#just watched this movie because of this gifset

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Ava Gardner (The Killers, The Barefoot Contessa)— She's so goddamn hot. Her and Frank Sinatra could've sandwiched me and I would've thanked them for the privilege

Anna May Wong (The Thief of Bagdad, Shanghai Express)—Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, arguably the first Asian woman to make it big in American films. Though the racism of the time often forced her into stereotypical roles, awarded Asian leading roles to white actors in yellowface, and prohibited on-screen romance between actors of different races, she delivered powerful and memorable performances. When Hollywood bigotry got to be too much, she made movies in Europe. Wong was intellectually curious, a fashion icon, and a strong advocate for authentic Asian representation in cinema. And, notably for the purposes of this tournament, absolutely gorgeous.

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Ava Gardner:

Ava Gardner is one of my favorite actresses of all time. Although a lot of her roles in movies are about her being beautiful and nothing else, there are some films where her acting truly shines.

Gifset: https://www.tumblr.com/pelopides/721438308726603776/ava-gardner-as-pandora-reynolds-pandora-and-the

Gifset 2: https://www.tumblr.com/portraitoflestatonfire/731899355804598272/if-the-loustat-reunion-doesnt-look-like-this-then

HER FACE. LOOK AT IT. Also was a life long supporter of civil rights and a member of the NAACP, had lots of fun love affairs with other stars, bullfighters, married several times but was also happy in between to just have lovers and was unapologetically herself.

I literally gasp every time I see her.

Between 1942 and 1964, Ava Gardner was credited in no less 50 films, and is still considered by some to be the most beautiful actresses that ever graced the silver screen. Despite life-long insecurities regarding her talent as an actress, she weathered public scandal, industry hostility, and outright condemnation by the Catholic Church with fearless grace. She would later in life talk candidly about the reality and pain of living through two (studio approved!!) abortions during her short marriage to Frank Sinatra, and while the two of them could not make their relationship work, they remained in each other’s lives for nearly 30 years. She would forever describe herself as a small-town girl who just got lucky, but always felt like a beautiful outsider.

Really genuinely one of the most beautiful human beings I have ever seen. An autodidact. Had amazing chemistry with Gregory Peck to the point where I do think about watching On The Beach again sometimes because they're so good together even though that movie did destroy me. Was a great femme fatale in many movies.

Anna May Wong propaganda:

"She so so gorgeous!! Due to Hollywood racism she was pretty limited in the roles she got to play but even despite that she’s so captivating and deserves to be known as a leading lady in her own right!! When she’s on screen in Shanghai Express I can’t look away, which is saying something because Marlene Dietrich is also in that film."

"SHE IS ON THE BACK OF QUARTERS also she was very smart and able to speak multiple languages and is a fashion icon on top of the acting/singing"

"Paved the way for Asian American actresses AND TOTAL HOTTIE!!! She broke boundaries and made it her mission to smash stereotypes of Asian women in western film (at the time, they were either protrayed them as delicate and demure or scheming and evil). In 1951, she made history with her television show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, the first-ever U.S. television show starring an Asian-American series lead (paraphrased from Wikipedia). Also, never married and rumor has it that she had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. We love a Controversial Queen!"

"She's got that Silent Era smoulder™ that I think transcends the very stereotypical roles in which she was typically cast. Also looks very hot smouldering opposite Marlene Dietrich in "Shanghai Express"; there's kiss energy there."

"Hot as hell and chronically overlooked in her time, she's truly phenomenal and absolutely stunning"

"A story of stardom unavoidably marred by Hollywood racism; Wong's early-career hype was significantly derailed by the higher-up's reluctance to have an Asian lead, and things only got worse when the Hayes code came down and she suddenly *couldn't* be shown kissing a white man--even if that white man was in yellowface. After being shoved into the Dragon Lady role one too many times, she took her career to other continents for many years. Still, she came back to America eventually, being more selective in her roles, speaking out against Asian stereotypes, and in the midst of all of this finding the time to be awarded both the title of "World's Best Dressed Woman" by Mayfair Mannequin Society of New York and an honorary doctorate by Peking University."

"Incredible beauty, incredible actress, incredible story."

