#I'm just a sweet transvestite

[blackbird-brewster]

Happy 50th Anniversary to Rocky Horror Picture Show (June 19, 1973)

I used to be in a shadow cast that put on monthly midnight shows of RHPS (you know, with props, and call backs, and chaos). It was some of the best fun I've ever had.

When our local theatre was doing a midnight showing a couple of years ago, I KNEW we had to go. (Doom Them had never been to one!!)

Our costumes were both just closet cosplays, which is exactly how it should be imo.

Richard O'Brien was there to introduce the film and do a Q&A, honestly surreal to get to meet him.

I was the only one doing all the callbacks (more than just the well known Brad/Asshole and Janet/Slut) and the people next to us were absolutely thrilled 😂

All in all, one of my top memories of being a queer little freak in public. Long live RHPS!!

[troublemakergalaxy]

"You are the dancing queen! Young and sweet! Only seventeen!!" fanart for the fic "(I'm Just A) Sweet Transvestite" by the wonderful @wisecrackingeric-2!! (below the keep reading is a little thing i noticed about the fic)

how did i not notice this before i had to take like 5 moments to process that this was infact real and in the fic LOL honestly. love it it was very hilarious to notice. i also could not get the "8675309~" part of the song out of my head for a good minute LOLL

[spineless-lobster]

The ghosts need to watch Rocky Horror because I think it would fix all of their problems

[pisshandkerchief]

guess who has to stand around in the cold in his underwear at pride all day. this guy

[roadkilledsusie]

Imagine talking shit about me and I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual transylvania

[xenomorphzoid]

✨️I'm just a sweet transvestite ✨️

[olderthannetfic]

Could you or any of your followers explain to me why half of Tumblr seems to think that the character Frank 'n' Furter from "RHPS" was deliberately written as a trans woman in a derogatory way?

(Please note I'm NOT referring to the 2016 remake with Laverne Cox which I haven't seen. All the discourse I've seen is about the original 1975 Tim Curry film.)

I'm a longterm gay British fan of it and always read the character as a cis pansexual transvestite. Yes, he's from the planet of Transsexual but so are two of the other characters and I've never seen anyone read either as transgender.

I know not every queer person will like it and that's fine but it makes me sad that some think it was created to "shit on trans women" when tbh it was more of a self-insert thing for its creator. And they seem to ignore that everyone loves Frank. They wouldn't have cast someone so charismatic if the point was just ridicule.

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A sweet transvestite, even.

From transsexual Transylvania-Ah-Ah-Ah-AHHHHH.

The answer to your question is that Tumblr is full of idiots who cannot handle a man in women's clothing. There's also a massive push to collapse every form of Gender Stuff into one understanding of transness. The concept of a transvestite is pretty alien to a lot of people around here.

The other answer is that gleeful horny insanity is read by these people as scary outsiders, not a core tenet of queer culture. Frank doesn't get a happy ending that goes "This is the hero, btw", so he must be a villain we're supposed to hate.

Zero media literacy, zero knowledge of queer community history.

As usual with this kind of thing.

[glazedsnail]

Gus Invests in a Karaoke Machine

I woke up this morning and thought this very normal thought:

What song would the bachelor.ette.s sing at karaoke?

Not what they like to listen to, not what they'd want to sing in any normal state.

What they would belt out with a buzzed heart.

So here we go:

Harvey -

And he's absolutely CRUSHING it, everyone in the saloon is floored by how Harvey chanel his best Tim Curry. They're stuck to his lips for every notes with antici... ...pation.

He even shakes his hips, straighten his leg, put on the greatest show. Walk over the patrons, flick their chins, he's not much of a man by the light of day, but by night... Oh yeah. Even grabs Shane's pint in the process, sits on the counter to drink off it. How 'bout that?

Unfortunately he doesn't remember much the next day and wonders why people started calling him Dr Frank-N-Furter for a while.

Elliott -

Starts with a whisper from the heart, making the townspeople think aww he so shy, but then he just FLIES and SWINGS from the chandelier. He IS the bird, he IS free, and he clearly doesnt care if he sings off key.

Beating to the sound of his own untuned drum.

There's a lot of hair flip, and the scream inside that he was hiding FLIES OUT.

His throat hurts the next morning, but he sings for love ♥

Shane -

He wasn't going to partake, but when he heard the few notes from the song coming on as Gus put the machine on Shuffle he simply HAS to grab the mic and DESTROYS it with all his heart.

Oh so you think you got him figured out? THE SEASON'S CHANGING BITCH. Don't you try to save him. He's your HELL he's your DREAM.

The saloon is stunned. He doesn't sing well (like, at all) but damn his heart and soul ARE in it, and it shows. When he's done they're all a bit lost but damn the applauses come soon enough.

He forgets all about it each time.

We wouldn't want him any other way.

