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Summary: The call comes sometime after midnight, pulling you instantly alert from your deep sleep. Your phone is set to “Do Not Disturb,” and only one number is programmed as an exception.

Characters: Reader, Steve Rogers (Nomad Steve Rogers, Nomad Captain America)

Word Count: 2201

Warnings: Sexual Content, a dash of angst, splash of consensual roughness.  

18+ ONLY.

Author’s Notes: Thanks to @there-must-be-a-lock​ for advice, fix-its, and flails. Thanks to @thoughtslikeaminefield​ for flails, swoons, and suggests. 

Extra thanks to @glassjacket​. You influenced every step of this story, you gave me my song, and this beautiful image edit. 

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How long you would wait for me? How long I've been away? The shape that I’m in now is shaping the doorway. Make your good love known to me.  Just tell me about your day.

Hozier, “As It Was”

The call comes sometime after midnight, pulling you instantly alert from your deep sleep. Your phone is set to “Do Not Disturb,” and only one number is programmed as an exception.

“Are you home? I...I need you.”

“Of course you can come, let me just-”

“I’m already here.” A pause, and then, “I let myself in. It was too risky to wait-”

You hang up the phone, switching it off as you slide out of bed. Your feet don’t even register the shock of the cold hardwood as you pad across the floor, opening your bedroom door and moving down the hallway. The hair on the back of your neck rises, your nerves jangling in anticipation.

It’s been nearly five months since you’ve seen him (you had him for three whole days, that time), and it was six months before that (only a single day). You don’t allow yourself to speculate in the brief moment before you see him, refusing to analyze just how tired and broken and lost he sounded in the few seconds you spoke.

He’s here, he’s here, he’s here, your heart whispers with each rush of blood.

You turn the corner from the hall into your cramped living room, big enough for a loveseat and a tiny coffee table, but no more. It seems all the more cramped for the super soldier occupying the room. 

He fills all the available space, his black-clad figure blending with the shadows as you pause to take him in.He hasn’t bothered to turn a lamp on, and the only light filters in from the street through your amber curtains. 

The room is tinted sienna, and the bare skin of your legs that shows beneath the hem of your oversize t-shirt (his shirt, left behind many visits ago) is shaded a dark, aged bronze. Steve’s hair is nearly black in the gloom, his eyes colorless and deep. He's no longer the golden hero you'd learned about in school; he's tarnished and aged with misuse. Up until the last few years, the media had been singing songs of praise for the wonder soldier.

You pause a few feet away. His eyes linger on the floor for a heartbeat or two before rising to meet yours. His face is streaked with dirt and what might be faint smudges of blood if you were to look any closer. He’s shed his tactical gear, leaving it in a neat pile near the door, but otherwise, he hasn’t bothered to clean up from his last mission.

“Nat and Sam told me to say hello,” he says, a tired smile raising the corners of his lips.

“Did it go badly?” you ask. 

Steve drops onto the loveseat and sits for a moment, silent, lost, and worn. He doesn’t speak for a long, loaded moment, but you can’t think of what to do to fill the silence.

Finally, Steve exhales, his hands scrubbing up through his beard to dig the heels of his palms into his eyes. His face tilts forward, damps strands of hair swinging loose from where he’s pushed it back out of his face.

“I hate coming to you like this. I should clean up, get a shower or wash my face, at least.” Despite his strength, the lightest brush of your hand on his shoulder halts his rising. His face, otherwise untouched by the years, is lined with worry and grief. You cup his cheek in your palm, your thumb gently smoothing over the dark circles under his eyes. Exhaustion radiates from him, and your heart aches.

“You can shower later. You’re exhausted. Let me help you clean up enough so you can at least get some rest with me. Then we’ll get you a shower. Are you hungry?”

You’re expecting the refusal of food, but you still sigh as you retrieve a deep bowl and a clean towel from your kitchen. Steve is always hungry, but he will almost never admit it, especially when he’s like this. You fill the bowl with warm water and return to find him bent over, elbows planted on his knees, face buried in his hands.

“Still awake there, soldier?”

Steve snaps to, every line of him tense as if he’s ready to spring up from the couch, but you’re ready for this reaction (some lessons are learned the hard way), and you’ve stopped a few feet short of your target. You give him time to relax and then you set your bowl on the coffee table. 

“Take your shirt off?” 

Steve nods wearily, stripping down to the waist, and you examine his torso with a critical eye. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times he reminds you of his healing abilities; you always have to see for yourself. As always, his abdomen is free from marks and wounds: literally more perfect than the day he was born.

“Do you want to talk about the mission?” A toss up, really; some nights, he needs to vent. Most nights, he needs to escape. A quick shake of his head shows you it’s going to be one of the latter.

“In that case, have you heard about a pigment called Vantablack?” Steve shakes his head, his eyes locked on your face as you move over him with your warm, damp cloth. “Then let me tell you about a couple of guys named Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple. You’ll love this.”

