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What do you want? Why… the pleasure of your company, of course.

#jamie moriarty #joan watson #moriarty's mind: this is how i get my fantasy threesome d/d/s situation with sherlock and watson to become a reality #joan's mind: kill bite maim kill kill punch fuck you fuck you fuck you #elementary #cbs elementary #elementasquee

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Hiii! This question is kinda apropos of nothing but I’m curious: who is the person in your profile pic? Every time I scroll past it a little too fast I think it’s Alan Alda/Hawkeye haha

no worries (i think alan alda would be honoured, if i remember correctly, he mentioned meeting him once as a kid in his memoir). it's this fellow:

his name was conrad veidt, a famous german actor of the weimar republic, later escaped to britain and then the us to get away from the nazis with his jewish wife, Ilona Prager. he also starred in two pro-jewish films shortly after the nazis came to power in 1933 (the wandering jew, and jew süss, but i confess i haven't watched these yet, so i cannot say how well they aged) -- generally did a few films that were about Social Issues that came down on the side of the oppressed, including the woman's crusade, and the merry-go-round, as well as... (see below)

famous for some very important movies: 1. played the lead in the first movie to openly portray gay men (anders als die andern), which was produced by magnus hirschfeld and the institute of sexology in a bid to get support for legalising homosexuality -- it's free on youtube! also 105 years old, can you believe... 2. played the somnambulist in the cabinet of dr caligari, and generally was every vamp-girls/boys dream back in the day, playing in a lot of the german expressionist films and proto-horror films, and generally not afraid to play offbeat, uncomfortable roles that weren't about being an attractive leading man (eerie tales, the hands of orlac, waxworks, the man who laughs) 3. after he moved to the us, he was very happy to portray nazis to give them realism, and he plays major heinrich strasser in casablanca in 1942 (his second-last film)

i believe he was in a total of 115 films, but quite a few of them between when he started in 1917 and 1930 are lost (der januskopf, i think of you often....murnau, bela lugosi, and conrad veidt, in an adaptation of jekyll and hyde??? arghhh)

other fun facts, did occasionally crossdress and in fact this may have contributed a little to his first divorce, as his wife found him and a bunch of his friends wearing dresses one night after she came back from work -- notably conrad was in her new dress. she told a friend that this was the breaking point, but it may have partially been a joke. they did divorce though

was also at one point called the prettiest girl in berlin in print, good for him

was probably bisexual, although having said that i've actually never read why people think this -- so for now, he was a mensch and a great ally to a lot of people, a little on the queerer side in all things

i do follow a fair few conrad veidt blogs on here, but i don't talk about him often, it's one of those "am a fan, but keeping it mostly to the chest" kind of things with him -- however, as you can tell, very happy to give the Info when asked!

that's the man, the girl, the pretty boy: mr conrad veidt!

#conrad veidt #really i ought to get a book on him to fill in the gaps in my knowledge #a lot of the time im happy to just chill with what i know and different articles but.. i like a good book #weimar republic #weimar berlin #anders als die andern #queer history #queer cinema #cabinet of dr caligari #casablanca

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Apologizes to the people who follow me for the person I will become when Cobra kai season 6 comes out

#us ck people have been dormant for a hot second......

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butterfly character archetype: seeing the beauty in the world, wanting to replicate that within themself and how they move through that world, wanting also perhaps to share that idea in whatever way they're capable of it -- be it their personality, a particular skill, a philosophy, not usually really paying attention to the finer rules (like money, legality, time-keeping, norms of "polite" society), crucially cannot survive unless someone with more pragmatism takes them under their wing because they're delicate souls not adaptable to a society that grinds people beneath the wheel. if alone, at best, they'll simply diminish into pale shadows of themselves, but if someone is there to stabilise them, they'll possibly be okay and they'll make others better

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

#and queercoded very often #gomez addams #a rare woman version of this is dani in the lito/hernando/dani dynamic #you'd think it was lito and granted he is that in the wider polycule but dani in the smaller construct #lito and hernando would burn buildings down to protect her #the casanova (2005 david tennant) of characters if its a tragedy #macleane in plunkett and macleane ofc #and the rare *actually extremely skilled at one thing* dr barry in an adaptation worth its salt #hawkeye pierce is adjacent to this trope in that he embodies this guy but he's in a sliiiightly different story #fiction #narrative

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gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

#me when i went to see cabaret and my godfather (nicely) said i looked somewhat disturbing #and one of the performers said i looked gorgeous

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[image ID / an answer by @le-red-queen: Butterfly character archetype: Mustn't be ground at the Wheel /End ID]

NOOOOOO THAT'S IT EXACTLY!!!!!!

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

#gomez addams #a rare woman version of this is dani in the lito/hernando/dani dynamic #you'd think it was lito and granted he is that in the wider polycule but dani in the smaller construct #lito and hernando would burn buildings down to protect her #the casanova (2005 david tennant) of characters if its a tragedy #macleane in plunkett and macleane ofc #and the rare *actually extremely skilled at one thing* dr barry in an adaptation worth its salt #hawkeye pierce is adjacent to this trope in that he embodies this guy but he's in a sliiiightly different story #fiction #narrative

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Job interviewer: what about your husband, is he currently employed?

Morticia: he's going through a bad patch at the moment. but it's not his fault.

Job interviewer: Of course not. *sighs* what is he? a loafer? a hopeless layabout? a shiftless dreamer?

