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Rafayel 4⭐ cardz~
❤️🔥 Glistening Hearts 🦀 When Light Falls 🫦 Afternoon Arclight
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where does the path of thorns go? | what has been lost ~ mizuki akiyama
#transparent#png#project sekai#project sekai colorful stage#4 stars#2024#mizuki akiyama#nightcord at 25:00#where does the path of thorns go?#a decaying flower in the end gacha
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this moment with you! saki 4* ( @sekaitransparents )
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march '24 favs:
• those who leave and those who stay & the story of the lost child ; elena ferrante — the final two books in the neapolitan novels, a tetrology recording the lives of two girls in naples from childhood to old age. gutting, beautiful, layered, and complex. this series is a masterpiece, elena ferrante is everything to me <3 (please read it!!)
• sirens and muses by antonia angress — following an array of characters at an art university as they navigate life, work, academia, relationships, and being an artist in a capitalist world where everything is commodified. the depth of characters paired with the nuanced discussions of art, class, and politics left me so pleasantly surprised. (it's also extremely gay and perfect for all you tumblr users with mummy/daddy issues)
#bringing back the monthly wrap ups as i havent had time for substack posts so far this year#4 stars#4.5 stars#book review#book recs#recs#monthly wrap up#wrap up#literature aesthetics#books#bookish#bookblr#bookworm#bookstagram#dark academia#booklover#elena ferrante#the neapolitan novels#those who leave and those who stay#the story of the lost child#studyblr#study#study tips#cafe#aesthetic#study space#studying#sirens and muses#antonia angress#sapphic
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Dr. Zayne
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Part 1 | Part 2
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Character: An Shiraishi
Group: Vivid BAD SQUAD
Card Event: Whip the wimp girl!
4k high quality card
#japan#cute#vivid bad squad#vbs#prsk#pjsk cards#pjsekai#pjsk#project sekai#hatsune miku colorful stage#an shiraishi#4k#quality#4 stars#art
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The Outrun: Review
Saoirse Ronan proves a force of nature
There are plenty of films about the cyclical nature of addiction, where moments of hope are snatched away by painful relapses. But few films capture the essence of being an addict as convincingly as The Outrun, in which setting and sound design are about as key as the story. Portraying alcoholism as a suffocating cacophony of noise, it’s an immersive way into this powerful true-life story.
Drawn from the memoirs of Amy Liptrot, we follow Rona (Saoirse Ronan), an alcoholic biology grad who starts the film at rock bottom. Booted out of a pub for drunken disorder, she lands herself a black eye and a real wake-up call to get her life in order. This leads her to leave the noise of London to recover at her home in the Orkney Islands, where she joins up with her long-suffering mother (Saskia Reeves), and watches over her father (Stephen Dillane), who struggles with mental health issues of his own.
As you can expect, her road to recovery is anything but straightforward. But rather than opting for a linear structure, writer-director Nora Fingscheidt makes the shrewd decision to frame Rona’s bumpy journey by flashing between two different time periods. A breath-taking early sequence in a club shows how Rona falls in love with her then boyfriend (a charming Paapa Essiedu), before her illness slowly and heartbreakingly takes its toll. There’s an undercurrent of threat as the camera shakily homes in on her drunken outbursts and the hurtful comments she makes while under the influence.
These emotionally charged flashbacks show the painful impact that alcoholism has on her relationships in the past, while weighing her down with sorrow in the present. That these potentially jarring time jumps work so well is testament to incredible work from Ronan (also a producer on the film), whose courageous performance will have you invested throughout. Ronan has always been a capable actress, but here she plunges an unseen range of authentic emotional depths – this character really goes through a lot. One scene where she goes from drunkenly abusing her mother to tearfully apologising is genuinely devastating. She’s backed up by terrific performances from Reeves and Dillane as parents going through very different challenges.
In a script that mostly strays from cliché and sentimentality, Fingscheidt refreshingly lets the sense of place do the talking. There’s a real juxtaposition between the noise and chaos of the life she leaves behind, and the healing tranquillity of the natural landscape, where Rona has some agency over her life. It’s here that the film finds moments of relief – after all, what’s more healing than the sight of some seals bobbing their heads in the water?
Moving, inspiring and frequently upsetting, The Outrun beautifully explores the challenges of addiction and mental illness, with a career-best performance from Saoirse Ronan.
★★★★
#the outrun#saoirse ronan#4 stars#film review#stephen dillane#paapa essiedu#the orkney islands#saskia reeves
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Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley
4.5 out of 5 stars
Thank you Netgalley for providing digital advanced copy in exchange for honest review.
Neesha and Gabby are the new kids at school. Despite Neesha's attempts to start off as a "loner," Gabby manages to talk her into eating lunch together and being lab partners. They eventually start talking and realize that they read the same manga when they were younger. The two decide to find the volumes to read together, which prove to be a bit difficult as they're out of print and hard to find.
