#maybe chariss

[hotvintagepoll]

which streaming service has the most vintage movies? If you don't know, maybe your followers could answer? 🙏

Ooh hoo hoo you asked and I'll answer!!

I actually made a post like this for the hot men tournament, but I can't find it now so I'll do it again from scratch. The short answer is that I don't know of any one streaming service that has all the old vintage movies—but most streaming services have a "classics" genre category that can get you started. Here's a small selection of what you can find on different streaming services:

TUBI (free):

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Olivia de Havilland)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Vivien Leigh)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell, Julie Newmar)

North by Northwest (Eva Marie Saint)

The Music Man (Shirley Jones)

The Women (Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, several other hotties in small parts)

The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Hussey)

Notorious (Ingrid Bergman)

Bell, Book, and Candle (Kim Novak, Elsa Lanchester)

The Talk of the Town (Jean Arthur)

Dark Victory (Bette Davis)

Stray Dog (Keiko Awaji)

Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe)

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren)

Dirty Girtie From Harlem USA (Francine Everett)

Passport (Madhubala)

Dark Passage (Lauren Bacall)

Sepia Cinderella (Sheila Guyse)

On The Town (Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett)

The Bandwagon (Cyd Charisse)

Devar (Sharmila Tagore)

Reet-Petite and Gone (June Richmond)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner)

KANOPY (free through some libraries):

Dial M for Murder (Grace Kelly)

His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell)

Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck)

Black Orpheus (Marpessa Dawn)

Flower Drum Song (Reiko Sato, Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki)

Marriage Italian Style (Sophia Loren)

The Rose Tattoo (Anna Magnani)

Tokyo Story (Setsuko Hara)

War and Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Anita Ekberg)

Salt of the Earth (Rosaura Revueltas)

Metropolis (Brigitte Helm)

The Red Shoes (Moira Shearer)

HOOPLA (free through some libraries):

The Court Jester (Angela Lansbury, Glynis Johns)

Sunset Boulevard (Gloria Swanson)

A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor)

Barefoot in the Park (Jane Fonda)

The Barefoot Contessa (Ava Gardner)

Wings (Clara Bow)

YOUTUBE (has a lot of older movies that have slipped through copyright/are still up for some reason):

Charade (Audrey Hepburn)

Story Weather (Lena Horne)

Gilda (Rita Hayworth)

Rebecca (Joan Fontaine)

This entire playlist of Indian cinema that I just found (Madhubala, Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Meena Kumari, etc.)

And that's just a small sample. There is also always your local library for physical DVDs, the Internet Archive, and....other methods.....if you know exactly what you're looking for.

I haven't seen all of these movies, so don't consider them personal recommendations—these are just famous movies with our hotties in them, so please be careful if you have content warnings. Good luck and have fun!

EDIT 5/16: Added a few more movies to the different sections, but this is still just a small selection of what the different streaming services have. Good luck!

[frozenrose20]

you made a post about Will using a spear since he was taught my Charisse and I was thinking that maybe he has a scalpel that turns into a spear (like Percy’s pen sword). If you have any better ideas do share

I was thinking maybe he could have a coin similar to Jason so he flips it and one side is a scalpel which he would be trained to use as dagger/knife by Annabeth and then the other side is a spear that he is trained to use by Clarisse. That would be easy and practical for him to carry around and I feel like he would want to be on the more practical side, plus he can use the scalpel side for emergency medical situations. I also like this idea because it would explain why Will gave Nico a coin when Nico gave him the skull ring. The coin could be a remake of Will's actual weapon that he uses so Will is symbolically trusting nico with his weapon. it also would make the coin more impactful especially since the skull ring is important to Nico (Maybe Will's weapon was given to him by his siblings like Nicos ring that im pretty sure is from Bianca? Don't quote me) a coin would show Will's duality as a person. he can be a quick and up close with the scalpel, but he can also be far away and slow with the spear. Will's character arc (if you wanna call it that) in tsats is learning you can be both sides you can be a balance. He can be bisexual and like guys and girls, he can be light and dark,and He can heal and he can bring plague. a coin as his weapon is a great way to show all of that.

[maidenoffaith]

What I'm Craving For S3 HOTD...

Warning(s): !!SPOILERS AHEAD for HOTD S2 E01-08!!

