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dcclown · 10 months

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Y’all will never make me hate Rajan or hate Rajan and Kala together sorry like Rajan Kala and Wolfgang are a great poly couple

#Rajan sense8 #sense8

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ayotofu · 2 years

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listen i know sense8 ended a while ago but just imagine for a moment that you are rajan rasal. you have sent your wife away to paris, knowing that this may irreparably harm your relationship, because there are credible threats against you for cooperating in a corruption investigation. some time passes. you go to france to see your wife when you can, to hopefully work things out. you've been getting some weird communication from a medical organization looking for her, but she's a biochemist so that isn't that weird, right? you show up at the apartment you bought for her. first thing you see is another man walking down the hall in nothing but a towel. is she cheating on you? then you see a woman chopping something in the kitchen. is she super cheating on you + whoashesbisexualididntknowthat.jpg? next you see a large group of people with some intense computer set up and weird conspiracy board. a man comes up to you and addresses you by name and with a very friendly tone but he's speaking swahili (you don't speak swahili. does your wife speak swahili?) you mention the medical organization that contacted you about and one of the strangers pulls out a gun. you are given a microscope. your wife tells you that people are trying to kill her but they are different people than the ones trying to kill you. you are escaping across the rooftop when a couple of the group run back inside and the man your wife had been holding hostage escapes. you go back inside shortly thereafter to find a bunch of unconscious police. the rest of the group prepares to leave. no one has explained anything to you. this all happens in about ten minutes.

#sense8 #rajan rasal #thinking about this scene from rajan's perspective never fails to be hilarious

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throuple-tournament · 6 months

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#throuple #tournament #polls #lockwood & co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #george karim #sense 8 #sense8 #wolfgang bogdanow #rajan rasal #kala dandekar

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invisible-pink-toast · 2 years

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kala/wolfgang/rajan: A Summary ft. bug

+ bonus rajan finding out about wolfgang

#kala rasal #kala dandekar #rajan rasal #wolfgang bogdanow #kala x wolfgang x rajan #rajalagang #sense8 #my post #my edits

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sampigehoovu · 11 months

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Purab Kolhi's character in Sense8 is so consistent, I keep waiting for him to do something that will ruin his and Kala's relationship forever but he constantly rises to the occasion and they stick it out till the end, adding another person into their relationship. He truly was Kala's SRK and stayed true to it.

#sense8 #kala #rajan #wolfgang

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valiantstarlights · 1 year

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Chef Hob's family and the food truck's origin story

Hob is half-English and half-Indian. His father, Mr. Gadling, is from London. His mother, Mrs. Dandekar-Gadling, is from Mumbai. Hob was born in the UK.

Unfortunately, Hob was orphaned at an early age. And since his father had no remaining living relatives, (his paternal grandparents died a long time ago and his father was an only child), Hob was taken in by his maternal uncle's family in Mumbai.

His uncle, Sanyam Dandekar, is the current head of the family-owned and operated restaurant in Mumbai. It's small but thriving, and is well-regarded in the community. As the restaurant is on the ground floor of the building where the Dandekar family live, it's hard to escape the tantalizing smell of food wafting constantly from below.

It's from Sanyam that Hob learns to love food, to cook well, and to love making people happy through his cooking.

His aunt, Priya, always encourages him to go after his dreams. She was there for him every step of the way when he applied for a scholarship to go to a fancy culinary school in the UK. When he was accepted, she was the first person he told the news to, and she was so proud of him that she immediately called up her friends to share the good news with them. (Hob had had to endure maybe half a dozen aunties trying to introduce him to their daughters and nieces.)

His female cousins, Kala and Daya, love Hob very much and treat him as their older brother.

Kala has always been very intelligent even as a child, and she got bullied for it at school. Hob was quick to put an end to that and told her to reach even higher so she can leave everyone in the ground while she sails among the stars. Kala shyly told him she would build a spaceship for their entire family so she wouldn't have to sail the stars alone.

