version of Stupid with Love? Imagine the concept of Cady daydreaming about Aaron on her math class with those fun visuals, but with actual life and energy.

Heathers: while the musical already has the “ghosts” of Veronica’s actions haunting her, her feeling throughout the story; joy, love, fear, can be even more visual explored through animation.

While my choices are for sure on the more “popular” or “mainstream” side, that doesn’t mean that less “mainstream” musicals aren’t deserving of the animation treatment too. I just single these out to prove that these films would be WANTED AND BELOVED by millions of fans.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

Silly Game Time: What's a live-action movie or play you think would be cool to see animated (or with the Muppets if you're a fan of them)?

OK so, I’ve got some opinions here. First off, the upcoming Minecraft movie because Minecraft story mode style and to just make it that much better. Also the Epic musical has such great animatics and an entire animated version would look awesome. As for already released movies, though I haven’t really seen them, all of the descendants movies from what I have seen would have been better if they were animated and had good animation (I’ve seen parts of the movies and I feel they could just have been better) and some vibechecks to the plot. I will admit to liking animated movies and shows a lot, and being biased towards them and watching them the most, so I’m not the best person to ask probably lol. I’ve seen a lot of live actions that I think would be fun as or better as an animated version, and I’ll probably have better answers later, so apologies about all of this.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) vs My Photos of the Statue Gallery at Chatsworth House (2018) & Chatsworth House (2024)

John Milton’s Cottage: Museum Photographs & the William Blake Illustrated Edition of Paradise Lost

Wordsworth Museum: W.Wordsworth Letter (1790) & Dorothy’s Grasmere Journal (1800) & The Wordsworth Family Bible

Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey: John Keats & Percy Shelley, William Shakespeare, The Brontë Sisters and Jane Austen & William Wordsworth

The Victoria & Albert Museum: Early 19th Century Clothing - Classical Sculpture Gallery - Architecture Details - More Details

London Museums/Galleries: John Soanes Museum - The Wallace Collection - The Charles Dickens Museum - Strawberry Hill House - Kenwood House - The Tower of London - The Tate Rossetti Exhibition & Ophelia - Bletchley Park

Other: Royal Pavilion Brighton - University of Cambridge & Cambridge City - Wells Cathedral one & two - Kirkstall Abbey Leeds one & two - Roundhay Folly Leeds- Edinburgh

British Library:

• Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband Manuscript

• Jane Austen’s Writing Desk

• Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)

• Princess Jahanara

• Suffragette Docs X and X

• Gawain & The Green Knight

✒️ General Posts:

Middlemarch Talk at the Literary Festival 2022

The Precision In Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems

Fleabag & Jean Rhys Fourth Wall Breaks

Iced Coffee Gays in Brideshead Revisited

Modern Phrases in Classic Lit - The Vampyre, Frankenstein, Howard's End

Bridgerton's 'reformed rakes' is from Anne Brontë!?

Music in Forster's Howard's End

Who Said Academic Writing is Dull? Bewell on Early Australian Nature Writing & Outlaws Writing Botanical Dreams in Blood

Why didn't I know about William Blake's Death Mask?

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge with Matching Covers: Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Sibling Dynamics in Middlemarch

Furniture Auction Scene in Middlemarch

No one warned me Middlemarch is funny

Caleb Williams: Falkland meme

Sometimes I feel bad about graduating but Robinson Crusoe...

Antique Books Ask

Men Writing Women Badly: Conversations in Sicily

The Romantics Antics:

Polidori’s crush on Mary Shelley - Mary Shelley Books & Green Tea Letter - Byron & Mary Shelley’s Friendship - Mary & Percy Shelley’s Marlow House - We Need to Talk About Byron’s Grandson

Quotations:

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Italo Calvino: Readers in Bookshops

The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen: Talk of Books & History is For Lovers…

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay: History & the Spirit

Miranda Seymour on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Lot No.249, Arthur Conan Doyle: Flow of Life & Forgotten Death

Jean Rhys on Writing One & Two

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The Most Chaotic Academia Lit Student Thing My Friends & I Did

Sometimes Annotations are Academic but Other Times…

Literature Degrees Are…

Literary Criticism is Just…

Margery a Renaissance Karen (Shakespeare)

Chaotic Academia is the St. Trinians School Challenge

Your child puts Achilles Come Down on every playlist

Physically I'm here but mentally I'm...

No poem messes with me like fugue

The fact that i’m not currently lounging…

Antiques Roadshow is free therapy

Transmasc Kinning Tweet

Not to Romanticise Student Roads…

Recs: Girls! Dark Academia Movies , Free Academic Lit Resources

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The Brontë Parsonage and Graveyard

Dining/Writing Room

Branwell’s Studio

Emily Brontë’'s Writing Desk

Fragments of Emily Brontë’s Poetry

Fragment of Emily & Anne’s Childhood Writing

Letter from Emily Brontë to Ellen Nussey

Manuscript of Anne Brontë’s Severed and Gone

Charlotte Brontë’s Writing Desk

A Word to the Quarterly by Charlotte Brontë

Signatures of the Brontë sisters as the ‘Brothers Bell’

St Michael and All Angels' Church

Haworth Village Hill Top Street View

Brontë Asks: Is Haworth grey and depressing?