Hi, I have a question and I thought that asking you might qork because you're really good at this but did Elvis ever said anything about crossdressing for Girl Happy? If it made him uncomfortable or if he found it funny or anything?
hello, thank you so much for the ask ꨄ︎ !!
tbh the first time I watched “girl happy” and saw that scene my immediate thought was~ how did y’all convince Elvis to wear that ?
and then my second thought was what would be Elvis’ drag name because he was rocking that dress a little too good
(please share your drag name idea for Elvis if you have one lmaoo)
as for your question I unfortunately couldn’t find anything specific like a comment by Elvis about having to wear a dress for the scene but knowing that he was prideful, especially about his image, I would imagine he likely wasn’t too thrilled about it although probably never voiced any opposition about it either
by that time in his film career he had made so many of the same kinds of pictures, requiring him to do so many humiliating things, that I think he became almost desensitized to the material. He knew he had no choice in what would be asked of him and so he just did the best with what he got
MARTY LACKER: “Elvis was ruined by the Colonel and by Hal Wallis, they didn’t let him develop… About ‘64 or ‘65, Elvis started saying ‘Colonel, I’m tired of doing the same old damn movies’. The turning point was ��Girl Happy”, when the script was so lame and the songs, like ‘Do the Clam’ were so obnoxious. When he had to film the scene where he sings ‘Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce’, he went around the whole day ranting”
(excerpt from “Elvis and the Memphis Mafia” by Alanna Nash)
but honestly when thinking of all the things that he had to do for the sake of “comedy” in his films (like the god forsaken yoga scene in easy come, easy go) having to wear a silly little dress seems far more preferable 😭
from what I have read it actually seems like he was far more bothered by having to wear a blond wig in “kissin’ cousins”
(excerpt from “Elvis” by Jerry Hopkins)
idk something that I’ve always admired about Elvis was how he was able to persevere despite everything that was thrown at him, especially during his film career; he was unhappy with the movies he was making, unhappy with the songs he had to sing, unhappy with the costumes, and yet he always showed up to set on time, he always took studying his lines seriously, and he was always willing to do 40 takes or more of those songs just to get them perfect
look at him picking up his script for “double trouble” so that he could start studying it 😭
I will forever be frustrated about how the Colonel completely sabotaged Elvis and his love for acting… we truly got something great in “King Creole” and not only was the film great but Elvis was proud of it and that is what I love about it most of all
and on a random side note please enjoy some photos of Billy Smith, Elvis’ cousin, donning a woman’s blouse and some fake breasts when he acted as Anne Helm’s body double for “follow that dream” bc he also makes a pretty woman 💀
Harvest Moon Festival writing is pretty good actually
🌖Like upon watching I notice this scene alone establishes the theme of the episode without shoving it in your face, and you might miss it on your first watch, but there are so many subtle details. Also it immediately follows the first passing Bechdel Test scene in the series
🌖 Wally Wackford is irritated by Stolas, you can see it even despite his customer service smile when Stolas rudely snatches the mic out of his hand (twice)
🌖Stolas then says “Greetings tiny, wrath ring…imps” It’s so awkward, and he’s being so fucking rude and demeaning and everyone has to endure through it cause they wanna see the magic trick
🌖He pissed off everyone when he said ‘Celebrate the spoils of your labour which feed the citizens of hell!’ Everyone looks irritated and insulted. Most of their hard work goes underpaid, they’re the poor class designated to manual labour. While Goetia and other royals parasitise off them and get all the best food
🌖 when flirting with Blitz, Stolas doesn’t really care if the “tiny” “itty bitty” imps see him do something like this because they don’t really matter. But people like Asmodeus do matter to him. And I think that’s when Wally finally got his adorable revenge
(Small cutaway into Ozzies)
🔮Are you sleeping with an imp!? (The tiny ones you see as so beneath you?) Lmaoo wally I love you pop off king. This is the only time he can call out Stolas without the threat of murder. Also sarcastic chorus hates him so he’s objectively the best character by law.
🔮Asmodeus makes no secret that he has imp intimate partners (the lovey dovey part is the secret) He’s fine with an ‘unemotional bang sesh’ being known. And this makes the “How the mighty do fall” Line even better because this openly casteist man has destroyed his whole life over some guy he sees as inferior to him and who is literally ashamed of their exploitative contract he is forced into—but he thinks that’s love
🔮 id redo the start and have Blitz be the one sad alone and watching Hella Novella and saying “that’s a mood Gabriella” to make us actually empathise with him, not his fucking abuser. Then scrolling through Millie and Moxie photos, wondering how they got where they are, and saying fuck it, he grabs some binoculars and starts following them to the elevator. Stolas keeps calling him incessantly as always and he just says fuck it I’ll use him back for once. At the end if they wrote Stolas calling the whole thing funny and nervously asking if sex is on the table, and then for an apology from Blitz as if he did nothing wrong, skip his wimpy manipulative owl crying, then the writing becomes consistent.
