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celebrating wlw in movies and television [insp.]

Bringing this back in celebration of Queer Culture Festival in Korea! Below are the shows these edits were made from and a couple of outtakes.

Cloudburst (2011)

Bad summary: Old married couple run off to get married.

This is a great, funny movie about an elderly American lesbian couple Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker) who become forcibly separated when Dot, blind and increasingly frail, is moved into a nursing home by her granddaughter. Stella breaks Dot out, and together they head to Canada to get married.

Mystère à la Tour Eiffel (2015)

Bad summary: Divorcee discovers sexuality, murderer.

In late 19th century Paris, architects who worked on the Eiffel tower are being murdered one by one. The father of Louise (Marie Denarnaud) is also killed, and she is framed for the murder. Louise investigates together with stage magician Henriette (Aïssa Maïga) who had caught her eye during a performance and with whom she has been flirting ever since.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-)

Bad summary: Crazy ex-girlfriend gets a girlfriend.

The character Valencia Perez (Gabrielle Ruiz) dated Josh Chan for years before she broke up with him, then ended up planning his wedding to Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) which he never showed up to. Valencia later went into the party planning business with, then started dating, Beth (Emma Willmann). I did make an earlier edit of a shot featuring Valencia and Beth, which did not make it into the final cut.

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Her Story (2015-)

Bad summary: Well-intentioned wingmanning by an ex actually works, for once.

Her Story, a web show available for viewing online (link), follows the story Vi (Jen Richards) and Allie (Laura Zak) who grow close after Allie interviews Vi for a story on trans people. This show is short but incredibly well written, acted, and produced, with amazing representation of trans women and the interpersonal and institutional transphobia they face.

The Handmaiden (2016)

Bad summary: Desperate to meet up, the gays turn to crime.

In early 20th-century Korea under Japanese rule, thief and forger Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-Ri) starts work as a domestic servant at the home of colonial collaborator Kouzuki to lure his heiress niece Hideko (Kim Min-hee) into falling in love with a con man. Complications arise, foremost among them the two women’s feelings for each other.

The Bold Type (2017-)

Bad summary: Area woman discovers her inner boob girl.

Kat (Aisha Dee), the social media director of women’s magazine Scarlet, meets professional photographer Adena (Nikohl Boosheri) over permission to print Adena’s essay. The two grow increasingly close despite complications including Kat’s confusion over her own sexuality, Adena being in a long-term relationship, and the pair often being continents apart.

Black Lightning (2018-)

Bad summary: Eligible lesbian’s family is loving, supportive, totally trouble-free. Honest.

Anissa Pierce (Nafessa Wiliams) discovers her superpowers and grows into a superhero while navigating the violence that has infected her hometown Freeland, secrets in her own family, government conspiracies, and a budding relationship with Grace Choi (Chantal Thuy).

Bonus outtake: Carol (2015)

Bad summary: Selling a toy train upends retail worker’s life.

Therese (Rooney Mara) meets and becomes fast friends, and then girlfriends, with Carol (Cate Blanchett). The price ends up being high, however, when Carol’s ex-husband sees an opportunity in the custody dispute over their daughter.

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This edit from Carol was originally going to take the “live disastrously” spot, but I ended up actually having too many works to draw from after having Cloudburst and The Bold Type recommended to me and decided to leave out the Carol edit.

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“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”

–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918

So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:

Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together

Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol

Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail

Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?

As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?

I’ve decided to split “Let’s live” and “you and I” into different gifs, so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (from the third season) and Her Story (Allie and Vi) should fill up the two remaining slots nicely. I canNOT believe I had forgotten Her Story with its awesome and sadly rare trans lesbian representation, played by trans actress @smartassjen at that. On the other hand, I’m a little sad I only squeaked to six total in the criteria of “live-action show with canon wlw and no dead lesbians.”

Now I’ve gotta find the sources I don’t have (Carol and Tour Eiffel) and learn the editing skills to make these gifs shine like they deserve to. I feel sorry for this awesome idea that fell into my incompetent hands, though.

Also it turns out a movie of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s romance is coming out this year, but idk how much of Violet there is in it and I’d have to wait for a HD source anyway. Later on I might do another gifset from the movie with the people actually involved in this quote, which would be awesome.

