#auxs

[audible-smiles]

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

[disteal]

I hate gay people so much. I haven’t been able to hear an imagine dragons song on the radio or in a shop without my brain just IMMEDIATELY being flooded with ‘Okay im imagining his dragon’. People think i just rly hate imagine dragons with the way my face reacts but i don’t im literally fighting such a personal battle against saying something fruity abt mr dragons out of nowhere because the shit gay people say online is so funny

[sirenium]

'nobody's gonna call you frog/frogself irl lol' did you know. did you know that auxiliary(link) pronouns are a thing, and neopronoun users tend to have them? did you know that people like me will accept the usage of 'normal' pronouns in the place of our heavily preferred neopronouns, because we know how much hassle it can be to get people to use them? did you know that we also fucking exist in the real world, or have you convinced yourself that neopronouns are simply an online fad only seen in online spaces?

[gradexmovies]

[opendirectories]

[chronicowboy]

an underrated hozier tweet

[dozydawn]

Svetlana Zakharova

Nicoletta Manni

Yuka Ebihara

Ketevan Papava

Sue-Jin Kang

Daria Sukhorukova

Eleonora Abbagnato

Igone de Jongh

Agnès Letestu

Aurélie Dupont

[ouroborosreilig]

dunmeshi roadtrip au

[androdragynous]

funny that the one song about the grinch is considered christmas music just because the story is about christmas. like here's a break from well wishes and gifts and cozy fireplaces to just spend like five minutes describing all of the ways this one dude is just fucking gross. just really ruminate on it. okay back to jingle bells

[cavalier-consciousness]

+ georges rochegrosse 'le chevalier aux fleurs' (1894)

[dailyworldcinema]

Flower Fairy 1905 | dir. Gaston Velle

[vro0m]

In other news I'm officially retiring from joking about French people they have too much on their plate already what with the fascism

[crazygnomenclature]

Behold the horrors of... FRONT FACING EVE!

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[desertowlet]

Anya would probably play some of her music during the more difficult days on the ship, good thing the Captain Curly has taste at least.

[elderwisp]

someone's keeping watch i feel them in my shadow

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

This has most definitely been said before, but we were robbed of the core four quarantining on-screen together at Buck’s place. ROBBED I say