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I don't think people know just how bloody influential The Birdcage was. 1996 when the movie came out was not a safe place to be a queer person. Particularly a gender non-conforming queer like Albert. Being queer meant being in the closet. If you are out of the closet you were constantly in danger and because the Hays code while gone was still very much present in filmmaking you never got to see happy queer people. This is the time on television where a woman kissing another woman was considered a big old stunt. Ellen didn't come out as gay until 1997. Buffy the vampire Slayer which featured a queer couple in Willow and Tara didn't come out until 1997 and the queer characterization didn't happen until four seasons later.

As somebody else pointed out, this was the first movie we're seeing gay Joy or queer Joy was really mainstream. And it was mainstream.

And this was right in the prime of the arguments that queer people couldn't raise a family. Particularly gay men. That the children would turn out wrong or be victimized. So by showing that Albert and Armand raised Val to be happy, successful, and--this was important for the time--heterosexual. Because that was also a huge rallying cry for conservative America is that if queer people were allowed to adopt or have children they would raise them to be queer.

Those little gestures that Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are doing, those were hard fought. There was a mandate from the studio that the men couldn't kiss so that little teeny pack in the morning was fought for and slipped under the radar of the studio execs who mandated that they couldn't have that. And by having these little beautiful gestures it just shows how normal the relationship is. How comfortable the two men are with each other. How happy.

And when the American public saw this movie, and the gay people weren't the villains or the bad guys, it started changing perceptions. Slowly, but not as slowly as you would think, Hollywood started including more gay characters. This is where the gay best friend started showing up and while it's cliche now it was absolutely revolutionary at the time. Especially in a studio movie, with a director as big as Mike Nichols and stars as huge as Robin Williams and Gene Hackman and Nathan Lane and Christine baranski.

This movie has a direct line and was often cited when arguing for gay marriage. I would argue that without this movie we wouldn't have gay marriage we wouldn't have the normalization and almost ubiquitous presence of queer people on television and in movies and in books that we have today.

This article from mashable is actually pretty good at conveying how cool this movie is..

If you haven't seen this movie please do so. It is wonderful. It is gentle. It's very 1990s. But it's it been in my list of favorite movies for a long time even with some of the sitcom second hand embarrassment.

Watch this!

My cemetery’s in Key Biscayne. It’s one of the prettiest in the world. The sky is blue, palm trees, rolling hills. The one is Los Copa’s really sh*t. [sigh] What a pain in the ass you are. And it’s true: you’re not young, you’re not new, and you do make people laugh. And me? I’m still with you because you make me laugh. So you know what I got to do? I got to sell my plot in Key Biscayne so I can get one next to you in that shithole Los Copa, so I never miss a laugh. Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as Armand and Albert in The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

#the birdcage #queer history #queer movies #Robin Williams #Nathan Lane #this movie is just so fun #and camp #and I'm just smiling thinking about it

[christinaroseandrews]

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#discord #internet bs #arbiration opt-out #I did this #because never give up your right to sue

[christinaroseandrews]

So... I was chatting with my Gen-Z cousin yesterday, updating her about all of the family gossip--because apparently people forgot to tell her things--when I made a reference to one of the Tumblr holidays (the perfect date). And to my surprise, she caught the reference and came back with a reference to one of the Tumblr heritage posts about someone's refusal of the call/main character syndrome.

When she did that, I sort of tilted my head said: "I like your shoelaces."

There was a very long pause and she replied back: "Thanks, I stole them from the president."

I laughed. Tumblrina confirmed.

We continue the conversation but knowing that we had a similar frame of reference opened up a lot of doors and made the generational Gap disappear. Like I said she is Gen Z and I am very firmly Gen X. So I suspect that my cousin was really surprised that I would be on the queer, unprofitable social media site. Typically Facebook and Instagram are more gen X's thing. (I hate both with a burning passion).

As the conversation came to a close, I told her that I would not attempt to find her. And that her secret was safe with me. Because seriously, unless you come out and use your real name or any other type of identifying information no one is going to know who you are on this wonderful hell site (affectionate).

Tumblr bridging the generation gap one Tumblrina at a time.

#Tumblr #Tumblrina IRL #family stories #oops im rambling #real life

[christinaroseandrews]

Raise your hand if you have also been personally victimized by the barometric pressure changes 🥲

#ow ow ow #migraines suck

[christinaroseandrews]

I'm going to date myself... But my first Ghibli movie was Nausicaa. But it wasn't the Nausicaa that we all know and love today... It was the terrible hacked up Carl Macek Streamline dub called Warriors of the Wind. And I remember watching it with my six or seven-year-old cousin at Thanksgiving when I was in Middle School. So this would be the late 1980s early 1990s. I liked it. I didn't know any better. And the music was amazing and the animation was amazing. I didn't know it was anime until I got to college and my roommate who was a foreign exchange student from Japan had the soundtrack. I listen to that CD like all the time.

