#I like Noel Coward

[waugh-bao]

@thedookieshooter and @charlesandkeef tagged me to share my instafest lineup (I’ve only had Spotify for a week, because I finally gave up on Amazon Music, so the results might not be super holistic):

Tagging: @charliesmydarling and @aiaiawar

[carcarrot]

LAURENCE HARVEY a.k.a. LARUSHKA MISCHA / ZVI MOSHEH SKIKNE (born october 1st, 1928 - died november 25th, 1973)

“I always believed in Laurence Harvey, even when nobody else did. Especially when nobody else did.”

“Most people imagined they knew and understood Larry with little trouble. That was a big mistake. They didn't know how deep and complex, how elusive, he remained behind his social mask.” - Paulene Stone, his wife

“I cannot yield to failure, it would make far too many people happy.”

[iamjackstylerdurden]

cant stand me now - the libertines

[thedreadvampy]

Wow you are an ugly man lol

Awwww baby is this because I said "stop bringing up your weird genital obsession in every fucking conversation" to the TERF reblogs on my post about addressing discomforting topics? Sounds like sOmEoNe isn't as open to discussing fraught topics as they think they are, and maybe just want everyone to uncritically agree with their claims to represent a Silent Majority Afraid To Speak Out despite the fact that statistically most people think they're talking shite, especially lesbians, who are the single most trans-positive LGBTQ+ subgroup according to survey data? that must be super fucking hard for you bb 🥲

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

225. Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023)

[alwayscryingoverdannyb]

@ noel gallagher: release Step Out with liam’s vocals you coward

[muralconservator]

I finally turned my anons back on after a few months, knock on wood that the N//ah S////napp stans will finally leave me alone or they'll have to go back off

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Mr Gaiman, hope covid is treating you kindly!

I read again recently The Ocean At The End of the Lane, and GOD it was so good

(I only read it once before, and it was the first book I ever read in english without having read it in my own language first. Somehow, understanding half of it, I still felt the exact same way at the end of the book as I do now: a kid feeling very distanced from adults, full of love for humanity and yet bewildered by it)

Anyway, my question is : should I book tickets to go see the show in November? The only ones left are a bit expensive + I need to cross the channel sea... but I feel like I would regret not seeing it.

Thank you and have a good day!

Yes. Definitely. Go and see it. The seven weeks it's about to do at London's Noel Coward Theatre may be the last performances, and you're getting an astonishing team that's been touring with the show for about a year, and is making theatrical magic happen on a nightly basis. There's nothing like it.

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Hermione Baddeley (Brighton Rock, Passport to Pimlico, Mary Poppins)— An absolute mainstay of British films from this period. She’s an icon who never takes shit from anyone in any of her movies, dresses for the occasion, and has the best line delivery! Also she started out in silent movies, and was a close friend of Noel Coward. In a desperate attempt to appeal to a large tumblr fandom, I will also point out that her first husband and one of her children were both called David Tennant. You like that name, don’t you tumblr??

Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins, The Court Jester)—LISTEN, I'd let that woman's voice with all its gravely hoarseness (positive) wash over me all goddamn day, but if that's not enough she managed to play the straight woman to Danny Kaye's jester, all with her cleavage so plunging it might as well have been catapulted into the ocean right after Basil Rathbone

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Glynis Johns propaganda:

She walks the line between sexy and cute. Her best role for me is in "The Court Jester as Maid Jean. She's fantastic as the soft but tough captain of the outlaw band and she looks stunning in every gown she wears throughout the film. And of course we can't forget her iconic turn as the suffragette mother, Mrs. Banks, in Mary Poppins! Also shoutout to her distinctive and beautiful voice, kind of smoky and husky. Extremely hot and set her apart from many of her peers."

"Listen, listen. I was raised on Mary Poppins and "Votes for women! (step in time)" single-handedly taught me how to be a feminist. Also The Court Jester is one of my favourite movies of all time and she is UNBELIEVABLY gorgeous, charismatic, funny, and clever in it. She knocks several men out. Absolute icon."

