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Miss Universe Ukraine 2022 National Costume: “Warrior of Light”
#miss universe#miss universe ukraine#ukraine#miss universe 2022#national costume contest#national costume#pageant#i hate giffing things but this needed it#THEY MOVE#wings#i swear if someone steals this im rioting#making this was a nightmare#but this moment needed to be shared#gif
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I can’t look at miss universe national costume contest for too long or else I will explode from the magnificence of it all
#i dont follow miss universe but like#look at all these women#they’re so goddamn gorgeous!!!#actual goddesses!!!#especially the Ukraine contestant and her costume#warrior of light#she has wings and she can unfold them! an archangel! standing proud to defend her country!#if I was in the audience in front of her I would faint#all these women activate the lesbian bone in me#miss universe#miss universe 2023#national costume contest#national costume#miss Ukraine#Ukraine
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Te gusta to' lo que tengo, te endulzo la cara en jugo de mango. Se te dispara cuando la prendo. Hasta el final, yo no me detengo 🖤
#carmen farala#farala posting#drag race espana#rpdr spain#drag race españa#dres1#i don't like a single picture of carmen from DragCon day 2#so instead you get a picture of her wearing one of the costumes she made for chanel to the national final contest#alexa play slowmo by chanel
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IT IS TIME: Miss Universe National Costume 2023
it's here! the Met Gala for people who actually understand what camp is!
yes I'm like 3 months late, but I sat down and watched the damn thing. I put up with the horrible little rhyming couplets for each contestant so you don't have to. and without further ado:
Albania: Starting off very Victoria’s Secret this year! Apparently it’s gold for important symbolism reasons, not just because everything in this competition is blinged out to within an inch of its life. The wings do look nice in motion!
Angola has a good balance of bling, actual cultural dress, and oh hey it has surprise bonus art on the back! That will be a theme this year.
Argentina: Why is there a guy in a hat right down at the bottom edge of her cape. He looks like he’s staring at her butt. How does this represent their flag.
Aruba: This is fine. I like the coral. She thinks climate change is bad. Her parrot is clearly way too heavy to hold up and it wobbles like crazy in motion.
Australia: This is now multiple years in a row that Australia has just worn a fucking prom dress. It’s got native wildflowers on. You could have made this exact same dress with a Great Barrier Reef theme and I would have liked it 80% more.
Bahamas: This costume is allegedly based on a 19th-century doll from the Bahamas “world famous straw market,” which is already bullshit; I googled “bahamas straw market antique doll” and like. they both have big skirts? I guess? Anyway now I’m too distracted by the way she has a hoop skirt awkwardly jammed under there and hiked up on one side. Minus ten for poor construction.
Bahrain's theme is “Bahrain’s pearl heritage,” which like. I guess? The headdress and yoke are pretty. Put more pearls on the actual outfit. Kudos for getting to wear pants.
Belgium: Girl. No. Why is your theme “Latin dance” and why are you wearing a spangly cocktail dress with a totally unrelated piece of fabric fluttering behind it? (Apparently the fabric was designed by a member of Belgium’s royal family? Who is a fashion designer? This is what nepotism gets you.)
Bolivia saw Aruba’s parrot and was like, I can do that better. And she was right! It’s way less wobbly and the costume as a whole does work better. Also made from recycled materials, so we’ll see if that’s a theme again this year. The back of the cape is nice too.
Sadly, Bolivia's parrot supremacy was short-lived, because Brazil was like, bitch please. I see your sad little parrots and raise you FOUR giant parrots, and also the shoulder parrots are articulated and can turn their heads back and forth. I think Brazil wins the parrot competition that only she knew she was in.
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May the Fourth: Celebrating National Star Wars Day | Fun Facts & Festivities
Happy #StarWarsDay! May the Fourth be with you! Celebrate with your favorite Jedi, Sith, or droids, and enjoy the Force in your life! #MayThe4th #StarWars
National Star Wars Day, also known as May the Fourth, is a celebration of the Star Wars franchise that takes place annually on May 4th. The day is filled with festivities such as costume contests, trivia games, and movie marathons. Fans of the series can dress up like their favorite characters, watch their favorite movies, and make outer space snacks.
