things i want for christmas
since once of you just messaged me and im dead broke atm, this is my christmas wishlist for 2021
its literally aLL on sale right now for black friday but i dont get paid until next week :( imma cry
1. Strip Lights – StripLights.com
2. Galaxy Light – GalaxyLight.com
3. Curtain Lights – CurtainLights.com
4. Moon Lamp – Moon-Lamp.com
5. Love Lenses – LoveLenses.com
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Dir. Beeban Kidron
This was such a formative movie
This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.
To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.
This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.
Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.
If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.
Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.
And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.
And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.
When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.
Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.
“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”
And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:
And you can FEEL her pride.
All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.
It matters that this happened in 1995. It wouldn’t fly today, wouldn’t be the right choice, we’ve moved past it, but it mattered and was important that it happened the way it happened today. It’s one of the stepping stones.
Sun Jing the protective girlfriend being relevant as hell
From the Chinese manhua “Tamen de Gushi” by Tan jiu
Biker Mice from mars redesign part 2 Vinnie.
For me he was always the youngest and the goofiest. ) Join my instagram https://www.instagram.com/tetraorb/ for more stuff and process videos.
no-faced-criminal
Me, relaxing in the Woods™️: ah, yes, Nature, Water, Sunlight. Many Things that are Green. Peaceful. Beautiful. I could stay here forever.
One (1) mosquitoe: 👁👄👁
Me, packing up my things: I suppose all good things must come to an end
What about the ghosts tho
no-faced-criminal
Oh you mean the homies
there’s three types of people...
(Casca would fit just as well as the badass imo)
I just want all of you to know something...
Remember this scene in Avatar the Last Airbender, in the episode called “The Ember Island Players”, when the gaang goes to the theater to watch that ridiculous play about their adventure…?
And there’s this part that Aang goes “Uh… I wanted to sit there” because he wants to sit next to Katara?
Well, I was extremely disappointed to find out that, in the original, Zuko replies with “Just sit next to me, what’s the big deal?”…
Because in the Brazilian dub, I don’t know why or how or whose idea it was, but it turned out a million times better, since Zuko’s reply to him is…
“Sit here on my lap, I don’t mind it.”
And it was so sincere and naive and dumb and somehow nice of him, like as if he were his big brother or something, because the intonation is totally pure and kind, it was not sarcastic or anything! So yeah… I just think that was a huge improvement. It was cute and absolutely hilarious! Thanks, Brazilian translators, that was awesome! XD
