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nerdygaymormon · 11 months

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Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

I want to wish a Happy Pride to:

Violets, “the Lesbian flower”

Sappho (c. 630-c.570), the Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos, often referenced violets in her ancient poems, thus creating a connection with female love, and this coded association endured for centuries. In fact, in 1927 the New York City district attorney’s office shut down the Broadway play The Captive because a female character in the play sent a bunch of violets to another female character, creating a big scandal

Crop Tops

Crop tops used to be associated with sports and were a popular option for manly, athletic men. However, the fashion of 1990′s and early 2000’s was dominated by loose and baggy clothing. Crop tops, which had once been viewed as hyper-masculine, came to be seen as more feminine and a fashion statement, which made straight men reject the crop tops and gay men embrace them.

Pirates

Back in the Golden Era of Piracy (1650-1730s), homosexuality was highly stigmatized on land and illegal in most places. However, piracy was known for rejecting societal standards and expectations. Queer relationships at sea were not uncommon, and pirates even had their own form of domestic partnership called matelotage. If you want to learn more, there are many pirates to choose from, but you can start with these: Anne Bonny, Mary Read, John “Calico Jack” Rackham, and Pierre “the pansy pirate” Bouspet.

Carabiners

Carabiners are a steel loop designed for rock climbers because they can easily be opened with one hand, which is useful when hanging on by the other hand. This practical tool for carrying around equipment was adopted by working-class people to carry keys. In World War II, a large number of women entered the workforce, and those who went into manual labor were usually more butch than femme. More traditionally feminine industries, like sewing or secretarial work, were closed to them due to their gender presentation. After the war, many women were reluctant to give up their new financial independence, and thus the carabiner is linked to female liberation and working-class aesthetics and this belt-side key chain came to be part of the lesbian style.

Lavender

Lavender is used interchangeably with “rainbow” to mean “LGBTQ+” at events like Lavender Graduations and the annual Lavender Law Conference. It’s thought that lavender became code for gay because it’s created by mixing pink and blue—colors which are culturally connected to girls or boys—thus blurring the distinction of what is feminine or masculine. One sweet use of this color connection within the queer community is on Valentine’s Day, lavender roses are often the choice of LGBTQ+ partners.

Lambda (the Greek letter)

In the early 1970′s, based on the recommendation of Tom Doerr, New York City’s Gay Activists Alliance chose as its symbol the Greek letter lambda, which looks like a lowercase “y” flipped upside down, because it’s used in science to represent kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is energy an object has due to its motion, thus making lambda a symbol of change. For example, Lambda Legal works for positive change to the legal status of queer people

Ace playing cards

Due to the word “asexual” being commonly shortened to “ace,” this led to a play on words by ace playing cards coming to represent asexuality. The ace of hearts and ace of spades are used to symbolize being aromantic and asexual respectively.

Undercuts

Queer people find ways to challenge heteronormativity, whether it’s gay men bleaching their hair blonde or lesbians rejecting the association of long hair with womanhood. Short hair has become associated with lesbians, whether it’s a bob, a brightly-colored close crop, and most iconically the undercut which is a hairstyle that leaves the top part of the hair medium length or long but has one or both sides and/or the back of the head shaved closely

Brunch

Brunch is THE gay meal and for a number of reasons. There was a time that brunch wasn’t viewed as respectable, but rather was a meal for those who’d stayed out late partying. Bucking tradition is a queer tradition and so brunch is a natural. On Sundays, brunch exists at a time many people are at church, and it’s a great use of that time for queer people who chose to leave churches that reject them. Gay spaces were generally bars and clubs which are usually nighttime spaces, but brunch was radical as a place gays could gather and be themselves in the daylight. Historically, queer people found it more difficult to secure gainful employment, and brunch is a bargain, usually half the price of dinner, so it makes sense the queer community flocked to a meal that was more affordable. Brunch is more casual than a proper breakfast or dinner and therefore is often accompanied by fun conversation and gossip. Brunch offers a greater variety of food options than the typical meal, there’s something for everyone. Could anything be more queer than variety & acceptance?

Ms. Frizzle

In the 1990s, the popular children‘s television show “The Magic School Bus” featured a teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who was never confirmed to be queer, but she was definitely queer coded, such as her quirky fashion style of mismatched brightly-colored patterns & those big earrings. She bucked gender norms by being a woman teaching STEM topics, and having a love of adventure. Another clue is she wasn’t married at a time when gay marriage was not legal. Also, the character was voiced by lesbian actress Lily Tomlin.

