#Bebe Stevens cosplay

[rockshrimp1989]

Smile! We made it to Friday👏 Sparkle!😁✨️

[kohidan]

cg with my friends <3 im kenny!

[cheesydipping]

Bebe ❤️

[fibula-rasa]

Favorite New-to-me Films—March ‘24

(listed in order pictured above, L to R)

READ on BELOW the JUMP!

Forbidden Fruit (1921)

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C.B. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson’s second swing at this modernized Cinderella story about overcoming a bad husband, now with eye-popping fantasy sequences designed by Natacha Rambova. [Gif sets incoming!]

Mary Maddock (Agnes Ayres) does seamstress work and takes in laundry to support her layabout, no-goodnik husband. Her wealthy clients (Kathlyn Williams & Theodore Roberts) hatch a scheme to use a social event to settle a business deal with handsome young entrepreneur Nelson Rogers (Forrest Stanley). Mary accepts the job to keep Rogers occupied, with the unintended consequence of the two falling in love. When Mary’s husband makes a surprise appearance, the jig is up. But, after her husband’s chicanery has deadly consequences, Mary and Rogers are free to live happily ever after. CW: a pet bird is killed.

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The Woman King (2022)

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Giving an epic treatment to fitting subject matter, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Maria Bello, and Dana Stevens tell the story of the Agojie, a real-life group of warriors from the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa, and General Nanisca (Viola Davis), a fictional leader of the warriors. The Woman King has a creative approach to history, to which a lot of critical attention has been paid—it’s certainly worth seeking education on relevant historical topics. 

That said, it was a gutsy and risky proposition to tell a story tied into the Transatlantic slave trade focused entirely on the West African and Portuguese side for an American (and English speaking) audience. Also, as an avid fan of Xena: Warrior Princess and the Eddas/sagas of Iceland and Scandinavia, I appreciated the filmmakers taking a legendary approach to this location and time period. In its deliberately extra-historical engagement with history, The Woman King also brought to mind for me Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène‘s Ceddo (1971), which I highly recommend. (Obviously the films have wildly different tones/styles tho!) 

As you might imagine from the description, heavy CWs for violence (including SA), blood, and slavery.

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Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

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A month ago, I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me that I’d be putting not one but two DeMille movies on my new-to-me favorites list! I initially watched them as reference for the cosplay I mentioned in the last monthly round-up post, but ended up enjoying both! Often there are elements of DeMille’s films that hamper my ability to enjoy them fully, whether it’s goofy class politics (hello Saturday Night), racist depictions (hi The Woman God Forgot, which I also watched for the first time this past month), or that I simply rarely enjoy christian bible epics. 

That’s not to say Why Change Your Wife? is somehow perfect—it features pretty sexist attitudes. But, having learned a little bit about DeMille’s unconventional marriage, I see it less of a story of wives failing and more of a story about how two people who have a solid partnership can lose themselves when they lose each other. Here I’m referring to the first part of the film, before Swanson’s Beth and Meighan’s Robert get divorced. Beth isn’t being true to herself when she’s on her mental-improvement kick—there are sufficient details thrown in that show that she and Robert have drifted apart and she’s responding to it by morphing into a maiden aunt type. The film could’ve made Robert’s role in their marriage’s demise a little more overt, but I do think DeMille and screenwriters Olga Printzlau, Sada Cowan, and William DeMille must have been concerned about the American public’s response to a story that normalizes divorce in 1920. For context, we didn’t have no-fault divorce here in the US until the 1970s.

Anyway, why should you watch it? Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels offer fun and energetic characterizations as the two Mrs. Gordons, and they share a pretty wild fight scene. The costumes by Natacha Rambova are funky and interesting. The film features an absolutely adorable dog too! (If anyone recognizes the dog please LMK!) [Gif sets for this film are also on the way!]

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Intohimon vallassa (1947)

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Teuvo Tulio don’t miss. 

The heir to the biggest farm in the county, Aino (Regina Linnanheimo), is forced into an arranged marriage, but the man she really loves, Olavi (Kullervo Kalske), sticks around and becomes the town blacksmith. Years pass and Aino’s husband becomes an alcoholic and an abuser. Olavi keeps his distance as Aino’s marriage implodes in a particularly disturbing fashion. CW: domestic abuse, alcoholism, implied death of dog

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

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Look at me watching more than one movie this year that was made in this century! Anyways, I’ve been a turtle fan as long as I can remember (photographic evidence below) and I love that the comics have been re-adapted so well in the last 15 or so years for younger generations. (The 2012 show is very cute btw, worth checking out especially if you have kids.)

