Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 8

Jul. 29th, 2025 12:06 pm
purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)
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Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


ExpandOutfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Catch Up

Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:02 am
scifirenegade: (mary poppins)
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Meme stolen from [personal profile] senmut

Last song I listened to: Erasure's A Little Respect is the last one I remember hearing on the radio.
Favourite color: it's blue today
Currently watching: Finished Cinema Europe. Recommended (warning for Leni Riefenshtal or whatever her name is).
Last movie: Sex in Chains (1928). The Busters I watched were shorties.
Currently reading: Continental Strangers by by Gerd Gemünden
Coffee or tea: today it's coffee. Tomorrow, who knows...
Sweet/savoury/spicy: I'll take whatever
Relationship status: forever single
Looking forward to: finishing my bitch thesis (affectionate; I just learnt that what we call dissertation is a thesis in English. Oops)
Current obsessions:

Send help, I hate it here.
Last Googled: gwpda org (apparently a website that has a lot of WW1 documents. Didn't have what I was looking for though...)
Last thing you ate and really enjoyed: Chicken.
Currently working on: too many things. And brain don't work well.

In other news, a whole page of Torstens (feat. radio!Torsten and cat!Torsten. Even if it's lonely, and in the past, hellish, to be into Mr. Tall Man, it was fun drawing his tuxedo-clad Lucifer.)



Fun video finds (all links to YouTube): a PBS broadcast of some excerpts from Anders als die Andern, introduced by Vito Russo! Unclear when it was aired, sometime in the 80s probably. And while looking for decent-ish version of Opium (I wanted to look at those beautiful, beautiful shots of baby!Connie again, and I only have them on the computer), found this multi-film fanvid for silent films! Feels like old YouTube in the best way possible. So many eras and genres here. Warning for Un Chien Andalou and some bastardised colourisation work.

ExpandThe shots in question )

Oh, [personal profile] prettygoodword's most recent word is apotropaic! One of my favourite words.

Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 7

Jul. 22nd, 2025 07:33 pm
purplecat: Romana 1 from Doctor Who (Who:Romana 1)
[personal profile] purplecat
Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


ExpandOutfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Probably Not the Best Choice

Jul. 22nd, 2025 10:51 am
scifirenegade: (worried | paul k)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Turns out watching Sex in Chains after my country is being even more overt with its patting the fashos on the back wasn't a good idea.

I had a heart attack, as the film is endorsed by the German League of Human Rights, which is fine, they're a peace organisation. But the name is very similar to Friedrich Radszuweit's Bund für Menschenrecht (literally Human Rights League). I could go on a rant as to why that fasho arsehole should go and eat shit, but I'll leave it.

The title cards are gorgeous! Honestly the whole film is a looker, very in line with the great late-stage silent German productions. The camera moves freely, zooms in and out, pans left and right. Extreme close-ups are plenty and ethereal. Equally ethereal is the use of superposition.

It's an Aufklärungsfilm! Yeah, we really do need some prison reform. Although the biggest struggle we see the inmates going through is blue balls (this is me trying to be funny with a serious topic). At least we have intimate visits now, but there's still a long way to go.

The queer themes are subtle, and only appear at the second half, but oh, my heart. It's all very sweet (bittersweet really). I too will declare my love to my crush by writing our names in a circle. If I had a crush. When Alfred (that's von Twardowski, Franz is the main character and he's played by Dieterle) leaves prison, his (boy)friend from outside suggests he blackmails Franz. Loved Alfred's reaction of "dude, wtf!" and then he left.

The longing and sensuality (and the lack thereof) are very well represented here.

Wilhelm "William" Dieterle directed and starred in this. He made plenty of biopics in America during the 1930s, plus that 30s The Hunchback of Notre Dame film that seems lovely. He also played Marquis Posa in Carlos und Elisabeth and the main guy in Waxworks, making him the tallest person Conrad Veidt has shared a screen with. Sorry, again, but I had to do it. H.H. von Twardowski was a surprise, and I wonder if his casting was a lucky accident, or was on purpose. He's great at playing sweet men, isn't he? Shame is career during WW2 pivoted to those roles. Ya know, the ones every German/Austrian actor plays. (If von Twardowski was born today, he would've been Polish.)

"Oh, the acring is over the top!" It wouldn't be a German film if it wasn't. And there are some nice, quiet moments too. "The ending is too extreme!" It's a German film. Somebody has to die in a dramaric fashion.

I liked it. But I had to cheer myself up with some silliness.

(no subject)

Jul. 20th, 2025 09:41 am
scifirenegade: (Default)
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My apologies to the flist. I read all your posts, I just don't know what to comment.
scifirenegade: (rip | kurt & paul)
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Title: So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Kurt(/Paul)
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For [community profile] comment_fic. Prompt was "having trouble remembering specific aspects of someone they lost". Also for [community profile] sweetandshort's This and That Challenge, the theme is "Rare Fandoms".

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Random Castle

Jul. 18th, 2025 05:29 pm
purplecat: A ruined keep. (General:Castle)
[personal profile] purplecat

High ruined castle walls with windows set in them and a turret at one corner.  Low walls where once were rooms below.
Harlech

Fanfic: Overwhelming

Jul. 18th, 2025 10:00 am
scifirenegade: (blep | marquis)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Overwhelming
Rating: Teen and Up
Fandom: Ich und die Kaiserin (1933)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Juliette/The Marquis of Pontignac
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For [community profile] comment_fic. Prompt was "Behold...puppies". Also for [community profile] sweetandshort's This and That Challenge, the theme is "Rare Fandoms".

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Fanfic: Unrequited

Jul. 17th, 2025 01:58 pm
scifirenegade: (erik)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Unrequited
Rating: Teen and Up
Fandom: The Last Performance (1929)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Julie (one-sided Erik/Julie)
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For [community profile] comment_fic. Prompt was "Any/Any, Letting them down gently".

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