"Like Bette Davis she has eyes to die for. Unlike Bette Davis you felt comforted by them, even when she was batting her eyelashes at you. Would glady go to Downing Street with her and throw things at the Prime minister"

"She had this wonderful wit and charm to her no matter the role and the most distinctive, striking voice!"

"She was amazing in Mary Poppins (the Suffragette song is severely underrated) and apparently she was Welsh? National pride! And she advocated for arts funding in Wales, which is very cool. Also, she died recently (RIP) making her one of the last survivors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, according to Wikipedia. Also also, she just has a cheeky energy I like? And her eyes are beautiful!"

"I mean, incredibly beautiful and talented, can do drama can do comedy. And she was a mermaid."

"I love Glynis Johns. Most of the reason is The Court Jester where she's a sensible and capable foil to whatever what going on with Danny Kaye at the time. She was also the first star I based an OC on. An OC that I still have to this day! Anyway here have some YouTube links love u bye"

Mermaid clip: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1jUEA03mYTk

Court Jester (sharing a bed trope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_qG9i054U

Court Jester (seducing the king): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GuqFYElKg

"VOTES FOR WOMEN! Well, votes for this woman. Please."

Hermione Baddeley propaganda:

Propaganda for both Hermione and Glynis:

[loving-family-poll]

Ultimate Incest Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut:

Liam/Noel:

The incest rumours used to be common for good reason <3

those two have kissed and groped each other too many times

They are really weird about each other, they have kissed a few times, made incest jokes many times, wrote songs about each other (I could be your lover/you could be all mine) and had a break up so messy they haven't been on speaking terms for +10 years

The song that goes like "I'm your brother/ you're my lover" there are many such cases

"Liam's gotten all religious. It's quite disturbing. He thinks he's Abel for some weird reason. He wrote a new song called "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel." And I thought, "Right, so you think you're Abel. That must make me Cain. Doesn't Cain kill Abel?" But then the first line of that song is "You could be my lover." I'm not too sure about that. That's illegal, innit? It's kind of illegal for two brothers to make love. It's certainly frowned upon."

Thor/Loki:

i mean do i even have to say it. Look at them. theyre in love and in hate and have crazy chemistry. *chef's kiss*

Listen I know adopted brothers are normally the cowards way out but Thor/Loki is so fucking good

Hot friendly jock plus hot grumpy twink, what more could you want?

If they'd only fucked out their issues all those alien invasions and other evil plots could've been avoided

[cinemaocd]

Top Ten David Lean Films Ranked by How Gay They Are

Lawrence of Arabia: it's a canon gay film. Look it up. Lawrence and Ali are desert husbands. But there are so many other ships and counter ships and ways to feel about these characters and they are all so very LGBTQ...

Brief Encounter: yeah it's practically the template for hetero longing but it was written by a gay man and that checks out: gay men have more longing in their pinky than most people have in their whole body.

Dr. Zhivago: this film is only gay if one day on the 34th viewing your friend goes: wow Julie Christie looks a lot like Peter O'Toole. And then you can't unsee it and it's just Lawrence 2: This time they're in Russia.

Hobson's Choice: the presence of Laughton alone ups the anti on the queerness of this film. Then there's the romantic hero of the film. His name is Willie...and he is... just very submissive. Something something metaphor for cock shaming and there's probably a thesis to be done out of a queer reading of this film.

Summertime: pretend Rosanno Brazzi is a butch lesbian and this is Carol but they fuck and no one dies.

Great Expectations: Herbert Pocket is a gay man and he and Pip live together and sit on the same side of the table as one another, like an old married couple at an echo-y restaurant that messes with their hearing aids.

Blithe Spirit: Noel Coward again. Witty drawing room comedy where everyone is smashed out of their minds and everyone has slept with everyone...how is this not just gay culture?