"-flapper fashion ICON. look up her fits please <3 -rumors of lesbianism due to her Close Friendships with marlene dietrich & cecil cunningham, among others -leveraged her star power to criticize the racist depictions of Chinese and Asian characters in Hollywood, as well as raise money and popular support for China & Chinese refugees in the 1930s and 40s. -face card REFUSED to decline"

#anna may wong #ava gardner #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 5

[chloecherrysip]

I'm telling you, everything's gonna be all right as long as we're together!

#mario movie #mario movie spoilers #super mario bros #super mario bros movie #super mario bros movie spoilers #cherrysip edits #i've seen so many screenshots and a few scattered gifs but it doesn't seem like anyone's actually done a proper gifset SO #I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS SCENE. SO UNBELIEVABLY NORMAL. I DIDN'T WATCH THIS CLIP 60 TIMES AND CRY EVERY TIME #YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING #but seriously it is unbelievable how sweet these brothers are. i am SO grateful that the movie is actually giving a lot of emotional weight #to their relationship! i just can't get over how mario is wholly focused on soothing luigi because that's what's important to him #and how luigi does relax and smile because he trusts his brother wholeheartedly #PICTURES TAKEN SECONDS BEFORE DISASTER :( :( :( :( :( :( #i also love how you can tell mario genuinely did not know that luigi was sucked in too (this is confirmed in the newest tv spot too) #and so he's kind of in quiet awe of where he is and then HE SEES LUIGI and PROTECTIVE BIG BROTHER MODE activates instantly #their reunion in the movie is actually going to end me. i will leave my mortal body behind and rejoin the sea. IT BETTER BE GOOD #but after this i don't see how it CAN'T be. this relationship is clearly the heart of the movie - if it's already emotional in this scene #then they've got to pay that off at the end!!! it's the law!!! otherwise things will just fall flat. i believe in u movie don't let me down

[grinchwrapsupreme]

OUGH thinking about Phillip Morgan's hands as a defining feature of his character.... Phillip tightening the rope that kills Kenneth with his hands... Brandon gently pulling the gloves off of Phillip's hands... Phillip playing the piano with his hands... Phillip opening the champagne bottle for Brandon with his hands... Phillip breaking the glass with his hands... Phillip cutting getting cut on the stem and spreading blood on his hands... Phillip getting his fortune read by his hands... Phillip grabbing and aiming the gun with his hands... "these hands will bring you great fame"

#rope 1948 #phillip morgan #sometimes rope just hits you #was thinking again about how phillip always does the actual physical work when it comes to him and brandon #and how brandon pulling the gloves off for him was a momentary reversal #too early in the movie to realize what a reversal it actually was #actually i would kill for a gifset of all the times brandon deferred to phillip because it wasn't many but it was so so real #like when phillip tells him to turn the light off and he does #or any time brandon looks cowed by phillip #because the fact that brandon actually truly cared about phillip was so strange and so touching #his whole act dropping for a second every time he was worried about or offended by phillip #like babe you are a narcissistic murderer who LOVES to be uppity and superior #and yet you drop every pretense when you see phillip is hurt #remember when brandon told phillip to stop drinking and phillip snapped at him #and brandon actually backed down instantly? #i do #and i think about it constantly #their dynamic was sooooooo so interesting #...maybe I need to watch rope again

[gatalentan]

Jennifer Lopez & Leah Remini in SECOND ACT (2018)

#second act (2018) #leah remini #jennifer lopez #gifalentan #self indulgent gifset just for me #is this movie gay - no #does leah play it like joan has been in love with maya for years - yes #does that make it extremely watchable even tho it's romcom schlock - yes #if u enjoy melissa schemmenti you would enjoy her. its just melissa but a single mom. #but i evangelise this movie even tho its shit bc i am a known shit film enjoyer #if anyone watches it because of me lmk bc i have never spoken to another soul who ahas seen this lol

[sainamoonshine]

I was today years old when I found out that silly goofy deeply unserious « deleted scene » from the end of 2005 Pride and Prejudice is THE ACTUAL ENDING OF THE MOVIE IN THE USA.

