#Nine and a half Weeks

[jobooksncoffee]

People! —Did you know? @cumbercurlygirl and @kameodouglas’s masterpiece , Nine and a Half Weeks is now complete!! It’s done!!! I’m so excited! (and grateful to the authors!) This is an EPIC fic! A coming of age for a young, insecure, neglected Sherlock, who is chosen by a hot, worldly, bisexual English doctor for a nine and a half week adventure of self awareness, acceptance and tons of personal growth - along with plenty of inventive ehem, personal experiences - This John is fantastic, irrepressible and unrepentant. Did I say Masterpiece? From the first chapter, Authors hook us immediately. There is whomp and fluff and serious conversations and a pride parade to remember! Read this one! You will thank this team!

Congratulations!! 🥂🍾

@cumbercurlygirl and @kameodouglas !! You did it!! ♥️♥️

@totallysilvergirl , @elwinglyre , @missdeliadili , @chinike , @shiplocks-of-love , @a-victorian-girl , @inevitably-johnlocked , @peanitbear

Please spread the word! ♥️♥️

[fertileground]

9½ weeks, 1986 (dir. adrian lyne)

[vintage-tigre]

[denimbex1986]

'When the companies behind Ira Sachs’ new drama about the shifting currents of intimacy in a troubled love triangle submitted Passages to the Motion Picture Association ratings board, they probably anticipated an R.

But the MPA came back with an NC-17 rating, forcing the distributor to release the film (which premiered at Sundance earlier this year) unrated rather than risk commercial marginalization or impose cuts that would diminish its intensity...

Let’s be clear: Passages — which Mubi opened Aug. 4 in Los Angeles and New York before expanding to other cities in the weeks to come — is a movie with a generous amount of sex, both gay and straight. But it’s neither particularly explicit nor remotely gratuitous, even if it’s frequently quite hot.

The sex is, above all, integral to the movie’s emotional texture, to the way the characters navigate their volatile relationships, the way they express their feelings and explore their connections through their bodies as they come together and pull apart. In other words, the film’s candor in depicting sex and nudity nudges it closer to European cinema than American.

The ratings controversy around Sachs’ movie comes just as Oppenheimer has been generating talk on social media and in the press about being the first Christopher Nolan movie to feature sex scenes. The trysts between Cillian Murphy as scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as his lover both before and during the former’s marriage earned the release an R rating, which is standard given the glimpses of sweaty flesh on view.

But the fact that people are talking about it at all — and no one has been talking about it louder than Nolan himself — just underlines how squeamish American movies are about sex and sensuality.

The sex scenes in both those movies serve a clear narrative purpose. In Nolan’s film, they convey the magnetism of Oppenheimer and its ultimately devastating effect on a woman who, while not really on screen long enough to acquire much complexity, is defined by her intellectual curiosity, political radicalism and carnal desire.

The actual intercourse — once during the affair and once years later, as a haunting specter conjured in a security hearing — is brief and somewhat mechanical, while a long post-coital discussion has Murphy and Pugh sitting naked in armchairs on opposite sides of a room, carefully positioned and framed to keep crotches out of sight. The scene looks like an interview for an admin job at a nudist colony. It’s anything but erotic.

The scene in the Paris-set Passages that evidently had the MPA clutching their pearls, by contrast, is erotically and emotionally charged, raunchy and tender. It takes place after narcissistic German filmmaker Tomas (Franz Rogowski) has strayed outside his marriage to English print-maker Martin (Ben Whishaw) with Agathe (Adèle Exarchapoulos), a French schoolteacher he met at the wrap party for his latest feature.

Back in bed with Martin again, Tomas more or less offers himself up, resulting in sex that could be a bid for forgiveness, a reconciliation, a sad acknowledgment of enduring feelings or a manipulative attempt by Tomas to keep a hold on his husband while continuing to explore a new relationship. Or it could be all of those things.

Like the movie’s other sex scenes, it’s dramatically loaded, and although it’s shot in a single take with no artful draping of the sheets, it’s hardly graphic...

The prim attitude toward sex in American movies goes beyond MPA rulings to Hollywood itself. Sex and unapologetic sensuality have been all but banished from the mainstream since the heyday of erotic thrillers in the 1980s and early ‘90s — films like Dressed to Kill, American Gigolo, Body Heat, Basic Instinct, 9½ Weeks, The Last Seduction, Color of Night and Sliver. People onscreen were getting laid and loving it back then.

