hawkeye is simply

a silly leetel boy

with longé legges 

he is gay  

and he will be irreversibly changed by the horrors 

haha, thanks to Dev Patel namedropping Reva Marchellin, i found an interview with the three trans women cast in monkey man, as well as a bit of discussion on the casting of non-Indian women, as well as casting cis men to do the stunts/fill out the space

(this interview was only published yesterday, will do some more sleuthing to see if Pehan Abdul, Reva Marchellin and Dayangku Zyana have been given the opportunity to do more)

Dev Patel on the transgender representation, including the hijra community, in Monkey Man (2024).

sometimes people have really important critique of characters on shows based around how marginalised people and minorities aren't always written well and/or are tokenised.

and sometimes i think people just want an excuse to say they don't like a character and this is a really easy way of shutting down any further interest in what the character is actually doing and says a lot more about the complainer than the writing.

and also sometimes a mix of both, which can make it harder to sift through.

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

New reaction pic for y'all to be used when you get into an argument about trans healthcare and your opponent starts talking about the 0.8% or whatever of trans people who regret transitioning

@le-red-queen also crucially in "a mirror" there's a point where it's revealed that jlm's character actually wrote the play-within-a-play (in which he portrays the villain that in "the real world" so to speak, targeted him, got him arrested and tortured, and ruined his life)

and the villain is also clearly lusting over his secretary (played by tanya reynolds from sex education), who's also got some war ptsd and bonds with the young playwright (both of them veterans) and eventually sleeps with him

well of course the playwright turns out to be jlm, so he's actually dating this somewhat younger woman, who's also a revolutionary for the cause against censorship, and they make a point of going "ah yes, the illusion is shattered now you can't imagine her with this young hot guy over there, but instead with that old man"

and i was like... sir i come from tumblr. the old man is the appeal

What do you want? Why… the pleasure of your company, of course.

Hiii! This question is kinda apropos of nothing but I’m curious: who is the person in your profile pic? Every time I scroll past it a little too fast I think it’s Alan Alda/Hawkeye haha

no worries (i think alan alda would be honoured, if i remember correctly, he mentioned meeting him once as a kid in his memoir). it's this fellow:

his name was conrad veidt, a famous german actor of the weimar republic, later escaped to britain and then the us to get away from the nazis with his jewish wife, Ilona Prager. he also starred in two pro-jewish films shortly after the nazis came to power in 1933 (the wandering jew, and jew süss, but i confess i haven't watched these yet, so i cannot say how well they aged) -- generally did a few films that were about Social Issues that came down on the side of the oppressed, including the woman's crusade, and the merry-go-round, as well as... (see below)

famous for some very important movies: 1. played the lead in the first movie to openly portray gay men (anders als die andern), which was produced by magnus hirschfeld and the institute of sexology in a bid to get support for legalising homosexuality -- it's free on youtube! also 105 years old, can you believe... 2. played the somnambulist in the cabinet of dr caligari, and generally was every vamp-girls/boys dream back in the day, playing in a lot of the german expressionist films and proto-horror films, and generally not afraid to play offbeat, uncomfortable roles that weren't about being an attractive leading man (eerie tales, the hands of orlac, waxworks, the man who laughs) 3. after he moved to the us, he was very happy to portray nazis to give them realism, and he plays major heinrich strasser in casablanca in 1942 (his second-last film)

i believe he was in a total of 115 films, but quite a few of them between when he started in 1917 and 1930 are lost (der januskopf, i think of you often....murnau, bela lugosi, and conrad veidt, in an adaptation of jekyll and hyde??? arghhh)

other fun facts, did occasionally crossdress and in fact this may have contributed a little to his first divorce, as his wife found him and a bunch of his friends wearing dresses one night after she came back from work -- notably conrad was in her new dress. she told a friend that this was the breaking point, but it may have partially been a joke. they did divorce though

was also at one point called the prettiest girl in berlin in print, good for him

was probably bisexual, although having said that i've actually never read why people think this -- so for now, he was a mensch and a great ally to a lot of people, a little on the queerer side in all things

i do follow a fair few conrad veidt blogs on here, but i don't talk about him often, it's one of those "am a fan, but keeping it mostly to the chest" kind of things with him -- however, as you can tell, very happy to give the Info when asked!

that's the man, the girl, the pretty boy: mr conrad veidt!

Apologizes to the people who follow me for the person I will become when Cobra kai season 6 comes out

butterfly character archetype: seeing the beauty in the world, wanting to replicate that within themself and how they move through that world, wanting also perhaps to share that idea in whatever way they're capable of it -- be it their personality, a particular skill, a philosophy, not usually really paying attention to the finer rules (like money, legality, time-keeping, norms of "polite" society), crucially cannot survive unless someone with more pragmatism takes them under their wing because they're delicate souls not adaptable to a society that grinds people beneath the wheel. if alone, at best, they'll simply diminish into pale shadows of themselves, but if someone is there to stabilise them, they'll possibly be okay and they'll make others better

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

[image ID / an answer by @le-red-queen: Butterfly character archetype: Mustn't be ground at the Wheel /End ID]

NOOOOOO THAT'S IT EXACTLY!!!!!!

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

Job interviewer: what about your husband, is he currently employed?

Morticia: he's going through a bad patch at the moment. but it's not his fault.

Job interviewer: Of course not. *sighs* what is he? a loafer? a hopeless layabout? a shiftless dreamer?

Morticia: ... not anymore :( :( :(

@creepysora

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile