#vaudeville act

[flannelepicurean]

over 9k boyfie getaway shenanigans

i like to think that once vegeta & goku make the whole "yeah, we bone now, get over it," into an extremely "these two extremely extra af idiots" boyfies situation, they stop just holding hands for instant transmission, and it becomes a combination olympic sport and vaudeville act.

it always involves leaping, that's just REQUIRED.

vegeta jumping into goku's arms like an indignant cat and flipping off their opponents (some karens and the manager at applebee's) with an imperious grin while his over 9k boyfie BLOOPs them outta there.

vegeta leaping onto goku's back like a chocobo jockey and goku takes a running start before disappearing in a flash, because it just works better when they do it that way, it's a fact, they've tested this.

vegeta struggling to read the paper because he really needs to upgrade his granny glasses but he's got too much saiyan pride to go do it himself and bulma's still mad about that thing at applebee's, and goku comes barreling through shouting, "BABE WE GOTTA CHEESE IT," so he just leaps up to get snagged under goku's arm as he runs past and they baseball slide around the nearest corner and BLOOP, gone.

they also have a gazillion variations on the "fastball special" combat maneuver that make them INSUFFERABLE opponents. the most powerful beings in several universes just...stop. they're like, "dude, i can't with this bullshit, if he swings that fucking gremlin at me one more time i'm gonna lose it, they won't stop giggling, and i think they've been on the internet, but neither one of them knows how to use any of those words right, i'd heard rumors about their power, and i thought, i just thought, but godDAMN, it's just not worth it, this place is fucking weird..."

[drac-kool-aid]

I like how in today's Dracula Daily entry, in between a LOT of heavy stuff, Bram puts in a comedy section.

It's got very important stuff being revealed true. But like, Dracula's in a straw hat. A comically ill-suited straw hat. The sailors on the dock are openly mocking him for his hat. He gets berated by the captain, and honestly, he can't menace him back. He HAS to get to Varna, and there is no other ship heading in that direction. So, we see Dracula be reduced to smiling and bowing.

And its all told by Van Helsing, with added word play. "Bloody" and "Bloomin'" for anyone who didn't understand that bit are common swears in England. Of course they wouldn't be in his lexicon. But also, this guy is talking to a vampire, and he keeps calling him bloody, that's a good play on words there.

Oh, also he accuses Dracula of being French. I don't think we should forget that.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jimmy Durante (left) , Eddie Jackson, and Lou Clayton were a singing comedy trio who performed in nightclubs (shown here, in 1927) and vaudeville.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[catandgirlcomic]

Nostalgia act.

[justbusterkeaton]

The Play House 1921

[croc-odette]

i like adams for the same reason i like chase which is that they are both painfully normal and boring around a bunch of abnormal people. which means they must both be freaks

[sedoretu]

fixated on best picture winner Chicago for like the tenth time this year

[must4rds33d]

drinking game: take a shot every time lucy calls m. paul ‘little man’

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[blood-starved-beast]

Girl Prince Winter Ihernglass

Not that she is meant to be one (far from it) but like. Raes marrying Marcus means that through him, Winter has ascended to aristocracy. And given that Raesinia doesn't have family other than Marcus and Winter through marriage up to the epilogue and how she was willing to given Marcus the inheritance if she died removing her Demon, Winter is likely in line for the inheritance following Baby Orboan. And just.

Okay given Winter's track record throughout the books there is a high possibility that in some nebulous future where Marcus and Raes get put out of commission for whatever reason for a bit (maybe temporarily lost at sea cause of some demon-related shenanigans??) and that's how Winter finds out Raes nominated her for Regent and how all of Vordan learns that Elizabeth* d'Ivoire = famous War Hero and Prophet extraordinaire Winter Ihernglass is perhaps second in line for the throne and now Queen Pro-Tem until the Royals come back or Nibling grows up. Winter is of course, not having a good time.

*Ellie is probably short for Elizabeth no? I mean it's 1800s equivalent we're dealing with here. Anyways I imagine in official royal related papers (different from the Office of the Occult) Winter probably is written out like this. idk when Wexler does an AMA again someone should ask.

[travsd]

The Vaudeville of Lucy and Desi

Like our recent post about Lucy and Desi bio-pics, this post arises out of the quality time I spent with this entertaining couple and their various shows during the Covid lockdown (in particularly, when I HAD it!) It’s mostly concerned with one particular sliver of the team’s evolution, but a crucial one. It’s the moment when they actually sat down and figured out how to BE a team. And it’s…

[octopath-archivist]

Dude your reblog on my headcanon -- I didn't even think of that! TvT Poor Osvald I swear to god, and it makes it even worse that I also headcanon that the guy doesn't take praise well and that I imagine that Harvey picked up on that and used it to make himself feel superior.