What happened to make American movies so desexualized? As the holdover artistic spirit of the emancipated ‘70s faded further into the distance, studios became increasingly corporate and less creative in their thinking. In order to be profitable, movies had to play not only across the U.S. — including conservative Red states and Bible Belt regions — but internationally, where many countries have rigidly imposed codes concerning sex and nudity.

The ascendance of the superhero movie has been another nail in the coffin of sensuality. In the Superman films of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, there was most definitely something cooking between Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. But in the more recent wave of comic book-inspired action fare, the protagonists are so sexless they might as well be genital-free Kens and Barbies...

Where, in film, is the supposed sex-positive movement that has become part of the cultural conversation? Cable and streaming platforms have stepped into the breach with shows that don’t hold back on steamy content — think Girls, Insecure, P-Valley, Bridgerton, Game of Thrones, Euphoria and The White Lotus.

So is the dearth of grownup attitudes toward sex and sensuality on big screens a stagnant situation or a step backwards? Many would argue convincingly that it’s been that way since the late ‘90s. But it’s also conceivable that we’re in a unique perfect-storm moment, where far-right conservatism has converged with post-MeToo liberal timidity. On social media, some Gen-Z filmgoers have even questioned whether sex scenes have a place in movies. Seriously, kids, you need to get out more.

The presence of intimacy coordinators on set has no doubt helped to ensure an environment of increased safety and trust for actors, establishing essential boundaries of body autonomy. But unlike so many uninhibited European screen stars, the majority of major-name American performers remain shy about stripping down and going at it.

Witness Penn Badgley declaring his dislike of filming intimate scenes and his insistence on less sex and skin for his character in season 4 of Netflix’s You out of respect for his marriage. “That aspect of Hollywood has always been very disturbing to me,” said the actor in a Variety interview. But many of us who bemoan the shortage of full-blooded sensuality at the multiplex might wonder which Hollywood he’s talking about.'

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" Every time I see you, you're smiling at me. "

[rjdent]

My short novel, Revelation, published in February 2024 by Incunabula Media, was inspired, in part, by these four novels.

[horrorfilmlesbian]

Continuing to pick away at the Garashir fic. I'm in deep and maybe one EMH is too

(this might end up being far longer than I thought dhkfkhfhk)

edit: link to the completed work

[gutterclan]

Moon 2 - Part 1

Gutterrat Is finding the responsibility of leadership to be quite the heavy burden

Start / Back / Next

[gluttonousbeasts]

Best gig of my life

[brokenvintagedoll]

Omg the movie that started it all for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skymallnine]

I’m sure this is not a novel observation, but it still really tickles me that Trials and Tribble-ations is so genuinely plot relevant. That final, quick sight gag determines the course of the entire Dominion War.

Rom was on the maintenance team when those tribbles overran the station, and that’s exactly why he understood how to destroy the morale of anyone else who tried to occupy it. He put a bomb in a tribble.

[vintage-tigre]

Mickey Rourke training for "9 ½ Weeks, 1986

[dandelioncasey]

Started listening to TMA not even two weeks ago and I've just finished season 3, so clearly I'm a normal and healthy level of obsessed with these characters

[1rh2nxoz]

9½ Weeks (1986) dir. Adrian Lyne

[sonic-shadow-daily]

Sonic is relaxing atop a tower, the tallest he could find, basking in the nice weather. It isn’t sunny, or even all that warm. The air is thick with moisture, cold and still, even all the way up here. A light drizzle dampens his fur. The slight fog makes everything below him a bit blurry. He kind of wishes he could stay here forever.

Shadow is talking with Amy about interior design. Which is not what he sought her out for, he had come to give her a red and frilly shawl that Rouge found in her closet, said she didn’t wear anymore, and mentioned that Amy may like it more than she does. Turns out, yes, Amy adores it. But he made the mistake of commenting on her living quarters, so now he has been engaged in a discussion about how public places (as in spaces like small shops) decorate. They agree on a lot more things than he expected.

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

very, VERY late, but i present to you:

a collection of quite possibly the worst valentines ever