For the next several minutes, you carefully clean Steve’s face of any traces of filth, moving on to his neck and chest when you are satisfied with your work. You keep up a steady narrative, outlining the drama between the two artists, giving Steve as detailed a history as you can, knowing he appreciates those little tidbits as much as you do. 

You stop once to fetch a clean towel and fresh bowl of water, and by the time you reach the waistband of his trousers, Steve is visibly more relaxed and even smiling a little as you bring him up to speed on the pigment feud. A shower would have been more efficient, probably even better for his muscles, but Steve doesn’t come to you for efficiency. Every stroke of your hand, every time your fingers press the cloth to his flushed skin, brings you a little closer until you’re straddling him, his hands firmly bracing you against him as the cloth drops from your nerveless fingers to fall to the floor behind the loveseat.

“I missed you,” he says. His eyes search your face restlessly, maybe memorizing with that artist’s eye, always searching for his next sketch; maybe trying to see what’s changed since the last time he held you; maybe just reassuring himself that you are still here, waiting for him like you promised you would.

Like he tried to tell you not to. 

Like he’ll never admit he deserves.

Your palms find his jaw again, fingers slide gently through his beard, and you shiver as the thick, coarse growth scratches against your skin. Your lips meet unconsciously, neither of you meaning to initiate the kiss, and you sigh with relief at the silky, plump press of his mouth against yours.

“Let me dump this water,” you say, sliding back off his lap and standing on shaking legs. “Then we can go to bed.”

But you never make it from between his knees. His hand catches yours, his grip gentle but resolute, and you don't have it in you to pull away. Not that you really want to. He reels you back to him, just a couple of steps, and then his arms are around you, his forehead pressed to your stomach. The heat of him through the thin material of the worn t-shirt is enough to loosen your muscles, send shivers of giddiness through your limbs.

“I missed you,” he murmurs into your navel, sliding his face to the side. Individual hairs from his beard slip through your shirt, scraping over your skin, and Steve’s arms instinctually tighten as your legs falter. Your fingers anchor in his hair, your grip tight enough to make any lesser man cringe. 

Steve groans heavily against your belly, rolling his face to the other side, his teeth nipping and pulling the shirt as he moves. His hands shift, moving his grip from your backside to your hips, digging in tight before his thumbs begin to rise, lifting the hem of your shirt as they move. His nose presses against your bare skin, inhaling deeply as he mercilessly slides the worn garment up. 

“Take it off,” he says, his voice resonant against your hip bone. His lips press, hot and devastating, along the crease between your thigh and pelvis, and you obey without hesitation.

Steve seems determined to memorize the span of skin between your hip bones, to map it with his tongue and lips, but as his mouth trails lower, you grasp his face between both hands, fingers pressing tight as you pull his gaze up to meet yours.

“It’s been too long. I need you inside me.”

His nostrils flair, his eyes sliding shut as he sucks in a sharp breath. His eyelashes lie feather black against his cheeks for a long moment, his jaw clenching, but you know better than to speak.

“Sometimes I dream of you saying those exact words to me.”

You move to open his fly with shaking fingers, and after a couple of stumbling attempts, Steve stills your hands, pressing your fingers down on his lap as he shifts his hips, a hiss escaping his throat as you stroke his length through his pants.

You lean down, sliding your lips across his cheek, your hands pressing down harder as Steve ruts up into your grip. There's a sudden line of pressure on your hips, and then Steve lets your shredded underwear drop unceremoniously to the floor.

He pulls you down to his lap just as your mouth finds his ear. Your lips ghost up the edge, teeth nipping the cool skin there; Steve settles your thighs on either side of his, still rutting against you even as he turns his head to give you better access. The tendons in his hands creak with restraint as he pulls you down harder, and you know he holds back for fear of hurting you, no matter how much he needs this release. 

But tonight, in reverently simple, soft words, you tell him to hold on as hard as he needs. You reassure him, tell him everything you both need to hear, a mantra repeated so much it’s sunk deep into your bones.

That you’ll wait for him no matter how long he’s away.

That your love is absolute and unmoved, how it will remain until the dust takes you both. 

That even if it’s only for tonight, he has to let everything else go and just be with you, feel you, lose himself in you.

“I’m here, Steve. Take what you need.”

And for the first time since you’ve known him, the captain obeys orders and digs in harder. You lift up long enough for him to finally open his pants and pull himself clear of material before sinking down on his length. 

And if the word forced from your lips is some unrecognizable hybrid between a prayer and a curse, both of you are too far gone to notice.

Later tonight, when the two of you have finally migrated back to the bed, Steve will apologize. He will soothe raw skin and blossoming bruises with tender kisses. Tomorrow will find him massaging your aching joints and icing the darkened prints of his grip left on your skin. 

But right now he clutches you harder and absolutely uses you. He doesn’t waste breath with instructions, just moves and places you exactly as he wants.