I hate this dude in canon so much so why the heck am I exploring his character in fic writing??

well in my professional opinion exploring the mind of someone who would go as far as Harvey does for superiority and knowledge is a fascinating delve for any psych student.

but in my personal opinion? We just loooooooove to see toxic yaoi winning 🖤🖤🖤

[akumanoken]

Have you ever had a thought that made you go "How old are you?? Why is that the reference??"

Like... just seeing Aymeric rn and going "god he's so damn handsome, he's like the Clark Gable of Ishgard" to which I IMMEDIATELY say to myself "What year are you in... it's 2023... not 1933."

[suetravelblog]

Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth at Very Little Theatre

A mellow summer continues to provide peaceful space for pondering past and future travel adventures. With the havoc and devastation of deadly wildfires, floods, and wars currently happening in the world, it feels good to be hidden away in leafy Oregon. I’m slowly working my way through a “to do” list, and diligently trying to tame the woodsy landscape that surrounds my home. Letting things go…

[washingtonmarvel]

Trapeze artist, strongwoman, and all around badass Laverie Vallee, stage name Charmion, flexes for the camera in this (colorized) picture from around 1905. Born in 1875 in Sacramento, Charmion was a pioneer. She shocked conservative Victorian/Edwardian men with her daring "Trapeze Disrobing Act" (which was the subject of one of Thomas Edison's first films) and her insanely jacked body. But the ladies loved her, and her performances, which were viewed as practically pornographic by the extreme standards of the time period, were mostly attended by women. Throughout her career, she inspired women to exercise and to free themselves of the restrictions society placed on them. Charmion criticized the prudish attitudes of the time and told women they could be just as strong as men (this was a radical claim for that era, but her own body was the proof). A brilliant woman, she was fluent in six languages and regularly lectured and wrote newspaper articles about fitness. She was the highest-earning performer on the vaudeville circuit for much of her career, sometimes earning as much as $500 per week (equivalent to almost $20,000 today). Charmion was known to curl 70-pound dumbbells as part of her workout regimen and she could walk 12 miles without feeling fatigued. Charmion's biceps reportedly were almost exactly the same size as those of Eugen Sandow, who was widely considered the world's strongest man, and in a friendly sparring match she fought on an equal footing with the then-famous boxer Terry McGovern. She retired in 1912 and lived a quiet life outside the limelight until her death in 1949.

EDIT: I made a second post with some more info about Charmion if anyone's interested:

[3liza]

because most of us can't. the majority of subsistence artists, like sex workers, are in this line of work because we can't do other work. there is also a huge amount of overlap between sex work and subsistence artists and always has been. i have no clue why I continue to see it being discussed as something every artist is simply choosing to do out out some combination of stupidity and narcissism. i would cut off one of my toes to magically have the ability to show up to a normal job every day.

there is a huge blind spot about artists in Marxism and leftist discussion of labor generally because Marx literally didn't talk about them and they don't fit into the "owning the means of production = bourgeois" model unless you're dumb enough to call the guy doing tourist caricatures on the boardwalk "bourgeois", and no joke I have actually seen people try to argue this, but everyone normal understands they are stupid so it doesn't matter. we agree that the guy on the boardwalk with the easel or the bucket drums or the harp is not actually bourgeois.

if you have actually worked in the "creative industry" without support while paying your own rent and groceries and not being supported by parents or friends or a spouse, and you know a bunch of other people who have been doing the same thing for a long time, you are similarly confused by discussions along the lines of "why do artists simply not get other jobs if they hate being slowly fed into the social media meat grinder 🤔"

i can tell you exactly why. it's because I spend 25 days out of every month having to Lie Down, and when I tried saying the words "Americans with Disabilities Act" to various employers and school administrators like you're supposed to, I got shitcanned and failed so many times it was like a vaudeville routine. you will find that this is true of a great many working artists (not hobbyists and not students living at home, adult working artists), perhaps most, and I genuinely continue to be baffled by the fact that nobody seems to be aware that drawing things for cash (or dancing or writing articles or editing manuscripts or taking wedding photos or whatever) and other jobs without set schedules (like stripping, camming, etc) are careers a lot of people, certainly the ones without any starting capital, end up in when they can't get paid more for fewer hours. and you get paid more for fewer hours in basically any other job than these, including working at fast food or walmart.

surely you can hear how this sounds? "if you don't like it, why don't you just get a job that pays more?" where have we heard that before? stop. think.