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hotvintagepoll · 20 days

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Eleanor Parker (Scaramouche, The Sound of Music)— Eulogized as a ravishing beauty whose looks were merely ornamental to her craft, feast your eyes on Eleanor Parker. Listen! I know you're thinking of the Baroness in Sound of Music and saying NO I won't protect the woman who tried to steal him from Maria but forget about that (like you personally wouldn't shoot your shot with Plummer)! The trailer for Scaramouche describes her character Lenore as "The glamourous queen of the nightlife of Paris. A flame-haired wildcat" and this is a woman who was able to pull off that role, and you get the vibe she was like that irl too. There's a story about her changing hair colors that never fails to make me laugh. Take note of her stunning eyes! Her amazing legs! And to see her in motion is to make note of the aura about her, she has an amazing presence. Fall in love with Eleanor Parker today, and make your vote count!

Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady, Sabrina, Roman Holiday)—Growing up, Audrey Hepburn desperately wanting to be a professional ballerina, but she was starved during WWII and couldn't pursue her dream due to the effects of malnourishment. After she was cast in Roman Holiday, she skyrocketed to fame, and appeared in classics like My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's. She's gorgeous, and mixes humor and class in all of her performances. After the majority of her acting career came to close, she became a UNICEF ambassador.

This is round 3 of the tournament. (yes I know it says round 2 in the poll. sometimes I post these when I’m sleepy.) All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Eleanor Parker:

“When I’m spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven’t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.” So shy she was actively nervous about winning awards in person, her personal life remains mostly behind the scenes. But on screen? she was a force majeure. It's a shame the role most people remember her in is the Baroness in The Sound of Music, but then again, it did make Christopher Plummer reminisce upon her passing “I was sure she was enchanted and would live forever.”

Listen we all know Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews had insane chemistry but the Baroness deserves some love too! She has such a glamorous presence but not in a hard way

She will be known as the fabulous baroness in TSOM, but she was so much more than that. Just as comfortable in westerns or melodrama, the scheming other woman, and the beauty that wins the heart of every man in town.

Audrey Hepburn propaganda:

"She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it." - Billy Wilder

Raised money for the resistance in nazi occupied Hungary. Became a humanitarian after retiring. Two very sexy things to do!

where to begin......... i wont her so bad. i literally dont know what to say.

My dude. The big doe eyes, the cheekbones, the voice. The flawless way she carried herself. She was never in a movie where she wasn't drop dead gorgeous. Oh, also the fact she raised funds against the Nazis doing BALLET and she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her humanitarian work.

"It’s as if she dropped out of the sky into the ’50s, half wood-nymph, half princess, and then disappeared in her golden coach, wearing her glass slippers and leaving no footprints." - Molly Haskell

"All I want for Christmas is to make another movie with Audrey Hepburn." - Cary Grant

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I know people nowadays are probably sick of seeing her with all the beauty and fashion merch around that depicts her and/or Marilyn Monroe but she is considered a classic Hollywood beauty for a reason. Ironically in her day she was more of the alternative beauty when compared to many of her contemporaries. She always came off with such elegance and grace, and she was so charming. Apparently she was a delight to work with considering how many of her co-stars had wonderful things to say about her. Outside of her beauty and acting ability she was immensely kind. She helped raise funds for the Dutch resistance during WWII by putting on underground dance performances as well as volunteering at hospitals and other small things to help the resistance. During her Hollywood career and later years she worked with UNICEF a lot. Just an all around beautiful person both inside and out.

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No one could wear clothes in this era like she could. She was every major designer's favorite star and as such her films are time capsules of high fashion at the time. But beyond that, she had such an elegance in her screen presence that belied a broad range of ability. From a naive princess, to a confused widow, to a loving and mischievous daughter, she could play it all.

Look at that woman's neck. Don't you want to bite it?

#audrey hepburn #eleanor parker #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 3 #Youtube

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neroushalvaus · 5 months

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Tumblr in the 60s – Part 2

Part 1 / Deleted Scenes

💁🏼‍♀️brigittebardots Follow

anyone want to get fake married so i can get the pill to slut around

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Just say you have painful monthlies, I heard it works if you have a nice doctor!

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Remember you still should use the sheet whenever possible. Stay safe ♡

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i think there's something wrong with me, i'm just so sleepy all the time, it's not fair

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That's because you spend all your nights listening to radio luxembourg

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i heard nothing last night so i built an antenna out of poultry net, iron wire and bits of tin. i cut my fingers and our family chickens ran away

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A small price to pay for some music.

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the antenna fell apart before the german guy stopped talking

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me: chilling

my brain: if you were shot and weren't sure whether you'd live or die should you call the cops to make sure your murderer gets caught or call the ambulance to increase your chance of survival

me: what

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There should be a number that'd reach both of those

🕺 elvisherselvis Follow

That number already exists. It's been used in my city for like a two decades.

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Fuck you I'm British.

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Oh my G, this post from -62 sounds so prophetic now that they're trying to make the 911 thing catch on, where's that jagger meme

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🕺 elvisherselvis Follow

This is literally not gift of prophecy. I told you back when this post was first made that this number has already existed in UK for years. It was obviously going to spread elsewhere, even US was bound to catch on at some point.

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you are still here?? keeping an eye on this post??

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you're so grumpy @elvisherselvis maybe you should phone the emergency number and get a wahhh-mbulance

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my date: Oh I listen to folk as well!

me: That's so cool! Who are your favourites?

my date: I'm sooo into Bob Dylan.