May the 4th Be With You!
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#celebration#costume contest#fan culture#George Lucas#May the Fourth#movie marathon#National Star Wars Day#outer space snacks.#Star Wars#trivia
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When Finland’s Käärijä took the stage at this year’s Eurovision, a star was instantly, explosively born. With an outrageous energy, infectious presence and that oh-so-catchy hook, the Vantaa-based rapper may not have won the contest but he certainly snatched the hearts of those in his home country and beyond. We ask Käärijä the million dollar question: what next?
[full article under the cut]
Last May, a peculiar frenzy engulfed Finland. Virtually all green foods – cucumbers, especially – were sold out from stores. Buildings across the land were bathed in vivid green lights. Social media brimmed with green-themed parties, while data obtained by Swedish fintech company Klarna showed a 570 per cent increase in the online sales of neon green shirts.
This phenomenon was all thanks to Käärijä, the rapper who represented Finland in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. His now-infamous, blazing green puff sleeve bolero – dreamt up by Finnish broadcasting company Yle’s costume design team and which he dons when performing the smash hit track ‘Cha Cha Cha’ – had taken on a life of its own, the lush hue uniting the entire nation amid the competition. “It was incredible to see it happen and so cool being part of it,” Käärijä says. “It wasn’t planned at all – it was the people who created the commotion. I’ll definitely never forget it.”
When we speak over Zoom, Käärijä, whose real name is Jere Pöyhönen, is lounging in his minimal apartment in Vantaa, a city just outside Helsinki. He appears on my screen shirtless, a chunky gold chain dangling on his neck. On his head sits a pastel turquoise cap adorned with little cat ears. As he gestures with his hands, I spot flashes of poison green nail varnish. Pöyhönen’s chosen attire, or lack thereof, is extremely fitting – he typically performs bare-chested (“It gets so hot during my gigs”) and his Instagram handle is @paidatonriehuja, or ‘shirtless rascal’.
Hot off a performance in western Finland, the 29-year-old is enjoying his first days off in a while. It’s been a sweltering summer of non-stop touring, with fans flocking to festivals and concerts nationwide to see his explosive live show. Things are not winding down either, with Käärijä heading off on his first-ever European tour this month. Some of these shows sold out in mere minutes, an indication of his immense international following. “It’s so exciting; I’m definitely jumping into a new territory with that tour,” Pöyhönen says. “But I don’t have any expectations – I’m just going to let everything happen organically rather than stressing about it.”
Although he created one of this year’s buzziest songs, the guy on my screen is humble and, save for his look, almost un assuming. I remark on the stark contrast to his fiery and flamboyant stage presence. “Through Käärijä, I get to channel all the craziness, quirkiness and hyperactivity I’ve had since I was a child,” Pöyhönen says, describing himself offstage as “just this ordinary dude”. Without delving into further details, he tells me that the name Käärijä (translating roughly to moneymaker) stems from a history with gambling. Despite the darkness of its origin, he notes that the moniker is to be taken with a grain of salt.
While it might seem like Käärijä exploded into the public consciousness from obscurity, Pöyhönen has a long journey in music behind him. Born in Helsinki but having spent most of his youth in Vantaa, he started dabbling in the medium at just three years old. Coming from a musical family (“My dad and big brother both play the guitar”), jamming sessions were commonplace in the Pöyhönen household, his instrument of choice being the drums. “I was playing with pots and spoons before I got a set of those plastic kids’ drums,” he says. “When we moved to a bigger house, we built a band room downstairs where me and my brother spent a lot of time practising.”
At that time, rap music hadn’t yet entered Pöyhönen’s life; he was strictly a self-described “metal guy”. His older brother had instilled in him a love for the genre, particularly metal icons Rammstein. Upon starting high school, his musical taste broadened and he began listening to Eminem and popular Finnish rap groups Fintelligens and JVG. “Me and my friends were filming our own music videos to old rap songs, learning the words by heart,” Pöyhönen says. “It [making rap music] pretty much started as this humour thing I did with my mates.”
