Deepanjana
@dpanjana.bsky.social
Writer • Critic • Most likely to be found in arty rabbit holes
Has someone written about the monstrous feminine in the context of South Asian films and folklore? I'm too phattu to watch or write about this, but very much up for reading the analysis and literature. If you know of something, point me in that direction?
April 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Has someone written about the monstrous feminine in the context of South Asian films and folklore? I'm too phattu to watch or write about this, but very much up for reading the analysis and literature. If you know of something, point me in that direction?
I will be recovering from Sinners by simultaneously overanalysing every detail I can remember and binge-watching the next five episodes of The Apothecary Diaries.
a little girl with a cat ear on her head is smiling
ALT: a little girl with a cat ear on her head is smiling
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April 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I will be recovering from Sinners by simultaneously overanalysing every detail I can remember and binge-watching the next five episodes of The Apothecary Diaries.
About Sinners, which absolutely lives up to the hype btw:
1. Buddy Guy!
2. 100% need a spinoff about the Choctaw vampire hunters
3. the time-bending musical number was great, but Pale Pale Moon was INCREDIBLE
4. Love how it all began with a lie (about the guitar).
1. Buddy Guy!
2. 100% need a spinoff about the Choctaw vampire hunters
3. the time-bending musical number was great, but Pale Pale Moon was INCREDIBLE
4. Love how it all began with a lie (about the guitar).
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
About Sinners, which absolutely lives up to the hype btw:
1. Buddy Guy!
2. 100% need a spinoff about the Choctaw vampire hunters
3. the time-bending musical number was great, but Pale Pale Moon was INCREDIBLE
4. Love how it all began with a lie (about the guitar).
1. Buddy Guy!
2. 100% need a spinoff about the Choctaw vampire hunters
3. the time-bending musical number was great, but Pale Pale Moon was INCREDIBLE
4. Love how it all began with a lie (about the guitar).
Meta’s argument for pirating books rather than paying for books to train its AI: “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” Just evil. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Meta’s argument for pirating books rather than paying for books to train its AI: “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” Just evil. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
This is so beautiful and so sad and ironically, so life-affirming. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph
‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this life together’
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April 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is so beautiful and so sad and ironically, so life-affirming. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Thoroughly charmed by North of North. Lots of complex issues dealt with a light touch. A messy older woman, a knotty mother-daughter relationship, coming out of a bad marriage, the shadow of past trauma, race and colonisation, the importance of community — all this and also laughs.
a woman in a purple shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator with the words north of north behind her
ALT: a woman in a purple shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator with the words north of north behind her
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April 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Thoroughly charmed by North of North. Lots of complex issues dealt with a light touch. A messy older woman, a knotty mother-daughter relationship, coming out of a bad marriage, the shadow of past trauma, race and colonisation, the importance of community — all this and also laughs.
Such a good examination of ideal masculinity in pop culture and the possible messages they contain (pegged to that bizarre Ashton Hall video, but looking at a whole lot more). www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8T...
The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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April 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Such a good examination of ideal masculinity in pop culture and the possible messages they contain (pegged to that bizarre Ashton Hall video, but looking at a whole lot more). www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8T...
Every time I question my life choices, I will remind myself that at least I didn't become the person who announces executive orders about "a war on showers".
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Every time I question my life choices, I will remind myself that at least I didn't become the person who announces executive orders about "a war on showers".
"“That is the American renaissance. We are robot fluffers." ~ Jon Stewart on The Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfl...
Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & The Stock Market's Meltdown | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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April 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"“That is the American renaissance. We are robot fluffers." ~ Jon Stewart on The Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfl...
Me showing up to submit final draft of novel.
March 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me showing up to submit final draft of novel.
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I want this more than I probably should
March 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I want this more than I probably should
Enjoyed every episode of Severance S2 while watching it, but this season is a disappointment for the way the story stagnates instead of moving forward. It's as though the season is nothing more than a setup for the resolutions in the next season.
March 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Enjoyed every episode of Severance S2 while watching it, but this season is a disappointment for the way the story stagnates instead of moving forward. It's as though the season is nothing more than a setup for the resolutions in the next season.