Women’s Hockey

Women’s hockey has a joyous history of lesbian players who are visible. In 2017, Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu—former captains of the Canada and US ice hockey teams—welcomed their newborn daughter into the world. The following year Meghan Duggan, the captain of the US women’s Olympic ice hockey team, married her girlfriend Gillian Apps, who played for Team Canada, and they had faced each other in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic finals. Dating & marrying your opponents, lesbians are setting the example for World Peace

BLÅHAJ

Blåhaj—pronounced blaw-high—translates simply as "blue shark" in English, and is a toy introduced by IKEA in 2014. The blueish body, white underbelly, and pink mouth are the trans flag colors. There’s so few things designed and marketed for trans people, that it’s delightful they latched onto this cute and cuddly plush shark

Keith Haring art

Keith Haring was an American pop artist who advocated for safe sex and AIDS awareness through his images. In 1988, Haring designed the logo for National Coming Out Day, which is still used today. A year later, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding to AIDS organizations. He died in February 1990 of AIDS-related complications. His distinctive and instantly recognizable style came to define the 1990′s

#happy pride 🌈#lgbtq+

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simmerena · 2 years

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Child Hair Conversions Custom Content Showcase

Thanks to the amazing @c-cerberus-sims-s so far they have 150+ child hair conversions that you NEED in your game! I really wanted to recognize the hard work that this creator has put in, and dedicate a video just to showcasing the conversions they've done so far!

To follow along in the video, just Ctrl+F to search for the name of whatever hair(s) you like!

If you want to download a lot of hair at once, they also have a folder with all of their conversions organized by creator!

brat + bats / champa + flower / hibiscus + flower / blondes buns #1

buttercup / brute / berserk + bow / bunny #2

julian / alex / heather / tweek #3

bren bantu / elio / riley / jort #4

serena v3 + elastics / serena v1 / serena v2 + gem / blossom w/o bangs + bow / blossom w/ bangs / candice v2 + bow / candice v1 / mima + headband #5

cleo / sakura + clips / hazel + clips / kali #6

marie / manon / karol / quinn #7

sen / paradox / tsubasa / weasley #8

heartstrings / cicero / heartstrings + headband / amelie + clips #9

marco / cicero w/o braid #10

maya + ombré / alice / fox / panda #11

maru / lily / mikasa / nobara #12

lexi / valerie / millie / mabel #13

cassie / lirio + acc / chloe / scarlet #14

karol lowpony / karol lowbun / karol spacebuns / karol pigtails #15

shoe / ciela / clementine / fauna w/ + w/o bangs #16

trudy / icon / velma / josee #17

shaggy / fred / misha / da eun #18

hotaru / lillith / lilith / lily #19

dune / ruckus / cypress / max #20

magda / eun ji / sibilla / heiwa #21

charoite / sophia / butterfly kiss / melina #22

makoto + hairband / denise mid part / denise + hairband / denise w/o bangs #23

trinity / autumn / bogdana / planet #24

mirra / ophelia / bonnie / ana #25

isabelle / lennon / stella / cressida #26

winslow bun + scrunchie / winslow ponytail + ribbon / golde #27

final girl bun / final girl ponytail / frankie v1 + v2 #28

bobbi v1 + v2 + v3 + beads + scrunchie / nyah #29

basa / bibi v1 + v2 / adonis + roses / carter #30

angela v1 + v2 / chrissy ponytail v1 + v2 / krista / taliyah pigtails #31

max ponytail v1 + v2 / nance v1 + v2 / el / joyce v1 + v2 / #32

cinnamon / jade / erin / erin v2 #33

brick + cap / boomer / butch / brick w/o cap #34

cheng xiao / fei yu / lu guang / lilac #35

leo / octavian / caleb / marlin + clips #36

light / johnnie / caleb / genesis v1 + v2 #37

leander / matty / seoull III / sangwoo #38

julian / edward / andre / everett #39

nao / liv / shuichiro / thea #40

kim mullet v1 + v2 / ramona v1 + v2 + v3 #41

Watch the Youtube Video!

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redcarpetview · 2 years

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Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Induction & Celebration on October 27, 2022

Mavis Staples. Photo courtesy of Austin City Limits.

Austin Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) largest event of the season returns this fall: The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Induction & Celebration on October 27, 2022. The honorees have been announced: singer, songwriter and superstar Sheryl Crow and iconic Texas music pioneer Joe Ely.

