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Can I have tanjiro and Mikey with a fashionable girlfriend? Always dressed up no matter what. Sometimes dressed a bit strangely tbh. Gets comments from strangers both good and bad. If she can’t afford a piece of clothing she likes she sews it herself. Ect thank you 💕
✧ 01. — A LA MODE!
hi nonny! this is soo me-coded. we love a fashionable y/n! this insert is female. hope you enjoy!
summary mikey and tanjiro with a SLAY reader....i needed this in my life i needed to materialize this thought
content fluff, maybe mention of cat-calling in both, but not very graphic. safe to read!
✧ 1.1 — MANJIRO 'MIKEY' SANO
It’s no secret that Mikey ‘I put on whatever I see’ Sano has little to no idea on what fashion entails. He’s always been simple in that regard - whatever is clean works, the only criteria he has followed all his life is for his clothes not to be too stuffy in case he needs to fight.
That is why you form such a funny antithesis. You, with your chunky high heels and matching bags, razor-sharp color choice and flashy outfits, and him; plain old sweater and skinny jeans (much to your dismay!) with maybe an acceptable choice on shoes. (you can’t really go that wrong with them)
It has never bothered Mikey. He likes watching you transform every day, he’s excited to see if you’ll be dressed like a supermodel or a library worker, and never fails to let you know that he loves every version of your wardrobe. In his own, ignorant way: He tries. If you want proper fashion advice, he’d redirect you to Mitsuya.
Speaking of, it’s not rare for you to have a three-person meetup. You and Mitsuya share a passion for clothes, and also for lightening the money load, so sewing your own pieces is more a mutual hobby than it is a nuisance.
+++ Still, on days where your friend can’t come, you always have Mikey to keep you company while you tatter away on your sewing machine. In between naps and curious questions (‘half-loop stitch? what's that?’, ‘what are you ironing the collar for?’) making that silk shirt you saw on Pinterest became a fun date with him.
You are a fashionista, and you accept the attention your title may bring. It’s not shocking for you to be the target of both compliments and remarks, and whether they slide off your back or not, there’s no need to even think about it. Your boyfriend will jump at the slightest affront, and then fix their mistake by telling you how that neon top does, in fact, not make you look like a clown, but like ‘that one super cool protagonist from the manga I’m reading with Takemitchy that I showed you last week’.
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‘’s pretty cool.’ He mumbles it with no regard. Mikey’s already waiting, leaning by the door while you put on your gloss. You look back at him absent-mindedly. ‘What is?’
He raises his hands to gesture vaguely around his eyes. ‘the red thing on your eyes. makes them pop out, like, bam!” You infer he’s talking about your eyeshadow.
‘It’s a reference to you.’ It was his favorite color, fitting for his birthday. You suppressed a smile for the sake of applying your gloss correctly.
He gleamed a boyish smile as you stood up, and you could feel him move immediately, like a dog that’s been sitting still for too long. With a last look at your vanity (fringe is in place, mascara’s dry and ready), you walk with him to the door. You can only think whether the Babu's helmet will ruin your braid or not. You miss his mumbling in the process.
‘That’s why it looks so nice.’
✧ 1.2 — TANJIRO KAMADO
As opposed to the blonde, Tanjiro does have a slightly more refined sense of style - maybe Nezuko’s influence, or because he’s got a proper head on his shoulders most of the time. He doesn’t apply it to himself (his haori is ravaged from use), but it serves as nice reassurance whenever you decide to change it up.
From your color choice to the tailoring in the sleeves - Tanjiro has an eye for your fits alone. He doesn’t think of how this raindrop pattern would look good on Zenitsu or Shinobu: He only thinks about how it makes your eyes pop, or how it subtly enhances your waist. In that sense, he only has a fashion sense when it comes to you.
More often than not, the comments you receive as a (rare and revered) Demon Slayer are thirsty at best and predatory at worst. ‘Come ‘ere, pretty!’ is as common as your name, low whistles sound like the bark of a dog. No matter, though; even if you know you could roundhouse them at any moment, there’s a warm comfort in knowing that your boyfriend is sending them a vicious glare their way.
+++ Hate is more common from the Corps itself. ‘How will you fight in such heels? Won’t that skirt fly up quickly? It looks a little too tight.’ You can’t do anything but fight it, but you always seem to prove them wrong. Your high status is more than enough proof of your skill!
Sewing is actually an incredibly sought-after skill in the Slayer Corps. Whether you patch people’s uniforms up for a quick coin, or do it only for your own pleasure, be aware that Tanjiro will be absolutely smitten with your ability.
+++ Don’t even think of making him or Nezuko a replacement haori. He might actually cry on the spot - I headcanon him as a very ‘acts of service’ kind of partner, so anything to lighten the burden softens him quickly. (Especially if his sister or friends are involved!)
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‘Look in the basket, Tanjiro!’ Your excitement betrays all secretism, and the red-head smiles with a sliver of anticipation. He reaches for it rather quickly, and you can’t help but gear yourself to offer your reasoning the moment the gift is revealed.
Tanjiro opens the basket. A haori pours out, silky and indigo in color, with an excellent stitch that can belong only to you. (in the distance, you are talking about how you think matching haoris for you two would look cute, and how you had leftover materials, and-) For a moment, his world stops, and there are only three things he can feel: the softness of the fabric, a distant stream of words, and an overwhelming, suffocating love for you.
You are still talking, by the way. ‘It may have been a little invasive. But I- Well, this color really suits you, with your hair color and eyes and all, and, I don’t know. I just wanted to make you something ni- Oof.’
A hug freezes you in place. You can feel the callousness of Tanjiro’s hand in the back of your head, tight, steady, like he’s holding a dream. It feels good. ‘Thank you so much, y/n. I’ll treasure it.’ Until death. Until it’s over. Until it’s just us.
#mikey x reader#tokyo revengers#x reader#tanjiro x reader#demon slayer#tanjiro fluff#mikey fluff#tr x reader#kny x reader#tokrev#kny
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#new wallpaper#am#darling boy#babu looked so good in this outfit#wanna raid his closet and steal that shirt#tyler blackburn
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Heyy...Thankyou sooo much for answering my previous ask (the indian pregnancy one) it was soooo good!!!!....can you please write a one shot about the first time harry met the indian readers parents...Hope you have/had a good day!!
Just like I do - desi!reader
Summary: Harry meets reader's parents for the first time
Word count: 1.1k
A/n: Thanks to my bff @sunandherflores for helping me with the hindi and the detais, I wouln't be able to write this without youu, my bestie also had a lot of desi!reader fics, so so check it out <33
Y/n had finally arranged a date to introduce Harry to her parents, she was over the moon, Harry, otherwise, was very anxious. “I don’t wanna look dumb in front of your parents,” he confessed after Y/n asked for the third time what was wrong.
“Harry, baby, look at me,” she took his cheek on her hands, which were decorated with henna from the wedding she went to one week ago. “They will love you, just like I do, they know how much you take care of me, and I talk about you all the time, they know you are a good person.”
“But what if they don’t, baby.” Y/n raised her eyebrows, Harry was acting more anxious than she was expecting, of course, meeting your girlfriend’s parents wasn’t a ride in the park, but damn he was sweating.
“Harry, talk to me, why are you so scared, you normally do well in those situations, is there something wrong? We can reschedule it to another day if you want-”
Harry interrupted her with a gentle kiss on her mouth, even though it was just a peck, it was enough to stain his lips with red lipstick. “I don’t want to reschedule, baby, I’m sorry if I made it sound that way, I just love you, and I want your parents to like me too, they mean a lot to you, so they also mean a lot to me.”
“I know we’ve been parked in front of their house for the last 10 minutes, but I just need a few moments to….man up, alright?” Harry looked to his lap again, but this time he took her hand on his own, caressing the skin with his thumb.
She tried to hold her laugh, trying to respect his feelings. “Alright, I’ll be here with you throughout your whole man-up moment,” she said, playfully pushing him to the side with her shoulder, trying to see if she could make him smile a bit.
“Also, we are having your favorite dish, chicken biryani," she told him, trying to persuade Harry. "If you think the one I cook is good you should try maa's (mom), she never told me what special ingredients she put in her food to make it better than anyone's else's."
"Oh I do love chicken biryani," he said smiling. "Ok, I think that gave me all the motivation I needed, are you ready?"
"I am, just let me do something–" Y/n quickly cleaned his mouth from her lipstick with her thumb. The cosmetic didn't leave his face completely, but his lips were naturally pink enough for the lipstick to blend in. "–and done, let's go, I'm so excited for you to meet them!"
Harry opened his car door before going to Y/n's side and opening her door for her. Y/n was wearing a dark red skirt and a yellow cropped blouse, Y/n wanted to be a bit dressed up for the situation. Harry was also looking very handsome, wearing a casual chic outfit, with a dark blue blazer.
They intertwined their hands together as Y/n led them to her childhood house. Her mom was eager to see her, she could see her face through the window, as if she was there this whole time, just waiting for them to come in. The older woman barely let Y/n ring the doorbell, she opened it eagerly, a beautiful smile on her face.
"Beta!" (Loving way to call your kid). "Finally you are here, your papa and I have been missing you so much." She hugged her daughter, kissing her cheeks. "You look so pretty!"
Y/n laughed. "Maa, you are acting like we haven't seen each other for ages, we went out for lunch a week ago."
"A week ago is a lifetime in a mother's life, babu," (Loving way to call your kid) she said playfully sternly. "Now who is this fine young man, Harry, right?"
Harry was surprised when his mother-in-law came from a hug, but once the surprise was over he hugged her back, looking at y/n with a look that expressed "Am I doing it right?". Y/n gave him a thumbs up, trying to keep him calm.
"Hm, hi Mrs, thank you for having me, it is a great pleasure to meet you," he said, smiling when she also kissed his cheek.
"Oh my darling, cut the formality, I've been dying to meet you, Y/n told amazing things about you! Come in please!" Y/n’s mom took Harry by the hand and brought him inside the house, Y/n followed them, feeling the amazing smell of the food she grew up with filling her heart with warmth.
"Papa, hi!" Y/n say once they stepped in the kitchen, her dad was finishing cooking food as he turned around.
"Babu, come here, give your papa a hug." Y/n did so, wrapping her arms around her dad. "Don't be a stranger, you need to come here more often!"
"I know papa, I will don't worry. But now there is someone I want to introduce to you!" She called Harry, who was in the back of the room with her mom. "This is Harry, the one I talked to you about." Y/n placed a comforting hand on Harry's back.
"Hi sir, I'm Harry, it's a pleasure to finally meet you," he shook Harry's hand, before pulling him closer and patting his back.
"My daughter talks about you like you are a piece of the moon, Harry, I hope she is not exaggerating in any way, she deserves only the best," he said, sounding friendly, but still serious.
"I can guarantee to you, your daughter is one of my priorities. I wouldn't treat her with anything but love and respect. She is also a piece of the moon to me."
Y/n felt her cheeks warm, no matter how many times Harry told her how special she was, she was still not used to it.
"Good, Harry. Let's all eat them, the table is ready, and the food is too, I hope you will enjoy our dinner."
"I sure will, sir, don't worry." Y/n winked at Harry before sitting on the table, the man taking a seat right by her side, putting a gentle hand on her thigh.
"You are doing great!" She whispered while her parents weren't looking. "Thank you for caring so much about this."
"Don't say thank you, darling, I love you, I'm glad I'm here," he said.
The rest of the night was filled with amazing food, music, and stories about Y/n's mom and dad’s childhood. Harry didn't know when he would be back, but he hoped soon.
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This is the second story about the British police abusing their authority at the expense of women this week.
The case of a Rastafarian woman who sat naked in a police cell shows officers need greater understanding of minority groups, ex-senior officers have said.
Yvonne Farrell said she was humiliated after sitting naked in a cell for three hours following her arrest by Hertfordshire Police.
