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Costume appreciation series: Sinners (2025) dir Ryan Coogler

Costume Design by Ruth E. Carter

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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"the 5th celebrity you have saved on your phone -" you and i live in vastly different worlds

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im in love with this gif. everyone here looks like they belong in a gay bar

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91 degrees and not even 9:30 is crazy work

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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

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been listening to the operation mincemeat soundtrack endlessly since seeing it again god it's so good 😩

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it's so hot i got home and immediately changed into shorts and decided i couldn't be bothered to put on a shirt given my roommate wasn't in the apt. i was like if i hear them come back (we live on the second floor so two doors and the first floor front door is loud) i'll go put a shirt on except with the ac on blast (i didn't leave it on during the day and when i got back it was 84 degrees) i guess i didn't hear them come in until they were literally opening the second floor door??? anyways. good times.

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i am so fucking tired lol

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Nana

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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

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they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmao 

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Kowloon Generic Romance cast headshots

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ngl I was hesitant about checking out Kowloon Generic Romance because of the utter fetish some folks can have for the aesthetics of Kowloon Walled City (like, reducing it to just a cool set piece), so I'm pleasantly surprised that the obsession with a certain 'feel' of old Hong Kong is actually thematically relevant to the plot—it's about nostalgia and regret and romanticizing the past so much that you're trapped by it. It's about existential issues, of finding your identity when you don't have a past. It's about the dagerous gravity of a place and time that only exists in your memories, and how you can't help but long for it even if you've actually never been there. It's about being haunted, and wanting to sink into that dream forever because it's too painful otherwise.

It's a fake/fictional/idealized Kowloon Walled City, but imo the fakeness works to enhance the themes (the feng shui thing is still stupid tho. I hope it's a fakeout)

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