(1) More Helaena! Maybe the writers weren't planning on our fascination with her, but I'd love to see more of what she does outside of her interactions with the Greens. I want to know what she's thinking, what she feels like she has to do, and I want it from her! Of course we can infer her desires and ambitions, but hers are so uniquely not self-interested in comparison to the bulk of the other characters.

(2) A slow burn - crediting a TT I saw today from Kayla Charisse (@kaycharisse). She articulated my feelings about the general dissatisfaction on the side of GoT/HoTD viewers perfectly, claiming that too often are viewers hypocritical in condemning HoTD for it's slow progress. Don't we want a long and thorough series to watch? Don't we want to know these characters well and be able to understand the harmony between their personalities, actions, & the overarching plotline? Shut up, enjoy it, and be patient!! There will be PLENTY of blood and death. Rook's Rest was the only visceral battle we saw in S2 and it was gut wrenching! I absolutely their cautious approach -- they're giving us a whole new series to watch as opposed to slapping a band-aid on the gaping wound GoT writers gave us when they obliterated Dany's storyline.

(3) I desperately want Rhaenyra & Alicent's romance to be canon. I would be fascinated to see how their romantic feelings for one another contributed to the war they're now experiencing.

I also need to give the women their flowers... Rhaenyra specifically. I love how while she is ambitious, ruthless, and unyielding, she understands that it is not weakness to avoid bloodshed. I'd love to see Rhae shedding blood as much as anyone else, but the foil between her as queen and any man as king is beautifully shown when she clearly desires peace, but accepts that she must take her brother's head for it! Even more, the way she explains it to Alicent tells us that she doesn't have any desire to, as opposed to a man in her position, who would relish any opportunity to display power through violence.

Anyways, that's my take! I may have left a few things out. Let me know if I need to add any other warnings :)!

[primroseprime2019]

Happy STS! As the pre-Valentine's Day ask, what are your characters' plans for the holiday-- if any? Date night? House party? Pj's and ramen?

Happy STS! I've got a long list of OC couples but I'm putting in the ones I've focused on in Transcendants

• Cora x Keagen – A quiet night under the stars, maybe with a picnic and deep conversations.

• Gregory x Idris – Gregory plans something simple but heartfelt—Idris probably insists they don’t need to do much, but Gregory still finds a way to make it special.

• Byron x Agatha – A candlelit dinner with plenty of teasing and soft moments. Agatha acts unimpressed, but she secretly loves it.

• Levi x Ivan – Ivan isn’t big on the holiday, but Levi surprises him with a cozy, home-cooked meal. It’s simple, but the thought behind it makes Ivan smile.

• Harry x Jackson – Harry drags Jackson on an adrenaline-filled adventure, maybe skydiving or something equally chaotic. Jackson pretends to complain, but he loves every second.

• Atticus x Hezekiah – A warm evening in with books, music, and gentle affection. Atticus likes grand gestures, but Hezekiah just wants quiet time together.

• Verena x Charisse – A luxurious spa day, complete with massages and facials. They indulge in self-care while gossiping and flirting.

• Larry x Xavion – They bake sweets together, but it turns into a playful food fight.

• Camille x Nyra x Dena – A girls’ trip to a romantic getaway destination, where they spoil each other with love and laughter.

• Matthew x Wendy – A classic rom-com movie marathon with way too much popcorn.

• Demetrius x Emhyr – A surprise trip somewhere breathtaking—Emhyr loves planning grand romantic gestures, and Demetrius is just happy to be with him.

• Nancy x Robin – A day spent at an amusement park, full of thrilling rides and stuffed-animal prizes.

• Mason x Jane – A slow dance in the kitchen, followed by a homemade dinner.

• Lincoln x Marceline – Lincoln tries to impress Marceline with a formal dinner, but they both end up ditching it for takeout and video games.

• Sawyer x Ethan – A laid-back beach day, soaking up the sun and relaxing.

• Luz x Amity – Probably a magical-themed date with enchanted roses and floating lanterns.

• Hunter x Willow – A heartwarming picnic in a garden, surrounded by nature.

• Stella x Mordecai – A stargazing date on a rooftop with warm drinks and cozy blankets.

• Blaze x Lacey – A fast-paced, action-filled day—maybe racing hover bikes or sparring for fun.

