#performance reason

[dykekarkat]

neil knowing that his distrust of wymack and his physical reactions to him are from the experiences he's had with his father but his inability to recognize the discomfort he feels around renee and betsy as something that could be connected to his mother...ive gotta put this boy in a lab for real...

[sportu]

Team boss Sylvan Adams dismantles legend Chris Froome

The 110th Tour de France is currently taking place. Four-time winner Chris Froome is not there for performance reasons. His team boss has now criticized the cyclist. Chris Froome is not taking part in the current Tour de France. According to his team, the performance of the 38-year-old was not enough for a nomination for the prestigious race. Froome has won the Tour four times in his career…

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 598

As a ballroom girlie I am legally required to draw Pearl ballroom dancing as per her latest Hermitcraft episode of building a ballroom. So I asked Mod Cosmic to pick a hermit for her to dance with and she also helped design Pearl's dress and pushed me to go FULL fantasy with their dresses which I'm SO happy she did

I know Gem is usually more affiliated with like nature and plants and stuff but I really wanted to put waves on her dress, and also the duality of the sky and the sea is very very good and I am a big fan of it aha

(By the way they're dancing viennese waltz and Pearl is leading)

(still on indefinite hiatus ^^;;;)

[raplinenthusiasts]

RESPECT 🪩 MIN YOONGI & KIM NAMJOON

for @rjshope

[ckret2]

Extremelly funny if aku discovered she was a woman due to the Jill incident

I think it should just keep on happening!

doing drag for the bit* until you realize it isn't a bit anymore

*vexing and plaguing the accursed samurai

cute humansonas aside, if aku decided to be female i don't think she'd change anything about her default demon appearance. like, what's feminine to a tree made out of evil sludge that may or may not contain the imprisoned souls of countless helpless mortals?

maybe she'd lose the beard. but otherwise she's already a flawlessly beautiful specimen of eternal evil, what could possibly be improved??

so it might end up being just,

[empiireans]

new hyperfixation unlocked, [in]conveniently as i experience my seasonal artblock

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Mix Sahaphap gets to perform (and has the performance chops to perform) in a style that I’ve never seen any other male actor get to embody. Mix gets to unironically play the #strongfemalecharacter. The Beatrice, the Elizabeth Bennett, the Jo March. Strong-willed, emotional, kind-hearted.

Not only do the plot points line up, but Mix, more than any BL actor I’ve seen, fully leans into the embodiment of this archetype. In his roles, he rolls his eyes, pouts, banters flirtatiously, softens his posture and expression at small details. He doesn’t over-exaggerate and imposition other characters but his face also doesn’t hold back his character’s thoughts and judgments. And when the moments arrive, he lets all the hurt and anguish pour out in shatters of tears and visible heartbreak—the star-counting scene, anyone????—in a way that harkens to the operatic emotionality of well-done melodramas, soap-operas, and their contemporary Thai equivalent of Lakorn. It’s only that these have never been men’s roles in those.

It’s no surprise that one of Mix’s roles—Cupid’s Last Wish—is explicitly a gender body-swap, and Tian in A Tale of Thousand Stars is (albeit explicitly denied within the show) heavily connected to gender body-swapping. What Mix specializes in as an actor, and does exceptionally well, has been defined as feminine. To depict a kind of queer expression in this style is novel because it’s not camp, it’s not okama, it’s not a soft or femboy, it’s not a BL twink (Mix has been mostly excluded from the schoolyards and quads of the BL universe except for a role as a senior crush in Fish Upon the Sky). It’s too sincere and too adult for any of that.

In Moonlight Chicken we get to see, without the pretense of gendered mysticism, this performance style’s seduction, warmth, wit, and explosiveness within the framework of a general gay form of expression. It says that this kind of femininity might just be a gay thing. Not all gay men exhibit it, obviously—queer men aren’t a monolith. Still, it gives us something to consider about how we observe performance of queerness on screen, especially in front of an audience that puts so much more emphasis on ships, heat, and pairing chemistry to assess how well they perform a BL role. Could we look for other features to judge performance of queerness instead of how well they kiss?

Seme and uke roles would be the major performance style categories loyal BL fans assess actors with, yet even within the archetype his character’s fill within BL narratives, Mix’s performances differ from the typical uke depiction in BL because he really doesn’t perform them as passive. Rather, Mix’s characters and his portrayal of them are dynamic and demanding. It certainly fits certain stereotypes of ukes (Gilbert!) and their gay stereotype equivalent of bottoms as pillow princesses and brats. Mix’s characters, though, have more drive, agency, and compassion than that, and he plays them with all of those currents running underneath.

