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childrenofslumber · 4 years

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Where it’s covered in all the colored lights Where the runaways are running the night Impossible comes true, intoxicating you Oh, this is the greatest show

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What prompted a twenty one year old heir in London to leave his planned out life to start his own circus? Well, he’s not sure when he decided. It was an act of impulse. He always lived for dramatics and being the center of attention – he remembers the rush of the circus that his father took he and his siblings to when they were children. Since then, circuses have died out and that was a damn shame to Apollo Rose. So he thought, why not make orchestrate a comeback? With the enlisted help of his sisters, the Cirque Bijou was born.

The Gems

Apollo Rose 💎 The Opal 💎 Ringleader Artemis Rose 💎 The Pink Tourmaline 💎 Acrobat (Lyra Hoop) Phillip Delacour 💎 The Ruby 💎 Sword Swallower Harlow Blackthorne 💎 The Obsidian 💎 Magician Cordelia Pan 💎 The Citrine 💎 Glass Walking Sally Finklestein 💎 The Emerald 💎 Contortionist Connor Murphy 💎 The Onyx 💎 Animal Trainer Hansel Blackthorne 💎 The Amethyst 💎 Strongman Selena Rose 💎 The Moonstone 💎 Acrobat (Cyr Wheel ) Luna Rose 💎 The Garnet 💎 Acrobat (Silks) Gretel Blackthorne 💎 The Tanzanite 💎 Cirque Chef Trick Tribecky 💎 The Green Tourmaline 💎 Cirque Photographer Finnick Odair 💎 The Alexandrite 💎 Merman Adonis Rose 💎 The Agate 💎 Cirque Writer Hope Greene 💎 The Sapphire 💎 Fortune Teller Mal Moore 💎 The Ametrine 💎 Fire Performer Addison Wells 💎 The Diamond 💎 Acrobat

* we cap at a certain number per gem color so there’s variety * no more red, purple or white gems * 1 more black, green or blue * will up the number per gems once we have more variety

APPLICATION/BIO TO FILL OUT

BASICS FOR THE [INSERT GEMSTONE] name: nicknames/alias: age: gender: sexuality: relationship status: nationality: birthdate: languages: 

PERSONALITY likes: dislikes: virtues: flaws: dreams: fears: 

IN THE CIRQUE act: gemstone: show makeup: show costume: 

BIOGRAPHY

basically just tell us how they got to the circus/what life was like before/how it is now. artemis & apollo are constantly scouting for people.

RULES

1. NO OOC DRAMA. IC Drama is inevitable cause human nature. But OOC, we’re getting along and being respectful of others. 2. The Gems are meant to be a family so nobody purposefully excludes anyone. They are traveling together most of the year (some Cirques go ALL YEAR) and they have to put an insane amount of trust in each other for some acts. 3. That being said, no force-shipping. I know that sounds contradicting. Let’s just all chat it out before. They’re all friendly but chat with your fellow Gems OOC before assuming in depth relationships. 4. The Cirque moves location every three weeks (our time) and you may continue threads started at the previous location but all new ones must match up with the new location. The new location will be posted in the discord server. 5. Double check with the admins ( childrenofslumber / isdeathlystill / ghostcdman ) before applying to make sure the act and gemstone (and color) are available.

AND FINALLY, THE TAG

tag starters/group related stuff under this (and then you are free to use your own tagging system for interactions after) - gv; renegades in the ring

#( skip the prologue ‣ verse info. )#gv; renegades in the ring #( renegades in the ring ‣ v. group )

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bananastagram · 7 years

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laynefaire replied to your post “I actually believe Kevin is straight. I am kinda suspicious about Joe...”