They just cut it out for the UK and Canada versions because test audiences told them - entirely correctly - that it was bad and the movie ending was much stronger without it lol

So anyway I found this out while listening to the Pod and Prejudice podcast discussing the movie and for a solid fifteen minutes I was like « what the FUCK » and cringing in embarrassment that the hosts and guest had apparently been bamboozled into thinking a deleted scene was the actual end of the movie

And then I googled « does P&P have a different ending in Canada »

And oh my fucking god it DOES ahahaha what the fuck

#pride and prejudice #pod and prejudice #see I can be forgiven for not knowing that because I have never in my LIFE seen a gifset of this scene #I think we can all agree its not good #I saw it on youtube once and I was like yeeeesh good thing they cut THAT out! #completely out of tone with everything else in the movie imo #and then to find out you guys have to see it every time you watch the film! XD #RIP usamericans but movies are just better in Canafa #thats a fact

[fungi-maestro]

a few fun gifs from True Stories (1986)

#book club #david byrne #true stories #talking heads #True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas #flashing #gif #enjoy the terrible gifs i made while eating lunch the other day and thinking about this movie #can i confess that i cherry picked these gifs because they remind me of ARC.... #arc #anyway please just watch the movie..... i cant possibly sum it up in a gifset that doesn't crash tumblr

[broke-on-books]

☕

The live action Scooby-Doo movies?

I did not see this ask until RIGHT now (first time on desktop since crab day, second time since Nov 5 2020 [which was DOUBLY experience since I got my phone taken the same day]) so I'm going to assume this ask got eaten on mobile because tumblr, HOWEVER you poked a bear with this ask anon (as I'm sure you knew when asking) SO without further ado: my Scooby Doo live action opinions

So when you say 'live action Scooby-Doo movies' I'm assuming you're talking about the James Gunn films, starting with Scooby-Doo (2002) followed by Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, just due to like, generally popularity and also the fact that I have actually seen those films. However shoot another ask if you wanted me to include Curse of the Lake Monster in this (because I will if anyone cares and turn this into a live-action scooby dissertation, i'd just need to like. watch the movie first) But anyways where I'm going with this is that this post is about the Gunn movies aka the ones with SMG, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, and ofc our #1 man, Matthew Lilliard.

Okay so my take on these movies is... complicated. I wouldn't say it's as complicated as my feelings towards SDMI, because I watched the live actions way less as a kid and generally care less about them, but still no matter how much shit I throw at these two movies there are parts that I generally like (even love) that stops me from totally condemning them wholesale. Like the fact that these movies are FUNNY! There's so many moments from this duology that are just beyond iconic "like, that's one of my favorite names!" the whole thing with Scooby in the dress at the airport, ET. CETERA (like I can go on!)

The Gunn movies are genuinely SO fun and I can 100% see and understand how they've stood so well in the public view as a representation of Scooby. HOWEVER, this is where you start to see my problems with them. For the general American, (because that is the audience I'm familiar with) ESPECIALLY millennials and younger, who happen to make up the majority of both people on this site AND people I talk about Scooby with in real life, these movies, and the elements they introduced as "quintessential scooby tropes" are the base of their understanding of the Scooby franchise, along with likely some miscellaneous WAY episodes and maybe SDMI.

Which is where I get pissed off. In the pushing of the narrative of "breaking away" from the Scooby norm, Gunn basically invents (aka totally makes up) an idea of what classic era Scooby was like, cementing an idea of classic Scooby into the public mind that is totally disingenuous and just straight up false. For example, in attempting to portray Daphne as having taken strides to be seen more seriously in solving mysteries and defending herself, it pushes the narrative that in the classic era she WASN'T taken seriously, and only existed as a damsel-in-distress prop of a character, which is just not true??? Like yes, Daphne is clumsy, that's a part of her character, and her friends (because, fun fact, the gang ARE friends) joke about it sometimes because that's what friends DO. Framing that in some kind of sexist "that's all she does" lens is just total bull, especially as gang members fall into secret passageways/get lost etc. in WAY ALL THE DAMN TIME because that's how the plot functions! Like are we calling Velma ditzy for losing her glasses every other episode? Of course not, and Fred falls into passageways all the time, not to MENTION Shaggy and Scooby and all they get up to. Also one last thing on the topic of Daphne, like this idea of her mystery solving skills not being respected by the gang is just so supremely bullshit it amazes me sometimes, especially when she was the LEADER (or leader adjacent) through pretty much all of her appearances in the 1980s [Not that James Gunn could look at '80s era Scooby without spitting on it, but I digress]

