#Girltrash

[dadrgone]

girls and trash and girls again

[glovelylovely]

Finally,

I get to be me,

And tonight,

I’m going for the girl!

(Happy Lesbian Visibility Week!!!)

[albaharu]

Raise your hand If you wanna get laid tonight If you just wanna play tonight If you just turned gay tonight 🎵

Was no one going to tell me the creator of D.E.B.S. wrote a sapphic musical. Was I supposed to know just by searching imdb by myself?

[eye-of-the-purricane]

Girltrash: All Night Long - By 2 a.m.

Killola, Gabrielle Christian, Mandy Musgrave & the cast of Girltrash: All Night Long. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

[andrewknightley]

Got a niche movie you like, that you wish more people talked about?

YES! But more than wishing people would talk about it is like more people gotta watch it first fkdkdk

Girltrash: All Night Long

It's a sapphic musical writen by the director of D.E.B.S. and its very indie and low budget but i love the songs and is so funny. And just so refreshing to just see sapphic causal romances and hook ups and dyke drama that's more "my ex got a new girlfriend" than "what will the heteros think about this"

[lost-in-the-gay-all-day]

Girltrash is kind of a slay actually

[fern-pajamabrain]

the fact that I can’t find a single website to watch the classic lesbian musical comedy Girltrash: All Night Long (2014) AND my copy of it is corrupted is one of the biggest, if not The Biggest, act of homophobia I have ever experienced

[agentbeeswrites]

I just started watching Wednesday on Netflix. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Then enters The Therapist: Dr. Kinbott, played by Riki Lindhome. Her name sounded familiar. Her face was familiar. It took me a few minutes, but I know her! It's LouAnne from Girltrash!

This is a game I play every time I vaguely recognize an actor. Was she in something more recent? Of course. But the first thing she stood out in that I saw was the web series Girltrash! from Angela Robinson circa 2007. Good times.

[glovelylovely]

killola could write hamilton but lin manuel miranda couldn’t write fantasy crush

back stage sex rampage

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[glovelylovely]

Aw, that’s funny, I didn’t know you’d dig sluts.

[visually-corrupted]

They are also in this great movie called "Girltrash: All Night Long" which is based on those web shorts.

[lost-in-the-gay-all-day]

wait... is Valentine from Girltrash! (The web series not the movie) the same actor as the boy best friend of Lucy Diamond from D.E.B.S.??

[wlwmoviebracket]

round 2 (5/64)

[crystalcircus]

RWBY IS NO LONGER PART OF ROOSTER TEETH??? LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

There's something kinda funny about how RWBY just absolutely refuses to die despite a constant stream of adversity. The first season was objectively hot garbage but it still got a second season. The creator of the series whose passion project the whole thing was passed away in a freak accident after the second season but they just kept going without him and somehow a significant portion of the fanbase went along for it. The budget got slashed in Season 5 because of gross mismanagement but no worries! The fans stuck with it and they got it back for Season 6. Then a few seasons later the entire company that's been producing it went completely tits up and we all assumed THAT would be the end but nope!!! They got bought by Viz. RWBY has now outlived both the man who dreamt it up and the company that produced it. In an era where numerous streaming shows get axed after one or two seasons despite being critical successes with large fanbases it is completely baffling that a show that is so consistently troubled and infamously has an extremely mixed reception cannot be fucking ended despite all indications to the contrary. It truly is femslash Supernatural

[thexfridax]

D.E.B.S. at 20: a Queer Cult Classic

Bessie Yuill Photo: Sundance/WireImage

There is a secret film hidden within the shadowy sapphic corners of Letterboxd. Some call it escapist trash, some call it an underrated cult classic, fools call it a male fantasy. It calls itself D.E.B.S. As other early-2000s chick flicks like Charlie’s Angels and St. Trinian’s have been reevaluated and embraced for their candy-floss aesthetics and campy wit over the years, the lesbian community was quietly reclaiming its own equivalent with 2004’s D.E.B.S.