Daya was the more easy-going sister. She tried her best to teach Hob to dance, and never made fun of him even when he eventually accepted that he had two left feet. When she was rejected by a boy who told her she was so ugly that she'll never find anyone who'll love her, Hob got in trouble for beating the shit out of him, but he has no regrets about it. (Kala did not get in trouble for setting the boy's schoolbag on fire because she didn't get caught.)

Hob was so afraid when he found out that he was bisexual, but his family accepted him and treated him the same as they always did. His aunt Priya even promised not to matchmake him with anyone even though he's such a catch. They'll all just wait and see who he brings home. No judgment or pressure whatsoever.

He misses them fiercely when he gets to the UK. Especially when Kala gets married and he couldn't travel back because he had back-to-back exams, both theoretical and practical.

Still, he pushes himself to study hard, graduates with distinction, and eventually becomes a professional chef at a fancy hotel.

Hob's family are very proud of him and always call him to tell him so. Daya begs him to return and cook for them. Hob says he's still saving up enough vacation days. Rajan, Kala's husband and the current CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, offers to pay for his transportation. He graciously accepts because he's not an idiot.

After a couple of years, he finally accumulated enough vacation days to travel back to India for a long visit. The first thing he did is to cook a feast for his family (which now includes Rajan). He cooks traditional Indian food as well as food from other countries that he thinks they'll like.

(He adjusts the recipes to fit into their religion-based dietary restrictions, and adjusts some more when some ingredients are not readily available. He's a professional chef, after all.)

Daya is all about the taiyaki. Kala is in love with the vegetable lumpia. Rajan has strategically rearranged the dishes on the table so the plate of jollof rice is always close to him. Priya asks him to give his uncle his recipe for the vegetable moussaka. Sanyam is in tears because of how proud he is of Hob and how delicious everything is. He tells Hob that when he dies (far, far into the future), Hob is welcome to take over the restaurant.

Hob spends most of his time in India in the restaurant's kitchen with his uncle, and they experiment and add new things to the menu. Hob gets to talk to customers he's known ever since he was a child. They are all very proud of him and sing praises for the restaurant's new menu items.

Hob leaves India a month later with a much lighter heart.

When he returns to being a chef in the fancy hotel though, he finds that he is increasingly frustrated and unsatisfied. He feels like he should be happy and grateful. Instead he feels burned out.

He calls Kala, who is the closest to him age-wise, for advice. She simply asks him, "What do you want?"

He sighs and says, "I thought I wanted to be a chef. But now that I am one, I feel lost."

Silence. Then Kala says, "May I say something potentially controversial and not have you hang up on me?"

Hob chuckles and tells her to go ahead and say what she needs to say. In fact, maybe he needs to hear the potentially controversial thing to snap him out of this wretched state.

"I don't think you really want to be a chef."

Wow. "So far, so bad. Go on."

"No, listen: you have always loved cooking for us. You and dad. It's how you show your love. But where you're working currently, it's like you're a machine. Day in and day out, you're just completing orders. How many times since you started working there did you go out of the kitchen to talk to the guests? How often do you get to experiment with new culinary creations without anyone trying to stifle your creativity?"

Kala's tone implied that she knew the answer. "You might say that it will get worse before it gets better, but will it really? If I ask you now what your happiest memory is of your workplace, what will you tell me?"

"I--" Hob clears his throat and blinks away the tears that had snuck up on him. "When the hotel called me to tell me they had accepted my application. I immediately called home and all of you were so proud of me. I even heard Uncle announcing it to the entire restaurant in the background."

"Oh, Hob..." And now Kala sounded like she was gonna cry too. "I wish I were there so I can give you a hug."

"Virtual hug accepted. Is that the end of your controversial pep talk or is there more?"

"I think that's enough controversial things for now," Kala says. "Rajan and I are going to London in a couple of weeks for pleasure. We should meet up so you can show us all the good spots to eat at and then we can talk more."

They said their goodbyes soon after. Hob spends a lot of time that night just looking at the ceiling, not wanting to go to work but inevitably has to when his alarm goes off.

Kala was right. Being a chef granted him all sorts of qualifications and symbolized that he is a master in the field, but he isn't in it for the title. His uncle isn't a professional chef, yet Hob wouldn't claim to surpass his skills. And between the two of them, he knows who the happier one is.