She successfully sued for wrongful arrest, receiving an apology and £45,000 in compensation.
Hertfordshire Police said it "didn't get everything right on this occasion".
Sir Peter Fahy, the former chief of Greater Manchester Police, said officers needed to be equipped to deal with a complex, diverse, society with far higher expectations and accountability.
"There needs to be a wider examination of how current structures and working practices shape police culture and how minorities - and sadly many women - are treated," he told the BBC.
Ms Farrell was arrested after she sat on her partner's car in Stevenage when a tow truck arrived to take it away in August 2018.
When she refused to give her name at the police station, she was taken to a cell where a CCTV camera monitors the detainee at all times.
She was asked to remove her clothing, with a replacement "crop top and hot pants" left in the cell.
"I'm a 50-plus-year-old woman and a Rastafarian. Where are they going, giving me those items of clothing? I called them back and I said, 'Listen, this is not suitable clothing. I need something long to cover'," she told the BBC in an interview from her new home in the Caribbean.
A police custody officer may remove a detainee's clothing if they believe it could be used to cause physical injury, damage property, interfere with evidence or used to escape.
Ms Farrell said officers said they were taking her clothes because she would not tell them who she was.
"[They said] 'We don't know anything about you, so you can harm yourself. So with that, we're going to take your clothes.' That was the excuse that they gave. It's not good enough."
Ms Farrell said the officers should have respected her religion, which states that Rasta women should dress modestly, and given her appropriate clothing.
"I could have been a Jewish woman. I could have been a Muslim woman. To me that looked like a teenager's outfit. That just shows they wanted to humiliate me - they did humiliate me," she said.
Hertfordshire Police's professional standards department initially rejected Ms Farrell's complaint. She then enlisted the help of solicitor Iain Gould, who specialises in claims against the police.
The force apologised for the way Ms Farrell was treated and agreed to pay her £45,000 damages. But it did not address her claim that she had been forced to take her clothes off.
In a letter, Dep Ch Con Michelle Dunn said: "I accept that you should not have been arrested.
"I am extremely sorry for any injuries that you suffered as a result of the actions of Hertfordshire Police. On this occasion we got it wrong. I apologise unreservedly."
Mr Gould said he frequently encountered instances of police misusing strip-search powers, because many of his clients entered custody following alleged unlawful arrests and disputed the need to provide personal details as a form of protest.
"In response to this, the police often use the sanction of a strip-search to enforce the person's compliance through a very physical act of degradation and humiliation," he said. "In my opinion, it is a low-level form of torture, deliberately implemented in many cases, not to safeguard a detainee's welfare, but to break their spirit."
Dal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent who served as one of Britain's most senior British-Asian officers, said it appeared to be a "catalogue of mistakes" by the police.
"The treatment of a Rastafarian woman stripped naked, with no thought on cultural sensitivity was wrong. The failure of Hertfordshire Police's internal investigation demonstrates the need for police to understand the religious needs of communities."
Ms Farrell has now moved to the Caribbean due to this experience.
"I could never have a relationship with a police officer... I would never be able to come in contact with them. And it would be because I would be always carrying what they'd done to me. And they still wanted to get away with it. And that's hurtful."
Hertfordshire Police said in a statement: "The fair treatment of people detained in custody in Hertfordshire is very important. Following a review of the circumstances we accepted that, regrettably, we didn't get everything right on this occasion four years ago. We were in regular contact with the complainant's legal team throughout and the force agreed to settle the matter in recognition of the distress caused. The matter was settled amicably."
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I have a question, odd one in a way. But from the Kaleidoscope series, Kae would be like 5 now right? what would she look likes a toddler/you kid??
Sorry this took me a while to answer, I forgot how to draw lmao
Nae is a happy lil babu who literally lights up like a Christmas tree any time her dad walks into the room ☺️ Saitama is forever in disbelief that he helped make something so darn precious and pure. He LOVES her, and he’s SUCH A GOOD DAD TO HER. Just imagine the matching tacky outfit potential!!
Though she’s nowhere near as strong as Saitama, it’s a good thing she inherited a fraction of his strength, cause she inherited mama Genos’ smart ass mouth and resting bitch face, too 😂
(I was gonna draw Genos too but asdhfhgjd he’s so difficult to draw and I ran out of steam so he was reduced to a hand I’m so sorry my son forgive me I’ll draw you again one day 🙏)
#one punch man#saigenos#nae saitama#opm kaleidoscope#lilitharts#thank you for the ask!#i had fun with this#i should draw more often...#<3#maybe one day i’ll revise kaleidoscope cause my GOD my writing was hot garbage back then#*crawls back under rock*
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What's your favourite part of Patch 5.3 so far?
OOC: I mean it goes without saying, but...
MASSIVE, COLLOSSAL SPOILERS AHEAD.
Oh my god. Having completed... I think most of the basic stuff of the patch (MSQ, Sapphire Weapon, Nier Raid) I can honestly say i’m absolutely blown away with it. But, what takes the cake by far is the MSQ. Just... Wow. What an epic conclusion to a story. I’ll readily admit that i spent the last hour of cutscenes just... Bawling.
So, here’s my notable mentions!
The Heroes’ Gauntlet - I LOVE this dungeon. The music is nice, the setting is pretty, but what tops it all off is this wonderful feeling of comraderie with all these allies you’ve met along the way. Highlights were seeing Aenc Thon again, and the banter between the Job Quest NPC’s at the end. And Giott. Just being... Giott.
The Seat Of Sacrifice - I screamed. Also, it’s kind of neat fighting what looks like the OG Warrior Of Light from FF1. The music is absolutely beautiful and epic, and makes me... Feel things. Not my fingers though, good grief, what even was that QTE? My fingers hurt thinking about it. AND!! NOT TO MENTION!!! That WAVE!!! You know what i’m talking about, i’m glad no one was home but me because i just SCREAMED. I can’t wait to take my friends through this so i get to hear it the same!
The MSQ - My eyes still hurt, i think. I cried when the Exarch crystalised, i cried when Elidibus died, and i actually feel kind of sorry for him. I cried when everyone said goodbye, i cried when you had to talk to Seto. Everything about it makes my heart hurt, and it just leaves me with this... Wonderful bittersweet feeling. Having the Scions be hillarious and so wonderfully themselves at the end was lovely - Especially the new addition! ---Also the lil’ babu Mystel at the beginning. Her lil face.
The Nier raid is fun! Rough going still as i’ve only done it twice, but it’s enjoyable. I like the little gauntlet run near the end. That’s an interesting way to get between bosses, but man, is it rubbish if you’re a caster! So sorry, caster friends! I was HYPED for the Amusement Park music and i’m still holding out hope we’ll hear A Beautiful Song at some point, but... I’ll be happy, either way!
The Sapphire Weapon fight was... Okay? Fun, but maybe not something i want to do over and over. Getting to be a Gundam and say corny catchphrases was pretty entertaining though. I’m super invested in the story though! The new villain looks like a piece of work, and i’m curious to how the story is going to unfold, and interested to learn more!
...I think that about wraps it up? I’m still reeling from everything, if i’m honest!
...OH. AND FLYING IN ARR AREAS. YESSS. I’ve been having fun exploring! And soaring over Costa Del Sol getting those fancy summer outfits for my characters!
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) review (Long)
Star Wars has a place in all of our hearts, I think. This series has had literally galactic-scale highs and lows. Be it the video games, the movies, the comics, the novels, what have you, Star Wars is one of, if not THE biggest sci-fi universe in the world and one of the most important in all of nerd culture. After the controversial madness that was EVERYTHING about The Last Jedi, I felt the need to see this one. How does this new Trilogy end? Is it any good? Well, let's dig in.
1. Technical aspects
The movie looks good for the most part. It's a lot of good CGI and descent puppetry, a lot of explosions, and a lot of color. All the places that the movie goes do feel genuinely unique to one another, so points there, I guess. But it has some serious issues with the editing. The editing is god awful for most of the movie, the camera flips around too much, I think. I don't want constant tracking shots but they keep jump-cutting all over rooms and very suddenly for scene transitions. There are a fair amount of wipes but only one scene transition actually stood out to me at the very start of the movie, everything else was kinda dull.
This has to be addressed, Carrie Fisher is still in this movie. What they did was cut snippets of her head out of unused footage from Force Awakens and Last Jedi, then put it relatively well over the face of a body double. This allows her to exist in the movie but it isn't good. From an ethical standpoint and from how it affects the flow of her scenes. Her tone of voice doesn't feel right for any of the scenes she's in and her answers to what people say are usually just kinda weird, as well as what people say whilst responding to her.
2. Acting and characters (very lite Spoilers)
The acting in the movie is okay generally. It's nothing to write home about though. It's solid and generally does the job but the characters themselves are a different story. One problem is that the movie introduces a shit ton of them, including but not limited too, (Spoiler warnings for this paragraph), Zorii Bliss, An old Spice running friend of Poe's who is trying to ape a Mandalorian (Like the society) vibe in the look of her outfit but doesn't do it well. Babu Frik, her tiny alien boss and a surprisingly tech-savvy little so-and-so. D-O, a small droid consisting of a cone head and a single wheel, voiced by JJ Abrahms. And Jannah, who like Finn, is a rogue Stormtrooper from the first order. Everyone and everything else introduced are just more generals for the "Final order" (A rebranding of the First Order) and a bunch of background aliens and stuff for the resistance.
The main problem with these characters is none of them have time to develop because of how many are introduced. They try with Zorii, bless them, but her scenes are too short so her character doesn't "Develop" it just starts at one point and changes at the drop of a hat. And the returning Characters honestly aren't handled great either. Rey is okay for the most part, but Finn contributed just about nothing, Poe wasn't worth much more than a ride between planets, Kylo Ren goes back to wearing his old helmet for some reason and again, seems to change without much provocation. Leia's death is weird and kinda pointless, although I'm happy they won't do what they did again. The only consistently good, solid characters in the movie were the droids (Especially C3PO) and Chewbacca. Characters with very few lines or who literally cannot speak. That's such a weird thing to say, honestly.
3. Plot and thoughts as we go (Heavy Spoilers)
A transmission has gone all across the galaxy, Emperor Palpatine lives. Kylo Ren is hunting for a "Sith Wayfinder" and Rey is training under Leia to become a better Jedi. Kylo finds the Wayfinder and goes to a sort of hidden Sith planet whereon he meets Palpatine, here it is revealed that Snoke was a clone made by Palpatine's servants, "The Nights of Ren" and that Palpatine was "Every voice Kylo heard in his head." (Not too subtle change into Darth Vader's voice as he speaks.) Kylo and Palpatine have a short exchange where the younger pledges both his and the First Order's services to him, in exchange, Palpatine will add a whole new fleet of Star Destroyers to them. Star Destroyers he literally just summons up from the ground. Hangar bay doors don't open, these things just slam up from the ground like titans of myth rising from ancient slumbers. And while that might sound cool, it comes with a lot of issues. For starters: Who made these things? The Knights of Ren? How old is that organization, then? How old are these ships? Why don't they have hangar doors overhead? Hell, we learn later that these things will bolster first Order forces by "Ten thousandfold." How many of these things are there? How many ships does the First Order (Now "The Final Order") have at this point?
Anyway, back with the resistance. After a cameo by the best fictional game in the series, Holochess, we find that they're getting information from an ally I never caught the name of, flanked by some sort of weird alien on the ship who's apparently on a first name basis with Finn and Poe. We also learn the Final Order has a spy and a decent chase scene ensues. All well and good, but all this and the conspicuous lack of porgs makes me wonder how much time has actually passed between this movie and Last Jedi. Especially when we cut back to Rey who is trying to hear the voices of past Jedi but just realizes she can't and immediately drops the meditation in favor of running a training course. She ends up getting distracted while running it and accidentally drops a tree on BB8. She says to Leia that she will one day earn the right to use Luke's lightsaber... But it broke in the last movie. Again, can we please get a time stamp?
