#todd flaherty

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BFI Flare: Chrissy Judy

Oooft. This one had my stomach in a knot. A sharply funny and melancholy story of how incremental personal shifts threaten old friendships, and how moving through the chaos allows for deeply felt bonds to gradually remake themselves.

In the best possible way, it reminded me of Looking, with its interest in the challenges of intimate platonic bonds as gay men round the corner of their thirties and try to figure out what a stable life might look like within a milieu that encourages clinging to youthful abandon and discourages foreclosing on options.

Wealthy elder gay couples with houses in the pines continue to be the boogeymen of such stories, as they well should.

Even if less well realised the film would stick out on the festive circuit, amongst the usual sea of queer coming of age retreads, as a lovely and amusing film about how the need to pick a path can feel so frightening when based in a community defined by its openness and freedom.

A staggeringly well crafted film given its $20K budget and 16 day shooting schedule, with – at times – beautiful black and white cinematography and unhurried, lived in performances.

[sillylotrpolls]

There is, of course, already a @lordoftheringsmusical, and its soundtrack is gorgeous (give your ears a treat if you haven't heard it before), and some operas too, but that's no reason not to fantasize about another adaptation. After all, you can never have enough singing and dancing orcs.

[goalhofer]

2024 Chicago Cubs Roster

Pitchers

#11 Todd Smyly; Jr. (Maumelle, Arkansas)

#18 Imanaga Shōta (Kitakyushu, Japan)**

#25 Yency Almonte (Miami, Florida)*

#26 Julian Merryweather (San Mateo, California)

#28 Kyle Hendricks (Mission Viejo, California)

#32 Ben Brown (Brookhaven, New York)**

#35 Justin Steele (George County, Mississippi)

#36 Jordan Wicks (Conway, Arkansas)

#38 Mark Leiter; Jr. (Toms River Township, New Jersey)

#43 Luke Little (Charlotte, North Carolina)

#45 Caleb Kilian (Flower Mound, Texas)

#48 Daniel Palencia (San Carlos, Venezuela)

#50 Jameson Taillon (Montgomery County, Texas)

#51 Héctor Neris (Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic)*

#72 Javier Assad (Tijuana, Mexico)

#73 Adbert Alzolay (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela)

Catchers

#9 Miguel Amaya (Chitré, Panama)

#15 Yan Gomes (Miami, Florida)

Infielders

#1 Nick Madrigal (Elk Grove, California)

#2 Nicholas Hoerner (Oakland, California)

#5 Christopher Morel (Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dom Rep)

#7 James Swanson (Kennesaw, Georgia)

#16 Patrick Wisdom (Murrieta, California)

#20 Miles Mastrobuoni (Livermore, California)

#29 Michael Busch (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota)*

#41 Garrett Cooper (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)*

Outfielders

#8 Ian Happ (Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania)

#24 Cody Bellinger (Chandler, Arizona)

#27 Suzuki Seiya (Tokyo, Japan)

#40 Mike Tauchman (Palatine Township, Illinois)

Coaches

Manager Craig Counsell (Milwaukee Township, Wisconsin)

Bench coach Ryan Flaherty (Portland, Maine)

Hitting coach Dustin Kelly (Santa Maria, California)

Assistant hitting coach Juan Cabreja (Moca, Dominican Republic)

Assistant hitting coach Jim Adduci; Jr. (Worth Township, Illinois)

Assistant hitting coach John Mallee (Chicago, Illinois)

Pitching coach Tommy Hottovy (Kansas City, Missouri)

Assistant pitching coach Daniel Moskos (La Verne, California)

Pitching strategist Danny Hultzen (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Bullpen coach Darren Holmes (Asheville, North Carolina)

Bullpen catcher Garrett Lloyd (San Antonio, Texas)

1B coach Mike Napoli (Pembroke Pines, Florida)

3B coach Willie Harris (Cairo, Georgia)

Field coordinator Mark Strittmatter (Huntington, New York)