• Cindy x Brayden x Eos – A fancy dinner followed by a night of dancing.

• Emile x Xandros – A boat ride under the moonlight, just the two of them.

• Laurence x Cody – A chaotic yet sweet date at a carnival.

• Miles x Gwen – A quiet coffee shop date where they exchange handwritten letters.

• Natasha x Renee – A bookstore crawl, picking out their favorite reads for each other.

• Pandra x Loba x Kairi – A wild adventure in a new city, trying everything exciting they can find.

• Blake x Walter – A lazy morning in bed, then exploring a new restaurant together.

• Jay x Sofia – A hike to a scenic spot, complete with an impromptu picnic.

• Quinn x Micah – A homemade arts-and-crafts date where they create gifts for each other.

• Valentina x Angelo – A candlelit rooftop dinner with soft music playing.

• Natalia x Aydan – A mix of romance and combat training, because why not?

• Iridescent x Sidney – A dreamy, fantasy-like date with magic lighting up the night.

• Harper x Begonia – A fun arcade date where they get competitive over games.

• Charlotte x Winter x Eleanor – A lavish, over-the-top romantic getaway.

• Tennille x Nelly – An intimate, heartfelt date at a jazz club.

• Marcellus x Enoch – A poetry reading, where they get lost in each other’s words.

• Aldrich x Phyllis – A charming, vintage-style date, complete with handwritten love notes.

• Edwin x Demeter – A long walk through an ancient garden, sharing stories and laughter.

• Clover x Flynn – A night at the theater watching a dramatic play.

• Ivory x Petra x Marcus – A road trip full of spontaneous stops and adventure.

• Evander x Calliope – A masquerade ball where they dance until sunrise.

• Violet x Xaden – A moonlit picnic with deep conversations and shared dreams.

• Blu x Venus – A creative, artsy date where they paint each other’s portraits.

• Obadiah x Estelle – A warm, rustic cabin getaway in the mountains.

• Noel x Pablo – A playful, energetic date at a roller-skating rink.

• Gideon x Jubilee – A surprise trip to a flower-filled valley.

• Shiloh x Silvanna – A sweet, romantic scavenger hunt leading to a surprise gift.

• Anastasia x Chance – A dramatic, passionate date that could be mistaken for a romance novel.

• Avalon x Cliff – A cozy, candlelit dinner with lots of laughter.

• Avaline x Rameses – A grand, extravagant celebration with music and dancing.

Each couple has their own style- some love big gestures, others prefer quiet moments, but they all make it a special day!

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 28, 2024

My posts

I spent the first half of the week struggling through (well-medicated) mania and the second half currently with a sinus infection! I’m not enjoying it! Not either one! 

Reblogs of interest

Pro-Gaza protests at universities in the U.S.: a solidarity Passover seder and an accidental Pulitzer photo

Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation

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The Hot Vintage Lady Polls continue to go for the throat. I felt so bad about Dorothy Dandridge that I started posting and reblogging propaganda for her, but Ava Gardner, my beloved, went through anyway. Backing her felt like a wish on a monkey’s paw ("Not like this!!"). (See all poll results here.) I tremble to think what round 5 will look like. Like, there’s a point when your girl is gonna come up against a Hepburn, you know?

Notably gone this week: Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Lupe Vélez, Irene Papas (who took out Vivien Leigh in the previous round), Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jean Seberg, Anita Ekberg, Angela Lansbury, and Cyd Charisse. Like I keep saying, everybody loses. Everybody but one. Round 5 will start May 1st. 

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Hozier Watch 2024: His first U.S. #1, which he’s now playing at shows! The first U.S. #1 for an Irish artist in 34 years! What?? you cry. Did “Take Me to Church” not do that ten years ago? Well, I went and looked it up: No. That was the “Blank Space” era. Say no more. 

Speaking of Taylor Swift—Paste Magazine went IN on the new album and got threats as a result. Meanwhile, Taylor’s fans are harassing the ex-boyfriend who did nothing wrong (as opposed to the racist one) because her PR is egging them on. I’ll admit: even though I’m not a fan, I found the Paste review to be overlong and not focused enough on the actual songs, proportionally. But that post about the PR saga is everything I miss about Fandom Wank. 