Poe, Finn, Chewbacca, and their crew return, whereupon there's a kind of funny back and forth about what Rey did to BB8 and what Poe did to the Falcon during the chase. The highlight of which is "At least BB8 isn't on fire!" "What's left of him isn't!" During this breif stop, we learn that The Final Order is broadcasting their plans, in sixteen hours they will lay waste to entire worlds because as it turns out, the new ships that Palpatine gave them all have planet-destroying laser weapons on the bottom. A Fleet of Star Destroyers, each with Death Star-grade power. That's definitely upping the anti, I suppose. During this, we also learn that the "Wayfinder" Kylo went after is important because its the only way to find the planet Palpatine is holed up on, a world called "Exegol," you won't find it on any other maps. So the crew goes on a quest to find a man in service to the Sith, a bloke named "Ochi" who was last spotted on a planet called "Pasaana" because for some reason, Luke and Lando Calrissian were tracking him. The movie doesn't explain why they were after him, nor why they seemed to abandon the search. (Or when any of that happened, for that matter.)
Our heroes journey to Pasaana where, as it turns out, there's a festival happening. One that celebrates family and ancestry. Cue the best comic relief in the movie, C3PO, as when Poe expresses that he isn't psyched about working with a crowd of people all around him, C3PO expresses elation, "We are very lucky, it only comes once every Forty-Two years--" Etc. Honestly, C3PO is the best part of the movie.
As the resistance crew goes about the Festival, Rye gets a necklace from a local who asks for her family name, not just her given, but Rey just says she doens't have a family name. Kylo contacts Rey with their weird psychic bond they had in Last Jedi, and they have an interesting exchange about the last movie and her wanting to take his hand at the end but deciding against it, and how when he offers it this time, she will take it. He steals the necklace Rey got from off her throat because as established in TLJ, he can do stuff like that. He has Final Order members analyze the necklace and learns of the planet Rey and her cohorts are on while they gad about the festival looking for any sort of clues or leads. They end up getting found by Final Order Troopers, but saved by Lando, apparently, Leia told him where they were. They mention the resistance could use his help, but he just says that his flying days are behind him before he sends them off.
The gang is followed by Final Order troopers, resulting in a chase scene, one I quite like. The Final Order has jet troopers now, and the crew basically just have their sidearms as weapons, having stolen vehicles from the locals. It's a very intense action scene, even when the crew crashes into "Not-quite-quicksand." Everyone starts sinking in and Finn says he's always wanted to tell Rey something. What it is goes unanswered as he sinks down. The lot of them have fallen into a cavern of some sort.
They explore the cave until they find two things, Ochi's land cruiser, and Ochi, who as it turns out is long dead, nothing more than bones and whatever he had on him at the time. Rey digs through his body and finds a scary-looking dagger that has most definitely been used for some less than savory deeds, Rey sensing the negative force energy off it. 3PO tells them that the inscriptions all over the dagger are in Sith Runic. He CAN translate it, but he can't say it aloud. It has to do with Old Republic regulations on translation modules. They keep the dagger, at least. There's also a giant serpent, one the cast calm into letting Rey get close, whereupon we learn she has the ability to force-heal injuries. The snake lets them out and she explains that it's basically channeling some of her own life force into whatever she's healing, and when she sees Ochi's ship, she's unnerved. She knows it from the day her parents left her.
Some true madness begins to unfold as Kylo shows up in his ship and Rey cuts one of the wings off, forcing it to crash. Chewbacca is captured and ostensibly killed accidentally by Rey because she summons force lightning and blows his transport's engines. There's another brief exchange with Kylo about him seeing the lightning for real, thus her capacity for darkness, before Finn and Poe tell her they NEED to leave. They do and Kylo radios for pick up as the Final Order literally toes the Millenium Falcon into a Star Destroyer. It is here we learn that Kylo knows about the spy in their ranks and that Chewbacca survived. While they waddle about in Ochi's ship, thinking of a plan, C-3PO reveals that there IS a way to get a translation out of him. Essentially they need to do a factory reset. This means 3PO will lose all memories of his friends and life. But what is that compared to a galaxy dominated by fear?
Poe knows the man for the job, trouble is they need to go to a world called "Kijimi" where Poe made a booboo before joining the resistance. But again, literal planets worth of lives are at stake, so he swallows his lack of pride and they go. A not bad tracking shot of Poe creeping around the streets and finding it crawling with Final Order troopers later, his mistake comes up to him. Both her pistols drawn, and one to his head. We learn that "Zorii" and Poe's old outfit were spice runners, and their old friend "Babu Frik" is the guy they'll need to crack 3PO's head open. Babu only sees people who are part of the crew, which Poe no longer is. They eventually convince her and the other spice runners to let them in. There's a genuinely heart-wrenching moment where 3PO goes completely silent before the process gets going and he says he's just taking one last look at his friends.
Meanwhile, we see Poe and Zorii on top of a building, Poe mentions how no one came after the last movie, their distress call was for nothing. Way to invalidate the most controversial movie in the series, you dolts. Also, Zorii seems to have changed for no reason. She went from not wanting to look in Poe's general direction to inviting him out to her new life as a farmer on some rock at the fringes of the galaxy. Poe turns her down because he has a war to fight, whether or not he wins. She gives him a First Order Captain's badge, which would allow docking in any Final Order ship or planet because the rebranding is only so recent, I guess. C-3PO gets rebooted and the crew learns what the inscription on the dagger means, but again, the cost is 3PO's memory. He reboots and introduces himself as "C-3PO, human-cyborg relations, who are you?" Babu introduces himself and Rey fixes the wheel on a robot found on Ochi's ship, a little cone head thing we don't learn the name of until about an hour later, "D-O."
At about this point, Rey realizes what's in orbit just overhead, Kylo's flagship... And Chewbacca inside. The crew boards the ship to free Chewy and get the Falcon back, along the way, Rey mind tricks a couple of troopers, the crew shoots a few dead, and then she goes off on her own, trying to find something. Her scenes on the flagship are pretty awesome, as she enters Kylo Ren's quarters and starts not only talking to him again but also fights him. This leads to some very interesting cinematography, a fight where when they accidentally break things in their respective locations, they appear in front of the other, so for example, Kylo is in the streets of the city the crew was in, specifically a market in it. He cuts open a pot full of berries/nuts and they all appear on the ground in his chamber while Rey is fighting him. It's pretty impressive. During the fight, we also learn A. the real reason Rey's parents sold her: Protecting her from her grandfather. B. Who this grandfather is. The Emperor. Rey is seriously Palpatine's granddaughter. C. Rey's parents died protecting her.
Kylo learns she's in his quarters when she accidentally destroys a podium, on which was resting Darth Vader's semi-melted helmet. From there, it all spirals out, Ren has them lock down the ship, Rey snags the dagger and Chewy's gear, Chewy, Finn, and Poe are caught, only to find out that general Hux is the spy who saves them When his motives are questioned, Hux says he doesn't care if the resistance wins. He wants Kylo to lose.
Rey and Kylo have one more confrontation before the falcon shows up and Rey literally leaps into space to get on the entrance to the falcon. Where Finn is. Audibly screaming at her. Y'all can say what you want about a downward bombing in space probably not working very well in Last Jedi, but this is a whole new level of bullshit. Rey leams OUT OF A RAY SHIELD into the vacuum of space. I don't care that Leia survived being out way longer in TLJ, at least she wasn't audibly saying things as she went, at least it felt like she was in space instead of just a big random fall. Also worth noting, to ver their escape, they blast the bad guys with the Falcon's engine trails, this burns or knocks back all the Troopers but Kylo, who is standing roughly the same distance as at least two of them, and Rey, who is closer than ANY of them are unaffected. This one moment is more agitating to me than most of The Last Jedi, honestly. There's Wardian grade plot armor, and then there's this.
The crew gets away and Hux is killed by another general because he figured out that Hux was the spy, they end up at another planet because of the inscription and the Falcon crashes, drawing the attention of "Jannah" and her random tribe of people. They resolve to fix the Falcon while waiting for the water to calm, something they at once have zero choice or time for. Turns out the Sith Wayfinder is on a hunk of the second Deathstar. Rant to come. While waiting for the water to calm and repairing the Falcon, we learn Janna is a rogue Storm Trooper, just like Finn. Her entire company was meant to open fire on civilians, but ALL OF THEM refused. Finn mentions he didn't think there were others but I have to question where Jannah's entire unit gets off doing that. How did all of them fight their programming? Moving on, BB8 raises a concern, he hasn't seen Rey in a while. Turns out she stole the rogue trooper's sea skimmer and rides the waves JUST right, so she can make it to the chunk of Deathstar. I was never big into the idea that Rey was a Mary Sue until this happened. I was willing to write everything else off up to this point but NO. She has NEVER used something like this. She spent most of her damn life on a planet with NO water and no point actually drove anything like this save for the land boat she stole from the natives during the festival but even then, it didn't have the quirks this thing had (It's a repurposed ship of some sort, she needs to constantly raise and lower an arm of the ship to reduce drag, I suppose.) I know this seems like the most random thing to officially stand in that camp, but what's that old saying about straws and camel's backs?
Rey goes to the shard of the Deathstar and starts exploring, it's full of old classic Storm Trooper outfits, mostly helmets. She goes to the Emperor's old throne room and through an old door, she ends up in a kind of trippy, maze-like space until she finds the Wayfinder and faces a seemingly Sithified version of herself with a dark robe and a collapsable double-sided lightsaber. This version of her fights her for all of four seconds and is never seen again because normal Rey flees out of the room and into Kylo Ren's waiting gaze. Now, my question is WHY would Palpatine keep one of these things on the Deathstar 2? In case he wanted to go to Exegol? Why not keep it in a more remote location than about thirty feet to your left? It's an ancient Sith artifact, you'd figure he'd be more protective of it. But nooo. So Kylo breaks the Wayfinder Rey found, wasting all of our time, before engaging in a lightsaber fight on the outside of the ruins. Finn and Jannah catch up to see this but can't do anything, partly because if they don't hug the ground, the turbulent water below will likely send a wave up just high enough to knock them into the ocean, Rey and Kylo, however, are clear I guess because they have higher ground away from the tides, they still get sprayed a lot. The fight ends with Leia dying from using what's left of her energy to reach her son, Rey stabbing and then healing Kylo before she leaves in his ship.
The crew, save for Rey, and Jannah's rogues join up with the rest of the resistance where they find out what happened, and Chewbacca loses it. The Wookie collapses to his knees and starts screaming and wailing, beating into the ground, etc. He's lost all his human friends, 3PO's mind is wiped, the only things left from the good old days are R2 and the Falcon. This is a genuinely harrowing moment for longtime fans, I think. Meanwhile, Rose Tico shows up for the second time this entire movie, the first time being her explaining why she can't go with, she has lines that could have been given to almost any rando in the resistance which is honestly a shame.
Then we cut to Ahch-To, The planet Luke exiled himself to in Force Awakens and TLJ, to find Rey burning Kylo's ship and very nearly, Luke's lightsaber. Luke's ghost shows up, catching the saber, and giving her a pep talk, telling her he knows now that exiling himself was stupid and that she needs to face the darkness in herself and the galaxy head-on. That delusion she saw getting her Wayfinder wasn't the first, she's seen herself ruling at Kylo's side as the empress, but given Luke's Pep talk, him showing her a spare lightsaber that used to belong to Leia, and the fact that Kylo had HIS Wayfinder in his spare ship, Rey agrees to continue fighting the good fight. But how will she leave the planet? Luke's force ghost raises Red five from the ocean. I'm not kidding, he literally just force lifts it with some show-offy joy. That thing has been waterlogged for how long? Even assuming Rey could fix it, where the hell is she getting fuel for it?
