#BANKY

[flowers-but-gay]

me fr

[postcard-from-the-past]

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky on a vintage postcard

[tall-glass-of-nope]

I saw Chasing Amy for the first time last night and since I’m generally uninitiated in the world of Kevin Smith films I guess I have no basis of comparison but I was shocked at the candor with which a lot of the sexual topics and relationships are presented.

I expect this will be one of my most unpopular opinions but I’m willing to say it: I thought it was a good movie.

I don’t know how it was MEANT to be interpreted, but here’s what I got from it (spoilers ahead).

I get that many people find it problematic that Alyssa describes herself as gay when she’s clearly bisexual, but with the context that this film was made in the late 90s and the fact that there are STILL people who think bi identities are just noncommittal experimental stops between gay and straight… I just don’t find it that unrealistic that she’d be imprecise with her own label.

Ben Affleck’s character sucks. Like, I hated him. But I don’t hate that I hated him, because it’s a movie and I’m pro-unlikeable protagonist sometimes. There is a lot of dialogue about turning the lesbian, and I think his character does fetishize that. I also think he’s wrong to believe that’s what happened at all. She chose to spend all that time with him, to accept his stupid cringe car speech, and eventually to leave. He doesn’t actually change her. She’s using him (romantically) like she used to use people sexually in her past, AND I don’t think that should be a condemned character trait on her part. If he had really loved her back, well, then it wouldn’t have been using. But it was one-sided imo. I believe she saw the red flags and still chose him, until he disappointingly came around to a proposition that demonstrated he’d never treat her the same again and she knew she didn’t deserve that.

But also I do think she really thought she was in love, so at the one year later mark her emotionality makes sense because that’s a kind of nostalgia that is so personal, even if that chapter is well and truly over.

Banky is gay. Full stop. So, interpret all of his problematic diatribes with that filter. His “everyone needs a good dicking” speech is him telling on himself. It’s repression and a lot of internalized issues, and he talks about this stuff in ways I’ve heard other people in my real life talk about them in private spaces. It’s a realistic portrayal. Also Jason Lee NAILS the little details. He’s staring at Ben Affleck’s lips. He’s jealous of the attention Alyssa gets. I didn’t doubt for a single frame what was going on under the surface for that character.

I will never defend the two main boys in this movie, but they’re written extremely realistically. I know guys like these two dudes. The whole movie long I had two specific people in mind, in fact. And no, I do not have anything to do with them anymore, but I was someone’s Alyssa (or Amy) once.

One final note: I’ve never seen a movie where a straight character actually suggests a three-way as a solution to his love triangle problems and this was portrayed so surprisingly earnestly as a request. Yeah, it was cringe and incorrect, but so is everything about Holden. I just found it surprising that it happened at all, and I don’t think it was entirely played for laughs or pure shock value.

[ocemsemlci]

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[bisonews]

Sous le regard attentif d'Emmanuel Macron, FENX dévoile Banky à Vivatech 2023

Du 14 au 17 juin de cette année, Paris a été le théâtre de la septième édition du Salon Viva Technology, un événement incontournable dans le domaine de la technologie. Lors de cette grand-messe de l’innovation, la société d’ingénierie informatique FENX a marqué les esprits en dévoilant officiellement sa dernière création : Banky, une plateforme numérique révolutionnaire dédiée aux microfinances…

[godwin247]

As the new service chiefs chart a new course on counter-terrorism in the fight against insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality in Nigeria, hope appears to have risen for businesses in the Northern part of the country. The service chiefs and acting Inspector General  of Police (IGP) took over from their predecessors at the weekend, with a vow to take decisive counter…

[octavio-world]

when you wake up the entire restaurant and your wallet are gone and all that’s left is the wackest graffiti you’ve ever seen

waitor comes up to your table and goes "banky?", wraps you in a soft warm blanket then coos in your ear until you curl up and fall asleep in your seat

[leemeanhoe]

oh thank fuck for another mosbank show. also DRAGON THE MOVIE???? this years lakorns have been disappointing so far so this sounds delicious

[corrodedparadox]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky on a vintage postcard

[sctigthethird]

Marketable Critters video!

Au by/from: @eggonicayto @ask-the-marketable-critters

I love Pickie Banky

Pickie Banky my beloved

[ocemsemlci]

Stanislav Novotný se ptá Jana Campbella na současný stav světového finančního a bankovního systému po pádu ikonických bank v minulých dnech https://ocemsemlci.cz/o-cem-se-mlci-jan-campbell-3/?feed_id=1167

[rimouskis]

alright, question for the esteemed jury (though I imagine this will be a uniquely american, if not perhaps also canadian, experience):

are you familiar with the children's game that involves slapping hands around a circle while singing a song that begins "down by the banks of the hanky panky"

and if you are, how did the rest of the song go for you