four looks. four major houses. one weekend. (L-R:) ZENDAYA in Versace, Valentino, Prada and Armani thank you for keeping us fed, queen!
the craziest detail in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se is Amar continuing to refer to Moina as Meghna even after she tells him the story of her people's deep and longstanding pain as well as her own brutal rape as a 12 year old girl
because it is more convenient to believe the lie of a misguided girl who needs to choose the right man and take her away from bad choices...than to confront the very truth of the wrongs done to her and acknowledge his complicity in the Indian government's actions (his family members belonging to the army/his government job pushing patriotic propaganda for Republic Day) and realise somewhere the revolutionaries he views as terrorists have a real point to make that he dismisses so easily
#i watched dil se for the first time and i'm sooo obsessed#the way Ratnam uses Bollywood's musical numbers to explicitly create themes of reality vs fantasy and truth vs lies and state vs people#my god!!!!!!#and it's applicable to so many imperialist nations and conflicts today#insane#anyway not me making a text post none of the westerners on tumblr will understand 💀#ish talks
now that the casino royale au is out of the way its back to my other projects. here's one of hannibal
"For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them; in all his time in Hampstead, he never tasted a dish that could be properly described, as 'seasoned', let alone 'spicy.'"
Babel, R.F. Kuang (2022)
trying so hard to face my problems head on and not be avoidant and not give into depression and not procrastinate
Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame
Hannibal (2013-2015) is a love story
Yes I’m being a hating bitter bitch but I hate that poem people share on here that’s like “I love the way that men love. Men love quietly, instead of being nice or doing anything for anyone else… my uncle ties his shoelaces 300 times every day because his brother died in a shoelace accident” shut the fuck up
the mere sight of a man's midriff is enough to drive one to madness