(“My rival dresses to display her legs, and her shoes are of an alluring fashion”)

Meanwhile, the Watcher guys issued the best apology possible, although it was still excruciating to watch. (Background.) They will remain on YouTube while introducing the streaming service. As a Patreon member, I haven’t asked for my free subscription code yet, but I’m going to. Some fans forgave them pretty easily; others have walked away. I’m curious to see if this affects the mood of anything new they film, since a segment of the fandom got really, really ugly about it. Mostly it just felt sad all around. 

Meanwhile, in Alabama: nobody wants to measure the feral hog.

Turns out Death Note had a good reason to concoct “American” names like “Bobson Dugnutt.” Also, I somehow had two posts tagged “death note” this week and I don’t even go here.

The worst brownies ever created and what Tumblr has to say about them

“You roll up to the Wizard Battle and your opponent takes out his spellbook but it’s just one of these”

I know that Loki is not Odin’s son in actual Norse mythology, but the bredlik is amazing.

TIL that Florence and Ravenna are still feuding over Dante’s remains

Maybe haunted dolls cost extra

Chorses

Video

Branch manager

Senior branch manager

“Free serotonin from Honey the Italian greyhound”

Sola learned to show love from her humans

I have seen many of jauncydev’s videos about dog personalities, but I have never seen him commit quite this hard before

I like tie-dye videos anyway, but this one is sick as hell

The sacred videos: you are not prepared for this police sketch, and neither is this news anchor

The sacred texts

Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.

Gold Star, You Tried: A compilation

A personal favorite: “mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd”

The origin of “By Talos this can’t be happening”

Personal tags of the week

Seasonally: cherry blossom. Also, art: an old standby, but it was really good, and also, I’m sick.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Singin' in the Rain (1952) / Cyd Charisse as Dancer

I'm including this dress as a bonus because it's ambiguous whether it's supposed to be a wedding dress or not. It definitely fits the general aesthetic, though. It's part of the "Gotta Dance!" play-within-a-play, where the main character (played by Gene Kelly), having become a successful movie star, is in a club of some kind, where he sees the vamp who fascinated him earlier. But she snubs him and goes off with a wealthy gangster, maybe to marry him?

This movie is set in the 1920s, and the dress dutifully shows a 20s-style dropped waistline. But amusingly, the 1950s waistline is also clearly visible, probably due to her undergarments.

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week (#182):

3 tap-dancing Bojangles-related musicals:

🍿 The Band Wagon is maybe not the "very best" of Vincente Minnelli's musicals, but some of its numbers are classics (It introduced the tune 'That's Entertainment' and the opening dance with a real-life, black shoe-shine man was unique.) But all this melted away at exactly mid-point, when Fred Astaire first falls for Cyd Charisse, as they take a stroll through Central Park, and start dancing together in the dark - that scene was transcendental. Even the Steve Martin and Gilda Radner Joke recreation 30 years later was nice...

Bojangles didn't appear in this movie, but his name 'Bill Robinson' kept being compared to 'Bill Shakespeare' throughout. (Screenshots Above).

🍿 Besides 'Carmen Jones', I haven't seen many of the so-called 'Race Films' before, 'Segregated Cinema' produced to black audiences, with an all-black cast. Stormy Weather is one, a plot-less musical starring the wonderful Lena Horne, Bojangles, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Fats Waller and 'Play it again, Sam' Dooley Wilson...

(Of the many versions of ‘Stormy Weather’, my favourite is by Ben Webster).

🍿 First watch: That's Entertainment! is a terrific compilation film, released by MGM in 1974 to celebrate the studio's 50's anniversary. It includes highlights from about 100 song and dance numbers performed by MGM enormous stable of stars and appearances by many, many of the stars from these 50 years. Since I'm getting more and more into musicals, I watched it with a giant smile on my face. 9/10.

2 (actually 3) sequels were released later, and I'm going to watch them as well. I'm also going to visit the movies of some of the famous performers (Esther Williams!) I haven't seen before.

Note; Fred Astaire is by now one of my all-time favorite actors, bar none. He has 50 screen credits on IMDb, and I've only seen about 15 of them, but I'm going to plough through the rest.