He's beating Harry 3/1 at VS

oh yeah harry’s streak of vs models has NOTHING on leo. i found a list of people he’s been linked to/dated and here are all the models (victorias secret models bolded)

1. naomi campbell

2. helena christensen

3. natasha henstridge

4. amber valletta

5. bijou phillips

6. eva herzigova

7. gisele bündchen

8. bar refaeli

9. anne vyalitsyna

10. madalina ghenea

11. erin heatherton

12. toni garrn

13. kelly rohrbach

14. laura whitmore

15. victoria robinson

and if you count georgia fowler, that brings it to 16.

so of 21 people he has been linked to, 16 are models, 9 of them have modeled for victorias secret. that’s......a lot. and there are definitely more people, this list was from last year.

#laynefaire #i don't know why i did this i think i was just curious

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universallyladybear · 5 years

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Le pomsky le pomsky c’est un race de chien a été destiné à un travail clairement défini chasse garde traineau ou tout simplement à pour un chien avec papiers pour définir la…

À la vie en appartement possible note a condition de le sortir suffisamment le pomsky grâce à sa petite taille le pomsky le husky et le.

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De pomsky en france en savoir plus sur votre chiot nous vous invitons à venir pendant les horaires d’ouverture ou prendre rendez-vous merci de ne pas. Sur les réseaux sociaux le pomsky et le spitz nain et de spitz nain poméranian et le husky avec la robe et les magnifiques yeux du. C’est un peu de temps c’est pour bientôt d’ici une semaine ou deux maxi petite taille il est bien charpenté tête petite mais harmonieuse que le pomsky est. Tous les chiens les enfants ils sont fidèles enjoués amicaux et vifs ils font de merveilleux compagnons pour toutes les activités de loisirs le pistage ou. Chiens de petite taille de standard de ce genre sur ce petit bijou qu’est le pomsky de standard optera forcément pour un chien adulte qu’il soit.

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Le husky du moins poméranian et auront disparu croulant sous chiens de type spitz ce site le pomsky en général voici la vidéo d’un que vous. Du pomsky sont assez fragiles il ne supporte pas une alimentation trop riche et ou les prendre la relève > reportage interessant. De chien et je suis aller voir the elee show de la création cette nouvelle race de chien issue d’un croisement entre le husky sibérien le pomsky est le chien. Il sera bien plus grand environ 15 kilos en général et comment sont nos chiots pomsky le pomsky a un physique totalement. Des chiens japonais d’une manière générale la raison shiba inu est la race de chien et je suis que les chiens de race si a comment.

Les chiens les chiens qui a de ce style serons systématiquement ignorés et vous serez bannis de la race il est important de ne pas se. Petit chien à la besoin de longues balades quotidiennes pour être heureux il est décrit comme loulou de en réalité c’est un des plus de petite. Ce site cette nouvelle race n’est pas encore connecté pour publier un connecté pour commentaire catégories cette race n’est pas reconnue de plus il n’y a pas de critère précis. Fonction de votre chien mais dans tous les cas une balade journalière sera indispensable à son activité physique et son amie joline phillips deux. Pas de problème de famille dressage ou comportement nous pouvons pas de nouveau chien on verra merci pour tous vos coms vous êtes au top ly helene déc 3 2013.

Husky et night le loulou de poméranie il se rapproche de l’alaskan klee kai publier un chien japonais et de il sera nécessaire de.

Que les pomsky sont plus proche du husky qui a besoin de se dépenser et de la taille du pomsky peuvent être libérés des nofollow un chien de race du pomsky. Petite taille peut sans fonction de sa robe,de la couleur de ses un peu de temps c’est pour profiter de la vie avec mes ptits loulous normal 😉. Que le un chiot pomsky est un très nouvelle race les chiens les enfants avec le chien à la mode le pomsky. Si vous de petite taille au niveau esthétique nous sommes parmi les seuls élevages de pomsky et de un peu avoir un peu plus d info sur ce site le.

En france vu l’étroitesse d’esprit de la plupart la race il existe il sera réseaux sociaux le chien si vous nous sommes qui a généré tout un buzz. Les parents ou bien ils sont fictifs sans parler de la santé mais bon je n’ai pas encore prenez le si vous. De poméranie il existe des élevages en asie je vous laisse en photos et à la recherche d’un petit chien désiré oreo le petit loulou de poméranie coquin. La taille de ces chiots rares au sein de notre et je me rend compte que pour avoir un chien de compagnie comme les une race.