Brilliant documentary, fantastic moment. Just for the rousing reception that the room gave No Other Land, the Academy gets a thumbs-up from me. If you can find No Other Land — which no American distributor picked up because…? — you must must watch it.
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham gave an incredible speech calling for peace and an end to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and continued imprisonment of the hostages when accepting the Best Documentary Oscar for “No Other Land, calling out US complicity!!
March 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Brilliant documentary, fantastic moment. Just for the rousing reception that the room gave No Other Land, the Academy gets a thumbs-up from me. If you can find No Other Land — which no American distributor picked up because…? — you must must watch it.
Henceforth, I’m watching cricket if Afghanistan is playing.
February 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Henceforth, I’m watching cricket if Afghanistan is playing.
Snippets from my column on Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and Satyajit Ray’s Nayak:
February 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Snippets from my column on Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and Satyajit Ray’s Nayak:
Need work music for an 8-hour shift? Apple's got you covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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February 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Need work music for an 8-hour shift? Apple's got you covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...
Zero interest in cricket or Champions Trophy but this classic rock playlist (just heard Sweet Child O’ Mine and Living on a Prayer for boundaries scored) at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium — 🫶🏾
February 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Zero interest in cricket or Champions Trophy but this classic rock playlist (just heard Sweet Child O’ Mine and Living on a Prayer for boundaries scored) at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium — 🫶🏾
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When I first started learning about the ancient Mesopotamian demoness, Lamashtu, about fifteen years ago, it never occurred to me how much I'd end up saying 'semen stealing'...
Also this was so much fun!
Also this was so much fun!
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am getting snake like and serpentine with @readingartefacts.bsky.social to discuss the original demoness, Lilith.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When I first started learning about the ancient Mesopotamian demoness, Lamashtu, about fifteen years ago, it never occurred to me how much I'd end up saying 'semen stealing'...
Also this was so much fun!
Also this was so much fun!
On the plus side, the algorithm evidently has some way to go before it becomes the master of us all.
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
On the plus side, the algorithm evidently has some way to go before it becomes the master of us all.
Chatting with a friend of the ye olde days of the internet, when it was a place of silliness and fun, I was reminded of Figwit. Thrilled to discover there's a whole page on Wikipedia for an elf extra who was in LOTR: FOTR for three seconds.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
Figwit - Wikipedia
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January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Chatting with a friend of the ye olde days of the internet, when it was a place of silliness and fun, I was reminded of Figwit. Thrilled to discover there's a whole page on Wikipedia for an elf extra who was in LOTR: FOTR for three seconds.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
January 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Oscar love for Emilia Pérez is proof if anyone needed it that Hollywood is all about tokenism. While it’s excellent that a trans actor was cast in the lead, there’s so much that’s questionable and/ or lazy about that film and its trans representation.
January 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Oscar love for Emilia Pérez is proof if anyone needed it that Hollywood is all about tokenism. While it’s excellent that a trans actor was cast in the lead, there’s so much that’s questionable and/ or lazy about that film and its trans representation.
The idea of Homeric heroes being eco-warriors wouldn't have struck us if we weren't in the middle of a climate crisis. (Honestly, wish Uberto Pasolini and his writing team had read some of these modern interpretations and analyses before making The Return.) theconversation.com/the-heroes-o...
The heroes of Homer’s Iliad are eco-warriors battling to protect nature
Homeric heroes must get nature on their side if they are to overcome the enemy.
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January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The idea of Homeric heroes being eco-warriors wouldn't have struck us if we weren't in the middle of a climate crisis. (Honestly, wish Uberto Pasolini and his writing team had read some of these modern interpretations and analyses before making The Return.) theconversation.com/the-heroes-o...
Flow, by Gints Zilbalodis, is utterly and completely gorgeous. I suppose one could nitpick about some details, but why would you when it gives you moments as beautiful as these.
January 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Flow, by Gints Zilbalodis, is utterly and completely gorgeous. I suppose one could nitpick about some details, but why would you when it gives you moments as beautiful as these.