Back with Kylo, we see him gawking out over the sea, a familiar old voice starts talking to him. Han Solo's ghost shows up and they start having a heart to heart oddly reminiscent of the one they had in Force Awakens. Han says he knew his son was in there somewhere, and when Ren says "Your son is dead" Han says "No, Kylo Ren is." In that spirit, I will now refer to Kylo as "Ben" for the rest of the review. Ben throws his lightsaber into the ocean and is left to his own devices by his dad's ghost.
The resistance somehow knows that there are radio towers on Exegol that help the ships navigate through the constant storms and rain, Poe and Finn organize a plan, to distract the ships while a ground force attacks the tower and Chewbacca will go off and send another distress signal, allowing others to join the battle if they can. They come up with this because D-O has the plans for the ships and the like stored in his head if memory serves, and also 3PO gets his memory back, R2 had a back up, wouldn't you know it? The Resistance charges into battle against the Final Order over Exegol, And thus begins a fun clusterfuck of lasers and explosions. As one expects from this trilogy.
Now, the first order has this actually brilliant moment when they realize they can shut down the tower, and start broadcasting the same helpful signals from one of the ships themselves. Which they do, this allows them to down some Resistance ships before Finn sees what's happening and has them do a ground invasion style attack ON that ship. As in they deploy troops over the top of it ON HORSEBACK. Honestly one of those things that's so loveably stupid. They end up in conflict with a bunch of troopers on top of the ship as they look for weak spots to plant bombs or the like.
Rey, meanwhile, has snuck into the Emperor's hiding place, just as Ben lands on the planet. There's a lot of running around on all sides, dogfights under and around the larger ships, Ben fighting knights of Ren with just his bare hands and the Force, Rey being lured into Palpatine's grasp, Finn and Jannah's group shooting at troopers and passing ships as they look for weak spots. It would have all been fairly tense if the editing wasn't done by a coked-up squirrel. Almost nothing feels impactful in the fights, there are too many cuts in scenes largely about singular or just two characters. There are good elements to all this but I didn't care enough about most of these people. for it to mean much.
Also worth noting: not much can be done. They've already lost so many pilots, soldiers, and fighters, Finn and Jannah's group haven't fulfilled their goal yet, Palpatine is giving Rey a very "Let the hate flow through you" speech about how it's all pointless and her friends are doomed, but if she kills him, and becomes the empress, the Final Order will be hers to control, she agrees for a moment, letting a bunch of the Knights of Ren and Palpatine begin ritual chanting as a horde of them look on, Poe is out of hope. Rey is about to give in and Ben is surrounded with no weapon. All hope is lost... Until Rey enters another sort of shat with Ben and gives him the lightsaber she was moments ago going to kill the Emperor with. Ben strikes down his aggressors and makes his way to Rey and the Emperor, they slaughter the knights in the immediate vicinity. While that's happening, an entire fleet of random people shows up to help the resistance. Zorri and Babu are right next to the Falcon, which contains not only Chewbacca but Lando. The fight begins anew as Finn and Jannah blow the antennae in the ship they're on and cripple the Final Order Fleet. Now all the Resistance has to do is blast the planet-killing lasers and the entire ship they're rigged up to will also be destroyed... Which makes some sense but is still a pretty massive design flaw.
Down with Rey, Ben, and Palpatine, the youngsters try to strike the Emperor down, only to basically have their life forces partly fed upon. Ben goes flying down a naturally formed cave shaft, presumably to his doom. Palpatine has regenerated from the life steal thing and sits on this massive stone Sith throne just under the battle in the sky, and in a moment so absurd I was dumbstruck when it happened, sends lightning up into the sky. A massive MASSIVE pillar of it, so massive that not only does it reach the sky, but when it does, it fans out and strikes dozens, if not hundreds, of resistance ships, taking them right out of the sky.
This guy is over a hundred years old, several of which he was DEAD for and for some reason now, he has power I would only be able to describe as "Godlike" for no damn reason. I forgot to mention earlier that he didn't live through being exploded in ep 6. He brought himself back to life somehow, just wrote it off as his access to the dark side. He still looked terrible though, like he was actually a corpse with rotten hands and pure white eyes and all that. But somehow, two random idiot children's life forces, nowhere near in their totality, are enough to rejuvenate him and give him power unseen by most of the deadliest Sith in all of Star Wars. Vader's apprentice from The Force Unleashed wasn't this fucking OP. The worst he did could be chalked up to gameplay, this one-man lightning storm bullshit is actually canon, though. So this creates a problem: How does Rey defeat someone with the power of a god on her own? She ignites Leia's old lightsaber from when Luke was training her and then redirects the Emperor's lightning back into his face, destroying his head. From there, the Final Order's fleet is destroyed and Finn and Jannah are rescued from a fiery death as the ship they're on starts crashing to the ground, I guess being the only surviving members of their attack squad.
Ben climbs out of the shaft and gives his life force to bring Rey back from the dead, they share a kiss and Ben dies, allowing Rey to flee in the Red Five, much to everyone's relief. There are celebrations and hints of things to come, including Lando taking Jannah with him on adventures through the stars, Rose hugging some dude who ISN'T Finn, much to Finn's annoyance, and Zorii and Poe exchanging wordless gestures.
The final scene is Rey going to the old Skywalker Moisture farm to burry Luke and Leia's lightsabers just outside the house. How she knew where the farm was or why she buries them is anyone's guess. She pulls out a new lightsaber, a Yellow one. Which... Okay, I guess but where did she get it? Did she make it? How? Where? Did she just find it somewhere? How? Where? But anyway, an old woman comes walking by and mentions that the hasn't been anyone at the farm in so long and asks Rey who she is. Rey says "My name is Rey." "Rey Who?" Luke and Leia's force ghosts appear and smile at Rey. She proudly announces that she is "Rey Skywalker." And her and BB8 watch the suns over Tatooine set. The end.
4. A Nitpick?
Some of these are just little things I couldn't find a good place to put elsewhere: In flashbacks, we see Luke training Leia a bit, in those scenes, her lightsaber is green. In the modern-day, for whatever reason, it's blue. I'm not sure if that's an oversight or not. Also worth asking: Where is Luke's personal saber? I did some research and he apparently reclaimed it at some point in the EU (Which is no longer canon) but even in Last Jedi, the last we see of it is him almost using it on a young Ben Solo. Where the hell did it go?
5. Conclusion
I see this movie has it’s good bits but it isn't enough to make up for how shoddy the overall product is. There are too many new characters to let even the pre-established ones breathe, let alone each other, the editing was total garbage to the point where I genuinely got a headache, the plot invalidates both episodes eight AND six, while itself being kind of terrible... Nothing can kill Star Wars for me. This movie certainly tried.
TL;DR: Do not watch this trash, I don't care if it's your first Star Wars film of if you're a long-time viewer, it isn't worth your time or money.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and have a happy new year.
(FTR: This is something I stole from my own deviantART, I’m not plagiarizing shit, I’m just copypasting myself and adding edits if I see hiccups in the future.)
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I watched The Rise of Skywalker again. But here’s a curveball for you!
Things I Like in The Rise of Skywalker
Babu Frik
The dead speak!
The little GPS in the wayfinder is so cute
The descent into the underworld on Exegol
Threepio is actually really funny the whole time. Although if you’re supposed to be emotional about “taking one last look at my friends” it does not work at all since Poe in particular is never not a total asshole to him. But maybe Threepio just thinks being an asshole is how everyone expresses friendship given his history with R2 and like... every other character
The music in the Tatooine scene is beautiful, it has a deep sense of melancholy to it that resonates with how I feel at that point in the movie
Rey staring up at the lightning on Exegol, as the shot flies out into the stars it gives a very good hypnotic effect that really sells the Force meditation
“General.” “General.”
Lightspeed skipping is dumb and way too frantic but it looks neat, I like seeing weird new places however briefly
Babu Frik
Ben Solo lightsaber behind the back exhale
Funnily enough I never liked Han’s “shoot without looking” move in TFA, it’s very tryhard “look how cool Han is” superhero bullshit... but I love Ben repeating it here, just because it’s a small moment that really quickly and obviously conveys SOLO, in addition to Ben’s confident decisiveness in his True Form
.......just Ben Solo
Rey and Zorii and “I care.” That lightsaber vs. blaster standoff pose is cool and reminds me a little of Mando and Cara with their blasters on the ground while Baby Yoda sips soup
Babu Frik
WEDGE
When Rey chops the wing off Kylo’s TIE and it wobbles really stupidly before it crashes, it makes me laugh. There’s like a Three Stooges woob woob woob playing in my head
Those little fennec fox looking things in that one establishing shot on Pasaana. CREATURES!!! TLJ is the only one of these movies that really went for prominent incidental creatures with the porgs and vulptex and I love shit like that for worldbuilding
Finn holding the lightsaber in the snake cave. Finn and Rey and Ben all using the same lightsaber.............. I’m fine
Rey using Chewie’s bowcaster
D-O’s “no thank you” (although I liked this a lot better before I knew it was JJ doing the voice. Now I mostly hear JJ which is a bummer)
The lightsaber hand-off is still the very best. Objects passing through the Force bond culminating in Rey and Ben using that to be TRICKSTERS. Friendship is magic
Babu Frik
The Luke and Leia flashback feels so old school EU, it makes me happy. Their outfits, the atmosphere, and the glow of the lightsabers are all really good
The little shutter flaps on Rey’s lightsaber emitter
Finn wearing Han-style pants with the stripe down the side
That lens flared close-up of Ben’s face in the Pasaana desert....... seeing Ben in full sunlight............ it’s... nice..........
Rey conjuring Force lightning is cool
The leap over the TIE is also very cool
“I’ll come tell you.” sassy
There’s always that one dude at the board meeting who has to trash talk the evil wizards. They never learn
Our lord and savior Babu Frik
“The daughter of Vader” and “the Princess of Alderaan”
SHE WAS IN MY QUARTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Kylo picks up the wayfinder in the Death Star throne room and Rey immediately ignites her lightsaber, the way he then drops his hand in exasperation at her instant hostility is so funny
The aerial shot of the Knights of Ren standing on a rock doing nothing. Amazing
Falcon thrusters into the Star Destroyer hangar and Kylo hanging on while everybody else gets blown over
OCEAN MOON. I have a whole thing about water and rain in Star Wars, mostly because of Kamino. I just like water. And its relation to Rey as a child of the desert, and water as life and the ocean as a journey into tumult and darkness and discovery. I like that we had snow in TFA and water here and how it counters Episode 3 and Mustafar. Those giant waves are rad
Rey climbing in wreckage
Dumb anime Force jumps
Melting Palpatine is gruesome but I kinda like it. Also really like him dangling from a robot arm
The surprise on Ben’s face when Rey heals him and the surprise on Rey’s face when Ben heals her................... elmofire.gif
THEY’RE ENEMIES AND THEY’RE SOULMATES WHOSE METAPHYSICAL CONNECTION MANIFESTS PHYSICALLY IN A CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK LOOP OF VIOLENT AND GENTLE RECIPROCITY AND THEY DESTROY AND REGENERATE AND GROW INTO THEIR TRUEST SELVES
Not only Ben’s smile but his little laugh fuckfuckfuckfuckkcuffjjffhfgffff
“Ow.”
Babu Frik the one true king
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I’m trying to hold on to my passion for Star Wars. I don’t want to walk away from it for years and years like I did with Star Trek after Insurrection and finally Nemesis.
I am so disappointed with how Rey was treated in TRoS. They made her regress with her childhood triple bun hairdo. They had her sled down a dune like a freaking child after losing the other half of her soul. A child gave her an ancestry / fertility necklace just as she looks longingly at toddlers. And what does she want most? A family of her own. She immediately sense her soulmate as soon as the necklace is placed upon her. But no, our last vision is of her in her virginal white outfit with BB8 next to her in a desert, almost exactly the way her journey began.
Rey ultimately wasn’t Kylo / Ben’s equal because she is good and always chooses to be good. She isn’t special and the Force chose her to be powerful because of who she is. No, her power comes from being Palpatine’s blood. It comes from being a dyad. Her power comes from two men. She’s nothing without them.