An all-star line-up of special guests will salute the honorees on this epic night: Americana great and six-time Grammy Award recipient Brandi Carlile, celebrated songwriter Jason Isbell, living legend Mavis Staples and country breakout Brittney Spencer will perform in tribute to nine-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow.

Texas music legend Joe Ely will be honored by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright along with revered Lone Star songwriters and Ely’s longtime collaborators in Texas supergroup The Flatlanders, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, saluting the celebrated artist. Inductees Sheryl Crow and Joe Ely will perform at the celebration.

ACL Hall of Famer, renowned steel guitarist and producer Lloyd Maines, returns as Music Director, leading the ACL All-Stars house band featuring guitarist David Grissom, keyboardist Chris Gage, bassist Bill Whitbeck and drummer Tom Van Schaik.

Purchase your tickets today at https://www.ticketmaster.com. This will be a night you won’t want to miss!

The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, established in 2014, celebrates the legacy of legendary artists and key individuals who have played a vital part in the pioneering music series remarkable 48 years as a music institution. The inaugural induction ceremony in 2014 honored Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Lloyd Maines, program creator Bill Arhos and Darrell Royal.

2015’s second annual ACL Hall of Fame ceremony honored Asleep at the Wheel, Loretta Lynn, Guy Clark, Flaco Jiménez and Townes Van Zandt, along with the original crew of the show’s first season in 1974-75.

The 2016 Hall of Fame honored Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt and B.B. King, along with former ACL executive producer Dick Peterson. 2017’s Hall of Fame honored Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash and The Neville Brothers. That year they also honored the 50th Anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act.

2018’s fifth anniversary class featured the inductions of Ray Charles, Marcia Ball and Los Lobos. The 2019 Hall of Fame welcomed Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy and Shawn Colvin to its ranks. The Hall of Fame returned in 2021 to induct Lucinda Williams, Wilco and Alejandro Escovedo.

Austin City Limits and the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame are produced by Austin PBS.

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thealmightyemprex · 4 years

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AFI 100 movies,the rest

Have decided to talk about the top 100 movies according the AFI that I have seen

Ben Hur:Didnt finish it but I liked what I saw

Pulp Fiction :Fantastic movie.Tied with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as my favorite Tarentino film

Platoon :Solid war movie

Easy Rider :LOVE this film

The Wild Bunch :Brutal western,loved it

Forrest Gump:I have technically seen all of it in pieces,but never in one sittitng ,nor do I plan to

Silence of the Lambs:Avoided it for years,but when I finally watched it I must say it’s a scary movie .A bit overrated maybe but it is really good

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid :Paul Newman and Robert Redford make this movie,.Pretty good movie

A Clockwork Orange:Malcolm McDowall is amazing

Tootsie:Seen bits and pieces ,really should watch the whole thing

Unforgiven:Another really good western

Raiders of the Lost Ark:One of the most iconic action movies

African Queen:One of my favorite movie love stories

Rocky:Very good movie.Not one of my personal favorites but I get the love it gets

Jaws:I think I saw it to young ,I cant get into it

North by Northwest :Overrated .I dont like this movie

Taxi Driver:Good movie but I HATE the ending

West Side Story :One of my favorite musicals

Rear Window:I remember liking it but I need to rewatch it

A Streetcar Named Desire :STELLLLLLLLLLLLLA.....Sorry had to do that .Great movie BTW ,Brando is amazing

Shane:I am sad it took me so long to watch this one as it is awesome

The Philadelphia Story:Saw this on the big screen,Love Hepburn,Stewart, and Grant,funny movie but mixed on the ending

Bonnie and Clyde:Another one I need to rewatch.

King Kong:ADORE IT .The grandpa of all monster movies

Sound of Music:I see why it’s a classic,though not a favorite of mine

Dr Strangelove:Oner of the greatest comedies ever mad and my absolute favorite Stanley Kubrik movie

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre :It’s fun to see Bogart play crazy

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs : Very simplestic movie but it is so charming

One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest :GREAT movie .Supporting cast is excelent,Nicholson is excelent and Nurse Ratched is rightfully called one of the greatest movie villains

Maltese Falcon :One of the great film noir .Gotta love Bogart,Lorre and Greenstreet

Apocalypse Now :Another magnificent war movie

High Noon :Sometimes the best movies can come from a simple story:Bad guy is coming to town,and hero is left alone ,with no one comingto his aid

