#chayya core

[bijoharvelle]

tagged by @adorkabledean to post my lock & home screen and the most recent picture i took. my lock & home screen are the same thing!

tagging: @prayedtoyou @nesnej @castyel @destielle & anyone who might want to do it/only if you want to!!

[estrel]

"#DO U KNOW HOW MUCH EVERY ONE OF THESE TOUCHES MEANT TO CAS" hey ely let's fuckinG NOT.

chayya. but.... every single one

whenever cas touched dean he did it with all of him and every time dean touched him, cas felt it in his core

i'm not dealing with this well .

[filmifiles]

Chappak: Film Review

By Neha Bora

‛Chappak' is a movie like no other being made in Hindi cinema. It is so effortlessly real that one sits down to the opening credits and doesn't realise when the film has ended. It is like a conversation and its existence is inarguable.

Meghna Gulzar's ‛Chappak' is inspired by the life and work of Laxmi and the ‛Stop Acid Attack' campaign. Gulzar opens her film in the middle of the 2012 outrage with protesters demanding death for the accused. Amidst the ‛currently' all too relatable shots of water canon and lathi charge comes a man struggling to get the camera's attention on the picture of an acid attack victim. Foreshadowing the sequence of events that are to unfold over the course of the film.

We, finally meet Malati, who is struggling to get a job like any other person her age could have been, but in all the rejection she faces is an allusion to the acid attack that is an inseparable part of her life. She then meets Anmol and starts working at ‛Chayya', an NGO that works to support victims of acid attacks. The film then breaks linearity to reconstruct the events of Malati's life immediately after the acid attack.

The first police statement, the slow melting of the skin, the surgeries, the realisation that she didn't look the same anymore to the world and hence, she couldn't be the same anymore, all slide onto the screen effortlessly. There isn't one moment in the film which seems out of place. The film flows in one rhythm and the emotions of triumph, helplessness or pain are all as essential to the script as they are to the life of a person. The story then jumps 7 years ahead to introduce us to real women with real stories of horrid acid attacks. We see moments of defeat, moments of malice, and moments of love, all of which have been portrayed with utmost delicacy by Deepika Padukone.

We see two very different ways of activism. The activism of Anmol and the activism of Malati, and the absence of drama and conflict between the two. The story takes us back to the exact moment of the attack, time and again, perhaps to also mimic the moments' existence in the lives of those who live through it.

The one songs that reiterates throughout the film is the title track ‛Chappak Se Pehchan Le Gaya' and it is beautiful. It brings to life everything the movie tries to underline and its tune sticks to us long after the horror it speaks of has settled within us.

The script writing is so excellent that its seams and folds are invisible. Atika Chauhan and Meghna Gulzar have done a masterful job of it. Meghna, whose trademark non-masculine storey telling that was so beautifully evident in ‛Raazi' can be seen in ‛Chappak' too. The audience watches the movie and knows the maker and creator is not a man. The audience also knows, the vision of the film comes from a person with immense finesse and control over her craft. The film makes no effort to glorify the struggle of the survivors, nor does it make Malati or Anmol heroic.

The acting in the film is highly appreciable. The audience realises that Deepika's performance in the film is a result of extreme hard work and talent. The little mouse-like laughter, the deliberately lowered decibels of her voice, the innocence of a 19 year old girl from a lower middle class family are all on point.

She is an undeniably talented actor. Several critics have in the past commended Deepika on her ability to act with her eyes, but it was Vikrant Massey, who was ‛oh-so-delicate' is his performance. To perform a controlling and sulking boss amidst the women whose fight the entire movie is an allude to, and still be genuinely endearing is a talent most don't possess. In a film that examines masculinity so closely, Vikrant Massey will be dearly loved. His is a talent, the commercial industry might have refused to acknowledge, but he has never succumbed to mediocre acting as a result of it.

But, the film does more!

The film refuses to build hype. The film refuses to make the sequence of events a detective case. The film refuses to get consumed in the debate of beauty that so heavily lies at the core of ‛acid attacks' for many. It tells the story of Malati's (actually every survivor and activist's) struggle and triumph and in the end gives you the statistics of the increasing acid attacks in the country, the recent of which took place not more than a month ago.