AND THIS IS JUST DAPHNE! Like the perceptions pushed towards Fred (and Velma, but mostly Fred) through these movies are just as bad! Like okay, with Fred---In these movies Fred is just an asshole. I hate Gunn Movies!Fred. I mean yeah he can be funny but it's almost always so mean! Almost nothing makes me madder than a mean Fred by the way. If he's putting other gang members down (even halfway, like with his whole "dorky chicks like you turn me on too" line, which... ew) then to me something has gone very, very, VERY, wrong in your basic understanding of Frederick Herman Jones as a character. Like he's the cheerleader! He puts himself in between his friends and danger! He loves nets, and traps, and Elvis impressions, and wrestling, and the trapeze, and cars, and most of all he LOVES sharing the things he loves with his friends! (Sometimes to a bit of an extreme. No one wants to hear about your net facts, Fred) And the live action movies just don't understand that at all. And I know there's maybe something to say I suppose in that some of those aspects of his characterization hadn't been "established yet" by the time "Scooby-Doo" came out in 2002. But it's there if you look. For Fred Jones, being the leader means being the caretaker, (he's the Mom friend what can I say) and any version where he's cruel and arrogant and just DOESN'T CARE about his friends in the way he's shown to in the Gunn movies is just so far from Fred to me it's not even funny. And what makes it even worse for me is that this (or at least something similar) is the idea of Fred that has really spread to the popular culture. Just the "leader", the jock that makes the rules, the one that [insert X adaptation here] finally gave a personality and made interesting (something that has been said more times than I can count for pretty much every gang member, save Shaggy and Scooby).

And I haven't even touched on Velma, and how they gave her a bit of a early 2000s smart superiority girl complex against Daphne, plus the whole makeover thing and etc. etc. The Gunn Movies are pretty much what would happen if you took someone who hadn't seen Scooby since they were 7 years old (and honestly had a pretty negative outlook against it then) and tried to "fix" it, only his memory was so bad he just made up problems (and threw in a good helping of early 2000s style sexism with it) convincing pretty much the entirety of the popular culture that said problems exist and that Gunn was absolutely brilliant for fixing them (and then bringing up said "problems" whenever anyone wants to talk about Scooby) and this entire rant has been without even fucking MENTIONING what is probably the reason you, anonymous tumblr user sent this ask in the first place, to I, Swishy "Scrappy Doo Redemption Arc" Broke-on-books (dot tumblr dot com), which is his HIGHLY SUCESSFUL and utterly sadistic character assassination of my number one man, Scrappy Doo.

And I am going to try my damnedest here not to get totally into my highly passionate opinions over what James Gunn did to Scrappy in the first of his Scooby movies and how thoroughly it has pissed me the fuck off because I have been writing this post for over an hour now and if we start to really get into my feelings on this topic it will certainly be a couple of hours more but like. That Fucking Bitch. I give James Gunn personally a solid eighty-five percent of the blame for making my life as a Scrappy Doo fan UTTERLY unbearable with this stupid fucking movie alone, and just his Scrappy crimes would honestly be enough for me to say that I hate this movie, not even considering the numerous Scooby crimes I've been talking about here for the past million paragraphs, but the part about this movie that makes me the MOST mad the most pissed off is that it's actually a good fucking movie. James Gunn wrote two hilarious and entertaining movies that have become beloved in the popular culture for their successes in that arena, while at the same time pissing all over the core themes and messages of the franchise of which it was based, that of friendship.

