#80s movie tournament

[80s-movie-tournament]

80s Movie Tournament Side D

[quinnmorgendorffer]

‘80s movie theme songs!

Special round for the ‘80s song tournament: choose a song from an ‘80s movie! The winner will eventually go up against “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie, “I’m Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler (which, yes, is an ‘80s movie song, I know), and more!

Vote for your favorite song associated with a movie from the 1980s! I did my best to choose songs that are closely associated/almost impossible to separate from the movie itself, not just songs that happen to appear in a movie.

Please reblog for a bigger sample size! And feel free to suggest other songs in the tags!

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl)—Louise Brooks started off as a dancer and went to work in the Follies before going to Hollywood. Disappointed with her roles there, she went to Germany and proceeded to make Pandora's Box, the first film to show a lesbian on-screen (not her but one of her many doomed admirers in the film), and Diary of a Lost Girl, both of which are considered two of the greatest films of the 20th century. She helped popularize the bob and natural acting, acting far more subtly than her contemporaries who treated the camera as a stage audience. After the collapse of her film career and a remarkably rough patch as a high-end sex worker, she was rediscovered and did film criticism, notably "Lulu in Hollywood," which Rodger Ebert called "indispensable." Also, christ. Look at her.

Vilma Bánky (The Son of the Sheik, The Eagle)—She's famous now for being a silent star ruined by the transition to talkies, unlike her frequent co-star Ronald Colman. I think that's a shame, as she has a real vivaciousness and charm in The Winning of Barbara Worth. In this *checks notes* western about environmental engineering, she rides around the desert and gets wooed by both Colman and a young Gary Cooper (good for her dot gif.) Even in stills from films that are sadly lost, I think there is a distinctive warmth and individuality to her. Also she is extremely hot in her extremely pre-Code dress in The Magic Flame.

This is round 2 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.]

Louise Brooks:

"Defined the style of the modern flapper. A gaze that could make a stone fall in love."

"Louise Brooks left a legend far greater than her real achievement as an actress, but even today few people have seen her films. In our own time, the fascination with Brooks seems to have begun in 1979 with a profile by Kenneth Tynan in the New Yorker, which revealed that the actress who made her last movie in 1938 was alive and living in Rochester, N.Y. Such was the power of Tynan's prose that people began to seek out her existing films, primarily this one, to discover what the fuss was about. What we see here is a healthy young woman -- she was 23 when the film was released -- with whom the camera, under G.W. Pabst's influence, is fascinated. There is a deep paradox in Brooks and her career: the American girl who found success in the troubled Europe between two wars; the vivid personality who briefly dazzled two continents but faded into obscurity; the liberated woman who had affairs with such prominent men as CBS founder William S. Paley as well as with women including (by her account) Greta Garbo but wound up a solitary recluse. And all of this seems perfectly in keeping with her most celebrated role in Pandora's Box. For despite her bright vitality, her flashing dark eyes and brilliant smile, Brooks's Lulu becomes the ultimate femme fatale, careering her way toward destruction, not only of her lovers but eventually of herself."

"She invented having bangs to indicate that you have borderline personality disorder"

"chances are if youve ever seen a "flapper girl" character or even just art of a generic flapper type made after the 20s it was based on her appearance - particularly the bob hairstyle! she had some pretty rough experiences through her life before during and after her tumultuous acting career which ended in 1938 but she made it to the 80s, wrote an autobiography and did a lot of interviews that she was never afraid of being honest in about her own life or peers of the age, and apparently was unabashed about some affairs she had with well known women (including greta garbo!!)"

"She read Proust and Schopenhauer on set between sets. She was one of the original flappers/new women of the 1920s. She had a one night stand with Garbo and was the inspiration for Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Truly a stone cold fox."

"on her wikipedia page it says her biographer said she "loved women as a homosexual man, rather than as a lesbian, would love them" and while i have no idea if this is true or not i thought that was very gender of her"

"despite being american she was big in german expressionist films and thus her aesthetic was unmatched!!"

So far ahead of her time in regard to portraying complicated women. Timeless elegance. "I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.” - Louise Brooks

Vilma Bánky:

I love Vilma Bánky! She was called "the Hungarian Rhapsody" and apparently had a thick Hungarian accent which I think is cute. Several men fighting over the same women can be very cliche but when I saw her in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) I got it because my god she really is that drop dead gorgeous. She's also a wonderful actress though, expressive yet natural. I read once that seeing her in The Dark Angel (1925)—a film now seemingly lost—inspired Merle Oberon to become an actress :)

This is more of a factoid but she was apparently the women's golf champion at Wilshire Country Club through the 1940s. [link] I just think she's neat.

I love herrrrr she’s my everything. Watching her kiss Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik made me so flustered I had to pause the movie to cool down. She’s the prettiest the most beautiful the most incredible woman I’ve ever seen. I could look at a picture of her for hours

[verityblack]

When we finished watching honor among thieves, I turned to my friends and said that I really enjoyed it, and that it was better than the old dungeons and dragons movie.

One friend turned to me and said “they were in the movie you know? In the tournament as a cameo!”

I looked at him very confused because I did not remember this lot being a team in the games but guessed I must have missed them.

Man was fuckin talking about the cartoon.

Like no bro, im talking about the 2000s movie dungeons and dragons,, I have not seen the 80s cartoon. ALSO THAT IS NOT A MOVIE,, that’s a tv show.