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my date: Is everything okay?

me, stuffing jelly babies into my purse: I have to go, like, right now, immediately, sorry

#it's okay if you liked dylan before he became the judas he is #but you can't call yourself a folk fan if you still support him #ugghh i hate him #electric guitar using lil bitch #sigh #jelly baby meme #bob dylan critical // #anti bob dylan // #bob dylan hate //

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Cock and balls, I'm watching this previously banned american film where an american man is trying to fuck a soviet spy (played by famously very russian Greta Garbo) by offering her champagne and he is like "have you never had champagne?" and Greta is like "never 🥺 only goat's milk and a ration of vodka in the army" and the tv screen freezed and was like "ERROR!! CHAMPAGNE HAS BEEN SERVED IN SOVIET UNION SINCE 1936" I'm 😂😂😂

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You Americans will say anything to make Soviet stuff look silly

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Where do you think I am watching soviet tv from?? Or did I miss the memo where americans have the monopoly on joking about their own damn country??

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"In future there will be telephones you can take with you anywhere" I can't even fucking listen to Radio Luxembourg without building a goddamn satellite, sending it to space, reciting spells and prayers, and sticking the radio out of the window at 2am EET. And even then it needs to be snowing for it to work because the radio wave fairies like snow or some shit

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preach

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#this probably won't be very popular because some of these are very niche but i had fun #is the radio luxembourg station being impossible to listen to an universal experience?#i feel like older people in finland have a permanent chip on their shoulder because listening to it was so hard #there is a possibility ninotchka is doing a little time travel here; i remember this corrected version was shown at some point #but it may have been later #anyway just enjoy the ride #tumblr in the 60s #1960s #dashboard simulator #fake dashboard #60s #unreality

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kuroo-hitsuji · 1 year

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Just realized I did NOt post this when I thought I did so it's going up now-

Broke out the markers (ft a tiny digital edit bc i cannot find my white gel pen orz) for the first time in literal years Exclusively to draw a pathetic little Lucifer and then store them away for inevitable ages again

Also my room lighting is kinda garbo pls disregard

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me lucifer #obey me fanart #my art #lucifer

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homomenhommes · 2 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 3

1873 – Censorship: On this date the U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. The law was named after its chief proponent, general busy-body prude, anti- obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock. The enforcement of the Act was, in its early days, often conducted by Comstock himself or through his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

People literally committed suicide because of this law. Ida Craddock committed suicide on the eve of reporting to Federal prison for distributing via the U.S. Mail various sexually explicit marriage manuals she had authored. Her final work was a lengthy public suicide note specifically condemning Comstock.

This law was used to suppress LGBT literature until the January 13, 1958 Supreme Court ruling in which the Court delivered an astonishing unanimous pro-Gay decision, overturning the rulings of the two lower courts against the magazine One, and limiting the power of the Comstock Act. As a result, Lesbian and Gay publications, like White Crane (at the time, the mere discussion of being Gay was considered "pornography") could be mailed without legal repercussions, though many continued to experience harassment from the Post Office and U.S. Customs.

ONE, Inc., a homophile educational organization, was founded in Los Angeles in 1952 by about a dozen members of the Mattachine Society who wished to publish a monthly magazine. The name "ONE" (also the magazine's name) was chosen from a quote by 19th century British essayist Thomas Carlyle: "A mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men one."

1903 – The American fashion and costume designer Adrian was born on this date (d. 1959). Born as Adrian Adolph Greenberg (sometimes credited as Gilbert Adrian) in Naugatuk, Connecticut, he studied at the School for Fine and Applied Arts in New York and in Paris.

His most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. The photo below shows the and the iconic ruby slippers he designed for Dorothy!

During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion, he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own. Among the many he dressed were Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn.

Though he was openly Gay, he married Janet Gaynor in 1939, possibly in response to the anti-Gay attitudes of the movie studio heads and the sex-negative atmosphere created by the Production Code.

In 1942 Adrian retired from the cinema and opened a shop in Beverly Hills, California. His reasons for leaving Hollywood? They wanted to mess with Garbo. He famously said "It was because of Garbo that I left M-G-M. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."

1940 – On this date the American fashion designer Perry Ellis was born (d. 1986) He founded the influential Perry Ellis sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Throughout the 1980s the company continued to expand and include various labels such as Perry Ellis Collection and Perry Ellis Portfolio. By 1982, the company had more than 75 staff. In 1984, Perry Ellis America was created in cooperation with Levi Strauss. In 1985, he revived his lesser-priced Portfolio line. In the early 1980s, wholesale revenues had figured at about $60 million. By 1986 that number had risen to about $250 million.

In his early career in New York, Ellis began to explore the homosexual side of his nature. He had previously dated a few women but had never developed a serious relationship with any of them. He now also started having affairs with men, including one with Robert MacDonald, a young man then working in the film industry. Their romance faded after about six years, but MacDonald would remain one of Ellis's closest and most trusted friends for the rest of his life.

As accolades and award nominations for his designs came Ellis's way, he negotiated a complex deal with Manhattan Industries that gave him his own division within the corporation, Perry Ellis Sportswear, Inc., and also created Ellis's own company, Perry Ellis International. The agreement was signed in August 1978. The arrangement would allow Ellis to branch out, eventually adding lines of men's sportswear, evening clothes, shoes, furs, fragrances, and linens.

Ellis presented his fall collection in April 1978. The show was the first to feature Ellis's men's wear designs. The first model to wear them on the runway was Robert "Beau" Tropper, who had recently become Ellis's lover. Although Ellis was not out publicly as a gay or bisexual man, the nature of his relationship with Tropper, some sixteen years his junior, was an open secret in the fashion world.

A key player in the expansion of Ellis's enterprises—and in his personal life—was Laughlin Barker. The two met in 1980 and immediately fell in love. Shortly thereafter Ellis retained the law firm for which Barker worked as corporate counsel for Perry Ellis International. In June 1982 Barker began working directly for the company as its president and legal counsel, a position created especially for him by Ellis, who held the title of chairman.

Barker proved to be an astute businessman. By the beginning of 1986 sales were up to approximately a quarter of a billion dollars.

