here, take my jacket: cancer, pisces, taurus, libra, aquarius
well damn jackie, I don't control the weather: gemini, scorpio, capricorn, aries, virgo, sagittarius, leo
That Sarah’s in London right now trying to kill the Castor original. If Castor did translate the book, they’re gonna be right on her heels, and we need to know who gave them that book.
rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie
ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks
So fucking much this.
PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do.
PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.
I was one of them.
rocky horror was a lifeline.
y’all have NO IDEA how isolated we were before the internet, before mobile phones. imagine never having an unsupervised conversation with your friends. literally never. you were at school, or you were on the landline in the same room with your parents. imagine never having access to reading material that wasn’t mainstream-published. imagine never seeing a video that wasn’t network tv or hollywood. imagine every single bit of information you had access to being thoroughly filtered and vetted by the majority-mainstream. imagine all this under ronald reagan and margaret thatcher and the ussr and a divided germany, the cold war still threatening to go nuclear and violent religious extremists rising in the middle east, a bunch of dirty little wars festering in central and south america, china gutting mongolia, north korea defiantly starving to death…
it felt like the literal end of the world, and you were completely fucking alone.
and then there was this cultural phenomenon. this unapologetically senseless movie, morbid and silly and full of genderweird and catchy songs and cheesy tropes. the places that did the midnight showings were financially unimportant, out of the way, under the radar, and it was safe to be weird there. you could convince your parents to let you go because you’d go in a group, and since it was at a theater or college cultural center they knew you wouldn’t be drinking and doing drugs and having sex (Just Say No!) and you were technically under adult supervision – but the theater employees were generally college students and didn’t give a fuck as long as you didn’t wreck the place or get arrested.
you could dress up, you could be loud, you could play with gender, you could camp it up and let your hair down. you could be free. and for just one night of the week, you could forget that it was the end of the world.
too lazy; didn’t read: you’re talking out your ass and you need to clench up.
i went to a very open and sexually liberal performing arts highschool in the aughts like twenty years later, and RHPS was still a wonderful thing to experience as a teenager sorting out gender and sexuality issues. i was surrounded by girls trading yaoi comics and boys trading yuri comics and theater kids that had every line of RENT memorized. and i saw RHPS in ninth grade, i think, and made sure to go to showings nearly every year thereafter, at older friend’s parties and at college media screenings and outdoor park showings and in independent theaters. i still go when i can. i think everyone over fourteen or fifteen should. it’s a piece of history and it’s a very vibrantly alive and relevant cultural tradition, and the atmosphere is so weird and so welcoming, and the movie is so profoundly silly. it’s absurd to me that anyone could say we’re done with it.
Bolded, above. I was in uni just as the internet became a way to connect. It was still so new, not yet a part of our lives as fully as it is now.
RHPS was freedom. It was your neighbour’s roommate in gold hot pants and no apologies, being able to kiss your girlfriend in the middle of a crowd and not be attacked, it was corsets on DMABs and three-piece suits on DFABs, and everyfuckingthing was queered. Right there, on stage, in living colour.
It was amazing.
Don’t sneer at the old guard, kidlets. Every generation forges the media it needs at the time.
Always reblog this. Especially now at the 40th anniversary.
Reminder: I grew up in *Manhattan.* My parents, in the grand scheme of things, were pretty liberal and open and accepting.
I still desperately needed RHPS as my place to be weird and discover myself.
It was important, and that importance should not be discounted.
We just rechead the 1k posts milestone, and we thought: “Why not celebrate with the EBro squad, by organizing a lil giveaway?”.
PRIZES:
One winner will receive your choice of the following:
A Region 1 copy of X Company and Les Loups DVD’s
A Region 2 copy of Café de Flore and Frisson des Collines DVD’s
RULES:
you don’t have to be following us
only reblogs count as entries (likes are bookmarks)
you can reblog this as many times as you’d like
no giveaway blogs
winner will be randomly selected
FAQ:
Is the giveaway international? Yes. Do multiple reblogs actually increase my chances? Yes. It would help us tremendously if you could keep track of the number of times you reblog it and either tag it with that number or message us. Don’t make up a random number because we will check! If I win, do I have to give you my address? Yes, we would prefer so.
The giveaway ends December 1, 2015. Good luck pups!
The whole army. A pair of 20" A Customs, 20" late 70’s rock ride, 19" Custom K China Boy, 18" PZ &‘keyhole era’ crashes, pair of 15" Z3 hats, and the oddball of the group, a 22" #Paiste ride. #Zildjian #cymbals #spottheoddballs #wildthymestudios
So this appeared today in Instagram (post here), per the HTs in the post, Evelyne will be participating in a new Movie called “Tonic Inmobility” from the Director Nathalie Teirlinck, to be realease in early 2016.
The summary of the movie reads as this:
“Alice leads her routine life as an escort and dodges deeper social
contact. When she’s forced to take care of her son after the death of
her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets
confronted with emotional emptiness in her life.“ (source: Savage Film)
It is not known what Evelyne’s role will be, hopefully the Lead one =)
By the HTs in the post it looks like she’s currently in Antwerp Belgium , where the producing company is from, this movie has European funding so I imagine that she’s there to start shooting (Our girl is a busy woman).
Unfortunately what this means for Orphan Black is that Delphine is unlikely to return in S4, it doesn’t look like Evelyne will have time to shoot OB until January at least, so Delphine might be alive but we probably won’t see her at least in the current season.
EDIT: According to this site the movie will be filmed in November
