#RRR post

[addlepine]

i encourage everyone to read this webtoon and i dont even read webtoons!!!!

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

Ah yes, my favourite trope: homoerotic betrayal

When you got to arrest your best friend/boyfriend because he is an enemy of the oppressive state and you are the state's enforcer :/

[enigma-the-mysterious]

What. What the fuck are the implications here??

[eowyntheavenger]

What is RRR?? (Please, it looks so good)

Oh my god YES, YEEEESSSSSS, I am so ready to answer this, thank you anon, I feel like I’ve been CHOSEN!!!!!!! Let me tell you about the best movie ever!!!!!!!!!!! it IS so good!

RRR (which stands for Roudram Ranam Rudhiram or Rise Roar Revolt) is an Indian Telugu-language film that came out in 2022 and became India’s third highest grossing film ever because it is THAT amazing.

This movie has EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT. Unbelievable, over-the-top action! British colonizers getting what they deserve! Stunning cinematography, sets and costumes! A soundtrack so incredible you’ll never be able to stop listening to it! Tigers! (They’re CGI, no animals were harmed in the making of the film.)

And, most importantly, it has one of the most compelling and beautiful onscreen romances relationships between two men that I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!! This movie is SO gay I can’t even begin to tell you. Like not officially gay, but GAY. I love it so much. Listen. LISTEN TO ME. The entire cast is great, but in particular the two leads are AMAZING and their chemistry is INSANE. They are magic together.

RRR is set in the 1920s and it’s about two revolutionaries named Komaram Bheem (played by Jr. NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (played by Ram Charan) who never met in real life, but the movie says, what if they did? It explores themes of friendship, betrayal, colonization, racism, revolution, religion, trauma, and… what if two men fell in love while fighting the British? AND FALL IN LOVE THEY DO

I don’t want to spoil anything but like. WATCH IT. It’s three hours long and worth EVERY SECOND. You might wonder, in a three hour movie, are there parts that feel slow? NO. This movie is incapable of dragging, and so much is packed into three hours it’s actually kind of crazy. The story is so good the themes are so good the acting is so good IT MAKES ME FERAL!!! DID I MENTION THE SOUNDTRACK???

I CRY AND SCREAM ABOUT RRR EVERY DAY. This movie is unhinged, and it made me unhinged, and hopefully you will watch it and become unhinged as well <3 thank you and goodnight!

[hitoshi-p0n]

Lovestruck (2/3)

Sorry this took awhile 😭😭 I was procrastinating on another drawing and forgot about this 💀 I have the sketch for hyuluka so it shouldn’t take too long?? We’ll see 😅😅

[katblazeparttwo]

magma tma sketches <333

[rathiman]

you know what I miss rn? The niche desi fandoms that were hyperactive for a while and slowly fizzled out. So many friendships were born out of these fandoms. There three that were the most impactful out of these for me. So RIP Bahubali Fandom, RRR Fandom and Ponniyin Selvan Fandom. Also are y'all still sneaking out here?

[pariaritzia]

Queerness in Indian Media

↳Film: RRR (2022, Telugu), dir. S.S. RAJAMOULI

RRR is a historical fantasy action drama that follows Bheem (NTR Jr), a Gond warrior who is in search of a Gond girl who was taken away from their home, and Ram (Ram Charan), the British Army officer assigned to catch him. Ram and Bheem meet under false identities and quickly grow closer, but everything is thrown into chaos once the truth is revealed and Ram is forced to choose between his ambitions and his attachment to Bheem.

Long before any white person had ever heard of RRR, queer Indians were cautiously optimistic that there would be something for us in this movie. There was the song Dosti, which felt more romantic than the average song about friendship; Bheem's intense declaration toward Ram in the trailer; Rajamouli explaining that there is no boy-girl romantic song (a staple of masala Indian cinema in any language) because "the romance angle is between these two guys only...bromance...they are the heroes, they are the hero and heroine, and they are the hero and villain"; the lead actors repeatedly questioning interviewers who referred to Jenny and Seetha as Bheem and Ram's love interests; and the writer, V. Vijayendra Prasad, being a huge fan of Salim-Javed movies, particularly Sholay, whose homosocial pairing has been read as queer by queer Indians for decades.

The movie itself gave us more than we could have hoped for from a project made on such a huge scale. Ram and Bheem mimic many of the "hero and heroine" pairings in so many masala movies, doing everything from the "slow-mo staring" for the first meeting, to getting a whole montage song for the progression of their bond, to dressing each other up, to dancing together at a party, to carrying each other, to rescuing each other.

The final rescue scene is perhaps the most telling, as it twists a well-known myth from the Ramayana by putting Ram and Bheem in the position of heroine and hero. It is not Hanuman who tells Rama where to find Sita in Lanka, but instead Seetha who tells Bheem where to find Ram. Bheem, upon finding him, promises to get him out 'even if [he has] to burn this Lanka down to do it'--then promptly carries him on his shoulders the way Hanuman carried Rama, to do away with any suspicions from homophobic audiences.

Those homophobic audiences still made their complaints--a glance at the oldest comments on any clip or behind the scenes video for RRR will make that clear--but they were drowned out by the many fans of the movie. Ultimately, like with any coded movie, the interpretation is up to the individual, but it is undeniable that a number of queer Indians felt that there was a romantic bond between Ram and Bheem. To dismiss that would do a disservice to the many queer people who have, are, and always will work quietly behind the scenes to write our stories, even if they can never say so directly.

