#subtextual

[translightyagami]

my tummy hurts and im at a bar being so bwave everyone send me encouraging words

[lserver362reviews]

I watched this for a super special 100th episode of Subtextual Podcast: Congrats on 100, my beautiful podcasting fairy godmothers!

(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/call-me-by-your-name-2017-100th-episode-extravaganza/id1597822346?i=1000670356160)

This was my first time watching this film. It wasn't quite what I expected. In some ways I feel like I was the last hold out on seeing this movie from the gay film canon! I am not the biggest fan of Timothee Chalamet nor the actual cannibal, Armie Hammer. This is a rich text as they say. The color palette is so lovely. I was first grabbed by my fav sculpture, the sleeping eros, being used in the opening credits. I was also intrigued by all the flies and how they often signify decay in art. I loved the line, "is it because they're gay or because they're ridiculous?" in regards to the gay family friends that come to visit. There's perhaps a bit of fleshing out the father's past history or at least hinting at his feelings of acceptance around homosexuality. I found the relationship between Ellio and his dad really interesting. They're very close and I was pretty caught off guard by how candidly they often talk to each other. I'm just glad that I'm not at the stage of where my emotions are so raw and impulsive. His speech at the end is quite moving, although I'm not convinced a parent would be all that supportive of their child hooking up with this older man. The age difference between Ellio and Oliver is weird but I think part of the point is that this is not meant to be a perfectly healthy relationship or a lasting one. I honestly expected it to be more predatory and was surprised by how respectful Oliver acts (in the beginning-granted he's got a fiance at home...) I think the takeaways from their flawed relationship of not living in shame of your identity (Oliver helps Ellio to also embrace his Jewish identity as well as his sexuality) is an important one. Repression just means you can't control the way the feelings you're repressing manifest. This comes to a boiling point with THE peach scene, which you can't be in the orbit of this film without knowing that there is a peach scene. Ellio has so much shame about lusting over this man and it drives him to use a peach as a stand-in for Oliver (the bruised peach himself as we see earlier in the film). When Oliver comes and really matches Ellio's freak (to quote the kids these days), Ellio breaks down. It's a powerful scene and shows radical acceptance of the thing you feel ashamed about, and also just Ellio's uncertainty about how he really feels about himself and sex. We've seen Ellio having such a lazy privileged summer where he's had ample room to do nothing but eat fruit, transcribe music, go out with his friends, and swim (insert, God I wish that were me meme here). I think peaches in general are really interesting in that each one has a pit and that enjoyment cannot last. Every rose has its thorn, every peach has its pit. The way that we see Oliver eat and drink throughout this movie is very telling of his character in contrast to Ellio (the eggs, the apricot juice, etc.). Oliver is Dionysus/Bacchus and Ellio is Apollo. During their time together they learn from each other and call each other by their own name, thus allowing their roles to reverse. Ellio is allowed to live in his temptations (Dionysus/Bacchus) and Oliver is learning more about music and art (Apollo). The phrase "Call Me By Your Name" also relates to the "our house is your house" statement from the mom and Ellio's comment, "my room is now your room." I also see it relating to the act of transcription i.e. identifying and naming notes. I think in a way Ellio transcribes himself anew during this film. At the heart of this lies a lot about bravery. Bravery in one's identity when you're missing community, and the bravery required to identify and call something by it's name, and then to be able to welcome in someone else with your own name. Call Me By Your Name is an invitation to communion and in a way gives a sense of completion (this is moreso in the sense of, in the search for oneself, and being able to see oneself in another, and less of, in a flawed, you complete me, kind of view). Call Me By Your Name has a lot to do with self-knowledge and closing the distance between someone else and yourself.

TLDR: My man Oliver got Ellio into 80's new wave and that's all that matters.

[uhhh-ghouls007]

Knee deep in the passenger seat. Or whatever happened in this scene

[hyloblates-blog-blog]

mirabelle: oh jeez, getting up the house of change to fight the king is gonna be a nightmare!

siffrins subplot:

[eyelinerdean]

ok ok yes yes jensen making his voice deeper to match misha’s whatever. there’s something very compelling to me about dean’s voice being raspier after forty years of screaming in hell

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Sandy’s letter…

Aka the second bad thing that happened in Sodapop Curtis’s no-good-very-bad week

(I just wanted to draw soda angst y’know?)

