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1. Women- Def Leppard

2. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)- The Beatles

3. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You- Led Zeppelin

My current three favourite songs are

Kanha Re by Neeti Mohan

Mohe Panghat Pe by Lata Mangeshkar

Sun ri sakhi by Hariharan

1.She’s not me by Lana Del Rey

2.Aye Udi Udi by A. R. Rahman

3.Bubblegum Bitch by Marina

1. Les séquois by pomme

2. Mother by ina wroldsen

3. Meteor shower by cavetown

2. I think I’m OKAY by machine gun kelly

3. Machine Gun by YUNGBLUD

2. It’s Alright- Mother Mother

3. Stay- The Kid laroi ft Justin Bieber

2. Love me now(ft. Zoe Wees)- Kygo

3. MyUniverse- Coldplay,BTS

Aahista - Arijit Singh , Jonita Gandhi

Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers

My universe - Coldplay, BTS

Easy come easy go - Imagine Dragons

Jeete hain chal - Kavita Seth

also thanks for the tag bestie @burningqueentimemachine

1. Water Fountain - Alec Benjamin

2. Busyhead - Noah Kahan

3. abcdefu - Gayle

1. hard sometimes ~ ruel

2. you say ~ lauren daigle

3. post malone ~ sam feldt, rani

1. Backyard Boy - Claire Rosinkranz

2. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

3. Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny

1. Sad Boy — Ava Max, R3HAB, Jonas Blue, Kylie Cantrall

2. Ghost — Confetti

3. Borderline — Nico Collins

Current favorites are:

1.) Daisy - Ashnikko

2.) Happier - Olivia Rodrigo

3.) Silence - Marshmallow, Khalid

Red means I love you by Madds Buckley

Kiss me more by Doja Cat ft Sza

We fell in love in October by girl in red

astronomy by conan gray

chained to the rhythm by boyce avenue

(oops i made the mistake of going thru my favourited songs and cant choose so we get a few more lol)

rose-colored boy by paramore

andromeda by liam ello

spirits by the strumbellas

bad habits by delaney jane

romeo by bryce xavier

sksksk so that’s longer than i expected it to be oops-

Oh boy this is gonna be hard, only 3?! 😭

1) Everybody Talks by Neon Trees (the longest a song has been my favorite lol)

2) Ribs by Lorde

3) Take the Weight by Rob Rokicki and Kristen Stokes

Only 3?? Tbh my favourite song changes depending on my mood but uh,,

1. Into a fantasy - Alexander Rybak (I love his music and httyd is my favourite movie series)

2. Conqueror- Aroura (I don’t listen to this song that much but when I do ✨pure serotonin✨)

3. Heaven - Novo Amor (yes the song from the newest life is strange game; I’m so hyped to get my hands on a copy)

incredibly difficult question and my answers will be completely different 5 minutes after posting this but here I go

1. august - taylor swift (yes it's october but folklore is just not leaving like a father, running like water)

2. we fell in love in october - girl in red (because ofc)

3. working for the knife - mitski (fantano I curse you for declaring this an okay track)

I think it’s this aspect of Simon that makes it so interesting that it is Wille that takes the lead in their physical relationship, because, for once, someone is taking care of Simon. Wille clearly wants to make sure that Simon feels good and is much more concerned with Simon’s pleasure than his own. During their first time, what we see of it is Wille giving Simon pleasure; he kisses his way down Simon’s body, rubs his crotch, and never seeks anything in return from him. He lets Simon lay there and enjoy it. I’m sure more happened that we didn’t see, but in that moment, all Wille wanted was to make Simon feel good. In the scene in the bedroom, it is Wille circling his arms around Simon’s waist, kissing his neck, taking off his shirt, making Simon feel precious and loved and wanted. You can see the absolute bliss on Simon’s face in all of these moments; you see how good it must feel to have someone taking care of him for once. He’s almost greedy in the way he kisses Wille, the way he grabs him from behind with shaking hands and pulls Wille closer to him (in the first bedroom scene). He’s so used to giving and now he gets to take and receive, and Wille is more than happy to give.

1.

All the characters have different phones. And what phone they have corresponds to what type of phone they’d be able to afford, unlike a lot of shows I watch they don’t all have the newest iPhone and then have a storyline about having problems with paying rent (yes I’m calling you out Love Victor) and it’s really refreshing to see. I know it’s a small thing but it’s still a detail that I love.

2.

They wear a lot of the same clothes and outfits over again. Now I’ve seen a couple of people talk about this. But I wanted to as well so :). You can really tell a lot about a person (in this case character) by the clothes they wear. If we take the scene where the rowing team is in the gym almost every person is wearing branded clothes apart from Simon. Because Simon probably doesn’t have the money or the need for branded clothes, plus in his small town there’s probably not a lot of places to get said branded clothing. In one of the scenes he’s wearing what seems to be a knock off adidas or legit Adidas T-shirt and I know from experience that if you know where to look you can get them for like £5-£10. It seems nowadays a lot of shows have their characters have a seemingly never ending wardrobe or be working class and have a load of branded or designer stuff.

3.

A lot of the scenes were improvised or had a rough guide of where the scene was supposed to go but they gave the actors space for creativity. As an actor myself I love it when directors do this. It makes the scene feel more natural and you can really see the chemistry between the actors. There’s a saying in the acting world “the camera hates actors” meaning that the audience doesn’t want to see an actor they want to see a person, thats the reason why screen acting is so natural, instead of like theatre where everything is exadurated and over the top so everything that happens on stage can be seen by everyone in the audience. Usually with an extremely tight script with little to no room for creative freedom, which intern can make a scene look or feel robotic and not natural. It’s the reason why a lot of bloopers (when Edvin falls over when Wilhelm and Eric run away from the press) or improvisations after an actor has forgotten their lines (Tom Feltons “I didn’t know you could read” from the chamber of secrets”) stay in, because they feel more natural because it’s the actor being a person and being natural.

