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Rajamouli: Say less

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“As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir (Affiliate link)

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RAM & BHEEM RRR (2022)

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RAM & BHEEM RRR (2022) → "The reality about the chord of love that binds you and me, dear, is known to my heart alone; and my heart ever abides with you."

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jasmine and calendula

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ram spent his entire life obsessed with pseudo-vengeance masked as the ambition to empower his people to revolt.

bheem shows him there is more to resistance than violence.

to solidify this new understanding he gives bheem the bullet. the bullet he wanted so badly to return to the man who took his father. who degraded his people. It's a callback to that repetitive motif of the value of a weapon vs. the value of a man. In more ways than one.

ram's dharma was never to kill scott. that was a responsibility a child took upon in the glorification of his father. a samskara. his true path was to find a way to rid his people of their oppressors. something too complex to be driven by one hero (rajamouli using two heroes in a masala film feels a little poignant.)

that kind of liberation has to come from a people. it requires him to rejoin those people as one of them, rather than their leader. ram pushes this boundary so far he ends up outside of them, an observer who feeds into the machine that oppresses them.

bheem shows him who his people are, who ram is. giving bheem that bullet is a reciprocation of the numerous gifts bheem gave him. renewed identity, a more straightforward path to his dharma, a sense of contentment realized by his understanding of the gita, and a real connection to his atman.

but it's more than a gift. it symbolizes ram's new understanding of himself and his path. it takes sacrifice to fight, but that sacrifice doesn't have to look like his father's. it can be deeper, and in a way, nobler, to let go of himself.

there are clear references to the ramayana all throughout rrr but if it's a retelling, it's a deconstructive one. ram is not the prince of ayodhya sent to kill a demon king. he's arjuna, letting go of his identity and the false narrative of control. bheem acts as his charioteer.

rrr talks about the value of a man over a hero. it's so incredibly subtle i think most fans miss it. it's also deeply layered under the obvious tropes of most masala hero movies. the juxtaposition is as sharp as a blade but blends into the narrative seamlessly.

this blazing hero is a bullet. propelled by a fire the refuses to be controlled. but the reality is, bullets don't facilitate freedom. at least not on their own. in the end, a man is the only one who can break himself of his chains.

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I think RRR might be one of my favorite movies

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Fun ADHD hack is that you're allowed to just go to the library and reserve a study room for a couple of hours and make all your phone calls or whatever adult shit you need to do but can't because your house is for House Stuff and for some reason your brain has designated "phone calls for doctors and other such things" as School Adjacent and therefore refuses to do it in an insufficently academic environment. Like it's free. You can just do that.

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BLIND DATE WITH A QUEER BOOK!

Coming in just in time for Pride, I'm finally able to start selling blind dates with queer books on Etsy! Comes with your choice of four different levels of swag & goodies (and I've also got an economy listing for people who are Broke Bitches like me).

I ONLY sell books I've read myself, AND which I like enough that I recommend them to my friends.

I am also disabled and queer and unable to work a regular job, so even if you aren't going to get one yourself, please reblog to help me out!

Find this book here, the economy option here, and ALL the queer books I'm selling (which I'll be adding to a LOT prior to Pride) here.

If you use code FROMTUMBLRWITHLOVE (listen I think I'm hilarious) you'll also get 10% off.

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RAMBHEEM BHEEMRAM “Apna Bana Le” EDIT

thanks lovely @maooyinysparkle for ur kind aid on this hehehe 💗🫶🥰😘🥹

taglist

@chaidrivenwhore @kaagazkefool @mesimpleone @ladydarkey @astrafangs @fangirlshrewt97 @jjwolfesworld @rambheemlove @rambheem-is-real @jrntrtitties @ronaldofandom @ssabriel @pollydu @taylorklaine @kokoreram @umbrulla @budugu @gifseafins @kookiries @yonderghostshistories @yehsahihai @stars-in-the-distance @bibi-birdy @burningsheepcrown @olivervander-blog @panko-tattoo @druidfox @amalthea9 @fathomlessbabbling

pls lmk if u’d like to be added or removed from the taglist since i added more friends hehe

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rrr edit - tum jo aaye

rambheem bheemram

taglist

@chaidrivenwhore @kaagazkefool @mesimpleone @ladydarkey @astrafangs @fangirlshrewt97 @jjwolfesworld @rambheemlove @rambheem-is-real @jrntrtitties @ronaldofandom @ssabriel @pollydu @taylorklaine @kokoreram @umbrulla @budugu @gifseafins @kookiries @yonderghostshistories @yehsahihai @stars-in-the-distance @bibi-birdy @burningsheepcrown @olivervander-blog

lmk if u want to be removed or added to the list, pls 💗

something fluffier after the angst 😭🥺🥰💗🫶

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Ram Charan & Jr NTR

ballpoint pen + a bit of Procreate for some corrections

for @campterodactyl 🫶🏻 :)

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This is for the ao3 users who enjoy color or prefer non-white backgrounds

There is a TikTok user who made a tutorial of how to make your ao3 colorful, I’ll link her profile down below cuz she has MANY diff skin tutorials

Here is her tutorial, here is her link to her page.

These are two that caught my attention, but that’s cuz I need darker colors, she has a lot of pretty and colorful themes for y’all to check out!

Enjoy!

And thank you @cloudysao3 (her TikTok and Instagram handle)

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I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

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Never gonna be normal about I-Spy books <3