↑ Fake 倉頡 Congkit/Cangjie keyboard in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
The funny thing is, the 倉頡 keys (and placement) are accurate enough; it is possible the 艸 character is used in place of the more commonly seen 廿.
But the other keys (like the numeral keys 一、二、三, etc. accurately translated they may be) being either unnecessarily rendered in 漢字 (Chinese characters), or placed wrongly (like the 刪除 “delete” where the 逗號 “comma” key usually goes), or just bizarre (like what are 火八 “fire eight” and 火九 “fire nine” keys?), makes this obviously a joke keyboard! 😹
↑ Another imagining of the TND fake keyboard.
The naming and placement of the keys here at least matches up more accurately to a hypothetical, totally 漢字 keyboard.
(note the 逗號 key next to the 一 (M) key, rather than the 刪除, and no weird 火八、火九、火十 keys placed randomly, like shown in the movie prop!)
Actually…I wouldn't mind having a keyboard like this, just for the kicks! Unnecessary and pretentious it may be! 😹
Okay i like... just realized that ive literally never expanded on my love for westerns besides the copious amounts of references in my fic and the one picture of all my westerns...
So heres a list of all the westerns in my collection (plus my favorites, ill mark them with a *)
Shows
Gunsmoke (seasons 1-5)
Laramie (seasons 1-4)*
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Lonesome Dove The Series
Magnificent Seven 1998 (season 1-2)*
Rawhide (season 1)
Shane 1966*
Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
Return to Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
Sugarfoot (season 1-4)
Movies
Streets of Laredo
Dead Man's Walk
The Magnificent Seven 1960*
The Magnificent Seven 2015
Tombstone*
Young Guns*
Young Guns II*
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Pale Rider
Hang 'Em High
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
3:10 to Yuma 2007*
Shane 1952*
Once Upon A Time in The West*
Evil Roy Slade
Books
Appaloosa
Brimstone
Shane*
Blood, Guts, and Glory
Saddle by Starlight
The Gunslinger
Lonesome Dove*
Comanche Moon
Dead Man's Walk
Streets of Laredo
The Big Sky*
The Way West
Seven Ox Seven Part One, Escondido Bound
The Tall Stranger
Kilkenny
Hondo
Showdown at Yellow Butte
The Virginian*
Miscellaneous
Adventures of the Old West (docuseries)
Outlaws & Gunslingers (docuseries)
Legends of The Old West (docuseries)
The Classic TV Western Collection (40 misc. episodes)
TV Western Collection (27 misc. episodes)
Western Collection (8 misc. movies)
The Wild Wild West the Series (book)
The Hollywood Western (book)
A Pictorial History of Westerns (book)*
Please please please ask me about any of them if you like any please!!
Those are all of the physical westerns i have, but there are plenty more i love but havent gotten my hands on yet!
To the Fwhimmy fans, fyi Western movies are deeply rooted in queer culture. Oftentimes the movies with cowboys that depicted rivalry were a subtext of the two same gender people having feelings for each other.
If you don't know how to show him, love, hit him, that always works in Western movis.
thinking abt The Quick And The Dead (1995) a western about Sharon Stone's character Ellen/Lady seeks revenge on Gene Hackman for the murder of her father. and lordy what a Good MOVIE!!!!! to this day it still kicks ass; its grim, its dark, its violent, but without the indulgence of modern movies (and 90s movies with Sharon Stone even). its story telling is very environmental as opposed to thru dialogue. and it probably has one of my favorite sex scenes in a movie. it exists explicitly for Ellen; and it's messy, desperate, sad, and a little subjectively fucked up because Russel Crowe's character (who she fucks) resembles her dead dad. and i LOVE IT!!! it's more about her needing to scratch a weird emotional itch, and she does and it's hot and sad and I'm obsessed with it and Sharon Stone. and i love that movie so much still to this day, I rewatched it yesterday with friends and I'm still fucking living.
With all the recent revival of Goncharov talk, and the talk around tiktok and their Zepotha thing (and failures) I reckon if we do another one, to kinda counter attack their attempt, it should be a 1950s Western Musical!
Possibly starring Howard Keel, I'm thinking like Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, that sort of thing!
Also musicals would be so fun - what's your favourite song? what songs would be used as audition pieces? what's the biggest earworm?
maybe it got turned into an irl, Broadway or West End musical, or perhaps it was a live musical first. Or perhaps it was based on a live musical based on a novel. Think Oklahoma!
Incase you didn’t know, I’m a cowboy. Yeah. I’m practically stuck in a western. Cowboys afraid of horses exist btw, that’s why you haven’t seen me cowboying around.