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Something’s Got to Give (1962) is Marilyn Monroe's very last film, and the only one showing her butt-gloriously-naked. It's a remake of the 1940 Cary Grant screwball comedy 'My favorite wife'. It was made by George Cukor, with Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. But it's mostly remembered because it was unfinished, due to Marilyn Monroe's death.

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Finally, Miyazaki's last film The boy and the heron became available. Auto-biographical, philosophical, full of pathos and whimsy, it is not the best Ghibli, but it's important as the (surely) last film from Miyazaki.

It tells of a conflicted war-time world and the flight of fancy of an orphan boy looking for his mother. Waruwaru creatures replace the Sooth-spirits from the previous films.

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Another Japanese romance film, Haru from 1996. A young man and a young woman meet via the first generation online chats, two years before 'You've got mail'. Like a boring Éric Rohmer, I couldn't get into it, and quit after 30 minutes. (^ ─ ^)

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Re-watch: I've been bored with much mediocrity, so I had to go back to Tati’s debut feature, the masterpiece Jour de fête (The original 1949 B&W version). Magical joy and simple physical comedy of the purest type (Fighting a bee! Raising a flag post!). I can't remember the last film with so many spontaneous belly laughs one after the other. And the innocent, idealized rusticity of a French village as it may, or may have not, have existed 100 years ago, with geese in the alleys, goat on a string, hay, rooster crows, and friendly pubs. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 10/10. ♻️. Extra: How Tati Directs Beautiful Comedy, an interesting YouTube essay from ‘This Beautiful Fraud’.

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2 by Pixar’s Kelsey Mann:

🍿 I loved the first ‘Inside Out’ and saw it many times, with Adora, and, later, without. I was excited to wait for the new Inside out 2. But it’s clearly a product of lesser qualities. The 13 year-old hockey-loving Reily enter “Puberty”. This is depicted with genuine fondness, and is a joy to behold. But the manufactured world of her inner thoughts, which worked before, when they were few and clearly defined, is now muddled, loud and artificial. It suffers from being a sequel, a financial construct which rarely works. 4/10.

🍿 His first short, Party central (2013) was a Monster University appendage, a zero-calories suck-fest. 1/10.

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2 by French Guillaume Canet, both with François Cluzet:

🍿  "User name: Concert. Password: Olympia."

My 3rd or 4th re-watch of the tense nail-biter Tell no one. A modern slow-built Hitchockian thriller about an innocent doctor accused in the murder of his wife. The director, good-looking actor Guillaume Canet, decided for some reason to play the role of the sadistic rapist

The first time I saw it, I awarded it 7/10. But now I give it a 9/10. The final explanation ties the many twists too tightly and nicely together perhaps, but It's still a terrific 'Guilty Pleasure'. Highly recommended! ♻️.

🍿  His Little white lies is an ensemble drama, a bit like 'The big Chill', with many current French stars: François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Jean Dujardin... A group of about 15 close friends deal with small personal problems, after one of them, the 'Glue' that held them together, is gravely injured in an accident. In the opening of the film, he rides his bike drunk in the empty streets of Paris, and a van suddenly crashes into him (All in one shot, just like the beginning of Erin Brockovich.)

It's semi-interesting, meandering drama, especially as they spend leisure time on 'les grandes vacances' at a beach house, boating, eating fresh oysters, playing the guitar, and enjoying the pretty locales. But at 2.5 hours long, it lost its focus halfway in. 3/10.

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Sean Penn is a decent director. He's also driven to get involved with large-scale disasters around the world, in Sudan, Haiti, New Orleans after Katrina, Etc. Superpower is the 4th of his 8 movies directed by him that I've seen. It's a semi-personal documentary about the war in Ukraine and the special relationship he managed to develop with Volodymyr Zelensky (He interviewed him on the day before the invasion, and again on the night of the invasion). It's not too insightful, but he did put himself at harm's way to make it. This war is too tragic and historically-significant to be ignored.

(I was going to follow that up with the other doc., '20 Days in Mariupol', but didn't).

🍿 '

“The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn’t move.”

Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles is a 1988 documentary, narrated by Richard Widmark. It tells of a fascinating British writer living in a mythical and dark city. And specifically about the 'The Clifton bombing' affair of 1938. Corruption at City Hall and crooked Police Force, the real-life morbid inspiration to the much sunnier 'Chinatown'. But the doc. itself is not very good.

