Well I mean then we'd have to admit superheroes are also fake
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I did like the thing on WandaVision where Vision's Halloween costume is a luchador, because actual superheroes do not exist in Wanda's sitcom universe (for sensible reasons) But it's weird to imagine a world where luchadores and comic book superheroes have no connection
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Same with the next episode creating a traveling circus to provide an environment for Vision's superhero form to blend in with Wrestlers, circus performers and comic book superheroes all look alike because in the early 20th century they were all imitating each other
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Like, Superman looks like that because the original idea is he's just this incongruous figure of someone dressed up as a circus strongman or a wrestler going around beating people up in real life
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And that, back then, made a lot more sense because the whole idea of a wrestler's or circus performer's costume is it was this gimmicky exaggeration of an old-school heroic swashbuckling narrative
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The tights and the cape and the boots are a glammed-up version of how they imagined a cool guy dressed back the olden days (like in the 18th century) Then evolving into its own thing in the wrestling ring or the circus tent, which then comic books kind of froze in time
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One of my favorite details is the why of trunks-over-tights: the fabric used for tights at the time was only *so* stretchy and thus prone to tearing under strain, and so performers wore trunks to prevent the obvious worst case scenario.
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Well also like If you don't wear trunks over the tights you can see stuff outlined more clearly than you might want to see it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chibikonatsu and
(Cf. the most memorable moment of the final fight scene in Holy Musical B@man)
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Hence when tights were normal everyday wear back in Shakespeare's time, the invention of the codpiece Which, much like its feminine counterpart the corset or brassiere, was intended for the purpose of modesty and then adapted for the purpose of immodesty
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There was this viral Tumblr post I can't be arsed to find where they talk about how for shooting sex scenes in movies actors wear a "penis sock" so they can look nude but make sure there's no actual genital exposure or contact and it's a whole contractual thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chibikonatsu and
And they started spitballing "Hey what if it was socially expected that dudes had to wear a sock ALL THE TIME in public, like a bra And if you didn't you'd be shamed the way women without a bra are, for 'swinging free' and whatnot"
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"And they had, like, utilitarian sports socks for working out and sexy lacy socks as intimate lingerie Demi-socks that let the top of the shaft peek out alluringly Underwire push-up socks that make your bulge huge to fill out a fashionable pair of low-cut shorts"
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