Mr Smith Goes To Washington :One of the best endings ever

To Kill A Mockingbird :This is on a lot of great movie lists and for good reason

To be continued

#king kong #high noon #mr smith goes to washington #apocalypse now #maltese falcon #one flew over the cukoos nest #Treasure of the sierra Madre #snow white and the seven dwarfs #dr strangelove #sound of music #shane #raiders of the lost ark #unforgiven #west side story #pulp fiction #silence of the lambs #the african queen #jaws #easy rider

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butch-bakugo · 4 years

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What made u choose Lefty as, like, idk how to say it so im sorry, but, your character? Like?? I'm sorry, i cant explain it well-

My mascot? I uh... I like lefty, particularly how hes portrayed in certain animations ( like the one i stole for my icon). I think he'd make a great gentlmanly he/him butch and he almost always has big dyke energy so... Why not! He portrays the image id like to, even with smug face. Also the name had a nice ring to it and dan helped me pick it.

P.s also kinda ironic because my other choice was gonna be funtime freddy( or toy bonnie) like your icon.

#asks #also hi ive either not seen you before or you were another prev follower who chanfed name and icon #im friendly and much more relaxed usually #im just a bit manic rn for no particular reason #probs thanks to the spanken new crush

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ponykinz · 6 years

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butch lesbian gilda icons for anon

i hope these are good!! if you need any changes, just let me know

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#pride icons #gilda #gilda mlp #gilda kin #gilda mlp kin #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp fim kin #mlp kin #my little pony friendship is magic kin #my little pony kin #🍬 mod bonnie

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allspark · 5 years

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It’s time for our weekly Diamond Comics Shipping List! Check out some great titles IDW has in store for us next week like Transformers, My Little Pony, Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more! All coming your way for May 29th!

TRANSFORMERS #6

Brian Ruckley (A/CVR B) Bethany McGuire-Smith (CVR A) Jack Lawrence

All your favorite Transformers characters as you’ve never seen them before! Optimus takes the spotlight! Even a bot as wise as a leader of the Autobots needs guidance now and again, so Optimus turns to Codexa-a Cybertronian who has grown into the very planet itself. Will she help Optimus settle his problems with Megatron or will she lead them both to ruin? Transformers-now shipping twice monthly!

AMBER BLAKE #3

Jade Lagardère (A/CVR) Butch Guice

Amber Blake is a woman on a mission. She’s going to destroy everyone who has hurt the people she loves. But not all is as it seems, and some of her allies have agendas of their own…

BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES ROGUES GALLERY

Sen-Foong Lim, Jessey Wright (A) Chris Fenoglio, Jack Lawrence, More (CVR) TableTaffy

Defeat the Batman to rule the city! Gotham City’s coffers are ripe for the robbing, but one thing stands in the way of the city’s supervillains-the reviled Batman. It’s time someone finally took out that nuisance! Choose your favorite villain, then go on crime sprees, steal powerful upgrades, recruit nefarious accomplices, and race to complete your master plan and be the first to defeat the World’s Greatest Detective!

3-5 players o Playable from ages 12+ o 30-45 minutes

• Roll dice to go on crime sprees, collecting cash and avoiding capture. • Purchase various gear and accomplice cards on the black market. • Push your luck at the right moment to attract and defeat Batman.

DICK TRACY FOREVER #2

Michael Avon Oeming (A/CVR A) Michael Avon Oeming

Dick Tracy is Sisyphus, pushing the law boulder up the hill as he struggles for reason and order in a world with none. His attempts at law and order are met with crime and chaos, in the form of unpredictable and absurd villains. But Dick Tracy will never give up trying, no matter the era or incarnation. Join Eisner Award-winning creator Michael Avon Oeming on a startling case through time and space! Each issue has an exciting new take on one of the most iconic comic-strip heroes of all time!

FOUR SISTERS, VOL 02: HORTENSE

Cati Baur, Malika Ferdjoukh (A/CVR) Cati Baur

Second book in the series! Since the deaths of their parents, Hortense and her sisters have been on their own. Winter arrives, and, as the world is buried in snow, eleven-year-old Hortense buries her life in books. She wonders what she will become: a character in her favorite show? A surgeon of incurable diseases so she can save her new friend Muguette? Or world famous actress? But to go onstage, Hortense would have to overcome her shyness, which seems unlikely for a girl who’d rather write in her diary than express her feelings out loud. It’s in her diary where she exposes her innermost thoughts and shares the ups and downs of her life as a girl and a sister.