I have all the edits ready, just awaiting export and optimization, except the last one. And for that I’m going to need Black Lightning to update on Netflix… come onnnn…

@thehungryvortigaunt Excellent idea. I’m taking out Rosa Diaz from B99 to add them instead. I haven’t been able to find really satisfactory visuals of Rosa and have some problems with the show itself. And if I can get a decent source for The Handmaiden I’m going to add another gif, I can’t believe I’d forgotten about it smh.

@chewvbacca Thank you for liking this idea! I’ve done many of the edits now and I’m really excited. That sounds like an awesome movie, and it’s got a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 77% audience score too. The lesbian couple are escaping from their nursing home omfg I’m already giggling at the premise. I’m uh… seeing about trying to get it. *shifty eyed*

Here’s one of the edits, from the YouTube show Her Story. It’s the first time I tried an animated handwriting effect on Photoshop (I’d only ever done it on After Effects), and while the method seemed crude at first it seems to have worked out. I had forgotten how good human eyes are at creating continuous motion from limited information. The font is Mind Rush, for those who are interested.

By the way, should I have a “TERFs don’t interact” message in there as well? I’m hoping that having a trans woman in the edit, see above, would be enough, but I can also add a cute edit at the end telling them to fuck off in case some of them don’t get the message.

@chewvbacca I had to make the Cloudburst one from the trailer on YouTube because my… alternative means of acquiring footage… has stalled out. Thank you so much for the rec, this is the best footage for the “live fully” part of the quote I could have thought of. Elderly and disabled representation was sorely missing from this edit series, too, not to mention a good old-fashioned flannel shirt and cowboy hat. Idk if either of them dies (please God no), but I’ll make an exception because it’s unlikely to be a violent death.

Also as you can see from the trailer, the movie is about life partners Stella and Dot being separated because Dot’s granddaughter puts her in a nursing home, which Stella has no legal authority to stop. So Stella breaks Dot out of the home and they decide to drive to Canada to be legally married–this being pre-marriage equality in the U.S.–and I am not okay.

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“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”

–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918

So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:

Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together

Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol

Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail

Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?

As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?

I’ve decided to split “Let’s live” and “you and I” into different gifs, so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (from the third season) and Her Story (Allie and Vi) should fill up the two remaining slots nicely. I canNOT believe I had forgotten Her Story with its awesome and sadly rare trans lesbian representation, played by trans actress @smartassjen at that. On the other hand, I’m a little sad I only squeaked to six total in the criteria of “live-action show with canon wlw and no dead lesbians.”

Now I’ve gotta find the sources I don’t have (Carol and Tour Eiffel) and learn the editing skills to make these gifs shine like they deserve to. I feel sorry for this awesome idea that fell into my incompetent hands, though.

Also it turns out a movie of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s romance is coming out this year, but idk how much of Violet there is in it and I’d have to wait for a HD source anyway. Later on I might do another gifset from the movie with the people actually involved in this quote, which would be awesome.

I have all the edits ready, just awaiting export and optimization, except the last one. And for that I’m going to need Black Lightning to update on Netflix… come onnnn…

@thehungryvortigaunt Excellent idea. I’m taking out Rosa Diaz from B99 to add them instead. I haven’t been able to find really satisfactory visuals of Rosa and have some problems with the show itself. And if I can get a decent source for The Handmaiden I’m going to add another gif, I can’t believe I’d forgotten about it smh.

@chewvbacca Thank you for liking this idea! I’ve done many of the edits now and I’m really excited. That sounds like an awesome movie, and it’s got a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 77% audience score too. The lesbian couple are escaping from their nursing home omfg I’m already giggling at the premise. I’m uh… seeing about trying to get it. *shifty eyed*

Here’s one of the edits, from the YouTube show Her Story. It’s the first time I tried an animated handwriting effect on Photoshop (I’d only ever done it on After Effects), and while the method seemed crude at first it seems to have worked out. I had forgotten how good human eyes are at creating continuous motion from limited information. The font is Mind Rush, for those who are interested.

By the way, should I have a “TERFs don’t interact” message in there as well? I’m hoping that having a trans woman in the edit, see above, would be enough, but I can also add a cute edit at the end telling them to fuck off in case some of them don’t get the message.