How come nobody ever made a movie about the gambling ships out in the water outside long beach and Santa Monica, f. ex. 'The Rex'?

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A random Vimeo short, Caroline, was not what I expected from the poster! A mother to 3 small kids, is under a lot of stress, and leaves them in a parked car while she goes of for a quick job interview. It's so raw, and tense, and harrowing, it's really hard to sit through. Amazingly realistic, I don't ever want to see it again. Celine Held, the director, who also plays the mother, is a force to be reckoned with. 9/10. [*Female Director*]

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2 silent Buster Keaton 2-reelers:

🍿 The Paleface (1922) is filled with very out-dated racial trops. Villainous oil barons are murdering Indians with impunity, stealing the deed to their land, and banishing them from said lands. The 'Redfaces' are bumbling, scalping 'savages' who burn palefaces at the stake. There's even a nod to good ol' asbestos. But there are some outrageously daring stunts here, as he falls a few times from great heights.

🍿 Obviously, Keaton was not a golfer. He tried, but soon found himself in prison, mistaken for Convict 13 (1920), and sentenced to be hanged.

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Throw-back to the Adora Art project:  

Buster Keaton Adora.

Adora in Los Angeles.

Inside out Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here).

[avamonroe]

"Your D&D characters are all spending the day together at a spa. What is the scene?"

💚 Amoranda is likely taking the opportunity to relax with a deep body massage but is still worrying about the state of her tavern.

💜Charisse and 💛 Komora are both taking a girls' day and probably enjoying every service the spa has. Facials, full-body massage, sauna, maybe even going to the pool.

🧡 Ranah isn't one to relax but she'd probably find great interest in any aromatherapy features she can find.

💙 Mo would probably spent the day between a candle-lit bath and a meditation lounge.

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

Ok who of the guys couldn't keep their big mouth shut? 😂

Hela just making them undress... I hope the guys had enough binoculars for everyone and didn't have to fight over that. Did Hela truly get rid of their stuff or did she lock it somewhere? Also seems like the dad of one of the flowers (I forgot who sorry) would be worried and potentially come to the first house at least? I wonder if there's a plan in place. Sorry for so many questions but do the girl have the same dresses with different colours and embroidery or are they a bit more different?

Lloyd was probably running his mouth lmaoooooo.

And who knows what Hela did. Maybe she burned it to release the toxins, idk lolll.

Here are my selects for dresses but yall can adjust to size or imagine whatever

Lily/reader

Ashley/Rose

Rin/Dahlia

Charisse/Iris

Aisha/Daisy

Maryam/Marigold

Molly/Violet

Selina/Azalea

[freepassbound]

A Very Nice Evening

Nothing like taking in classic cinema in a classic cinema!

(not the actual theater, just representative)

Maybe the best movie musical scene ever? I'd have a hard time thinking of one to top it.

(I had forgotten how incredible Cyd Charisse is - $5 million legs indeed 👀🤯)

And then to round out the night...

[zennagreenwitch]

I used to go the library and pick as many books off the ya shelves as I was allowed. I read everything because my teenage brain was starving for knowledge, perspectives, and dopamine. I don’t remember most of those books, but a few made a lasting impression.

I remember that the book (possibly titled Killing Time) that made me go to a dictionary to look up the word ‘fuck’ was about a teenage boy who moved to a small town where a weird cult was keeping the bloodier aspects of Druidism alive. He and his father (no mom) followed Viking tradition and used (father’s name)-son as their last names. The boy was named Sam? Maybe? Their house was big and old and had a bathtub “big enough to drown a buffalo” or possibly bison. ‘Sam’ had a crush on a local girl who wasn’t quite as embedded in the cult as the other kids and was foiled in his attempts to have a quick gropey make out session on a stakeout by her shoving snow down his pants. I remember being pleased by that.

I read a book about a girl with annoyingly large breasts who wanted a breast reduction because the harassment was so bad, and another about a girl who was trying so hard to fit in that she used minestrone soup in ziplock bags to make a diy push-up bra. The second girl called her boobs “Bonnie and Clyde.” Another about a girl named Cyd Charisse with an eating disorder, and another about a boy who went on a drinking binge and ended up stealing a car and running over his childhood crush. I also read just about every book that the library had by Tamora Pierce.

