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this deserves in-depth study, because there’s some really old stuff where not only does this trope not exist (excluding prejudice, discrimination or even outright hatred which is OK because these are still very real) but there are great actors and great scripts too, eg - My Beautiful Launderette, 1985 (Daniel Day-Lewis) - Sunday Bloody Sunday, 1971 (Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, also Daniel Day-Lewis again - in his very first movie, as a boy) - The Lost Language of Cranes, 1991 (Brian Cox) ..all worth catching if you can, plus more modern stuff already mentioned here like God’s Own Country

straight romance flicks usually deliver the happy ending, gay movies rarely do. Why is that?

the behaviour of the young today is just horrendous

@ReaderPaul The only info I can give is I opened up the vid in the YT app on iPad, then clicked the “Share” button, pressed “Copy link” in the popup, then pasted into the post as I’ve always done. I guess it’s only an issue if another member/visitor wants to watch the link - so far no-one’s posted “What’s this??”

Understood. Sometimes the iPad makes me unsure even who I am The YT was copied from ‘Share’ in the normal way - maybe it just changes randomly for me and no-one else, in which case it’s not an issue…

I embedded this YouTube in a post this is the post https://gayauthors.org/forums/topic/48423-gay-tv-movies-and-books/?do=findComment&comment=1181955 Today I noticed the YouTube had changed (the post hasn’t been edited) so I posted this ‘Help’ But now the YouTube has changed back again!! How could this happen? And can the originally posted YouTube be “locked” to stop this happening again? ipad 6 iOS 16.6 Edit to add: I’ve just had another look at this post and it’s changed the YouTube again - this time I took a screen print:

Grammar Tip #42 understanding adverbs is quite important

Agree. The story avoids the tired, cliched tropes of Hollywood, using instead a very British equivalent of the remote, very traditional and often brutal (as in life, rather than Hollywood’s predictable body-strewn violence) rural landscapes +communities depicted in BM. The well-written family dynamic into which the foreign seasonal worker interposes is the heart of the story. And the graphic depiction of the frustrated +resentful son, releasing his built-up anger against everyone including the foreigner, and his eventual realisation and, finally, acceptance of who he is and what he truly wants and needs in his life, is portrayed with beautiful subtlety by the writers, actors and filmmakers to deliver what is denied us in most gay movies - a credible and deeply satisfying ending. Edit to add: if you do watch this, you need to see the full uncut movie (check the runtime). You’ll also probably need subtitles…

bad zombie!! *SMACK!*

Today is National Cake Day! 🎂 🍰 🧁 🎉 🎊 I’ve been catching up (iPlayer if you can access it) last year’s “Hot Cakes” series about an adorably cute “couple team” running a cake shop in Cardiff …and just in case the title joke flew past you, yeah🔥 *naughty BBC *