Sam -

He tries to pull Seb in, he wants to get Seb to sing with him. He wants to sing Kiki Dee's part solely but he ends up singing both, weirdly harmonizing with himself?? Like it's almost spooky how good he switches from one voice to the other.

A lot of ooh-hoo ooh-hoo but damn this man has a built-in pitch checker, each notes is hit with the precision of an opera singer. He puts the light in your life.

The song ends but he continues with an endless loop of:

Don't go breaking my / Don't go breaking my / Don't go breaking my / Don't go breaking my (please someone take the mic from him)/ Don't go breaking my/ Don't go breaking my...

Sebastian is almost sad he didn't get to sing with him after all but they make it a point to sing it every Karaoke night from now on (and they're perfect, everyone comes in just cause they know this will happen.)

Seb -

Are you a man? Cause I'm a biitcchhhhhhhhh.

Everyone is taken aback, flummoxed, even. How does Sebastian move that way? Who taught him? How flexible is this man? With all due respect, everyone's in heat?? I mean look at him. Rev his engine til you make it purr??

Robin and Demetrius are a bit....puzzled but, man, look at the way he moves. Don't try to give him shit he earned the right to be like this...

Get in loser for the...JOYRIDE micdrop

Immediately acts like absolutely nothing happened. Everybody else follows.

Alex -

Lots of pouting and squinting, finger pointing and shuffling. Each time poiting to a different person, making their heart flutter for a bit.

TELL ME WHY - and everyone else joins in.

He's the bad boy of the backstreet, he is your fire, your one desire. His hands on his body, a lot, A LOT. Is he singing to himself?! That's a lot of body touching...Alex calm down. Pull your shirt down.

His shirt is on the floor by the end of the song, and grabs it to wipes himself with it like he's James Brown. He's having fun and is that not what karaoke's about?

🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶🧑‍🎤🎶

I'll do bachelorettes next.

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Propaganda for "Sweet Transvestite": none Defeated Opponents: "Big, Long, Slidin' Thing"

Propaganda for "Feeling Good": "With just her voice alone, this song would qualify, but the instrumental parts take this song to a whole new level." Defeated Opponents: "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

*REMINDER: Vote for the song you think is hotter, not the song you prefer or the artist you think is hotter.

[fandomchokehold]

Musical Songs I Think The Boys™ Would Do a Burlesque Number To

*obviously these are only ones I've listened to, I wasn't a theater kid and don't really know much about plays and musicals, please don't be weird or mean in the notes 😭 and YES as a huge ABBA fan I know all the songs in Mamma Mia are just ABBA songs*

also this is way longer than I intended so there's more under the cut

Solos

Astarion - "Sweet Transvestite" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

this one is pretty obvious and expected but like !!! yeah !!! that's just him !!! he'd do the full routine, coming up in the elevator, throwing the cloak off to reveal the slutty lil outfit he has on underneath, throwing his drink at the audience while Gale Brad is talking, lounging on the throne, and then leaving mysteriously in the elevator OH BABY !!!

Wyll - "Land of Lola" from Kinky Boots

he would absolutely slay this routine, the lyrics are practically about him - "with arms as hard as steel" "with the moves of Fred Astaire" "I'm black jesus, I'm black mary, but this mary's legs are hairy" ??? I need this man to absolutely let loose and I NEED to see him in those cunty thigh high boots 👏 RED 👏 IS 👏 HIS 👏 COLOR !!!!

Gale - "Toucha Toucha Touch Me" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

I honestly just think he'd be really good at playing the part of the "innocent shy reserved man who does a complete 180 after being exposed to pure unbridled sexuality"; we all know he's not actually like that it's fully an act because he knows he has the looks of a tired english professor but the soul of a whore I just- you don't know how badly I need to see him doing a slightly desperate unhinged strip tease on stage on a garrish four poster bed OKAY ?!?!

Halsin - "Toxic Love" from Ferngully

I need him in his pretend villain era, I think he'd be cartoony like if he's gonna work a stage he's gonna werk a stage m'kay; he is actually using this performance to raise awareness about the climate crisis and donate the money he makes towards more accessible clean energy and environmental conservation efforts and would love to provide more info and resources while still in his g-string to all interested parties in the lobby of the venue

Duets

Astarion & Gale - "Planet Schmanet Janet" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

Astarion as Dr. Frank N. Furter, Gale as Janet; we all know this is a trademark Astarion ruse to get to chase a scantily clad Gale around menacingly and torment him in front of an audience, I mean c'mon who wouldn't want to do that 👀

Astarion & Wyll - "Does Your Mother Know?" from Mamma Mia

Astarion as Tanya, Wyll as Pepper (I had to look that up apparently his name is Pepper); I feel like Astarion would identify with Tanya on a spiritual level, they're both wine aunt cougars who love luxury, and after seeing that Wyllstarion interaction where they flirtatiously talk about their age gap this song just really is about them huh