JUDGE DREDD TOXIC TP

Paul Jenkins (A) Marco Castiello (CVR) Mark Buckingham

Advance solicited for June release! Dredd’s investigation into the death of a seemingly unremarkable sewage worker spirals into a waste management crisis that could destroy all of Mega-City One, which has long used genetic modification on its waste workers to control the deluge of filth that flows under the city each days. When Dredd discovers that some of them have foregone that disfiguring procedure in favor of hosting protective alien symbiotes, it sparks a groundswell of anti-immigration fervor. Soon the toxic atmosphere spills into the streets, undermining the very infrastructure that makes the city tolerable. Can Dredd find a solution to save the now-indispensable aliens from the angry mobs? A perfect mix of satire and social commentary!

LIFE ON THE MOON HC

Robert Grossman (A/CVR) Robert Grossman

From an artist who reveled in illustrating “the un-illustratable,” a historical graphic novel based on the “Great Moon Hoax,” the most successful newspaper hoax ever. In 1835, New York newspaper The Sun published a series of six articles declaring the discovery of life-and even civilization–on the Moon, which the paper attributed to the famous contemporary astronomer Sir John Herschel. According to The Sun, the lunar inhabitants included unicorns, bison, bipedal tail-less beavers, and intelligent humanoids with bat-like wings.

Life on the Moon is a full-length graphic novel capturing this mythical world. Creator Robert Grossman said the book is set in a time when “many of the signal achievements of the 19th Century still lay well in the future, Andrew Jackson was president, the steamboat was the summit of technology, and news traveled slowly.” The unfettered novel includes real historical figures such as P.T. Barnum, Jean Jacques Audubon, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Charles Goodyear, and Edgar Allan Poe.

MARVEL ACTION CLASSICS SPIDER-MAN TWO IN ONE #1

Marc Sumerak, Peter David (A) David Nakayama, Mike Norton (CVR A) Patrick Scherberger

Two classic Spider-Man tales, pulled from the legendary Vault of Heroes! First-a chance encounter with the Enchantress pits Spidey against Thor-with the whole of Asgard right behind! Then, when Flash Thompson gets a bite from a werewolf, Spidey seeks the aid of the sorcerer supreme-Doctor Strange!

MEN IN BLACK UNDERCOVER

Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim (A) Dan Schoening

Aliens exist! In Men In Black: Undercover, you’ll join one of three groups: the Men In Black, who work to hide aliens, the Shadow Government, who seek to capture and weaponize aliens, and the Conspiracy Theorists, who try to expose alien life. Join a side and influence the aliens to join your cause, but don’t reveal your true intentions-you’ll need to stay Undercover to win!

3-6 players o Playable from ages 12+ o 30 minutes

• Recruit various aliens to your faction’s cause by playing influence cards. • Target unique aliens to gain advantages over other players in your own faction. • Uncover your opponents’ faction affiliations while hiding your own.

MY LITTLE PONY NIGHTMARE KNIGHTS TP

Jeremy Whitley (A/CVR) Tony Fleecs

Equestria’s in danger! Powerless and threatened by a great evil, Princess Luna discovers she can’t count on her sister or any of the usual heroes of Equestria. Running out of time and with nowhere to turn, Luna assembles a team specially suited to save the day… made up of former villains! Will Luna, Capper, Tempest Shadow, Trixie, and Stygian all be able to work together and find a way into the most dangerous place any of them have ever been? Can Princess Luna and a team of reformed villains save the day?

MY LITTLE PONY SPIRIT OF THE FOREST #1

Ted Anderson (A/CVR A) Brenda Hickey (CVR B) Tony Fleecs

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are back! When Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle take a trip into the woods, they find a forest filled with trash! Just what could be causing this mess?! Looks like it’s another mystery for our favorite fillies to solve-and one where not everything is as it seems…

The Cutie Mark Crusaders return in this brand-new mini-series!

PUNKS NOT DEAD LONDON CALLING #4

David Barnett (A/CVR) Martin Simmonds

Butch and Sundance! Bonnie and Clyde! Laurel and Hardy! History is littered with great double acts, but the ultimate boy-meets-ghost odd couple is no more as Fergie and Sid go their separate ways. While Sid heads off to look up old mates, Fergie finally meets his dad in LONDON CALLING: “To the Imitation Zone.”