the creature behind them seems to think so too

The day Jeff Buckley (1966-97) sang Dido’s Lament, by Henry Purcell (1659-95) This was never meant to be recorded and preserved for all time. Like most live music performances, it would exist only in that moment, forever lost when time moved on. We have it because some bootlegger in the audience captured it on a crappy recording device but, despite the poor recording, the amazing quality of Jeff Buckley’s voice shines through, loaded with feeling and emotion. It is my favourite recording of this song. Some background on how Jeff came to sing this song, which was written c 300 years before his time, can be found in a book by Jeff's manager (Dave Lory) “Jeff Buckley: from Hallelujah to Last Goodbye", Post Hill Press, 2018 'We had a small shopping list of stuff Jeff had asked us to pick up: peppermint tea, black hair dye, and a CD of “Dido’s Lament.” The week after Glastonbury, Jeff had been booked to appear at Meltdown, another prestigious annual event, held in London at the Royal Festival Hall. Each year an artist known for being eclectic was made guest curator of a week of genre-crossing concerts, and that year’s curator was Elvis Costello, who had invited Jeff to sing with an orchestra. After discussing singing some Mahler in the original German, Jeff decided he wanted to try “Dido’s Lament.” Sam had located a music shop in Bath where we could pick up the CD. It was a tiny place up a steep hill, so small that six skinny people would fill it. There were no racks; you just asked at the counter for what you wanted. An old guy was serving, and when I asked for a copy of “Dido’s Lament” for one of my male artists, he laughed and told me no man could sing it. The only other person in the store was a young dude, around eighteen years old, who asked which artist it was for. “Jeff Buckley,” I said. He turned to the shopkeeper and said, “Jeff Buckley can sing it.” I laughed, tickled that word about Jeff had reached out here ... The show was a few days later and, although not quite a black-tie event, the atmosphere was very formal—the crowd was seemingly classical music fans having a daring night out. There were some priceless looks on their faces when this rumpled dude came out and started singing. It was so much fun watching their reaction that I hardly watched Jeff. But he sounded incredible. That kid in the Bath music store knew what he was talking about. I got chills. Elvis Costello: “When he started singing ‘Dido’s Lament,’ there were all these classical musicians who could not believe it. Here’s a guy shuffling up onstage and singing a piece of music normally thought to be the property of certain types of a specifically developed voice, and he’s just singing, not doing it like a party piece but doing something with it.” “ ”That’s an understatement,” says cellist Philip Sheppard, who was in the orchestra. “I remember the silhouette of his frame as he bent almost double to wrench every ounce of meaning from a song written three hundred years ago. Better than any classical musician I’ve ever heard. It’s probably the greatest musical experience of my life; it turned my world inside out…made me realize I was a musician who played through study rather than played through feel, an incredibly pivotal moment for me. I think about him nearly every day, which is quite strange really, because I only met him for about half an hour.”

that was the evil Bond villain cackling with glee after he pressed the Big Red Destruction Button…

Exploding power station? - just a minor distraction in a football game

Also peddling lies - like flightless birds can fly

too many eyes too many legs too much hair *shudders*

Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor - the new sexy Doctor! https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/ncuti-gatwa-is-the-doctor

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Individuals’ ‘free speech’ is one thing large corporates monetising the targeting of its own customers with poisonous / unwanted (and potentially upsetting / harmful) messaging is something else Curious that YouTube and other platforms in Ireland, which is an EU member, approved such ads earlier this year (although they weren’t in fact run) https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/extreme-and-violent-anti-lgbtq-hate-approved-publication-leading-social-media-platforms/

This is old Forbes 4/6/18 https://www.forbes.com/sites/meganhills1/2018/06/04/youtube-anti-lgbt-ads/ Doubt they could run in the UK - unless they like prison food

no comment…

Music is tuneless Most hit records ever released are out of tune (and so is a bunch of “classical” music) Modern standard tuning is based on A440 (frequency A above “middle C”). Musicians will deviate from standard tuning if they want (eg Radiohead, No Surprises) but, that aside, keyboards (like acoustic pianos) are tuned to “equal temperament” where every chord sounds in tune but in fact every note (apart from A440) is actually out of tune Other instruments like strings and brass are generally tuned to “natural” harmonic intervals or (“just temperament”) because then they resonate better to produce their best sound, and chord intervals sound cleaner (fretted guitars are generally tuned like pianos) Problem is when keyboards are combined with other instruments it could sound like screaming cats accompanied by fingernails dragged down a blackboard… So the other instrument must be retuned to match the piano / keyboards And then there’s organs, saxophones, horns, trumpets…

good point - just checked the index and book+movie threads are well dead I’ve just asked a mod if the thread name can be updated

surely this is the value of prompts, to help overcome “writer’s block”? the reason that visual artists have a ‘muse’, that Hemingway stopped each day mid-sentence, that composers “steal” a few notes (think what JS Bach could do with just 4 notes). An external prompt can provide motivation (inspiration?) and result in something new + unexpected that otherwise probably would never have existed

good point - human ‘controls’ imposed on ‘AI’ to enforce a particular value set It’s the same with ChatGPT where, playing around with it some months back, I provided information + asked it questions (knowing the answer) and it denied the statement (the facts are in the public domain) as if a human instruction set / censor algorithm (its ‘Content Policy’) had overridden / prevented it from giving a correct response. I then gave it specific + much more detailed facts and it then retracted its initial denial and provided the answer it should have given in the first place… That’s a real worry, when increasingly people are going to be relying on AI for unbiased and accurate information in order to assist decision-making. Not so much with images, though, where at worst the results may just be disappointing / unusable