Assistant coach Jonathan Mota (Valencia, Venezuela)

Assistant coach Alex Smith (Scottsdale, Arizona)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today's Episode #1336, of 🎨#JamieRoxx’s Pop Roxx Radio 🎙️#TalkShow and 🎧#Podcast w/ Featured Guest:

#ToddFlaherty , #Writer, #Director, #Producer, #Actor (#ChrisyJudy; #Movie #Comedy #Drama, #LGBTQA+ #DragCulture #QueerCinema)

The Episode has now been converted to a PODCAST and is now archived (for FREE) at: ✔ www.PopRoxxRadio.com

also on wherever you Stream or Download Podcasts at, Including:

✔ Blog Talk Radio: http://tobtr.com/12210461 ✔ Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yynbdbky ✔ Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/hjdpqb6 ✔ iHeartRadio: https://tinyurl.com/yylvjl65 ✔ TuneIn: https://tinyurl.com/y34agloq ✔ Pandora: https://tinyurl.com/yygddano ✔ Google Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/yazcmb88 ✔ VIP Ad FREE (all Podcasts) on Jamie Roxx's Patreon: www.patreon.com/JamieRoxx

Pop Art Painter Jamie #Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Todd Flaherty, Writer, Director, Producer, Actor (Chrisy Judy; Movie | Comedy, LGBTQA+) to the Show!

● IG: @chrissyjudyfilm ● IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt20117432

IN THEATERS (LA, NYC, SAN FRAN & MORE) MARCH 31 ON DIGITAL AND DVD APRIL 11

Coming of age Drag Queen dramedy CHRISSY JUDY has been skedded by #DarkStarPictures @darkstarpix for an April theatrical, DVD and On Demand release.

The film, which had its world premiere at #ProvincetownFilmFestival, before screening #OutFest, #NewFest, #HamptonsIFF & over 20 more worldwide, will screen in select theaters from March 31 before a Digital and DVD release rollout on April 11.

The pic, written, directed, edited by and starring Todd Flaherty alongside #WyattFenner, #JoeyTaranto, #KiyonSpencer, and #JamesTison, tells of a determined gay man whose best friend and drag sister suddenly couples off and moves away, leaving him to question his personal and professional life becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off. ​ ● Media Inquiries: @OctoberCoastpr www.octobercoastpr.com

[resident-dumb-fuck]

oh my god prev only just now realizing i forgor your name. you’re cool tho thanks for the tag

my top ten albums in no particular order

Tuck Everlasting (Miller/Tysen/Shear/Federle)

Urinetown (Hollman/Kotis)

Assassins (Sondheim/Weidman)

Man of La Mancha (Wasserman/Leigh/Darion)

Anastasia (Ahrens/Flaherty/McNally)

Sweeney Todd (Sondheim/Wheeler)

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Malloy)

songs with videos without videos - Brian David Gilbert

Moby Dick or The Whale - Caleb Hayashida

The Reaping Season: Songs from Eldermourne - Emily Axford

tagging: @common-grackle @ant-ares-wild @wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj @radioactivegeorg and anyone else who wants to :)

tagged by @seekdestr0y to list my 10 fav albums of all time and tag 10 mutuals !!!!!!!!! thank uuuu!!!!!! (this is literally impossible ........... so this is in no particular order)

1. the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars by david bowie

2. germfree adolescents by x-ray spex

3. signos by soda stereo

4. nimrod by green day

5. give 'em enough rope by the clash

6. reject all american by bikini kill

7. fea self titled

8. savage garden self titled

9. live through this by hole

10. bringing down the horse by the wallflowers

tagging @try-cry-why-try @bigdookiepookie @poprocksncokeee @waveofmutilation-uksurfmix @harbingerofskulls @toylandgrrrl @persephonaddams @topknott @kohinoors @dark-entriess (no pressure!!!)

[rowanellis]

The Rise of Asexual Representation

 aka let's talk about (and cringe at) ace characters on screen...

