#Don't you come at me telling me Oscar Wilde wasn't actually *just* gay

[cosmo-watches-movies]

Wilde (1997)

Triggerwarning: Homophobia, Sex (in the movie, not depicted in this blogpost)

Plot: A part of Oscar Wilde’s life story.

Spoilers beyond this

Michael plays Robbie Ross, a good friend to Oscar Wilde and, delicately put, his first male lover.

Following are my incoherent thoughts as I was watching the movie: (some gifs for context, for the other parts watch the movie and you'll get it)

starting out chill with Oscar meeting his future wife

oh who might this dashing young fella be?

lol that didn’t work did it?

Nevermind it did work

I was so not prepared for this

This guy has a lot of thoughts in his head and none of them are holy

Bitch what

If someone looked at me like that I’d instantly fall for them too. Man brought his A-Game

Oh my god this is going too fast even for me and I’m just watching

Why would you give him lines like that?

(I refuse to clip the next part, I don't know who might read this)

What in the what I barely got into the movie, why would you do this to me

I have questions

I have so many emotions at once right now I actually feel a bit sick

I’m 16 Minutes in and my heart is breaking at the thought of where this might be going

Okay, I got used to the fact that I am actually watching a movie about gay men

Me watching a movie about a gay author: （☆ω☆ ）

Me when theres actual portayal of intimacy between men: （○ □ ○ ）

I swear I’m so normal about this.

Wtf Oscar why would you drop Robbie like that. I get that this was an affair, but like this? He picked that other guy up like an apple from a tree.

Watch Robbie take this like the king he is

Oscar met yet another guy (Bosie) and seems to fall in love with him and guy #2 litterally wants to khs and/or Bosie, while Robbie has only respect, acceptance and love to give.

lol taste of your own medicie, huh?

I hate Bosie

I love Robbie

Drama between Bosie and Wilde, which results in Oscar being sentenced to two years in prison

Oof that speech Oscar held in court tho, right in the feels

Robbie is an absolute treasure of a person. Get yourself a man like him. Don’t settle for less.

Wtf all this stress and heartbreak for Oscar and Bosie to break up after three months, the world is a cruel place

- End of incoherent thoughts-

That was heartbreaking in so many ways. The main story obviously is unbelievably tragic but we shall focus on other things. There are a lot of strong performances in this movie, the whole cast was quite good. You can strongly feel the love Robbie has for Oscar, he has this soft tone when he talks to or about him, he wants him to be happy even if it means that he himself wont be. He accepts that Oscar doesn’t love him the same way and still supports his friend under any circumstances. It's not just in the dialouge, it's also in the way Robbie talks to and looks at Oscar. He’s pure kindness, love and devotion.

He cares so much for him it's breaking my poor little heart :c

On a less serious note, my guy really went ahead and had his first on-screen kiss be a gay kiss!?! Fuckin hell! And he did so well! Icon, king, legend, right from the start!

Because there aren't enough gifs in this already, have some more little moments I enjoyed :3

✨Puppy dog eyes✨

Good save xD

Why would you hold it like that?

I don't even know why, just thought he looked dashing in this scene

Me too, Robbie, me too.

I probably could've written more, but that wouldn't do the movie and characters justice. Bosie's full brattiness alone is something I couldn't even capture in gifs. Kudos to Jude Law, he really made me hate that character. He's the exact opposite of Robbie. They had only two scenes together I think, but it's awesome to see their personalities clash.

I’d say you should check this movie out, especially if you’re lgbt+ yourself obviously. And then go ahead and read Oscar Wildes works, they're queer history and in general important literature anyone should know.

At the end of this I have learned that I, in fact, don’t hate love drama, I just like it if it's gay. And preferably has a certain actor in it.

#Don't you come at me telling me Oscar Wilde wasn't actually *just* gay #I know he loved his wife very much and everything but for simplification purposes I used the word gay #We good? #We good. #oscar wilde #wilde #michael sheen #filmography #queer history

[thealogie]

picture this. you're michael sheen, beloved queer-friendly welsh actor and recent twilight saga vampire. you want your favorite book to become a tv show, and you want to be the lead. so what do you do? you befriend the author. he wines and dines you, you become a confidant in the scriptwriting phase. and in the process of the GO script you decide you don't want to be crowley, actually, you want to be aziraphale. you put in the work for months to influence the author to the same conclusion. so when neil gaiman comes to you one day saying, "i know you joined on to be crowley... but how would you feel about playing aziraphale?" you say, what a novel idea! i was feeling the same way, i just didn't want to say anything! let's do it.

you're michael sheen, the lead in the adaptation of your favorite book. you meet david tennant as your leading man, a rising star (and vocal fan of yours) you've had a few vague interactions with in the past. on set you immediately find the closest friend you have ever and will ever find in your life, and you know this. the romance you have in your (yes, your) show is ambiguous, but you're michael sheen. you think that romance needs to be explicit. so what do you do? you become a nightmare on set. you get really hands-on; you make costume choices, you make story decisions, you tell your author friend at the very end of filming: aziraphale is in love with crowley and realizes it in 1941. now go do it again.

so the author goes and does it again. you get a season 2. you get 1941 part 2. you're michael sheen, and you are the lead of the adaptation of your favorite book, and the romance you littered into the character you built from the ground up has become unambiguous. everything goes according to plan. but, you see, you have a problem: the author you have baby trapped is acting a FIEND on twitter and tumblr. he's saying everything he can to imply aziraphale and crowley aren't sexually attracted to each other. he's getting a bit too bold with his character assumptions, is all i'm saying. so here's what you're going to do: you play it up with your pal david tennant. you made a show with him during lockdown. you're going to depict your lives as even more intertwined and homoerotically codependent as previously possible. you grow even closer. your wives become best friends, too, because how could they not? this has been the plan since the beginning, too. your lockdown show ends. it wasn't enough.

