#don bachardy

[mentaltimetraveller]

David Hockney

Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 212 x 303.5 cm. Private collection

[mrmousetolliver]

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood (1968) painted by David Hockney

[imperfectdiary]

Marlene Dietrich by Don Bachardy, 1963

[skf-fineart]

Don Bachardy (b. 1934)

Mary Woronov, 1989

Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. 

[chantssecrets]

📸 by Cecil Beaton: David Hockney, Maudie James & Peter Schlesinger

[byneddiedingo]

 noelcowards-addressbook

Don Bachardy: Portrait of Christopher Isherwood

[dzgrizzle]

Frankenstein The True Story (1973)

This is where my love for the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists intersects with my love of gothic literature, mad scientists, and monsters. This out-of-print paperback in today’s mail is the screenplay of FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY, a 1973 two-part TV movie written by Christopher Isherwood (friend of E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and others) and his partner, the artist Don Bachardy. The original title, “Dr. Frankenstein,” got changed at the last minute by NBC TV. The movie is really very good, although I understand there are some significant differences from the screenplay as Isherwood and Bachardy wrote it. The actors Leonard Whiting and Michael Sarrazin (shown in the second pic) are both beautiful as Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, respectively (well, the Creature starts out beautiful but then decays). The ever-bewitching Agnes Moorehead, post-Endora, is both campy and dignified, as always, as the landlady who finds herself hypnotized by the mad scientist, Dr. Polidori, played by James Mason. (This version of the Frankenstein story has three mad scientists, not just one!) I’m looking forward to reading the screenplay, then rewatching the movie on blu-ray with commentary track by Sam Irvin — who, as co-executive producer of the magnificent movie “Gods and Monsters,” is no stranger to Frankenstein lore. Sam Irvin has also written the award-winning book, “The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY,” which is in my TBR stack. 

[mentaltimetraveller]

Don Bachardy Morrissey, Paul 07-04-71 I 1971

[mrmousetolliver]

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in front of their portrait painted by David Hockney. (c.1970's) photographed by Calvin Brodie. Bachardy and Isherwood met in 1952 on a beach in Santa Monica. Bachardy was 18 years old and Isherwood was 48. They spent their first night together on February 14th, 1953. They remained a couple for 33 years until Isherwoods passing in 1986. The book The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy  chronicles their relationship between the years of 1960-1970. There is also a documentary on their relationship, Chris and Don: A Love Story.

Don Bachardy still lives in the house he shared with Isherwood in Santa Monica. He is a painter with works in numerous museums. He paints for gallery shows and private commissions.

[imperfectdiary]

Paul Wonner Santa Monica Canyon (View from the deck of Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy) 1964

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Christopher Isherwood and partner Don Bachardy, art by David Hockney and reference photos.

Christopher Isherwood e parceiro Don Bachardy, arte de David Hockney e fotos de referência.

[skf-fineart]

Don Bachardy (b. 1934) Ian Falconer, 1982 Acrylic on panel, 40 x 24 in.

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Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress most known for It Happened One Night (1934). Despite both her marriages being seemingly legitimate and loving, rumors of Claudette’s affairs with other actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Marlene Dietrich followed her for her entire career. Most notably, Claudette had a very public intimate relationship with the "out" lesbian artist Verna Hull in the 1950s. Although Claudette denied the rumors that she was bisexual or a lesbian, she and Verna rented a home together in New York City and even had neighboring vacation homes in Barbados. The relationship ended abruptly and on bad terms in the early 1960s after the death of Claudette’s husband. When Claudette passed away on July 30, 1996, she left her entire estate to another woman named Helen O’Hagan, whom she instructed in her will to be treated “as her spouse.” "She certainly moved with great ease in gay circles," said a friend. "I used to see her at George Cukor's, and there would be quite the carrying-on. She was never shocked. It was a world she was comfortable in. It was taken for granted that she was gay, or at least not conventionally straight." "We used to call her "Uncle Claude"," said Don Bachardy, the lover of the writer Christopher Isherwood. "Actually, I think she's really a good example of a very closeted situation. Only well within her own circle did they know the truth."