Ellis was briefly hospitalized with hepatitis in early 1981 shortly after he and Barker returned from a trip to Africa. Ellis recovered, but following the episode both he and Barker started showing more concern about their health.

Within a few years the two men began to decline visibly, Barker in particular. Although they kept up the demanding task of guiding Ellis's fashion empire, they spent more and more of their time running it from Ellis's luxurious beach house at Water Island, a tiny and isolated community on Fire Island.

Ellis and Barker nevertheless continued to travel frequently. They made several trips to Paris in connection with the development of Ellis's fragrance line, but according to close friends they were also going to the Pasteur Institute, a leader in AIDS research, where patients (including actor Rock Hudson) were able to obtain experimental drug treatments unavailable elsewhere.

Barker was hospitalized in late 1985, but Ellis brought him home at Christmastime. Barker died on January 2, 1986 at the age of thirty-seven. His death was publicly reported as due to lung cancer.

Although Ellis himself was desperately ill, he insisted on attending a benefit for the American Foundation for AIDS Research in late April. A longtime friend later speculated that Ellis may have intended this as a tacit acknowledgment that he had AIDS.

Elis presented his final collection on May 8. Far too weak to close the show with his traditional skip down the runway, he could only walk to the top of it with the support of his two design assistants. The audience rose to give him a standing ovation.

Fashion critics praised the collection, but before the writers had even written their reviews MacDonald was driving Ellis from the showroom to the hospital. He remained there, eventually lapsing into a coma. Ellis died on May 30, 1986.

His demise was attributed to viral encephalitis, a common immediate cause of death in AIDS patients.

Bettel (R) with husband Gauthier Destenay

1973 – Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer, serving as Prime Minister of Luxembourg. He has previously served as Mayor of Luxembourg City, member of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the Luxembourg City communal council. Bettel is a member of the Luxembourg Democratic Party.

Portrait de S.A.R. le Grand-Duc Guillaume de Luxembourg

In 2013, Bettel was elected leader of the Democratic Party, and in the 2013 election, led the party to a third-ranked position in parliamentary seats. On 25 October, Bettel was designated by Grand Duke Henri as the formateur for the next government. He assumed his post as Luxembourg's Prime Minister on 4 December 2013. In the government's coalition of the Democratic Party, Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and The Greens, he also holds the functions of Minister of State, Minister for Communications and the Media, and Minister of Worship.

His policies were expected to include reforms on same-sex marriage in Luxembourg, replace religious instruction in schools with general ethics classes and cut spending to maintain Luxembourg's AAA credit rating.

His government legalized same sex marriage in 2015, allowing Bettel to marry his male partner.

Bettel is openly gay, and has stated that increasingly in Luxembourg "people do not consider the fact of whether someone is gay or not". Bettel is Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister and, worldwide, the third openly gay head of government following Iceland's Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. As of October 2014, he was the only openly gay world leader.

Bettel has been in a partnership with Gauthier Destenay since March 2010. In August 2014 Destenay proposed to Bettel, who accepted. Bettel and Destenay married on 15 May 2015. (On 1 January 2015, same-sex marriage law reforms that passed in June 2014 had come into effect.)

Interestingly enough, Bettel's deputy prime minister, Etienne Schneider, is also gay.

1973 – Two California police officers have a shootout in a restroom after one attempts to arrest the other for "an act of oral copulation."

2010 – On this date Gay marriage in Washington, D.C. became a reality in the nation's capitol, when Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend applied for and received a marriage license. The African-American couple had been together for 12 years and were married a week later thanks to years of advocacy on the local level to change the laws and offer marriage to all. Most importantly the election of a Democratic party-controlled Congress and White House assured the law would not be overruled.Gay council-member, and former Republican David Catania had waited to introduce the bill until a friendly Congress was in place that would allow the local decision to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Since the Republicans took the house in the last election they've threatened to put roadblocks on the city's law. That is because Washington, DC is still treated like a colony and doesn't have autonomy in its decisions — although the citizens pay taxes and fight in all the wars.

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thomas, from the very first episode onwards: i want to be the live-in lover of a man who loves me back, posing as his valet amongst his household staff. i can't stand this fucking house but i have nowhere else to go. maybe i'll go to india. maybe i'll go to france. maybe i'll move in with the first duke who bats his eyelids at me.

homophobes in this fandom who think they aren't homophobes: thomas has always wanted to follow in carson's footsteps and live at downton abbey until he dies. he has no hopes or dreams out side of being butler, something he has never shown any interest in in canon but i can tell he wants it secretly.

thomas: oh a sexy millionaire actor has proposed to me? and he wants me to come live in his mansion in hollywood and hang out in the pool with greta garbo and marlene dietrich? and he openly thinks i'm clever and funny and attractive? and he shares his secrets and worries with me because he sees me as an equal not a piece of furniture

h.i.t.f.w.t.t.a.h: this is the worst thing in the world holy shit. leaving the abbey is sooooo out of character. downton is his safe space and thomas loves being in service!!! he'll probably be dumped and end up dying penniless in the gutter :(((( being a butler and dying unloved at downton is much better for him

one thing i remember So clearly when reading discord takes about me and my friends was someone sharing a post that a tumblr user whomst i respect so highly and 1000% think is like, the greatest mind in thomas barrow and indeed perhaps downton abbey fandom at any given moment, made, and the post was like, talking about the opportunities that thomas would potentially have available to him in hollywood. from someone with knowledge on the matter. and the complaint about this was "well it's a fantasy". and like i don't know how to tell you that thomas moving to america and suffering greatly at the hands of a devious rich man without anna or mrs. hughes to pat him on the back sympathetically is ALSO something that you made up, with significantly less textual or historical support.

like you are making up that thomas is going to suffer. you could literally just choose to make something else up!!!!

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rawk-chikk · 8 months

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How to Build Your Own 'Augmented Super Wife Supersoldier From The Future' Funko Pop.