STAR TREK TNG HC MISSIONS CONTINUE

Brannon Braga, Scott Tipton, More (A) David Messina, Gordon Purcell, More (CVR) Joe Corroney

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D as they explore new worlds. Collects The Space Between, Intelligence Gathering, Last Generation, Ghosts, and Hive.

Collects five complete graphic novels into one oversized hardcover edition.

STAR TREK YEAR FIVE #2

Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (A/CVR A) Stephen Thompson

As the last year of their original mission begins, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise will have to use all of the skills they’ve acquired along the way as they prepare to face the biggest challenge of their lives-a dark threat that doesn’t just threaten their existence, but the existence of the entire Federation as well…

TMNT ONGOING #94

Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (A/CVR A) Dave Wachter (CVR B) Kevin Eastman

“City at War, Part 2.” As battle lines are drawn in the criminal underworld of New York City, Old Hob takes his mission to the next level, and he’ll have unexpected help from one of the TMNT!

TMNT URBAN LEGENDS #13

Gary Carlson (A/CVR A&B) Frank Fosco (CVR B) Erik Larsen

The entire TMNT Volume 3 run-all 23 issues-reprinted in full color for the first time! Culminating in 3 brand new issues to close out the series! The search for Deathwatch continues! The infamous killer’s trail leads Leo, Mikey, and a robotic Donatello to Sheldon, Arkansas, where they find themselves face-to-face with more murderous mayhem. Meanwhile, Raph, back home in New York, makes a chilling discover during his duel with the mob. Could it be… Shredder’s inner sanctum?!

UNCLE SCROOGE #45

Francesco Artibani (A) Alessandro Perina (CVR A) Marco Gervasio

When one of Gyro Gearloose’s inventions allows Donald Duck to “hear” what his plants are saying, Uncle Scrooge gets one of his biggest money-fueled ideas ever. But in true Scrooge fashion, the road to riches is anything but smooth-in fact, it’s downright magical! Find out how in “The Captain’s Sequoia!”

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theconservativebrief · 6 years

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David Lowery’s newest film, The Old Man & the Gun, is a return to familiar material for the filmmaker. Almost a decade ago, his second feature film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, became a breakout critical hit at the Sundance Film Festival. A tale of romance and heartbreak between a couple (played by Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck) who seem modeled on iconic outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, the movie launched Lowery’s career.

It’s fitting that Sundance is where Lowery broke out, because that festival was founded by Robert Redford and named for the outlaw he played in his own 1969 breakout role, in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And when Redford got interested in another outlaw — Forrest Tucker, the subject of a 2003 New Yorker article entitled “The Old Man and the Gun” — he decided to make a movie about Tucker and approached Lowery to direct the project.

Redford, now 82, also decided to make the film his farewell to the big screen, and it’s a fitting bookend to his on-screen career. Lowery took on writing and directing The Old Man & the Gun, which co-stars Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck and comes out on September 28. With his poetic cinematic sensibility and proclivity for wistfully romantic stories, The Old Man & the Gun is a good fit for Lowery — and a terrific tribute to both Redford’s career and the American bank robber archetype.

Lowery and I spoke by phone about the surprising films he used as touch points when making this movie, how you write for a bona fide screen legend, and his mixed feelings about the criminal characters he’s written for his movies.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Alissa Wilkinson

So why are you so attracted to stories about thieves?

David Lowery

The clichéd response to that is that I love the idea of “getting away with it,” whether it’s in heist films or in my own life as a filmmaker who feels like he consistently has to get away with it.

But the more I use that answer, the more I wonder how much I actually agree with it. There’s something incredibly inappropriate with getting away with it, so I’m also like, “What am I saying whenever I say this?”

So it’s given me a lot of moral pause, so to speak, as I’ve trotted out my more rambunctious and fun-loving answer.

Writer and director David Lowery in 2017. Francois Durand/Getty Images

Alissa Wilkinson

The films you’ve made about thieves seem to actually question whether the way we think about them — as being glamorous people who get away with things — is altogether good.

David Lowery

I don’t necessarily agree with the perspective that the characters in my films have! I don’t think that ultimately it is sustainable, or that they can get away with it. What that says about me whenever I transpose my own life choices onto these characters starts to seem somewhat grim. [Laughs]

Alissa Wilkinson

So what got you interested in this project, then?

David Lowery

I really wanted to make a quintessential Robert Redford movie. That’s what this was always going to be, because this was a project that he brought to me. It was an article that he had optioned, a character he wanted to play. And he had seen Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and liked the idea of me taking a crack at it.

