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.
In every single action scene he’s in, the Strong Male Character ends up with ripped clothes, somehow; artfully revealing sculpted chest, abs, thigh(s), or arse, or maybe some combo of these. There’s usually a moderately flimsy reason, depending on how the plot’s going.
Conversely, all the female spies are always cool and perfect, almost never a smudge, rip, or hair out of place, except for some aesthetically-placed minor wound that doesn’t really affect their performance in the slightest.
this is genuinely the most beautiful thing i have ever seen
This is a book store called El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina! You can have coffee while sitting on the stage. One of my favorite places in my city.
It’s a BOOKSTORE?!
there are balconies where you can sit to read too
and that’s the stage where you can have a coffee 🙂
I’ve been promising all my readers out there Good Tickle Brain merchandise for well over a year now, and am finally getting down to business – or, more accurately, getting down to figuring out what is involved in getting down to business. First up is that cornerstone of any self-respecting institution… a t-shirt!
Over the weekend I sent out a survey canvassing popular opinion on such things as t-shirt design, color, sizing, etc., so I could start figuring out logistics. Hundreds of you have responded so far, which is just fantastic! I’m still reading through the various comments you gave me (and I am reading them all, trust me), but at the moment it looks like this design, featuring snapshots from each of Shakespeare’s plays, is winning out:
In case you’re puzzled about which play is which, I offer you the following hint: they’re arranged in alphabetical order, and the multi-part Henry IV and Henry VI have been condensed to one image each.
A lot of you mentioned in comments that you would like to see a black version. (This was not surprising, as we all know theatre-folk live predominantly in black.) I didn’t originally offer an option for black on my survey, as the black outlines and arms of my stick figures would disappear completely against a black background, but, after some tinkering with modest white outlines, I think I’ve come up with a solution that will look something like this:
This is not final yet, but is what I am currently leaning towards, with ladies’ and possibly kids’ versions as well. There will probably be one or two other color options as well. I’d still love to hear from people, though. If you haven’t already done so, please take my shirt survey. Also, feel free to leave a comment on this post, or get in touch with me on Facebook, Twitter, or here on Tumblr. I realize that, no matter what the final design is, some of you will be probably disappointed. I just want to make sure that the number of the disappointed is as small as possible!
If this shirt is even moderately successful, there will definitely be other shirts, so all of you clamoring for three-panel play shirts or other designs (such as Smiley Shakespeare) can live in hope. Lots of you also mentioned wishes for additional items such as mugs and pins. Those will be coming too! If you have other ideas for products, please do leave a comment. All your input gets filed away for future reference.
I want to do this merchandise thing properly, so if it’s slow getting off the ground, rest assured it’s because I’m reading and learning and figuring out how to make the best merchandise available through the best online store possible. Because (cue cheesy line) my readers deserve the best. (Cue groans.)
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This would be cool. Don’t they have a cafe that does this?
I would like this very, very much. Except I can’t sight read.
please please someone make a library/bookstore with all classical music scores and books and have a classical cafe on the first floor with these kinds of karaoke nights and special classical music guests once in a while and ‘new music’ nights where they introduce new scores from modern day classical composers
Kimchi and Justice 