🌖Striker is great in the above Harvest Moon scene. He is definitely pissed off by Stolas too but is keeping his cool and just smiling. He completely blends in. He’s slippery.
🌖He carefully observed Blitz get irritated by Stolas’ unwanted advances and pretends he finds it funny. Everyone else is after all. But he can see he’s being treated as a plaything and will bring that up to him later. Already being a better friend than fucking Millie and Moxie giggling.
🌗He should say that him and Blitz have more skill and achievements than most of their kind, like the contest just showed, not “superior” skip him calling Moxie little and a vermin. It’s shit. It terminates you from thinking about the themes. The one who hired him should have been one of the new imp characters we were introduced to so it removes the completely silly “but he’s a hypocrite” aspect
(hi again! I honestly rlly loved your take on the Welcome Home reincarnation AU. I actually ended up writing a piece for it and wanted to share it w you!! I hope you like it! Def more on the romantic side cause I’m a simp lmaoo)
“Oh dearest…” Wally sighed, his grip on your waist unyielding, holding you steady against him as you swayed gently from side to side.
“You’ve been playing quite the game. So clever.”
The music stirred blissfully in the atmosphere; all around you, your neighbors chatted amongst themselves; lights scattered across the night sky, illuminating the party.
But this perfectly crafted world did nothing to ease the nerves twisting painfully inside of you.
“Let…let go—“
“No matter what I say or do,” Wally chuckled, leaning over and whispering beside your ear, “you always manage to put the pieces together and you always try to slip away from me, dearest.”
You shuddered and averted your gaze, trying to quell the pain rising in your throat.
He wasn’t wrong. Somehow, every time you returned to this world…despite being a completely different person, the memories lingered deep within.
Strands of moments in time that were once impossible to conjure forth, thinning in and out of your conscious soon emerged as bold strokes across your eyes. And the more you learned, the more you fought.
To escape this place.
“When will this little rebellion end, hmm?” Wally hummed, twirling you briefly. You were quickly returned to his embrace, his arm locked around you.
“After all I do for you…you run away every time. Don’t you grow tired of running? Trying to reach the edge the forest? You know there’s nothing out there for you.”
“It’s better than being trapped here.” You snapped.
The air grew thin and cold, and his gaze locked onto yours. You desperately tried to look away, but his eyes swallowed up your own, an infinite, inky blackness that knew no limits in its consumption.
You felt his gaze sweep across your soul—your very being. And it awoke the deep resentment that stirred quietly over the course of your many lifetimes. Knowing how many times you had been reborn, how many times you reappeared in the Neighborhood, a thread unfurled itself between you and Wally. It was a measly, thin string that braided and expanded into a thick, pulsing rope of nerves, unyielding in its bridge between your existence and his. And you hated it.
“Dearest, where would you go?” He chided and though you were rendered immobile by his gaze, everything within screamed to be free.
“Home!“ You retorted. But he was quick to cut you off again.
“And you are home. Where you belong.”
And you were reminded of that overwhelming awareness of his, the power he held over you and your neighbors, over this place.
“But you’ll learn…” He cooed, one hand reaching up to cradle the side of your face.
“To do what?” You muttered harshly. “To submit?”
“To love me.” The blackness in his eyes expanded and the memories slipped between your fingers though you desperately clung to them.
The two of you would surely return to this game. This is he knew all too well. You’d fight and run, trying to flee his world. But that was what you had failed to understand.
You could be reborn with vastly different appearances than your previous selves—hair, clothing, name, and all. Fight to salvage those memories in hopes of escaping again.
But he’d know. He’d always know.
His smile widened as your eyes glazed over.
Ah. There you were.
His dearest.
YOUR WRITING, MY GOODNESS, THIS IS AMAZING, PLEASE I LOVE THIS SO. MUCH, EATING IT, DEVOURING IT, MUNCHING, CRUNCHING, RAHHHHH
Day 16 - Lolita 52 Challenge - 10 facts about my wardrobe
1- My storage system is a complete mess lmaoo, I have a small wardrobe for dresses, skirts and blouses, a box for shoes, my petti hangs from my curtain rail, but I’m investing in some better solutions ^^; Student housing you can’t decorate is difficult.
2- I own maybe one ero jsk (2 pc), how scandalous!