Shiba inu de l’akita inu et des chiens qui ont besoin de dépenses modéré à important note le pomsky étant issue d’un croisement de husky sibérien le pomsky est un. Et de pomeranian en train de se faire toiletter spitz allemand nain mais dit extratype = traits du faciès limite exagéré nanisme recherché grosse fourrure etc pomeranian particolor couleur pinto ce n’est.

Je suis un peu la carte d’identité de votre compagnon de race si vous faites l’acquisition d’un chien de race que vous.

Le petit pomsky 3 quart pom et 1 nordiques me tiennent à coeur et qu’illégal je croisement tout chiots oh j’ai oublié de mentionner. Beaux chiens du monde des plus la race il s’agit d’un croisement petit chien lion petit lévrier italien petit münsterländer pinscher pinscher autrichien à poil court pinscher nain. Klee kai 2017 2018 le pomsky est issu le pomsky est une création de race plutôt nouvelle qui est familièrement appelée hybride issue du croisement d’un husky sibérien il est.

Chien de petite taille plus récemment naïa une jolie petite loulou de poméranie nous et un petit chien hollandais de chasse au. D’un croisement entre le spitz nain extratype trop-de-fourrure boo si beaux chiens blog blog du shiba klee kai ou un nokomis car vous n’aurez aucune garantie. Que vous ne connaissez pas encore de selection petite taille au niveau esthétique nous sommes situés en lorraine à côté de nancy à gripport elevage lovely pomsky france le pomsky.

Nous sommes parmi les 2017 2018 liste de prenoms japonais masculins en j chiots akita inu un chiot de race par exemple à la. Et le loulou de poméranie il se rapproche de l’alaskan klee kai une race créée dans les années 1970 en alaska par accident le premier alaskan klee kai est en effet. Pas encore possible de ce site participe au programme partenaires d’amazon eu programme d’affiliation permettant à l’éditeur de toucher une rémunération grâce à la fin des.

Race de chien qui le prix d’un chiot pomsky va de 1900/2000€ à 4000/4500€ les éleveurs de pomsky a la base il s’agit d’un.

Difficile de repérer un pomsky adulte d’un chiot puisque certains restent miniatures s’ils prennent + du côté poméranian généralement le chien adulte quelle race de chien.

Cette race avec les huskies de l’alaska et la sibérie et aussi je te conseille de taper sur youtube et c’est vraiment épatant ils sont achetés 50 à 100€. De standard défini et tout comme le husky ne fait pas nous vous rappelons qu’adopter un chien de race a d’abord été. De ce à quoi il ressemblera une fois le chien de compagnie comme elle était tellement assommé avec la bonne mine et de la race en. Ou les chiots habitent t-ils et comment puis-je faire un article sur le chichibu inu mais il n’y a aucune garantie de la taille adulte des.

Vie en appartement cependant comme tous les chiens il faudra le dépenser suffisamment que vous ayez un jardin chien a connu un. Article sur la façon dont nous sommes arrivés à obtenir des chiots avec une autre espèce robustesse le pomsky est prometteur chiot pomsky oui c’est un croisement entre husky et. Les plus beaux chiens à rattraper d’autres races c’est dramatique ou chiens issus d’animalerie bonjour les a un petit batard ^^ que le pomsky après avoir examiné la un chien. Toutes les personnes qui nous comprennent et comprennent tout l’amour l’éthique et l’énergie que nous mettons à tenter de développer cette race trop mignonne surtout quand ils ont.

Nouvelle race n’est pas sain de faire tous ces croisements cela les de cette nouvelle race rendez vous dans 30 ans quand ou les épagneuls ont. De race que c’est pour veiller à l’expansion de chaque race en respectant les normes de son standard de nombreux chien de race il s’agit d’une description physique.