TLDR; The Live Action Scooby Doo movies (written by James Gunn) are highly entertaining and fun pieces of media to watch, and are widely loved by the general public and looked at with fondness and nostalgia because of that. However, as a hardcore Scooby Doo fan (writing that phrase sounds so ridiculous but oh well) the existence of these movies and their impact on the popular culture can be extremely frustrating (despite any personal nostalgia said fan may have) due to their spreading of a misinformed picture of what "typical Scooby Doo" looks like. This picture is especially frustrating due to the fabrication or exaggeration of problems present in classic Scooby (such as sexism in regards to the girls), as well as giving more ammunition to other problems in Scooby fandom (such as oversexualization, and sexualization in general, which no one wants to see in regards to their children's cartoons, like HONESTLY.) Discussions of sexism and sexualization in Scooby (both of which ARE present and are issues, although not at their worst in WAY) can often lead to an overlooking of the issues that are very present and clear in WAY and have continued since then with far too little resistance (I'm 100% talking about the racism here) HOWEVER that topic deserves at least a dozen posts of its own that I am no way informed or qualified enough to even begin to think about writing. The Gunn Movies are frustrating to many longtime Scooby fans because of these reasons, but for me, and fellow Scrappy Doo fans there is also the added aspect of the demonization of Scrappy Doo in the live action movies and the affects that has had on the popular culture as well, making it uniquely inhospitable to like or enjoy the character of Scrappy. End post.

#that last sentence is such a weird tone jump btw but its because the topic flowed one way and i had to jump it back to a summary to actually #finish this monster of a post #SO anon i hope you're happy with this and this makes my opinion make some more sense. and you or anyone else is more than welcome to ask me #questions about anything i said here or my opinion on any and everything scooby related (and not) so if theres a specific aspect of this yo #would like expanded on i can definitely 100% do that for you or anyone who cares #also there are many complexities towards my feelings on these movies that i didnt get to hit on despite the monstrous size of this rant (il #check word count later but im not gonna fuck with it now because im terrified of deleting this post by accident) one of which is my lasting #fondness towards all of the actors in this movie. YES including freddie prinze jr. i may have major issues with his fred but hes also playe #characters i really really like. for example hes the va in this tv show i LOVE and havent watched in like 10 months despite the fact im on #the last season because freddie's character dies in like 7 episodes and i am NOT AT ALL emotionally prepared for that on any level because #that is my fictional father goddamnit!!!!! #also every buffy the vampire slayer gifset that crosses my dash gets me closer and closer to watching it because oh my god daphne!!!!! that #sarah michelle gellar thats daphne oh my god!!!! also i went and saw guardians of the galaxy 3 with my friend (despite not having seen a #marvel movie in 2+ years AND holding a grudge over james gunn's scooby doo crimes)[the things you do for {platonic} love amirite?] #and the title sequence SAID linda cardellini was in it and i got SO excited i was looking everywhere for her it was like wheres waldo in th #discount movie theatre FOR REAL and i just could NOT for the life of me find her (turns out she was VAing the ferret) so in a way linda mad #me cry with that role. whatever. istg i get so off topic i forget what i was even talking about but ANYWAYS <<<1 of my fave english words b #dubs (my favorite spanish word is el amanacer btw. it means sunrise. also burbujas because its bubbles and saying it sounds like bubbles #popping) BUT. AS I WAS SAYING. SEND ME ASKS IF YOU WANT SCOOBY DOO OPINIONS. DEAR GOD I GET SCATTERBRAINED SOMETIMES. #scooby doo #answered #anonymous #blah

[ncytiri]

Pablo Schreiber as Jim Lovell

FIRST MAN (2018) DIR. DAMIEN CHAZELLE

#first man #pablo schreiber #jim lovell #damien chazelle #filmedit #userfilm #filmtvcentral #i rewatched this the other day & i rmr'd my beloved john 117 was in it so i just had to gif him!! <3 #he was barely in it but he was still great as jimbo :') #also if u see this gifset youre legally obligated to watch this movie because i need to yell at ppl abt it #kayla gifs