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“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”

–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918

So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:

Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together

Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol

Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail

Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?

As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?

I’ve decided to split “Let’s live” and “you and I” into different gifs, so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (from the third season) and Her Story (Allie and Vi) should fill up the two remaining slots nicely. I canNOT believe I had forgotten Her Story with its awesome and sadly rare trans lesbian representation, played by trans actress @smartassjen at that. On the other hand, I’m a little sad I only squeaked to six total in the criteria of “live-action show with canon wlw and no dead lesbians.”

Now I’ve gotta find the sources I don’t have (Carol and Tour Eiffel) and learn the editing skills to make these gifs shine like they deserve to. I feel sorry for this awesome idea that fell into my incompetent hands, though.

Also it turns out a movie of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s romance is coming out this year, but idk how much of Violet there is in it and I’d have to wait for a HD source anyway. Later on I might do another gifset from the movie with the people actually involved in this quote, which would be awesome.

I have all the edits ready, just awaiting export and optimization, except the last one. And for that I’m going to need Black Lightning to update on Netflix… come onnnn…

@thehungryvortigaunt Excellent idea. I’m taking out Rosa Diaz from B99 to add them instead. I haven’t been able to find really satisfactory visuals of Rosa and have some problems with the show itself. And if I can get a decent source for The Handmaiden I’m going to add another gif, I can’t believe I’d forgotten about it smh.

@chewvbacca Thank you for liking this idea! I’ve done many of the edits now and I’m really excited. That sounds like an awesome movie, and it’s got a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 77% audience score too. The lesbian couple are escaping from their nursing home omfg I’m already giggling at the premise. I’m uh… seeing about trying to get it. *shifty eyed*

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“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”

–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918

So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:

Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together

Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol

Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail

Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?

As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?

I’ve decided to split “Let’s live” and “you and I” into different gifs, so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (from the third season) and Her Story (Allie and Vi) should fill up the two remaining slots nicely. I canNOT believe I had forgotten Her Story with its awesome and sadly rare trans lesbian representation, played by trans actress @smartassjen at that. On the other hand, I’m a little sad I only squeaked to six total in the criteria of “live-action show with canon wlw and no dead lesbians.”

Now I’ve gotta find the sources I don’t have (Carol and Tour Eiffel) and learn the editing skills to make these gifs shine like they deserve to. I feel sorry for this awesome idea that fell into my incompetent hands, though.

Also it turns out a movie of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s romance is coming out this year, but idk how much of Violet there is in it and I’d have to wait for a HD source anyway. Later on I might do another gifset from the movie with the people actually involved in this quote, which would be awesome.

I have all the edits ready, just awaiting export and optimization, except the last one. And for that I’m going to need Black Lightning to update on Netflix… come onnnn…

@thehungryvortigaunt Excellent idea. I’m taking out Rosa Diaz from B99 to add them instead. I haven’t been able to find really satisfactory visuals of Rosa and have some problems with the show itself. And if I can get a decent source for The Handmaiden I’m going to add another gif, I can’t believe I’d forgotten about it smh.

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“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”

–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918

So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:

Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together

Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol

Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail

Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?

As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?

I’ve decided to split “Let’s live” and “you and I” into different gifs, so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (from the third season) and Her Story (Allie and Vi) should fill up the two remaining slots nicely. I canNOT believe I had forgotten Her Story with its awesome and sadly rare trans lesbian representation, played by trans actress @smartassjen at that. On the other hand, I’m a little sad I only squeaked to six total in the criteria of “live-action show with canon wlw and no dead lesbians.”

Now I’ve gotta find the sources I don’t have (Carol and Tour Eiffel) and learn the editing skills to make these gifs shine like they deserve to. I feel sorry for this awesome idea that fell into my incompetent hands, though.

Also it turns out a movie of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s romance is coming out this year, but idk how much of Violet there is in it and I’d have to wait for a HD source anyway. Later on I might do another gifset from the movie with the people actually involved in this quote, which would be awesome.

I have all the edits ready, just awaiting export and optimization, except the last one. And for that I’m going to need Black Lightning to update on Netflix… come onnnn…