We certainly have openly gay writer/director Aof Noppharnach to thank for writing this kind of queer character for Mix to play in Tian and Wen. But for Mix’s specific commitment to the performance starting off with his (debut!?) role in ATOTS, we first have Earth to thank for believing in Mix’s ability and recommending him to portray the role of Tian, and then Aof’s acceptance despite his differing initial expectations for the character. Mix, Earth, and Aof have all been open about how Mix in his personal life and nature holds a lot of similarities to both his role as Tian in ATOTS and Wen in Moonlight Chicken. Some people might knock points off his performances because he’s like them. But his relationship to the characters, rather than dampening my enthusiasm for Mix’s performances, helps me appreciate his willingness to give an authentic performance in a style that hasn’t been encouraged on screens previously. It’s made more impactful that he chose to risk vulnerability to bring something personal that had previously been excluded from screens because of its gender deviance (and in broader society explicitly condemned). This doesn’t make a claim on Mix’s actual identity, but simply shows his willingness to understand and perform the expressions of his queer characters with an effort at empathy that many other actors would feel challenged to bring.

Some actors are chameleons, but some actors have a gift of a type within which they can explore depths and range that no one else can best. For me, that’s what Mix does in his work when directors and casting understands his talent. There’s a BTS video of Mix actually fainting during a scene while in Earth/Phupa’s embrace on the mountain that immediately brought to mind the wildly famous final scene in the film Camille where Greta Garbo as Marguerite dies in her lover’s arms.

For Mix, it was a serious incident due to regrettably extreme conditions and requiring the on-set paramedics, but these levels of theatrics, for me, are emblematic of what Mix is capable of as a performer, as well. After all, he had to faint in Phupa’s arms multiple times on purpose. It’s the kinds of Old Hollywood and heightened sentimental romance realms Mix takes his performances to! Then he can turn around and make it look easy to take that same character into grounded quips or dedicated everyday tasks. It only takes writers, directors, and audiences willing to see that men can feel this way and act this way. Mix has paved the way.

[mafuyuakgae]

a bigger cage is still a cage

[gimpwithoutorgans]

People saying that Armand wore those slutty outfits as Fake Rashid purely for Daniel. Like Louis wasn’t picking out those outfits for Armand everyday🤨. Like they weren’t in a 24/7 Master/servant dynamic that didn’t even stop when Daniel WAS ALSEEP. Like Louis didn’t also know from reading Daniel’s thoughts he was lusting after Fake Rashid. It’s never too late to buy Loumandaniel stock!

[trainwrecksys]

I just noticed the way Caracalla seems rlly eager to toast in this scene but they don’t so he just stares at his glass and then is the most eager when they finally do, its such a tiny detail but it cracked me up

[jessmalia]

We hereby conduct this post-mortem I was a hot house flower to her outdoorsman Our maladies were such we could not cure them And so a touch that was my birthright became foreign

[onionowt]

Idk what to do with this sketch so here it is

Say hi to performance guide

[eggcats]

Transfem Alastor who only finds out that that's an option for her when Vox either comes out as bisexual or transmasc and Alastor is accidentally homophobic/biphobic or transphobic.

Like Vox tells Alastor that he's bisexual, and when Alastor is like, "Why would I care about your genitals?" and Vox is like, "No! It means I like men and women!" Alastor is just like, "Disgusting. Who would like men - and on purpose!? Why, I'd not even be one if there was an option, haha!"

Same vein, Vox tells Alastor that he's actually trans and was born a woman and Alastor is like, "Why on earth would you want to be a man?! Why, I wouldn't be one if I could, but unfortunately, we must make do with the choices life has given us, haha!"

And Vox goes from upset at Alastor’s response to suddenly realizing they are having two DRAMATICALLY different conversations, and has to gently tell this old-timey deer that he doesn't HAVE to be a man if he doesn't want to be.

Like "Uhhh...Al, y’know, if you hate being a man so much, you, uh, you don't hafta be? I mean, this is hell, and you're the Radio Demon, who's gonna tell you 'no' am I right?"

I just think the conversation of:

Vox, nervous: Al, I, uh, wanted to let you know that I was actually born a woman...

Alastor, confused: But you're a man?

Vox: Yeah, I am NOW, but I wasn't always.

Alastor: What on earth is wrong with you?

Vox, extremely upset: Nothing! Other than trusting you about telling you this!

Alastor: I mean, who on earth would be a man on PURPOSE?! Why, if I had the option, I'D certainly not be, haha!

Vox, suddenly Realizing: Ooooooh.....okay, so, Al -

Is like, kinda sadly hilarious to me.

[trenchcoatofisopds]

Theres a theater troupe called Takarazuka and they’ve done multiple productions of the musical Elisabeth and all the people they’ve had play death are so pretty…. all of the outfits are so pretty….. I just wanted to draw kamimura in some of those outfits….

references :>

[simswoon]

💕⋆.˚🎧

previous // next // beginning

Theo: "C'mon, teach me how to play!"

Lennon: "Theo... you're just gonna mess around."

Theo: "I'll actually try this time, please?"

Lennon: "Fine, but take it seriously"

♬ ♡ ━━━━━ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ━━━━━ ♡ ♬

Theo: "I know it’s cheesy, but I couldn’t help myself. What do you say—will you make it the best night ever with me?"

Lennon: "You're such a dork... of course I will."

[bottombaron]

oh ok so its the usual no-homo bullshit you always hear, good to know.