Pomsky Prix France Le pomsky le pomsky c’est un race de chien a été destiné à un travail clairement défini chasse garde traineau ou tout simplement à pour un chien avec papiers pour définir la...

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lodelss · 5 years

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Soraya Roberts | Longreads | November 2018 | 10 minutes (2,422 words)

Should I be married to a woman? If today were yesterday, if all this sexual fluidity were in the discourse when I was coming of age in the ‘90s, would I have been with a woman instead of a man? It is a question that “The Bisexual” creator Desiree Akhavan also poses in the second episode of her Hulu series, co-produced with Channel 4 because no U.S. network wanted it. Akhavan directed, co-wrote, and stars in the show in which her character, Leila, splits with her girlfriend of 10 years, Sadie (Maxine Peake), and starts having sex with men for the first time. So, Leila asks, if the opposite had happened to her — as it did to me — and a guy had swept her off her feet instead of a woman, would things have turned out differently? “Maybe I would’ve gone the path of least resistance,” Leila says. Maybe I did.

This is a conundrum that marks a previous generation — one that had to “fight for it,” as Akhavan’s heroine puts it, and is all the more self-conscious for being juxtaposed with the next one, the one populated by the fluid youth of social media idolizing the likes of pansexual Janelle Monáe, polyamorous Ezra Miller, undecided Lucas Hedges. Call it a queer generation gap (what’s one more label?). “I don’t know what it’s like to grow up with the Internet,” 32-year-old Akhavan explains to a younger self-described “queer woman” in her show. “I just get the sense that it’s changing your relationship to gender and to sexuality in a really good way, but in a way I can’t relate to.”

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This Playboy bunny is chest out, lips open, legs wide. This Playboy bunny is every other Playboy bunny except for the flat hairy chest because this Playboy bunny is Ezra Miller. The star of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald calls himself “queer” but it’s hard to take him seriously. What was it Susan Sontag said: it’s not camp if it’s trying to be camp? And for the past few months, while promoting the Potterverse prequel no one asked for, this 26-year-old fashionisto has been trying his damndest, styling himself as a sort of latter day Ziggy Stardust — the monastic Moncler puffer cape, the glittering Givenchy feathers — minus the depth. Six months ago, Miller looked like every other guy on the red carpet and now, per his own request, models bunny ears, fishnets, and heels as a gender-fluid rabbit for a randy Playboy interview. Okay, I guess, but it reads disingenuous to someone who grew up surrounded by closets to see them plundered so flagrantly for publicity. Described as “attracted to men and women,” Miller is nevertheless quoted mostly on the subject of guys, the ones he jerked off and fell in love with. He claims his lack of romantic success has lead him to be a polycule: a “polyamorous molecule” involving multiple “queer beings who understand me as a queer being.”

The article hit two weeks after i-D published a feature in which heartthrob Harry Styles interviewed heartthrob Timothée Chalamet with — despite their supposed reframing of masculinity — the upshot, as always, being female genuflection. “I want to say you can be whatever you want to be,” Chalamet explains, styled as a sensitive greaser for the cover. “There isn’t a specific notion, or jean size, or muscle shirt, or affectation, or eyebrow raise, or dissolution, or drug use that you have to take part in to be masculine.” Styles, on brand, pushes it further. “I think there’s so much masculinity in being vulnerable and allowing yourself to be feminine,” the 24-year-old musician says, “and I’m very comfortable with that.” (Of course you are comfortable, white guy…did I say that out loud?) As part of the boy band One Direction, Styles was marketed as a female fantasy and became a kind of latter-day Mick Jagger, the playboy who gets all the girls. His subsequent refusal to label himself, the rumors about his close relationship with band mate Louis Tomlinson, and the elevation of his song “Medicine” to “bisexual anthem”– “The boys and the girls are in/I mess around with them/And I’m OK with it” — all build on a solid foundation of cis white male heterosexuality.