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[biacedmusicallover]

Me with my favorite fictional aces

Also check out my Instagram @pulledfromorbit

[pulledfrom0rbit]

Asexual pride. Me and Todd and Liv because I love them

[yorit1]

What are you top 10 favourite bisexual characters? top 5 gay characters? top 5 lesbian characters? top 5 asexual characters? top 5 trans characters? top 5 pansexual characters? top 5 aromantic characters? top 5 nonbinary characters?

Bisexual characters

1. Sara Lance

2. Robert Sugden

3. Charity Dingle

4. Nick Nelson

5. Rosa Diaz

6. Magnus Bane

7. Ash Kaur

8. Valkyrie

9. Callie Torres

10. Analyse

Gay characters

1. Aaron Dingle

2. Ray Holt

3. Charlie Spring

4. Ben Mitchell

5. Todd Grimshaw

Lesbian characters

1. Vanessa woodfield

2. Ava Sharpe

3. Elena Alvarez

4. Ryan Wilder

5. Hen Wilson

Asexual characters

1. Liv Flaherty

2. Tori Spring

3. Isaac Henderson

4. Spooner Cruz

Transgender characters

1. Paul Strickland

2. Matty Barton

3. Elle Argent

4. Nia Nal

5. Blanca

Pansexual characters

1. Charlie

2. Gary green

3. Jack harkness

4. David Rose

5. Evan

Aromantic characters

1. Isaac Henderson

Nonbinary characters

1. Syd

2. Charlie

3. Sah brokner

4. Janet

[aceofwhump]

Do you know of any canon ace characters :)?

I do! It’s hard to find canon ace characters but we do have a few! Some are stated outright in their medium while others have been confirmed by the creator. I’m putting a little 💜 next to those have had the actual word “asexual” used out loud in the show/game/book/etc. And please add to the list!!!! I’m sure I’m missing some and it’d be great to learn about more canon asexuals!! 

💜 Todd Chavez from Bojack Horseman is asexual

Raphael Santiago from Shadowhunters is aroace (though the aromantic is implied in the book and outright ignored in the show he is canonically ace in both)

💜 Jughead Jones (Jughead is canonically asexual in the Chip Zdarsky comic run and over the course of the decades of comics he’s been aromantic and asexual. But the word is used in the Chip comics. Also I don’t mean the crap version of Jughead from Ri***dale. I refuse to watch that show purely because I cannot stomach the fact that they straightwashed Juggie so much. Just completely said fuck it to decades of aroaceness. Atrocious)

💜 (putting a heart because even though they don’t use the word outright in the show, it’s not just word of god canon here) Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives is canonically biromantic asexual

💜 Chloe Turner from the Bright Sessions podcast is panromantic asexual

💜 Jet Sikuliaq from the Penumbra Podcast is aromantic asexual

💜 Voodoo from Sirens is asexual

💜 Gerald Tippett from Shortland Street goes on a whole journey of discovery for his asexuality.

💜 Liv Flaherty from Emmerdale is ace

💜 There’s a background character named Brad in Faking It (3x08) that is asexual and even though he’s in the background I really enjoy him and the fact that they included him.

💜 In the youtube series “The March Family Letters” Beth is asexual (check out episode 38)

Clairel form Garth Nix’s book is asexual

Charlie Weasley from the Harry Potter books is asexual and possible aromantic. It’s not stated in canon but JK said that she didn’t “think he’s gay. He’s more interested in dragons than woman” and even though she’s a piece of trash Charlie continues to be super important to me and he’s ace.

