Latest Posts by first-class-feral - Page 6
i made a brad dourif drake meme generator
has this been done
The soul of Luther Boggs drowns in hell's sea of fire...
Couldn't resist sketching this awful X-Files prettyboy as Saint Sebastian! The pose reference is from Yukio Mishima posing for Kishin Shinoyama, plus bits from this photoset.
(you may also enjoy my Boggs music video)
This interviewer was giving him NOTHING and he was so passive-aggressively cute about it
Brad Dourif - Progeny DVD Interview
AAAAA I just sketched her as Gideon last night! I'm still learning, so it's a bit wonky but I guess this is my sign to release it.
lowkey keeping an eye on the camilla hect tag in case anyone gets inspired to draw her using Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat as a reference
I am just saying
Brad Dourif in X-Files + tumblr texts posts
A lot of these images are screenshots of gifs by I believe @godzillawillsaveus so cred to them for that one
Listen... I just like this blorbo a lot.
What in the world is this from! I’ve never seen it, but LOOK at that haircut and dreamy lil smile.
Purrints&Purrtreon&Book😽
VALIDATION!! THis is what I’m TALKIN about, Jack and Raimi totally had Vibes. I gave them a moment in my Death Machine music video and knowing that he CHOSE to push Brad against the wall with that finger on his mouth is giving me the absolute vapors.
Jack Dante & The Humanist Alliance on their way to Vault 10
Death Machine
Learning your Types is a crucial element of psychic defense
Writing smut fics is a release valve for toxic attraction
All the time I spend looking at beautiful villains is Healthy and Necessary 👍
⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛
Modern AU Cesare.
⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜
he's a monstrous heartless villain to YOU. he's a pinup girl to me
Absolutely lose it every time I see these 😩
Bonus chest tattoo gif:
Brad Dourif Behind the Scenes on The X-Files
Beyond The Sea (S1 EP13)
happy Tuvok Tuesday, lads
...Hold up a god damn minute here.
THIS is the Brad Dourif Alien movie I haven't seen yet? The one everyone says is terrible?
Ya'll...
Genuinely can't stand criticisms of the second best Alien movie when it gave us glorious scenes like this
You have no right to criticize the first sapphic film I saw as a child.
hashtag brad dourif (re: last post)
Thoughts
death machine x wrecking ball (SPOILERS)
Have to put this down now or I'll never stop futzing with it... I do enjoy watching his slimy little ass get beat over and over though
people keep trying to make "ladies and gentlemen" more inclusive.
I think we should go the other way around.
make more and more weird false dichotomies in greetings. "gamers and pianists". "oil painters and swordsmen". "vexillologists and entomologists". "chess masters and diamond artificers". "accountants and gendered individuals".
we need to be dropping shit into formal meetings to make people say "wait what? which one am I?"
dear tumblr, please stop trying to figure out which broadly popular thing to saturate my dash with. i am on this account for one thing and one thing only: fiending over big tragic eyed boys
...ok and big tragic eyed girls. two things
brad dourif: shit's getting real when they pop the headlights
While fawning over BD’s supernaturally gorgeous eyes, I had to pick just a few gifs to illustrate That Thing where directors highlight him from an off-angle so they seem to glow internally. You know something's about to go down when they bust out this trick.
Problem: The X-Files alone is chock-full of this effect, and there are a gajillion more from other media. So: a dedicated post!
Starting with the ole one-eye highlight — they usually pick the right one, which is a little lifted and turned (I'm calling it his cat-eye):
Cue the lightning!!!
Sometimes it makes an iridescent crescent shape. I know it's meant to be scary, but he's such a terribly pretty boy:
Getting creative with some uplighting and a rare left eye (it's nice to see her getting some attention)...
...And some more extreme angles. How does this even work?!
It's just... captivating. I'm gonna go lie down now. (Think I actually stole all the gifs from @exdeputysonso this time. I'm basically a recycler for all their hard work and tbqh I'm fine with that)
TLT CREATORS FOR PALESTINE MONTHLY UPDATE
A total of $2127 USD has been raised for the PCRF, and 56 commissions have been requested. We also have several new additions to the team!
Keep the commissions coming! Please share/rb if you can!
Check out our comprehensive info doc here for step by step instructions on how to get a commission, faqs, and more.
You can find all of our links and information at our carrd here. Please send any enquiries you have to our email tltforpalestine@gmail.com.
SoHo News (Vol. 9, No. 8 November 25 - December 1, 1981).
Thank you so much again @exdeputysonso for finding this article 😊
brad dourif scrungly feature analysis: eyes
from the “Boys” dourif-hottie supercut music video:
I’d love to see an artist break this down!
For now, let me write you a novel about Brad's spectacular eyes...
The Strangeness
(Skip if you want to preserve the mystery.) BD's right eye is placed a little higher, and turned up as if tugged from the outer corner. I think it's part of that subtle something that immediately sets him apart. This unique, catlike, romantic asymmetry snatches your attention.
.
The glow
His striking, chameleonic blues capture light — even in B&W — which directors loooooove to exploit by lighting him obliquely:
It's a great way to crank up the eerie vibe of any scene, and I respect Star Trek for trashing that option outright with all-black contacts. (Of course, he still served an incredibly compelling outsider.)