Fanboys got their sexy Dark!Rey to fap to (that scene really didn’t serve a purpose other than to purge her darkness not dealing with it so she is pure) and never have to think of Rey and Ben being intimate and having a romantic and sexual relationship.
Rey will never be able to give herself wholly to any lover so long as this missing half of her soul leaves a gaping wound inside her. If they do go the route of pulling Ben through the World Between Worlds, that could be years or decades later. All that time Rey is not allowed to mature.
And then there’s the dismissal Ben. There was no reaction to learning Palpatine is all the voices in his head that had been been manipulating him since conception. There’s no time for the audience to register why Kylo Ren is “an emo with a glow stick”. This could have been the big reveal instead of Rey PALPATINE.
All my childhood heroes died to save Ben.
Han died confronting Ben and trying to persuade him to choose the light and to come home.
Luke died to save the rebellion and try to get Ben to confront what he as done to his father.
Leia died using her last bit of strength to pull Ben to the light.
AND BEN STILL DIED.
Ben, tormented by the dark voices all his life. Ben, felt neglected by parents who didn’t understand what he was going thru and busy living their own lives. Ben, always held back with Rey, never hurting her. Ben, who experienced pure love and happiness for like thirty seconds, then died. No ghost, no one mourned him. Not even Rey.
He was just cast aside.
So I’ve decided not to dwell on any of that. I’m just going to hold onto the good parts, like Rey and Ben’s scenes together, Babu Frik, Pasaana, Zorii Bliss, and Jannah. I’ll watch it again when I get the blu ray and maybe my feelings will have changed.
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welp. i saw it. and..... it was certainly a movie. *le sigh*
OKAY. I got out of this movie about 45 minutes ago, so these are just brain farts. but here we go.
WHAT I LIKED:
ben solo / kylo ren’s arc. because he actually... had an arc. i liked that he died?? it made sense. it worked. i even cried! (i loved the moments at the end when he was just ben and adam played it so differently than he had up til then and yes. good. like that moment when he’s fighting the knights of ren?? and the awkward little shrug he does before kicking their asses??? it was the first moment in the trilogy i thought ‘oh yep that’s han solo’s kid.’ and he actually got to smile an honest to god smile?? he was a flawed, fucked up character who, imo, was one of the most original choices the whole trilogy made. to have an antagonist like that.
speaking of han solo. the WAILING noise i made....
i thought what they did with leia was as good as it reasonably could have been. and yes i wept like a tiny child. and the fact that she and billie lourd got a moment was lovely (and billie basically wearing leia’s endor outfit in the final battle made my heart grow about 14 sizes)
MERIADOC BRANDYBUCK!!!!!! he had like 6 lines but my baby was there and he was good. at least rose got to hang with SOMEONE cool...
chewie and the medal. was it blatant pandering? yes. was i okay with that? yes i was.
dark rey looked badass.
i mean rey was generally just the baddest of asses and i appreciate that the other characters recognized this and were like ‘yep we’re just gonna follow her it’s all good.’
trio banter! i was never that committed to the idea that they needed to be together because i don’t think even the first film really set them up as a trio the way the OT set up theirs, but... the chemistry was good! they had jokes! poe doesn’t like bones! who knew?
BABU FRIK IS MY NEW BOYFRIEND. he and baby yoda need a roadtrip spin off show where they zoom around the galaxy being polite to people
SPACE HORSES AND BADASS LADIES RIDING THEM.
rey’s lightsaber’s cool.
WEDGE. ANTILLES. that was one i genuinely was not expecting and i sat bolt upright in my seat. (i know that ‘resistance reborn’ has something to do with this but i haven’t finished reading that yet so.... oops?)
the luke/leia flashback was a bit uncanny valley (especially on leia) but it was nice to see
ummmmmm..... i’m starting to run out of things i liked because there was so much that was just.... meh. a lot of nice moments in a big old pile of bland, unseasoned oatmeal mush.
WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE:
welp. the rest of it? I MEAN. there were so many good ideas or good moments or good characters that then.... got brushed past so quickly we hardly got a chance to get to know them!
this movie had about 87 macguffins. honest to god it felt like watching someone play a videogame where in order to complete one quest, they have to do about 12 mini quests to collect random items. the locations were all gorgeous! but they felt! pointless!!!!
Fucking. Palpatine. I’m not necessarily against the idea of palpatine being back. but they didn’t??? establish it????? ever?????? not even in TFA???? i mean, tfa had about as little world building as was humanly possible to include so maybe that’s not a surprise....
i’m so angry about the rey reveal. regardless of one’s feelings about some of the choices in tlj, the idea that rey wasn’t from some special bloodline was so good. she was just her own person. she was strong with the force and what made her special was what she chose to do with it. not because she had some legacy in her dna that she had to fulfill or defy or whatever. she was an ordinary person who could do extraordinary things. but nope! she’s palpatine’s granddaughter apparently! because if you’re gonna pander to fan theories, why not just choose the stupidest one???? the audience in my showing audibly groaned.
and of course there’s no explanation about WHY he was back. or how. he just was. zooming around on his big ass space cherry-picker.
i liked zori (sp?)! but like jahnna (sp???) we barely got to know her. her existence in the movie was so fleeting it was like the studio went ‘well let’s have poe flirt with his ex who looks like a member of daft punk so the sjws will stop asking for finnpoe!’ again. she was fun. i liked her. i even think she and oscar isaac had chemistry (though OI could have chemistry with a brick wall). i just wish there had been a POINT to her. honestly she’s a character i might totally take up as a muse....
SPEAKING OF POE. so.... he has a sketchy criminal background now? ugh. he had sketchy background just so they had an excuse to go to sketchy planet, not because it was particularly enlightening to his character.
i know star wars dialogue has ALWAYS been clunky, but this felt especially clunky??
finn yet again had nothing to do. jj tried to retcon the wrong aspects of tlj. what he should have fixed was finn’s storyline. what he did was ruin rey’s. and rose tico’s. fuck you jj for sidelining her. and like???? the idea of finding a whole bunch of fellow first order defectors??? WAS SO GREAT AND THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH IT. GGAAHHHHHH.
anyway, i could keep nitpicking, but honestly one of my biggest problems was that it just.... had no stakes. i mean, technically there was a lot at stake, but the movie rushed through it so quickly that even some of the genuinely nice character beats felt hurried and there wasn’t time given to just feel them. the big tension didn’t feel like the culmination of anything except this single movie. like yes this film was more like tfa than tlj, but it didn’t even do justice to that movie! the beats of this film all were so much like rotj, there was no suspense. there were no sacrifices beyond what you could see coming 1000 miles away. it just felt like an inevitable avalanche of meh thundering to its conclusion. i hate to say this bc he’s my fave of the ST, but poe maybe should have been shot down in that last battle???? so at least the big climax felt.... serious? bc the only sacrifice was a character from the comics that only a fraction of the audience will care about.
speaking of that..... I WILL NEVER FORGIVE JJ FOR KILLING SNAP WEXLEY FUCK YOOUUUUUUUUUUU SIR.
anyway. my sour feelings were summed up by the last line of the movie. i so desperately wanted rey to answer the question ‘rey who?’ with something like “rey. it’s just rey.” like she’s done a thousand times before, but this time, saying it with contentment and acceptance. instead we got “rey skywalker.” i wanted to see a young woman who, having learned about her past and freed herself from it, chose to just be herself. no other legacies, no other baggage. she was just rey. being who she was, choosing her own path for herself. but instead she’s hitched to a different legacy that’s not even really hers. i get what they were going for with the jedi legacy and luke and all that and i’m sure some people will love it. but it was such a disappointment to me.
this trilogy - which has things i do genuinely love! - just felt like an ill-planned exercise in corporate greed that didn’t actually have a vision for what it wanted to be. it didn’t want to be anything but a rehash of movies we’ve all watched already. i feel like bobo the fool for expecting (hoping) for something more but. welp.
#❧ oғғ тнe вrιdge (ooc)#none of this is coherent#it's all just brain droppings#and i have more feelings#if anyone wants to come scream with me in my ims#but yeah. yeah.#blarg.#tros spoilers
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Hari Minggu Ke-Empat is a feature film directed by Siti Kamaluddin and stars Shafie Morstar and Kai Anwar.
The film tells a story of Amin who is forced to take care of his neighbour, Bakar; an old man who suffers from acute depression, after he suffers from a heart attack.
This is honestly such a good plot, I really appreciate when writers take their time to write smaller and more meaningful storylines. However, this film unfortunately is very flawed.
Let’s begin with the positives.
The acting is one of the best coming from Shafie Morstar who brings his brilliance in facial expression to mold one of the strongest emotional scenes I’ve seen in Brunei cinema. However his acting did over shadow and somewhat highlight the weaker acting from other cast mates but I will talk about it later on the review.
I also really respect the subtle message about mental health which I recall used to be a taboo topic in Brunei. I really do appreciate that they did seem to put in effort to make actual research into acute depression and it was heartwarming seeing the old man slowly learning to be happy again.
Before I move on to the criticism, a short mention about the sound design and decent soundtrack is well deserved. In terms of their production level, I would say it has regressed a lot from Yasmine (2015) but I would assume is that they don’t have the $2 million budget for this one. This especially affected the lighting production level in some parts but the sound design I would say is still on par with general cinema.
As mentioned, this film is very flawed. The lighting in this film is horrendous. I am not one to usually criticise on technical film production but this film really felt as if they filmed in front of a green screen half of the time. For a film that has several scenes including gardening and colourful outfits, this film’s color grading did look bland and hard to look at sometimes. A missed opportunity.
Next thing won’t be easy to criticise but… Terry wong, who played as Liyana Yus’ husband in this film is beyond cringey and just purely bad acting-wise. This is probably due to the malay language that he is forced to speak in and also probably lack of acting direction. I know he is a theatre actor for the most part so I really think he is better than what was portrayed on screen. I really don’t enjoy on attacking individual actors so let’s move on to the plot.
This was a weird one, because I really do like the narrative idea and the plot but for some odd reason, it was just told in a very boring and badly-paced way. Some scenes and characters really felt lack luster and could’ve been cut out of the film as a whole and would have none to little effect towards the ending nor the film as a whole. So this really turned me off throughout the film.
Moreover, weird character choices and forced dramatic situations really directs the film’s downfall to lazy writing. Talking about lazy writing, this was one of the most confusing endings I’ve seen especially when (SPOILER ALERT) “Babu Si Nur”, who is Kai Anwar’s real life online persona, comes into the film as a different character…. So it just left me thinking “Is this ending a dream or is there just an Amin doppleganger who happens to be really famous?”. As cool as intertextuality is, this did ruin the film’s possibly heartwarming ending and just leaves the audience to be confused.
So after the ending, I thought to myself, what was the point? To be nice to others? To help others in need? Empathy? This is the reason why it was hard for me to fully embrace the film or be emotionally attached because I feel the film itself didn’t know their message themselves and the characters really felt very two-dimensional at most. There was a scene where Bakar mentions his wife died of cancer and also several scenes of him carving out chess pieces so it made me wonder if his wife had a similar passion for chess but this was not mentioned anywhere through the storyline which makes the scenes where he plays chess emotionless and just draggy.
I really feel the premise of the narrative idea itself deserves a fresh durian but sadly, it was executed very poorly and disappointingly… 5/10 rotten durian.
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Fanfic: The One With The Dog Mom and The Hot Vet
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Summary: AU. Cosima is a crazy loving dog mom and Delphine is a crazy hot veterinarian. Mrs. S and Kira rescue a dog. Dr. Leekie is a creepy old man. Krystal owns a chihuahua named Queen Kylie.
Chapter 2: The One Where Delphine Is A Hot Vet
"So, Babu is a mixed breed and a rescue?"