Rajan and Kala arrived with a couple of bodyguards named Vikram and Wolfgang. Hob remembers them from his visit to India. Vikram is as stoic as bodyguards come, but Wolfgang has a different, more dangerous kind of intensity.

Hob shows them all the good dining spots he has discovered over the years, and all five of them eat well.

It was during their outing that Hob notices the food vendors on the street. They look...happy. They work just as hard as the other chefs in the hotel, with the main difference being that the customers are right in front of them, and they get to see their reactions.

It was very heartwarming to see tourists trying the local street food and seeing their faces light up after their first bite.

At the end of the day, Hob tells Kala of his food truck idea. It's almost embarrassing how excited he sounds, but Kala is excited too. She grabs Rajan and tells him about it. Rajan grabs Wolfgang and asks him about it. Hob almost expects Wolfgang to grab Vikram too, but Vikram just looks on, looking amused.

In the end, Wolfgang shrugs and says it's doable, and just like that, they're drawing plans and trying to come up with names.

("What about 'Gadling's'?"

Kala hummed. "I guess...I mean, that is your name. No one can argue that."

"I feel like you just insulted me, my father, and my paternal ancestors."

"Hob, our family restaurant's name is Dandekar. We are all basic here.")

("Glad Tidings?"

Wolfgang huffed a laugh. "No, Rajan."

"I think it's a good name."

"I think you need to go to sleep. How many hours has it been since you slept? Forty-eight?"

"Are you the sleep police now, my wolf?"

"Kala, I'm taking Rajan to bed."

"Alright," Kala says distractedly. She is currently looking at the kitchen plans, specifically the stove set-up. "Have fun. Don't hog all the blankets."

Hob's eyebrows have migrated to the ceiling. He doesn't think they quite know what they let slip, but he isn't going to pry until they're ready to talk to him about it. He looks at Vikram to see his reaction, but the man just looks like this is a thing that happens often and isn't bothered in the slightest.)

They videocall six people all over the world--mutual friends, Kala says--and all of them put their heads rogether to make Hob's food truck idea into a reality.

Hob is overwhelmed by their support. Rajan has promised to fund everything if Hob lets him eat for free when he's in town. Sun from Korea seconds him and agrees to lend monetary support as well, and to help him expand to Korea if the venture is successful. Capheus, the matatu driver from Nairobi, is flying to London to help customize the food truck. If possible, he sounds even more excited than Hob himself. Nomi from San Francisco and Will from Chicago volunteers to get the papers and forms sorted. Actual famous actor Lito Rodriguez from Mexico promises to promote his foodtruck when he goes to London to shoot a movie.

"When and where did you meet and befriend all these people?" Hob asks Kala. They all sounded like old friends and had inside jokes that Hob didn't understand. (What in the world is a tequila-squared?) Kala just smiles at him and says, "The internet exists for a reason, you know."

"Let me guess," Hob said in a low voice so the others won't hear. "An online dating site?"

Kala shrieks with laughter and hits him with a throw pillow.

Soon, the food truck is ready and Hob is in awe of everyone who pitched in and helped. He literally could not have achieved this so quickly without any of them.

Kala hugs him tight. "You deserve to be happy, Hob."

Hob hugs her back. Every person they videocalled (and Wolfgang's brother Felix) is coming to visit with their plus ones and twos to try out Hob's menu to taste-test before opening, and will stay until the grand opening a week later to help in promoting the foodtruck. They even have Riley from Iceland going to DJ for them.

"Should we invite aunt and uncle and Daya?"

"Do you really think we could stop them if they want to be here?" Kala asks him incredulously. "Have you met our sister?"

Hob has handed in his resignation notice as soon as the food truck's kitchen had been operational. That had been two weeks ago. He feels like a huge burden has been lifted from his shoulders the moment the e-mail was sent.

It can only get better from here.

P.S. I'm basic as hell at naming, so if you have ideas on what Hob's food truck should be called, speak now or forever hold your peace.