[hiddenbeks]

should i. study french. or go home and watch atonement

#el.txt #i have a french exam this week and i skipped several classes during the course bc they were so early in the morning #i just couldnt do it. so staying at campus to study would be the smart move bc i dont remember Shit #but i just got an email that the atonement dvd is now available at my local library.. #never seen it before. even tho i know its like probably one of those films that everyone should see #but i saw a gifset of the fountain scene a couple days ago n was like. ok hm i really need to watch this (with bisexual intent) #feel like an uncultured fraud as a media studies major sometimes when there r so many like... iconic & classic movies i havent seen #and Yes movies aren't the only media that exists and i can be a media studies major who specializes in something else #and Yes one can also argue that there is no such thing as a definitive list of 'films/shows/books everyone should watch/read' #but still. i wanna watch more films. to broaden my knowledge on films. and because watching films is nice #also fun fact i'd never seen mean girls in its entirety before yesterday. #i remember seeing maybe half of it on tv when i was a kid #but my parents wanted to watch the news or sth so they switched the channel #then some time later i saw it was on tv again n was like 'oh hey i never saw this fully' #n one of my parents was like 'yea i sure hope so its a stupid movie' and changed the channel to watch the news probably #then i just forgot abt it until i finally watched it from start to finish yesterday with no one to interrupt me!!

[oflgtfol]

sorry im going crazay over john wick of all things but the card game scene when the synth music - i think its specifically blood code - is just stripped back to the low tones and slowed down in the background building suspense and then the fighting eventually breaks out and blood code starts full force and its just the action set to the beat of this sogn im throwing up

#songs so good they make me wanna watch fucking john wick of all movies again #sorry im so caught on that because like #a few months ago my mom was like. arent you a big john wcik fan #and i was like. what on earth did i ever do that gave you that impression. i have never once in my life watched a john wick movie #but well. i finally have now. and its the fourth one of all the movies. i have not seen 1 2 or 3 #im literally just admiring the cinematography and the music like its so good Imagine if other movies were like this. man. #i cannot wait till clips and gifsets start popping up i need you all to see waht the fuck im talking about #but also again a large part of the experience was seeing it in theaters with the bass absolutely reverberating through you. Gawd #maybe i just need to go to an edm concert #brot posts #music

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

hate that i'm out of school and still can't do all of the things i want to do, but not because of time restrictions, just because i don't have the energy anymore

#i wanna make some yt videos and i wanna set up the mmni ship tournament that i said i'd do forever ago #and i wanna queue up more incorrect mmni quotes because i haven't posted on that blog in a hot sec #and i wanna catch up on reading fics and i wanna finish the fic i'm halfway through #and i wanna keep planning the big wip so that i can start writing that too #and i wanna get back into reading books because i haven't read a non-school book in a long time #and i wanna make gifsets and i wanna watch all of the movies and shows that i have on my watchlist #and i wanna finish the music arrangement i was working on too #and i'm sure there's more stuff as well #but i just! can't do any of it because i don't have the energy

[hotvintagepoll]

Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS tournament! We are now finished with the Hot & Vintage Men Tournament; The Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament is ongoing. Submissions for hot vintage women are now closed, but we are accepting propaganda for those already in the bracket.

Round 5 of the Hot & Vintage Women Tournament was posted Wednesday, May 1st, and will last a week. All polls—including ongoing polls, previous rounds, old tournaments, the various shadow brackets, and fun mini polls—can be found in the #hotvintagepoll tag. Every poll in the Hot & Vintage Women Tournament will be tagged with the hottie in it if you need to search for someone in particular. For all Round 5 polls, click this.

FAQs:

“Where is [my favorite hot woman]?” It depends. Have you checked all the polls in the tag? Have you done a tag search for her? If you still haven’t found her, either nobody submitted her or she did not fit the criteria of being a movie woman from 1910-1970.

“Can I still submit hot women?” No, the submission window has closed. Please do not send in women you wish had made it into the bracket. I can’t do anything with those asks and they just make me sad.

“I have additional propaganda for the hot women!” Great! Send me an ask or reblog the poll and add your propaganda to it. You can also tag me in posts (this is the best way to submit gifsets or fancams). I don’t boost all the propaganda I see or receive, but I try to boost the best of the best.

If you’re submitting propaganda for your hot woman, I don’t accept propaganda that’s from beyond the end of this tournament’s era (ie don’t send me pics of them from before 1910 or after 1970). I also don’t accept propaganda of TV appearances unless it’s clearly a cameo where they’re playing themselves. Please break long asks full of photos up into a few short ones so I don't clog everyone's dashes. I watch every video I receive to tag for trigger warnings, so please don't send me super long videos.