Encouraged by his loved ones, Pöyhönen began writing his own songs, still playing it for laughs. Turned out he had a knack for it. “Since I was little, I’ve been an avid storyteller – my imagination ran a little wilder than the rest of the kids’ at my school,” he says. “So when I started making music, I didn’t even need inspiration; I was able to whip up the lyrics from my head.”
But then, at 15, an unexpected turning point came by way of a severe sudden illness. Rushed to the hospital with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, Pöyhönen underwent emergency surgery to remove his colon. Had he not been treated immediately, the complications could have been fatal. “I was writing songs in the hospital – music became a source of strength for me,” he says. “I decided that if I make it through this, I’m going to give my all to music and be serious about it.”
After over a decade of hard work and countless hours in the studio, Käärijä released his first album, Fantastista (Fantastic), in 2020, but it would take three years for him to become a household name in Finland. After snapping up the top prize in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (the Finnish contest for new music) with his party anthem ‘Cha Cha Cha’, a song dedicated to a hedonistic night out fusing rap, electronic music and metal, he secured the coveted spot as his country’s entrant for the 2023 Eurovision, held in Liverpool. One of Pöyhönen’s craziest dreams had come true.
For Pöyhönen, Eurovision was “an amazing but immensely tough experience”. The event’s intense schedule and the little time carved out for practising surprised the artist. There was no room for errors or retakes once it was time for rehearsals. “They didn’t give much mercy,” he says. On the bright side, the long days filled with “lots of press conferences and waiting around” gave Pöyhönen a chance to get to know the other artists. “The group we had there was wonderful – there wasn’t a competitive atmosphere at all,” he says. One of the contestants he became especially close with was Sweden’s Loreen, with whom he exchanged numbers and promised to “meet up and talk about everything else but music”.
By the time the grand finale came, Käärijä’s explosive performance and infectious song had made him one of the favourites to win. Ultimately he came second, while Loreen nabbed first place. How did Pöyhönen handle the letdown? “It was a huge disappointment, but in the end, the feeling didn’t last long,” he says. “When I thought about how far I’d gotten, the incredible journey it was and all the new friends I made, I realised that these things are far more meaningful than winning.” Plus, he still achieved something major: ‘Cha Cha Cha’ made history as the first ever Finnish song to reach Spotify’s global most-listened charts. The track’s reach proved to Pöyhönen that language doesn’t matter; it’s all about creating a singular, infectious sound: “The mouth is just as much of an instrument as the piano or the guitar is,” he says.
Having made history, I ask Pöyhönen if he felt any pressure after the Eurovision bubble had burst. “Of course there are the thoughts of ‘what now?’ and ‘is this going to be it, will anyone be interested anymore next year?’ – I’m aware that the hype won’t last forever,” he says. “But I’m onto creating the next thing, trying not to feel any pressure for future releases. I haven’t done that before, so why would I do that now?”
Pöyhönen hints at a new album dropping sometime next year, but in the meantime, he’s enjoying the attention – including his Vogue Scandinavia debut. Shot at the extraordinary home of the late interior architect Antti Nurmesniemi and his wife, textile artist Vuokko Nurmesniemi, we find the space where Pöyhönen and Käärijä meet, the quiet confidence mingling with that more-is-more persona.
And while Käärijä might develop as a character (“I want to show that he’s more than just a bolero chap”), he’s adamant that he will stay true to his music and keep singing in Finnish, despite the sudden international attention. “In the end, I’m doing this for myself,” he says. “Also, why change something that works?”
Photographer: Karoliina Bärlund
Stylist: Sanna Silander
Talent: Käärijä
Hair Stylist and Makeup Artist: Neea Kuurne
Photographer Assistant: Milja Laakso
Stylist Assistant: Nelli Korhonen
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Adonis Costume-Con - Superheroes; Spiderman Contest
++ Renny's Note: This is another prompt that began from the devious mind of @imaginary-muscle. ♥
It's important to remember that, just because the newer generations were getting absolutely slammed with muscle, doesn't mean the niches of particular interests faded into the darkness in exchange for working out and chugging supplements. Everyone always finds time for what they love, and those with the parents that had extensive comic book collections (mint condition, mind you) and movie libraries taking up a whole shelf of the TV stand bookcase were donned with the love for superhero culture just like generations prior.