3- I do have a slightly less wide Lady Dimitrescu hat that I’ve managed to make loliable
4- Most of my dresses are too short (I am usually 6′1″ in a full coord) and I do not care, what are you gonna do? Put me in skirt jail??
5- The majority of my shoes are from thrift or hand-me-downs, and I love them
6- About half of my entire wardrobe is black and white only. The nun vibes go hard.
7- I still have and wear my first dress. It’s 6 years old now!! She’s holding up well!!
8- The oldest item I have is a Wallis velveteen coat from 1985. Hand-me-downs are excellent :))
9- I think I own more earrings than anything else. I love a good pair of big earrings! (My ears have stretched from 6 years of wearing heavy jewellery for too long)
10- My favourite dress in my possession is one of my oldest, and isn’t exactly from a big name brand. Dancing Roses from Surface Spell with it’s blue rose embroidery is just so nice, the lack of anything too fancy on the back and the jewellery on the front makes it sleek and not too over the top, it fits well and
As silly as it sounds, I’d find it funny if the Wally who comes back is that a Wally from another earth because I think of the idea of a speedforce villain like Savitar getting kicked in the face by earth-1 Wally would be so funny considering it wouldn’t be the first time Wally quantum leaped, he probably pull a bugs bunny and just be like “Ah damn took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.”
(I can’t see any of the flash villains working with the light. Waaaay too corporate for them, expect like Grodd )
LMAOO YEAH (i'm assuming this is about yj wally yes?)
like the wally that returns isn't their wally, but he's still wally. just older and a little tired. like peter b parker from into the spiderverse. and everyone's like "WALLY HOW DID YOU TRAVEL THROUGH THE SPEEDFORCE??? YOU QUANTUM JUMPED??" and he's like "yeah it's tuesday. anyways. anyone know how to get back to the space-time highway from here or do i have to find a map?" it's not tuesday. the team is in shambles. the speedforce villain shows up and wally b west just decks him straight out. not even using his speed just. fully over it.
though realistically i do imagine that IF they bring wally back it will be highly dramatic. i'm honestly a little scared for that outcome because holy shit the amount of baggage. imagine like, getting sucked into what is essentially another dimension and like. going through space and time in just All The Wrong Ways and you get back to your time and your earth and it turns out way more time has passed than you thought and everything's different.
like would yj wally have aged? how would he be different? or would he be the same and would that be the problem? how do you begin to like. interact with someone like that? someone who was lost to time for who knows how long and is just. not the person you remember them being. OR even worse they ARE. they're just like how you remember and you feel like you're twenty again until you realize that you're almost thirty. how do you begin to reconcile with that?
I straight up c r i e d during the S1 episode Coldhearted but not for the reason yall think. I've seen MANY discussions and reactions but not ONCE have I seen any love or recognition given to my boi in Coldhearted
THIS IMPORTANT DOCTOR MAN RIGHT HERE. U SEE HIM?? Y'ALL REMEMBER HIM? UR GONNA GET A LESSON ABOUT THIS LOVELY, BEAUTIFUL, INTELLIGENT DOCTOR RIGHT N O W
This doctor (he's the good one, not the goon) isn't named during the show iirc BUT his name is in the credits.
Pieter Cross.
Pieter Cross.
P I E T E R C R O S S
Y'all, Pieter Cross is another dc superhero - one of my favs.
This lovely accented doctor, Pieter Anton Cross, is none other than Doctor Mid-Nite (the second). here's some pics (the first is w his bffl/platonic life partner Michael Holt aka Mister Terrific)
Pieter graduated from Harvard Medical at 19. He's essentially the Hero Community's go-to doctor for everything.
"Doctor Mid-Nite is the world's most prominent superhero doctor. He is often called upon when an autopsy is needed, or when a hero needs major surgery."
Ye, he's had to autopsy his dead friends :( he also does casual checkups. Powergirl goes to him for her check ups and to keep an eye on her powers. He's done a bunch of life-saving surgeries on not only the heroes but ALSO their loved ones! He performed surgery on Lois Lane after she got shot. When Hush removed Catwoman's heart from her body, Doctor Mid-nite and Mister Terrific were able to successfully put it back in and save her.
You not only want him in ur corner when ur hurt, u need him. There's none better! Imagine the sheer amount of crazy powerful allies he has bcus he saves all sorts of heroes and their loved ones! U don't attack the healer unless u wanna get fucked up by the rest of the squad, right? U also don't piss the healer off unless u wanna suffer, right? Same energy, fam. It helps that he can perform surgery flawlessly in the fuckin pitch dark.