I don’t post or boost negative propaganda about any hot woman. If you really hate that a certain hot woman is winning, send me positive propaganda for their hot opponent. If you think a hot woman shouldn’t even be included in the tournament because of scummy things she did in her lifetime, please read my take on it here.

If I see repetitive, trolling, and/or bigoted remarks in the comments, I may block you from this bracket. If you want to point out a hot woman’s flaws or misdemeanors, that’s fine, but if I see consistent bad-faith trolling, you will be blocked.

The views expressed in the propaganda are not my own. I don’t submit my own propaganda, and I don’t change what’s submitted beyond fixing obvious spelling mistakes. If you hate a poll bio or a pic, let me know and send me something I can use instead. Thoughtless bitching gets blocked.

"Where are the hot men?" Most of them are in the shadow realm! Toshiro Mifune was crowned the winner of the Hot & Vintage Men Tournament, and the rest were banished below the earth, where shadows creep and the hours grow long. You can find all the round 1 matchups here (thank you @markwatnae!), or you can do a tag search to find out what happened to a specific hot man.

"Tell me more about this shadow realm?" There is too much lore. Send me an ask about this.

“My FAQ isn’t on here :(” send me an ask! I love hearing from you guys—just please check these basics first.

Thank you for being here! Enjoy the tournament.

If you want to search through the different rounds of the tournaments, or see the schedule for future tournaments, I'm including links under the cut.

Relevant tags:

First round of the hot men—#round 1 archive, #round 1 blog

Second round of the hot men—#round 2 archive, #round 2 blog

Third round of the hot men—#round 3 archive, #round 3 blog

Fourth round of the hot men—#round 4 archive, #round 4 blog

Quarterfinals of the hot men—#round 5 archive, #round 5 blog

Semifinals—#TWO KINGS archive, #TWO KINGS blog

Finals—#hot men finals

First round of the hot women—#ladies 1 archive, ladies 1 blog

Second round of the hot women—#ladies 2 archive, #ladies 2 blog

Third round of the hot women—#ladies 3 archive, #ladies 3 blog

Fourth round of the hot women—#ladies 4 archive, #ladies 4 blog

Other featured tags: #housekeeping (organization updates), #family lore (personal anecdotes in asks relating to the hotties or stories about sharing this poll with family members), #hollywood creatures (pets named after old movie stars), and #silly times (what it says on the tin).

Upcoming Tournaments, in order:

Ultimate Hottie Tournament (top brackets of the hot men & hot women competing together)

May Surprise

Scrungly Little Guys tournament (gender neutral)

TBD: Horror Hotties (Frankensteins, Draculas, Brides, etc.)

TBD: Dandy Detectives (Marples, Sherlocks, Nancy Drews, etc.)

fun mini polls that pits sets of characters from the same movie together, like the Philadelphia Story or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ones (these can be found in the #minis tag)

#new masterpost! #housekeeping #ladies 5

[kameonerd566]

I am finally done with s2 of Good Omens and

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#i usually dont mind spoiling things for myself #in fact thats how I usually get around to watching most shows and movies is i see juicy takes here on tumblr and then go watch it to do lik #research or whatever #but oh man i do have my regrets this time #first of al yall can probably tell im not well because i'm talking with aziraphels speech pattern rn but besides that #its like i ate wayyy to much dessert and spoiled my dinner :( #it was amazing #but if I hadn't known about the breakup and what was soming ans how nina and maggie talk to crowley and the whole thing with megatron or #whatever his name is #I think i would have anjoyed it so much more bc after finally watching the kiss for real and not in a gifset #i was just like woah i feel NOTHING right now #and besides that i havent seen anyone talking about how blatently obvious it was that azi didnt want to go if he wasnt going with crowley!! #he pleades nervously with megatron!! he doesnt want to get in teh elevator! he tries to come up with and excuse! the bookshop! he cant leav #but then he begrudgingly does get in when he heares about the second coming #and i think that hauntingly sick grin he has in teh elevator credits is because hes conccocting a plan #but i agree with crowley so much that there is so much azi just blatently doesnt understand #and i am unsure how he is supposed to have any sort of character dev when hes isolated up in heaven #maybe the absence of everything he loves will drive him crazy??? #idk but goddamn #i wish I could put all my memories in a fly and watch that whole thing again haha #so good #good omens

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

ok well you all should watch student body it was fun <3 it's also bad but that's irrelevant, it's only 90 minutes long, i've watched worse movies that went on longer and DIDN'T let the main girl get covered in blood at the end killing her predatory math teacher. you know.