💜 The web comic series Rock and Riot has a ton of ace characters

💜 Florence from Sex Education is ace

Alastor from Hazbin Hotel is aromantic asexual

💜 Parvati from The Outer Worlds is asexual

💜 Dionysus from The Wicked and The Divine is asexual

Peridot from Steven Universe is aromantic asexual

Spongebob Squarepants is asexual

Reyna and the Hunters of Artemis from the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan are asexual (and the Hunters are aromantic too)

Varys from Game of Thrones is ace although they don’t use the word he describes himself has having no interest in sex

Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias from the Watchman has been described by the creator as asexual

Dove Cameron said on twitter that her character Ruby Hale from Agents of Shield is asexual

Daryl Dixon from the Walking Dead has been called asexual by both Norman Reedus and Robert Kirkman

[soyouthinkyouregay]

What is Asexuality?

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction felt by n individual. Some people don’t want a sexual relationship, but others do. The lack of sexual attraction isn’t relative to the want for a sexual relationship.

What is the asexual flag? Asexualityarchive.com > The Asexuality Flag

The flag is comprised of 4 colours. From top to bottom, the colours are: black, grey, white, purple. Each colour has a meaning.

Black is representative of asexuality.

Grey is representative of grey/demisexual.

White is representative of non-asexual partners and allies.

Purple is representative of the community.

The flag was designed by AVEN user Standup on June 30th 2010

What is AVEN? Yonah.org/channel/David-jay-AVEN-asexuality+

AVEN (The Asexual Visibility and Education Network) is an asexual community online that provides information for asexual people, as well as their families, friends, researchers, and mass media.

Aromantic vs Asexual

Aromantic is the lack of a romantic attraction felt by a single person.

Asexual is the lack of a sexual attraction felt by a single person.

While the two are very similar, they target different types of attraction and are not interchangeable.

They do come hand in hand in some cases, but one wouldn’t have to be aromantic to be asexual, and vice versa.

Anyone could be one, both, or neither.

QPR

A QueerPlatonic Relationship is a type of relationship that typically bends the rules for telling apart romantic relationships and platonic relationships.

The flag that is representative of queerplatonic partnerships is comprised of 5 colours. At the top is a pink stripe, followed by back, grey, white, grey, black, and pink. It often has a yellow heart in the center too.

Though that is just one design. There are other designs, but they all contain the same 5 colours.

(Wikia.org>lgbta>wiki>queerplatonic_relationship)

Queer platonic relationships are used typically by Aromantic and asexual people who don’t feel comfortable with a ‘normal’ relationship.

Both/all parties involved don’t have to be aromantic or asexual.

There is no one way to define a QPR, as they differ between each pair or group of people. They are different for everyone.

Books with asexual characters (queerbooksforteens.com)

Check out the website for more information on each book.

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

Quicksilver - R. J. Anderson. (It’s the sequel to Ultraviolet)

Trash Hearts Tolstoy - Kathryn Ormsbee

Radio Silence - Alice Oseman

The King’s Name - Jo Walton

Fourth World - Lysander Chiavari

Before I Let Go - Marieke Nijkamp

City of Strife - Claudie Arseneault

Media with Asexual Characters (Gaystarnews.com)

Check out the website for more information on each character.

Todd - Bojack Horseman

Raphael Santiago - Shadowhunters

Lord Varys - Game of Thrones

Brad - Faking It

Gerald Tippett - Shortland Street

Poppy - Huge

Voodoo - Sirens

Beth - The March Family Letters

Liv Flaherty - Emmerdale

Yuki Nagato - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Evan Waxman - High Maintenance