Bridge on the River Kwai: it's been decades since I watched it but the setting alone--homosocial POW camp--fires up the old slash goggles. Alec Guinness' character is wound up tighter than a drum and lashing out at everyone. If you know about AG's real life, you know this was not a big stretch for him. And a lot of people think Guinness' sexuality was a big of the reason for all that tension...

The Passionate Friends: the addition of Claude Rains to any cast automatically add a bonus 10 Queer points.

Madelaine: I dunno, a women-centered noir with Psychosexual Themes is usually pretty queer.

[grandturtleperson]

Just saw a National Theatre Live screening of Noel Coward's Present Laughter. SO funny. Wish I'd been able to see it in person. Andrew Scott as Gary Essendine is really up there as one of the most irresistible, charismatic and unremittingly messy fictional characters I've ever encountered... I want to be able to lounge insouciantly on cushions like that.

[3rdgymbros]

━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥!

— pairing; isagi yoichi x reader  

— summary; in which isagi yoichi accidentally proposes to you. set in the blue lock manager au.

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❋ It’s Noel Noa of all people who informs you that Isagi’s regained consciousness, and you just about wilt in relief.

❋ Noel Noa arches an eyebrow when he sees you carrying a tray of food, but otherwise doesn’t stop you from entering his room.

❋ (You do find it odd how Noel Noa lingers outside the door, but hey, it’s his show.)

❋ “You’re up,” you say, smiling to see Isagi reclining against the pillows, alert and awake. “Great. Let’s get some food in you.”

❋ The aroma of fresh chicken soup with parsley and celery fills the small space as you pass the tray over to Isagi, who falls upon it like a starving man. Though it’s to be expected, considering that it’s been about a day since he’s had real food in his system.

❋ In between shovelling spoonfuls of soup into his mouth, Isagi manages to restrain himself enough to say, “’S good.”

❋ You beam at him, pride shining through in your voice. The hour you’d spent slaving over the stove all seems very irrelevant now, in the face of Isagi’s praise. “Really? I’m glad you like it, I made it myself!”

❋ “Wanna eat this for the rest of my life,” Isagi mumbles, right before he dives back into the bowl, noisily slurping down the heat and the soup.

❋ It hits you then, the full weight of what he’s just said, and you can feel the blood rushing to your cheeks with a dizzying force ─ hadn’t that been an indirect proposal? Is Isagi even aware of what he’s just said?

❋ You want to ask, but when you glance at Isagi, glancing longingly at the empty bowl, the words die away on your lips, and all you can focus on are the butterflies tickling your insides.

❋ And like the coward you are, you quickly pick up the tray and bowl, leaving with the convenient excuse of giving Isagi seconds.

❋ (Unbeknownst to you, as soon as you’re out the door, Isagi buries his very red face into the pillow and screams.

Why, oh why did he say that?)

[finnitesimal]

Ordem Paranormal Quarantena fucking knocked it out of the park it was insane Im grappling with so much I'm so insanely tired

There was a funny bit I was thinking of around the whole second bit where I was going Carol you hallmark protagonist fuck

Because first of all her name. that was the main part it's on the same level as Noel and Nick and Holly but there were also certain aspects of her character that in my delirious mind reminded me of the hypocrisy and drama of the typical independent business lady in a christmas movie as well as the I-can-do-no-wrong mindset of a romantic fantasy shoujo romance protagonist

And I thought. Man. There was a very clear path this story couldve taken with these characters and setting if it were not roleplay.

