Dazed, Dazzled, Utterly Moonstruck

AMITA SUMAN for NOTION [On getting cast in Shadow and Bone] “It was a shock. I wasn’t expecting it at all, especially Shadow and Bone having two female Asian leads. It was almost a dream come true. That didn’t feel real for a really long time. I think it only sunk in when the show came out that this is what the show was doing, this is what it’s celebrating. As a brown actress, I came into this industry believing that my road was very narrow and there wasn’t really that much work. Don’t get me wrong, that’s still very true, but the world is changing. I’ve managed to have these opportunities and I really hope that this wasn’t a fluke! I really hope this wasn’t a once-in-a-lifetime thing – that I will have the same opportunity that everyone else is having and people will look past my skin colour and I’ll be seen just as an actress who’s willing to work.”

Pigeon steals poppies from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia in order to build a nest beside a stained glass window.

@snitling EXACTLY

Using the very thing installed to make just a moment’s rest impossible as structural supports for an immovably stable nursery.

From the nest on the bird repellent spikes to the fact that those spikes are along the stained glass windows of a church, a place associated with sanctuary and compassion. The fact that the nest is made of stolen poppies for remembrance day hits the hardest though. Of the 54 animals to be awarded the Dickin Medal for acts of gallantry during WW2, 32 of them were pigeons. These were messengers who flew through battlefields and across borders, many of whom were killed or severely injured by enemy forces including gunfire and trained falcons. Many of their achievements saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers, and yet now their descendants are faces with anti-bird spikes, shooting and poisoning in an attempt to rid the cities from the rats with wings. I love this picture because it feels like they’re taking back just a little bit of that credit owed to them. 

And at the same time, as a result of the same actions, Vulcans are like: “Will No One Stop The Man? He’s OUT OF CONTROL!” 

green obsession by Mindaugas Buivydas Behance / Instagram

“The post office in the forest was a capital little institution and flourished wonderfully, for many things passed through it: poetry and pickles, music and gingerbread, invitations, scoldings, and even puppies.” It’s all about us! It is. LITTLE WOMAN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

Emma Watson photographed by Carter Smith (2014)

#like sister like brother

Anna Karenina (2012) dir. Joe Wright

Long (by Ilhan Eroglu) Multnomah Falls, Oregon, USA