Comic-Con was quickly replaced with a more all-encompassing "Costume-Con". There would still be competitions held at Costume-Con for best costume, look-alike, etc., featuring much more breadth of topics, but they just had to account for everyone being... a hell of a lot more swole.
Funnily enough, it started being the case that the superheroes just started being associated with more muscle by standard, drawings and new publications gradually stacking them up in weight classes until they started matching those that adored them in the nation of Adonis.
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Halloween 2003 at Maxis: The Social Bunny
At the Maxis 2003 Halloween Costume Contest, we were visited by the Social Bunny. In the new version of The Sims, the Social Bunny appears only to those who are in need of extra social, so it's not such a good sign that we could all see it.
Photos courtesy of Komei Harada and Andreas Ramos.
The social bunny hops into the middle of the crowd to begin a few impromptu socials as (L to R) Kelly Riley, Marion Gothier, Kevin Byall, and Emmy Toyonaga watch.
Poor social bunny! Someone has rejected the bunny's social attempts, and now he walks away sad. Who wouldn't want a hug from a soft, fuzzy, ratty, stained, one-eyed bunny? Kevin Byall and Charles London watch this sad sight.
Here's the bunny with a collection of other spirits from the Costume Contest. Back row (L to R): Lisa del Toro, Alvin Go, the Social Bunny, unknown, Justin Graham, BJ West, Cory Tsang, Kevin Byall, David Benson, Wendy Bliss.
Front row: unknown, Suzanne, Jenna Chambers, Gretchen Carlson, unknown.
Whew! After a hard day of spreading sociality everywhere, the bunny waves goodbye.
At right, the bunny takes a well-deserved rest. The bunny learned to respect the entertainers who populate our nations' amusement parks... those heads are hot!
But you can't keep a bunny down for long! Later that night, the bunny popped back up at Patti Wilson's Halloween Party. Patti's friend Naomi looks on as the bunny sees more people in need of social. It's unclear how the bunny's eye returned for this picture, when in fact it was sewn shut until after the evening was over.
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Pay attention to the first 2 photos. They have a printed screenshot on the wall that shows a hot tub. But the UI in this screenshot is not from E3 2003, but from earlier builds with Purple UI:
The third photo hanging reference photos to something and to the Marrocan style of objects in game.
#Leo Hourvitz#halloween#2003#maxis#sims 2#sims 2 beta#the sims 2#sims2#social bunny#screenshots#purple ui#Marrocan
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Eurovision Fact #582:
Windows95man had to censor the Windows logos on his costume for the Eurovision Song Contest because the competition does not allow for "commercial messages of any kind" in song lyrics or performances. In 2012, this rule was applied to San Marino's song, which referenced Facebook, and in relation to the 2012 rules, the specific rule being enforced at that time was "point 1.2.2.g of the Rules of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest."
Windows95man's national final performance that is displayed on the Eurovision YouTube channel is now censored when the logos appear and the title of the video is now "Windows95man - No Rules! (Rules Applied Version)."
Windows95man and Henri Piispanen made light of the situation by filming an Instagram Reel for Yle showcasing the new outfit.
[Sources]
"EBU: San Marino song lyrics in breach of Rules," Eurovision.tv.
Windows95man - No Rules! (Rules Applied Version) | Finland 🇫🇮 | Official Video | Eurovision 2024, YouTube.com.
Little bit rules u/bulbasaraa on r/Eurovision, Reddit.com.
#esc facts oc#eurovision#eurovision song contest#esc#eurovision facts oc#esc 2024#windows95man#Eurovision 2024#Henri Piispanen
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Decided to finally share one of my IEYTD OCs, Operative Lindwyrm. Hero Forge ref for now while I get to drawing her, file info under the cut.
Name: Lydia Hunter/Operative Lindwyrm
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Nationality: American
Date of Birth: September 12
Age: 23
Height: 5’6”
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brunette
Blood Type: B
Dom. Hand: Right
Flavor Profile: Sweet
Fav. Color: Purple
Zodiac: Virgo
Weapon of Choice: Discretion
Status: Alive
Catchphrase: “It’s nothing personal, just part of the job.”
