there was no name for the Gothic style of architecture until the 15th century - until then it was just architecture. Modern, cutting-edge stuff. ‘Gothic’ was used pejoratively in the Renaissance to describe things that were crude, rustic or uncivilised, and the style went out of fashion for a few hundred years until the 18th century, when people said “look at all this gross old shit.” then they thought about it and conceded “I guess it’s kind of cool.” and then they knelt down, caressed the stone, and whispered “it’s also a little bit sexy”
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I want an inverse spy flick. The spy is a woman. Her whole team is made up of diverse women. All the villains are women. There is only one man in the entire movie and he is a Strong Male Character who is like 25 and decently ripped and has a scene where he slowly steps out of a pool wearing speedos because he is Confident and In Control of His Sexuality. We see his ass when he has to tug down his pants to get at the knife strapped to his thigh. His nipples are always erect for no fucking reason.
They are undercover in a nightclub. In order to keep their cover from being blown, he has to kiss another man.
He knits to relieve stress and to keep his mind sharp. It is never discussed by any of the characters.
Someone asks him how he knows how to do Traditionally Feminine Thing. “I have four sisters,” he answers.
This is also how he knows how to fight while armed with nothing but a purse, a high heel shoe, and a can of hair spray. During this fight, he is, for no apparent reason, shirtless.
The lead spy is Helen Mirren. She nails the Action Boy in the shower. There’s a lot of lingering closeups on the way the shower spray runs across his breathlessly ecstatic face. We also hear every breathless whimper of his climax, while out in the hallway Lucy Liu is smoking impatiently, a duffel bag full of rocket launchers slung over her shoulder. The President isn’t going to kidnap herself, here, christ.
Action Boy emerges in a small towel, sheepish yet radiant. Helen Mirren emerges in a tuxedo, also smoking, also with a duffel bag of rocket launchers.
Action Boy gets to have a single fight scene with the one Token Male Villain - it’s not an a-list villain, more of a high level henchmen, and in the process they both end up losing their shirts and having their pants rip. Their fighting styles lead to a lot of submission holds.
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