Kevin - Black Donnellys

Misty Day - American Horror Story

Father Noel Furlong - Father Ted

The Professor - Gilligan's Island

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1861 Georges Méliès 1875 D.W. Griffith 1879 Victor Sjöström 1880 Tod Browning 1881 Cecil B. DeMille 1884 Robert Flaherty 1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim 1886 Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John Cromwell 1887 Raoul Walsh 1888 F.W. Murnau 1889 Charles Chaplin / Jean Cocteau / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Victor Fleming / Abel Gance / James Whale 1890 Clarence Brown / Fritz Lang 1892 Ernst Lubitsch 1893 William Dieterle 1894 Frank Borzage / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg 1895 Buster Keaton 1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William Wellman 1897 Frank Capra / Douglas Sirk 1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges 1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock 1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak 1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica 1902 Emeric Pressburger / Max Ophüls / William Wyler 1903 Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu 1904 Delmer Daves / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer 1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo 1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / John Huston / Anthony Mann / Carol Reed / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti / Billy Wilder 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot / Joseph H. Lewis / Jacques Tati / Fred Zinnemann 1908 Tex Avery / Edward Dmytryk / Phil Karlson / David Lean / Manoel de Oliveira 1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1910 John Sturges / Akira Kurosawa 1911 Jules Dassin / Nicholas Ray 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Samuel Fuller / Gene Kelly / Alexander Mackendrick / Don Siegel 1913 André de Toth / Mark Robson / Frank Tashlin 1914 Mario Bava / William Castle / Robert Wise 1915 Orson Welles 1916 Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / George Sidney 1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville 1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman 1920 Federico Fellini / Eric Rohmer 1921 Luis García Berlanga / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray 1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais 1923 Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki 1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet 1925 Robert Altman / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat 1926 Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Jerry Lewis / Andrzej Wajda 1927 Kenneth Anger / Ken Russell 1928 Stanley Kubrick / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol 1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone 1930 Claude Chabrol / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman 1931 Jacques Demy / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi 1932 Milos Forman / Monte Hellman / Louis Malle / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut 1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub 1934 Sydney Pollack 1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos 1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach 1937 Ridley Scott 1938 Paul Verhoeven 1939 Peter Bogdanovich / Francis Ford Coppola / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha 1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Victor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero 1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier 1942 Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Martin Scorsese 1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph 1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Peter Weir 1945 Terence Davies / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders 1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Woo 1947 Hou Hsiao-hsien / Takeshi Kitano / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang 1948 John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris 1949 Pedro Almodóvar 1950 Chantal Akerman / John Landis / John Sayles 1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou 1952 Jacques Audiard / Gus Van Sant 1953 Jim Jarmusch 1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ang Lee / Michael Moore 1955 Olivier Assayas / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To 1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai 1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang 1958 Tim Burton 1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Sam Raimi 1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Hong Sang-soo / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi 1961 Alfonso Cuarón / Todd Haynes / Peter Jackson / Alexander Payne / Abderrahmane Sissako / Michael Winterbottom 1962 David Fincher / Hirokazu Koreeda / Kenneth Lonergan 1963 Michel Gondry / Alejandro González Iñárritu / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino 1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev 1965 Jonathan Glazer 1966 Lucrecia Martel 1967 Denis Villeneuve 1969 Wes Anderson / Darren Aronofsky / Noah Baumbach / Bong Joon-ho / James Gray / Spike Jonze / Steve McQueen / Lynne Ramsay 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson / Jia Zhangke / Christopher Nolan / Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1971 Sofia Coppola / Carlos Reygadas Directors listed by key production country (Country of birth, if it differs, is listed in brackets) Argentina Lucrecia Martel Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller Austria Michael Haneke (Germany) Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne Brazil Glauber Rocha Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Denis Villeneuve China Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier Finland Aki Kaurismäki France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Julien Duvivier / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Patricio Guzmán (Chile) / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Max Ophüls (Germany) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo Germany / West Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Wim Wenders Greece Theo Angelopoulos Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai (China) / Johnnie To / John Woo (China) Hungary Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr India Satyajit Ray Iran Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi Italy Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Sergio Leone / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Seijun Suzuki Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas New Zealand Peter Jackson Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Andrzej Wajda Portugal Pedro Costa / Manoel de Oliveira Russia / USSR Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev Senegal Ousmane Sembene South Korea Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Park Chan-wook Spain Pedro Almodóvar / Victor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura Sweden Roy Andersson / Ingmar Bergman / Victor Sjöström Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien (China) / Tsai Ming-liang (Malaysia) / Edward Yang (China) Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan UK John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell (UK) & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / Michael Winterbottom USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Darren Aronofsky / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / Stan Brakhage / Clarence Brown / Tod Browning / Charles Burnett / Tim Burton USA (C-D) James Cameron (Canada) / Frank Capra (Italy) / John Carpenter / John Cassavetes / William Castle / Charles Chaplin (UK) / Joel Coen & Ethan Coen / Francis Ford Coppola / Sofia Coppola / Roger Corman / John Cromwell / Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) / George Cukor / Michael Curtiz (Hungary) / Joe Dante / Jules Dassin / Delmer Daves / Brian De Palma / André de Toth (Hungary) / Guillermo del Toro (Mexico) / Cecil B. DeMille / Jonathan Demme / Maya Deren (Ukraine) / William Dieterle (Germany) / Edward Dmytryk (Canada) / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Allan Dwan (Canada) USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / D.W. Griffith / James Gray USA (H-L) Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / Walter Hill / Alfred Hitchcock (UK) / John Huston / Jim Jarmusch / Spike Jonze / Phil Karlson / Elia Kazan (Turkey) / Buster Keaton / Henry King / Stanley Kubrick / John Landis / Fritz Lang (Austria) / Ang Lee (Taiwan) / Spike Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Mervyn LeRoy / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / David Lynch USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Sam Raimi / Bob Rafelson / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Alan Rudolph USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Steven Spielberg / George Stevens / Oliver Stone / John Sturges / Preston Sturges / Quentin Tarantino / Frank Tashlin / Jacques Tourneur (France) / Edgar G. Ulmer (Austria-Hungary) USA (V-Z) Gus Van Sant / Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg (Austria) / Erich von Stroheim (Austria) / Raoul Walsh / Andy Warhol / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-HungaryJonas Mekas)

