aghowes.bsky.social
Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
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my elderly cat years ago had intermittent kidney problems, and if he was taking in water and food we considered it not an emergency, it was only a problem if he stopped doing that (obvs caveat am not a vet, but sounds like a monday regular hours check-up will be ok)
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thought I was blessedly dodging this one, then TWO people just shared it :<
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lush lush lush
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A crabby blue tektite from #zelda 2 that I did years back in acrylic. They looked like taller stilt-like monsters to me in that game. I was trying to think how I could make how they looked in Zelda 1 & 2 work together.
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you are going to LEARN
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this is such a fun idea for a party
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It's also very funny to arrive late at a film that's clearly inspired a lot of subsequent media, because I'm lying here thinking "wow getting a lot of Scavengers Reign vibes off this"... yes, undoubtedly...
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gutted I can't follow more than once to speed this up
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honestly this is one reason I like taking myself to the cinema, because the combination of sensory immersion and no-phones-allowed means I get an entirely focused experience
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Birds should hold still so I can admire them.
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I definitely saw something yellow and that kind of shape, and for a moment (having recently been in London) thought one of the parakeets got very lost, but yellow, not green.
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understandable decision
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all the colours 😍
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thank god he did, I remember that film being great fun
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this is a plot that has the Chinese accuse the British of being in their territorial waters, when it's later confirmed the British were in Vietnamese waters, and when the film moves to Vietnam, it puts Saigon on the coast and forgets to hide Thai signs from filming in Bangkok + adds Chinese signs
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given the British Navy launch a missile, and are later seen to be in the South China Sea, I assume we're dealing with the Pacific theatre, hence ruling out Caucasus or E Europe (or even further inland) for the sake of vague connectivity
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Enjoyed that far more than I expected to. It's not good but it's also fun. Every time Michelle Yeoh does something, I cheer. Still need to know exactly where the A TERRORIST ARMS BAZAAR AT THE RUSSIAN BORDER was. North Korea? China? Mongolia?
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I was hoping to do this in 2020, but obviously couldn't – safe travels! looking forward to your photos/videos :D
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haha cool anyway [joke] [redacted]
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👀👀👀 one of my one-day routes, in particular the Thailand through Indonesia leg; I'm looking forward to your posts!!
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There's a decent quality rip on youtube, but Chinese subs only.
Pema Tseden is great, though, and it'd be cool to see more of his work widely available in English.
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THE SEARCH (2009) An exquisitely sad, self-reflexive road movie: a woman and a man each search for their respective lovers as a director auditions prospective actor-singers for a Tibetan opera film 3/
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Watched it last night, still thinking about it today, that's kino.
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I'm weak for (good) narratives about narrative, and in this case there's as much withheld as shared: a gesture, like those of the actors in front of the fabric screen in the most stage-like scene, at the bigger thing.