Warriors of the wind is the reason why for years and years and years we never got any Ghibli releases in the US. Miyazaki was so dissatisfied with it that when miramax was considering making changes to princess mononoke he sent them a katana with the note saying "no cuts".

I finally saw a non hacked up Ghibli movie as a fan sub when I was in college... And that was probably Laputa or Porco Rosso. However that wasn't my first Miyazaki movie, that would be castle of cagliostro. Lol. I adore Ghibli movies. I have been to the museum in Japan it is lovely.

So yeah. I'm an old anime fan.

Inspired by the fact that I am rewatching my first ghibli movie spirited away

Please reblog for bigger sample size

#hayao miyazaki #studio ghibli #nausicaä of the valley of the wind #warriors of the wind #uncle Carl #p

[christinaroseandrews]

I got my ducks in a row... 🦆

#mallard duck #ducks #spring rain #crap picture #and also WTF #the nearest actual body of water is several miles from me #what are waterfowl doing in my front yard #my photos

[christinaroseandrews]

Just a few flowers from my mother's garden

#spring flowers #flowers #blue star flowers #chionodoxa luciliae #i had to look it up #my photos #my photgraphy

[christinaroseandrews]

See, though, this is beautiful, and it's one reason I love this hellsite (affectionate). Not only do we get the answer by an expert in the field, but we also learned new facts and weird stuff (the tags are faboo). This is just people helping other people, and it makes me smile.

frog side of tumblr I need to know what are the ridges above frogs ears called?

these things

#frogs #tumblr #this kind of interaction gives me warm fuzzies #and it happens all the time on this webbed site

[christinaroseandrews]

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

#april fool's day #reading comprehension #critical thinking

[christinaroseandrews]

Boops boops

#tumblr boops #linguistics #all the boops #love this

[christinaroseandrews]

And if in doubt, don't. A lot of people hate April fools anything and that is completely valid. If someone hasn't consented to be a part of the fun don't force them to be.

There’s probably more but these are the ones I can think of at the moment! Please be considerate and don’t play pranks at other people’s expenses!

Have fun everyone!

#april fool's day

[christinaroseandrews]

i have found a way to make boops vaguely marine biology related

get pom pom'd

#science #there are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[christinaroseandrews]

BOOP!

Loving the boops!

This is how you do April Fool's Day. Fun. Community building. Harmless. Able to opt out of. Disability friendly (the moving paw only appears when you boop someone, not when you are booped this not triggering jump scares or flashing for those with seizure or migraine disorders and again it can be opted out of.)

My biggest critique is that you can't send boops from sideblogs and I don't believe you can receive boops to a sideblog.

But I love this and hope, like the crabs, it could be a feature.

#boop #tumblr boops #cat boops

[christinaroseandrews]

Huh... I am opted in. Or at least I am sending and receiving boops on the main blog as is the other person on the blog (co-authors, remember) so I suspect it has to do with it being a shared blog.

*sadface*

I wanna be booped. :,(

Loving the boops!

This is how you do April Fool's Day. Fun. Community building. Harmless. Able to opt out of. Disability friendly (the moving paw only appears when you boop someone, not when you are booped this not triggering jump scares or flashing for those with seizure or migraine disorders and again it can be opted out of.)

My biggest critique is that you can't send boops from sideblogs and I don't believe you can receive boops to a sideblog.

But I love this and hope, like the crabs, it could be a feature.

#tumblr boops #tumblr #april fool's day

[christinaroseandrews]

Loving the boops!

This is how you do April Fool's Day. Fun. Community building. Harmless. Able to opt out of. Disability friendly (the moving paw only appears when you boop someone, not when you are booped this not triggering jump scares or flashing for those with seizure or migraine disorders and again it can be opted out of.)

My biggest critique is that you can't send boops from sideblogs and I don't believe you can receive boops to a sideblog.

But I love this and hope, like the crabs, it could be a feature.

#april fool's day #Tumblr #boop #tumblr boops #this is fun #and because I'm posting this from a side blog it's a minor experiment #can a side blog get boops? I have no idea

[christinaroseandrews]

Voting Blue in Alabama!

#vote! #voting matters

[christinaroseandrews]

Welp... It looks like the porn bots have gotten in on the AI game. Their banner images and profile pics are now using that same overly waifu anime-esque style that has become so synonymous with AI art theft. I feel sad, at least before when they were stealing real people's pictures there was at least something "real" about them. Now it's all just fake. It's the end of an era. *Overly dramatic sigh*

#porn bot crisis #ai art #tumblr #everything is fake #everything is AI #it's all bots #just Saturday thoughts