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BLAIR WALDORF in “HI, SOCIETY”

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female awesome meme: [2/5] absolute badasses → Nina Zenik

"She was the Queen of Mourning, and in its depths, she would never drown."

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the sun you swelled under, the tree you grew from

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pairings: zoya nazyalensky x alina starkov

characters: zoya nazyalensky, alina starkov, nikolai lantsov (mentioned), genya safin

zoya hones queendoms and draconic destinies. alina hones secrets shaped like citrus-coloured halves of sun. it is the only way. it has to be.

very loosely inspired by the priory of the orange tree. not mal or nikolai bashing. please check the replies for ao3 link!

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favorite i medici costumes | lucrezia donati’s red dress

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favorite i medici costumes | underrated ladies’ outfits (requested by anon)

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MEDICI - 1.06 // 2.05 mother and daughter in pastel blue and yellow outfits

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female awesome meme: [3/5] warrior characters → Zoya Nazyalensky

"Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the garden. Zoya bleeding in the snow. You are strong enough to survive the fall."

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“Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.” ― Nikita Gill

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desi light academia moodboard set in shimla, india

"the rain stopped, the sun came out, and so did a swarm of yellow butterflies in compensation for the morning's absence of simple pleasures." - ruskin bond, landour days

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To all the Tumblr users who tend to use tags very liberally:

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MEDICI: 3.08 The Fate of the City

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being a brown girl and growing up w white friends was so painful, when i have a daughter im going to do everything i can to make sure she grows up with other brown girls 

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“I’m not heartless, I’ve just learned how to use my heart less.”

for @yenvengerberg

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today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there were are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

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It was the vow of the drüskelle to Fjerda. And now it was Matthias’ promise to her.

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rec me anything enemies to lovers: books, fanfics, tv, movies please! (extra points if it's got a POC lead)

i'm in that kind of mood right now and i would kill for some new fandoms!

current fandoms: killing eve, asoiaf, got, the last kingdom, grishaverse (books only), medici, anything bollywood related (esp. jodhaa akbar-esque things)

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hey you probably have already talked about it, but I couldn't find it. do you have any recs for indian cinema by any chance? as a good latina i grew up on usa movies lol and I am trying to yk watch something other than this, and we seem to have a somewhat similar teste. thank you in advance!

Hello! All my cinema posts are under the #movies and #movie recs tags. Here are some movie lists I've made or reblogged formerly: list 1/list 2/list 3. Most of these are what you'd consider movies with a "dark academia" aesthetic, at least to differing degrees. I put together a small list here with very short descriptions, please keep in mind that I usually stick to Hindi and Bengali films and this doesn't reflect all of Indian cinema:

comfort films:

wake up sid: it's a story about friendship and family and mangoes and songs and beautiful sweltering mumbai in the rain. this film feels like a personal journal and imo it's the closest bollywood cinema will ever get to perfection. recommended if you like slow paced coming of age stories like lady bird.

aaja nachle: decades after she eloped, a middle aged choreographer returns from USA to her rustic north indian hometown, in an effort to stop the local authorities from demolishing her childhood dance theatre, and ends up having to stage a play with a bunch of village outcasts. has some of the sweetest and sincerest performances i've ever seen + WHOPPING OST.

taare zameen par: bitches be like comfort film then boom comfort be like *struggles with dyslexia* *struggles with parental rejection* *struggles with stringent indian academics* *struggles with art block due to mental trauma* (jk pls watch this film it's a gem)

bhooter bhabishyat: an aspiring indie film maker discovers an old mansion in kolkata and learns the truth about the vast array of ghosts who haunted the premises through diff. points in history. it's fcking funny but also VERY bengali so I understand if others don't like it as much.

ajab prem ki ghazab kahani: what you need to know about this film is that jesus christ rolls up in a pickup truck to try to get the two leads together at some point. ranbir kapoor is so feral and absolutely unhinged, I love him. *there is one small problematic and rather offensive scene, you can dm me and I'll let you know*

mere brother ki dulhan: extremely tired guy's extremely dramatic older brother has a bad breakup and decides to get married, the only condition being the former has to choose the bride for him. guy unwittingly ends up choosing a girl he had a weird past with. this movie is a personal fave, I was going through a rough time and it helped me so so much, it's just wholesome and funny and actually really good in some aspects of storytelling and characterisation.

english vinglish: this movie makes me cry now but anyway it's a gift to mankind. it's about the inherent elitism of knowing english and how non english speakers are treated like shit and the importance of respect and how respect and love are not always synonymous. the mc is one of my all time fave female characters.

any Feluda film: *aggressively hums theme music*

jodha akbar: swordfighting enemies to lovers pining like dumbasses in Mughal India for 2+ hours straight.

not very comforting but still faves

fitoor: search fitoor on my blog to see me have a breakdown in the tags, it's a 2 hour celebration of pure aesthetics and eroticism what else can I say

raanjhanaa: I call it a litmus test for incels and girlbosses because truly this movie has some COMPLEX character studies. the ost keeps me alive.

3 idiots: has one bad scene which you can skip but the rest of the movie towers in quality and has the sharpest social/educational commentary. does have a running arc of academic pressure and mental health, better check up triggers.

jaatishwar: reincarnated soulmates + themes of storytelling through music and interracial harmony + poetry battles in colonial bengal + my hysterical crying at 10 pm when I watched it the first time.

kahaani: heavily pregnant woman travels to kolkata (from abroad) just before durga puja in an attempt to piece together the truth about her missing husband. powerful performances + the usage of the city as an all pervasive entity gave me goosebumps. it's a thriller about deceit and bad cops and lying cities and grisly deaths but it ends with an ocean of female rage and ultimately, heartbreakingly with hope.

om shanti om: it's all fun and vintage 60s bollywood and campy humour and fun costumes and oh god oh fuck what just happened oh god take it back

omg lesbians

fire: one of the best sapphic films I've ever seen, it was a very controversial work at the time of release (fck right wings) but god it's so well made and nandita and shabana are so blessed for doing this

margarita with a straw: respectful and nuanced portrayal of disabled wlw, explores how people with disabilities are often infantilised or desexualised.

ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga: sonam kapoor ahuja answer my calls pls (side note: people had such unrealistic and weirdly scathing criticism about this film.... I'm sorry where's that same energy for rohit shetty movies or 50 something year old uncles romancing girls the age of their daughters in most bw films?) anyway cheesy happy wlw endgame film!

hopefully you'll get something to your liking from here ❤️