My new favourite thing is how Hazbin "someone is going to die" Hotel killed Sir "if he dies I'm going to quit the show" Pentious, but did it in a way that both satisfied everyone and made him more beloved than ever
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have you seen that annoying try guys video about corsets. why’re they tightlacing like it’s average wear?
Yeah, and it's just a lot of nonsense. Like all of those videos.
Why do they tightlace? Because that's what people want to see. Not everyone; a lot of people are genuinely interested in learning. But unfortunately, a loud minority wants to believe the easiest, least complicated, most sensational version of the past. And that loud minority votes with engagement. You CAN get clicks for saying the corsets were basically the bras of their day, and women's relationship with them was similarly complicated and individual, but they were not unilateral torture devices- look at the success of costube in recent years -but that takes effort. Why bother, when you can just play to the lowest denominator of historical clothing knowledge?
(On some level, I do understand where the impulse comes from- the eras where pairs of bodies/stays/corsets were commonplace were also times of intense systemic misogyny, so "women were forced into torturous undergarments" seems par for the course. And the pressure on women to look and dress a certain way is obviously wrapped up in misogyny, then and now, even though women were not suffocating themselves into 15" waists like pop history insists. It's a myth that makes sense given its context; that's how it's survived.)
(That and the fact that the women who wrote the most about corsets were the ones who hated them. Likely a minority compared to the vast numbers of women then alive in corset-intensive cultures, but their strong feelings compelled them to speak out in ways that the probable majority never did. Who sits down and writes "Dear diary, another uneventful day wearing an ultra-commonplace support garment that I'm fairly neutral about?")
(But if you absolutely loathe wearing something- due to sensory issues, perceived hassle of dressing, feeling like your needs aren't met or are impeded by the garment, etc. -and social pressure says You Must...yeah, you're going to have some Thoughts on that subject.)
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Opinions/Thoughts on Sound of Music and Music Man specifically?
(asking because my fiance hasn't seen either and I am planning on forcing him to watch both with me. I grew up watching them yearly as a choir/theater kid)
I have not seen Music Man, but god, I love musicals, so I just might check it out now.
I have seen Sound of Music, though, and while I fully admit it's saccharine and mawkish and maudlin, I still like it.
It's just old-world charming. I know Christopher Plummer hated it, and for good reason, it was his generation's Frozen, but...I don't know. The music doth slap. Julie Andrews is a delight. I find the anti-Nazism in Austria plot to be compelling.
The only song I don't like is the Goatherd song, but mostly because the puppets scared me as a child, and the song is forever linked to my childhood trauma.
I also think that particular song is obnoxious, and I'll hear that fucking goat yodeling in my specifically tailored cell in hell.
But every other song is good!
Controversial opinion time, but...my favorite song from the whole movie is "Edelweiss."
I know most people don't like it, but...I think it's a real crooner. Let me croon Edelweiss all night.
I also like "Climb Every Mountain" which I know a lot of people hate, but. Come on, it builds!!
Maybe I just like crooning, I don't know. But all the songs are good. It's worth a watch, and I hope he enjoys it!
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Look man I don't care if canon proves me wrong but I will strongly headcanon the former Qing Jing Peak lord was a caring but strict (more cold and strict than caring hoenstly) woman who gave Shen Jiu | Shen Qingqiu a small taste of what it's like to have a familiar bond with someone.
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