(note: not talking about the ccs or the actual characters but the Tropes the characters fall into and Could've been in generic science fiction horror)

A plucky new scientist with dreams to make a difference in an evil monster-ridden world and prove her skills despite being underestimated and looked down on by her friends and colleagues, and her direct senior with whom she has a negative relationship with due to his demonstrated lack of practical skill but mysterious higher connections to the board and therefore is ranked higher while she falls behind. She has moments of butting heads with him before the disaster breaks out in the facility and she has to struggle to stay alive and hidden until she's rescued by that same suddenly impressive senior with whom there's multiple tight spaces to be stuck with and convenient makeovers and sudden cold they have to share body warmth for. It's overWhelmingly easy to guess the plot

The plot in which None of the gang are mentioned. Because in this hypothetical B-list horror romance, they don't exist as people, but plot devices and tropes

They're there to provide funny moments and emotional weight as well as conflict to the overdone plot.

You have Luis, tank, everyman strongman with a soft heart and unclear but dangerous living conditions (poor). Probably the backup boyfriend in case the thing with Mikael doesn't work out, ends up sacrificing his life to save her due to some completely preventable situation cause she was too stubborn to listen, and gets a future project (maybe even a baby) named after him.

You have Jeffrey, funnyman, scapegoat, coward with zero friends and terrible priorities, multiple jobs (poor). Kind of useless, constantly infuriating and taking up space and meddling with things he doesn't know Anything about when she could've made a solution if he'd handed it over and dies to the zombies for the crime of irritating our protag.

Diego, hippie allegory, lives out of his backpack he literally calls his home, his life (poor) and has herbs (weedhead) that she'd try to be Fixing and eventually succeed in 'reforming' and sending him back to school due to her natural disposition in helping those in need.

You have Lucie, finally another girl, unfortunately in both horror and tropey romance, we Hate any other woman besides our all-powerful and beloved protagonist, so she's the nerd archetype but not the cute, efficient way our protag is nerdy but in the weirdo unnecessarily jargon-filled and Unappealing (unattractive) way. She dies the same way in the movie.

Benito was Made to be hated. It's the sly evil smirk and sunglasses and a beanie with the unprofessional labcoat and talking about things he doesn't understand like he does and taking her accomplishments and mocking her life as a scientist fighting to save the world and how he always seems to be looking down at her and definitely wouldve been the one to hide an infection and endanger the group he's the character whose death you're Meant to starting cheering for when he's dragged kicking and screaming onto the rusty laden, jagged roof and played with and pounced on till his insides squeeze out of him like toothpaste

Mattias was there so our protagonist could have her badass "I'm not like you I won't take a life because you're a coward" speech before he turns and nearly gets the group

Emi and Anderson were there so we could have a real man-to-man fatherly conversation about what it means to protect the ones you love and to pass on the torch as 'Leader' before he succumbs to the virus and begs to die before he hurts his girl, and so they could have wholesome pseudo-parenthood with a confused but reasonable child who absolutely understands that they're doing the right thing because they're the good guys and calls Carol mom when she's in danger near the end

It could've been a zombie survival plot about two arguably well-off individuals facing the consequences of a project they still believe could change the world and their tag-along group of meatshields to throw at the problem until their glorious melancholy escape where they're hailed as heroes for containing and eventually completing their groundbreaking research

and a horrific experience for a group of people who just wanted to make an easy few bucks till the next paycheck. They could've split those 50 dolalrs and jumped each other in the parking lot they didn't need to go through all that

Carol is driven, she's serious, she's ambitious and believes in the good that her research (the team's research) will bring and she's surrounded by people who don't understand that they're the good guys and are trying to find fault in her So she's willing to make sacrifices so she's willing to take it upon herself to decide who the team needs more she doesn't care if she dies as long as the world knows she saved it she needs to hear anything and everything people say in case it's about her or something she might care about it she's got braided hair and easily breakable glasses

Mikael is keeping things to himself to preserve his level of control over the situation because who knows what these guys are really like and he Saved them by telling them everything they need to know and they repay him by chopping his arm off? they're ungrateful and unserious So he kept himself safe while they had numbers and clues on their side They Managed Didn't They? Aren't they alive right now? they don't understand how important it is that he lives no one understands how important it is that Nidere lives he's got stylish curly hair and a fitted turtleneck

They both have a need to be heroes in a sense, to matter in the grand scheme of things they need to be at the forefront they need to be the ones who saved Everyone. Everybody is Only Alive because of THEM.