[songstar1]

I don't watch Emmerdale but my mum does so I ended up seeing this and I was so happy! Since realising I was ace last year I've been really disappointed by the lack of representation (the only one I've really seen is Todd from Bojack) and I'm so glad that slowly but surely we're starting to get some.

I’m so happy for Liv

She came out and she’s happy with herself and put it in such an amazing way. Emmerdale writers, I applaud you!

[into-the-roblivion]

A Love Letter to Liv

My name is Amy and I identify as asexual/aromantic. I’ve spent the last few years of my life coming to terms with what these labels mean and how I relate to them. During this process, I’ve browsed through shows, movies and books, trying to find some stories that were representative of what I was feeling—how I experienced the world.

It turns out, there are so few asexual characters that I can practically count them on one hand.

I’m not surprised, just disappointed.

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One cold and weary February day, I was on YouTube. I typed ‘asexual characters’ into the search bar and saw the same handful of examples that I had seen before. Todd Chavez (BoJack Horseman), Voodoo (Sirens), Raphael Santiago (Shadowhunters), Jughead Jones (comics, not Riverdale 😒). Weren’t there any others?

After falling down a rabbit hole, something new finally caught my attention: Liv Opens Up about her Sexuality to Aaron.

Immediately, a few questions emerged in my consciousness.

Who’s Liv?

Who’s Aaron?

What show is this scene from?

Is the character actually asexual?

After watching the clip, I realized its groundbreaking nature. A mainstream show (Emmerdale) was portraying the coming out story of an asexual teenager.

I would have given anything to have seen Liv’s storyline when I was younger.

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It took me a long time to come out to myself. I dated my first—and only—boyfriend when I was 14. My best friend and his best friend were also dating, so it made logistical sense that we should date as well. I didn’t feel attracted towards him but I figured those feelings would develop.

As the months went by, my feelings didn’t change.

My friends started asking questions. Have you made out? Have you gone to second base?

I stumbled over my answers. I didn’t want to admit that I had not initiated anything more than a chaste kiss.

What’s your favourite thing about him?

His eyes. That’s what people found attractive, right?

Or maybe his body? I wasn’t sure.

