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⛄️ finally uploaded a new lookbook!! ⛄️ i hope you all enjoy it — thank you always for the support and love 🤍🍂

female awesome meme [2/10] lgbt+ characters ♡ kalinda sharma (the good wife)

well, i’m just glad you’re not repressed anymore.     oh, i may have to take some convincing….

A Wrinkle in Time (2018) dir. Ava DuVernay

Ah, Vilde. You’re underestimating her. She’s the toughest of us all. She’s actually the first I would take to war with me. 

if you want to see an amazing Star Trek "musical episode," it's The Abduction from the Seraglio staged by the Pacific Opera project. Complete with redshirt orchestra, horny Spock, a Gorn battle, and Klingons doing bat'leth dance choreography.

The plot and score is the same, just rewritten into English and Trek-ified. (Spock's got a whole aria about his human vs. Vulcan struggle. “Yes, my blood is really green. But how much does that mean? Still, I cannot deny my fears. Am I human with weird ears? I’m a Vulcan. I'm a Vulcan!”"

and if you don't have the patience for a 2-hour opera, someone put together a 30 minute highlight reel of a different performance (by the same company, just a different year. there's some casting changes too):

Israelism (Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen, 2023)

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

Andrzej Zulawski - The Devil (1972)

Documentaries on Congo

Will he be as gentle as you?

KIM TAE-RI and KIM MIN-HEE as Sook-hee and Hideko THE HANDMAIDEN dir. Park Chan-wook, 2016

Chase Iron Eyes & Tokata Iron Eyes in Oyate (2022)

office romance (1977) dir. eldar ryazanov

Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1973)

Some of you have seen Junk Head at least one of the times I've streamed it but if you haven't watched Junk Head please do so one day. Not to be confused with the more recent and more grotesque (but also good) Mad God. Yes this is what all of this movie's dialog sounds like.

The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Murderer (GDR, 1966) Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk. Müller fought in Congo’s civil war in the 1960s, and the more Pernod he imbibes, the more fascinating this interview becomes. He asserts that blacks are no better than animals and shares his dream of enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight communism in Vietnam and beyond. He flaunts his military paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross he was awarded in Germany in 1945, and proceeds to deny his earlier statements about civil killings, the ethics of war, and the defense of Western libertarian values. This documentary tour-de-force is interspersed with pictures of Müller and his comrades proudly posing with severed skulls, and it touches on other Nazis who are active in Africa as well as American world dominance.

Same movie

Carina Lau in Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar Wai

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Why you should watch KAOS (2024) on Neftlix:

- Jeff Goldblum as Zeus

- A disabled actors play a disabled characters (Mat Fraser & another secret one [because spoilers])

- A trans actor plays a trans character (I won't say which one since it's kind of a spoiler)

- Set in modern times, uses characters from old myths but isn't a simple retelling; it's a whole new story

- All your favs are there (Prometheus, Daedalus, Persephone, Dionysus, Cassandra, Medusa, Charon, Ariadne, the Fates, the Furies, just to name a few)

- Speaking of Persephone, she and Hades are actually in love (the version of the myth which I know much of you love)

- Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss Hera (as in, she literally does all those things)

- The gods' actors' ages actually make sense, they didn't cast solely young people or make young people look older; you've got Zeus (72), Hera (63), Hades (61), Persephone (56), Poseidon (56), Dionysus (27), you get the idea

- Killer soundtrack

- Actual realistic queer characters/representation in a natural, unforced way

- Enjoyable story and comedic but also has depth (I binge-watched it in a day)

- Not a huge commitment (8 episodes of about 50 minutes each)

- Have you ever thought "What would the Ancient Greek gods be doing in modern times?" This show answers that question!

- It wasn't renewed for a second season due to viewership, so if the views explode, maybe they'll renew it and I can find out what happens next (I know it's not likely, but I can dream; besides, if just one person watches and enjoys it, then this post will have been worth it)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)

Still image from Mexican science fiction-noir film La Pantera Negra.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)

Billy Elliot (2000)