[emilinqa]

i don’t remember how to draw

[howthebodyfallsapart]

‘Panem isn’t segregated’, it literally is though. Although district 12 isn’t racially/ethnically homogenous, there is a identifiable ‘seam look’ (canonically a mixed future race) and town look (white and blonde). Of course not everyone in district 11 is black, but it’s not a stretch to assume that most of the field workers and likely most of the revolutionaries who stir up enough trouble for their children to be stolen are. Suzanne Collins is very hesitant to talk about race even though she’s made a story set in America with heavy racial implications, and it does absolutely matter that the movies are whitewashed.

[palmettoshenanigans]

Neil and Andrew do not have amazing communication nor do they have shitty communication but a secret third thing (the same read-between-the-implications-subtextual-bullshittery language and so they understand each other and work through their issues anyway)

[waxn-wane]

IM GOING TO FUCKING EXPLODE

YANA?????

YANA????????

I'm going to die rn WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME. That's not just dead ass that's deceased coccyx. (I'll give anything to see the script/storyboard)

I guess even Yana was disappointed that it didn't end in Sebaciel

[morphean42]

I’ve finally figured out why I really dislike Twink Whizzer!

So, in ‘This Had Better Come To A Stop’ Marvin sings the line “that’s what pretty boys should do”, and I’ve always interpreted this as another example of Marvin thrusting Whizzer into an unrealistic role. We all know Marvin treats Whizzer like the woman of the relationship, expecting him to cook, clean, serve him, and be generally feminine. However, Marvin also puts Whizzer in the category of ‘pretty boy’ in addition to ‘woman’.

Whizzer is, in many ways, more traditionally masculine than Marvin. He knows more about and is good at sports, he’s tall, he’s what one might call a ‘player’. Especially how Stephen Bogardus plays Whizzer in the OBC, he is not a stereotypically gay man. This, obviously, is not okay in Marvin’s eyes. He sees his own failings of masculinity through Whizzer’s performance of it, and this makes him incredibly insecure, so he forces Whizzer to be ‘the feminine one’. The gay one. The pretty boy. The twink.

So, when Marvin calls Whizzer a pretty boy, that is a slight against him, that’s Marvin trying to force this idea of a ‘small, feminine, non-athletic lover’ onto him because it makes him ‘the man’ in the relationship. Nearly everything Marvin does that hurts those around him is not done because he hates them, but because he hates himself (that’s a whole other point but anyway). So, Marvin calls Whizzer a pretty boy because it’s everything Whizzer isn’t and Marvin can never accept being the less masculine of the pair.

This analysis is running on a correlation between the terms ‘pretty boy’ and ‘twink’ but I think my point stands even without that.

Whizzer isn’t a twink because just like Marvin is trying to force him into being ‘the woman’ he’s making him take on an effeminate, not traditionally masculine role.

Oh and one more point! Unrelated to all this! The term twink refers to a gay man traditionally between the ages of 18-25, or at least appearing young like that! Whizzer is balding! Whizzer is not twenty years old! If I see one more person make Whizzer like twenty-four and Marvin like thirty-seven I will lose my goshdamned mind!

[autism-swagger]

I sincerely hope you all know that when I say "baby butch Jackie Taylor who died before he had a chance to realize/explore it" I'm not just pulling that out of my ass. Literally just look at the outfits she wears over the course of season 1.

Are they the most masculine things ever? No, of course not! But when you compare them to the outfits we see her wear before the crash, when they're still in Wiskayok?

It paints a very interesting picture.

[samsbrowncarhartt]

The reason early spn is so thematically incoherent is bc its simultaneously trying to be a gothic horror, which shows the corruption/darkness at the heart of the American family and explores the tragedy in the fact that, no matter how hard you try, you can never escape your family/destiny/blood

But its also a post-9/11 network TV cop show that AFFIRMS the American nuclear family and associated values (patriarchy, vigilante justice, us/them mentalities) as righteous and good

So it naturally gets a bit confusing

[guzhufuren]

New posters, message, part of a soundtrack and information about upcoming chinese BL The General's Son, show from the director of Word of Honor

"Green mountains are hidden in the distance, the waters are far away, the bright moon is always shining, the world is full of happiness."