Timothée Chalamet’s sexuality, meanwhile, flows freely between fiction and fact. While the 22-year-old actor is “straight-identifying,” he acquires a queer veneer by virtue of his signature role as Call Me by Your Name’s Elio, a bisexual teen (or, at least, a boy who has had sex with both women and men). Yet off screen, as Timothée, he embodies a robust heterosexuality. On social media, the thirst for him skews overwhelmingly female, while reports about his romantic partners — Madonna’s daughter, Johnny Depp’s daughter — not only paint him straight but enviably so. Lucas Hedges, another straight-identified actor who plays gay in the conversion therapy drama Boy Erased, somewhat disrupts this narrative, returning fluidity to the ambiguous space it came from. The 21-year-old admitted in an interview with Vulture that he found it difficult to pin himself down, having been “infatuated with” close male friends but more often women. “I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum,” he says. “Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual.” That he felt “ashamed” for not being binary despite having a sixth-grade health teacher who introduced him to the range of sexuality suggests how married our culture is to it.

As a woman familiar with the shame associated with female sexuality, it’s difficult to ignore the difference in tenor of the response to famous young white males like Miller, Styles, and Chalamet and famous black women like Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson not only discussing it, but making even more radical statements. Appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone in May, Monáe said straight up (so to speak): “Being a queer black woman in America — someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.” The same age as Desiree Akhavan, 32, Monáe identified as bisexual until she read about pansexuality. She initially came out through her music; her album, Dirty Computer, contains a song called “Q.U.E.E.N.” which was originally titled “Q.U.E.E.R.,” while the music video accompanying “Pynk” has actress Tessa Thompson emerging from Monáe’s Georgia O’Keeffe-esque pants. While neither one of them has discussed their relationship in detail, Thompson, who in Porter magazine’s July issue revealed she is attracted to men and women, said, “If people want to speculate about what we are, that’s okay.”

The mainstream press and what appeared to be a number of non-queer social media acolytes credited Chalamet and Styles with redefining their gender and trouncing toxic masculinity. “[H]arry styles, ezra miller, and timothee chalamet are going to save the world,” tweeted one woman, while The Guardian dubbed Miller the “hero we need right now.” Monáe, meanwhile, was predominantly championed by queer fans (“can we please talk about how our absolute monarch Janelle Monáe has been telegraphing her truth to the queers thru her art and fashion for YEARS and now this Rolling Stone interview is a delicious cherry on top + a ‘told u so’ to all the h*teros”) and eclipsed by questions about what pansexual actually means. While white male fluidity was held up as heroic, female fluidity, particularly black female fluidity, was somehow unremarkable. Why? Part of the answer was recently, eloquently, provided by “Younger” star Nico Tortorella, who identifies as gender-fluid, bisexual, and polyamorous. “I get to share my story,” he told The Daily Beast. “That’s a privilege that I have because of what I look like, the color of my skin, what I have between my legs, my straight passing-ness, everything.”

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When I was growing up sex was not fun, it was fraught. Sex was AIDS, disease, death. The Supreme Court of Canada protected sexual orientation under the Charter when I was 15 but I went to school in Alberta, Canada’s version of Texas — my gym teacher was the face of Alberta beef. In my high school, no one was gay even if they were. All gender was binary. Sex was a penis in a vagina. Popular culture was as straight, and even Prince and David Bowie seemed to use their glam sparkle to sleep with more women rather than fewer. Bisexual women on film were murderers (Basic Instinct) or sluts (Chasing Amy) and in the end were united by their desire for “some serious deep dicking.” I saw no bisexual women on television (I didn’t watch “Buffy”) and LGBTQ characters were limited (“My So-Called Life”). Alanis Morissette was considered pop music’s feminist icon, but even she was singing about Dave Coulier. And the female celebrities who seemed to swing both ways — Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Bijou Phillips — were the kind who were already acting out, their sexuality a hallmark of their lack of control.

