Today's Fit

Elie Saab | Fall/Winter 2019 Couture

家主が…あやしいことをはじめました。いつも「だんごは丸くあるべき」と言うくせに、へんなかたちです。

Today, my landlady suddenly started something strange... Although she always says "Dango should be round 🍡", these are different...

ごまをすって…

Next she made roasted sesami powder...

きなこも よういしました。どちらも くろみつでねります。

And she prepared kinako, the soy beans powder. Both were mixed with brown sugar syrup.

だんごはしっかりゆでると ういてきます。ちゃんとうくまでまって、そしてしっかりひやすのがだいじと言います。

Dango will float up when they are boiled well. We have to wait this floating and cooling by water, and those are important to make good dango.

かんせい……「オレとちっさいののなかよしだんご」…ま、オレにはだんごのみりょくは まったくわかりませんけどね…

She cooked dango with the image of Little and me... Hmm, of course I can't understand dango's attraction any at all...

The fearsome yiling patriarch

Hyung, you are not acting like yourself. Hey, what’s acting like myself? That’s up to you.

THE EIGHTH SENSE (2023) dir. Inu Baek & Werner du Plessis

Spotlighting another campaign this week.

@mahmoudkhalafff reached out to me on my personal blog to spread awareness for his fundraiser to get his eight family members out of Gaza. The need €30,000 and their fundraiser is currently at €24,590 as of August 23.

They are #151 on nabulsi and el-shab-hussein's Vetted Evacuation Fundraiser spreadsheet.

There's only €5,410 left to raise, let's get them there!

WANGXIAN+ MDZS MANHUA chapters 255/256 魔道祖师/255 -/256 画幅补完 illustrations by @maotuanxjj

if u see this can u rb with ur ranking of biology, physics, and chemistry please and ty <3

there's something so inherently queer in the way The Eighth Sense is being acted and ESPECIALLY in the way it's being filmed, and the cinematography and editing choices that keep taking my goddamn breath away.

the almost pain in the longing of short, broken glances to avoid being caught staring, the eyes darting over his whole face instead of lingering too long on his eyes or lips, the tentative broaching of conversation and testing of boundaries that only happens with that level of anxiety in a queer relationship

the constant fear of "what if he's not?" "what if i'm mistaken?" "what if i step too far?" which straight people rarely have to worry about, because at worst if you ask another straight person out you'll get meanly turned down, but if you're queer and you ask a straight person out the reaction could be SO bad, so you're scared and you're withholding but you're just WANTING

there are whole scenes where their friendship is clearly blooming and they both forget their sexualities and they're just having fun like they do with other people

and then there's always a moment where it THUDS back home again. the wetsuits. the showers. outside the bar. on the beach. where they're both so clearly HYPERAWARE of themselves and each other and feeling so exposed and so so scared but still desperate to be near each other

jaewon and jihyun are in parallel states of just YEARNING so badly that it makes my heart ache and my breath catch every time one of those scenes appears

Taking a breather

I feel like the start of an oil painting just getting down my right colors before starting with detail. Everyone is trying to be transcendent. I’m trying to avoid a sunburn. I’m feeling like a wasp has crawled its way under my  eyelid and is telling me where to look. Up at the sun. I’ve googled cadmium at least ten times and still don’t remember what it means. Ok so it’s chemical - my mind always replaces it with red. Why aren’t we all just feeding each other  cake all the time? We could be  feeding each other cake right now drizzled in sugar and rolling in grass and tablecloth. (Can we please just breathe and exchange favorite words?) (Mine is love, I know it’s stupid.) Like spitting the color of your heart directly in my mouth. I don’t find it off-putting. I think we’re all a little allergic to one thing or another.