[vintagesffantasyactors]

Inspired by @hotvintagepoll, here's another bracket featuring some hot vintage actors- but instead of being about actors from a particular medium, this one's about actors associated with a particular genre:

The Hottest Vintage Sci Fi/Fantasy Actors Bracket!

I'll be starting with a men's bracket.

Submissions for the men's bracket are closed! More info about the polls coming soon!

What makes an actor eligible for this tournament?

In order to keep this tournament on-theme and not have it turn into a free-for-all vintage actors tournament, all actors submitted should have some kind of strong connection to Sci-Fi and/or Fantasy media. This might mean that they're an actor who has appeared frequently in various Sci Fi/Fantasy works, or that their most well-known role is from something that's Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Actors who aren't necessarily exclusively or primarily thought of as Sci-Fi/Fantasy actors are allowed, provided that they have at least one Sci-Fi/Fantasy work that is considered an iconic role for them. You are free to submit actors you aren't sure count! I'd rather have more submissions than less. Just keep in mind that its possible some people may be cut if it doesn't feel like they really fit the tournament.

(Also, as a side note: horror movies with some kind of fantastical/sci fi element also count for this tournament!)

Other rules for submissions & propaganda:

You can submit actors who appeared in work from as early as 1900 to as late as 2000 (so pretty much it has to be 20th century). That way we can cover a range of classic sci fi/fantasy, from some of the earliest SF/Fantasy films to some of the cult classic works of the 80s and 90s.

You can submit actors and propaganda from both movies and television! It just must be from or related to SF/Fantasy material.

Please only submit propaganda where the actor is at least 18! This also means if someone's only notable and eligible SF/Fantasy role(s) is from before they were 18, they are not eligible for this tournament (even if they continued to act generally as an adult, or were in more notable sf/fantasy roles past the 2000 date cutoff)

Live action roles only; voice roles will not be counted for propaganda/eligibility

Actors who aren't considered primarily Sci-Fi/Fantasy actors must have at least one iconic SF/Fantasy role to qualify for the tournament; however, if they've had other lesser known SF/Fantasy roles as well, you are more than welcome to send in propaganda related to these roles, too!

I might put up an FAQ as well if I get a lot of similar questions/for things that need clarifying.

[makethosenarratorsfight]

NARRATORS WHO NARRATE ABOUT THEIR BUDDIES

Rules

Narrator must be fictional

Cannot be a oc :(

No Harry Potter characters.

Don't spam one character

The definition of a homoerotic narrator is whatever you think fits the bill :)

Have fun :]

Currently I have no set deadline/bracket size. go wild

Other cool tournaments!!

@obscure-skirmish , @dialogueless-duel , @high-school-lit-tournament , @unlikely-adversaries-bracket , @80s-movie-tournament , @two-sentence-tournament , @baldswagsummit2023 , @best-book-siblings

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Tournament Information

What kind of anime are eligible to join this competition?

Although I’m using the term “anime,” I don’t actually mean only Japanese anime. Donghua (Chinese) and Aeni (Korean) are also allowed. Any other “anime-style” series also count.

I’ve decided to use the term “anime” and not “animated show” or “animation” so that nobody will submit cartoons like Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, etc. (Not that these are underrated, but you get the point.)

Anyways, only anime that reach the following criteria is allowed to join the competition:

It is underrated. No MP 100, Ouran High School Host Club, Yuri on Ice, and whatever other anime is popular (especially if it’s popular on Tumblr).

It is a series. No movies, short films, and the like.

It is recent. There are probably a lot of underrated shows from the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s, but I’d like to only include anime from 2010 onward. Why? Because I feel older anime will have an unfair advantage in being more known because they’ve existed longer.

It has at least one complete season. New anime that are currently airing and has no prior season are not allowed to join.

It’s in “anime-style.”

Note: Anime with multiple seasons will be counted as one. The year its first season was released is what will be checked to determine if it’s a recent one.

blogs that inspired this blog: @ultimate-anime-tournament @best-anime-tournament @animemusicbrackets

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Credits

All dividers used in this blog are by @/saradika

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[ponysongbracket]

Worst MLP Song Tournament

Please listen to both songs before voting. Remember you’re voting for the WORSE song.

Cloudsdale's Anthem' sung by Spike Propaganda: It was intended to give you the worst secondhand embarrassment of your life and succeeds. I get straight up nauseous with the shame it radiates. It’s soooo funny. But also it kinda sucks so unfortunately it should be on this list or whatever

We Got The Beat Propaganda: It's just an 80s song rewritten so it's about My Little Pony?? When they wrote an ACTUAL original song for the opening?? And it got cut?? In favor of THIS???? anyway justice for ''Equestria''

[badlysummedupmoviestournament]

I have zero patience and already said I'd do biopics after my current (mafia movies) tournament, so here's another blog for another tournament.

At the crossing of @mysterycharacterbracket, @fantasybooktournament or @guess-that-ship and the normal movie tournaments like @80s-movie-tournament, @bestanimatedmovie or @episodeoftv...

The Badly Summed-Up Movies Tournament!

The rules are simple:

You submit a movie by describing the plot in the worst possible way (as long as it's still truthful: please abstain from including headcanons or fanon in the description) and people vote blind. Taking an example with LOTR, which will be excluded from it because of it, the description could be:

"After his uncle disappeared during his birthday party, a man has to travel across the continent to return jewellery to the place it belongs. Along the way, he makes friends and witnesses the death of one of them in an abandonned mine. Helped by an unwilling addict as well as by his best friend, he puts his life in danger multiple times and is only saved from a horrible death by his best friend and by a giant bird of prey". Like yes it misses a few themes of the story and a few plotlines, but if you know it's LOTR, you can recognize it and think "yeah sounds right". (unless i summed it up even worse than i intended to, in which case sorry for the bad example)

There's no media banned from the get go, but please avoid movies that are adaptations of books, because that would make it more a "guess the book" than a "guess the movie" tournament.

