#old narcissus

[outofthemouthsof]

I actually went to watch a regular show on HBO instead of BL tonight, but BL followed me lol. Sato’s brother on Tokyo Vice is played by Atom Mizuishi!

[infogramika]

Trailer: Old Narcissus | Rou Narcissus

ろうナルキソス (2023)

Yamazaki, a gay and narcissist old picture book author, cannot stand his declining appearance and is in a slump as a writer. One day, he meets Leo, a sweetheart boy, and is overwhelmed by her youth and beauty. However, for the first time in his life, he falls in love with someone other than himself, Leo, who grew up with Yamazaki's representative works as nourishment. Leo also sees the shadow of his father, who is a stranger to Yamazaki.

While there is a partnership system but no same-sex marriage, what is family?

A narcissistic old picture book writer who has lived in the corner of society as a shadow person since the time when the term “gay” was not yet common. After going through an era of fighting discrimination and prejudice, the LGBT generation Urisenboy has already made sexual minorities visible. A story of conflicts between homosexuals' past and future "family" that emerges from the personal relationship of two people of different generations and ways of thinking.

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Old Narcissus

Category: Short Film Country: Japan Where to watch?: GagaOOLala Year: 2017 Finished: 30.05.2023

Every now and then I search through Gaga’s leaving soon section and watch random stuff. And once in a while I am sitting in front of my PC and thinking what the fuck have I just watched? This is one of those days! Biggest spoiler alert!

Bag moth Monta. Monta is alone again today. Blown by the wind since birth. Where are your mom and dad? Blown softly by the spring wind. Baby Monta flew away. Goodbye to his brothers. Bag moth Monta alone in is home of small branches he picked up. The tree leaves go red and then his friends just left. Beetle said winter’s coming and flew to the east. He was all alone after all. He picked up fallen leaves, his home of crimson maple.

Old Narcissus tells us the story about an old picture book writer and his obsession with his own beauty and his need of pain to feel sexual fulfilled. When he was a young man he liked to be tortured by older and not so, well, beautiful men. Then the pain became pleasure. Now that he himself is old, he wants to feel this pleasure again, but robbed of his own beauty, he can’t really enjoy the gift which young Leo is giving him, whipping his ass as if there is no tomorrow. That’s when our old picture book writer faints. Afterwards they share a nice moment and a good conversation about the picture book about a moth. Leo doesn’t want to charge him any money and they change Line-IDs.

When our old picture book writer is on his way back home, he meets a homeless man, aesthetically not very pleasing and the kind of man, our writer would have loved as a young man. And with that he gives the homeless guy money and is willing to be bound with handcuffs on a rooftop, by a total stranger, to be beaten with the paddle. But the homeless dude doesn’t give a fuck about what our writer wants and just beats him up and robs him in the end. Luckily, he had exchanged the Line-ID before and now he can text Leo for help…with his tongue…A picture I won’t forget that soon (I don’t like other people’s salvia, it grosses me out).

Leo comes to the rescue, exact at the moment when our writer tries to jump from the roof. They scream and fight and Leo claps the writer’s ass till he gives up and both are exhausted.

It sounds like a wild ride, and to be fair, it is. It shows how transient beauty is. And how hard it can be for people to get old. Especially people whose biggest joy was their own beauty. Not just the biggest joy, but their biggest pleasure giver. And now everyone is more beautiful than you and you are just one of those hideous old men to whom you have always felt superior.

And for Leo, our writer is kind of a father figure. His own father ended his own life and the writer’s book was something that helped him through dark times.

Both are kind of lost in this world and could give each other some support while struggling.   

In the end it is not a bad short film. It had some issues and flaws, but it was not bad.

[suzie-guru]

Despite the heavy rain in Grand Rapids, I took myself out and about and finally made it to where @hellenhighwater’s breathtaking and deeply moving work for ArtPrize, “Old Stories”, was being displayed.

It was thrilling to see all of this in person after watching their progression on @hellenhighwater’s tumblr. I kept wanting to grab others and go “Make sure to follow their tumblr! It’s a treasure trove!”

The pieces that moved me the most are incontestably the ones featuring the Minotaur - after Medusa, his story is the most tragic of the Greek Myths to me and these pieces made me ache for him even more. I fell in love with these statues through watching the progression of their creation, but seeing them in person? All I could think of is how badly he deserved to be rescued, saved from his imprisonment, his loneliness. It hit me like a gut punch.