Eventually, my boyfriend started to think my behaviour was strange, too. I was afraid of exploring my feelings—or lack thereof— and so, I pretended to be interested in him.

And I put on one hell of a performance. I started initiating kisses, making sexual advances; exploring his body, while he explored mine.

It never went that far but it went further than I was comfortable with.

And you can’t live a lie forever. After nine months it had become too much and I broke up with him.

However, this action came with its own set of consequences. Our friends were mad at me. They didn’t understand why I would dump someone who was kind and supportive and intelligent. I was ostracized from our friend group.

I didn’t have the language to explain how I was feeling and therefore, I couldn’t communicate this properly. I looked like an utter asshole.

It was then when I decided that I would stay away from dating and focus on school.

And that’s exactly what I did.

From the age of fifteen to eighteen, I refused to date. When two of my male friends asked me out I politely declined, even though I could see that it hurt them.

After many years of ignoring my feelings and ‘focusing on school’ I came to the realization that I wasn’t straight.

And if I wasn’t straight, there was only one other explanation. I must be gay.

When one of my friends came out as gay at a party, I took a risk and came out as well. However, when the word lesbian exited my mouth, it left behind a bitter taste. I didn’t feel comfortable with that label. I assumed it was just coming out jitters and I would eventually feel proud of my identity.

So, once again, years passed and I continued to ignore what I was feeling.

By this time, I was almost 21. Most of my friends were dating and having sex. I was out of excuses. I couldn’t continue ignoring my feelings. I needed to find a word that accurately described my identity.

So, I headed to the internet.

I don’t remember how I found out about asexuality. I think I heard the term years ago, while I was a teenager, I had just never applied it to myself.

It took me a long time to accept that I was asexual and it took me even longer to accept that I was aromantic.

Once I was comfortable with these labels, I began to search out media that contained asexual or aromatic characters.

Which leads me back to Liv Flaherty.

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Liv is one of my favourite characters on TV. She’s smart and sarcastic and headstrong and caring. She loves her family, especially her “weird, gay, brother dads.”

Although Liv’s asexual storyline was what originally drew me to Emmerdale, I’ve subsequently fallen in love with the entire village (except Nate 🤢).

I will always be grateful for the amazing representation Emmerdale has provided for the asexual community. In a genre where storylines are so often driven by sexual attraction, it’s refreshing to have a character who actively rejects these tropes.

It makes me so proud to be ace—and that’s something I never thought I would say.

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The 50 Most Nominated Shows in Tonys History (2019 Edition)

An update from this post.

01. Gypsy – 28 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 02. Cabaret – 27 nominations, 12 wins (musical) 03. Angels in America – 26 nominations, 10 wins (play) 04. The King and I – 25 nominations, 14 wins (musical) 05. La Cage aux Folles – 24 nominations, 11 wins (musical) 06. Follies – 24 nominations, 8 wins (musical) 07. Long Day’s Journey Into Night – 24 nominations, 7 wins (play) 08. Hello, Dolly! – 23 nominations, 13 wins (musical) 09. My Fair Lady – 23 nominations, 8 wins (musical) 10. South Pacific – 22 nominations, 18 wins (musical)

11. She Loves Me – 22 nominations, 18 wins (musical) 12. Death of a Salesman – 21 nominations, 13 wins (play) 13.=Fiddler on the Roof – 21 nominations, 10 wins (musical) 13.=Kiss Me, Kate – 21 nominations, 10 wins (musical) 15.=How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – 20 nominations, 9 wins (musical) 15.=Pippin – 20 nominations, 9 wins (musical) 17. Nine – 20 nominations, 7 wins (musical) 18. Into the Woods – 20 nominations, 5 wins (musical) 19. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – 19 nominations, 10 wins (musical) 20.=Guys and Dolls – 19 nominations, 9 wins (musical) 20.=Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 19 nominations, 9 wins (play)