A Semi-Coherent Guide By RC.

This is a long one. A loooooooong one.

I meant to do this like two and a half years ago, but in the spirit of keeping this fandom's head above water, and the fact I'm at the hospital (nothing serious!) with nothing to do for the next couple of hours, I'm doing it now.

So if, like me, you are still bitter that Grace and Dani didn't get official Funkos, or official *anything* due to manufacturer short-sightedness, why not say 'fuck it' and build yer own?

This rambling tutorial will attempt to demonstrate how to build Grace from the 'when they start to kill me, run' scene.

Like, literally that bit 😋.

Anywho. Let's do this!

You will need:

- Funko Pop DIY (female)

- Polymer clay (eg. Sculpy, Fimo, CosClay). I'd advise against cheapo no-name alternatives purely because in my experience the baking times/temperatures stated are absolute garbo. Also, polymer clay will give off quite gnarly fumes while curing, so better to use a trusted source. But if cheapo's all ya got, it's all ya got.

Other modeling materials you might consider instead of polymer clay include...

Epoxy clay (eg. Milliput, Apoxie Sculpt, The Army Painter 'Green Stuff', even something like J-B Weld or similar 2 part plumber's/repair putty).

Plain ol' air drying clay (eg. DAS, FimoAir, Gedeo).

You could even whip up a batch of 'cold porcelain', or an oven cure salt dough from ingredients you probably already have at home. Make sure you clear coat any salt dough creations properly after curing as over time ambient moisture may mess with it.

Each option above has its own pros and cons. Do your research if you aren't sure. Me? I used Fimo.

*ahem* Carrying on...

- Masking tape

- Hobby knife

- Pin vice

- Kebab skewer (wooden), or styrene rod

- Paint brushes

- Primer (plus dust mask if you're using a rattle can indoors)

- Sandpaper (around 400 grit oughta do it but you could probably go 200 either side of that and get a good result)

- Acrylic paints (optional: Posca PC-1MR pens in black and white for fine detail).

- Crafter's heat gun, or a hairdryer

- Varnish/clear coat.

Optional extras: Airbrush, spray booth/cardboard box, rotary tool, oven thermometer, artist's/cake decorating turntable, UV resin, silver leafing pen, jeweller's files, jeweller's wire, acetone, superglue or 5 minute epoxy, a lil piece of sponge, pearl mica powder, scavenged Funko Pop head 😈.

Step One: Grab your Funko DIY and separate the head from body using heat to soften the vinyl enough to wangle it off the neck post. Shoving it in a mug of hot water for a few minutes should do the trick. Make sure to dry out the head as much as possible. Last thing you want is mould growing inside it. This is Terminator, not The Last Of Us 😉. Alternatively you could use your heat gun/hairdryer, but I explain in Step Six why the water bath approach is a better option (imho) at this early stage.

(You are giving this entire thing a quick read through before you start, right? I dunno about the rest of you but I like to have at least a basic idea of the work ahead before I get stuck in. Saves finding out you're missing a necessary tool/material at an inopportune moment and all).

Stop rambling, RC. Sorry. It's easier to be succinct when you haven't lost half your photos 🤦‍♀️. Moving on...

If you don't wanna attempt to sculpt the hair yourself you can, as I did, take a kitbashing approach instead of using the supplied DIY head. Grab one of the many commercially available Funkos with a decent approximation of the hairstyle you want and then go Step One on em. Buy 'pre-loved', buy BNIB, dig one out of a dumpster, steal one from your lil cousin, it doesn't matter. Procure as your time/budget/situation dictates. Improvise where necessary.

Sorry, Ron. I need your floppy hair. I do not need your clothes.

Or your boots. Or your motorcycle.

...😋

Step Two: Take the body of the Funko DIY and mark out the position of the tank top and the cuffs of the jeans. These will be used as guides for when you add the clay.

At this point I used a pin vice to drill the hole thru the fist for the rebar. If you're a crazy person you could use a rotary tool with an appropriately sized bit attached.

To make the rebar I fashioned a mould from a drinking straw and filled it with UV resin. Because I'm awkward. A wooden kebab skewer, or some hobbyist's styrene rod (eg. Evergreen Scale Models) would work just as well. Just cut it to size, paint it silver and you're golden. I used a metallic leafing pen. You use whatever you've got handy. Doesn't have to be shiny. A flat grey acrylic would work just fine.

Use jeweller's files and sandpaper to make small adjustments to the hand hole and rebar respectively in order to get a good press fit. There's always glue if you overdo it 😉. But don't add the rebar to the model just yet, as you're gonna need room to manoeuvre for the next bit.

Step Three: How do you make it look like your figure is wearing clothes when you don't have much real estate to work with?

You fake it, that's how.

You do not need to model an entire set of clothes! It's an arse ache, and we're all about working smarter not harder on the RC channel.

So, take your modeling compound of choice, roll a chunk of it out to the desired thickness, and then cut into strips, say 2-3mm wide. Use your best judgement here.

Now, using the jeans as our example, wrap a strip around the bottom of the leg where the cuff would sit. Cut off any excess and blend out the join. Just give it a lil rub and it's like it was never there. Like magic! You should have a nice defined edge at the bottom, just above the foot. Now see the top edge of your lil clay strip? Well, you wanna start pushing and flattening the clay to blend the edge right out so it fades back into the body.

Repeat for the other leg, and the bottom of the tank top. The straps are relatively simple, tho the bits that pass under the arms can be fiddly due to lack of space. Use a hobby knife to shape and crisp up those edges and then blend out the extraneous edge. Same thing with the neckline.

Run a strip around each foot to form the soles of the boots, and a lil 'x' on the top of the feet to give the impression of laces.

For the rips in the clothing you can simply gouge out a little of the clay. If there isn't any on that part of the model (the knee for example) roll out a little wormy dealie (for you North of the Border fans 😉), position it as needed, blend out the edges, then gouge as required.