This take features a unique and kinetic animation style with an accessible story touching on what makes someone an outcast and how both adults and kids can navigate that. Mutant Mayhem features probably my new favorite depictions of April and of Splinter. Also, even though the non-turtle characters are almost all celebrity voice actors, the voice acting quality is very high.

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Montana Moon (1930)

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Sweet romantic story with comedic elements about a millionaire’s willful daughter (Joan Crawford) who, fleeing an awkward situation on a train ride with her family, runs into a cowboy (Johnny Mack Brown). The two quickly fall in love and are married, but the newlyweds face challenges when the differences in their lifestyles come into sharp relief. I love Crawford’s costuming and styling in this and her performance elevates the material. There are extended sequences with classic country-western music tho, so if that grates on you, you might want to take a pass on this one.

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Leda – The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko (1985)

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Yoko Asagiri is a young girl struggling to confess her feelings to the boy she likes. She decides to confess via a song she composed herself, but the song turns out to be a key to another world. Yoko teams up with a talking dog and a tiny warrior girl with a giant robot to fight the villainous Zell, who wants to use Yoko’s song to conquer her world. The animation and designs are top-notch as is the music. I personally enjoyed all of the Oz vibes suffused throughout the OVA.

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Tomatos Another Day (1934)

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Also known as “It Never Happened,” this is ostensibly a short film about a woman carrying on an affair and said affair being discovered by her husband. What Tomatos Another Day actually is is a send up of early talkies conceived and executed by independent filmmaker James Sibley Watson Jr. and collaborator Alec Wilder. If you’ve been around my blog for a while, you probably already know that I love Watson’s Fall of the House of Usher (1928) [Gifs/Stills]. However, I haven’t seen much else of his work! Thankfully, Eastman House has preserved and digitized a couple of his films and I plan on watching more soon. The link above has the short film with an introduction and outtakes!

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Past Lives (2023)

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Past Lives is a quiet but emotionally-rich love story by Celine Song that spans decades but also a single eventful week. I loved the way that the story was structured and how much the film relied on thoughtful pauses to communicate complicated emotions. The actors, Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, all put in great work here. If you haven’t seen it yet, but plan to watch it, prepare to cry a bit.

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The Mind Reader (1933)

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Warren William plays a carny with a different gimmick for every town in the midwest. When the Depression affects his take, he and his cohorts, Frank (Alan Jenkins) and Sam (Clarence Muse), come up with a new scheme: fortune telling. As Chandra the Great, the crew start to rake it in, but when Chandra falls for an upright citizen (Constance Cummings), the scheme and their freedom is put in jeopardy.

I’m not accustomed to William playing this particular brand of sleazebag, but he really kills it as Chandra/Chandler/Munro. I appreciated how creative and adventurous the cinematography and editing is—not an especially common trait for pre-code films. I also made some still sets for the film!

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Honorable Mention: Hard to Handle (1933) [letterboxd | imdb]

This film gets honorable mention because while I didn’t think it was particularly good, a few call outs are deserved. The bad: the plot was unnecessarily convoluted and the recurring sequences with fat people were iffy at best. The better: Ruth Donnelly shines as the comedically base mother of Mary Brian and she even gets to do a bit of physical comedy. Donnelly, Brian, and Cagney have a nice chemistry together throughout. In terms of costuming, the matching outfits of Brian and Donnelly are funny, but made funnier by the sheer quantity of mother-daughter ensembles they wear. The neutral: the film is packed with topical Depression-era references: notably Florida investment swindles and trends like dance marathons and the grapefruit diet. All-in-all, the filmmakers could have done less and achieved more.

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The only big post I completed this month was a massive undertaking: Lost, but Not Forgotten: Omar Khayyam / A Lover’s Oath and a timeline for the film’s production and release.

Otherwise, I made themed gif and still sets from:

Torture Garden (1967)

The Marriage Circle (1924)

Le Altre (1969)

The Mind Reader (1933)

As for April, the cosplay I mentioned should be up very soon. If I have the time, both Lost, but Not Forgotten and How’d They Do That should have new installments posted and I have a few movies/shows on my themed gif/still agenda.

