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Why I do not consider Iron Widow a "feminist" book and how there's a difference between female rage and feminism, which only kicks in throughout Heavenly Tyrant as Zetian gets educated and ties the gender struggle to the class struggle

Happy International Working Women's Day! Never forget its origins in the labor movement! There will never be true emancipation for women without emancipation of the working class.

Best collection of screengrabs I've seen from this movie! (A little offput that it seems to be AI upgraded? weirdly smooth)

Idk what Buster Keaton was thinking shoving himself and another man in a dressing room, wrestled in there for almost 5 minutes straight until all their clothes were gone, leaving only underwears and he thought it was funny and not super homo-erotic.

Ah, the 1920’s

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I've been on a Brad Dourif hyperfixation for like six months now. The restorative power of staring at this one hot guy has somehow pulled me through a profound creative burnout.... and here are the results! (See #my bradrot for the latest)

🎧 prettyboy music videos

Supercut of hottie moments (Boys)

The X-Files (Shinigami Eyes)

Spontaneous Combustion (You Spin Me)

Death Machine (Wrecking Ball)

✍️ unstable gif essays

Scrungly feature analysis: Brad Dourif's eyes

Popping the headlights (a certain way directors light his eyes)

🎨 BD characters as classical art

Saint Sebastian | Le génie du mal | Perseus with the Head of Medusa

🧰 meme templates

Drake yes/no meme generator | Tucker Cleveland's truck templates

🤨 other shitposts, drawings, stuff

Brad Dourif movie bingo!

BDE (Brad Dourif Energy) memes

Rotoscoped Miami Vice intimidation gif

Listen here u little shit (Cypress Edge)

Brad Dourif mlem cam (Progeny interview)

i sleep / real shit, Dourif vamp edition

And maybe some fics... someday? 🫣

P.S.: I don't repost fundraisers and stuff here because this is my fun stupid side account. I do those things on main; this is more of a release valve. Big love to those doing the work on here, though.

dizzy...

This was gonna be a multi-movie montage but I started putting it together and he and the camera are just constantly spinning around in Spontaneous Combustion

I could have put in more flame clips for DRAMA, since that's the actual theme of the movie, but lbr it's just an excuse to cut together all my fave clips of BD being pretty 💕

doodling always gets out of hand with this guy

brad dourif scrungly feature analysis: eyes

from the “Boys” dourif-hottie supercut music video:

I’d love to see an artist break this down!

For now, let me write you a novel about Brad's spectacular eyes...

The Strangeness

(Skip if you want to preserve the mystery.) BD's right eye is placed a little higher, and turned up as if tugged from the outer corner. I think it's part of that subtle something that immediately sets him apart. This unique, catlike, romantic asymmetry snatches your attention.

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The glow

His striking, chameleonic blues capture light — even in B&W — which directors loooooove to exploit by lighting him obliquely:

It's a great way to crank up the eerie vibe of any scene, and I respect Star Trek for trashing that option outright with all-black contacts. (Of course, he still served an incredibly compelling outsider.)

(Edit: I put up a post just about this effect because they seriously do it all the damn time) (...because it's awesome)

Set in shadows

He has hooded eyes, deep-set and accentuated by heavy eye bags. The shadows and textures draw you in toward those luminescent irises, like picture frames that amplify each motion of his eyes.

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Contrast

Sometimes he pops them wide open, creating these huge, expressive magnets...

...Or squints lopsidedly...

...Or interrogates, challenges, threatens — alert but defensive, like a prey animal on the edge of lashing out.

He’s said he chooses roles that "turn him on" (pretty clearly in an artistic sense); many of these blend menace and vulnerability, and our boy dumps emotion into every. single. line. This can manifest as an intense, wary, combative look, with eyes wide under neutral or furrowed brows:

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Cry, baby

...And that's all before we mention the tears. He cries, of course, at will and liberally, and his eyes go red-rimmed and wet, highlighting them even more as he pins someone's soul to the wall with his gaze.

When he hovers right on the edge, they seem to shine in the dark.

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Bared

At times, his fair eyelashes almost vanish, compounding his unusual look with a birdlike or reptilian tinge.

Obviously, the shaved brows in LOTR add to this effect.

A couple more things you'll notice here: he'll hold his eyes wide open for much longer than normal, drawing out these moments and making him seem even more alien.

And when he gets up-close in someone's face (which is often), he's constantly switching his gaze between their eyes — totally fixated, as if scanning for emotional feedback. In my opinion, it adds to that vulnerability: to the object of his attention, he must seem like a predator freezing them in place... but it's also desperate, like a prey animal trying to decipher the other person's intent, all senses tuned to pick up their slightest signal. (Gríma Wormtongue and Jack Dante especially have this pathetic air about them: grasping at sources of warmth while lashing out at the harsh, unintelligible world around them, allying themselves with uncontrollable destructive forces in an attempt to establish a place for themselves........)

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TL;DR

The eyes — and how he uses them — are the standout scrungly feature, the main reason we can’t look away from this unforgettable weirdo.

The cat-eye asymmetry pulls focus;

His ice-blue irises are light traps, framed in textured shadow;

His full-bore emotional commitment ramps up the anguish and torment to an aching crescendo that's impossible to ignore.

Eventually I'll follow up on other contributing factors, but for now, I'll leave you with a couple of article snippets about The Eyes:

Imagi-Movies: Vol 1 No 2 — Winter 1993/94. Pages 11-13: "Traumatic - Brad Dourif". Link

SoHo News: November-December 1981. "Tension and mercy - Brad Dourif glowers for our sins" (an article all about his eyes! But they don't mention the asymmetry.)

[Gifs were mostly stolen from the GOAT, @exdeputysonso — with some of my own, mostly the square ones. Shout-out to @dragonsbloodsnowcone for inspiring this word vomit.]

Thanks for reading!

Re: last post — if you somehow found my Dourif music videos but haven’t seen these @exdeputysonso fancams, do I have freaky little guy news for you

Honestly the reason I decided to try my own, after trawling through all their vids and screeching “NOT ENOUGH”

lamar sands fancam

Linoleum cut print of Starbug!

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this show recently and decided to try something new and make a linoleum cut of the bug!