If you're playing on hardcore mode, this might be the time to start piling clay on the Funko DIY head and sculpting the hair. You may prefer to leave it til the head's re-attached tho. It depends on the material you're using. If you don't think it'll stand up to a bit of manhandling while pushing the head back onto the body, save this step til that bit's done.

Cure according to the clay manufacturer's instructions. The vinyl will not melt at the temperatures required to cure polymer clay, but if you don't wanna risk it or you don't wanna use your food oven to cook plastic, with all the gnarly fumes and stuff, I've given you plenty of air dry and/or non toxic alternatives. Consistent temperature is key with polymer clay. Undercooked, it's quite brittle. An oven thermometer comes in handy here if you've got one.

Step Four: Primetime!!! Some like to brush on primer, which is fine if you're painting a fence or throwing gesso on a canvas. Not so fine if you're painting a figurine imho. I mean, unless it's Cassandra from Doctor Who. A good rattle can of spray paint is what you want ideally, but again, it's about what you can afford/wangle/manage with your crafting space, so feel free to ignore me and brush away!

First rule of Primer Club: several light coats are better than one heavy coat. Second rule of Primer Club: knock each coat back a lil with sandpaper before applying the next one. Third rule of Primer Club: sit your rattle can in a warm water bath for five minutes before shaking it up to improve flow.

You can get primer specifically for plastics but while I would recommend it, it's not absolutely necessary.

A scavenged head may need masking off if the base colour already matches the skin colour of your character. Save yourself a bit of painting innit. You can get really tight, clean edges against the hairline with a hobby knife. If the hairstyle, hair colour, and skin colour match straight outta the box? Congrats! Why are you even reading this? 😜.

That thing in the background is a portable spray booth (that other thing is a turntable). A cardboard box is also a portable spray booth if you want it to be. Only thing it doesn't have is an extractor fan. So put on a dust mask, and open a window or work outside.

The DIY figure comes primed outta the box, so if you're using the DIY head and are planning on sculpting the hair after re-attachment you don't need to prime it. Unless you want to.

Step Five: Time to paint that shizz. You don't need me to walk you thru this bit, right?

Right?...

Masking is your friend if you don't trust your ability to freehand with a brush. If you're masking over a part you've already painted and are afraid of pulling the paint off, you can knock the level of tack on the tape down by sticking it to yourself (or your clothes) a couple of times before applying it. Some prefer to add a light layer of clear coat to 'lock in' the underlying paint. It's like a real life 'save point'. Some people do both. Some use masking fluid. Some use silly putty/blu-tac/plasticine. Play around, see what works. You do you.

I painted Grace's eyes blue coz Grace is extra and so am I. I threw a lil bit of pearl powder in there to add a subtle shimmer, as I thought going full metallic blue might be a bit too extra.

Lady Funkos have eyelashes. Don't forget the eyelashes.

(I nearly forgot the eyelashes).

A fine tipped Posca pen comes in handy here if you've got one.

Ditto the eyebrows, tho those aren't just for the ladies obvs.

For Grace's augmentation scars, again I recommend a Posca pen but a brush will do.

DO NOT PAINT THE NECK POST. Don't even varnish the neck post. Keep that bitch masked up until you're ready to reattach the head. Like, you can get away with painting the very bottom if you're worried the bare plastic will show even with the head attached, but that's it. Any more will be making a rod for your own back.

You have a choice now. Whether to weather your figure. I chose to add that extra level of detail as it made sense to me. Use a combination of dark washes, dry brushing, and/or sponge stipling to add dirt, blood etc. If ya want.

When you're happy with your paint job, give everything (except the neck post!!!!) a couple of layers of clear coat.

Step Six: When it comes to reattaching the head you probably don't wanna be dunking anything in water by this point, just in case. So we're gonna soften the neck post (and around the base of the head if necessary) with hot air instead. Use a hairdryer if you don't have a heat gun. DO NOT use an industrial or decorator's heat gun for the love o' god. That shit's meant for stripping paint, not gently warming vinyl figurines. It'd be like using a nuke to shake a cherry tree, and you'd likely burn yourself. A hairdryer is more than capable of doing the job.

Why did we not use the hairdryer for Step One? To be honest there's nothing stopping you if that's what you wanna do, but as you don't have direct access to the bits that need softening at that point you will have to wait for the heat to penetrate. You could be doing other things in that time by letting a water bath do the work for you.

Now, however, you do have direct access, so you'll probably find you only need to blast the hot air for 10 seconds or so.

Step Seven: So, you've got the head re-attached, and your paint job is finished and clear coated. That means it's time to add the rebar. If you went a bit too far with the drilling or sanding now's the time to get your glue on. As an final extra touch you can spiral some thin jeweller's wire around the length of the rebar to make it look more rebar-y. I didn't do this bit as the wire I had in my possession at the time was too thick for my tastes.

But whether you opt for that or not, congratulations on making your very own Grace Funko Pop!

I'm still planning on making security guard and future war versions of Grace, and at least one version of Dani. Yeah, I've been saying that for the last two years, but it's still absolutely happening, trust me.

Anyway. That'll do it. If you have any questions, or you need further explanations or recommendations etc. y'all know where to find me.

#rc builds shit #grace harper #tdf

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canon-notcanon-warriorcats · 1 year

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Warriors has the laziest official merch compared to anything I've ever seen. It's downright lazy and feels like a scam, especially bc they know this fanbase is full of kids with a poor grasp on quality and how to handle money who is wolf down anything that was their favourite media slapped on it.

The hats, as mentioned. I haven't seen those before and I thought that was quite the low, even for the official Warrior Cats store.

The t-shirts that are literally just solid black or white with 3-4 character's names (e.g., Jaykit, Jaypaw, Jayfeather) on them sold for iirc 25 bucks a shot??