#are there gifs. should i even bother looking #wait i never reblogged gifs of bodies bodies bodies. #is there a gifset of the scene where. whats her name. SOPHIE. is like 'jordan you hate listen to alice's podcast...' #she was like stop bullying her about her podcast let her have her shitty podcast!! #meanwhile alice is just like crying because she's spent the whole movie crying wearing those stupid glow stick necklaces and being annoying #while hot. #anyway. watch student body. also it's not my fault if you hate it #beth.txt

[icharchivist]

it’s funny when i was a teen i was not following mainstream stuff because i was deep into ~i’m not like the other teens~ (and just liked stuff that weren’t mainstream anyway) but nowadays my biggest argument to not follow mainstream is that we turned every big things into pure FOMO where if you don’t watch something big right away you will know everything about it in the couple of months that follow and it will suck any enjoyement out of it if you decide to watch it later and it’s honestly pretty depressing.

#and i don't mean like knowing vague spoilers #i'm going to watch the new Thor for a bonding activity #i don't really care about Marvel and skipped all of phase 3 and half of phase 2 and 4 #but it became a bonding activity to watch the newest movies even though i have very little interest #i figured i should at least watch the 3rd Thor that i skipped in case i needed it and all #and i remember reading some interesting takes about it #but it was legitimately depressing to just have the feeling i've seen every single thing in gifset #there was genuinely nothing that i thought 'oh i didnt see that before' #the movie is objectively okay with better themes and directing than most mcumovies #and i came out of it underwhelmed because i saw all of it before #and idk it's sad as hell #i've also been feeling it for like. TV shows i am just midly interested in that i'm forced to bing on release date #like holy shit this is not the type of emotional involvement i want with those shows they're not engaging enough for this #(at least to me personally it doesn't talk about quality because the stuff i love the most qualify as trashy) #and it genuinely annoys me that i have to pour the same energy into mainstream stuff i only slightly care about #than i would pour into stuff i truly love #like when the new S/tranger t/hing season came out at the same time i wanted to follow up the last update in one of my mobage #i'm mostly following mindlessly and i don't care enough about it esp not how ppl talk about it online #but i had to postpone something i really wanted to read bc i was already seeing major spoilers online #and i think it's a shame that a show based on suspense get its spoilers everywhere on day One #i've spent yeas fighting the edgelord in me always saying i didn't care about mainstream just because i don't 'care for normies' #but now i'm circling back to it on the account of 'it makes social media unbearable and makes it sounds like homework and it sucks' #so yeah pretty sad i'm becoming an edgelord again that's it #ichasalty #ichatalks

[coquelicoq]

Hi! I'm liking the gifs and comments you're sharing about this Rosaline movie (?), would you mind sharing where you watched it? Also, how did you find it? Thanks!

i am in the US and watched it on hulu. from what i see in the tag, it may also be available via disney+?

how i came to watch this movie is an even more pathetic story than usual. i saw one (1) gifset reblogged by a mutual (it was this one), put it in the back of my mind, and then like a week later when i had insomnia i went back through several pages of said mutual's blog looking for that post to get the name of the movie. because of that one single gifset. what can i say? i'm only human and gifmakers have incredible powers of suggestion over my psyche.

#rosaline (2022) #asks #anon #anyway thank u 2 katymacky for that one gifset u rbed <3 #i just think it's funny that he finds it weird that she would be afraid of all fish as opposed to just some fish #that's not weird at all! that makes total sense dario what are you even talking about?? #all fish are slimy. all fish are darting through the water. whatever it is that scares her about fish it's probably intrinsic to fishness #in general #but okay i hate to admit this because it is extremely ridiculous but. i think what actually got me from that gifset #was that i could tell exactly what his accent would be based on the way that her mouth looked when she was imitating him saying 'water' #THAT is how you get me to watch a movie. don't tell anyone though or they'll all be doing it