Lindwyrm had a fairly average, but comfortable life. All it took was one bad week to plunge her into financial distress. She was laid off from her office job, walked in on her boyfriend cheating on her, then found that he’d run off with the rent money. In her frantic job search, she found a position with Zoraxis. By the time she realized they were an evil evil corporation, it was too late to just quit. Even if it wasn’t, the benefits were just too good.
Lindwyrm is cautious, and does her best to avoid displeasing her superiors. While she does question her orders sometimes, she’ll ultimately follow through with anything that will keep her alive. She’s convinced that she’s stuck with Zoraxis until it collapses, but claims that it’s still better than living on the streets or working at Walmart. Lindwyrm has become somewhat desensitized to violence and death, having witnessed so much of both, and isn’t afraid to get a little blood on her hands. Caution should be taken with her, especially if she’s armed and cornered.
Trivia:
-Her favorite holiday is Halloween. Her proudest achievement so far is winning the annual Zoraxis Halloween costume contest.
-She is greatly insecure and susceptible to praise.
-She has a crush on John Juniper but knows he’s way out of her league.
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Miss Intercontinental Indonesia 2023 National Costume
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I have made no secret that I am a huge fan of the Dolls of the World collection.
Though the base collection were dolls in different national costumes, there were subcollections relating to festivals, landmarks and - what else? - princesses.
I can't find an official masterlist from Mattel on how many Princesses of the World have been released, but to be fair, I might not be looking correctly. Most sources say there were 19 but some say 21, so I am not sure if some people are mistaken or if there are two extra secret princesses that I don't know about.
Either way, I am not going to make a post sharing all 19 or 21 Princesses because I don't want to clutter your feeds quite that much, but I do just want to share a few that I find interesting.
This is Princess of the Pacific Islands. She was released in 2005. Although her branding just says "Pacific Islands", the back of the box identifies her as being from Hawaii. I am not going to pretend at all to be an expert on Hawaiian culture or traditional dress, so I will not speak to the accuracy -- but I do think it would have been nice for Mattel to describe her a little more specifically. There are famously quite a lot of "Pacific Islands" with different cultures.
Princess of the Renaissance (also from 2005) I think is beautiful. The back of the box specifies that she is from Florence. It also specifies that -- no joke -- this Barbie engages in rap battles with her friend, the court jester.
Okay, it doesn't say "rap battles". It says, and I quote, "When the princess is ready for harder games, she challenges her friend the court jester to rhyming contests. She always wins!". But I want to believe this princess canonically rap battles.
I actually owned a 2001 Princess of the Nile when I was younger, though strictly as a collectors piece. I had a big Egypt phase, so I was a big fan of her. The back of her box spends a lot of time delving into her beauty routine, with her use of kohl, ocher, henna and perfumed oils.
However the biggest thing I can say about Princess of the Nile is that it's really unfortunate, but she's not Egyptian Queen Barbie, another Ancient Egypt-themed Barbie that predated Princess of the Nile by 7 years.
#barbie#princesses of the world#dolls of the world collection#dolls of the world#princess of the nile#princess of the pacific islands#princess of the renaissance#egyptian queen
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THE ULTIMATE OCTOBER BUCKET LIST
Just in case you’re looking for something to do this spooky season, look no further! Please submit suggestions and additions if you have them 🎃
SEPTEMBER 1ST
Begin reading A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazney
Choose an Inktober Challenge
OCTOBER 1st-31st
Put together a scary playlist, or check out a pre-made one! ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKkteYcz3WqtSTWxrid5ioJMJGLZGsZnj&feature=shared )
Go to a haunted house
Have a festive fall drink—pumpkin spice latte, Halloween-inspired cocktail, apple cider?