So his producing partner called me and asked me if I would sit down with them to talk about it. And of course, I said yes.

I read the article with him in mind. I saw Forrest Tucker as Robert Redford from day one.

So the goal from that first meeting was to craft a role that he could really sink his teeth into, but that would also honor the legacy of what he has done across many decades as one of the most iconic movie stars of all time.

Alissa Wilkinson

What do you think attracted Redford to the story in the first place?

David Lowery

I think he really saw an opportunity to have fun onscreen. He had spent many years making very serious films that had a lot of political weight or dramatic weight to them. And he really wanted to have fun.

He also wanted to play a character that was a spiritual successor to some of the characters he’d played before. He definitely saw the lineage between the Sundance Kid and Forrest Tucker, or what he’d done in The Sting and Forrest Tucker. I think that appealed to him as well.

He definitely does not think about this movie as “a Robert Redford movie.” He thinks about it as the story of Forrest Tucker. And that’s his right to think that way!

But for me as a filmmaker, and for us as audience members, it’s impossible for us to separate who he is from the character he’s playing onscreen.

Lowery with his cast at The Old Man & the Gun’s premiere in September. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Alissa Wilkinson

Did you find that challenging, as a director?

David Lowery

I found it more challenging as a writer! It was really tough to write the script. I first met with him five years ago. So the screenplay was in the works for a good solid four years before we started shooting it. Of course, in that time period I made two other movies, and I changed as a filmmaker as well.

It was really hard to figure out how to utilize who he is. For better or worse, he can never truly disappear into a character, because he has just been a movie star for so long. That’s my perspective as an audience member. I’m always somewhat tacitly aware that I’m watching Robert Redford play a character, and I enjoy that. I think that’s part of the appeal of who he is.

But it makes writing a part for him a little bit more challenging. You really have to tap into what makes him who he is in order to give him something that he can do his best with.

It wasn’t until we worked on Pete’s Dragon together [in which he played a minor role] that I really felt I was able to write the part for him specifically. So it was a great luxury to have the opportunity to work with him once in a smaller capacity before diving into this one.

Alissa Wilkinson

What makes Redford the icon that he is?

David Lowery

I think it’s a combination of things. His looks — he is incredibly handsome. He’s got a marquee quality to his appearance that instantly makes you think, Oh, this guy should be seen, whether in photographs or in film. You can always feel the wheels turning behind his eyes. He’s got that very particular squint that makes you think he’s always second-guessing the situation he is in, or criticizing it, or just trying to figure out exactly what’s really going on.

There’s this sort of wily intelligence that is always there behind every performance that he gives that makes you feel like there’s more to him than just his good looks.

And his countercultural attitude, I think, plays a huge part in his appeal. He has always put himself in the place of being a cultural outlaw. He’s always tried to step a little bit outside the beaten path in the work he does as a filmmaker. Politically, as an environmentalist, he’s always standing up for the people who don’t have a voice, and he’s always championing causes that need to be championed. He’s always standing up to institutions. Something about that comes through in his performances. Over the years, it has become such a part of who he is: that outlaw mentality, that anti-institutionalism mentality.

Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford star together in The Old Man & the Gun. Fox Searchlight

Alissa Wilkinson

Obviously that’s tied to the idea of these famous, iconic bank robbers and outlaws. As you’re writing this film for an icon, were you thinking about the icon of the bank robber as well, a character that’s been all over American cinema?

David Lowery

I definitely wanted this movie to engage with the archetype of the American outlaw, and specifically the bank robber. I think the two go hand-in-hand at this point. I felt that it would be a disservice to audiences if I made a movie that didn’t honor those traditions.

So rather than really dig into the true story of Forrest Tucker — rather than take the journalistic approach — I tried to take his life story and distill it down to the most familiar beats possible in a heist film. I tried to find that narrative throughline in his life story, and in particular, the two years that the movie focuses on. I wanted him to be the prototypical American outlaw.

The real Forrest Tucker modeled himself after the actors who played Dillinger in the movies, rather than Dillinger himself. And I wanted the movie to represent the version of Forrest Tucker that he saw in his head when he imagined himself, rather than the real guy.

As a result, it definitely pays homage to and engages with the idea of the outlaw in cinema. For better or worse, the heyday of those movies was in previous decades. And because this movie is also set in a previous decade, I felt that it needed to look as if it was made in a bygone era and that the archetype itself would work better if the movie felt like it was entirely cut from a cloth that was several decades old.