Once a poll is finished, the movie that has the least votes get revealed and the one with the most goes up.

[smoqueen]

there should be a tekken character that is really gory like all his special moves and his rage art etc is just strangely M rated like mortal kombat and its only him and you have to say youre 18 in the options screen to unlock him. and because they know he cant be streamed or on youtube or anything hes not tournament legal so they just let him be extremely overpowered so he should be able to like knock out your teeth and explode your head in 4 punches like an old 80s japanese action movie with tons of blood

[80s-movie-tournament]

'80s Movie Tournament Side D

[drurrito]

High For This

summary: CollegeAU - You get high for the first time at Tony’s 420 party

a/n: 420 fic I finally finished...in July...enjoy!

warnings: drug use, cursing, alcohol use, suggestive but no smut tbh

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“Happy 4/20!” Tony cheers when he throws open the door. You crack a smile, giving him a half hug half pat on the back deal when you step inside his home. It’s huge, even makes fraternity row look like townhomes. You kick off your shoes and follow him into the movie room, not to be confused with his home theater. This room has a wall to wall couch and a bar in the back. Different colors crawl across the room while some old 80’s movie is playing silently on the wall. You notice a few classmates scattered around the room, Bucky is the first to greet you.

“Y/N, you smoke?”

“This would be the first,” you nod, “brought some booze in case I chicken out.”

“I pegged you as a do-gooder,” Natasha says, her hair flawlessly flips over her shoulder when she turns to look at you.

“You’ll be alright,” she gives you a crooked grin and turns back to her conversation with Steve. 

“If you start bugging out, I’ll just toss you into the pool,” Tony launches himself onto the couch and earns a glare from Natasha when her body jerks from the impact.

“Thanks,” you settle down on the edge of the couch, there’s at least a bus-length between you and the rest of the group. You kick yourself for already being awkward and just double down on your decision. 

Tony hears the doorbell ring and he’s on his feet again. You look over just in time to catch Natasha looking at you curiously, you brush it off as something to do with the lighting and turn your attention to the movie. 

Tony is your best friend, he was so used to people bending over backwards for him as the rich kid. It was refreshing to him that you wouldn’t budge like the others, even putting him in his place from time to time.

You know Bucky and Steve. Always sharing video game tournaments and nights out with them. They’re both on the football team, star players. You feel celebrity-adjacent every time you’re out and about with them. This campus treats them like gods.

Natasha is a little more foreign to you. You both have Conservation Biology together and cross paths sometimes when you’re hanging out with the group. She moves through campus the same way a melody moves through a song. 

“Busted!” you quickly turn to find a silver-haired guy standing in the doorway with finger guns panning across the room.

“Pietro, you’re ruining the vibe,” Tony trots in front of the guy and takes his place again on the couch.

“Come on in, everyone, there’s enough weed to last us until our kids’ kids graduate from college.”

Tony waves at the door and you see a small crowd pile into the room. You recognize a few more people, except for the auburn haired woman who gives Pietro a punch in the arm. You don’t realize you’re holding your breath until she takes a seat with only a couch cushion between you two. You flash a friendly smile and quickly turn away to find that the 80’s movie was replaced by some 90s action film. 

“We have history together,” her voice is like a delicate hand pulling on your jaw to look at her.

Your shoulders stiffen while your mind stumbles until it registers what she meant, “right, Professor Fury’s class.”

“He’s…intense,” her lopsided smile pulls a low rumble of a laugh from your chest. 

“He is,” you agree, “he’s got a soft spot for cats, though. I saw him cradling a student’s tabby one time when she stopped by his office hours.”

“So you’re saying he loves pu-” she smacks Pietro in the chest so hard it echoes through the room, his wheezing is just as loud..

“Wanda,” she holds her hand out and you take it with enough hesitation to mask your enthusiasm.

“Y/N,” you give her another smile and she opens her mouth to say something until Tony shouts about sitting in a circle to start the festivities.

You bring a pillow down with you, securing your spot so you have the couch at your back. Everyone settles around you. There’s a tray of joints, blunts, pieces and Tony’s favorite bong in the middle of the circle. 

You look around the circle, tuning out Tony’s monologue about “the devil’s lettuce” you catch a glimpse of Natasha’s eyes and you swear she winks at you, damn lighting.

Tony and Steve are the first to light a joint, you watch as smoke begins to bloom and fill the room. Bucky passes you the joint and you roll it between your fingers a bit. 

“Take a few small inhales,” he coaches.

“Take it to the dome!” Tony’s high voice is already making an appearance. You shoot him a funny look and he just shrugs before hitting his bong.

You take Bucky’s suggestion and let the smoke ease into your lungs. When you exhale, Tony starts slow clapping.

“Congrats, y/n, now you’re a sinner like the rest of us!”

That makes you laugh, you go in for another drag before passing it to Wanda. She takes a much longer drag than you and you watch dumbly as her lips part to exhale the smoke. 

“How you doing, champ?” Steve asks you.

“So far so good, I think this shit is weak, Tony,” you watch him pretend to be offended before he grins the same way villains in those cheesy superhero movies do.