Delphine slowly reaches out a hand for dog on the table to sniff, introducing herself, then ever so gently rubs the back of his ear. Babu, her latest patient, is suffering a bad case of mange. The poor boy has it all over his back, his joints, and on his forehead. His white and brown coat is barely noticeable. The dog is also obviously malnourished. He was brought in by an older woman, probably irish judging by her accent, and an eight year old girl. They were in the emergency room where the dog is connected to an IV.
"Yes. Our neighbors recently moved out. We were surprised to hear howling earlier. The poor boy was hungry, thirsty, and crying when we found him. He was tied to his dog house in the back yard."
The irish woman answers, looking at the dog with sadness and concern.
"They left him there. They're not nice people."
The child almost whispers, upset that anyone would leave a poor dog like that, but soothingly rubbing the dog's torso. Delphine tucks a blonde curly lock behind her ear, bends down a little with her hands on her knees so she could address the child at eye-level.
"Oui, cherie. They are not good people. Thank you for bringing him here."
The doctor smiles at the child and puts a hand on her head. She then looks at the older woman and the older woman smiles back at her.
"Come on now, chicken. Let s go home. We'll come back to visit Babu again and we'll take him home when he's all better."
The older woman tells the child and the child nods in response. The two say their goodbyes and take their leave, but not until they both give the rescue dog a few loving pats and a boop to the nose.
Delphine walks them out of her clinic, nods to the older woman and waves them good bye. The french doctor was familiar with them because she has seen them around the neighborhood her clinic was in, the few times she could walk out to grab lunch or when she would take a quick jog at the nearest park. She'd learned that the woman was called Mrs. S. and the child was Kira, her granddaughter.
Delphine turns to her assistant at the lobby desk behind her.
"Gracie, do we have any more patients waiting?"
Her assistant had fiery curly red hair that was a contrast to the meek and innocent air about her. But, the blonde believes that there is more under the surface. Gracie has only been with her for a few months but the redhead was hardworking and kind to all the animals and made friends with most of her clients. She wears a scrubs uniform because she also doubles as a nurse at the clinic.
"No, Dr. Cormier. There aren't any. Although, Dr. Leekie did call to see if you wanted to have dinner..?"
Gracie's lip twitches up at the end of that statement and ends it as a question at her boss. Delphine gives her and eye roll and a bemused scoff.
"Ugh. That creepy old man has been like that since I was his student in Vet-Med school."
Her assistant chuckles a bit and she starts to take off her lab coat. She heads into her office and Gracie follows.
Delphine's office is a small space but it was designed to look and feel spacious. The walls are white and shades of gray, with one painting hung on each wall and an indoor plant situated at the corner. Her desk is occupied by a computer, a calendar, memo pad, a prescription pad, and a mug of different kinds of pens. A small bathroom meant for her use only is located at the back.
"Just keep telling him I'm busy and I don't have time for dinner. Or lunch. Or breakfast. Or him."
Gracie does not bother hiding her giggle at her boss's disgust at Dr. Leekie.
"Of course, don t tell him I said that-" Delphine grabs the gym bag she keeps in her office as she tries to clarify her statement
"Yes, Dr. Cormier. Noted."
Gracie cuts her off and the french doctor turns to her and gives her a genuine smile.
"You are a great assistant."
Gracie returns the smile with one of her one.
"Thank you, Ma'am. And while you're out jogging, I ll hold the fort down for you, call you if there s any emergency and make sure the groomers do their job."
Delphine touches Gracie's arm as a show of gratitude.
"I'll be back in a few."
With that, the doctor shoulders her gym bag and heads to her bathroom to change.
Delphine jogs at a leisurely pace around the dog park, unable to resist smiling at some of the cute and furry pets she sees. She is wearing a gray sports bra with matching gray leggings and black and white runners as her running outfit. The park is wide enough for the residents of the neighborhood to enjoy, with the grass always green and kept. There is only a few people there this afternoon.
"Heeey, Dr. Delphine!"
Krystal Goderitch, the ditzy but funny blonde calls out to the french woman. Krystal is one of her regular clients at the vet clinic, just happens to also be jogging and walking her fabulous chihuahua named Queen Kylie who is wearing matching pink doggie wrist bands on all four legs. She looks very much like Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde, out for a jog.
"Bonjour, Krystal."
Delphine says, catching her breath. She turns around and slows her jog until she is walking side by side with the other blonde. She bends down to greet the chihuahua with a pet on the head.
"Oh, and bonjour to you, too, Queen Kylie."
"You look like... pretty hot today, Doc. Like, you have a pretty rockin' bod... like, mine."
Krystal eyes the doctor from head to toe with her lips pursed then nods her approval. Delphine laughs with her hand on her chest
"Oh, Krystal, if you weren't so straight, I'd think you were making a pass at me."
Krystal also laughs at that.
"I know, right? Anyways-"
Krystal is cut off by Delphine's phone ringing. The doctor signals for Krystal to give her a moment, raising her hand while answering her phone. The ditzy blonde tells her that she was going anyway, and waves goodbye at Delphine. Krystal then carries Queen Kylie and makes a waving motion with the dog's paw. Delphine smiles and waves back.
"Oui? Is there something wrong?"
Gracie's voice comes through the speakers.
"Doctor Cormier, we have a four month old golden retriever/chow-chow puppy who has diarrhea and is vomiting."
"Okay. I will be there in two minutes."
Before Delphine hangs up, she hears another voice in the background that sounded clearly upset.
Is that the doctor? Is she coming now? Pancho needs medical attention!
"Gracie, is that the owner?"
"Yes, Doc. She is worried and upset that it might be parvo. Don't worry miss, the doctor will be here in a few minutes."
Gracie directs the last part at the upset owner. Delphine hangs up the call and jogs to the direction of her clinic, picking up the pace after a few steps.
Author's Note: Chapter 2 as promised! Krystal wasn't supposed to be in there but I had the funny image of her with a chihuahua a la Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde.
Babu the rescue was inspired by my dog Babu who passed away last year. I love him so much. I adopted him and he was also malnourished and had a bad skin disease. He died last year of unknown causes. I was busy with work and he died the evening before my day off when I was scheduled to take him to the vet. Yes, I was a bad owner.
Queen Kylie was a figment of my imagination. It seemed fitting that Krystal would name her dog that. Chapter 3 may take a few days. Please like, comment, and share with other OB and Cophine fans!
#the one with the dog mom and hot vet#cophine#orphan black#delphine cormier#cosima niehaus#delphine#cosima#cosima x delphine#delphine x cosima#mine#fics#my fic
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Celebrity Weddings and our crazy obsession with them will never end. From grand affairs to intimate setups, this year has seen it all and here’s our pick of the best.
It’s raining celebrity weddings and how! We sure have had our fill, from fantastic destinations to desi grandeur; all the outfits worthy of royalty and of course the beautiful pictures to justify it all!!
Celebrity Weddings 2018… Kick started with Sonam ki Shaadi!
A fairy-tale love story!
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The year kicked off with this great big Punjabi celebrity wedding that had us claiming
The eco-friendly e-vite!
From being modern and sending out only e-vites to having a traditional intimate Sikh ceremony, they did everything their own ‘phenomenal’ way and we louuuuved it!
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Sonam Kapoor’s wedding attire was created by fashion designers Anamika Khanna, Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla and Anuradha Vakil. While our Bhane groom Anand Ahuja looked dapper in Raghavendra Rathore.
Ivory and gold!
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Royally Dolled up!
Sonam’s sangeet look was white and gold brilliance bAbu Jani-Sandeep Khosla with a beautiful crochet lace blouse and jadau jewellery that spoke of sheer delicate elegance. Add to that the pretty jhumkas and fresh flowers braided in her hair… and we can see our own ‘Masakali’ taking flight!
Picture Courtesy: Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla
Their Bollywood-style sangeet saw the Kapoor clan i.e. Arjun Kapoor, Shanaya, Anshula and others dancing the night away from ‘Abhi to Party Shuru Hui Hai’ to songs from her upcoming Veere Di Wedding!
The Kapoor Gang!
Picture Courtesy: Arjun Kapoor
Ranveer Singh and Arjun danced to Anil Kapoor’s ‘My Name Is Lakhan’… and the sangeet pictures and videos that went viral showed entire B town having a blast!
Wedding Day!
Picture Courtesy: Sonam Kapoor
Sonam gave us D-day goals by going the traditional route, as she looked totally “jhakaas” in the red lehenga by Anuradha Vakil. She donned multi-stranded pearls mathapatti on her head, a gold choker, stunning raani haar necklace and lovely haathphool.
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At her star studded reception, Sonam surprised us with simple elegance as she wore a chevron-striped Anamika Khanna lehenga. A multi-layered kundan neckpiece was all it took to glam up the ensemble.
Read all about the Sonam Kapoor Wedding with an exclusive from her wedding planners Wedniksha in our Wedding Magazine – DOWNLOAD NOW!
What we Loved most about this Celebrity Wedding!
From the royal red wedding day look with layers of heirloom pearl jewellery to the glam ivory n gold Sangeet look – the fashionista totally slayed all her wedding looks and how!
Neha Dhupia & Angad Bedi
Beauty in Simplicity
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Almost everyone was caught by surprise by the news of Neha and Angad’s wedding! They opted for a simple day wedding in a Delhi gurudwara followed by a fun wedding lunch party.
Cuteness Overload!
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For her mehendi, Neha was dressed in a peacock blue House of Masaba fish print kaftan, that looked as festive as it was comfortable!
Hatke Bride!
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At her wedding, Neha looked radiant in her powder pink Anita Dongre wedding lehenga with a hint of green in the dupatta that framed her face!
The Carefree Bride!
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Her heavy kundan choker added the bridal glam to her look and simple bright pink bindi matched perfectly with Angad’s turban, pocket square and gathjoda.
The Dashing Groom
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Angad Bedi looked sharp and dapper in a white shewani and a pink pagdi that color coded with her in a simple classy way!
What we Loved most about this Wedding!
Whether you’re a top shot celebrity or one who lives down on earth, if you want – you can always opt for an intimate wedding instead of a long guest list (half of whom are just there for the food!!).
Yuvika Chowdhary & Prince Narula
Infectious Smiles!
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Reality TV stars tied the knot earlier this season and left us all floored with their wardrobe and cute chemistry!
Curls and all the Twirls!
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The mehendi ceremony saw the bride in a ‘not-so-common’ knee-length lehenga in fluorescent green – isn’t that a great idea to not get your mehendi spoiled and still have fun!
Dont’t care who’s watching!
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For her sangeet, Yuvika wore a glittering white outfit from Kalki Fashion with an over-sized maangtika, while Prince was his true punjabi self in a cream colored embroidered kurta.
Quintessential Indian Bride
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On the wedding day, the gorgeous bride donned a rich red Payal Keyal lehenga (with cute personalized hangings!) Her glittering maangtika with pretty pearl ghungroos and the stunning choker are to die for.
Fairy tale Reception!
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At her reception, Yuvika looked nothing less than a Princess in the most stunning shimmering fairytale ball gown by Eli and Kim, as Prince looked charming in his navy blue side draped bandhgala suit. Her diamond choker and the dainty tiara added such a magical touch – don’t you think!
Read all about their gorgeous wedding & 2 MORE fabulous Real Weddings in our latest Wedding Magazine “Thailand Dreams“!
What we Loved most about the Yuvika Prince Wedding!
Their adorable chemistry and ever happy connection, had us showering all heart emojis. Just like all Disney princesses, Yuvika found her ‘Prince’ Charming and had the most dreamy wedding!
Deepika Padukone & Ranveer Singh
Happiness all around
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This was one of the most awaited Celebrity Weddings of 2018, and decided to keep it an immediate family and closest friends affair. Everything screamed royalty in the heart of Italy at Villa del Balbianello.
Konkani traditions in full swing
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The couple got hitched in both Konkani and Sindhi style, and both were styled head to toe in Sabyasachi. For their Konkani wedding, both dressed traditionally and especially Ranveer surprised all in his ‘good groom’ gold veshti, silk kurta and angavastram.