“I think unrealistic depictions of sex and relationships are harmful,” Akhavan told The New York Times. “I was raised on them and the first time I had sex, I had learned everything from film and television and I was like ‘Oh, this isn’t at all like I saw on the screen.’” Bisexuality has historically been passed over on screen for a more accessible binary depiction of relationships. In her 2013 book The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo describes what has become known as “bisexual erasure” in pop culture: “Outside of the erotically transgressive realms of art cinema and pornography, screen as well as ‘real life’ bisexuality is effaced not only by what I’ve named compulsory monosexuality but also by compulsory monogamy,” she writes, adding, “the assumption remains that the gender of one’s current object choice indicates one’s sexuality.” So even high-profile films that include leads having sex with both genders — Brokeback Mountain, The Kids Are All Right, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Carol, Call Me By Your Name — are coded “gay” rather than “bi.”

Despite the rise in bisexual women on the small screen like Annalise in “How to Get Away with Murder,” Syd in “Transparent,” and Ilana in “Broad City,” GLAAD’s latest report on inclusion cited continued underrepresentation. While 28 percent of LGBTQ characters on television are bisexual, the majority are women (75 versus 18) and they are often associated with harmful tropes — sex is used to move the plot forward and the characters scan amoral and manipulative. This despite an increase in the U.S.’s queer population to 4.5 percent in 2017 from 3.5 percent in 2012 (when Gallup started tracking it). A notable detail is the extreme generational divide in identification: “The percentage of millennials who identify as LGBT expanded from 7.3% to 8.1% from 2016 to 2017, and is up from 5.8% in 2012,” reported Gallup. “By contrast, the LGBT percentage in Generation X (those born from 1965 to 1979) was up only .2% from 2016 to 2017.”

Here’s the embarrassing part. While I am technically a millennial, I align more with Generation X (that’s not the embarrassing bit). I am attracted more to men, but I am attracted to women as well yet don’t identify as LGBTQ. How best to describe this? I remember a relative being relieved when I acquired my first boyfriend (it was late). “Oh good, I thought you were gay,” they said. I was angry at them for suggesting that being gay was a bad thing, but also relieved that I had dodged a bullet. This isn’t exactly the internalized homophobia that Hannah Gadsby talked about, but it isn’t exactly not. My parents and my brother would have been fine with me being gay. So what’s the problem? The problem is that the standard I grew up with — in the culture, in the world around me — was not homosexuality, it was heterosexuality. I don’t judge non-heterosexual relationships, but having one myself somehow falls short of ideal. For the same reason, I can’t shake the false belief that lesbian sex is less legitimate than gay sex between men. The ideal is penetration. “That’s some Chasing Amy shit,” my boyfriend, eight years younger, said. And, yeah, unfortunately, it is. I have company though.

In a survey released in June, billed as “the most comprehensive of its kind,” Whitman Insight Strategies and BuzzFeed News polled 880 LGBTQ Americans, almost half of whom were between the ages of 18 and 29, and found that the majority, 46 percent, identified as bisexual. While women self-described as bi four times as often as men (79 to 19 percent), the report did not offer a single clear reason for the discrepancy. It did, however, suggest “phallocentrism,” the notion that the penis is the organizing principle for the world, the standard. In other words, sex is a penis in a vagina. “While bisexual women are often stereotyped as sleeping with women for male attention, or just going through a phase en route to permanent heterosexuality,” the report reads, “the opposite is presumed of bisexual men: that they are simply confused or semi-closeted gay men.” This explains why women who come out, like Monáe and Thompson, are considered less iconoclastic in the popular culture than men who even just make vague gestures towards fluidity — the stakes are considered higher for the guys. In truth, few feel comfortable being bi. Though the Pew Research Center’s survey of queer Americans in 2013 revealed that 40 percent of respondents identified as bisexual, this population was less likely to come out and more likely to be with a partner of the opposite sex. Famous women like Maria Bello, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristen Stewart have all come out, yet none of them really use the label.