Watch a scary movie—like Get Out, Psycho, or Hereditary
Watch a Halloween special— like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Go to a Halloween/scary movie trivia night
Order a Halloween or fall themed mystery/subscription box
Bake Halloween cookies
Go on a ghost tour
Attend a dumb dinner
Buy your Halloween décor
Decorate the house
Compete in a costume contest
Buy Halloween candy
Pick your pumpkins
Carve your pumpkins
Burn a campfire
Tell scary stories
Read some scary stories—like H.P. Lovecraft, Steven King, or Anne Rice
Get lost in a corn maze
Visit a graveyard
Go apple picking
Visit a fall festival
Send old-timey Halloween postcards
Go on a hayride
Do a pumpkin-head photoshoot
Visit a Halloween attraction or theme park—like Halloweentown, OR; or Disneyland, CA
Take a walk to crunch fall leaves
Drive through town and play Halloween decoration bingo
Attend Oktoberfest
Listen to a horror podcast— like The Magnus Archives or Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries
Watch a spooky play—like the Rocky Horror Picture Show or Little Shop of Horrors
Watch some haunting cartoons—like Spooky Month or Villainous (Villanos)
Giant pumpkin regatta/race
Go to some Museum/Zoo Halloween events
Stay overnight in a haunted hotel—like the Skirvin Hotel, OK; or the Overlook Hotel, OR
Get the latest Pokemon Trick or Trade Halloween card packs
Visit a Hot Topic or other ghoulish store
Go ghost hunting
Vote in Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week! ( https://explore.org/fat-bear-week )
Go on a costumed bar crawl
Play a scary videogame—like Cry of Fear or Resident Evil
Play a scary boardgame—like the JAWS boardgame, Shaky Manor, or Betrayal at House on the Hill
Take a (respectful!) tombstone rubbing
Draw for Inktober
Do an old-timey lover’s Halloween premonition
Visit a creepy museum exhibit—like the Museum of Death, CA; or the Jack the Ripper Museum, London
Get a tarot reading or some palmistry
Attend a séance
Try out a Zombie Run or Zombies vs Humans
Enjoy Samhain traditions
Visit a spooky person’s grave—like Lovecraft’s in Providence, RI; or the Paris Catacombs, Paris
Go on a nighttime nature walk and spot some creepy critters—maybe an owl!
Do some history of Halloween research
Make fall themed crafts
Go on a labyrinth walk
Dress up your pets for a photoshoot or a pet parade
Play a trick on someone
Trick or treat!
Hand out candy!
NOVEMBER 1ST- 3RD
Halloween decorations clean up!
Eat your candy!
Celebrate Dias de los Muertos
Do some calavera painting
Put up an Ofrenda/altar
Enjoy a little ancestor remembrance
Walk in a Dias de los Muertos parade
Put up marigolds and other décor
Go to a church service
If you’re crazy, start putting up the Christmas decorations <.< (we all know you gotta wait until at least Thanksgiving!!!)
#Halloween#Halloween bucket list#October#October bucket list#October activities#Halloween activities#this isn’t what I usually post#but I hope it helps someone have the SPOOKIEST HALLOWEEN EVER!
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Kaiju Week in Review (June 11-17, 2023)
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Tsuburaya Productions released a five-minute trailer for Ultraman Blazar, focused on the human cast. Between this and the unveiling of a bunch of the monsters (a combination of originals and some deep cuts), it continues to look extremely promising.
Toho launched a Twitter account for their next Godzilla film on June 12. It's been counting down all the "core" (live-action and Toho-produced) entries in the series at the rate of one per day, starting with Shin Godzilla. Presumably, they'll reveal the poster, title, and maybe more for the new one at the end (so July 11). The way they're doing this also lends credibility to the rumored Godzilla Zero title.
Hoshi 35, Megumi Odaka's triumphant return to movies, released a trailer, poster, and a bunch of stills (gathered on Wikizilla). Alas, no shots of the daikaiju in the trailer, just the baby.
Bandai's finally going to be producing Ultraman toys for the U.S., with the first wave focused on the animated Netflix movie due next year.
For those of you headed to G-Fest next month, the full schedule is out, and they finally announced the Friday and Saturday movies at the Pickwick: Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla (2014), respectively. King Kong Escapes will also replace Shin Ultraman on Thursday. Dunno if I'll go to GXMG (I just rewatched it before the Tokyo SOS Fathom Event), but I'm lunging at the chance to see G14 properly-lit and with booming sound. They showed it in 2017 too and it was a blast. For the hotel's film festival, the big title of interest is Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo, a Yoshikazu Ishii joint set during the pandemic. And if you haven't caught Iké Boys yet, that's playing twice (very much before the audience it was intended for).