Their friendship blossoms as they spend the school year searching for the manga volume by volume. While they read the adventures of Navigator Nozomi, a romance starts to bloom between the two of them.
I enjoyed the scenes of the manga incorporated into the story. It helped to see how Gabby and Neesha could've interpreted parts of it differently while they were reading. Neesha is a young girl who feels like she has to fight all the wrongs in the world, and possibly the world itself if it tries to say that she can't do something due to her disability. Gabby, on the other hand, seems to be able to go with the flow and brush off a lot--until she doesn't.
The graphic novel itself deals with characters struggling with PTSD, the world not being accessible to all, and, overall, family and friends who accept you and are supportive. This was a great read.
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MANHUNTER (1986)
A deliciously dark and fascinating telling of the RED DRAGON story (which was originally a book). Hannibal is coy but fair, the cops are somewhat smart, and Graham is decently sane all things considered. Some overdramatic lines here and there (a little too much hand-on-window main character nonsense from our boy William Graham) but overall a good film! All of our characters were well cast and acted.
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(Trigger Warning Rape Discussion)
Anyone familiar with the Red Dragon book or movie knows the story that is about to be told but this was the first time it was told in film format (our killer's favorite). Will Graham is brought back on to investigate a new serial killer who is doing some awful things to what look like very nice people (at least on their home movies). This leads Will to talking to the man who drove him a bit mad before, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the man who is also a serial murderer but who is in jail thanks to Will. The not-so-good Doc helps Graham get in the headspace of the killer to find the bastard but it is a thin line so Will has to be very careful.
Hannibal gets fan mail from the murderer and the good guys gotta work fast to try and get evidence from the note. This was a very fun and intense scene! I wish they would have shown us if Hannibal found out that they found it or not, it was a touch anti-climactic but they really wanted to make this movie a clean two hours of runtime. The cops end up letting Hannibal send the killer a message through the personal ads of the Tattler (a gossip rag (and I do mean rag)) and then they run their own slam piece on the guy calling him a fairy (not just a Tooth Fairy), written by Freddie Lounds. So, our tall film enthusiast (not me, the killer) has Freddie fixed to a wheelchair and makes him roll hot off the presses… (He sets him on fire and rolls him down a parking garage entrance, was that clear?)
The killer is going on dates with a blind girl, and she has no idea he is watching movies of the family he intends to murder next while she's working up the courage to kiss him (wack). He takes her to touch a tiger the first night they meet which is such a power move, my goodness.
But he sees her get dropped off by another man (she cannot drive, she is blind, remember?) and imagines them kissing and snaps so kidnaps her. This breaks his routine though as this was the night of the full moon so he “should” have been over at the house of his next victims getting ready to strike. But here he was with his Almost Nearly Something and he was furious.
By this point Will has discovered that the person who killed the two families has also seen the video tapes he is watching and that leads him and some police officers to our big man's abode where fools rush in and get wrecked. It is down to Will and the baddie so you know it's gotta be Will who comes out on top! It ends with us getting to look at a freeze frame of Will Graham's cute butt as the credits scroll, a happy ending indeed!
#M#Manhunter#Manhunter 1986#4 stars#manhunter review#Hannibal Lecter#Hannibal#hannibal the cannibal#william petersen#tom noonan#brian cox#kim greist#dennis farina#stephen lang#joan allen#classic horror movie#horror mystery#horror crime#horror crime review#horror mystery review#horror mystery crime review#horror crime mystery review#jack crawford#william graham#will graham#dr lecter#hannibal lector#horror#horror movie review#horror movie
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Rafayel 4⭐️ cards best visual 😻 he'z so precious
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rekindle the flames | let’s master the english language! ~ an shiraishi (submitted by @/shinjirx)
#submission#transparent#png#project sekai#project sekai colorful stage#4 stars#2024#an shiraishi#akito shinonome#vivid bad squad#rekindle the flame#fuel my passion gacha
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Airi x My Melody
#airi momoi#sanrio#my melody#more more jump#project sekai#project sekai colorful stage#colorful stage#transparent#png#2023#sanrio collab#4 stars#mine
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mieko kawakami was one of my author focuses of the year, i've slowly been working my way through her oeuvre. i knew kawakami was something special when i read 'breasts and eggs' last summer, and 'all the lovers in the night' has only cemented that impression. although it wasn't as impactful as 'breasts and eggs', it was still a very solid read. i only have 'heaven' left to go, and i'll have read everything she's written :')
you can find my full (and much more coherent) review here, if interested. but to sum, i highly recommend checking her work out if you haven't already!!
#book log#4 stars#book review#mieko kawakami#all the lovers in the night#literature aesthetics#books#book#bookish#bookblr#bookworm#bookstagram#dark academia#booklover#books and libraries#study space#studyblr#study hard#study tips#study#college student#japanese lit#literary fiction#coffee#cafe#lifestyle#book photography#quotes#light academia#black and white
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Xavier
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