image description : a remarkably rectangular white cat, lying on their back on a sofa with all four paws outstretched.

why are YOU as a man admitting to enjoying being hit and smacked and just generally manhandled by women

I need everyone to know this Bob Hoskins playing Mario Mario from the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie which also featured John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario and that while as a movie and an adaptation of the franchise it is rife with problems ranging from the technical to the aesthetic to the philosophical, and also bearing in mind I didn't go to see the newer animated film, I will nevertheless assert that in no way shape or form could any modern adaptation be anywhere near as interesting and yes even as fun to watch as this deranged but well-intentioned film.

Back in the 90s, someone had script for a dark future cyberpunk movie (it was in style at the time) and them some coked out executive decided to make a Mario movie and just slap the brand over that script.

Also, because Mario at the time didn't have like a whole lot of characters, they had to really stretch it. Like, do you know who this absolute queen is?

A fish, that's big Bertha. They based the character very roughly on a giant fish that instantly eats you on a couple of water levels.

And that's the whole movie, a lazy executive desicion followed by wacky writing, and (and I mean this from the heart) Incredible design and execution. Like there's real actual talent at work there. This movie is better than it had any right to be and you should see it.

people on here really will post shit like “i’m anti censorship, i think people can create whatever content they want without someone censoring them. except THESE TOPICS, which deserve censorship because theyre bad and youre bad if you create them in a fictional setting” shut up

“censorship is bad unless it’s something that deserves censoring” do you hear yourself

"they deserve to die" is something you should never hear a leftist say. if you do, run

"Yeah, you shouldn't be able to wipe out groups of people but killing individuals is fine" No!! "They" in this context is both singular and plural! It's just as wrong to deny a single person the right to life as it is to deny entire groups!

"Well what about—" No!! No one!!! Yes, even them!!

"Well yeah because the state shouldn't have the power to kill people" No!! "The state" is a centralisation of human interest! Neither dictatorial nor democratic power have the right to strip someone of their right to life! It's just as wrong for individuals to decide someone deserves to die as it is for a collective apparatus!

the African wild cat (from which house cats are descended) looks like a normal house cat but with uncomfortably longer legs

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normal cat just slightly stretched out

New Orleans ❤

Thunderstorm jazz is freaking awesome. I need an album of that. I’d sleep like a baby.

“oh I’ll bet that’s Dorren... yup, that’s Doreen.”  https://www.doreensjazz.com

Reblogging not for the first nor the last time. There’s just something right about this conjunction of laid-back music and lively weather...

This was such a formative movie

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesn’t meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once

This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasn’t constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you don’t have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.

You don’t have to like it. You probably aren’t capable of “getting” it. And to be honest, I don’t want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like “back then.” But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.

On Wesley Snipes’s role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.

Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic

a monumental film in the library of queer history.

it was formative for modern society, too.

there are a lot of action fans out there who learned from their idols that respect doesn’t cost a damn thing to give. i know plenty of people who aren’t queer saw trans women and drag queens presented as people to them for the first time in wong fu. suddenly, strange and foreign queer identities that had only been presented to them as jokes if they’d even heard of them, seemed a little more relatable, and very human.

we’re all just people.

snipes, swayze, and leguizamo were willing to play people a lot of their fans didn’t respect yet or didn’t even know how to respect and demand they figure it the fuck out.

This is a HUGE reblog but I watched this as a little girl on cable TV and I’m so glad I did. GO WATCH THIS AS SOON AS YOU CAN

I had not heard the perspective of Snipes or Leguizamo; I am particularly pleased to know that Snipes is proud of the movie, and that Leguizamo knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

I remember watching this at a friend’s house over a decade ago, my hometown was small with no diversity. I had no idea what trans meant or about the LGBTQIA community. It opened my eyes and helped me in so many ways. This movie was inspiring and did so much good for so many people and kids especially in the 90s who needed to see people who were positive about being different and/or trans. That it wasn’t just a bad taste joke like so many movies portrayed during that time period.

Please don’t pay for his music.

also don’t listen to it, it’s extremely bad

He’s wanting to do this to his home: 

He submitted the proposal to the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and the plan was rejected because the proposed four-foot-high railings (fence) and simple cast iron gate (which was chosen purely privacy and security for the front of the home) were considered “too domestic” looking for the former industrial area. The council gave Sheeran a list of options for privacy “railings”, and after changing the proposal Sheeran was given permission that was more in line with the neighbourhood, which is in a conservation area.  A direct quote from Sheeran states: “Dear Natalie Edwards from The Sun newspaper. Your story is bollocks, I have done lots of work in the past for Crisis and Shelter and would never build railings outside my home for that reason.The reason was to keep the paps that you employ from being on my doorstep. Have a good day.” this comment has been substantiated by the local police and security companies that Sheeran and his neighbours have had to contact previously when paparazzi have been taking photographs not only of Sheeran’s house but inside his windows, and constantly knocking on his door and yelling outside his house.  Think about this for a moment, a guy bought a house and fixed it up, he was trying to gain some privacy by asking for a simple fence and gate to indicate the property line and gain some distance from the paps, - which the police and council said was fine - and the newspapers who can no longer use these ill-gotten photos and are probably pissed have managed to spin this story to make it seem that this guy (whether you like his music or not), is an asshole and is anti-homeless. And you’re all eating this shit up and believing the newspapers, even though the Sun and Telegraph are well known across the UK for making shit up and lying. smh. 

so real

And we are seizing every single one of those opportunities we get, sometimes even ones we don't get.

what a wonderful relationship between animals and people…they have no obligation to help but they do anyway

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The honeyguides help because they also benefit! Honeyguides eat bee larvae and beeswax, but struggle to access those past, you know, the bees. By guiding a human -- who is better able to knock down and break open a nest, but has a harder time finding nests in the first place -- to the hive, both parties benefit.

Honeyguides will also approach humans and give a unique "follow me, I found a hive" contact call!

It's not mystical altruism, it's a working partnership, and I think that's even neater :)

Me n the boys heading into 2024

Steve Oster [producer of DS9] - about 4.06 - Rejoined

Reblog. This. Every. Damned. Time.

HA! Good.

This is why “family values” is usually such a load of bs.