“Oh contraire, y/n--it’s going to hit you like a truck,” he can’t help but giggle at himself and you shake your head.

“Where’s the food, Tony?” Bucky chokes out, too much of a big hit you figure.

“Relax, meathead, it should be here any-” the doorbell rings as if right on cue. Tony makes his exit and you lean against the couch, staring at the colors dancing on the ceiling. Everyone starts to disperse while you close your eyes for a bit. Your limbs are starting to feel heavy and you take a big breath to settle in for the ride. 

“You doing okay?”

It takes you a few seconds longer in your new state to register that the voice belongs to Natasha. She’s standing over you, an amused smile thinly spread across her face.

“I think it’s hitting me,” you mumble and the laugh that escapes her mouth makes you want to say something stupid just to hear it again.

“Here,” she hands you a bottle of water and you thank her before taking a few sips. Steve hands you another joint with that All-American grin plastered on his face.

“Lift off,” he teases. You take a slightly bigger hit this time and exhale. He tries to push the joint away when you hand it back but you just about shove it into his fingers. Your legs start to melt into the plush carpet, you’ve never felt more relaxed.

“Pizza’s here, kids--and look, I found a stray,” you crane your neck in time to watch Tony pull Pepper into his side for a sloppy kiss.

Steve and Buck move to grab a few slices. Steve tries to offer you one but you decide to ride out your high for a little longer.

“On the floor?” Bucky rips a bite out of his pizza.

“Why not on the floor?”

“Y/N is floor-locked!,” Tony whoops, you want to shoot him a look but your limbs are uncooperative at the moment.

You take a few more sips of your water and let out a long sigh. You were never curious about drugs enough to go out and try them on your own. It wasn’t until Tony offered to babysit you for your first time did you even consider smoking weed.

Tony is the sole catalyst for a lot of your adventures and antics. He is always dragging you through long, sweaty, drunken nights and even longer weekends on whatever toy or property his family owns. You try not to think about how boring college would have been without being friends with someone as rich and impulsive as Tony.

Music starts to creep into your ears when Natasha is standing over you again.

“How do you feel about massages?” she leans down, making it a point that the question is for you and only you.

“I’m a fan,” you quickly pull the goofy smile from your face, being high makes it very hard to hide what you’re feeling, you note.

“Good,” she straightens up and swings a leg over you, you stay impossibly still while she settles down on the couch behind you. She taps a hand on your shoulder and you don’t get the message until she gently pulls you against the couch and firmly between her legs.

Natasha starts to dig into your shoulders. That joint must have been laced because you feel like you’re dreaming. You close your eyes from time to time, absorbing the sensation of her fingers working into your muscles.

“You’re so wound up,” she breaks your concentration.

“Yeah? Guess being Tony’s handler did a number on me,” that gets a soft chuckle from Natasha. Tony and Bruce are starting a 2k tournament, yelling at each other in front of the massive screen. A few people watch while others carry on with their conversations.

You have to stomp out the whine that tries to escape when Natasha eventually stops.

“Better?” you stretch and roll your shoulders, you feel a lot more in your body than you did before her magic touch.

“Better, thank you,” you take a seat with some space between you two.

“Relax, I don’t bite.”

“Maybe she’s into that,” you hear Wanda’s voice and nervously laugh, running a hand through your hair before deciding to take a gulp of water, anything to avoid her gaze

“Alright children, let's circle up again, it’s time to spin the bottle!” Tony declares as he drops onto the ground next to Pepper. You groan, peeling yourself off the couch and lowering yourself to the carpet below.

Your mind is so busy bouncing around that Tony has to shout at you to spin the bottle.

“Oops,” you mumble, reaching for the bottle and giving it a spin. You almost forget you’re playing a game by the time it lands on Wanda.

“Oh, okay!” Tony claps his hands together and rubs them vigorously in thought, “shotgun!”

“What’s that?” you turn to Wanda who is already reaching for a joint.

“It’s easy,” she starts to lean towards you, ignoring Pietro’s grumblings. You only lean in a bit before you feel slender fingers cup your jaw and pull you in closer. 

“I blow, you suck, got it?” Her grin makes you feel like there’s no air in your lungs and you can barely manage a nod. She takes a drag off the joint and your mind goes blank when her face is right in front of yours. Inhale, try not to choke, exhale, hope that your face isn’t as red as you think it is when you pull away. Wanda pats your cheek and Pietro just huffs in disapproval.

“We should make the girls shotgun some more,” Tony earns a smack from Pepper and he throws his hands up in surrender. 

Steve is next to spin the bottle and Tony makes him and Bucky do the same. Everyone shares a laugh while Natasha spins the bottle and it lands on Bruce. Bucky hands you a blunt, it’s huge, you take a timid drag from it as you watch Bruce and Natasha intently when they float together and shotgun too. Wanda catches your eyebrow tick and your head tip as you watch the pair part. She can’t help but giggle as you exhale and slump against the couch to close your eyes for a bit.

“Y/N?” 

“Hmm?” you don’t open your eyes, instead opting to tilt your head in the direction of the gentle voice.

“You okay?”

You pause for a beat and twist your head back to the ceiling, “I think I might be glued to the floor,” you rasp, an unforgiving desert now in your throat.

“Here,” you finally open your eyes, Wanda hands you some water and you chug until your throat feels a little less barren.

“Thanks,” you set the bottle next to you and exhale, giggling just a little.

“You’re totally baked,” she giggles too and your body vibrates with warmth that feels new.

