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DiscussionGym pet peeves
Today I could not finish my treadmill time bc the woman next to me wreaked of some fragrance that made my throat close up. She did this to me yesterday, too. I made a lot of faces but finally walked near the back of the treadmill so that it squeaked loudly and it drove her away, but I was still gagging on her lingering toxic cloud. Mind you, this is a gym with lots of fans and open doors. How much was she wearing? Between that, and the femme gay skinny dude in girly/hippie crop tops laying on the floor with his legs up the wall and spread far apart as his scrolls on his phone, I could hardly stick it out. I have to go at a different time and avoid these people, and the asshats sitting on equipment scrolling on their phones. argh. Curious what others gym pet peeves are. Oh, and women who leave there towels everywhere when there is a clearly demarcated basket.
There's one I would recommend: Ayaka is in Love with hiroko It's a really cute series :] give it a try!
As long as it’s not anime, I will look into it!
a live show! https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/4530/ayaka-is-in-love-with-hiroko-2024 ^ Here's a link Lmmk what you think ~
if u are interested u can try thai gl series. they are all very good
Thai gl? Do they have subtitles?
yes they have english sub title. https://youtu.be/UvIsfte-G-4?si=XhjvclENIBbun2PL this is one of my fav , u can check it out. the actresses are so pretty
Thank you! I’ll go ahead and check it out.
I don't think I've seen a single lesbian movie that I've liked lol. But I'm not really a movie person to begin with, the only ones I enjoy are stupid comedies or documentaries.
It's like movies aren't long enough to develop a good relationship, so unless there's a time-skip or it's about exes who meet again coincidentally, I don't believe in the bond they create 🙈
Haha, the quip about movies couldn’t be more true, there’s a lot I just can’t get into because I can already tell how the plot is gonna go and then I lose interest. If it’s something new premise wise or interesting that I haven’t seen before, then I’ll watch it.
I too like documentaries and silly comedies!
If it's a good story, and if the leads have good chemistry, I'll probably enjoy it. Did you see Carol? There were several men standing in the way of that relationship, but it was beautiful and believable nonetheless.
But I think what's going on here most of the time is that someone wants to/is commissioned to make a lesbian film but they don't actually have any good ideas, so they insert cheating as a plot point to generate cheap drama.
I did see Carol! And yes I did enjoy it, and you’re right that men were in the way there, but it has the excuse that it was set in the 50s. Sometimes it lends itself to a good movie, but if it’s the same premise over and over, it just gets old to me.
As you said, Velvet, movie directors run out of ideas, so they just fall back onto cheating. There’s probably loads of other creative stories to tell, heck, even my own dreams have more drama than half of the lesbian films out there.
Recently watched Love Lies Bleeding, and it was a good, if weird, film.
The lesbian characters work really well in the story, but the story is not a vehicle for a lesbians like Ammonite or that whole angsty lesbian period film genre. But the story would not have worked nearly as well with a het couple.
I say its weird because it takes kind of a strange Cronenberg-esque body horror twist at the end.
Yeah….i don’t do horror or extreme violence very well, so I’ll take your word for it! 😅
Was Ammonite any good? I haven’t watched Portrait of a Lady on Fire yet either. I guess I haven’t tried hard enough to find it on streaming platforms.
I find a lot of lesbian films on Prime and Tubi, but the Tubi ones usually are B movies with very poor writing. I honestly dislike how picky I am with my movies
EDIT: list of films I’ve found, but have not watched yet, to show what’s in this catalog:
-Girl Play (2004)- two women form feelings for each other after being cast as lovers in a local play
-The Affair (2019)- yet again a lesbian movie about two women with this time both of them married to men 🙄, a period piece set during the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia (foreign film)
-Walk with Me (2021)- about a divorced woman with a child falling in love with a woman
-Blush (2016)- an Israeli film about a teen girl escaping her volatile family after she meets a new girl at school
-Ambrosia (2012)- this movie’s premise falls back on the “predator lesbian” stereotype, so definitely not worth a watch
-Elena Undone (2010)- one of the two films I recently found. The wife of a preacher has an affair with the local lesbian
-But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)- we all know the premise of this one by now, rather on the campy side
-Love Spells and All That (2019)- two women reunite after 20 years at the place where they fell in love as teens
-The World to Come (2021)- the other movie I recently found. A married woman has a dying marriage, and falls in love with the woman who lives nearby their farm
-Bottoms (2024)- I heard there’s some politically correct TRA nonsense in this movie, so I steered clear of it. Essentially, two girls start a fight club at their school to date cheerleaders
Movies I have watched:
-Carol (classic at this point)
-Booksmart (liked this one)
-Cloudburst (plot writing was poor, didn’t like)
-All About E (I LOVED this one)
-Heartland (terrible)
-Signature Move (this one was just okay, but not bad)
-Almost Adults (so bad that I didn’t even finish the movie)
-Becks (terrible)
-Happy End (absolutely dreadful)
-Take me for a ride (also filled with angst, terrible writing)
Cloudburst was good, admittedly I watched it probably 10 years ago lol
I saw that movie, and I thought it’s writing left a lot to be desired
Ok 2 more came to me:
They both have an indy feel but worked out quite well for me. The Butch Jamie ones I found funny. I just googled and Michelle Ehlen has made another movie since called Maybe Someday and it's about a "NB"...😭. Why did you do that Michelle, why??
I might have watched them on Tubi can't remember. I gave up on Tubi after a while cuz I found it generally eh stuff too.
I should watch Desert Hearts as I've heard a lot about it. I read the book and found it just ok so wasn't raring to watch the movie.
I feel like I'm missing recalling a good movie I've seen...
I’ve heard about Desert Hearts too. I really should watch it! But the book is usually better than the movie, so if you didn’t like the book….still should give it a chance though.
Tubi is rough. I can’t block out all the horror stuff it keeps shoving at me, and some of their lesbian selection is lowkey gratuitous soft core porn. Like that’s not what I want to see, I want lesbian stories taken seriously.
Also it hurts more when a director sells herself out to the cult 😓. Like you made a movie that was about an actual lesbian and now you cast that out??
it did hurt a bit - Michelle played the butch in the Butch Jamie movies and was funny. V attractive to me. Then she played a NB in the latest. 😭. I wonder if (fear) it's tracking her identity narrative irl.. Even the older ones affected by this nonsense? 😕
Yeah it’s just unbearable to see older women fall into this nonsense. Like KD Lang went the she/they route too…perhaps it’s the fear of getting canceled or cast out, or perhaps it’s the fear of falling out of favor of the current “trends”. “You aren’t special anymore unless you are x, y, or z,” says the trans cult
Oh you gotta watch Go Fish! That will be period for a lot of younguns now 😂.
I like Bound. I know it's by TIMS but I still liked the movie. Jennifer Tilly in it is the only femme I have ever fancied!
I wish someone would make a Gentleman Jack film. Or some film with a lead of the same sort.
I think I tried to watch Go Fish and I was like….what is this? Haha, I might give it another try!
I quite liked Gentlemen Jack. If only they could make more shows like that in general. Or more movies with a character like that as you’ve said! Something without the gender bullshit
I don't know how easy it still is to find it, but I really liked "Aimee & Jaguar"--1999 German art house film about lesbians in Berlin during WWII.