Genres: wuxia; revenge Number of episodes: 24 Episode runtime: 18 minutes

Lead actors: Li Kaiwen as Li Jianwei; Dong Zifan as Chen Xiaoxi

Director and executive producer: Ma Huagan (Word of Honor, The Legend of Anle, Sword Dynasty) Art director: Liu Jingping (Love and Redemption, A Dream of Splendor, Wonderland of Love) Screenwriter and chief producer: Zhou Shucheng Executive producers: Zhuo Zuoqing, Yang Qi Co-producers: Jiang Yuxin, Li Shike, Dong Xinyu Co-director: Wang Xue Producers: Jiang Zhengpeng, Liu Wei, Xu Heni Planning by: Luo Yuting, Luo Gaoqiang

Filming finished this June. Will not be broadcast in mainland China. Original script.

Synopsis: General Li's family were killed on New Year's Eve. Li Jianwei, the youngest son of the Li family, escaped death, but disguised himself as a courtesan and went to Wei Mountain to seek revenge. Chen Xiaoxi, the young master of Guigu, has a lively and eccentric personality, becomes increasingly close to Li Jianwei, who has tried his best to win him over. Chen Xiaoxi's sister, Xiao Hetao, is simple and kind. She discovers that Li Jianwei came for revenge, and dies to resolve the hatred between the two.

Characters:

Li Jianwei. Twenty years old, the youngest son of General Li Fei, he is loved by the whole family, standing like an orchid and a jade tree, smiling like the bright moon. He should have had a bright future, but his fate changed overnight. In order to get revenge, he went undercover to Weishan, enduring humiliation and patiently executing his plan step by step.

Chen Xiaoxi. At the age of twenty, we meet the young master of Weishan Guigu. He was born pure but had evil eyes. Under his lively and sunny appearance, his face looked like that of a devil's. In fact, he was rough but kind, and treated people with sincerity. Unfortunately, fate played a cruel joke on him and his mother died.

Xiao Hetao. At the age of seventeen, Chen Xiaoxi rescued a human child from a wolf pack. Innocent and romantic, she was very simple and naive. Gui Rong and others gave Xiao Hetao the purest and most innocent living environment, but she hoped to resolve the hatred of everyone with her own power.

Princess Qingyuan. Thirty-four years old, a graceful and elegant lady, smart and tenacious. She was in love with Chen Dawang when she was young. After Chen Dawang's death, she firmly refused marriage arranged by the magistrate's office and spent many years in Zhejiang. While helping Li Jianwei to take revenge, Qingyuan, the deputy envoy of the Chang'an Supervisor Zi Ke, has been trying to find out the truth about Jian Jishan from 20 years ago.

Chen Dawang. At the age of 38, we meet the leader of Guigu in Huishan. Twenty years ago, he was a major general in the Loyal and Brave Army led by Chen Weishan. Entrusted by the general, Chen Dawang and his party lived in seclusion in Guigu for twenty years, just to avenge the Loyal and Brave Army and reveal the truth to the world one day.

Sizhou. 24 years old, a descendant of the Loyal and Brave Army, he was a martial arts expert but became blind in two days. Because he was indebted to the Lord of Qingyuan, he stayed by his side and waited for investigation. While helping Li Jianwei to get his revenge, he also hoped to find out the truth of the old case of the Loyal and Brave Army from 20 years ago.

Wan Qianhong. Thirty-eight years old, owner of Baihua Villa, with mysterious martial arts and deceitful tricks. When she was young, she fell in love with Li Pu, who concealed his identity. Later, Li Xifei and Huang Jueda broke off all ties with Wan Qianhong. Since then, Wan Qianhong deeply hated Li Pu and all men in the world. Behind the hatred, Wan Qianhong missed her daughter so much that she mistakenly recognized Xiao Hetao as Zaotian's daughter. In the end, they ended up loving each other but not being able to be together.

Shi Tou. Eighteen years old, a good martial brother of Chen Xiaoxi, grew up in Jianweishan. He is the beloved son of Uncle Hua and Aunt Hua, with a simple and straightforward personality. He was happy and naive until Xiaohe died. The joy he did not even have time to express became the biggest regret in Shi Tou's life.

*text from informational brochures was converted with image to text online programs, translated through google translator and edited by me with some help of online dictionaries. i do not speak chinese, so there are most certainly mistakes in the text. purpose of this translation is to give you the general idea

[bumblebeebats]

Tshirt that says "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT FLIRTING ACTUALLY IS AND AT THIS POINT IM TOO AFRAID TO ASK"

[emilinqa]

panel from a theoretical comic i will never make