#Chef Hob AU #minor spoilers for Sense8!#you read that right #it suddenly became sort of a Sense8 crossover because I owe Sanyam Dandekar my first exposure to Indian food #gods bless him honestly #he'll be a good uncle and role model for young Chef!Hob #I will have a Rajan-Kala-Wolfgang throuple as a treat to myself #if Amanita can have 3 dads so can Kala's future children have 2 #this is still a no powers AU though #dreamling #the sandman #sense8 #my writing

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fantastique-bastard · 1 month

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I am once again rewatching Amor Vincit Omnia and I need to talk about the fact that, on the first scene at Jean-Pierre's place, Wolfgang already has the heart eyes for Rajan because HOW, besides being wonderful Kala, do you win Wolfie's heart if not by risking your life in an action movie stunt against one of his enemies?

#sense8 #ralagang #wolfgang bogdanow #rajan rasal #kala dandekar

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heavensenthale · 4 months

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the whole world coming alive under this new light

Written for gala_apples as part of @holly-poly

Relationship: Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan Rating: Explicit Word count: 4,513

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“Here’s the thing,” she started, “the truth is, I’ve never felt what I’m feeling now for anyone, so I have no frame of reference to compare this to —not that it matters, because I’m fairly sure not many people have been in this specific situation—, but I do know this: my life, as I knew it before, was forever changed by the two of you in different ways. Wolfgang, loving you has opened my eyes to a world that I didn’t think existed outside of the movies.” She noticed Wolfgang’s amused smile. The blockers kicked in already and she couldn’t connect with his feelings, but Kala believed she didn’t need that connection to know exactly what he was thinking. “Which isn’t inherently a good thing either, so don’t get too cocky.

“And Rajan, loving you has been like an awakening: it was slow at first, then I felt it all at once.” Rajan was looking at her with the same look he gave her the day they got married, as if she’d hung the stars in the sky.

“But here’s where I am extremely conflicted, because what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to choose when all I can think is that choosing either of you would mean losing the other one forever? What’s the proper thing to do? To stay with my husband when the other man I love is on the other side of the world but still has a direct way to my thoughts and feelings? And what does it say about me that I am seriously considering a solution where no one has to go?”

CONTINUE READING ON AO3

#sense8 #sense8 fic #rajalagang #wolfgang bogdanow #rajan rasal #kala dandekar #miliwrites (allegedly)

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procrastinating-falcon · 5 months

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One of the things that crack me up about episode 2x01 is Kala celebrating Christmas with Rajan, like what are they doing???

I don’t remember if Rajan says what his religion is at any point but I doubt he’s Christian, and his father def seemed like an atheist. And Kala… well she’s definitely not Christian

#sense8 #I’m not sure what the traditions are in India but it definitely seems weird to have Kala celebrate Christmas #when her religiousness is such an important part of her character #ro rambles #rajan rasal #kala dandekar

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sometimes-petty · 2 years

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Rajan: *drops everything to go look for his wife in Paris, believes her and the cluster's explanation without a second thought, is immediately ride-or-die for a bunch of people he's just met, pays for everyone's travels and accomodations, drives head-first into a mafia's den to helpl defeat BPO*

Wolfgang:

#sense8 #sense8 finale #rajan rasal #wolfgang bogdanow #kala dandekar #incorrect sense8 quotes #sometimes-petty

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storkmuffin · 2 months

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i am a bit confused (surprise, it's Sense8) but - when Kala (mind)fucked Wolfgang was she physically fucking her husband irl? So when Wolfgang was fucking Kala was he actually fucking/ getting fucked by Rajan?

Not to be so 2020s about a 2010s show, but consent issues.

And also also - if i'm right about rajan-kala while kala is mindfucking wolfgang, then again, once again, kala is totally such a villain to poor rajan, who so far has not done a single thing wrong (other than accounting irregularities or whatever it was he was talking about, and having a shit dad, which is not his fault). the horror of this, of having someone mentally completely somewhere else, with someone else, while using your body doesn't seem less to me because the person being so used in this equation is a man.

it's so weird that this show is making me a rajan advocate, when he's exactly the kind of connected-and-smug dude i clash with all the time in my corner of asia.

#sense8 #sense8 liveblog #rajan rasal #kala dandekar

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throuple-tournament · 9 months

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