Astarion & Halsin - "I Can Make You a Man" + "I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

Astarion as Dr. Frank N. Furter, Halsin as Rocky; tbh this is just so Astarion can show off the "bounty of nature's gifts" that have been bestowed upon him and Halsin just finds how this twink is climbing him and swinging on his outstretched arm like a jungle gym too amusing to not participate

Gale & Wyll - "Horny Angry Tango" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

either of them in either role; this is purely for the theatrics and to show off their actual ballroom dance skills, Gale is going to be the one getting dipped though

Gale & Halsin - "La Seine" from A Monster In Paris

Gale as Lucille, Halsin as Francoeur; I can't lie it's purely for the height difference that's totally canon and I didn't make up in my head, the contrast between Gale "Lil 5'8" Wizard" Dekarios and Halsin "The 6'5" Bear" Silverbough is just *chef kiss* 👌

Wyll & Halsin - "Lay All Your Love On Me" from Mamma Mia

either of them in either role; they're lowkey almost fucking on stage, Wyll chose it for the drama and Halsin went along for the overtly sexual choreography

Group Numbers

"Lady Marmalade" from Moulin Rouge

Astarion's favorite and Halsin's least favorite for the same reason: it's extremely flashy and dramatic

"Rose Tint My World" which transitions into "Don't Dream It" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

Astarion as Janet for "RTMW" but Frank for "DDI", Wyll as Columbia, Halsin as Rocky, Gale as Brad, with special guest Elminster as Dr. Scott during "Don't Dream It"

"Haus of Holbein" from SIX

tbh I don't have an explanation for this one I've really only listened to the corsets part and think it's kinda cunt, idk they'd all slay in corsets

"Big Spender" from Sweet Charity

ok just imagine any of them doing Fosse choreography

"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" from Mamma Mia

ok just imagine there's stripper poles-

"Cell Block Tango" from Chicago

with special guests Minsc and Volo; no one knows how they got here, Minsc is a bit too uncoordinated but he's got the spirit and Volo was recording everything from the audience for research purposes but saw they were short a character and thought to himself "what better way to learn than through participation?"

[foone]

I just realized that for a while I lived in Transylvania County, North Carolina.

And I wasn't out as trans yet! I could have been a "sweet transvestite, from transexual, Transylvania (county)"

I've failed Rocky Horror. I'm sorry, everyone.

[a-homestuck-but-give-me-a-chance]

I'm pretty sure I've listened to every version of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack available on Youtube.

Specifically every version of the song "The Sword of Damocles" which is, in my humble opinion, one of the most underrated songs from the movie/musical. Maybe I'm just not deep enough in the RHPS fandom, but everyone knows Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite. But I rarely see praise for SoD. And that is a pretty big downer if you ask me. Like, Rocky is given life an immediately goes "Oh, this is going to SUCK.". He's been given life by someone who wants to use him, he's been resurrected using half of some biker dude's brain. He wakes up with a feeling of dread, and the only thing he learns is that sexuality is the one way he can stifle those feelings. He's given no genuine love or room to grow. Everyone sees him as little more than an object or a creature. In "Rose Tint My World" he even points out that he's only seven hours old. He lives for seven hours total, and in that time his life starts with a feeling of dread and ends in terror. And I think SoD is a great window into his thoughts when he first comes-too. He feels like something terrible is hanging right over him, that he can never be comfortable or else something horrible will happen. The dread of knowing he's not safe, and probably never will be. He's literally a minute old and already he's wrestling with feelings of depression and hopelessness. He knows he's trapped, with no real identity.

Someone smarter than me can probably type up an essay on how Rocky can relate to the trans experience, tbh. Like, I could see him being an allegory for a trans or maybe neurodiverse experience. Something something being brought into a world that refuses to accommodate or understand you. Being seen as less than human. Your behavior being controlled by other's expectations. A lack of autonomy. Being sexualized against one's will, and then punished for expressing sexuality. I just really like RHPS ok?

[miasmaghoul]

Any HCs about ghoul Halloween costumes??

OH YES HERE THEY ARE

Swiss is the one who insists on the costumes. Used to be that the abbey would have their usual Hallow's Eve bash, and that was that. Once Swiss discovered the concept of costumes on tour, though, and the idea absolutely tickled him. So now, the ghouls have their own gathering.

Swiss goes all out every year. This time, he's a picture perfect representation of Dr. Frank-n-furter. The hair, the heels, the lingerie - all of it. Even shaved his mustache so he could get the makeup just right; Dew and Aurora are FURIOUS. Swiss does a full on performance of Sweet Transvestite that brings down the house (aka Mountain claps and Rain records it to make gifs for the ghroupchat.)

