Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an unrelentingly dark series in subject matter, but I’m still sitting with a lot of the images. Honestly some of the best lit television/film I’ve seen in a while. They seemed to have used a lot of natural light sources perhaps?

one doesn’t! Tara Fitzgerald is really good and touching. As far as Brontë men go, Arthur Huntington is far more mundane compared to the heightened intensity of a Heathcliff (and the world he comes from) but feels very ‘real’ with the domestic abuse and it seems Anne Bronte was subverting the idea

aspects, it’s also very visually moody and rich. The contrast between the pale, harsh blown out colours on the moors and the deep crimsons and the shadows in Helen’s flashbacks is really stark. Something a lot of Bronte adaptations fail at is the lack of a gothic mood which is really important, this

Rewatched the BBC miniseries adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall last night and I enjoyed it! I can’t remember much about the book as I read it so long ago so I can’t speak to how it works on an adaptational level but the series pleasantly surprised me in that despite it being dated in certain

#lrp THIS song and scene in Veer-Zaara!!! Peak sensuality (it’s ten times more scandalous when aligned with the taboo of the lyrics about borders too)

This Oliver Laxe guy is a Muslim convert? Huh. I have no interest in watching Sirat but this film sounds fascinating. Gonna try and find this

Wait, I didn’t clock it until reading this that Sirat from that film title is probably alluding to the Quranic verse Sirat al-Mustaqeem…

Spent hours online shopping and snagged up some cotton kurtas because I don’t have nearly enough to wear in this heat 😭 I was at a relative’s house last weekend and a Pakistani-Jordanian friend was wearing a gorgeous print, had to ask her where she got it from and she said she got hers from Ethnc

Ludwig Göransson 🫶 I don’t remember hearing this particular track in the film though?

Film has grossed $640 million in two weeks and it hasn’t even released in China yet 😭😭😭 variety.com/2026/film/ne...

grandiose, mythical drama filled with gods and monsters reminding you that humans have not changed much at all - like the extremely touching moment where Odysseus trys to hug the ghost of his dead mother Anticleia in the House of Death. And yet on the other hand, it’s fascinating to me how Odysseus

Our entire cinema hall during the third act of The Odyssey yesterday Yesterday was really hectic getting to and back from London, but I’m still on that post Odyssey high. Honestly an unforgettable experience for my first IMAX screening (I gasped when the film started and the images filled up the

Odysseus after his shipmates opened the sack of oxen hide containing winds gifted to him by King Aelos, thinking it was plunder hoarded from the sack of Troy, blowing them far off course back again just as they were bearing close to Ithaca: lemme just end it all

textured modern day spin on the Ramayana with Raavanan already exists! That’s not going to be usurped by some vanilla whitebread Hollywood adaptation, bfr.

Tears this film is uniting Turks and Greeks

Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989): Astonishing debut from Soderbergh. Such a fascinating, atypical film in that it’s a film about sex, but doesn’t have much sex, but also has a very frank intimacy to it. Andie MacDowell’s and James Spader’s relationship in this is one of the most interesting on-screen

I feel that there’s been marked issues in Penguin’s quality control ever since they switched to the redesign on their black spines? The older editions with the author’s title in orange and the cursive lettering felt a lot more sturdier in your grasp, whereas the newer editions with the white

My sister got me a copy of this as a gift 🥹 for a split second I wondered how she knew that I’ve been wanting to read this then remembered she must have seen me add it to my goodreads want-to-read shelf, which she confirmed, bless.

Yep, that’s the one! Inside should be the same as the deluxe edition, I think, which is stylistically different in cover and has the deckled edges (the paper has rough uncut edges on the physical copy - as a stylistic choice)

their wealth and circling like vultures around his mother, Penelope. Also I burst out laughing at this bit. “Shut up with your droning prophecies bitch!”Lmao

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Fuck me, I thought there was gonna be light at the end of the tunnel I CAN’T DO THIS SHIT AGAIN

allowing you to cool. The stone buildings as well as jaali (basically the name of moucharabieh in the subcontinent) make a huge difference compared the suffocating concrete and glass here (but tbf these countries are not built for this climate!)

Same, especially as new discoveries can alter your previous understanding of a text. This Penguin version I’ve got here is a second edition that was published in 2020 and looks up to date, if that helps.

I appreciate the warning here because too often publishing houses presume an intimate familiarity with the story details on the reader’s part when it’s a classic. I leave the intros and additional scholarly material until I get to the end now (apart from the footnotes/endnotes, of course).

Could not resist a mini book haul when I was in London over the weekend. The TBR is always growing, never shrinking 😅

Indus Valley Civilisation rep 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🇵🇰🇮🇳

At the British museum in central London (day out for my sister’s birthday).