#gay ballerinas

[theprongspotter]

*ballet au*

James: I saw your performance. You dance beautifully.

Regulus: I don’t recall inviting you.

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c: @prompts-in-a-barrel

[nectar-cellar]

cc hot take

when ppl convert shoes for male sims but they don't scale up the shoes to make the feet big and manly it's just like Oh okay. ☹💔

[bakugo-softski]

Um so can someone tell me how that ballerina farms girl is supposed to appreciate an egg apron from her husband and feel loved in her marriage when kacchan tried to die twice for deku on principle and that still didnt read as love to the man writing it. Whoever i date next will not only have to live die and kill for me but also a secret fourth thing that maybe doesn’t even exist yet or i shall draw the apparently logical conclusion that the love is not real nor romantic

[delancydevinsmommyissues]

The island princess is like the only time i've enjoyed a plotline resembling a love triangle.

Like you have 2 characters with feelings for one another, but bc of the circumstances, feel like they can't be together/dont deserve each other, and the person who one of them has been told they should want to be with and is also trapped by the narrative is their no. 1 supporter, bc they know two pining idiots when they see them.

like ugh that's literally the best part of the movie for me so i dislike when people try to just make the island princess about tika hate

[limjiyeon]

JEON JONG-SEO as OKJU & PARK YOO-RIM as MINHEE

BALLERINA 발레리나 (2023) dir. Lee Chung Hyun

[boygutz777]

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓸

[susansontag]

okay I like chappell roan after listening a bit yesterday tbh in pretty much a similar way to olivia rodrigo then I found out they share a producer lol. it’s really self-consciously what it is and I think that’s sort of endearing. but after doing the necessary market research I’ve decided whoever was saying gay men aren’t listening to her don’t know what they’re talking about, you can’t find a video of the girl singing live without a twink in the audience screaming “OH MY GODDDD” every time she flips her hair

I mean her image and music does seem tailor made to appeal to the broadest set of gay people possible - but also specifically gay men I feel - due to being as campy as possible. she’s just doing what all the pop stars do when they appeal to that crowd so it tracks

[alice344]

Bro

[quarter-lif3crisis]

Ballerina (2023)

[nightandflesh]

le éclat

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

Twilight lives of talent & torment.

Man-for-man in the world of dance.

The ones who call themselves "strange."

They drift into a pastel world of fey relationships.

Men who are not quite men.

Hansome, desperate, twisted, born to dance.

The world of dance, as depicted in numerous media iterations, is just bathed in steam! Very often in queer steam. And so it is with Mr. Ballerina by American writer, dancer, and film actor Ronn Marvin (1919-1998), published in Evanston, Illinois by Regency Books (another William Hamling imprint) in 1961. Despite the genre and its inevitable tragic ending, Mr. Ballerina is actually fairly well-written, with authentic dialogue and believable depictions of gay relationships.

The story centers on dancer Dana Bates who works under dance director Lee Apollo at Hemisphere. Dana's lover is musician Ralph Matthews, who is convinced that he is probably straight, and that it was actually his mother and then Dana, playing on his sexual needs, who turned him into a homosexual. Ralph seeks a way out and turns to a woman who herself is trying to rescue her mother from a lesbian relationship. Ralph breaks up with Dana, punches him in the nose (breaking it), has sex with the woman and proposes to her. Meanwhile, Dana barely escapes a police raid on an all-male party at Lee Apollo's place but is outed to the police by some jealous flames, leading to the tragic ending that we present above.

. . . everyone has to pay eventually. Some way or other, everyone pays. Now for Dana Bates -- Mr. Ballerina, Pride of the Ballet, Princess of the Bed -- it was his turn at last.

In an October 1961 review in The Ladder, Barbara Grier (as Gene Damon) laments the negative aspects of the story, but praises its author:

A rather sad look at the very gay world of the ballet, according to Mr. Marvin, exclusively peopled with homosexual boys and an occasional homosexual girl. Basically another of the conflict stories, in which one character fights against his homosexuality. The San Francisco background is very colorful and the presence of major lesbian characters will make this of interest to Ladder readers. A fairly good first novel. Mr. Marvin will bear watching.

Ronn Marvin began his career as a dancer, but a foot injury ended that line of work, so he turned to writing novels and television scripts. He also appeared in four movies during the 1940s: The North Star (1943); Step Lively (1944); George White's Scandals (1945); and he was Pulaski in the 1947 film Gas House Kids Go West. The cover art for Mr. Ballerina is credited to "Dillon." While we have found no direct evidence, based on the characteristic style, we believe this to be the legendary illustrating duo Leo and Diane Dillon.

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[captaincrabpot]

Uh oh! I got possessed by the ballet AU!

[strwberrythorn]

Two versions of a cover for my novel "Adagio". The first is the most recent version. The second is the older one.

Which one do you like best?

[dragonboots10]