It tells you of the parallel world that lies beside the one you live in. Moreover, it makes us not only look at but also listen to women whose faces we would have avoiding looking at had they passed us by. Filmifiles.com is a website which offers news, views and even the inside stories from the glamour world be it Bollywood or Hollywood, for those who love the world of movies, stars and the art of cinema.

FF Rating:- 4/5

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[bijoharvelle]

i was tagged by @sugarplumdean (like a quarter-century ago oops). thanks so much bb!!!

name: chayya

gender: someone between cisfemale and nonbinary????? who knows.

star sign: taurus

hogwarts house: hufflepunk

favorite animal: giraffes (fun fact, i first saw a giraffe in person a few years ago and i sat down on the ground in the middle of the zoo and cried)

cats or dogs: both!!!!!

blanket(s) you sleep with: 3 in the winter, <1 in the summer

reasons for this url: jo harvelle is wife status life status and i’ll never forgive supernatural for what they did to her

dream job: truly a Dream would just be writing poems all day long

why i made this blog: well i made it back in 2013 because i wanted a fresh start from my other fandom blog, and then i came back to it last year because i started rewatching supernatural and needed a place to scream about it.

no pressure tagging: @heller-jensen, @antifacas, @good-things-do-happen-dean, @lizstiel, @dreamnovak, @rambleoncas, @tresorbarnes

[bijoharvelle]

i was tagged by @shelikestv​ to make myself (or just go crazy) using this picrew! i miss picrew tag games can we bring them back? thanks so much for tagging me! i think i came close to the real chayya...

tagging: @lizstiel​, @sunforgrace​, @heller-jensen​, @dreamnovak​ & anyone else who wants to do it! tag me so i can see your ~*~creations~*~

[bijoharvelle]

i was tagged by @folklorecastiel and @credentiast! thanks babes💙 i love talking abt myself

nicknames:  i don’t have any really specific ones. zodiac: taurus ☼ cancer ☽ pisces ↑ height: 5′5″  hogwarts house: hufflepuff last thing i googled: don delillo the silence pub (a friend and i are making fun of the book and wanted to know who pub’d it) song stuck in my head: texas man by the chicks number of followers: just over 1.5k ig amount of sleep: last night was abt 6 hours lucky number: 8 and 14 favorite song: it’s almost always ‘cut to the feeling’ by carly rae jepsen favorite instrument: not to be esoteric on main but the bassoon dream job: poet wearing: running tights, huge hoodie aesthetic: too many insta stories, crooked socks, the soft glow of a light in a paper lantern, empty glass jars collected and forgotten, multiple books with dog ears, too many pens, a journal full of lists, homemade chai favorite author: maggie nelson favorite animal noise: that little “pprrrbb?” that cats make when you wake them up. random: i’m very much not a Fall Bitch or a Halloween All Year bitch, but i LOVE horror movies, so i’m still winning.

tagging: @hallowena, @destielle, @castyel, @jackk-o-lanterns, @flowersforcas, @samhainsam as long as it’s fun for you!

[bijoharvelle]

🌼💕get to know your mutuals!! when you get this, it means someone wants to know more about you, so list five things about yourself you want your followers to know. they can be as simple as your age or as complex as your deepest fear, as long as it’s something you’re comfortable with sharing. when you’re done, send this to 10 people you want to get to know better!!💕🌼

@bihunnicutt & @mishha also sent me this a million years ago but i’m [dial-up noises]

WOW FIVE THINGS ABOUT ME

i’ve been in fandoms for about 18 years now, which means that my fandom identity is old enough to vote gross

i have mild dermatillomania as a part of my anxiety and it’s super fucking annoying. none of the “try THIS instead” things have worked for me

for a few years in my early teens, i was SUPER religious. it was definitely in reaction to an emotional trauma i went through so it’s a little cringe to look back on but also it was hella helpful at that time in my life so #shrug

my high school experience was fckn WEIRD. my best friends and i were in the top 5% of our class (2 of them were valedic- and salutatorian) and we would sometimes hold full conversations in Latin. we would also get So Fucking High and were almost suspended from walking at graduation for a..........prank that we pulled in the final days of senior year (the only reason we didn’t was because of aforementioned being in top 5%). we were a cautionary Lifetime movie.

i’m a taurus sun, cancer moon, pisces rising.