(Edit: I put up a post just about this effect because they seriously do it all the damn time) (...because it's awesome)
Set in shadows
He has hooded eyes, deep-set and accentuated by heavy eye bags. The shadows and textures draw you in toward those luminescent irises, like picture frames that amplify each motion of his eyes.
.
Contrast
Sometimes he pops them wide open, creating these huge, expressive magnets...
...Or squints lopsidedly...
...Or interrogates, challenges, threatens — alert but defensive, like a prey animal on the edge of lashing out.
He’s said he chooses roles that "turn him on" (pretty clearly in an artistic sense); many of these blend menace and vulnerability, and our boy dumps emotion into every. single. line. This can manifest as an intense, wary, combative look, with eyes wide under neutral or furrowed brows:
.
Cry, baby
...And that's all before we mention the tears. He cries, of course, at will and liberally, and his eyes go red-rimmed and wet, highlighting them even more as he pins someone's soul to the wall with his gaze.
When he hovers right on the edge, they seem to shine in the dark.
.
Bared
At times, his fair eyelashes almost vanish, compounding his unusual look with a birdlike or reptilian tinge.
Obviously, the shaved brows in LOTR add to this effect.
A couple more things you'll notice here: he'll hold his eyes wide open for much longer than normal, drawing out these moments and making him seem even more alien.
And when he gets up-close in someone's face (which is often), he's constantly switching his gaze between their eyes — totally fixated, as if scanning for emotional feedback. In my opinion, it adds to that vulnerability: to the object of his attention, he must seem like a predator freezing them in place... but it's also desperate, like a prey animal trying to decipher the other person's intent, all senses tuned to pick up their slightest signal. (Gríma Wormtongue and Jack Dante especially have this pathetic air about them: grasping at sources of warmth while lashing out at the harsh, unintelligible world around them, allying themselves with uncontrollable destructive forces in an attempt to establish a place for themselves........)
.
TL;DR
The eyes — and how he uses them — are the standout scrungly feature, the main reason we can’t look away from this unforgettable weirdo.
The cat-eye asymmetry pulls focus;
His ice-blue irises are light traps, framed in textured shadow;
His full-bore emotional commitment ramps up the anguish and torment to an aching crescendo that's impossible to ignore.
Eventually I'll follow up on other contributing factors, but for now, I'll leave you with a couple of article snippets about The Eyes:
Imagi-Movies: Vol 1 No 2 — Winter 1993/94. Pages 11-13: "Traumatic - Brad Dourif". Link
SoHo News: November-December 1981. "Tension and mercy - Brad Dourif glowers for our sins" (an article all about his eyes! But they don't mention the asymmetry.)
[Gifs were mostly stolen from the GOAT, @exdeputysonso — with some of my own, mostly the square ones. Shout-out to @dragonsbloodsnowcone for inspiring this word vomit.]
Thanks for reading!
I love these polls. But this feels like a weird and uncomfortable time to continue them. While we are in the process of deciding whether or not to give fascism unlimited power in the greatest military power currently on the planet, these posts feel uncomfortably out of touch with the existential threat facing all of humanity. I cannot enjoy voting in silly polls when I know that all of humankind faces the threat of extermination.
When we can return to a less horrifying reality, I would enjoy revisiting these polls. At the moment, to continue them feels like a cruel celebration of privilege from those who are insulated from the most extreme consequences of current proposed policies. It is hard to think of what level of inhumanity is necessary to continue laughing in the face of so much world-wide horror.
Of course you don't have to stay, and I won't begrudge you at all for going. But there's one point of yours here I feel is worth discussing, and it's your last one: laughing in the face of world-wide horror.
There is a difference between laughing at horrifying things and taking a break to laugh. In a world that is horrifying—and, to be honest, has been horrifying since this blog began, and long before then, and will be after it's done—you need to laugh to keep your endurance. I mean that every step of the way. You will not be able to keep fighting for the people who need your help, including yourself, if you don't give yourself a break and let yourself have joy and silliness in little dollops on the regular.
In my real life, when I'm not posting hot silly people on the hot silly people blog, I try to find ways to help change the world for the better. I've been trying for a while. And one of the key things I've learned in that while is that having a little fun and silliness does not dilute the work of making the world better—it gives you the fuel to keep doing it. Your human brain and body need a muchness. They need joy and sorrow and work and rest and laughter to keep going—and before you say, that's a privilege! yes, in today's broken world it often is. It should not be one. It is a right. You have the right to find spots of joy, silliness, time off from the world.
Stuff sucks right now, but taking ten minutes off to let yourself rest is not going to contribute to the end of the world. We need to rest and laugh if we want to keep going. I've always said this is a silly blog, and I maintain that yes! it is silly, it is pointless, this is nothing big at all. Nothing here has any consequence. And that can be a small good thing at the end of the day. It doesn't mean the big stuff doesn't matter if we have the small stuff too. We can have both. We need both.
I hope you find peace, wherever you are.
Lister is such high-caliber space trash. 💞
i could talk about how DEPRESSING the concept of red dwarf is for hours and hours but i won’t because i am trying to stop being such a yapper xx so have this edit instead❤️
There’s a high-quality face smoosh in Death Machine too, AND a face-grabby kiss in Spontaneous Combustion!
I get it… I really do
Pictures of people smooshing Brad’s face. He’s got a smooshable face.
brad dourif Best Men curls poll
(follow-up to the previous Best Men curls gifpost)
bonus gifs!