“Shit,” you laugh again, you feel like you’re in one of those cheesy stoner movies.

Tony claps his hands so loud it echoes inside your skull, “pool time, kids. Hope you brought a swimsuit, you can also choose to wear nothing and make this party that much better.”

You can smell his cologne before you see him towering over you.

“Oh man, you’re so gone Y/N, it’s amazing.”

“Leave me alone to die, Tony,” you groan, “you didn’t tell me to bring swim stuff.”

“Easy, wear one of my trunks and keep your bra on…or don’t,” he tries to pull you up with a grunt, no luck.

“Wanda, help me lift the space cadet,” Wanda gets up and her hands are so, so soft when they grip your arm. They lift you with ease and Tony leaves your side to grab Pepper in a bridal carry. You laugh as you watch him skip towards the pool while she screams and pretends to pound her fists against his back. Wanda is still under your arm, keeping you upright with a firm grip on your waist.

“You’re a lot stronger than you look,” you mumble, stumbling in step with her.

“I have a brother that liked to re-enact WWE matches with me against my will when we were growing up.”

You both make it to the backyard in time to watch Tony toss Pepper into the pool. Steve and Bucky are wrestling on the edge of the pool until Bruce shoves them both in. Natasha sheds her clothes, leaving her clad in a matching bra and panties. You’re thinking about how red is really her color when you feel Wanda give your hip a squeeze.

“You okay?” Wanda asks, the ghost of a worry line haunts the place right above her eyebrows. It’s cute, she’s cute, you wonder if you would ever come up for air if you dove head-first into those eyes.

“You didn’t have to carry me all the way out here,” you start, “thanks-” is all you can get out before Tony is shoving you into the pool, he hollers and front flips over your still-submerged body.

“Anytime,” Wanda whispers while her lips part into a very amused smile.

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Floating in the water feels weird.

Good, but weird.

You thank Tony for being filthy rich enough to own a heated pool, your arms swim under the warm, calm waves of the water.

Until you get splashed.

“Chicken fight, you and me!”

“I’m not putting you on my shoulders, Tony.”

“Actually, we’re choosing our fighters, we would dominate together anyway,” you snort with laughter while he makes a grab for Bucky.

“Shit, Steve, come here.”

“Oh no,” Steve says with a shake of his head, “Bucky doesn’t play fair at all, good luck with that.”

“I got this,” Natasha strides up to you, your mouth goes dry, again.

“Yeah? Hop on,” you lower yourself down into the water, when you feel her deceivingly strong thighs wrap around your neck, you stand with ease.

“Loser has to chug a Titos and egg,” Tony grunts, having a little bit of trouble balancing Bucky’s muscular frame on his pebble-sized shoulders.

“Y’all wanna switch before we start or?”

“No, no, I can hold up Bucky Beefcake in my sleep,” Tony strains.

“So you’re just scared to go against Natasha then,” you tease.

“Am not!” Tony protests, almost toppling over with Bucky, “let’s just get this over with,” he growls.

You meet in the middle and wow--Natasha’s strong--she pulls Bucky into the water so swiftly it’s almost scary to think how she was able to do that so quickly.

You both shoot your arms up in celebration, Natasha wobbles a bit and has to still herself with a hand on your head. You grip her thighs and go underwater so she can hop off, not expecting to see her standing so close to you when you come back up.

“Hey sailor,” her voice is soft and sultry, you blink dumbly at her until your brain makes you say, “hi,” back.

“How are you feeling?”

“Like I’m on another planet,” you laugh, “that massage helped a lot, thank you.”

“Anytime,” she proudly beams and grabs your hand, leading you out of the pool and over to the hot-tub where Wanda and a few of the others are lounging.

“Damn it’s cold,” you say, quickly dunking your body into the hot water to get away from the menacing breeze.

“We should hang out by the fire pit at some point,” Pietro offers.

“We should throw some weed in it too,” Tony grins.

“Don’t waste good weed like that, Tony,” Steve shakes his head.

Steve and Tony continue to bicker back and forth while you ease into the water to drown them out. You look up at the dimming sky, your limbs feel like they can sink to the bottom at any moment.

“Move over, space cowboy.”

“Space cadet,” Tony corrects Wanda as she steps down and takes a seat next to you. Maybe it was the heat from the tub but your cheeks are beet red right now and you hope neither of the women flanking you notice.

“Y/N, hit this,” Tony passes you a joint and you’re about to reach for it when Natasha grabs it instead.

“We never got to shotgun,” she points out, “you up for it?”

You tense, arms slamming back into your sides and eyes growing wider than the moon peeking out behind the dully-lit sky above.

You dumbly nod your head, good job.

“I need a yes, Y/N.”

“Yes,” you try not to sound so eager. It’s the magic word, she leans in and so do you, almost choking when she wraps a delicate hand around your neck to steady her target.

You exhale and let the high launch you further into orbit.

“Thank you.”

Idiot.

“You’re welcome,” Natasha giggles, you can feel eyes starting to burn into you from different angles, you really don’t want to meet any of them with your own, especially Bruce. There wasn’t anything telling you that he and Natasha are officially together, but he’s around her enough to make people think twice about approaching her. 

So what are you supposed to do when she approaches you instead? 

“That looks disgusting,” someone calls out and you look up to see Tony and Bucky standing with glasses filled with what you assume is Tito’s and a raw egg. 

“Cheers, beefcake,” you watch the two clink glasses and chug the concoction to the tune of a few cheers, protests, and gags. Wanda turns into your shoulder to shield herself from the sight.