Basking in Crimson!
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For the Sindhi wedding, the couple complemented each other in ravishing red attires by Sabya, but we are totally crushing over her wedding dupatta that had the sanskrit shlok “Sada Saubhgyavati Bhava” sewn along the borders – now that’s how you start a trend!
Regal Redefined
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Soon after, they hosted a reception in Bengaluru where Deepika wore a stunning emerald choker by Sabyasachi, while her Kanjivaram pure zari gold saree was given to her by her mother from Angadi Galleria. And Ranveer in Rohit Bal black velvet sherwani.
Such an angelic glow!
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For their second reception,both looked regal in classic gold on ivory outfits. Deepika’s Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla’s ensemble looked heavenly which Ranveer matched in a Rohit Bal sherwani.
But they saved the most glamorous look for last, which stopped us right in our tracks! Deepika sizzled in a ravishing red gown and long veil by famed designer Zuhair Murad…
Stunners!
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…and Ranveer was looking debonair in a black tuxedo by designer-duo Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna. The floral photo-wall was graced by the longest list who’s who of Mumbai.
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What we Loved most about this Wedding!
Their wedding saw all the royalty and elegance along with glitz, glamour and oomph. What we loved is their ability to confirm and contrast – by breaking expectations and setting for all to follow!
Don’t miss a THING! Check out their Gorgeous Wedding Pics and details HERE…
The Much Awaited Deepika Ranveer Wedding aka – Unveiled & Explored for you!
Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas
Having a time of their lives
Picture Courtesy: Stories by Joseph Radhik
This wedding saw the coming together of two diverse cultures in a slew of grand celebration that all enjoyed to the hilt! The Mehendi saw Priyanka dressed in a folksy Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla outfit while Nick Jonas gave her company in a kurta by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla too.
Chak De!
Picture Courtesy: Stories by Joseph Radhik
T’was fun watching the groom’s side happily play a round of cricket against the bride’s side and keep the wedding cheer alive! Their sangeet was a starlit event with fabulous performances…
Bollywood Diva!
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Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas and the groom himself gave tough competition to our desi diva and her Bollywood gang!
Dhoom Macha Le!
Picture Courtesy: Stories by Joseph Radhik
Priyanka’s glamorous avatar was courtesy a hand embroidered gold and silver sequinned sari paired with a gorgeous diamond necklace – all by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla!
Swaying Desi Style!
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For the Hindu wedding, Nick arrived on a ‘ghodi’ with full Indian style baraat, and both him and Priyanka looked royal in gorgeous Sabyasachi outfits.
Blissful Beginings
Picture Courtesy: Priyanka Chopra
But it was their Christian wedding that took away the cake! Beautifully officiated by Nick’s father, the wedding saw the couple was dressed in custom Ralph Lauren. And never before has he created a custom wedding gown for any bride anywhere!
Oh! look at that Veil
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The festivities concluded with a grand reception at the Taj Palace, New Delhi, where Priyanka looked angelic in a frosted nude lehenga by Falguni Shane Peacock that was adorned with millions of Swarovski crystals.
Love Blooms!
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What we Loved most about this Wedding!
It’s just amazing to see how our Desi Girl and Videshi babu honored both their traditions at the majestic Umaid Bhawan Palace. But people will be talking for ages about the stunning Ralph Lauren gown and it’s fairy-tale trail!
See Everything you missed about the PeeCee Wedding Right NOW!
Priyanka Nick Wedding – A Dreamy Fairytale Affair!
Isha Ambani & Anand Piramal
Papa’s Doll!
The most extravagant celebrity wedding of the year, and it all started when Anand proposed to Isha at a temple in Mahabaleshwar. Their engagement took place at Lake Como in Italy where Isha looked stunning in a nude Dolce Gabbana dress, while Anand rocked the Indian look in traditional attire.
Picturesque!
Then started the grand pre wedding festivities at Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipur in December. They began on a serene note with the Anna Seva and Maha Aarti, where Isha was shimmering in a custom made Manish Malhotra hand crafted lehenga paired with that stunning solitaire diamond set that had us bedazzled!
Pretty in Pink
Picture Courtesy: Manish Malhotra
At the grand sangeet that followed, Isha looked ravishing in her gold embellished ensemble by Manish Malhotra, who also designed the entire sangeet decor to perfection!
Sensational
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The sangeet was planned by Seven Steps Weddings & the entire Bollywood clan got together for the and set the stage on fire!!
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And if that wasn’t enough, we were witness to the performance of none other than Queen Bey, which took Indian Celebrity Weddings to a whole new level!
Goddess!
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With the sangeet hangover still very much present, we were back to Mumbai and treated to baraat, pheras and everything grand at the awe-inspiring Antilia. Isha wore this gorgeous Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla hand embroidered lehenga and we’re totally loving how she paired her mother’s 35 year old wedding sari (panetar) as the dupatta!
Mumma’s Girl
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From the couple’s color coded wedding outfits to the luxurious decor by Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, the enviable guest list and jaw-dropping food – everything was straight out of a fairytale!
Real Love
After the lavish wedding, the Ambanis hosted two starry receptions. The first one was hosted by the Piramal’s at their residence where Isha looked gorgeous in a swanky lehenga custom created by the Italian fashion house Valentino!
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The second reception at Jio Gardens, saw a magical performance by the music maestro A.R. Rahman. Isha wore a custom velvet lehenga from Sabyasachi’s zardosi revival series and looked regal, to say the least!
Blessings for Happy Future
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Next, Isha was styled head to toe in Sabyasachi for her Graha Shanti Pooja in a custom hand-painted, hand-embroidered tilla-work lehenga and antique bandhej dupatta.
Bridal Glow
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Her look was came alive with a necklace and earring set featuring uncut diamonds and Zambian emeralds by Sabyasachi Jewellery. The Grand Wedding was captured by a host of famous photographers- Stories by Joseph Radhik, Luxe_Captures, Jatin Kampani, Dabboo Ratnani and Hugo Burnand
What we Loved most about this Wedding!
The Ambanis set the gold standard for Indian Celebrity Weddings. The stunning outfit choices of Isha Ambani, the fabulous sangeet performances by the entire Bollywood clan; the majestic wedding and the grand Reception.
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And to top it all, the genuine hospitality by the entire Ambani family and visibly emotional father-of-the-bride Mukesh Ambani’s love for dear daughter is what floored us the most!!!
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Could I get a continuation of the beauty worth au? I loved it so much and id like to see what the little babus are up to after being there for a while
Part of this AU (X)
New Customs
Lovino is restless. His leg hasn’t stopped bouncing since they left Matthew’s home. He knew that this day would come eventually but he tended to ignore the possibility entirely. After spending so long in the bright colors of the Gold Kingdom, the sight of his old home is almost gloomy. A deep sigh escapes him as he tries once more to get his leg to stop moving.
Without a word Matthew takes his hand. Lovino takes a quick look at his husband. Matthew is smiling uneasily as he looks out the window. He has it worse as far as Lovino is concerned yet he’s the one doing the comforting. Lovino shakes his head. This home is more familiar to him, Matthew has been completely uprooted.
They spent a full year in the Glow Kingdom together, during the course of their engagement to see if they could be compatible as a couple. Should they have really despised each other, the engagement would have been broken off. Lovino considers himself lucky in that aspect. Matthew is sweet and agreeable in every fashion, handles his quick quips easily and usually ends up laughing at his sassy remarks. He’s very lucky.
Their wedding had been fun, or as fun as any kind of ceremony can be. The hall had been decorated in their kingdom’s crests with an overabundance of the Glow Kingdom’s favored colors. The spectators all wore subdued colors if only to make it so Matthew stood out. His outfit had soft patterns and hardly any hard edges in brilliant gold and white that made him shine.
It contrasted drastically to the dark red suit Lovino wore. The angles hard and crisp that accentuated they way he is. Opposite but complimentary. The golden ring that now sits on his finger a reminder of where his spouse had come from, a matching ring of red on Matthew’s hand.
Saying the vows had been weird, but not entirely forced. Lovino couldn’t say he didn’t have a soft spot for Matthew. The small kiss they shared has yet to be repeated though it wouldn’t be the worse thing for it to be the only one they have. Lovino is just glad to have someone around who likes him at all.
The year ended, the marriage flying by in a blur of a night, and just a month later the call for Lovino to return home with his new spouse had been made. As the 1st Prince, he is the heir to the throne, and must return home to continue being taught how to rule when his parental figures decide to retire.
As only a 2nd Prince Matthew is the one who has to go through a long goodbye not knowing when he would actually be able to see the people he calls family again. He and his brother shared a long hug and the 1st Prince tried to pretend he didn’t have tears in his eyes. Every thing Matthew called his got packed into carriages along with themselves.
Lovino looks out the window next to him. Along with his clothes and trinkets, the footman Matthew called his came too. Not that Lovino minds. At first of course he had been furious at the idea of his then fiance having a footman. It’s not something his home kingdom condoned, more so wanting people of ‘lesser looks’ far away rather than close.
Matthew had his reasons though, and Lovino can not fault him for wanting to save someone’s life, especially after it had been his fault the poor boy might have been killed. The odd beauty Matthew told him of first believed to be nonsense is nothing but the truth.
Gilbert is extraordinary in his eyes. Highly different than anyone he’s ever seen in a person and beautiful. His eyes fit so well the colors Lovino grew up with while mixed with his complexion makes him stand out. His hair is hard to keep clean he’ll admit but after a decent rinse it shines. Every day since he knew it would be okay Lovino has run his hands through it.
He’s not sure where Matthew stands with the footman but he knows the looks they both give the self confidence lacking servant are more than just an idle affection. It’s similar to the looks they give each other.
He can’t imagine the kind of pain Gilbert goes through, his whole purpose of being near them in the eyes of everyone else is just to be an ugly ornament. Lovino could never see him that and he knows Matthew hates the thought. They work so hard behind closed doors to make Gilbert laugh, show some sort of emotion other than cowering.
Some days his personality makes a break for it, laughing loudly and saying something a little too snarky that might get him whacked in the back of his head. Lovino snorts and mocks the person for having no sense of humor while Matthew makes sure Gilbert is okay.
Some days though the world seems to shatter at the dejected look Gilbert can’t seem to shake. They usually happen on eventful days. Days where he is fully seen with his comforting hood pulled back and no where to escape from the other ‘pretty titles’ mocking him for how he is. Those days make Lovino furious.
He can’t count how many times he’s stood up to others for Gilbert’s sake and he plans to continue to do so no matter what. It’s cruel that someone like Gilbert has to be put through what being a footman is. If anything, Lovino is glad for it only because otherwise he never would have gotten to meet the wonderful person Gilbert is.
“Yo,” He says plainly. Gilbert looks to him from the horse that has been given to him. Matthew squeezes Lovino’s hand on the other side and he catches a glimpse of the smile on his spouse's face. Lovino smirks at Gilbert who has his brows twisted in confusion.
“Just so you know, my Kingdom does not have footmen,” Lovino tells him. He snorts at the way Gilbert’s eyes widen.
“What’s going to happen then?” Matthew asks. Lovino turns to him quick to share the smirk then back to Gilbert.
“Guess he’ll have to be our personal servant,” He shrugs. Gilbert almost looks disappointed but Lovino has a plan.
“You’ll have to be with us at all times and make sure we have everything we need,” He explains, putting emphasis on the fact Gilbert should be with them no matter what. Matthew giggles and a small smile cracks itself onto Gilbert’s face.
“That won’t be too hard will it?” Matthew asks happily from the other side. Gilbert shakes his head and a snicker manages to slip out of him.
“Not at all my princes,” He says but there’s a glow in his eyes that hadn’t been there before. Lovino is a little proud to say he’s the reason for that.