The precursor to contemporary high-concept lesbian films like Bottoms, the spy flick is filled with something that queer female moviegoers still often yearn for: fun. That includes Jordana Brewster and her era-defying eyebrows as the impeccably named supervillain Lucy Diamond, John Woo–style fight scenes that parody the action genre in the same way as Charlie’s Angels, and a cheerfully cheap aesthetic where spies run around in plaid schoolgirl skirts.

D.E.B.S. was written, directed, and edited by filmmaker Angela Robinson. While “unapologetically queer” might be an overused phrase, it does apply neatly to Robinson. The Chicago-born director’s first project was a short film called Chickula: Teenage Vampire, calling on the long history of vampiric queer women that began with 1872’s Carmilla.

Her love of playing with genre led her to later put a lesbian spin on the movie musical by writing the underappreciated Girltrash: All Night Long and exploring polyamory in a period biopic about the creators of Wonder Woman, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. On the small screen, she also burnished her lesbian credentials by working on several episodes of The L Word.

When D.E.B.S. started life as a short film, Robinson described it as “a story about a trio of superspies who are all chicks. I love all the comic-book characters: Charlie’s Angels, Batman, Josie & the Pussycats … But I always wanted them to be gay and they never were, so I wrote my own.” Success at Sundance led to Sony snatching the short up and deciding that D.E.B.S. should be a full-length feature.

Two decades later, the joy of this movie lies in the details. The tone is immediately set by a gravelly voice-over telling us that there is a secret test hidden within the SAT to recruit young female superspies (and establishing that, like Bottoms, this is a film aware of genre archetypes and willing to push believability). Our main character Amy (Sara Foster) is an academic overachiever — like many lesbians overcompensating for their perceived failure to live up to social norms. Her perfect score on the secret SAT test makes it even more scandalous when she falls for the aforementioned supervillain Lucy Diamond.

Queer friend groups may delight over the nostalgic frosty eye shadow and lip gloss worn by the D.E.B.S. (which stands for “discipline, energy, beauty, strength,” naturally) at all times. Flip phones, CGI holographic screens, and Goldfrapp’s appearance on the soundtrack will also remind you that you’re watching a film made in the early 2000s. And many will squeal when they spot Holland Taylor, over a decade before she came out, as the academy’s head.

Admittedly, the special effects are goofy enough to cross over into comedy, especially when our girls are abseiling into a restaurant or climbing walls with plungers, and the lighting could be charitably described as resembling teen soap operas of that era. But the chemistry between Amy and Lucy is crackling enough that YouTube compilations of their scenes have racked up hundreds of thousands of views online. Their fun enemies-to-lovers plotline begins with the pair pointing guns at each other and quickly progresses to a whirlwind romance (the other D.E.B.S. think Amy’s been kidnapped and launch a national manhunt, just as many friend groups have had to organize rescue missions for lesbians on weeklong first dates).

You could argue that espionage serves as a metaphor for the closet and that Amy is such an effective spy because she’s used to lying to herself about her sexuality. But that almost seems like too much weight to put on this meringue confection of a genre spoof: Its campiness liberates the characters to inhabit a fun, exaggerated universe with no serious homophobia or consequences. Guns are used, but the so-called superspies have such consistently terrible aim that there are no real casualties. And Lucy Diamond’s supposedly nefarious crimes are all reversible — the murders pinned on her are revealed to be misunderstandings, and she returns all of her stolen goods in order to win Amy back.

When this live-action Totally Spies with a lesbian twist debuted, it only made $97,000 and was dismissed by critics. But there were enough moviegoing gays impressed by its snappy dialogue, fun romance, and stunning supporting cast (including Meagan Good, Jimmi Simpson, and Devon Aoki with a French accent) for its reputation to grow online over time. In forums and YouTube comment sections, young girls were asking, “Are there any lesbian films where they just fall in love and have fun and don’t die at the end?” Their answer was D.E.B.S.