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PAUL MUNI (Tony Camonte), ANN DVORAK (Cesca Camonte) and GEORGE RAFT (Guino Rinaldo) in SCARFACE (1932) | dir. Howard Hawks

Real Talk:

Today is December 5th 2023, the 90th year of the Repeal of Prohibition Day. That means more than 100 years ago, the government banned alcohol, all in the name of “protecting children”. But hey that's government for you, they see alcohol as the problem and point the blame on it instead of shitty parenting. Sort of makes you figure that alcohol should have never been banned in the first place.

Defying the Volstead Act: Illicit Affairs

“We came to America for a better life and what did we find?  Enforced sobriety.” ~ Trevor Belmont

Castlevania Prohibition AU

I’m having way too much fun with this one.  Alucard is too powerful, Sypha is adorable, and Trevor’s just done.  Definitely gonna be drawing more characters in this au, stay tuned!

Lackadaisy Pilot Review

Based on a comic series by Tracy J Butler, Lackadaisy is an animation set in 1927 St. Louis Missouri, during the time that prohibition was a thing, and features a cast of anthropomorphic cats who seem to be trying to keep a slowly dying speakeasy alive.

Straight away we're introduced to three of our main characters as they begin their duty of gathering booze to bring back to the speakeasy. It becomes clear early in the show that the trio each have their own "skill set"; one being a driver, one an odd combo of the anxious voice of reason and the trigger-happy gunman, and the third being the groups hopeful and slightly reckless musician. Soon after we're introduced to our trio of illegal liquor distributors, we're introduced to what seems to be a slightly more sophisticated trio of bootleggers with trigger happy tendencies. While we're introduced to a few more characters by the time the credits roll, the trio put on screen first (Ivy, Freckle, and Rocky) seem to be the main focus of this episode, making it easier to digest rather than having thrown into the first episode full force.

Sticking to the topic of characters, I loved that while every character wasn't shoved down my throat for the full 27 minutes, but each character did have moment in the spotlight with a brief introduction that left them stuck in my head despite how minor their role in this episode seemed to be. As for our trio of merry alcohol fetchers, I believe that for being the first episode and only being about a half hour long, their stories and characters were construed very well; well enough that I already have twos characters that grabbed my attention enough to want more story for him (and of course one of those was Freckle, the anxious, trigger-happy cat😂). For someone who usually isn't into period pieces like this, me wanting more story for a character within a history-based animation like this one seems like a success story to me.

Speaking of the animation, oh. my. god. This is animated beautifully done! From the bright, vibrant colors that caught my attention in the first few second of the episode, to the way the way each character's voice is perfectly suited to the style of both the character and the time period. It's wonderful to see.

In the end, I believe this can and will be a solid series if the creators and the studio choose to continue past just the pilot. If it's continued, I would definitely recommend this series, but until then I would highly recommend watching the pilot and going to check out the comic (like I plan to do now!).

When the shots rang out in the Arc, the band didn’t stop playing. It was twelve minutes into the new year at a Stark speakeasy and the joint was jumping, the floor crammed with gin baby socialites essaying the Charleston, mobsters clustered around tables, petty thieves circling and dipping into the pockets of the unwary. When the bullets started flying the crowd screamed and sought to scatter but the bandleader barely blinked, just led his crew full tilt into another chorus of ‘I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate’. The singer, a svelte Sokovian songbird in a shimmering scarlet number, sidestepped a bullet that buried itself in a piano leg and kept right on crooning, All the boys in the neighbourhood know she can shimmy and it’s understood, while all hell broke loose on the dance floor.

On an average night in the Arc you could find a good sample of Manhattan’s criminal element. This night was especially high on variety: the Chitauri, who were low-level thugs at best, had capered in close to midnight, already drunk from another shindig across Soho; the Hand had strayed from Hell’s Kitchen to be in attendance, as had some of the Harlem War Dogs. Even the Ten Rings had put in a rare appearance. What was not known to any of these parties was that the crown prince of Wakanda was drinking incognito in the club, or that his retinue of bodyguards �� all tall women in bobbed wigs and glittering gowns they seemed to barely tolerate – had stationed themselves throughout the crowd.

