Featuring SHOES! (And a serial killer or two.)

[amanuensis1]

Fannish multi-post:

1. Non-Avengers related: a few weeks ago Entertainment Weekly had an article on The 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen." I was astonished to see Perfect Blue made the list! I adore this film. Perfect Blue is not my usual kind of flick, being a stalker drama with the premise, "Pop star tries to shed squeaky-clean image and embrace an edgier actor career, to the dismay of some fans" but the take-home message I got from it was "she damn well deserves to have her new adult image if she wants; screw the stalkers and slut-shamers!" which went against everything I was expecting, hooray! (And I love the pop songs. Wish I could find the English recordings of those.)

Avengers related (of course);

2. I...may have...madeandorderedthesefromConverse:



Yes, you can make custom Converse sneakers. I saw a whole series of Avengers-themed ones someone had designed and leapt right on that bandwagon.

(I don't even wear sneakers. I haven't owned a pair in a decade. DON'T CARE.)


3. I'm getting a lot of my Avengers/Jeremy Renner fix from tumblr these days. I found an adorable underfollowed Renner-weighted fanart tumblr that ought to have a signal boost: http://kingbirdkathy.tumblr.com (she does Sherlock, too!)



I am this artist's perfect fan. Yes, that first one is CHIBI JEFFREY DAHMER and I SAID "D'AWWWW" WHEN I SAW IT.

4. Because I cannot look directly at this photorealistic fanart of Hawkeye by Sheridan-J without risking heart failure and blindness, I've put off using it for a JR:PLR edition. To hell with it, I'm already going blind and arrhythmic with the Bourne blitz this week, (and cluegirl already braved it, too) so, going ahead with it:




Hawkeye by Sheridan-J. I saw this and I screamed "F**K!!" so loud I scared the plants.

Comments

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I love Perfect Blue. Did you know it was a lot of the inspiration behind Black Swan? Apparently Darren Araonofsky bought remake rights to it so he could use some of the scenes/images in Black Swan.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha HA HA HA HA, omigod, the reason I'm laughing so much is that I didn't know that and I kept comparing the ending of Black Swan to Perfect Blue's ending!

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I thought the ending of Black Swan was unhappily predictable, "yes, girl's going crazy under pressure, can't handle fame, bringing her own downfall on herself, argh"; I kept thinking how I preferred Perfect Blue, where girl is not crazy, but being deliberately terrorized by someone, and guess what? She conquers it and kicks their ass and claims her new image. *fistpump!*

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Totally. That's a much more interesting ending and not as tiredly predictable (although I did like Black Swan a lot).

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Black Swan but by the time I got to end it just...pinged my "bloody misogynists" button. And I don't usually get wired up about that kind of thing, but, yeah, that time I did.

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Now I am imagining what the movie would have been like if Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis's characters had been played by male dancers. That would have been... something. :D

And of course she had to die at the end, because a woman can't achieve artistic perfection without destroying herself in the process. *rolls eyes*

God, I'm jetlagged. I hope I'm making sense and not just babbling.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

No, you're saying everything I felt about the ending of that film! Eye-roll mirrored exactly over here.

[gmth.livejournal.com]

OMG, I love those sneakers! I haven't even seen The Avengers but I don't care... THEY ARE PUPRLE. *grabby hands*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You can make your own (http://www.converse.com/#/landing/create)! IN ALL PURPLE IF YOU WANT! :D

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Sweet converse!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Does this make me cool now? Or only even more of a sad geek fangirl? ^_~

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm on #11 of that list and I've already added 3 movies to my "to watch" list.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I know, I know! There are a lot of "what's this??" films on there!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Awesome Chucks! I just made a pair of Wonder Woman sneakers. Not that I plan on buying them, but I love knowing that they could exist.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Sometimes just designing them and taking a screenshot is enough to keep us going, yeah? :D

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

SCHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!! Omigod, those are fantastic. Totally Wonder Woman--classic Wonder Woman!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I kind of love them and wish they were real!

[shadoedseptmbr.livejournal.com]

I may or may not have been mesmerized by Sheridan-J's Hawkeye for an hour or so last night. Something about the blue light....mmmm.

And sweet chucks! I didn't know you could design your own.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It was totally the Loki-'d blue of his eyes that sent that picture over into "F**K!!"-ville. :D

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Perfect Blue - hey, Satoshi Kon in general - *rocks*.

He died way, way too early. :(

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I think that may be the only one of his films I've seen? Paprika was his too, yeah? I should watch that one sometime.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Those sneakers are awesome! I want loki ones!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You can have them! Green 'n' black with gold trim, ooh, that'd be lovely.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I made some up on the website, but they looked shitty. Also, the sizing was confusing... I need someone with much better ideas of artistry to make some. Maybe on etsy...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't seen others' designs, I probably would never have come up with this version on my own. I have no graphic artistic concept of my own!

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

*mouth drops open*

That art piece is AMAZING.

Love the shoes, too! :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I know, I KNOW. I mean, I was coming here to reply to you and I knew that meant I would be looking at that picture again, and my heart just went into my throat.