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[sluttysnails334]

south park character holiday head cannons

hey bitches, it's time for my monthly head canon post on this app, this time holiday edition :)

During finals the only people who actually take it seriously are Kyle, and Wendy. Kyle berates Stan to take them more seriously but he doesn't lol

Stan host a holiday party at the farm every year, and it's actually really fun and one of the parts about living on the farm, he enjoys. The entire group plays dirty santa.

Bebe and Wendy, and Butters run a gift wrapping business.

Mrs. Cartman also with Butters help runs baking/cookie business.

Randy, Steven, Thomas, Mr. Mackey, and PC Principal have a "who can have the best Christmas lights in South Park competition" every year

Stan's gang and Craig's gang have an ugly sweater competition every year. Craig's gang always wins, because Tolkien buys the sweaters for them.

Bebe loves All I Want For Christmas is You, and sings it all the time, she even does light Mariah Carey cosplay's during this time.

Stan favorite Christmas movie is The Polar Express because it makes him nostalgic for his childhood. He cries EVERYTIME.

Butter's is involved in a nativity scene in some way, shape or form.

Tweek loves making up new holiday drinks, and forcing Craig to taste them.

Kenny loves Christmas horror movies

All the kids still go ice skating together, well into high school.

Clyde and Bebe, and Tweek and Craig, and Nichole and Tolkien all do a group date to look at Christmas lights together.

Kyle's family celebrates Boxing Day, because of Ike

Tolkien hosts a New Years eve party, and without fail something dramatic will happen, like a break up or cheating or two people finally getting together. Whatever it is will be talked about for the rest of the spring semester.

Stan gets Kyle eight gifts each night of Hanukkah instead of a Christmas present. He slowly starts to learn how to celebrate the holiday, as he dates Kyle.

Craig is very scrooge/grinch coded during the holidays unless he's with/around Tweek. Tweek is VERY into Christmas, and they had their first kiss under the mistletoe. ( I wrote a fanfic about that btw )

Tweek and Craig give each other their Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve. Craig only get's Tweek and maybe his family gifts, Tweek gets gifts for all his friends but not his family.

The Cartman's have a permanently extended invitation to the McCormick's to spend Christmas with them, and they usually accept. Cartman is an angel the entire time, and him and Kenny NEVER talk about it, after the holidays.

[battyhaus]

oh yeah um first time sharing my face here hi but i got this wig and keep calling it a bebe cosplay 🤠🤠

[autumncalifornia]

My Bebe wig arrived AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH! I have to admit that I love every SP Cosplay! :D btw this is just a test! Without much Make-up and stuff... :D

[rewencosplay]

✨ 🌞 ✨ 🌞 ✨ 🌞 ✨

[useless-joxter]

We did this cosplay like almost a month ago and I decided to post it here only now but whatever

I love Wendy and I kinda like my version of her (which is really unusual ‘cause i hate almost all of my cosplays) so I’ll just leave it here....

And I just LOVE my friend’s Bebe, she’s soooooo pretty >w<

Also ooops we did it again, that kissing couple meme is my favorite i’m sorry (p.s. don’t be sad for Craig, his boyfriend Tweek is taking this picture)

[ask-bebe-stevens-blog]

Are you still into fashion?

Bebe: Yes. I am currently co-president of the South Park High fashion club along with Heidi Turner

[rockshrimp1989]

You see how I pose for this photo? Very demure, very cutesy😊💁🏼‍♀️

[ectonurites]

I’m glad I’ve embraced cosplaying both guys and girls because then I can put the pics next to eachother like this and be both sides of even MORE ships than I could before

[chizh-di]

Best Friends, best girls

[blame-canada]

some Medusa Bebe excellence ✨🐍✨ 

[smashedkittkate]

I've been heavily debating wether or not I'd be able to pull off cosplaying as Bebe Stevens

I have the hair but that might be it 🤔

[findurfuture]

She is a student at South Park Elementary School, collect all the accessories of the Bebe Steven costume here for Halloween and cosplay. In the animated series South Park, Bebe Stevens (voiced by Jennifer Howell) is a student at South Park Elementary School. She is a popular girl and is usually seen with friends including Heidi Turner, Red McArthur, and Lola. On the basis of an episode in the sixth season, Bebe was the first girl in her grade to develop breasts. She wears dark green pants with a red coat and has frizzy blond hair. Collect all the accessories of the Bebe Stevens costume for Halloween and cosplay.