The plushie scam controversy and just the fact they went from looking decent to legit pretty ugly with a quality drop steeper than the slopes on a rollercoaster

The fact they have official art (and artists to make more), many of which are BEAUTIFUL, dramatic, iconic, and ABSOLUTELY appropriate to put on a shirt or a poster, but they insist on using 2d images of the minis on everything. They look as lifeless, lazy, and randomly generated as NFTs and I hate that sosososo much

Everything feels overpriced. You are not low on money, Warrior Cats, and you know you're gonna be targeting to a lot of kids, so what's the big deal?

Why don't enough people talk about this? I'm not saying boycott them, just hold them accountable for lazy designs, cutting corners, dishonesty, and overpricing. They should know better and we should complain more. If fans' actions got a character killed off they can make the merch slightly more worth it, I'm sure. But as long as people keeping buying it with little complaint, it won't change.

The only official merch that feels more shady than this is the Poppy Playtime garbo but saying WC is better than that dogshit isn't exactly setting a high bar.

not to mention the poppy playtime whatever is also ran by people who do nfts or whatever so like honestly to be better than them would mean being better than actual like sewage

but anyway, and i know this is like two weeks old but, you are absolutely right and you should say it, i fucking HATE the merch, the best things they have are the minis but the fact that they use 2d artwork of the minis for like shitty shirts is so fucking awful it looks so terrible

and did y'all see the like limited edition 4 doubloons cat meme shirt that they made with ravenpaw's 2d mini artwork, i was in shock that they somehow jumped on a meme bandwagon before the meme was dead tbh but also it felt disgusting and what the fuck

actually i wanna talk about it more and go into more specifics later and on its own post cause this would get really long but god they look even worse than a lot of cheap/scammy print on demand stores have looked because they can't even be bothered to EDIT THINGS ONTO THE MERCHANDISE WELL

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katzkinder · 1 year

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We all know Mahiru has big role in every servamp arc but I lowkey want Misono for Envy Arc. It's just... I want them to interact and talk about their point of view.

also umm... Alicein drama... For my morning tea...

(Also does Alicein family has something to do with Alice in the Wonderland concept?)

okay the fun thing about this statement, that mahiru has a major role in every servamp arc? It's fundamentally true, but not really!

He has a major role in every arc in Servamp, the series, but he does NOT have a major role in every arc of each Servamp pair.

And the arcs he doesn't do this with have always been ones where he is instead going through a journey of growth (Greed and wrath pair)

Looks at the goop that is currently sloth pair. Yeah. He's not a central player here. This is Misono's time to shine. There's a post I wanted to link about this but tumblr's search system is GARBO and I make so many original posts that looking through my own tags is useless |D

As for Alice in Wonderland, it's literally in the name lol! Alicein, Alice In...

Even the characters all have roles they fit from the books. Hattori the mad hatter, Mitsuki the march hare, Yully and Mary as the tweedles, Kiriko is the red queen, and Lily himself occupies quite a few roles as he represents the white rabbit, the caterpillar, the white pawn Lily which Alice replaces in the second book during a game of chess, and also the Red King who Alice finds asleep and is bullied into thinking is the person whose dream she's in, and that she'll disappear once the king wakes up lol

#nurul-cerise #servamp #asks #kat's katerwauling

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You completely missed the point of that post. Ppl noticed a weird trend of the mean girls/bullies they knew in high school going in to nursing & were trying to figure out why they would go in to a field where they have to take care of others. I didn't notice this till it was pointed out to me by my Nurse friend + my friend who is a CNA in pre-med. Saying "there's a concerning trend of toxic women gravitating towards nursing" is not saying "nurses are toxic!" It's not about nurses. It IS a thing.

YESSSSS ive been waiting So Patiently for some brave anon to come properly Champion the We Hate Women cause directly, THANK YOU i appreciate your UNWAVERING bravery in properly schooling me about how Mean Girls are the exact equivalent of murderers and child rapists. i literally never would have seen it. the MEAN GIRLS FRM HS BECOME NURSES joke has always been a thing and i know this and see this but AS U HAVE PROPBABLY SEEN bc i admit it on a near constant basis i am Kind Of Stupid so like i never once made the connect btwn women who are just huge total cunts VS very specifically men who rape kids and murder ppl which honestly was PEAK DUMBASS OBLIVIOUS on my part bc absolutely i shouldve seen past the named issue of Male Power Exploitation used specifically to commit Heinous Crimes and seen that what really needed to be talked about was Toxic Women, which is always unquestionably the most pressing issue at ANY given moment and im soooo so So Sincerely Sorry that i missed that. it was probably my toxic dfab nature taking control of my rotten little estro brain and i cant BELIEVE i forgot to check myself

THANK U BABE my reading comprehension is TRASH GARBO and i appreciate being humbled. i also do rly appreciate not letting me slip for not explicitly disclaiming in detail what i was actually upset about (Unreasonably weve established) bc boiling it down to such a 1d take REALLY showed my dumb little ass!!! im So Bad at time management so i did make the dipstick idiot choice to attempt economizing words so i could eat in the 15min i had before going back to do my job+tech job for 6 heavy workload pts and it did us both SUCH a disservice bc u had to come all this way and give me those words so i could learn better when i Should Have Known. im sad you felt like you had to anon i tho wish youd embraced your bravery enough to show your face, more than anyone you Deserve the recognition