The brawl started when one of the Chitauri got into a spat over a dance hostess – or at least he thought she was a hostess, a redhead in black he’d seen regularly moving across many a floor, though if he’d asked around he’d have realised nobody knew her name. He’d thrown a punch, which had hit one of the Hand, and members from both gangs had started piling in. Who fired the first shot wasn’t clear, but the rest needed no encouragement. The civilians who’d come in from upstate for a taste of forbidden fruit cowered under tables; the club’s regulars launched themselves into the fray with relish. Thor Odinson, senator’s son who frequented far too many watering holes for his father’s dry agenda, was bashing brawlers left, right and centre with a barstool. The Wakandan women had produced gleaming spears from beneath their gowns and actually appeared to be hurling men through the air. It seemed like the entire fracas would burn out of the club and up into the streets of Manhattan like wildfire – but then there was an enormous boom from above the crowd that had everyone throwing themselves flat.

“I’d say this party is getting out of hand,” said Tony Stark. “Even for me.”

it’s my @marveltrumpshate 1920s Prohibition era Steve/Tony AU for @nostalgicatsea! the gin is cold but the jazz is hot, etc.

Boardwalk Empire

The Moonshine comic covers are just *chefs kiss* 🤌✨

Super eager to dive into the series. 😌🐺🍺

art by Eduardo Risso and written by Brian Azzarello

I'm only going to provide "propaganda" for the ME here.

You have this man to thank for being a scientific voice against the Prohibition of Alcohol. Why you generally don't have to worry if the booze you're drinking hasn't been spiked with methanol. (Which can/will make you go blind and die pretty horribly.)

He was also one of the main guys campaigning against leaded gasoline!

Among many other achievements (with a lot of help from his colleague, Alexander Gettler.)

If you wanna know more about this man, I high-key recommend reading "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" by Deborah Blum. (Or the documentary based off of it!)

Self ship prohibition/noir era AU Asks

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🔫 Are F/O and S/I lawmen or crooks, or something else? Are they on the same side?

👔 What are F/O and S/I wearing? Suits or slinky dresses?

👒 What kind of hat do S/I and F/O prefer?

🍸 At the speakeasy; what are F/O and S/I ordering from the bar?

🎷 Do F/O and S/I go dancing? Who leads and who follows?

🃏 Do F/O or S/I play any games? Poker? Blackjack? Pool? Darts?

🚗 Between F/O and S/I– who’s driving and who’s firing shots out the window?

🎶 What song would you pick for S/I and F/O for this AU?

🚬 Do F/O or S/I smoke in this AU? What do they smoke?

🫂 How would F/O and S/I meet in this AU?

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diving down into my drafts (which i use to store future reblogs) and discovered that this was flagged during the prohibition era.  oddly enough @myglorydayswon‘s reblog of it isn’t flagged, yet it gets tripped again as soon as i reblog it.  op has been inactive since 2019 so the odds of getting him back here just to appeal one of his posts is unlikely.  if this were posted by him now it probably wouldn’t get flagged, especially if he put a community label on it.  i can’t use community labels in the legacy editor so we’ll see how this goes.  at one point when you clicked the “missing community label” button it would just apply a community label for you., but then it started just flagging your post instead so i don’t know what will happen here.  

YO, WHAT!?!

Defying the Volstead Act: We Play What We Play

The forge master duo and Lenore playing for the speakeasy.

Castlevania Prohibition AU

The trombone is a left-handed trombone.  I definitely did not draw it backwards.  Not at all.  Don't worry about it.

Have two characters drawn in my personal take on the early rubberhose animation style!

First character is Cat, first designed and created by my good friend foxxy-tf! She was created first, and later inspired me to create Tilly. Modeled after 20s Flapper girls. Definitely does alcohol smuggling on the side.

I actually tried drawing her several times but struggled with the proportions until late last year, when I finally got it with this drawing. Drawing Sonic characters for much of 2022 really helped.

Second character is mine! Matilda, aka Tilly the Filly! Dressed up like a classic cabbie driver. She is a cab driver by day and a getaway driver by night! I initially made a design for her back in 2020 but never did much with her, until I was inspired to draw her stylistically in line with Foxxy's Cat.

Her taxi meter can print out receipts for the things she smuggles inside her car!

Anette is such a zany little critter

hey if anyone is insane about makeup history and knows much about cosmetics in the 1920s and will let me pick your brain a little i would love that