Morticia: ... not anymore :( :( :(

@creepysora

Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

#gomez addams #a rare woman version of this is dani in the lito/hernando/dani dynamic #you'd think it was lito and granted he is that in the wider polycule but dani in the smaller construct #lito and hernando would burn buildings down to protect her #the casanova (2005 david tennant) of characters if its a tragedy #macleane in plunkett and macleane ofc #and the rare *actually extremely skilled at one thing* dr barry in an adaptation worth its salt #hawkeye pierce is adjacent to this trope in that he embodies this guy but he's in a sliiiightly different story #fiction #narrative

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Character Type been thinking about with @gjdraws that also means a lot to me that i don't talk about enough: foppish/pretty, full of lust for life, absolutely useless in most situations although may have one incredibly well-developed skill, flitters from situation to situation attempting to make things work, usually terrible with money, either struggles through life due to the inherent way society around them refusing to accept their philosophies/inherent way of moving through the world, or finds a person/people who realise how needed their joie de vivre is to simply living a good life beyond inherent pragmatism. it's all good being excellent at things, but you need a silly little fellow with you to make it worthwhile

#a rare woman version of this is dani in the lito/hernando/dani dynamic #you'd think it was lito and granted he is that in the wider polycule but dani in the smaller construct #lito and hernando would burn buildings down to protect her #the casanova (2005 david tennant) of characters if its a tragedy #macleane in plunkett and macleane ofc #and the rare *actually extremely skilled at one thing* dr barry in an adaptation worth its salt #hawkeye pierce is adjacent to this trope in that he embodies this guy but he's in a sliiiightly different story #fiction #narrative

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Emma 1x01

#pitch perfect comedy #emma woodhouse #mr knightley #jlm #romola garai

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#hawkeye pierce #there are not enough people who talk to themselves in shows #mash

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"there's something that i say quite often now. i started saying it when i detransitioned, because i was pondering what it meant to me: and i say there is joy in reinvention - and what i mean by that is that i experience detrans joy. i have experienced a happiness that i never thought was possible before, through the rediscoverng of my own identity. and what i want to impress on people is that gender joy can thrive at any stage, whether that's trans joy or detrans joy." - lucy kartikasari

#queer stuff #trans stuff #detransition #queer politics #supporting our detrans siblings #joy in reinvention #Youtube

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There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

#being aroace in any fandom ✌

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Some Morning after breakfast 🍳🥓🍞

#it's fine he can eat out of daniel's lap #that's what he wants anyway #ALSO IM SORRY BUT THE TATTOOOOO 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 #lawrusso #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #lawrusso fanart #tkk fanart

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Best thing about Cobra kai is that it's the absolute worst & saddest version of Daniel and Johnny post karate kid franchise. Like a Johnny who never got over and has even regressed past his karate kid 1 development. A Daniel who has never gotten over the karate kid 3. And then they have gay sex about it. The nasty kind.

#daniel larusso #johnny lawrence #lawrusso #cobra kai #yea exactly

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

#my brain #✌ #and then burn out

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alistair, while pretending to be sherlock's dad: "stubborn. criminally so. always was. i remember when he was a boy he'd climb the fence around our property and walk from post to post. i warned him it was dangerous, but he…. wouldn't listen. then he falls and, you know, lands on his wrist. ugly business, bone jutting through his wrist. but despite the pain he set the bone and wrapped the wound himself. took to wearing long-sleeved shirts for the next few days. all to keep his father from telling him that he was right. […] ended up with a scar, covered it with one of his barmaid tattoos if memory serves."

joan, later: "[...] never noticed that scar before [...]. how'd you get it?"

sherlock: "boyhood misadventure. fell off a fence. compound fracture. hence the scar."

sherlock, to a victim: "my father packed me off to boarding school when i was just eight years old. i was a little bit of a know-it-all, well... massive know-it-all, actually. turned a lot of the other boys at the school against me. especially one by the name of anders larson. over the course of the next year anders took his anger out on me in a myriad cruel and terrible ways- nothing close to what you experienced, of course, but... it seemed worth mentioning, because, yousee... the more anders hurt me, the more i felt gratitude that he was actually paying attention to me. that in tormenting me he was attempting to correct what i knew to be wrong with myself. one day, after a particularly brutal lesson - it left me in a very bad way - a teacher asked me who was responsible. i said i'd fallen down the stairs. funny the things that we do for the people that we care about"

joan, later: "any of it true?"

sherlock: "I went to boarding school"

#cbs elementary #elementasquee #elementary #sherlock holmes #THE TRUTHS WITHIN THE LIES WITHIN THE TRUTHS WITHIN THE LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ON THIS #MANY MANY THOTS ON SENSITIVE BOY BECOMES MAN WHO FIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO CANT FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES #AND THEN MISDIRECTS EVERY TIME IT GETS TOO CLOSE TO HIS LIVED REALITY #also *barmaid tattoos* jlm you're the hottest man on tv

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in episode 4 we are reminded that sherlock did heroin and that he was "seeking oblivion" as well as the clear shame he feels and fear of opening up to people he respects

in episode 5 we focus more on joan, another episode though of sherlock's disgust at the idea of supposed caretakers (in this case doctors) abusing their positions

in episode 6 joan challenges sherlock to open up, and learns (through a secondhand source) that he was unable to face his father to the point of dressing a compound fracture himself as a child

a pattern im noticing in these first three episodes of elementary is how it feels like sherlock's relationship with "irene" is being set up, or rather, how sherlock is the kind of person who would have been an easy mark for someone like moriarty in the first place:

in episode 1 he sympathises with the mentally ill man who was manipulated and violated by his therapist

in episode 2 he recognises that the one woman is too kind and needs to be more wary of her sister's intentions against her

in episode 3 he becomes fooled by a young man, because he projects victimhood onto him

#cbs elementary #elementary #elementasquee #sherlock holmes