22.=Anything Goes – 19 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 22.=Chicago – 19 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 24. A View from the Bridge – 19 nominations, 5 wins (play) 25. Ragtime – 19 nominations, 4 wins (musical) 26. Sunday in the Park with George – 19 nominations, 2 wins (musical) 27.=Candide – 18 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 27.=Company – 18 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 27.=The Music Man – 18 nominations, 6 wins (musical) 30. Carousel – 17 nominations, 7 wins (musical)

31. Sweet Charity – 17 nominations, 5 wins (musical) 32.=42nd Street – 17 nominations, 4 wins (musical) 32.=Oklahoma! – 17 nominations, 4 wins (musical) 34. Little Me – 17 nominations, 2 wins (musical) 35. The Iceman Cometh – 17 nominations, 0 wins (play) 36. Hamilton – 16 nominations, 11 wins (musical)* 37.=Fences – 16 nominations, 7 wins (play) 37.=A Little Night Music – 16 nominations, 7 wins (musical) 37.=A Moon for the Misbegotten – 16 nominations, 7 wins (play) 40. The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 16 nominations, 5 wins (musical)

41. Once on This Island – 16 nominations, 1 win (musical) 42. The Producers – 15 nominations, 12 wins (musical)* 43.=Billy Elliot – 15 nominations, 10 wins (musical)* 43.=A Chorus Line – 15 nominations, 10 wins (musical) 45. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – 15 nominations, 9 wins (musical) 46. Les Misérables – 15 nominations, 8 wins (musical) 47.=The Color Purple – 15 nominations, 3 wins (musical) 47.=West Side Story – 15 nominations, 3 wins (musical) 49. Much Ado About Nothing – 15 nominations, 1 win (play) 50. The Book of Mormon – 14 nominations, 9 wins (musical)*

Some stray observations and statistics:

I recounted everything to make sure the math was correct here (last year had some issues). The big addition is Oklahoma! at #32 (tied with 42nd Street).  

Kicked off the list this year: Spring Awakening, Evita, and Dreamgirls.

Obviously, the vast majority are musicals - 9 plays to 41 musicals. It’s a bit unfair, considering musicals actively compete in several more categories than plays do - score, book, choreography, orchestrations. Plays can technically be nominated for score and choreography, as we saw this year with To Kill a Mockingbird and Choir Boy, but they happen infrequently.

Any show marked with an asterisk (*) indicates that the nomination/win count comes exclusively from their original production. This is only true for Hamilton (#36), The Producers (#42), Billy Elliot (#43), and The Book of Mormon (#50).

Of the musicals on the list, 24 won Best Musical. Of the plays, 5 won Best Play (Angels won twice). It’s worth noting that one of the remaining plays, Much Ado About Nothing, has never been eligible for Best Play. It’s also worth noting that the top ranking show, Gypsy, lost Best Musical.

Sondheim has his name on 10 of the 50 shows: Gypsy, Follies, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Candide, Company, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and West Side Story.

Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers have 3 shows in the top 50. Lynn Ahrens, Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, Cy Coleman, Fred Ebb, Stephen Flaherty, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Herman, John Kander, Frank Loesser, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, and Cole Porter all have 2. Sondheim, Herman, Rodgers, and Hammerstein are the only artists with more than one title in the top ten.

Only seven titles on the list have a credited female author: Kiss Me, Kate (librettist Bella Spewack), Ragtime (lyricist Lynn Ahrens), Candide (librettist and lyricist Lillian Hellman and lyricist Dorothy Parker), Sweet Charity (lyricist Dorothy Fields), Little Me (lyricist Carolyn Leigh), Once on This Island (librettist and lyricist Lynn Ahrens), and The Color Purple (librettist Marsha Norman and composer/lyricists Allee Willis and Brenda Russell).

Nine titles on the list won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Angels in America (1993), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957), South Pacific (1950), Death of a Salesman (1949), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), Sunday in the Park with George (1985), Hamilton (2016), Fences (1987), and A Chorus Line (1976). Oklahoma! received a special citation from the Pulitzer committee in 1944.