There were some books that I went out and bought because I loved them so much. The Borderlands anthologies (originally created and edited by Terry Windling) are one of my favorites of all time, all because I liked the cover art for Finder by Emma Bull.

Most of these books were written for teens and nearly all of them covered topics that I couldn’t (and still can’t) imagine discussing with my conservative Christian parents. Teens need to read weird shit, okay? It’s important. They need to learn new words, new ideas, new ways of thinking about the world.

"YA books are brain rotting at any age" okay I know booktok is annoying but please get offline

[thefashionhistorian]

Hi guys!

I've been thinking about what I want to start the blog off with, and I know I wanna talk about a movie, but I can't decide what one :/

To remedy this curse of indecisiveness, I'll talk about all of them!! (In three parts)

#1. Singing in the Rain

When it comes to childhood movies that have altered my brain chemicals signifigently, this is my top pick.

Singing in the Rain is a musical/romantic comedy filmed in 1952. It stars Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. (All three of whom also altered my brain chemicals.) Though the story is what moves the film along, the clothes are what keep you mesmerized.

Pictured above, Gene Kelly and the beautiful Cyd Charisse during a kind of dream sequence. Her short bob and short green dress with high slits and gold detailing scream 1920's. To watch the dress in motion is like watching a top spin, absolutly hypnotic.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie is a musical number called "beautiful girls" (It's a weird song maybe don't listen to that one first if you're gonna find the soundtrack.) Right before the end of the song, the twelve models shown above are looked at one by one, with a description of what they're wearing.

No joke, my jaw is on the floor every time I see this part. To describe each and every one would take WAY to many words for one post, but yall have eyes, yall can see what I see. Maybe I'll do a post breaking them all down someday.

I can't talk about singing in the fashion without mentioning this absolute diva. Lina Lamont, the villain character of the movie played by Jean Hagen, is snobbish and delusional, but also statuesque.

Sorry it's a bit blurry, but here she's seen in a very light, creamy green with rhinestone details and fur. Everything about this look is perfect, and it compliments her natural features beautifly. I often see looks like this one referenced by drag queens for it's opulent, showey nature, with the diamonds and furs.

And finally, Cyd Charisse returns to bless us with her INSANE dance skills, this time in a small white dress, and an impossibly long train. The train flows in the wind like a waterfall, and her dress is reminiscent of the iconic white dress worn by Merilyn Monroe three years later in "The Seven Year Itch."

Okay guys thats all for this part but I'll have two more coming real soon!!

Buhbyeeeeee <3

[bycharisse]

Hey loving souls 💗

20250120 NEW YORK Noonish

Happy new beautiful year !

Ah man, there is no better time than the present to start and to continue to honor God in how your honor yourself.

Some people will come into your life and promise the world but leave you in shambles.

Some people will be so reckless and unfaithful in thier own lives, they bring that foolishness into yours.

Learning discipline, it feels like being quarantined with God when I've been foolish and feels like quarantining with God when surrounded by foolishness. But luckily in this case, we all learned to quarantine in recent years and can survive it and maybe even thrive in it too. It's no longer so unrelatable of an experience we can't navigate well.

And Jesus came and gave us His word so we would never be alone. He met us in our isolation and breathed us back to life laying down His own.

My own creativity and strength in isolation I owe credit to to the Lord. I know He looks at my heart and it's all I need to concern myself with despite the state of my relationships or finances or etc.. And His peace produces much fruit in my life and allows for creativity to abound and joy.

I trust that the noise around me will not compare to the voice of God when I allow Him in to purify my heart again and again and to give me the ability to faithfully see what is truly a gift from Him among the counterfeits.

Knowing Him better I see where a counterfeit doesn't align with His character. Where it's void of pure love, it's tough to miss. But with courage and faith and the patience to wait, the actions called to take, love will bloom for me because of His faithful love for me.

So if you're in a similar position, have faith, the vision God gave you needs a particular person of His character to fulfill and just because those around you do not fit that doesn't mean God won't do a new thing in your life. Stay discerning and open to God sending you people of His character.