Which is why I loved the third and final piece for his story so much. The original ending will always be told, but on the other end of the labyrinth, there’s a more hopeful, gentler ending where the walls crack and crumble, and Asterion steps out and away from his prison, gets to see the stars and feel the sun…

The piece I didn’t expect to move me so deeply was Narcissus.

As it says on the artist’s statement for the piece, in a mythos full of capricious gods, ravaging heroes, and half-human monsters, Narcissus’ only crime was being beautiful and solitary. How many girls have had to deal with the same persistence and accusations of coldness? Can’t he have the same protectiveness we give them? I never would have thought such things, but this work opened my mind. Thank you for that, @hellenhighwater.

Please, if you’re able to do so, come to Grand Rapids and see all of the works in person, especially @hellenhighwater’s! And vote for them!!!

Now, I’m off to write that story about Ariadne and Asterion being siblings that I always wanted to get around to…

[genkinahito]

Idolish7 the Movie Live 4Bit Beyond the Period, The River Breathes, Aru Hi Aru Onna, Storage Man., Sekai de Tatakau Film-tachi, Old Narcissus, 100 Faces of HUAWEI, Beyond the Mountain, The Yangtze River, Long Time No See Wuhan, Japanese Film Trailers

Happy Weekend This is the second part of a two-part trailer post. The first part is here. This week I started with a review of the short film Kidofuji and an interview with its composer/writer/director Atsuru Shimoyashiro. A short set in a real-life standing bar in Koenji, Tokyo. I lived a stop away in Asagaya when I lived in Japan and rarely stopped at Koenji. Thus, this might be a place to…

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Echo and Narcissus’ (detail) by John William Waterhouse, c. 1903.

[rosquinn]

so this is basically demian nargold beneath the wheel and every shoujo yaoi hesse wrote right

[spocks-kaathyra]

BTW single most helpful reference image I've found for making my garak prosthetics

cannot remember where I found it but look! all of that detail on the noses! this video was also vry helpful for detailed looks at the sculpt

[lifeinpoetry]

When I lay myself down to sleep, now, I pray I will dream of kindness given and received, I pray to the coils and meats of my brain to be healed of my disbelief in my average goodness.

— Sharon Olds, from "Narcissus in Quarantine," Balladz

[silentagecinema]

black narcissus (1947) directed by michael powell & emeric pressburger

"What would Christ have done?"

[steven-myself]

Art Deco - Wilfred Wong by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine

[outofthemouthsof]

This scene lives rent free in my head…

Both these actors were sexy in this movie but especially Atom!

[chaosciara]

latest update on my portrait of dorian gray collection

[todayisafridaynight]

I think people moved on from hijikata in ishin kiwami too fast like .. yeah it’s not dragon engine mine but it’s still him in hd/unreal i literally start giggling and kicking my feet in the air everytime i see him 😭 He’s genuinely so gorgeous like i don’t blame daigo for asking if he’s single as soon as he met him

personally its not that i've moved on from hijikata it's that for the benefit of society ive forced myself to stop looking at him lest i reblog my photo sets of him every single day with the same nonsensical tags that border on satisfying the requirements for hospitalization

[bitter69uk]

Born 100 years ago today: Indian actor Sabu (Sabu Dastagir, 27 January 1924 – 2 December 1963). The doe-eyed and beauteous Sabu is particularly notable for being perhaps the sole Asian and Muslim major celebrity of Golden Age Hollywood. As with Chinese American star Anna May Wong in the twenties and thirties, the prejudiced dictates of the era limited the types of roles Sabu could play (in the Production Code there could be no hint of interracial romances depicted onscreen, for example) and he continued to portray “primitive” child-of-the-Islands stereotypes well into his thirties. (This is not meant as a diss on Sabu – he performed these parts with genuine aplomb and innate dignity). His most celebrated films include The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Jungle Book (1942) and Black Narcissus (1947) but perversely, my favourite is camp classic Cobra Woman (1944) starring "the Caribbean Cyclone" Maria Montez – perhaps because Sabu cavorts in little more than a loincloth throughout. Sadly, Sabu died aged just 39 of heart disease.

[bloomsandfoliage]

Narcissus tazetta

"PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB ON OUR GRADE 2 LISTED ROCKERY"