Also, go to my friend Alana's panel about designing kaiju gijinkas for cosplay (Saturday at 1). If you've been to either of the past two cons, you probably remember her Mothra costumes, and we're both working on a bunch more for this year.
Oh yeah, and there's a third North American kaiju con, Super G, starting up in the fall... well, sort of. It might be better termed a convention within a convention (Northern National Collectors’ Convention). September 29-October 1 in Windsor, Canada, right on the Michigan border. Not many specifics yet, but the press release says, "Super G will offer fans a variety of guest celebrities and artists, direct from Japan and around the world, who worked on Kaiju franchises making either their first-ever or first-Canadian convention appearances. Inclusion opportunities feature program panels, contests, experiences, theatrical showings, collectables, cosplay, and more."
I haven't been keeping up with Godziban's multi-episode collaboration with Televi-Kun—seems like pretty routine stuff—but then they had to pay homage to Sharknado in the newest installment. I knew, of course, that this day would eventually come. Now which one of you said sharknadoes weren't kaiju back when I was unhealthily obsessed with that series?
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With Miss Universe 2022 coming down the pike, I’ve realized that I somehow missed one of my favorite bonkers fashion events for both 2020 and 2021! Which cannot stand. Before I start, though, I want to discuss some of the common Fashion Pitfalls of the Miss Universe national costume event.
There are some broad categories that most Miss Universe national costumes will fall into. Generally, they will incorporate one or more of the following elements:
There is a delicate balance to be sought, between using too few of these elements, and trying to incorporate too many into a single look. The other important axis is, of course, execution, both of concept and in construction and materials.
Basically, the ideal Miss Universe national costume scores high on the following measures:
Wearability: is the contestant visibly struggling to balance the giant headdress, is it too heavy to move naturally, are the spike heels likely to catch on the fringe, etc
Construction: is the costume well-made from beautiful, high-quality materials, are the wings securely attached, if there are moving parts do the mechanisms get stuck, is it visibly shedding rhinestones or feathers
Concept & Execution: does the costume have a novel or well-thought-out inspiration, and is that idea executed with a clever and visually appealing design? or did you just paint SAVE THE RAINFOREST on a cape and call it a day?
Aesthetics: is it actually nice to look at? what percentage of the audience is going to tilt their head to one side and say “huh. okay,” when they see it?
The Fucking Audacity: this one is hard to articulate but tbh you’ll know it when you see it.
Scoring especially high in any of the above categories may compensate for a deficit in one of the others, especially if you go extra hard on Fucking Audacity.
up next: some compare & contrast!
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hey rae, congrats on winning the costume contest!
gotta be honest, i got very curious about what you think about promising young woman's politics and the ending. i remember enjoying it, other than thinking it was a bit irresponsable at some parts... but also i watched it a while ago and dont really remember much from it.
im currently reading the zombie essays you rec'd, and im franlky loving it so so much. monster theory my beloved. And this is the first time im reading about zombies through sexuality lens, all essays i've read about zombies so far were about afro-latin religions and black resistance during colonization, but im loving, reading it in bed while giggling and quicking my feet, etc.... bc "queer zombie jesus" deserves to be a bed read cmom look at that sexy combination of words.
hope you're doing well!! xxx substack guy
hi substack guy <3 would love 2 share my thoughts abt promising young woman but i will do that in a min + put it under a cut bc. spoilers etc. love that ur enjoying the zombie essays tho!! there are so many different angles 2 approach zombies as a monster; if u have any reading recs abt religion + colonization my inbox is always open...i have a book or 2 downloaded but have mostly read scattered articles in that vein. agree that 'queer zombie jesus' is SO fun that was one of my fave articles from zombies & sexuality lol. also just recently bought a book called dead white & blue that's abt zombies + usamerican nationalism so. excited 2 start exploring that topic as well...