“That’s nasty,” you giggle. She laughs too and grabs your arm when she leans in closer. 

“You can thank Natasha and y/n for that,” Tony says before unleashing a monstrous burp. You glance over at Natasha who is cooly leaning against the wall of the tub and gives you a wink when she catches your eye.

“Now, time for the headliner,” Tony claps his hands together and rubs them deviously.

“Truth or dare..or drink!”

Tony takes a seat next to Steve and Bruce, Pepper watches on with a few other people from the fire pit under the cabana.

“You all know the rules: truth, dare, or drink whatever you’re given,” Tony’s grin is so wide it’s almost unsettling if you didn’t know him so well.

“Here we go,” you grumble, blushing when you feel both women giggling against your shoulders.

“Steve, Mr. All-American, you first,” Tony waggles his eyebrows at Steve who pretends to be deep in thought about the choices before him.

“Dare,” Steve says.

“Hit the gravity bong,” Tony nods towards the contraption on the table nearby.

“You brought that out just to make someone use it, didn’t you?” you pipe up and he poorly feigns innocence.

“Actually, I brought it out so Steve can get blitzed for once, time to get messy like the rest of us, Stevie-boy!” Tony bellows and whoops, encouraging everyone else to do the same.

“Bruce, you’re next,” Tony warns as he gets out of the water to help Steve with the bongffff. Everyone watches as Steve takes a massive rip and cheers when he finally exhales.

“I’m gonna say drink because that looked awful,” Bruce gets out of the water while Tony scurries inside, dragging Pietro along with him.

“Guess swimming in high school finally paid off,” Steve chokes out as he lumbers into the tub and gives Bucky a sloppy high-five.

“Oh he’s more gone than I am,” you whisper.

“We should fix that,” Wanda says, holding a joint between her fingers.

“You’re trying to kill me,” you groan and reach for the joint anyway but she pulls it away.

“Ah, ah,” she chides, “pretty girls don’t hold their joints,” her voice is like velvet, too soft to protest against so you just lean in and take a hit. You exhale and lean back, sinking further into the warm water. You open your eyes in time to see Natasha holding the joint for Wanda.

“Woah,” you church-whisper as Wanda exhales. 

“Are you just gonna watch?” your head tilts slowly towards Natasha’s direction, she has a playful smirk on her lips and a gaze that makes you feel bare.

“Sorry,” you mumble, reaching for the joint to hold between your fingers for her to take a hit. You’re too entranced by the way her lips part to exhale to even notice Tony and Pietro returning with a beer stein full of god knows what for Bruce to drink.

“Here you go, big guy,” Tony holds out the beer stein and Bruce inspects it for a few seconds before completely chugging it.

“You put mustard in that?” he gags a little, wiping his mouth.

“And pickle juice! Among other things, bet you couldn’t taste the moonshine though,” Tony makes a display of finger guns while Bruce stares at him in disbelief. Pietro laughs and gives Tony a fist bump.

“Fuckin’ Tony,” Bruce shoves the stein back into Tony’s arms and returns to the water, scooting closer to Natasha. He tries to put an arm around her until she pushes him away, “I don’t want to get too close after you just drank all of that.”

Bruce grunts and tries again but she pushes him harder and he scoffs before moving over to where Bucky is.

“Bucky, truth, dare, or drink?”

“Dare,” Bucky says, tapping his fingers on the can of beer in his hand.

“Kiss your favorite person here,” Clint says and Tony whines, he was hell bent on doling out the mischief.

Bucky sits there, thinking for a few seconds before wading over towards you, you give him a funny look and he wiggles his eyebrows while pulling you in and giving you a kiss to the side of your temple.

“Oh, Steve! You got competition!” Pietro teases.

“I smell a fight,” Tony tries to egg it on but Steve waves him off with a goofy smile.

“Wait let him try, he’s so baked I might win,” you chuckle.

“Y/n, you’re just so quiet. I figured you were in another galaxy,” Bucky says and downs the rest of his beer, “or bored,” he waggles his eyebrows at you again.

“Definitely not bored,” you breathe and it seems like only the two women hear you. You lean back in a content haze while the game continues.

“Natasha,” Tony asks, you’re barely listening while Wanda’s damp fingers card through your hair. 

“Dare,” Natasha replies without missing a beat.

“Of course,” Tony looks around the hot tub for a moment before smirking, “I dare you to sit cow-girl on y/n’s lap until the game ends.”

Your head snaps up, Bruce’s jaw twitches a bit as he watches Natasha climb into your lap.  

“Hey.”

“Hey yourself,” Natasha chuckles.

“Comfy?” you dumbly ask.

“Very,” Natasha gives you a small smile. She feels your body tense when the boys start cheering. Her fingers are quick to work into your traps. You forget about the game. Natasha stops her movements after a couple minutes to take a hit from a joint being passed around. She hands it to you and you take a few hits.

“Y/N?” Tony sings.

“I’m not playing,” you lean your head back and Natasha laughs.

“You can’t reap the benefits of the game and not play!” Pietro argues.

“Fine, truth.”

“Do you want to fuck Natasha?” 

Your eyes open but you don’t look at the girl in your lap. Instead, you take a long swig of a beer, “dare.”

“Aw!” The chorus of people complain, Bruce just sits there, unamused.

“Fine,” Tony says, “I dare you to play the blindfold game with Natasha and Wanda and tell us who is the better kisser.”

“While Natasha is still on my lap?”