Speaking of Rain, he usually doesn't put a whole lot of effort into his costumes. He doesn't want to detract from his natural beauty. This year he's been especially lazy, choosing simply to drop enough of his glamour for his skin to be the most stunning shade of shimmering blue. Speckled with scales, rippling fins along his limbs and back, strong tail swishing languidly behind him. Black eyes and pearly fangs. Perfectly unearthly.

But where Rain is lazy, Aeon puts in Maximum Effort. He got Cumulus and Mountsan's help in hand stitching a period-accurate Dracula costume. Frilly sleeves, tight pants, a vest that threatens to crush the life out of him. The boots he wears nearly reach his knees, borrowed from Cirrus' closet. The fangs are his own, specifically unglamoured so only his canines appear elongated. He floats around the party with a cloak billowing behind him for extra drama, and Dew tells him he looks like a gayer Lestat.

Dew, meanwhile, isn't usually one for costumes. Prefers wearing his civvies and taking it easy, saying he's dressed as a metalhead if anyone asks. This year, though, Swiss had dared him into something a bit more...challenging. Never one to back down, Dew accepted before Swiss had even brought out the outfit, and as he stands behind the snack table he has Regrets. He's in a blood red bodycon dress, one that doesn't even reach the middle of his thighs. A strapless number that leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination. The lingerie beneath it had been it's own struggle; a lacy black strapless bra stuffed with socks, black satin panties covering his tucked-back cock, meticulously torn fishnets. He's trying not to move too much, the four-inch heels he's been shoved into more of a hazard than anything else. Dew wishes he wasn't so jealous of how easily Swiss walks in his own pair. His hair and makeup are done too, golden locks pulled into an intricate updo and lips red as his dress. It exposes the long line of his neck, and it's work to keep Aeon's fangs away from his throat.

The real work for Dew, though, comes when Aether strolls in from an impromptu shift in the infirmary. Still dressed in his smart slacks, pale purple button down and slightly too tight white coat. A stethoscope looped around his neck and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses resting on the bridge of his nose. Dew really has to fight not to pop the world's most obvious boner while he talks about something with Mountain that he's long since lost track of.

Mountain, for the record, has been spending the last ten minutes or so staring at Rain, so he's not all that bothered. His own costume is similar to Rain's, but as opposed to "I'm a water ghoul" Mountain tells everyone he's Poison Ivy. Magickal plants cover him from tits to toes, creeping vines hugging him like a second skin. There are flowers dispersed throughout, bursts of color in the vibrant green, and a braided crown of something definitely poisonous settled between his antlers. Aurora keeps sneaking blossoms for herself, and she knows Mountain won't notice.

She couldn't NOT go as Princess Aurora. It was too perfect to pass up! Complete with flowing blonde hair, a perfectly fitted pink gown that color shifts to blue in the right light, and a little golden crown. She floats around the room on weightless feet, helped along by just enough air magick to make her look angelic and ethereal. The flowers she squirrels away from Mountain's bounty get handed out to her dance partners - Cirrus has the most so far.

Cirrus, who has gone low-effort but in an effective way. She's in her old Era IV uniform, black fabric settling over her curves like it belongs there. Severe in a way that demands attention. She's wearing a mask, but not the one that usually comes with this outfit. No shiny silver or stylized curls. This mask is simple, white, curved and molded over her right eye, cheek and part of her forehead. She spends the early part of the evening at the common room piano, playing the overture from Phantom of the Opera so the others will stop asking what she is.

Sunshine is a clown, but in like a clown-core way. Baggy clothes in mismatched colors and patterns, white face paint with exaggerated red lips and blue triangles around her eyes. She has a whole host of silly little party tricks up her sleeve too; the look of disdain she gets from Rain when she soaks him with the flower on her lapel is absolutely worth whatever he'll to do her later.

Cumulus and Ifrit end up committing a bit of a costume faux pas - they both arrive dressed as Elvira. Skintight black gown with plunging neckline? Check. Massive black wig? Check. Dagger-like nails? Check. They share a good natured laugh before they find themselves being ogled into oblivion by Aeon, who can't decide whose tits he'd rather fuck.

Copia is a sheet ghost.

[lystful]

I'm just a Sweet Transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania.

[scaryorganmusic]

remember when glee did rocky horror but they couldn't say the word "transexual" on tv so they changed it to I'm just a sweet transvestite from sensational Transylvania

[masonmczero]

I came up with the idea of an all transgender production of Rocky horror with me as Frank n Furter. (Important note, I am a 5'6 chubby asexual trans masc but I look great in leather and sequins)

I can't stop thinking about the idea. I want to do it so bad that I'm going to throw a tantrum.

Firstly, I love the idea of having me a trans masc dressed in women's clothes doing sweet transvestite. I just think it's really fun.