anyway. promising young woman thoughts (got long...also tw sa):
still thinking & working thru them etc but. generally speaking i am not a huge fan of movies that fall into the rape revenge genre so i typically start them skeptical, and ultimately i thought it was...an odd choice to have the main character be seeking revenge not for herself, but on behalf of her dead friend's past assault...talk abt a dead girl haunting the narrative etc...but like. usually one of my issues w rape revenge is the tendency to turn the person who's been assaulted into this figure of the Righteous Victim such that they become less a person + more a symbol onto which an audience gets to project + live out violent catharsis etc...honestly don't necessarily think there's an inherent issue with creating or seeking out that form of catharsis in film but i just. do not think it is particularly politically useful...+ this setup just like. took that to the next level by literally removing the Victim from the narrative entirely, stripping her character of all agency + personhood, and making her friend the Agent seeking Justice on her behalf which. i mean it's a bit ironic innit...
was also not too sure how i felt abt the whole setup of "woman goes to bars, acts drunk, and there's ALWAYS a creep who tries to take her home + assault her"...i'm somewhat torn feeling-wise here bc i used to very much have this sort of "all men are [potential] monsters" mentality that like no matter where u go there will be someone there ready 2 take advantage of u but. i no longer feel like that is a very useful framework 4 discussing or addressing sexual violence. firstly in that it tends to devolve quickly into the sort of gender essentialism that i am fundamentally opposed to, but also bc it seems so defeatist to me. how are u supposed 2 address a problem if u assume that the problem is already so baked in, and in such simplistic terms? so while i do understand that this is a film and it's sort of dramatizing what is a very real issue, i'm not sure i was entirely sold on the way it was dramatizing it...felt like it was trying 2 highlight but in the process was also flattening 2 a certain extent...
and then like. i did to some extent appreciate the way the film is trying to highlight that it's oftentimes "nice guys" committing sexual violence, especially bc rape revenge films often just portray the "bad guys" as like. cartoonishly evil. but i felt like even there the film was still wanting to get back into that black + white territory, which manifested especially in the bo burnham character. like, on the one hand the film wants to highlight the fact that people committing sexual violence are often sympathetic, perhaps even kind, "nice" people and not obviously evil bad guys, but on the other hand it did not seem to want to sit in the gray area of what that means at all (ie, asking the audience to actually sympathize with or relate to anyone implicated in acts of sexual violence), meaning that whenever we found out a character was involved in an assault that character immediately became a completely unsympathetic bad guy. and like, again, i understand why the film wants to do that--nobody wants to encourage someone to sympathize with a rapist. but irl sexual violence is by and large not black and white, and the fact is that most people are able to sympathize with and relate to people who have committed these forms of violence, because they're not cartoonishly evil bad guys--they're friends, partners, coworkers, family members, etc. and so again, this just isn't a framework that i find particularly useful in addressing irl sexual violence, bc i think it leads to this dichotomy we so often seen where if The Perpetrator/The Accused is not clearly Evil, then they must be Innocent. so like. the film tries, in some ways, to trouble that dichotomy, but i think in the end it just falls back into it--it's just that the guys we thought were "nice" are actually "bad"; imo the audience isn't really encouraged to sit in any emotional stew beyond that.
i do give the movie props for the actual way it handled portrayals of assault; i thought it did a pretty good job there. in particular was a fan of the way they elected to never show the actual video of nina, and how in basically any scene with sexual violence the emphasis was largely on the face + emotions of the person experiencing it. and i mean i did enjoy the movie, for the most part, while i was watching it--like i thought it was a pretty engaging film, good acting, etc.
but if anything the ending really. solidified my disappointment in the politics of the movie. not just bc cassandra died--honestly, i think the death was an interesting choice and there are ways they maybe could have played it that i would have liked more. but having the "triumphant" ending be the cops swooping in to arrest al...give me a fucking break lol. like u set up this whole movie abt how the legal system + these various institutions fail people who have experienced sexual violence, and then...i'm supposed to expect the cops to handle it? the justice system that already failed previously in the movie? and the entire framing of the ending--cassandra's final texts, the music, etc--makes it clear that this is supposed to be a triumphant moment. so i was just like. wtf....like in the end both women are dead. what form of justice is the suggestion that their abuser might go to prison? especially when prison itself is a violent + corrupt institution that must be abolished as part of the fight to end sexual violence? just a very shitty ending overall to what was already a movie that had me sort of going "hmmm...idk" throughout lol. so! those r my thoughts currently
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