[bijoharvelle]

seems about right

[bijoharvelle]

tagged by my very first spn friend @adorkabledean <3 rules: answer the questions and tag at least 8 people

nickname: chayya/chay zodiac sign: taurus ☀ cancer ☾ pisces ⇧ hogwarts house: hufflepunk favorite color: green or purple favorite animal: GIRAFFE favorite season: summer, bitch somewhere you’d like to travel: malaysia, singapore, greece, australia random fact about yourself: i can’t roll my ‘r’s ._.

tagging: @kimikomyashiro, @prayedtoyou, @good-things-do-happen-dean, @flowersforcas, @starclaire, @castyel, @destielle

[bijoharvelle]

i look hot but it’s for a funeral so i can’t even brag abt it on normal social media

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@starlightcastiel tagged me (1000 years ago) in this fckn CUTE piccrew. i love it so much. LOOK AT LITTLE CHAYYA!!!!!

tagging: @prayedtoyou, @flowersforcas, @kimikomyashiro, @good-things-do-happen-dean, @starclaire & anyone else who wants to do it, say i tagged you!

[bijoharvelle]

i was tagged by the lovely @nesnej & @starlightcastiel to make my real and fantasy self from this picrew. i couldn’t decide between fawn!chayya and tiefling!chayya so i did both.

(side note: this picrew was AMAZING and i’m bookmarking it bc the creator said it’s a WIP and i wanna see what else they add)

tagging: @prayedtoyou, @joe-nicky, @casthegrumpy, @destielle, @flowersforcas, @princesscas & anyone who wants to do it, please say i tagged you this one was so delightful.

[bijoharvelle]

@day-fire tagged me to post 10 pictures from my camera roll that represent me (no looking up or adding any pictures!)

almost all of my pictures are either selfies or of my cat so this was kinda hard haha

tagging: @adorkabledean @bisexualthors @castyel @destielle @flowersforcas @good-things-do-happen-dean @michellewiliams @oldcoyote @princesscas . say i tagged you if you wanna do it / only if this is fun for you!

[bijoharvelle]

chayya you’re a film major? 🥺

HELLO AND WELCOME TO CHAYYA’S WEIRD AND WINDY ACADEMIC PATH:

for a year and a half, at my first college, i was a dual english/film major! then i transferred and was an english major & digital comm/info/media minor (bc they didn’t have a dcim major yet, but i took....so many credits in that minor) & got my creative writing certificate (bc they didn’t have a creative writing minor yet, but i took...so many credits for that cert). and then i got my mfa in creative writing!

[bijoharvelle]

tagged by @flowersforcas​ & @credentiast​ ! thanks pals!

relationship status: single lyfe  favorite color: green three favorite foods: sushi, bagels, honey nut cheerios song stuck in my head: WAP - cardi b & megan thee stallion (me, with my whole entire chest: there’s some WHORES in this HOUSE) last song I listened to: WTF - missy elliott last thing I googled: shin splints stretching (recently started running again which, ofc, triggered my shin splints so.) time: 10:57 AM dream trip: greece or singapore anything I really want: this job i’m up for 🤞🤞

tag 10 people you want to know better: @starclaire​, @starlightcastiel​, @casthegrumpy​, @messymish​, @nesnej​ & a free tag for anyone who wants to do it!

[bijoharvelle]

me, shouting: I’M ALWAYS A SLUT FOR PICREW!!! thanks for tagging me @starlightcastiel​ !!!

tagging: @prayedtoyou​, @vcastiel​, @flowersforcas​, @castyel​, @destielle​ & anyone who wants to do it, say i tagged you! as always, only if it’s fun for you <3