so you, michael sheen, of course you put in the work. if david tennant's there, you're damn sure you're there physically, spiritually, biblically, in whatever capacity you can be. it's not hard. david tennant is a big fan of yours, after all, so he MAKES SURE you're always in the conversation. you have him wrapped around your little finger, this lovely little boy, and so you know what you do next? you become neighbors. you make your directorial debut casting your best friend's wife watching her husband and male neighbor initiate sex with each other. you play into the swinging rumors (that you, michael sheen, had started). you create a narrative that you and david tennant are two homoerotic besties, and is there more going on in the background there? any deeper conspiracy? who really knows, but what you do know is that the world is talking about it.

and you, michael sheen, your entire acting career has led to this moment, your gay quips, your oscar wilde sex scene (and the interviews following), all of your queer roles, EVERYTHING has brought us to this conclusion. you have created the lab perfect conditions where season 3 must have an explicit gay sex scene. i'm sorry neil, my hands are tied! the people are clamoring for me and david tennant to have sex-- i mean aziraphale and crowley to have sex, the public decided this all on their own! i really don't think you have much choice. but of course, i would never deign to tell an author how to practice his veritable craft. i concede to whatever version of series 3 you create, and i will happy to bring this beloved character to his deserved ending.

and why do you say this? because you're michael sheen. you're just an actor who incidentally stumbled his way into leading the queer romance adaptation of your favorite book that wasn't a romance, and you just read the script the way that it was given to you. and if series 3 means an explicit sex scene between you and your best friend david tennant, then what a lovely coincidence that you had absolutely no part in making happen. because what power do you really have?

This is my favorite book I’ve read so far this year. A rare occasion where the author pulls off use of the second person pov. I really felt like I was a beloved welsh actor crossed with Machiavelli when I read this

#michael sheen

[deep-hearts-core]

2009 - final

originally posted 6/25/20

France Patricia has no stage presence and I really hate her voice. The song itself is okay, I like the piano melody in the background and the weird dance break section, but for the most part I remember this song because of how much it annoys me. It did have pretty good staging though - compared to the video of the French NF this was definitely adapted well to the stage. Russia The chorus here is good, but I'm creeped out by the floating faces on all the screens. Anastasia has a powerful voice, although it borders on guttural at times. Overall this song is really powerful but it goes too far in trying to be that. Germany I like the style of music here, and the styling of the performance itself - except, maybe, for Oscar's shiny pants. This song is easily MLM-WLW solidarity - I know a lot of queer women who do burlesque, and I mean look at Oscar and his tight pants and try to tell me he's not gay. It's a good song and a performance that makes me laugh in a good way! United Kingdom Why is Andrew Lloyd Webber here. We do not want him. Jade has a great voice and so it's a shame she got stuck with this song, which in my opinion is boring as shit - like, this got fifth? Funny thing I noticed in the staging, I'm pretty sure Jade accidentally got hit by one of the violinists bc she got too close to him. I really like the stair setpiece too. More entries should use stairs in their staging. Just a thought. Spain Camerawork here was absolutely awful. It was shaky, Soraya wasn't often centered in the frame, idk I don't know too much about cameras or whatever but this looks bad. The staging and performance didn't suck too bad but... I really like the phrase "aggressively mediocre" for this one, I know I use it a lot and I know that the performance itself wasn't generic or whatever but in terms of quality here I don't like Spanish pop so I can't find it good but it's not bad relative to the year. My top 42

Iceland

Estonia

Ukraine

Malta

Ireland

Israel

Armenia

Norway

Moldova

Turkey

Denmark

Slovenia

Germany

Sweden

Poland

Azerbaijan

Cyprus

Greece

Croatia

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Russia

Andorra

Albania

Finland

Portugal

Belgium

Spain

Belarus

Serbia

North Macedonia

Montenegro

Lithuania

Slovakia

Latvia

Hungary

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Netherlands

Romania

France

Czechia

Bulgaria

Voting/Intervals Cirque du Soleil was a little much, but Dima Bilan's entrance and performance were cool! The Believe performance was just as over the top as the rest of the programming but it was executed a lot better. Lmao I love how there's one chair used in all the performances with chairs... it's in Montenegro's and Denmark's and a couple more that I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm greatly amused by the skit about "these are all the stereotypes about Russia, and they are Not True!". I laugh every time the bears come onscreen, I can't help it. The act with the people on the ceiling was weird and a little bit creepy, and it went on waaay too long. It was only five minutes but it seriously felt like forever. Is this supposed to be performance art? A weird dance routine? I don't know but I don't understand it. It did have a good score though. It amuses me how Ivan and Alsou pretend they don't understand when the audience is clearly chanting something (like "Sakis" or "Israel"). You're not fooling anyone lol but at least you're trying not to call anyone out. It's wild to see what a lead Norway had right from the beginning. After 4 spokespeople they'd already hit 40 points. Just speaks to what a huge margin they won by. Like seriously not @ them breaking 100 after only 10 countries had voted. The distribution of points this year was just so whack. Like you had Norway with the clear lead, the rest of the top five battling it out, and then everyone else with a slow gradiant down. THE FUCKING SLOVENIAN PRESENTER when it became clear he actually intended on just being quiet I burst out laughing... that was so fucking funny

Thoughts after watching Can you imagine being Alexander Rybak like... imagine being this Belarusian kid who moves to Norway, you're a fucking concert violinist, you go to Eurovision when it's in Russia of all places, win with a margin of 169 fucking points, like, and the hosts are just casually bantering with you because you speak Russian, like, god. Alexander Rybak at age 23 must have had a hell of a year. Can you imagine how surreal that would be.

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