"Dev thrill" without a PWD intervention....

[blueskye101]

Dredging up an old thread here but just watched a movie I totally had forgotten about. Super devy to me for some strange reason. "Still Breathing" Brendon Frazier in it. Oldy but goody. Not PWD but still sorta "damaged", I guess

[Jcat1024]

Thank you for resurfacing this thread! Somehow I never saw this in my lurking days.

Well I guess now I understand why I was obsessed with vampires in middle school/high school!

[parashoot]

I always had a thing for supernatural beings too...vamps and werewolves.... It's sort of like a disability I think.
I think my feelings toward the book "The Giver" we're also pretty devvy... And actually the other books in the series to deal with disabilities.
I also really like books and movies that deal with lesbian romances, even though I don't swing that way.
Something about a romance between two people that the general masses of society don't see as being proper or appropriate always gets me.

[friday]

Oct 4, 2016 10:59:52 GMT -5 parashoot said:

I also really like books and movies that deal with lesbian romances, even though I don't swing that way.
Something about a romance between two people that the general masses of society don't see as being proper or appropriate always gets me.

I agree! I feel the same way about Brokeback Mountain and Claudia and Louis in Interview with a Vampire. Two of my favourite tragic love stories. When it's seen as not proper it's heartbreaking it really gets me. 

[Ynis Ainu]

I also hadn't seen this thread before, very interesting!
I'm not much of a TV/series watcher and don't know most of the series mentinoed here, and I can't remember any specific scenes or characters which triggered dev feelings. But I know this well, too, and for me it mostly happens when a male character walks, lies, sits or moves in a special way which could be caused by walking with a prosthesis or missing a limb, or when they're using a pimp cane sometmies, too, when my mind changes that to a necessary walking aid. Sometimes I can't unsee this and in my mind the character continues to be a PWD for me from then on.
Somebody earler asked if an actor we don't like can spoil or kill dev feelings. I don't remember if this ever happened to me with an actor, but it does happen when a character is having or acquirng a disability in the story, but is a total jerk, nothing even remotely devvy is happening to me.

[ayla]

Bumping up this ooooold thread because I found it fascinating and I wonder what media may have surfaced since 2016 to set off those dev thrills!

I for one TOTALLY relate to the centaurs — I was obsessed with them after I saw Fantasia and used to draw them all the time. I had completely forgotten about that, and never made the PWD connection before reading this thread. Also someone mentioned Val Kilmer in The Saint (yes!) — definitely in Tombstone as well. He was already pretty devvy without playing an actual PWD, enough to be my only AB celebrity crush at the time, and then he went and played a blind man in At First Sight. (As an aside, that movie gave me “the thrill” even though it was terrible and blindness is not even my typical thing)

[devogirl]

Jun 15, 2021 18:18:42 GMT -5 ayla said:

Bumping up this ooooold thread because I found it fascinating and I wonder what media may have surfaced since 2016 to set off those dev thrills!

I for one TOTALLY relate to the centaurs — I was obsessed with them after I saw Fantasia and used to draw them all the time. I had completely forgotten about that, and never made the PWD connection before reading this thread. Also someone mentioned Val Kilmer in The Saint (yes!) — definitely in Tombstone as well. He was already pretty devvy without playing an actual PWD, enough to be my only AB celebrity crush at the time, and then he went and played a blind man in At First Sight. (As an aside, that movie gave me “the thrill” even though it was terrible and blindness is not even my typical thing)

Thank you for bumping this up! I can't believe I never responded here...

Those centaurs in Fantasia made a big impression on me too! I was obsessed with them as a kid, although it never felt devvy for me. One of my favorites is a comic book from the 1980s called Stinz by Donna Barr. You can read the whole thing online at Indie Planet. Not devvy but so good! There is also a really good series on Tapas called Hot Blood: Steel, and the sequel, Zarco by Toril. It's hard to find a comics artist who can really draw centaurs well but these two are the best.

I also somehow never thought of mermaids as devvy although I always liked them a lot. But in the webcomic Out of the Blue, about a blind guy and a merman, there's a scene in the latest chapter where Mack gets out of the water, and the way he's drawn pulling himself up, omg, I nearly died of dev overload. 

That scene in The Princess Bride where Westley is lying on the bed, wow, a huge dev moment for teenage me. And the scene in the first Iron Man movie that someone already mentioned, where Pepper reaches into Tony's chest, also surprisingly devvy, even though Iron Man is not one of my favorite characters. I read a ton of Marvel comics as a teen, and one of my favorite characters was Nightcrawler from the X-Men. I always got major devvy vibes from him even though he doesn't have a disability. The film versions of the character have always been disappointing though. He's such a weird character, even in the comics he's almost always on the sidelines, so we never see him that much.

I also watched that Val Kilmer film At First Sight dozens of times when it first came out. I always remember actors who play a blind character, and if I find the movie devvy, that interest will somehow carry over and I somehow feel an extra attraction to the actor for that reason. For example, Chris Pine, Hugo Weaving, John Malkovich. I feel kind of embarrassed even admitting that, haha. It's hardly even conscious, just something my dev brain does.

[indigo44]

Non-humans/monsters have always been devvy to me. Centaurs, mermaids, vampires, werewolves; I also have recently developed an on obsession with Orcs which took me by surprise and it's definatly rooted in devness.

[em]

Really interesting thread! I recently saw an episode of Chicago Med where one of the doctors (dr Marcel) who is usually hiding behind this sarcastic, party hard type dude facade, but has a lot of baggage in life, opened up to a patient and to his date about his Iranian roots (the actor is Iranian born) - not immediately, the way that he grew to make that decision was clearly shown - and it was this vulnerability that really got me, I was so excited my boyfriend was laughing at me when I was telling him about it. In general, anyone who is emotionally (or physically, as connected to the devness) vulnerable, also in real life, does it for me, and I think I'm not the only one.