ambycet

And they were right.

Representation of real experiences is so often boiled down into big concepts rather than the small details that matter. Frequently it can feel like checking off boxes instead of communicating substantial themes or reflections of reality. It’s easy for a show to say a character’s family comes from Germany or Senegal or Russia but that’s usually where they draw the line. The more vague they are, the easier it is to turn entire countries or continents into generic set dressing that (in theory) could apply to millions. But it’s the mannerisms, the culture, the language, the folktales, all these things that shape you from the very moment you’re born. It’s the small details that help you connect, that resurrect the small child inside you who once lived in a foreign bubble, who experienced the awful alongside the great. I yearn to see what I am made of staring back at me through a screen. I yearn to connect to my foundations, to the culture that slowly slips from my memory as I continue to age entire oceans away from the place of its origin.

"be angry. scream. curse. deny. accept. pray. pain become more acceptable. live through it. love the memories." - serbian graveyard in a village dići, ljig muncinpality. x

it's not too much to ask for is it?

Linda Cardellini as Lindsay Weir in Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) created by Paul Feig

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The Greek Class

of course, I feel too much, I'm a universe of exploding stars.

-Fyoder Dostoyevsky

Moodboard

Circe by Madeline Miller

Summer sun, and breath in my lungs.