Alissa Wilkinson

Did you have any touch-point films that you watched for inspiration?

David Lowery

Yeah, but they weren’t necessarily the expected ones.

Of course, I definitely watched lots of crime films, and went through everything from Heat to The Asphalt Jungle to Friends of Eddie Coyle. I really tried to ingrain all of those classics in my subconscious before we started making The Old Man & the Gun.

But the real touchstones that we talked about a lot in getting ready to make a film were more obscure, at least in terms of what you would think of for a bank robbery film. So the Jean-Pierre Melville film Le Samouraï was a touch point for us. Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox was a touch point — I often was like, “This needs to feel like Fantastic Mr. Fox, except live-action instead of animated.”

Robocop, oddly enough, was something we talked about a little bit. Chantal Akerman’s Golden Eighties was a movie that I just kept showing people the trailer for and being like, “This is the type of movie this needs to feel like.”

Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun. 20th Century Fox

We never quite hit that, but nonetheless there was a little bit of it that showed up in the movie. Jacques Tati’s Playtime was something we talked about. All of these influences weren’t really crime movies — Le Samouraï definitely is, but we were pulling from so many other different bits of inspiration.

And as I talk about that now, I think about how I don’t really consider myself that good at making crime movies, because I have trouble with the morality of it. I have trouble with the conviction that the characters have to do what they do. If I were to make an honest-to-goodness crime film, I think I would fail!

I’m always attracted to these characters because of their spirit. And yet I’m always trying to get away from what it is they do — the practical fact of them being criminals and police officers who are engaged in a chase of one another. I kept running afoul of that of necessity in writing this film. I kept trying to turn it into something other than a crime or bank robbery drama, because at the end of the day, it’s not my forte.

Alissa Wilkinson

For me, these films feel like romances more than anything else — romances between you and cinema, the audience and the characters, and the characters with each other. Are you a romance filmmaker?

David Lowery

Oh, yeah. I never set out to make romantic movies, but all my films are deeply romantic and at this point I’m very aware of that. I don’t try to do it, but I always look forward to seeing how whatever it is I’m doing will turn into a romance at some point because it just inevitably always happens. So that is a good way to describe these movies: They’re romances. Everything I make is a romance. And I will likely not stop making those any time soon.

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Just in time for LGBT Pride Month, this episode has us discussing LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction books! We talk about queer Canadians, own voices, the importance of cultural context, and how this is our newest episode ever (in terms of publication dates for books). Plus: Anna and Matthew will be at the American Library Association conference in Chicago this weekend. Tweet at us if you’ll be there and want to say “Hi!”.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books We Read (or tried to)

The Lesbian Lexicon by Stevie Anntonym (recommended)

Queer Game Studies edited by Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw (Matthew mistakenly called this Queer Gaming)

David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W. Bullock (out November 21st, 2017) (recommended)

Outlaw Marriages by by Rodger Streitmatter

Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (recommended)

Scott Thompson (of The Kids in the Hall)

LOOK: Lesbian Organization of Kitchener

LOOT: Lesbian Organization of Toronto

The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman (recommended)

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (recommended)

The Life and Times of Butch Dykes (series) by by Eloisa Aquino

The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Éric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande (recommended)

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (recommended)

Goodreads review that suggestions Nagata Kabi is “non-binary and possibly asexual”

Cities vol. 1 by Anand Vedawal (recommended)

The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco

Books We Mentioned

On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (that page shows the terrible cover) (recommended)

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure and Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature by Dorothy Allison

Forward by Abby Wambach

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (recommended)

My Body is Yours by Michael V. Smith (recommended)

Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (recommended)

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote (recommended)

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (recommended)

Princess Jellyfish (series) by Akiko Higashimura (recommended)

DAR (webcomic) by Erika Moen

How to be a Guy (series of articles) by Jay Edidin (recommended)

Links, Articles, and Things

Our list of genres

QUILTBAG definition on Wiktionary

LGBT Pride Month

QZAP: The Queer Zine Archive Project

Mass Effect

Kaiden Alenko

Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian

Broad City

The Imitation Game

Otokonoko: A frustratingly brief WIkipedia article about crossdressing in Japan

Questions

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Will you be at ALA in Chicago? Let us know!

Got any recommendations for asexual non-fiction?

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 4th, when we’ll talk about Reading Exhaustion and Reading Slumps (or maybe a super secret surprise).

Then come back on July 18th when we’ll be discussing Legal Thrillers!

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