Is It Just Me Or Does Brad Dourif Channel Buster Keaton Sometimes

BDE

that's what it stands for. i dont make the rules

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...oh god i have so many more of these. pt 2 later maybe

people keep trying to make "ladies and gentlemen" more inclusive.

I think we should go the other way around.

make more and more weird false dichotomies in greetings. "gamers and pianists". "oil painters and swordsmen". "vexillologists and entomologists". "chess masters and diamond artificers". "accountants and gendered individuals".

we need to be dropping shit into formal meetings to make people say "wait what? which one am I?"

J.C. Leyendecker, famous queer artist of dapper 1920s people, across a hundred years of separation: so sometimes we need to get a little athlete, I mean a real small one, posing like he’s going to kill and eat someone, leaving no shards of bone.

Me, humble disciple: absolutely absolutely

J.C. Leyendecker: he could kill a horse by sneering. That’s how cunty he is.

Me: doin my best, boss -

J.C. Leyendecker: you must then put him in the silky underwear -

Me: of course.

Leyendecker: do your absolute best to shine up the silky, shiny, thin underwear. Oil it.

Me: I’m not great at this -

Leyendecker: think silk. Think shiny. Think, “this is how you sell clothing to straight men.”

Me: is - is it?

Leyendecker: the whip must, of course, be slightly suggestive. No, more than that. More than that. It’s important that he be provocatively catchable, AND YET - he can defend himself!

Me: got it, boss. Um - you know I’m not actually - I don’t know how to paint -

Leyendecker: shhh, I am telling you. to sell suits we also need a suit guy. we model the suit guy on a Suit Guy, one of my 1920s Suit Guys, it’ll be great.

Me: I can probably draw -

Leyendecker: suit guy could kiss him on the head. 😘 . Like that. Say that.

Me: 🫡

J.C. Leyendecker, “man and jockey clothing advertisement,” 1923. This is how we sell men’s suits, apparently.

I made some things...

new! brad dourif AO3 collection

We now have this: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Brad_Dourif

Anyone can add their fics across different BD characters and franchises, so you can take care of all your thirstin' in one place (once it gets going).

Like it says on the tin: heed the warnings and have fun 💞

Whoever is responsible for BD's silvery curls in Best Men, I salute you 🫡

There's like a two-toned thing going on: frizzy brown tendrils in the front and well-defined metallic lushness in the back. Possibly a rare sighting of the molting phase? Young Brad's hair is more fluffy and light brown, Elder Brad's is more black and silver. In other stuff from 1997-ish, it's usually brushed back so harder to tell. (Discuss.)

In this movie, he did a weird croaky voice the whole time and had lots of sexual tension with this other ex-soldier guy. A+

Yes the OP had a pithy message but I've got a one-track mind rn:

I know there are people who don't think Brad Dourif is hot, but I've only talked to one and their resolve crumbled in the face of the Istanbul (1985) car scene

There are lots more Pretty Moments in there, but Istanbul (1985) car scene is burned into my brain matter like the indelible brand of Cain

no one is immune.

(btw this movie is very upsetting please watch at your own risk)

There was this guy in the 1800s - I can't remember his name, but his name is recorded somewhere - who honestly argued that if given the choice between a beautiful woman and a heron, deep down in their most earnest true heart, every man would rather fuck the heron. And he got mad when people denied this, continuing to deny this what he had decided must be an universal truth, instead of praising him for being the only one who was brave enough to finally say it out loud. Like he really thought that every single person telling him "Jesse what the hell are you talking about" was not only denying him, but denying themselves their true desires and perpetuating the apparently massive cultural lie that herons aren't fuckable.

Anyway what I'm saying here is that every once in a while whenever you find yourself in a situation where nobody else is willing to agree with something that you consider the most obvious truth, take a moment to meditate on the possibility that perhaps they do mean what they say, and perhaps they are right. Maybe nobody else but you wants to fuck the heron.

Oh my god. Oh my god this nearly made me cry ♡♡♡ Harpo is one of my faves of all time, and knowing that he was like this makes me adore him even more.

This zine has been sitting partially finished for like 3 years and i figured, you know, done is better than perfect.

The title comes from Susan Fleming: "Oscar Levant was surly, moody, and despairing. He clung to Harpo like a life raft."

i just think they're neat.

all my weird little music videos of Brad Dourif looking pretty:

Supercut of hottie moments (Boys)

The X-Files (Shinigami Eyes)

Spontaneous Combustion (You Spin Me)

Death Machine (Wrecking Ball)

We only have 2 types (in reviews of the "Istanbul" 1985):