[campterodactyl]

[childofthenight2035]

RRR (2022), dir. S. S. Rajamouli

[chemicalarospec]

[addlepine]

a match made in heaven

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

Yo Goldenheart and Nimona nation, do i ever have good news for you!

Do you like homoerotic betrayals?

Do you like lovers best friends being torn apart upon finding themselves on the opposite sides of a war? Where each is burdened with the responsibilities from their chosen role?

Do you like couples where one half represents the oppressive regime and the other half embodies EVERYTHING the said oppressive regime hates? Where the one half, acting as a tool of violence and subjugation for the oppressive regime, has to HUNT DOWN and ARREST the other half who has sworn to attack the oppressive regime head on?

Do you like couples with opposing colour schemes? Where one half embodies a particular element and the other half embodies a contrasting element? Do you like couples who are each other's foils? DO YOU LIKE COUPLES WHO ARE THEMATIC PARALLELS TO EACH OTHER??

Do you like a story that's rich in symbolism? Rife with metaphors? A movie that you can rewatch again and again and STILL discover new stuff to lose your mind over?

Do you like a story where love shines brighter than the sun? Where love conquers all the hurt, anger, grief, heartbreak, generational trauma and violence? Where love heals? Where the sheer power of love changes the entire course of the narrative? Where love rewrites history itself?

Do you like movies that make you feel THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM of human emotions within its runtime?

Do you like gorgeous, jaw dropping cinematography? Do you like highly stylized action sequences?

Do you like banger music and a soundtrack that slaps HARD? Do you like a wonderful song and dance interlude in a movie as it shifts into the next act?

Do you like a character who is just the sweetest and the best and deserves everything that is good in the world and has BIG BROWN MASSIVE ADORABLE DOE EYES? And then proceeds to go through the literal WORST TIME ever?

Of course, you do! You like Nimona!

And ho boy, are you gonna LOVE RRR. Because this movie has got ALL of that and then some more. It's an epic, it's a war movie, it's a love story, it's highly symbolical, it's going to take your heart and rip it into two. And you will thank it for that.

Hmm, Enigma. But where can I watch it? 🤔

It's available on Netflix but only as the dubbed Hindi version. It's pretty good for a dub as the actors dubbed their characters themselves and the director oversaw the translation but! But! Listen! There is a magic in the original Telugu version and if you want to experience it, then thank @charcubed for this post where you can download the original Telugu version in crisp HD with English subtitles FOR FREE

There is a third option. You can stream it for free in Einthusan here. However, the quality of the Einthusan stream is not good, and if there is one movie that DESERVES to be watched in crisp HD quality? Trust me, it's RRR

So, what are you waiting for? Go watch it, RIGHT NOW. Seriously

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Oh my fucking God. RRR FANDOM! NETFLIX INDIA ACTUALLY HAD THE FUCKING BALLS. THEY WENT FULL MASK-OFF. OH MY GOD I AM SCREENSHOTTING THIS TWEET FOR POSTERITY

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[eowyntheavenger]

I feel like we talk a lot about how unhinged Ram is (because let’s be real he is TRULY unhinged) but can we also get some unhinged Bheem love?

This man covered himself in blood so a wolf would chase him and then he caught a tiger instead and roared in its face:

He looked like this while he was being tortured:

He throws leopards and motorcycles at people:

He shows up to your party like this:

And also like this:

And he’s RIDICULOUSLY cute:

LOOK AT HIM

[trans-jon-rights]

Recently, I was thinking about a very particular flavour of Monster Jon fics.

The ones in which Jon's appearance switches over the course of the story, ending up without an ounce of humanity remaining into his features, while Elias himself stays perfectly human.

Because in those stories, what is interesting is how Jon will always be the one blamed for being monstrous. It's his fault, he was the one who went down that path.

But just like Viktor Frankenstein and his monster, is it truly his fault ? Jon is like the seven corpses of those men. He didn't choose to be made into the Archivist by Elias, yet he ended up being a part of his creation. The Archivist didn't choose to be made either, but Elias gave it life through years of work.

Funny how, even in canon, Jon is always the first to be blamed, even before Elias himself.

Take, for example, the dialogue between Tim and Martin in MAG 58.

Over the course of this entire interaction, Tim blames Jon for his paranoia, and Martin tries to defend him. Yet, Elias, the authority figure, is mentioned one time, then completely bypassed to put the blame on Jon.

In this situation, Jon is stalking his coworkers. Elias should do something, right ? Jon is clearly under a lot of pressure and mental distress. He can't realistically be expected to take the whole situation for himself because he isn't in a mental space where he can. Elias should be the one blamed for not doing something about it (for example, forcing Jon to take time off until he gets better, suggesting therapy, or sanctioning him for his behaviour towards his coworkers), but he isn't. Tim talked to Elias, but it "doesn't seem to be doing good". Martin suggested therapy to Jon, but "he keeps saying no". Again, Elias should be blamed for these issues, but Jon is instead.

And in the stories where Jon became monstrous in appearance as well, Jon is blamed for becoming what he did, even though it's not his fault.

Jon may be the one who looks like a monster, but he is only the victim of Elias' own monstrosity.