#listen im not going to Actually Fight but there is such a specific reason that post upset me and to pretend its bc #i didnt Understand The Point is so uncharitable and disingenuous #if u wanna discuss this off anon im totally chill having a priv convo to explain my side here #ANYWAY DAMN I JUST WOKE FRM A COMA S/P THE WORST SHIFT OF MY LIFE like id lit rather time travel back to endure my wrst day of chemo instea #also you know what field Actually attract literally the absolute most vile women on earth? childcare. can tell you Firsthand #the batshit insane settlement idve got if id started a lawsuit for the workplace harassment i endured that admin condoned n participated in #BABE... ID BE DOORDASHING EVERY MEAL!!!! ID LEAVE $50 TIPS AT SBUX!! ID ACTUALLY GET SBUX!!!#ALSO techs/pcas/psas etc are widescale Infinitely Worse than nurses wrt n ALSO awful to pts but you know who gets the flak for THAT?? guess #i cant speak for licensed nurse aids bc id literally rather die than work in a snf or any ltc but UNLICENSED TECHS??#those are the REAL mean girls from highschool. theyre mean to e/o mean to nurses mean to pts mean to the families. its WILD #id also rather die before working day shift but i can only assume theyre mean to drs also #also every evil woman that goes into nursing goes to day shift its like a rule or something and report is always an Event #anyway anon if it isnt clear what my angle here is LIKE I SAID im cool talking abt it in dms #im off for the next several days so i am Centered #kels talks #LUCKY FOR ALL U BITCHES THEY COLLAPSE TAGS THIS IS A WHOLE POST RIGHT HERE!!!

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vinkumakkara · 1 year

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so how abt that srr UI. there was something about the way it conveys information to the player that really irritated me as opposed to sr1 and 2 (some of this may or may not apply to srtt and sriv one way or another i literally can’t remember how those games’ UI works)

btw this post is really long. don’t read it

anyways lets talk about the ammo. in sr1 and 2 when enemies die, they drop the actual weapon they were using

when you walk over it, you pick up the ammo automatically for that weapon class in sr2 without any informative text popping up on screen (in sr1 i think you have to be wielding the exact same gun but otherwise it functions the same). it does give you a prompt to switch to the dropped weapon if you’re not holding one though, or double wield if you’re not doing that

in srr, enemies no longer drop weapons. they drop ammo which i think is randomized because i’m pretty sure the melee brawlers also drop ammo

a pile of ammo on the ground doesn’t necessarily convey the information about what it’s for if you don’t know guns very well (personally i do not know guns very well). so what you get is a bunch of extra shit on the screen to tell you what it is!

there’s also the matter of money. in sr2 you can see how much you have at any time on your screen. whenever you pick something up, you immediately see it being added to your total

how does srr tell you how much money you have? oh you know you stop doing whatever you’re doing and open the phone to check it. sure opening the phone doesn’t stop time and you’ll keep getting shot at and for some reason the Mogul can’t move while taking out the phone like in any other modern open world crime game but... uh... just don’t do it in combat i guess

and whenever you pick up money it throws up another fun lil box to clutter your screen even further:

but without telling you the actual total of course. it’s not like you need cash in this game for stuff like, idk, progress. secondary information really

so... who fuckin cares? well

now im sure there was some kinda actual logical thought process behind changing the weapon drops to ammo drops but just from the pov of a regular player and a fan of the old games specifically, and without looking into it at all, honestly i have no idea what that process could be. they’re still for the weapon classes, not individual weapons or anything so the underlying system changing can’t be reason, the sr2 way of doing pickups probably would’ve functioned perfectly fine in this game (maybe it’s about the weapon types the enemies carry?) i’ve played srr for around 25 hours and so far i haven’t seen anything that’d really justify this change for me - honestly i think it not only adds nothing to the experience it actually makes the game look really cheap because this is what free to play games in this genre do, like it’s a bad mind association. in f2p games you can’t pick up the weapons themselves because they want you to spend real life money on them, and it’s a feeling that’s only made worse by all the other UI changes in srr like the overly aggressive highlights on enemies and the various drops (can’t turn this off btw!) there’s a whole bunch of other shit beyond the UI too that gives such awful “cheap mobile pay to win garbo” vibes it’s just baffling this is what “modern open world design” apparently is now. surely an enormous step... to... back-sidewards? whatever it is i don’t like it

the UI pickup popup clutter on its own is something i especially hate but i could see that as an accessibility thing rather than just purely having to spoonfeed information to the player because the game visuals are so much worse at it now. in the old games the appearance of a weapon doesn’t necessarily immediately tell you the type of ammo you’re getting either if you’ve really not played any game with guns before, but the same thing applies to a text box telling you you’ve picked up ”rifle ammo”, especially since srr has actual gun customisation so their appearance varies more drastically than it used to. i just think sr2′s way of doing it feels more intuitive and organic, more immersive even - if you could actually turn those ugly as shit popups off in srr their inclusion wouldn’t basically even matter, but i couldn’t find that option in the accessibility menu. i’m genuinely trying my hardest to give these design choices the benefit of the doubt but being essentially disabled myself due to having adhd this kinda unnecessary visual clutter is distracting rather than helpful, and accessibility is something that’s actually really important in my current job so i pay way more attention to it than i used to

also “accessibility” doesn’t answer the question of “what was wrong with just showing how much money you have at all times”. like this is something they changed from sr1 to sr2 wasn’t it? in sr1 the game does show you the total amount when you pick up money, but it fades away after a moment while in in sr2 the amount is always visible - there was actual purpose in that kind of change back then. the problem here is like the exact opposite compared to the ammo stuff: it might feel like a small thing but money is always important in these games, honestly it’s gotten more and more important after sr2. like wouldn’t it be more accessible to just show the total to you somewhere in the UI during regular play? you wouldn’t need those damn popups constantly distracting you and covering up a side of the screen at all, like getting that hundred dollars from the guy you just killed means basically jack shit in these games. the exact amount you pick up is not as important as the total! it’s so backwards!

im sure some of this stuff is present in srtt and sriv too but i don’t have them installed and i won’t do it just for this post either. it was a downgrade in those games as well if it’s there. same goes for AoM as well since srr seems to utilize its unfortunate leftovers a lot and even when really shouldn’t have done that. ok my meds are losing effect so that’s all for now.