It's just really fascinating to me how. A different perspective of things kind of switches their roles as protagonists and cannon fodder

[savagewildnerness]

Incidentally, the photo I shared the other day, it is a Live Photo, so I share again so you can see me being blinky, Shirley saying “Okay” & Sam being noddy! 😂

I adored this play so much! I haven’t been to London now since February 2020 & I miss the days I sat in the theatre(s) for (many other plays &) this play as I saw it at both the Old Vic & the Noel Coward Theatre for hours, alone, immersed in the glorious world of this play!

Teehee. It’s so weird to me that Sam was literally a few metres away from me, but I was too scared to ask everyone for photos! Or anyone, beyond Shirley! I wish I had been braver now! But then again, I’m glad I didn’t annoy Sam & I guess I have a memento photo anyway! Here it is! It’s not only a photo even, LOL! It’s a video, essentially 😂.

The play was so exquisite though! I don’t think I could have coped to also know Sam would one day be Lestat on top of the exquisite glory that the play was. If you ever get the chance to see Shirley Henderson on stage, run as fast as you can at that! Sam wasn’t bad either! 😉😁😇 The while cast were glorious! But Shirley was transcendent! Just mesmerising, she was. And the emotion as she sang. I wish I could describe the emotional power. I’m crying now, because I can bring it back into my heart still now - how it felt. I mean, you can listen to the cast recording, but obviously it had more power in the context of the play. Why do time machines not exist? Anyway! Lucky me to have experienced it.

I’m actually very glad that at least I steeled myself enough to do this! I don’t know exactly how many times I saw the play (but I did see it enough that once at the Old Vic when I got a ticket on the day, the box office staff gave me the seat in the centre circle they usually save in case the Director wants to watch any performance, so the staff clearly knew I was there *again*!!! 😇 To give me the special seat… I think I only saw it twice at the Noel Coward Theatre though as it was more expensive then, but this particular photo was after the very final performance, which I was lucky to be at. They were dismantling the set & taking it out if the back of the theatre too.)

I did a tour of the Old Vic while it was on there too & so stood on the stage. In my humble opinion, The Old Vic is the most beautiful theatre in London & standing on the (massive!) stage, looking out at the auditorium it makes you desire to be there, performing. I felt similarly to how Lestat must have as a young boy, that world & its feeling so clear!

I’m not a big fan of musicals (though I love some, if I feel them!) but plays with music in are my absolute favourite. Because I love & feel music deeply & when you can be moved by music AND be moved by the incredible skill of actors (How do people act!? It’s a mystery to me! I find it awkward enough being even myself & like I don’t know how to be a real person!!) & it all combines, especially in such an aching, yearning play about the sorrowful tragedy of being alive & our sad, doomed lives. Oh, it’s so resonant and perfect!

I miss live theatre very much indeed!

Buuutttt…. TV vampires certainly are a fair substitute! They’ll do me, for now!!

Anyway, I thought I’d share this silly wee video!! 😂😅😇

[brw]

The real reason Simon suffers in Hollywood is that he has to pretend all the time that he's not a fucking freak. He intentionally puts on the Californian accent and lies and says his favourite musician is Lady Gaga when it's actually Bunny Berigan or Noel Coward. He allowed himself to get set on fire and shot with a cannonball like day one on his first ever films. He's a 1950s repressed gay businessman who was never socialised and once threatened to bite off Hulk's finger. The only time he's ever been truly happy in a heterosexual relationship was with a hypersexual cat woman who cheated on him with his half-grandfather and he was completely fine with that. Simon Williams codename Wonder Man is an absolute freak but puts so much effort into pretending he's a normal guy but I feel like if he really leaned into the freak thing he wouldn't necessarily be successful but he would have a very strong following amongst very odd lesbians and trans people online.