“This would be an exception to the lap-sitting,” Tony grins while Pietro rolls his eyes. Bruce trudges out of the pool to join the others sitting around the fire pit, Pietro does the same.

When Bucky puts the blindfold over you, Natasha gets off your lap. Even in the hot tub, your lap feels cold from her absence. You settle against the edge of the tub again, taking a big exhale and almost flinching when you feel hands snake up your chest and around your neck. 

Her lips pillow against your own, it’s slow and pulls at something deep in your belly. Her nails rake through your hair and scratch at your scalp in a way that makes you thankful for the blindfold. One hand trails down to lightly grip your neck while the other wraps around your body and pulls you in. Her forefinger scorches a trail along your jaw and her lips before her lips extinguish it.

You can feel her pull away and your neck twitches to lean forward and chase. She must have picked up on it because she grabs your face and pulls you in for a final, chaste kiss.

You sit there, lips swollen and parted in awe while it sounds like the entire backyard erupts with whistles and whoops.

It dies down when you feel her climb into your lap. The first kiss is sweet, the second is hard to describe because she has your bottom lip between your teeth and your brain blue-screens. She cautiously rolls her hips and hits a rhythm when you politely grip her waist. 

Her laugh rumbles between you while a hand tugs firmly on your hair to make you gasp. Her tongue swoops into your mouth and you feel like you’re going to combust from sensory overload. She grants you mercy after nipping at your lips once more with a syrupy kiss.

“Holy shit,” you exhale and Bucky is laughing as he takes the blind fold off of you. Wanda and Natasha are leaning against the edge together, sharing proud glances. 

“So, what’s the verdict?” Tony sounds all too eager for the answer. 

“Uh-” You nervously laugh. Your eyes pinball around the tub and you run a hand through your hair. There is no way you can choose, Tony leans in to egg you on but everyone’s heads quickly turn to see Jarvis throwing himself over the backyard fence.

“Holy shit Vis, are you naked?” Tony yells while his brother tries to cover himself up with a pool floaty. 

“Long story,” he pants, “hot girl. Angry boyfriend. SWORD party. Ran all the way here,” he doubles over, still trying to catch his breath.

“SWORD is gonna kick your ass,” Steve laughs. 

“I’m painfully aware,” Jarvis whines and waddles into the house to come back out in trunks. 

“So, what’d I miss?”

“My sister dry humped y/n in front of all of us,” Pietro grumbles.

“Piet! You spoiled it!” Tony groans. You glance over at Wanda and she gives you a wink that makes you want to sink further into the tub.

“Well, that was mildly entertaining,” Pepper gets up from the patio, “we’re going inside to watch a movie,” the rest of the cabana follows behind her and without another word Tony scurries out of the tub to join her. Wanda and Natasha follow suit, walking side by side and giggling. Bucky gives you a hand and tosses you a towel.

“So? Which one?”

“They’re both better than you, I’ll tell you that,” Bucky laughs and swats at you before handing you the joint in his hand.

“Ass, they totally want you.”

“I think it’s just the drugs.”

“Suit yourself, playboy,” he gives you a playful nudge with his elbow before you head into the movie room again. The couch is wider now, letting you sprawl out when you flop down. Tony lands next to you and you can’t help but laugh.

“So, first smoke sesh…how’d I do?”

“Best babysitter ever,” you grin and he grabs your noodly arm to give it a high five.

“Excellent, try not to need me -- I’m gonna be too busy “watching” the movie,” his air quotes make you snort and give him a shove. You throw your head back and take a few hits, not noticing the two bodies on either side of you until they sandwich you.

“Comfy?” Natasha teases, throwing her arm around you and taking the joint from your hand. Time slows down as you watch her lips part, inhale, exhale--you’re charmed so easily by her it’s kind of embarrassing.

“You never told us who’s the better kisser?” Wanda grabs the joint next, taking a slow, long drag while her eyes are locked on you. You think you can stay under her gaze forever.

“What if I can’t choose?” You drawl, they share a look you can’t decipher.

“Tiebreaker?” Natasha asks Wanda who positively shrugs. Everything else starts to fade as you watch them lean in and slot their lips together. 

You think this must be a dream, there’s no way any of this could happen even with the influence of drugs.

Your jaw hangs open as you stare brainlessly at the two. They finally come up for air and you think you might ascend into a different plane.

“Definitely a better kisser than y/n,” Wanda mumbles against Natasha’s lips.

“She’s too high to function.”

“True,” Wanda pulls away with a shrug and eases down, putting her head on your middle and grabbing your hand to fidget with. Natasha curls into your side, her fingers immediately drift to play with the hairs on the nape of your neck. You try to stifle the shivers creeping down your spine, this might be the highest you’ve been all night but you hardly trust your judgment. 

Your eyes glaze over and everything feels fuzzy. Every inch of you is tired and warm. You focus on Natasha and Wanda’s movements, the weight of their bodies on you lulls you to sleep. You hope you remember this tomorrow. 

----------------

“Shit! We’re late for class, get up-” You jerk awake when Tony chucks a pillow at you. You sit up dazed and look around to find that everyone else is long gone. That explains why you feel so cold. 

Tony should have warned you about the morning after a smoke session, you rub at your eyes to try and wake up some more but your limbs and brain are made of molasses at the moment.

“Can’t we just skip?”

“You can, I’m on thin ice with every faculty member as it is,” Tony laughs, pulling down a shirt over his head.

“I’ll see you after class, stoner,” he dashes out, you slump against the couch, memories of last night flashing through your mind. You run your hands through your hair and suck in a breath.