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“Lovi!” Catching his brother somewhat easily, Lovino hugs Feliciano tightly, moving to bow to his mother and father next. His mother giggles brightly and pulls him in, forcing his dad to at least give him a comforting pat. Servants pour out of the castle to unload Matthew’s things and put them in the room the two will share. The Olive Palace is a welcome sight to him and the small homesickness he may have felt is far gone.
“Who is that?” Feli asks once he notices Gilbert carrying a special bag of Matthew’s more prized possessions. Gilbert bows properly first then tenses looking to Lovino and Matthew for help on what to do.
“He is my personal servant,” Matthew interjects quickly. The king and queen give each other odd looks at the excuses.
“He’s a little..strange don’t you think?” The queens says. Lovino smacks a hand to his face.
“Don’t be rude Carmen,” The king says to her though his disgust is just as evident. Lovino sighs.
“He used to be a footman, but we have both grown accustomed to his help and company and do not wish for him to leave,” He says darkly. The king and queen stare at him blankly before the queen laughs loudly and ruffles Lovino’s hair to mess it up.
“You always were the fiery one,” She says in a semi-condescending way. She turns on her heel and Feli follows after when she beckons for him, always the favorite. The king however pinches the bridge of his nose with a sigh.
“I trust you’ll forgive her eventually?” He asks. Lovino just raises an eyebrow to the question. Though not the worst of kings, as a father figure Roderich has some skills lacking.
“Not likely,” Lovino quips back at him. He waves Matthew and Gilbert to follow him. They both bow when they pass the king and scurry to follow after Lovino as he guides them to where he knows they have set him and Matthew up together. Their things are mingled already.
Once the door is closed Lovino presses the palms of his hands to his eyes with a deep sigh.
“How fucking rude!” He shouts suddenly causing Gilbert to almost drop the bag in his hands. He passes it off to Matthew quickly for fear of actually dropping it while Matthew just carelessly tosses the bag to the large bed in the center of the room.
“Lovino it’s going to be okay,” He says placing a soft hand on Lovino’s arm. He groans and snatches Matthew up in a tight hug that’s immediately returned. The squeeze is momentarily stopped by Lovino and Matthew both waving Gilbert closer. He does so hesitantly. When they wrap him up in the hug his hold on the two of them grows bold.
“One day no is going to say anything bad about you,” Lovino hisses aloud but they all know he says it for Gilbert’s sake. A small laugh escapes Gilbert and he smiles to Lovino gratefully.
“I’m pretty content to just be here with you both,” He says just a little awkwardly. Matthew takes Gilbert’s hand sweetly though Lovino’s glare grows.
“Content isn’t good enough, you deserve to be happy,” His tone is bitter. Gilbert laughs again but they can tell how much the sincerity gets to him when he casually rubs a small tear out of his eye. Lovino takes another deep breath then falls face first onto their bed. He’s joined by the two and lets them squish him into the feathers.
“Right now though, this is okay,” Matthew says to him. He grunts in response and Gilbert’s snicker is heard. As much as he hates how badly Gilbert is treated, what they have has to be enough. There will not be anything he can do until he is king and even then, it will take hours of learning, teaching, not to mention the years it will take to gain the proper knowledge. He’s still young.
They remain cuddled in bed until another servant comes to tell them a feast has been prepared. They join the main family in the dinning hall. Matthew is the one to answer questions about their time in his kingdom and the wedding. Lovino stays mostly silent until he has to talk. Gilbert stands with the other servants who aren’t sure how to treat him but his head is held high.
It will take some time Lovino knows this but one day he will make it so no one ever says anything bad about Gilbert again. The side glances they share and the slight smirks that appear when they do only cement the idea. Matthew smiles between them too and though Lovino isn’t sure where his feelings sit with the both of them, he knows he doesn’t want either of them to be less than happy.
#aph canada#aph south italy#aph prussia#prumano#romacan#prumanocan#drabble#me-ohh-my#polypolypoly#beauty worth au#fuckin!!! love this au#thanks for asking for it again my favorite pairing#the king and queen of the olive kingdom is austria and nyo spain#im sure a lot of people will think its hungary its not#my ideas for this au are probably never ending#ily
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A VERY CRAPPY BUT EXCITED SHINEE WORLD V IN DALLAS FAN ACCOUNT
honestly i dont even really know how to begin this like??? i feel like i have so much to say it was just the best day of my Entire Ugly Life. im so honored i really am it was just the most beautiful experience ever nd also so funny lkafsfsa i can’t wait to share with you !!
so first off: the Boys
onew: i,,, i honestly cant believe such a human exists he was so beautiful i really couldnt take my eyes off of him (duh) and surprise surprise i cried so much seeing him. i was seeing my 1of1 in the Flesh yet again but this time i was much closer!! he came to my side a lot nd thank u @ god for this smiling tofu. he really just made me smile so much my face started to hurt. I LOVE HIM WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING I WAS A MESS THE ENTIRE EVENING
jonghyun: yall his pictures dont do him justice he is STUNNING in person and i really mean that. it was so amazing to be able to witness him up close this time. when i was at the fanmeet i was in p2 but this time i was p1!! he no joke is such a smol bub its so cute kafdsafsa. THE BIGGEST CUTIE
minho: tol. tol. tol. tol. sO TOL. i mean holy moly those legs went on for DAYS my friends. he never stopped smiling the entire show i just,,, he loves us so much and it shows! he made so many cute gestures nd teased key all night i Lov it
key: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. THE MOST STUNNING. THE MOST ETHEREAL. but ofc thats to be expected by my mom. honestly he was serving so many looks and to see his cute dimples up close was such a treat. ALSO HIS ENGLISH MAKES MY HEART FUZZY EVERY TIME
taemin: the most handsome meme to ever walk the earth! he’s actually shorter in person which was interesting to me but boi he has Long Legs. when he came back out in the 2nd to last segment with those black pants i was Shook. he didnt talk too much bc he was SO shy but i found it very endearing. jong kept poking at him like “we should make taemin say ___” aljlfkdsafda he looked like he was ready to Pounce him
so they started with hitchhiking nd we were Ready ok like im not even sure you could hear the bg music bc of all the screaming it was insane. right when i saw taemin waltzing out i was at my feet screaming at my favorite meme !! god, their live voices are just too hard to explain. it feels like a warm hug if that makes sense
JULIETTE GUYS J.U.L.I.E.T.T.E JFDAS aka shinee’s top bop. i was banging so hard and key’s solo break dance was iconic. @ sm ent when will you stop sleeping on key’s talent???? it was incredible you could really tell they enjoyed performing that song
when prism started playing my lungs were set on fire. i was ready for key’s ass shake nd my phone was out but the security chic was so annoying about it and right when his move was about to come up she was like “you cant have that out” ….. i WAS TWO SECONDS AWAY FROM RECORDING IT. lmao whatever she didnt catch me recording sherlock (—:
REPLAY MADE ME SOB END OF STORY
as youve guys have probably already seen because its EVERYWHERE key’s gucci clothes got burned nd i was laughing so hard i was choking. he was just like “funny story right? ////:” HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN TO A PERSON but tbh his new outfit was a+++ king of wearing good clothes
i mean look @ it he was wearing a shawol colored suit Amazing. nd those heals… just kick me in the head???
yall knew i was gonna talk about sherlock. me: cried the entire song ((((: i was waiting for it tbh like i knew the line up of the songs so i was Ready when i heard that BRRrrRrRRRRRrrrr. i felt like i was the only one doing the chant it made me sad but im sure lots of others did it i just didnt hear!! i was yelling so much ik those girls next to me were annoyed. when onew did That Thing where he body rolls ajlfdsafdsa saved my entire 2017.
hi this ended me:
I DIDNT GET TO HEAR WHAT HE WAS SAYING BC THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE SCREAMING (relatable) buT ISNT THIS JUST THE CUTEST THING LAFDSA HE MAKES ME SO HAPPY I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYBODY. this was jongyu’s talking segment when the others got changed!! jong lovs onew so much he just smiled at him the entire time
taemin’s goodbye stage i…i dont even know how to say this bc there are no words to described how i feel. like i was so immersed in his performance that i forgot to wave my lightstick. i just couldnt stop staring at him??? some people were born to perform nd that person was lee taemin. that high note took me There
minho is the new dancing machine taemin is Cancelled (no jk aljfsda) but for real his dance break in lucifer was so hype! i wish i could have gotten a video of it but that security lady was out to get me istg. if you see it watch it !!
ALSO WHEN MINHO WAS ON MY SIDE HE WAVED AT ME AND MY SECTION I AJLFDS HIS SMILE CURED MY ACNE IT WAS INCREDIBLE. I WAS TOO SLOW GETTING MY PHONE OUT HE WAS ALREADY GONE BUT IT HAPPENED OK
jong was v close too hes so beautiful and has crisp golden skin i…
omg jongyu’s duet… to hear it in the flesh… it was like their voices were made for one another. they both had their eyes closed and were so into it like that was more beautiful than a new born puppy. god i just want to keep hearing it over and over again
MY FAVORITE PART OF THE WHOLE ENTIRE SHOW WAS taemin was talking about, you know, how he was feeling about the show and being in dallas again nD KEY BROUGHT BACK UP THE DAMN GUCCI CLOSES BURNING nd taemin went “we aren’t talking about that” I LAUGHED SO HARD I SNORTED AND OFC TAEMIN WAS TOO. he’s such a little shit jklafsda
ONEW FELL DURING READY OR NOT HE WAS SO EXCITED AND HYPED ND HE FELL I WAS LIKE !!!!! I WAS ABOUT TO PRESS LIFE ALERT. my sweet babu he was just having the time of his Life. lajkfsa i was scared when he was on top of the metal stand spinning i was just asking god to protect his Clumsy Ass
key tried to trick me with that “i know my english is…” YOU JUST WANT TO BE PRAISED HUSH ALFSLJ I WILL PRAISE YOU
taemin’s little shimmy butt shake in 1of1 is so cute i cant believe i witnessed that in person. also onew smiled so much too i kljfdsafda !!!
SELENE 6.23 WAS SO POWERFUL I FELT MY SOUL BEING RENEWED. JONGHYUN’S VOICE IS NOT A LIE TALK ABOUT A POWERFUL MAN
now you KNOW my ass caught on camera onew spinning his microphone stand during dream girl. i never whipped out my phone faster. HIS ARMS WERE SO TONED I WANT HIM TO WHACK ME IN THE HEAD WITH IT
youre probably asking yourself “did mich Die during sherlock” nd the answer to that kids is yes… yes i did
also jongkey is Confirmed. literally every single time key opened his mouth jonghyun just laughed his head off and slapped his knee. hes such a good bf!!
the most visual bfs
jonghyun said that he loved our energy!! he said that the reason they were trying so hard for us was because of it and he wanted us to have a good show. well jong congrats i had the best evening of my entire 19 years of living on this god forsaken planet
TAEMIN STRUGGLED SO MUCH TRYING TO INTRODUCE THE NEW SONG AND HE GOT SO FLUSTERED IT WAS SO ADORABLE IM PROUD OF HIM
no shocker here but i cried my eyes out during an encore. all the boys lit up when they saw the banners and onew closed his eyes and swayed back and forth smiling. it just makes me happy bc shinee really loves us so much
i have like 1905233 pics of onew doing his windmill but look at him Go!! he’s doing That
at the end they were all saying their goodbyes and telling us how much they enjoyed us and dallas! i think it was either jong or key but they said they definitely want to come back so you know my annoying ass will be there again to see shining shinee. ALSO THEY SAID TO EXPECT GREAT MUSIC SOON SO YALL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. they bowed to us and thats when the tears started happening again. it truly was such a magical evening and im so sad that it has already ended. i cant wait to see you boys again! please stay safe and healthy for the rest of 2017 and on!!
#this is really long sorry!!#shinee#onew#jonghyun#key#taemin#minho#shinee in dallas#shinee world v#shinee world v in dallas#swc
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