Love you,

Charisse

[byneddiedingo]

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014)

Cast : Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Cory Hardricht, Kevin Lacz, Navid Negahban, Keir O'Donnell, Kyle Gallner. Screenplay: Jason Hall, based on a book by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice. Cinematography: Tom Stern. Production design: Charisse Cardenas, James J. Murakami. Film editing: Joel Cox, Gary Roach.

I think American Sniper is not going to come into focus for us until we have fully assessed the damage done by the American invasion of Iraq -- if, in fact, we ever do. Now, the only thing everyone seems to be able to agree on is that Bradley Cooper's powerful performance holds the film together. Otherwise, opinions about the movie range from those who see it as a reprehensible portrait of American arrogance to those who see it as a laudable portrait of American heroism. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, trying to decide whether it presents Chris Kyle (Cooper) as a victim of the Iraq incursion, as a misguided embodiment of false and outdated values, or as an archetype of the dutiful American military man. What it really seems to me is a muddle of all of these things because screenwriter Jason Hall and director Clint Eastwood can't bring the movie together into a satisfactory whole. It's wrong to review a movie that wasn't made, but I think American Sniper would have made a more coherent film if Chris Kyle's murder hadn't been relegated to a caption and shots of his funeral at the film's end. If the convergence of murderer and victim had been dealt with from the beginning, we might have had a more cohesive narrative about the effects of war on both those who can "handle it" and those who can't. As it is, we have only glances at large issues like simplistic world-view (Kyle's father's division of humankind into sheep, wolves, and shepherds), the American gun culture, the testosterone poisoning of machismo, the stereotyping of the enemy as "savages," and the inability of the United States to come to terms with the hidden problems of returning veterans. What we have instead are often exciting combat scenes mixed with rather clichéd domestic interludes. Sienna Miller does what she can with the underwritten and over-familiar role of the wife back home, but the script doesn't give her enough to work with. I admire Eastwood's restraint as a filmmaker, but I think it does him a disservice here. We are too close to the events of the first decade of the 21st century to have anything but our individual emotional reactions to them, and American Sniper is bound to ring false in some way to each of us. I kept thinking of Sergeant York (Howard Hawks, 1941) as I watched American Sniper. Made on the cusp of World War II, that unabashedly flag-waving movie about another American hero sharpshooter seems naive by contrast, even though the World War I in which Alvin York fought was at least as colossal an international fuck-up as the Iraq invasion, but it's also a better film. Maybe American Sniper will seem like a better film years from now, but somehow I doubt it.

[byneddiedingo]

Is there anything better than Astaire singing Gershwin? And in Funny Face he sings five Gershwin songs with his impeccable phrasing and musicianship, which in itself would be enough to make this one of the great film musicals. Okay, maybe it's not up there with the best of the Astaire-Rogers films or The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953), but it's close enough. And he dances, too, with the same grace and vitality at the age of 58 as when he was much, much younger, especially in his great solo performance of "Let's Kiss and Make Up" and his duet with Kay Thompson on "Clap Yo' Hands." So Audrey Hepburn isn't in the same league as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse as a dance partner, but she had studied ballet when she was much younger and her solo number parodying modern dance moves is one of the film's highlights. As a singer, she's a good actress, by which I mean that her big solo number, "How Long Has This Been Going On?", is memorable because of the way she sells the concept of innocence awakening to ecstasy, greatly aided by a big yellow hat and Ray June's gorgeous color cinematography. It's clear that she had a small, untrained singing voice, which is why Marni Nixon had to be called in to dub her in My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964), a role that makes demands she probably couldn't have met vocally. There are those who are bothered by the nearly 30-year age discrepancy between Astaire and Hepburn, but she spent much of her career playing opposite much older men like Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant -- in her prime in the 1950s and early '60s, there were very few leading men her age who could match her star power. Some critics also object to the film's mockery of French intellectuals -- Pauline Kael calls the lecherous philosopher played by Michel Auclair "a sour idea" -- but that's probably asking too much of the conventions of romantic comedy. The screenplay is by Leonard Gershe, but the real heroes of the film are Astaire, Hepburn, Thompson, June, Roger Edens in his dual role as producer and composer, costume designers Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy, photographer Richard Avedon as "visual consultant," and most of all Stanley Donen, who not only directed but shared choreography duties with Astaire and Eugene Loring.

FUNNY FACE (1957) — dir. Stanley Donen

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