#these games are so simple at their core and yet there's the irresistible urge to ADD MORE UNHELPFUL GARBAGE ON THE SCREEN #- DS Volition 2022 (Probably)#gta self made posting

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deadb0dyman · 1 year

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i am ten (my name is ten. like thats my name. thats not my age) some people call me baphomet but u can call me whatever you want girl *twirling hair around finger*

any pronouns

#fav is things i like, gauge my interests with it

#❌ is nsfw (usually shitpost or art rbs. if my own posts then dont interact with them 👍)

#kritters garbo art is my art tag

i tag triggering content "#cw [x]"

*i tend to be a bit inconsistent with tagging. if you need something specific tagged send an ask & i will keep ontop of it as best i can

horse stuff (game) is tagged as "#ten is horsing around" (SSO) or "#baphomet dumb horse game" (WHI)

i block people for literally annoying me sometimes but the basics r just general moral failures (racism, transphobia, zionism, and so on). terfs proship/antianti ddlg etc GTFO also if you say delulu i will block i dont have the patience for you

if i rb from the above (or otherwise problematic users) then lmk, preferrably with sources

reblog gfms / fundraisers. if i rb a scammy/fake post then lmk and i will delete my reblog

thank you

#The Famed Pinned Post

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hotvintagepoll · 19 days

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Propaganda

Ruan Lingyu (The Goddess, New Women, Love and Duty)—icon of chinese silent cinema known for her luminous beauty, her exceptional acting talent, and her tragic life story

Barbara Stanwyck (Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, Double Indemnity)—I hope someone else has submitted better propaganda than I because I don't want my girl's prospects to rest on me just yelling PLEASE VOTE FOR MY TERRIBLE HOT GIRLFRIEND. She is a delight in everything! She is often a sexy jerk! (It's most of the plot of Baby Face!) Even when she plays a "good girl" (as an example, Christmas in Connecticut, which more people should see) she's still kind of a jerk and I love her for it! She won't take men's shit and she sure wouldn't take mine!

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Ruan Lingyu:

silent era chinese actress who had a subtlety in her acting ability that was way ahead of her time. huge star but her career and life was sadly cut short by damaging publicity

Widely considered one of the best actresses of Chinese silent film

Ruan Lingyu had an eight year movie career, starting at 16 and ending with her suicide at only 24. Despite this, she made some of the most widely acclaimed films of early Chinese cinema and the BBC called her "China's Greta Garbo." In "Love and Duty," she plays her character as a teen, a young mother, and an older woman beaten down by life AND her teen daughter in an early application of split-screen technology. Lingyu is absolutely unrecognizable as the older woman, yet emotionally the transition is seamless because she does such a good job. Lingyu had a hard life and killed herself after ination [sic] of media scorn and private problems. Her funeral was three days long, the procession was allegedly four miles long, and three women killed themselves during her funeral. The New York Times called it "the most spectacular funeral of the century." I'm adding this to show what kind of hold she had over the public at the time, much like Rudolph Valentino's raucous funeral. I would rather she had lived.

Barbara Stanwyck:

"THE leading lady of the golden age of hollywood. One of the only actresses to work independent of a studio, making short-term contracts that enabled her to make movies wherever she wanted. She had so much range, and could act in basically any genre. She's been rumored to be a lesbian literally since she was active in Hollywood; most notable is the rumor that she had a long time on-and-off relationship with famously bi Joan Crawford, her "best friend" for decades (They lived right next door to one another). She also lived with Helen Ferguson, her "live-in publicist" for many years. She was the quintessential femme fatale in Double Indemnity, and really pushed sexual boundaries in her pre-code films like Baby Face, and the famous screwball The Lady Eve, where she plays basically a downlow domme. Allegedly, when a journalist asked her if she was a lesbian, she straight up threw him out of her house. She even played a lesbian in Walk on the Wild Side"

"THE queen of screwball comedies. I adore her, I'd kill for her, I will cry if she's not gonna win this poll."

"listen ok she had awful politics she was a mccarthyist right wing wacko BUT she's so incredibly hot that i've deluded myself into believing i could fix her. if you see her onscreen she carries herself in a way that's just so effortlessly sexy AND she has just a stunning face. imo she was at her hottest in the 1940s but even as early as the late 1920s she had a rly captivating screen presence and just a beautiful face, and then post-1950 she was just irresistibly milfy so really she was just always incredibly hot. she was also an incredibly talented actress who was equally stellar in melodrama, film noir, and unhinged screwball comedy. the blonde wig they made her wear in double indemnity is notoriously silly looking but she still looks sexy in it so that's gotta count for something. i've watched so many terrible movies just for a chance at seeing her that i think her estate should be paying me damages."

"Not often thought of for her sultriness, Barbara Stanwyck was incredible in that she could actually choose to be hot if the role called for it, and then have a glow-down to look ordinary for another role. She wasn't the most beautiful or effervescent, but damn did she have rizz. Watch her with Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire teaching him about "yum-yum" or with Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve whispering huskily into his ear."

youtube

"She is always the smartest woman in the room. Watching her play Henry Fonda like a befuddled fiddle in The Lady Eve was a highlight of my life. Femme fatale in Double Indemnity, comedy queen in Ball of Fire. She can do anything."

"She was part of my gay awakening"

"SHE'S A PRE-CODE QUEEN. She did everything, drama, comedy. The most beautiful woman in the world to watch weep. Beg for to step on you with those legs. Fun Babs story: Ginger Rogers was offered the role in Ball of Fire but said, “Oh, I would never play that part, she’s too common.” So they called Barbara Stanwyck and they said “We offered this to Ginger Rogers but she’s turned it down, would you be interested?” And she read the script and she said; “You bet! I LOVE playing common broads. [link]"

#barbara stanwyck #ruan lingyu #tw suicide #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 3 #Youtube

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