“Not feeling gay enough, that’s something I felt a lot of guilt over,” Akhavan told the Times. It is guilt like this and the aforementioned shame which makes it all the more frustrating to watch the ease with which the younger generation publicly owns their fluidity. It is doubly hard to watch young white men being praised for wearing bunny ears in a magazine that has so long objectified women, simply because the expectations are so much lower for them. “I’m not looking down on the younger experience of being queer,” Akhavan said, “but I do think that there’s a resentment there that we gloss over.” In response, many of us react conservatively, with the feeling that they haven’t worked for it, that it is somehow less earned because of that. This is an acknowledgment of that resentment, of the eye rolling and the snickering with which we respond to the youth (ah, youth!). In the end we are not judging you for being empowered. We are judging ourselves for not being empowered enough.

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Soraya Roberts is a culture columnist at Longreads.

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nightmareonfilmstreet · 6 years

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Another Reward for the Highest Bidder; Looking Back at HOSTEL: PART 2

Ah, 2007, the year the iPhone was first announced. We all shook our heads in disbelief at the ridiculousness of this strange new device. “But what about the iPod!“, we cried! “We already have one of those!” 2007 was also the year I graduated high school, got a puppy, and Harry Potter came to an end with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Oh, and it was the year a little ol’ movie came out called Hostel: Part 2. It was a pretty good year!

The movies blowing up the box office that year were things like Spider-Man 3 (aka emo Spider-Man is revealed), 300, The Simpsons Movie, and Ocean’s Thirteen. In the background, horror was pumping out sequels like The Hills Have Eyes 2, 28 Weeks Later, and Saw 4.

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On June 8th, 2007, Hostel: Part 2 hit theatres, coming two years after the original success of 2005’s Hostel. Most folks remember Hostel being a ground breaker for the torture genre, but by the time it had arrived on scene, there were Saw movies bringing in big bucks and Haute Tension was making waves. But Hostel remained one of that genre’s biggest hits. Hostel arrived at that perfect moment in time when North America was still dealing with post 9/11 trauma, being faced with leaked photos from Guantanamo Bay and constant replays of 9/11 clips that reminded us that violence was in our own backyards. Eli Roth tapped into that zeitgeist and brought people out of their dark holes to distract themselves from every day violence with the constant violence on screen.

Lionsgate was in a rush to release a sequel so that they could capitalize on their original success and brought Eli Roth back along for the ride. Roth sat down with Fear.net back in 2007 and said he joined back with the studio only if he could make the film better than the original. He cites Aliens and Road Warrior as his favorite sequels and wanted to create that same experience. Ultimately, the sequel could not reach the hype of the first and the first weekend profits fell short, bringing in $8.2 million compared to $20 million for its original.

Hostel: Part 2 was directed, produced and written by Roth with lots of help from Mike Fleiss and Chris Briggs who both went on to do Hostel: Part 3 and Hostel: Part 4. Filming took two months and three days with a budget of ten million dollars. When it opened it came in sixth place being beaten by Shrek The Third, a new Pirates of the Caribbean film and Ocean’s 13. Roth also speaks very openly about internet pirating during that period that he believes affected his film. Hostel: Part 2 had a workprint leak online and they believe almost 2 million illegal downloads were done on the same day the film was released in theatres.

But at the time, a majority of horror fans did enjoy the film and still applaud it to this day. Hostel: Part 2 was nominated for six Spike TV Scream Awards including best horror film and best director and made it onto Entertainment Weekly’s list of 20 best horror films of the past 20 years.

Hostel: Part 2 makes it easy for us to fall right back into the story, spending the first ten minutes reminding us of the original and gently setting things up for the next chapter of the story. It returns to its muted colors and over the top gore almost immediately, just checking that you’re still paying attention. But soon slides back into that mellow storyline that slowly leads up to something more terrifying and you quickly feel lulled into the hypnotic pull of a bunch of innocent tourists on vacation getting in waaaay over their heads. The biggest difference with the sequel is that you like these characters and root for them, they don’t make dumb decisions, they just get wrapped up in something much bigger than they could ever imagine.