He's disabled! In fact, Doctor Mid-Nite is credited as the first disabled superhero in comics! They're talking about Charles McNider, his predecessor, but Pieter Cross is also disabled. He's blind. I won't go into his whole origin but suffice to say he was unwillingly drugged and it caused him to go totally blind except for in the absolute dark.
He can only see in the dark and/or with his specialized lenses iirc. He carries smoke grenades that cause absolute blackness (think vanta black bombs) bcus he can see just fine in it and others can't. Any attack that involves having to see the attack (think Medusa's gaze) doesn't work on him cus he's conventionally blind. HOWEVER when he can see, it's fuckin crazy. Eagles got nothing on how sharp his eyes are in the right setting. Like we're talking super vision.
Those funky lenses on his cowl? They're to let him see in the light. It's kinda like infrared goggles and can let him see ultrasonic as well. Without his tools, he can't see. He got his sight back once and hated it bcus he could no longer work the way he used to.
OTHER FUN FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT DOCTOR
Doctor Mid-Nite has his own website where he provides free medical advice to registered users.
He's Norwegian-born. (That's his accent in that YJ ep)
Him and Mister Terrific are the bestest of friends (I felt the need to reiterate bcus they're Besties for Life. Read 1 comic with them in it and you'll see what I mean)
HE HAS A PET OWL NAMED CHARLIE!! He named him Charlie after the first Doctor Mid-Nite, Charles McNider!! He's trained to aid Pieter in combat! Attack owl!!! Batman has his Robins, Mid-Nite has owl sidekicks!
Highly Skilled Escapologist
He briefly dated Black Canary
His general medical license has been revoked, not that it stops him from practicing and helping ppl. He gives zero fucks. He's here to help, not politick around when ppl are dying.
He never stopped being a doctor, even after becoming a superhero. HE'S A LOVELY, KIND, COMPASSIONATE MAN WHO JUST WANTS TO HELP PPL
He's vegetarian AND he does yoga (imma cry yall, he's so fuckin great)
S1 of Young Justice appears to take place before he gets his powers and becomes Doctor Mid-nite cus he's not wearing any type of glasses. Wally interacted w (imo) one of the greatest heroes and doesn't know it!
Mid-nite is the one everyone says Tim Drake copied with his one Red Robin uniform (it's true too. I wouldn't be surprised if Tim was a Mid-nite fan, they seem like they'd get along)
T H I C C T H I G H S!!! I know everyone talks about Jason's thighs but Pieter's thighs are next level!! I ain't playing! Look at these hams!!
When his mom was pregnant with him, she got attacked. The OG Doctor Mid-nite saved her. Then, when she went into labor, he delivered lil bby Pieter. What are the odds lmaoo
BDE through the roof, fight me. Massive Meat Energy and I won't apologize for saying it
Survived 'seeing' Johnny Sorrow's face even tho it kills legit anyone who looks bcus he's blind. Used the recording his goggles took of JS' face and played it back to Johnny and beat him lmaoo
As someone summarized nicely: 'Prior to him getting blind, Dr. Pieter was a very caring man.. He would take a walk in the evening every day and helps out poor people who live in the streets, especially to those who are addicted to drugs.. He would help out missionaries in donation to help the poor and the hungry.. A Poor People Savior you might say."
"Doctor Cross uses his medical expertise as a hand-to-hand weapon. Once, when challenged to arm wrestle, he won by triggering the proper nerves in his opponent's arm." Savage Nerd Alert. Can, has, and will continue to use his Galaxy Brain (and BDE) to beat ppl, dirty technique or not.
Geoff Johns on Doctor Mid-Nite: "Doctor Mid-Nite is a visionary, figuratively and literally. Blinded by an accident, he’s able to see on all spectrums through the filters on his goggles."
Here's some of him being the Super Doctor:
Helped Alan Scott to determine if he was composed of the Green flame of Starheart
Helped Power Girl to check and test her powers
Saved Hourman's life by performing an emergency surgery
Saved Oracle by removing the Brainiac virus which possessed her body
Saved Lois Lane's Life by removing a sniper bullet after she was shot
Helped Raven to drive the demonic possession that attacked her by using Hologram Tech
I love him and would die for more content about him
Srsly I'll cry if even one(1) person acknowledges him in a YJ fic (or any fic tbh)
APPRECIATE DOCTOR PIETER ANTON 'MID-NITE' CROSS OR P E R I S H
Also if ur writing a YJ fic and have need for a doctor, pls add him. He didn't graduate med school to be ignored, yall. Or add him in just bcus he's rad af. At least do it for Charlie the owl!!