greta gerwig’s films always have the best bts photos omg i love these 💕
'One River North' Colorado that includes a descending nature trail on its façade.
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SHERYL LEE RALPH accepts her award for Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series at the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)
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BROTHER BEAR (2003) dir. by Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker
I'll never understand how sex is considered too vulgar for public media but death and murder aren't. America's political opinion on the dichotomy of pleasure vs pain as well as which is "ethically correct" is incredibly hilarious, especially when compared to media in other parts of the world. Sex and nudity are natural and healthy. Violence and murder are not.
Anonymous asked:
hi, i saw your post regarding kit and i just wanted to ask why is it real people can't queerbait in real life? not saying i agree/disagree, i really want to understand this, i just can't seem to grasp my head around the concepts and i need help
i hope this question doesn't offend you. if it does, i'm truly sorry and feel free to ignore this. thank you
Hey anon, thanks for being respectful.
What I mean when I say real people cant queerbait is that, it is quite literally impossible for a real person to queerbait.
Queerbaiting is a story device where the person is implied to be queer without ever getting the actual payoff of being queer. The point of writers/production companies doing this is as a way of keeping queer audiences happy without pissing off conservative audiences. This is also why every on screen queer relationship/friendship that doesnt end with a kiss isnt neccesarily queerbaiting, because it might just be a different kind of queer relationship. Intent is important here.
But you can not apply this principle to real people. A persons existence can not be simplified to the same level as a fictional character. With fictional characters, they dont actually have free will, everything they do is to forward the narrative. A real person does have free will. Not everything they do is for a purpose. Not everything they say or wear is to tell us something. Therefor queerbaiting can not be used as a descriptor. If someone acts queer, makes jokes about being queer, or dresses queer/gnc or anything else along those lines, they are simply just being queer. The entire definition of queer identity is fiting outside of cishet norms. That is what being queer is. So someone who does those things is just being queer. Whether they do it for fame/money or not, it is still just being queer.
The other incredibly important part of this conversation that people get confused on is the concept of privacy. Fictional characters can queerbait because they do not have privacy. Any storylines that are left out or changed to be less queer, is an active choice made by the creators to be in narrative. As an audience we are entitled to know about those things because the point of a fictional character is to get ideas across to the reader. Real people however do have privacy. Any real person, no matter how famous, does not exist simply for the service of others. A celebrity not telling their audience about their identity or romantic interests is not a device they use to keep people on the fence, it is their right to privacy. They do not owe is that information. We are not entitled to it. Just like you wouldn't demand that your neighbor tell you all their deepest secrets, you cant do that just because someone is famous. And a celebrity not sharing that information is even more understandable when you see how picked apart every sliver of personal information people get is.
Long story short; Real people cant queer bait because real people living queer lives is just actually being queer and also real people are entitled to privacy, both things which do not apply to fictional characters.
This is what I was talking about.
This is exactly why the whole "Queer characters can only be played by queer actors" argument, or the queerbaiting celebrities argument is not only unhelpful, it is actively harmful. You are not entitled to other peoples identity. You are forcing people to come out in order to protect their careers, when they may not have wanted to share that with the world. Real people can not queerbait. Real people can not be bad representations of themselves. Do not conflate how you treat fictional characters with how you are allowed to treat real people. We can not keep having the same conversation. Forcing people to come out or else face social consequences is Bad. Always. Everytime.
In this case, Kit is literally a teenager who has been facing overwhelming amounts of online abuse for not being open about his personal identity.
Im seeing it with other queer media too. With nicholas galitzin and taylor zakhar perez in the red white & royal blue movie, people demanding that they should have been recast with "actual queer actors" despite the fact that we do not know if they are or are not queer. We can never know until they tell us that they are, which they have not.
Im also seeing it with young royals. With the new season coming out later today, the speculation on omar and edvins sexuality and relationship is incredibly harmful and toxic. They are real people, please treat them like people instead of fictional characters you can write rambling, speculating paragraphs about.
I'll say it one more time.
You are not entitled to other people's identities.
(Edit: some people are confused about the whole real people cant queerbait thing, so I have an explanation here x)
Apollo on the other hand:
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Sheryl Lee Ralph Powerful Speech at 2023 Critics Choice Awards
before glass onion: idk like.. do we need sequels for everything? like i’m excited for it but i just don’t see how this’ll work
after glass onion:
The thing about being James Bond for 15 years is that you kinda forget that Daniel Craig has the fucking range to be anything
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X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.
Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
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many problems are caused by the mindset that the world is divided into good people and bad people and the bad people can be "found out" and removed, eventually leading to a utopia containing only good people.
"It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
--Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) dir. Rian Johnson
The first trailer for Greta Gerwig's Barbie pays homage to Stanley Kubrick and Jacques Demy.