made some very very good cookies just needed everyone to know

eating strawberries 🍓 btw

What are some of ur new favorites ?

hi nonny! ahhh, so many new favourite films this month :’)

to start with, i finally saw one for the road (2021), which i’ve been desperate to watch for over a year, and it really didn’t disappoint—it definitely didn’t end up being exactly what i expected, but it was so beautifully and meticulously constructed. watching it felt akin to watching a very accomplished stage magician: you logically know that it is a series of tricks and illusions, but the show is so compelling and well-performed that you don’t want to do anything but sit back in your seat and experience it and admire the craftsmanship—and, if you look hard enough, you might spot some of what’s really going on beneath the flashy hand movements. in the end, i was entranced by the film’s delicious blend of artifice and authenticity—using the true to lend depth to the artificial, and vice versa. it was a true treat to watch; i really loved it

i watched the entirety of yasujiro ozu’s noriko trilogy—late spring (1949), early summer (1951), and tokyo story (1953)—which was just… really as much of a masterpiece as everyone says. it isn’t a conventional trilogy—the films are all unconnected, except for the fact that each one stars setsuko hara as an unmarried 28-year-old called noriko (the three norikos are all different characters, though). they’re all incredibly quiet, but beneath the serene surface there is just—so much emotion and sadness and love that it feels like it would swallow the characters whole if they ever acknowledged it. basically, they fucked me up (particularly tokyo story) and i cannot stop thinking about them. absolute masterpieces of humanist cinema that took the mundane relationships of everyday life and transformed them into something truly transcendent.

i rewatched wong kar wai’s in the mood for love for the first time in years and followed it up with 2046 (which i hadn’t seen before), and they were absolutely sublime. i feel like i’m being too liberal with the word ‘masterpiece’, but there’s really no other way to describe in the mood for love, which is possibly one of the most perfect films ever created. while 2046 doesn’t have the exact same magic as it’s predecessor, it creates a whole new magic of its own.

i also really loved infernal affairs (2002), which was just a pitch-perfect crime thriller starring andy lau and an incredibly beautiful tony leung. it was just *so good* and i had such a good time watching it.

also! this week i finally got a chance to see everything everywhere all at once (in cinema!). it contained *so much* and i’m still formulating my thoughts on it, but overall it was just as fantastic as i’d hoped it would be (and made me cry, to boot).

and though it was only a short film, i was enchanted by the night it rained (1967), an absolutely fantastic iranian metadocumentary that i could compare to rashomon or the films of abbas kiarostami—but won’t, because it succeeded in establishing its own character beautifully. i’ll definitely be watching more of kamran shirdel’s films

best things ever made

ordered them with $10 shipping

Sour patch peaches >>>>>

everyone should listen to DeVita

Was it me or the bands solo in Saturdays was on a different level tonight?

Do I ult le sserafim? Maybe so <3

Me trying to do shit but my brain just like nah time for Halloween music

Like sorry for the person I become during October cause like I have a unhealthy addiction to Halloween

My current song addiction is just every song from the band ghosts cause Halloween kills got me into a certain song

actually wild of holly black to write cardan’s arc so powerfully that I went from genuinely hating him and never believing I’d like him to thinking “ok so maybe he’s not awful ALL the time” to desperately rooting for him and furiously wanting him to be loved and happy over the span of three books. like tfota was WILD for doing that (and doing it so well)

puppy boys with fat cocks

scuderiaferrari Carlos & Charles take a look at their new 2024 race suits!

the besties at the phillies game

donna and wally most complicated ass relationship in the entire roster of titans. they’re best friends they love each other they’ve been close since they were thirteen, donna couldn’t be in the same room as wally without wanting to throw up for a year. he saved her life, he took a piece of her personhood to do it. donna knows she’s being irrational but can’t help the loss of autonomy she feels when she looks at him. wally saved her life because he loved her and as much as he tries he cannot fault himself for this. donna was remade through wally’s memories, was remade in his image, and how much of her now belongs to her, how much of it came from him? wally saved her because he had to, because he loved her, because it happened, and it’s like she hates him for it and he doesn’t know how to break the barrier they have between them now. she dies again, close after, and he can’t fix it this time so what did it even matter?

no one can unravel grian like mumbo can, mumbo responds slightly different and grians already in tears