“Woah.”

[indie-queer-movie-tournament]

Hi I decided to start another tournament blog for some reason, so here we are. Since I'm busy with the other one, I might not get to this for a few weeks, but I'll let you all know when I'll start and for now I'm taking submissions (via asks).

I have a list of movies I'll include automatically (the ones I've seen) and anything else will have to be submitted.

I'll keep an updated list in a post on here so you can see what's missing.

"Indie" will be defined sort of loosely based on whether or not reviewers were calling the thing indie when it came out.

No short films. 1h+.

As for queer, it has to be canon, whether through something obvious like same-gender relationships or through characters being written to be queer.

Questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, etc. count as queer.

Hays-Code-era (or whatever international equivalent, no matter the year) "we're doing everything possible to tell you this character is a flaming homo except having him make out with his buddy" totally counts.

It's got to have a queer main character or be about queer things. So a movie with a gay best friend doesn't count.

If you're unsure, just let me know and I'll either decide or put it to a vote.

Feel free to send in propaganda with your submissions, or send it to movies already included!

I hope this can be a great space to learn about awesome new movies (especially non-English ones!) and encourage people to check out some great new things.

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[hotvintagepoll]

This is a three-way poll. Only one of these women will continue to the fourth round of the bracket.

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

Leonor Maia (The Tyrannical Father)— She didn't do a lot of movies but in The Tyrannical Father she is so pretty and charming that there's a guy who's obsessed with her to such a degree he is still a meme 80 years later. Her character's name is Tatão and the guy would stare at her whenever she was there and say her name to the tune of everything. A clock ticking: ta-tão, ta-tão, ta-tão. And to this day one of the lines people know the best from that very quotable movie is "ta-tão". She inspired crushes and horniness of legendary levels.

Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl)—Louise Brooks started off as a dancer and went to work in the Follies before going to Hollywood. Disappointed with her roles there, she went to Germany and proceeded to make Pandora's Box, the first film to show a lesbian on-screen (not her but one of her many doomed admirers in the film), and Diary of a Lost Girl, both of which are considered two of the greatest films of the 20th century. She helped popularize the bob and natural acting, acting far more subtly than her contemporaries who treated the camera as a stage audience. After the collapse of her film career and a remarkably rough patch as a high-end sex worker, she was rediscovered and did film criticism, notably "Lulu in Hollywood," which Rodger Ebert called "indispensable." Also, christ. Look at her.

This is round 3 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.

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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.

There is no additional propaganda for Leonor Maia.

Louise Brooks:

"Defined the style of the modern flapper. A gaze that could make a stone fall in love."

"Louise Brooks left a legend far greater than her real achievement as an actress, but even today few people have seen her films. In our own time, the fascination with Brooks seems to have begun in 1979 with a profile by Kenneth Tynan in the New Yorker, which revealed that the actress who made her last movie in 1938 was alive and living in Rochester, N.Y. Such was the power of Tynan's prose that people began to seek out her existing films, primarily this one, to discover what the fuss was about. What we see here is a healthy young woman -- she was 23 when the film was released -- with whom the camera, under G.W. Pabst's influence, is fascinated. There is a deep paradox in Brooks and her career: the American girl who found success in the troubled Europe between two wars; the vivid personality who briefly dazzled two continents but faded into obscurity; the liberated woman who had affairs with such prominent men as CBS founder William S. Paley as well as with women including (by her account) Greta Garbo but wound up a solitary recluse. And all of this seems perfectly in keeping with her most celebrated role in Pandora's Box. For despite her bright vitality, her flashing dark eyes and brilliant smile, Brooks's Lulu becomes the ultimate femme fatale, careering her way toward destruction, not only of her lovers but eventually of herself."

"She invented having bangs to indicate that you have borderline personality disorder"

"chances are if youve ever seen a "flapper girl" character or even just art of a generic flapper type made after the 20s it was based on her appearance - particularly the bob hairstyle! she had some pretty rough experiences through her life before during and after her tumultuous acting career which ended in 1938 but she made it to the 80s, wrote an autobiography and did a lot of interviews that she was never afraid of being honest in about her own life or peers of the age, and apparently was unabashed about some affairs she had with well known women (including greta garbo!!)"

"She read Proust and Schopenhauer on set between sets. She was one of the original flappers/new women of the 1920s. She had a one night stand with Garbo and was the inspiration for Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Truly a stone cold fox."

"on her wikipedia page it says her biographer said she "loved women as a homosexual man, rather than as a lesbian, would love them" and while i have no idea if this is true or not i thought that was very gender of her"

"despite being american she was big in german expressionist films and thus her aesthetic was unmatched!!"

So far ahead of her time in regard to portraying complicated women. Timeless elegance. "I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.” - Louise Brooks

[friends-to-lovers-tournament]

Friends to Lovers Tournament: Round 2, Side A, Match 2

propaganda under the cut!

Makoharu:

They are the first ship that comes to mind when I think of friends to lovers. I know Free! hasn't been popular since 2013, bug I just love them so much... Makoto's devotion to Haru. There's even a movie that flashes back to when they're kids when Makoto says "I love swimming and I love Haruka". Soft...

Dexer:

Waaaaaahahhhhhh they're so adorable. They have the sweetest, most caring relationship. They've been friends for 10 years now, since they've been 8. They really love each other. A problem they're dealing with is the homophobia of the 80s, and they support and stand up for each other. My phone autocorrects their names into all capital letters because I yell about them so much haha