kontextmaschine:

Also, even the idea of streamers as findommes or courtesans isn’t honestly all that novel in American culture

If you go back to the original noir period, you know how you have this figure of the nightclub torch singer, who cultivates a sultry look and demeanor, who put on performances of seductive singing and dancing with a stage patter to cultivate a sense of intimacy, for an audience of lonely men who might try to capture her attentions off the stage by doing things for her or buying her expensive gifts?

…well?

Then again, the fact that she was falling into this role naive while he had enough sense of American cultural history to know what this meant was already a plot point in MPDG ur-text Annie Hall in 1970-fucking-7

nostalgebraist:

In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15. At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16–36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair (or “Blue Fairy”, as the Disney version names her) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part.

Pinocchio died for our sins, and was then resurrected through divine (i.e. editorial) intervention

Turquoise hair… introduced for the purpose of enabling the protagonist’s character development… by rescuing him from his faults…

The Blue Fairy: manic dream girl pixie?