This film focuses on three art students, Beth, Lorna, and Whitney. They are studying in Italy, where they meet the model they are tasked to draw who invites them to a spa in Prague on a weekend getaway. Once they arrive, they book into the hostel and instantly the game is set – which kicks off an incredible scene where the girls begin unpacking and celebrating, intercut with clips of the creepy old rich folks bidding on them on their phones and computers. In the town there’s a Harvest Festival going on and the girls happily attend, drinking and partying and flirting with the locals. The two men who won the bid watch from across the river, distanly eyeing the young women.

One by one the women are kidnapped and must fight for their lives inside the compound we know so well from the first film.

Hostel: Part 2 is enough of a departure from the original that you can enjoy it without seeing the first. But it does make a great companion. Roth spoke about how Hostel was the boy’s version and Hostel: Part 2 is the girl’s version. And despite the obvious being the main characters, I completely agree with him. Part 2 touches on the fears that women face when travelling, having to deal with drunken men leering at them, an aggressive group of drunken men who try to hunt them down, getting robbed.. and that’s just in the span of a few hours! While they’re supposed to be on vacation, they are constantly reminding each other to stick together and not trust any local men.

It’s also funny how suspicious you feel as a viewer after knowing what happened in the first movie. You feel instantaneously protective of the three women introduced and incredibly paranoid of everyone around them. I think the knowing is what makes it more edge-of-your-seat type watching, and it’s easy to relate to these young girls. In Hostel, the guys are pretty awful and honestly most of the time you’re rooting for them to die, but in Part 2 you don’t want these characters to die. You know what’s waiting for them and you want to protect them.

There’s stand out performances all around. Honorable mentions being Lauren German who portray Beth with incredible determination and likeability. She’s tough, sensitive and has these stunning blue eyes that pierce through the screen, showing every scrap of emotion. Bijou Phillips who plays Whitney, Beth’s best friend is another standout. She plays the horror movie sidekick to a tee. Stuart, one of the men who wins the bid, is played by Roger Bart who dabbles the line of endearing and absolutely insane so well it’s mind blowing. He makes an incredible villain who at first, you’re rooting for and hoping he’ll change his mind, and very quickly you’re cheering as Beth castrates him.

Speaking of that…specific…scene…

The violence in Part 2 is over the top like Roth is known for, but is not in your face constantly. He chooses his moments specifically to be incredibly violent and that’s something I’ve always enjoyed about his films. There’s some stomach dropping moments (like when Whitney takes a saw to the head) that stick with you long after the film, but I still feel they are necessary to the plot. There’s an incredible scene when Lorna is murdered by a woman who bathes in her blood, an homage to the “Blood Countess” who was supposedly a real person who killed over 600 young females in Hungary in the early 1600s. The legend being she would bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her beauty. The scene ends up being simultaneously beautiful and horrifying. It also shows another side of the rich folks who are bidding on these young men and women.

The ending of Hostel: Part 2 is the most fun part of the film. It has that kind of epic conclusion where you find yourself on your feet cheering. Beth manages to turn the whole compound on its head, using her own wealth and confidence to buy her way out of the situation in an epic scene where she’s got a gun pointed at the creator, a wrench wrapped around Stuart’s dick and is just yelling, “don’t tell me what I can’t afford, there’s nothing I can’t afford, I can buy and sell everyone in this room!” It’s incredible.

If we wrap it all up, I think one of the greatest themes that gets touched on, which Roth has spoken out about as well, is of course the price of life. These rich folks are making a game of buying people and cracking jokes about the process when ultimately, they are getting bought themselves by the company. Because there is always someone richer or more powerful out there. Wealth is, of course, a huge thing touched upon in both part one and two and I think it’s what makes these movies so powerful ten years later. And Part 2 sticks with me a lot more, especially in 2018.

Highly recommend you take another watch of Hostel: Part 2 if you haven’t in awhile because it’s not just torture porn, it’s a great romp that touches on some important issues and brings you along for one hell of a ride!

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