And I know that this series is far from perfect (Latino character has a drug arc and the only Asian character has like 2 or 3 lines and is basically a servant to august gets suspended) but we can all appreciate the good whilst acknowledging the bad.

I know this kinda turned into a lesson and I’m sorry about that but I hope you enjoyed reading this nonetheless, and if there’s anything I missed out add on to this, I love seeing other people pick apart the series and talk about their opinions on it.

“what do you mean people landed on the moon?? how did they get there? when did this happen?”  this is the most important scene in the whole book 

richard: “did you guys have an orgy” henry: “…….. we don’t need to talk about that right now”

bunny steals pie from someone on financial aid

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore”

charles gets high as hell at the funeral and kills a bee

“this man was not voltaire we killed.  but still.  it’s a shame. i feel bad about it.”

“um we can’t confess to murder and go on trial. think how it’ll look!  they’ll think we’re a bunch of rich assholes high on drugs who just broke onto someone’s property and killed them.”  THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE

richard repeatedly trying to convince himself that he’s straight while deeply fascinated in an obviously sexual way by all members of the murder clique

richard comparing himself to gatsby in the great gatsby when he is transparently a nick figure

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History is a classic murder mystery, and Bunny is the classic victim: unpalatable enough on the surface so that his killers can  pretend not to miss him, claim that he had it coming, and spin excuses justifying what they did. It’s easy not to like him, easier than it is not to like the others, who are constantly romanticized and glorified through Richard’s narration– Bunny is loud, annoying, hedonistic, prejudiced, a money-waster, and above all, un-aesthetic. A simple scroll through his Tumblr tag reveals hundreds of anti-Bunny posts writing him off as the worst character in The Secret History. Yet as frustrating as he is, the fact that he wears all of his flaws on his sleeve actually makes him the most decent character in the novel. 

The Secret History is about deception and delusion, and the message it conveys about hidden truths is far from flattering. The story is a scathing satire of academic elitism, revealing that the things which seem the prettiest are often the ugliest on the inside. “Beauty is terror” drives a group of rational students to commit the unspeakable; “live forever” obscures the finality and significance of wasted life. The main characters are all two-faced– Richard the voyeuristic innocent, Julian the fallible immortal–  starting out with flawless facades which fall away to reveal hideous truths as the plot progresses. Camilla, the beauty, is passive; Henry, the leader, is cold; Francis, the thinker, is weak; Charles, the loyal, is vicious. Bunny is the notable exception. He has no tragic backstory or dark secret– actually, he has nothing to hide at all, because everyone already knows exactly who he is. 

If Bunny has a fatal flaw, it is that he appears to be the only one capable of seeing the absurdism in The Secret History in an unromantic light: this leads him directly, though undeservedly, to his death. Everything is a joke to him, a quality which incessantly irritates his friends. He does not take Classics– their lifestyle; their raison d’etre– seriously; he makes a mockery of the form by typing his essays triple-spaced. His tweed jacket is frayed and stained; he chews pink bubble gum and has a honking laugh. Bunny’s very presence in the clique ruins its ‘dark academia’ aesthetic which Tumblr loves to glorify (entirely missing the point of the novel)– there’s a reason why he is left out of so many fan-made edits and moodboards. Even his insults are delivered tongue-in-cheek, as he starts to lash out against a fate which he knows is inescapable. Bunny dies laughing, which is perhaps the most grievous jab at the group that he was capable of delivering. They fall apart after he is gone because it is painfully clear that everything they stood for, everything they were, was a joke all along. 

Bunny spirals in the weeks before his death: he’s drunk, incoherent, suffocating under the weight of being forced to keep the secret of the farmer’s murder. And, of course, he verbally attacks each member of the group, trying to get at their most sensitive weakness: Francis’s gayness, Camilla’s femininity, Richard’s poverty. He’s a deeply unpopular character primarily because of the prejudices he so openly owns– but these attacks are personal far more so than they are universal. The point is not Bunny’s homophobia or sexism– values which, it could be argued, he seems to mock or parody as he does Classics– but the fact that he feels directly threatened by his own friends. In the letter discovered late in the novel, Bunny reveals that he knew Henry was planning to kill him and that everyone else was in on it long before his actual murder. He begs for help from Julian because he knows, months in advance, that all of his so-called ‘friends’ hated him and wanted him dead. How can anyone, even someone far less flawed than Bunny, reconcile with a truth as harsh as this? He copes poorly, but his last weeks are a cry for help, not a justification for his murder. 

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

For our angels and demons, it was intensely liberating having male and female actors auditioning for the same roles, and just picking the ones who we felt nailed the characters best.

Also, can I just hear a wahoo for the wonderful Archangel Uriel, Gloria Obianyo?

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

But TBH I prefer the MIT Open Coursewear approach. Feel like taking a class on the policy and economics of nuclear engineering? MIT’s got you covered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

In fact they’ve got  you covered with A LOT of their courses, everything from fine arts to immunology.

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tw for medication, parental abuse, transphobia //

opening up something new with these commissions while I try to get diagnoses for my ADHD/depression/etc (that I wasn’t allowed by my family to screen for), as well as getting through undergrad at my university, and hopefully get an apartment somewhere away from my abusive household !! please consider commissioning me, or sharing this post if you can’t !!

I also have the classic commissions open, with both digital and traditional mediums (here is an example of the invisible ink/glowing ink).

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There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.