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[womansfilm]

why did James mason sit so cuntily for Don bachardy

[mrmousetolliver]

Interior shot of the home of writer Christopher Isherwood and his partner, artist Don Bachardy.

[khepiari]

I don't like it when it's in our world, I think there is a One Piece school manga where the ages are either the same or not as high, but when you apply the canonical ages, Law working and Luffy still in school, I don't let to think that I have to call the police or the psychologist and this is my problem, I know, but as pirates Law and Luffy are more equal than in our world (it still scares me sometimes, canonically it is not a problem but there is fanfics where even about pirates this is shady), but I always think that the problem is not always the ship, but rather those who write or draw

Well, when it comes to fandom, this is my personal rule: canon is reference material for me.

“Age-gap” trope is not new, it has existed since the beginning of the fiction genre to be fair. Because people have been marrying/living/romancing between large gaps for time memorial in real-life. Yes, in most cases, it’s young women and older men because of societal beliefs; young women are considered as limited shelf-life goods while men in possession of money are a catch. Age-gap relationships until the advent of modern society benefited off vulnerable young women who had no money or social security.

Historically, age-gap has been extremely common in queer relationships, we have had huge age-gaps too as well, one famous couple being Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; 30 years. I know fellow queer people in happy relationships where age-gap is over 15 years, and I know fellow heterosexual couples with two years age-gap in miserable marriages. Who gets to be happy in their relationship is relative to contextual environment.

But I am digressing. Coming back to my OTP

As you said, Law and Luffy become a problematic romance if they are placed in a modern setting like High School romance and not the canon timeline. For example, they are put in the context of where one is still in school and the other is a functional adult. Your concerns are valid, but my concern here is; who is this age-gap romance about two 2D fictional characters written on a fan-run website in a tiny slash pairing fandom hurting? Because as far as I know no one is being made to read these stories as part of their school/university literature curriculum. A reader is choosing to read these stories on their own will. Someone might sent you the link, and you can click on it, but you still have to press the consent button to read it, right?

Law and Luffy to me have been equal, since day one both in “canon” and in my fics. Because I have never seen their age-gap as a power dynamic story. I am the person who wrote My Little Husband, I think that story has every trope, problem and issue that people who hate the age-gap associate with. Even in that story, Luffy is an equal, and the active agent in his story. So yeah coming back to what you ended the ask with.

You said about LawLu ship “problem is not always the ship, but rather who writes or draws.” I will simply disagree here. My main reason is that every fic author/fan artist has the right to write/draw/think about their ship how they want. Who are we as consumers of these stories to say “This is bad” and “that is good?”

Yes, your feelings of dislike/ick are valid. That’s why you have been provided with the options of tags, warnings and basic fic ratings.

In my fics, I add the tags and mark the sex scenes out, and if it’s explicit topics or scenes, there are reminders in the text that a reader can skip certain parts. What more can we do to protect the reader’s comfort?

Hence.

I refuse to endorse the idea that the problem lies with the creator of the ship. Just because someone writes something that makes other people uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s “bad or wrong”. And just because something makes you comfortable because it aligns with your personal beliefs isn’t necessarily “good or correct”.

Engaging with fiction is a personal experience, so you have to curate what you are looking for. Do you want to be comfortable or do you want to be stirred with feelings? The choices are yours to make and you can indulge in all or none at all. Yet, no one has any right to call a fan creator, “You are the problem for creating something because it makes me feel uncomfortable.”

Will you like it? Let’s say— you go to a pot-luck party with a delicious tumbler of potato stew, and someone willingly tastes a spoonful/eats the entire bowl and then tells you right after that, “You are a bad person and cook as your potato stew made their mouth tingle because of the variation of spices you used for that person’s favourite vegetable?”

No, you won’t.

So my advice is simple: don’t interact with something that makes you uncomfortable and unhappy. Fandom is not the place to measure our morality.

The end.