The millennial litmus test for sexuality was 100% Pirates of the Caribbean. I was 13 when the first movie came out. Literally everyone walked into that movie having been lured there by the attractiveness of Orlando Bloom in LOTR. The truly straight girls had been drawn in by his entry-level attractiveness and walked out lusting over the significantly older and manlier Jack Sparrow. The others had been unconsciously drawn in by Legolas’s femininity and walked out with their eyes opened and lusting over Keira Knightley.
Important missed categories that have been pointed out to me:
People who were mature/bisexual enough to be into Norrington from the start
Bisexuals who wanted to be part of a main character quadrouple
People who found nontraditional love in side characters/Barbossa
People who caught gender envy from Captain Jack
Asexuals who just really like ships, like actual boats ok
Not yet mentioned:
People whose sexuality and/or very specific fetishes was not fully awakened until Davy Jones came on the scene
Pride flags were supposed to be like Morale patches to indicate which squad you’re running with during the War on Normal but y’all make ‘em like gated communities
And like, the enemy is over this way! why are you stopping to plant your flag in the ground?
And in two categories! :) (Audio drama finalists and Fantasy finalists) WAHOO!
Winners will be announced at the 28th annual Audies Gala, March 28:The 28th annual Audies Gala will be held in person in NYC. Save the date for this celebration of the spoken word! We will celebrate at Chelsea Piers’ Pier Sixty and be streamed on our YouTube channel starting at 9:00pm ET. Ticket sales open in January.
“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast
Please, please take roles from Chris Pratt.
petition for Rahul Kohli to replace Chris Pratt in everything
as you can see in the photos from the actual fucking show, Regency dresses did not actually show your waist. as a result regency corsets did not tightlace you, they were basically a longline pushup bra. it was physically impossible to tightlace a corset until the invention of the metal grommet in the mid 1800s.
so either wardrobe is torturing actresses with corsets that don’t fit for no reason, the actresses are lying because “ouuf ouchie my corset hurt so bad” is such a popular chat show topic, or something else is going on. but not a single part of this article is factual. anyone wearing a garment that prevented them from eating, breathing or moving without injury on a daily basis would just die in tbe premodern era. wearing a corset that caused bruises for 10 hours a day would cause infected pressure ulcers which would become septic and kill you. there is no record of this being an issue for victorian women or any other population that used corsets because it just didn’t happen
i have to emphasize to you that working class women did hard manual labor in corsets for hundreds of years. this is because working women did not tightlace. their corsets were basically back braces that made holding a lot of heavy warm woolens together easier without elastic, and kept their boobs out of the way of farming and kitchen tasks. tightlacing was considered a fringe activity even in tbe Victorian era. the illusion of a tiny waist was created with moderate corseting and LOTS of padding of the hips and bust. there are equivalent “boobs and belly protection” type garments in most areas of the planet where it’s not too hot to wear them. corsets are not equivalent to foot binding, neck stretching, or lip and ear plates. tightlacing is not particularly immobilizing either if you have the right corset, there are thousands of people who are hobbyist or medical tightlacers who do fine.
i think the “corsets were instruments of torture” myth is kept afloat by White Feminism. we (i and my fellow white women) need a justification for victim mentality so badly that we will accept without critical thought the suggestion that our ancestors in the English peasantry did hard manual labor bending over in a field for 15 hours a day in a bit of underwear that caused organ dislocation, hypoxia, pressure ulcers and random syncope because they were just so tough and so glamorous and so oppressed by Male Expectations. somehow this is easier for us to believe than “Hollywood wardrobe direction is so divorced from historical reality they are putting actresses in clothes that don’t fit and injuring them”. let’s all go on jimmy kimmel and talk about how strong and brave Women are for going to a party with a 24" waist, my god
I’m going to fix my own dryer while wearing a 22" tightlacer called a “power corset” by Crimson Rose corsetry just to be a bitch about it!!!!
one of my favorite story elements is “character way past their prime can still absolutely wreck you, leaving you to wonder just how powerful they used to be”
dichotomy of “nothing in the digital age is permanent, we are losing physicality and thus part of ourselves” vs. “everything in the digital age is permanent, everything you do is recorded and stored for later use against you or to exploit you”
i’ve been curious about this for a while. note that here “negative feelings” doesn’t necessarily mean you oppose other people identifying as queer. & idk if this needs to be said but don’t answer this poll if you don’t identify as a part of the lgbt+/queer community