His arms line your back, his enormous hands clutching your shoulders from behind for leverage as he grinds into you. Your fingers lock into his hair, pulling his head back to bare his throat to your teeth, and the snarl that erupts from his chest at the sharp, unexpected contact sends a jagged spike of lust straight down to your belly.

Steve’s eyes darken, his eyebrows knitting together as he gazes down at where you’re joined. His breathing speeds up the longer he watches his hips rising to meet yours, and his face flushes as he loosens a hand, slipping his fingers between you.

With a jerk, you wrench his head back up, bringing his mouth to your own throat as he curses, his fingers clenching between you. His beard scratches your throat raw as his tongue travels over the tensed muscles and tendons of your neck.

Profanity, filthy promises spill onto your skin as Steve pushes you harder, demands more from you. He swears as he tells you you can take everything he gives you, that you have to, that he needs you to.

And you do, absolutely everything and more.

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Top 6 Home Decor Tips for This Festive Season

As the festive season draws near, India has become a massive carnival of celebration. The festive season in India is unique for a variety of reasons, including the time when families get together, special foods are made, and homes are filled with holiday cheer. But more than anything else, the grand festive season is a time for tidying up and making space in our homes and hearts for love and good fortune. The festive season necessitates ultra-festive home furnishing, and this year should be no exception. So, to brighten up the festivities and truly reflect your personal style, we've compiled a list of some key home decor tips.

Play with the Lights: Festivals are all about brightness and light, so make sure to invest in high-quality lighting. You can buy tea-light candles, lamps, fairy lights, LEDs or anything that goes with your decor. A room can be instantly spruced up and made to look festive by using white and warm yellow light. You can use additional floor lights to brighten up dimly lit corners in the space. Diyas are an additional less expensive option that look great, but keep in mind that the oil needs to be replenished periodically. Furthermore, you can even invest in a chandelier to create a different look. This will undoubtedly alter the room's overall atmosphere.

Festive Bed Covers: Nothing exudes a more cosy feeling than a nicely made bed with lovely pillowcases. For a lively appearance, sprinkle pop colours in the cushion and cover covers. Check out Bella Casa's high-end selection of bedsheets if you need to buy some new ones. Bella Casa Bedsheet is offered in a variety of lively and imaginative colours that will cheer up any space. Their Shraddha Kapoor Collection might offer just the perfect shades that your home needs this festive season. The collection includes hues like Rustic Reds, which have lush, vibrant patterns that will undoubtedly add a positive atmosphere to your bedroom and, obviously, your entire home.

Pick Bright Colours: Use a bolder colour scheme for home decor during festive occasions. Popping tones signifies a celebratory mood. Your space will look bright and lovely with smooth bedsheets, contrasting cushion covers, and vibrant tablecloths. Use brightly coloured cushion covers to give the room a splash of colour. Add brightly coloured tablecloths that complement your decor. Pottery, rugs, and decorative sheets will instantly brighten the entire room. For instance, one could use red or saffron as wall accents and scatter numerous photo frames all over the room to create a memory wall. You can also add some ethnic rugs for a traditional touch. And as mentioned earlier, if you want to buy bedsheets online that complement the vibrant festive mood, Bella Casa Bedsheets has got you covered.   

Make the Room Smell Good: Increase the appeal of your home's interior design by incorporating décor that appeals to all of your body's senses. Making your house visually appealing is important, but so is giving it a revitalising scent that lingers in the rooms and hallways. When entertaining guests and spending time indoors with your loved ones, scents and fragrances are an essential part of home décor. Use scented candles with a stunning candle stand to add a touch of drama, or choose pretty potpourri bowls placed thoughtfully in each room. You can also choose from a variety of fragrances, ranging from aqua scents to floral perfumes, to refresh your mind, body, and soul.

Get creative with the furniture: An important room in the house is the living room because that's where conversations usually start. Provide a warm, welcoming environment so that visitors and family members can gather and crack up. One way to accomplish this is to arrange the sofas with lounge chairs around them to create a relaxed atmosphere. Maintain an elegant table setting as well so that the foods served at the table can shine.

Get in those pretty flowers: Fresh flowers add charm and positive vibes to the home. Bring home some flowers like marigolds, roses, or jasmine. The sacred Marigold flower has a long history of use in festival home decoration. These blooms can be used as centrepieces, scattered around the room, or placed in a bowl by the home's front door. A vase filled with flowers will instantly brighten the space. Faux flower arrangements on dining tables can also help to improve the ambience.

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Shahid and Mira’s Juhu home exhibits industrial style decor with an earthy and cosy vibe

It’s always a pleasure to have some glimpses of luxurious celebrity homes. They inspire us with their elegance, charm, and flawless furnishing. At Design Dekko, we’ve had sneak-peeks at the homes of Kareena Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, and now it’s time to get inspired by Shahid and Mira’s Juhu home which is artsy and modern.

Living Room

The living room had a comfortable, warm feeling with beige- textured walls, a white couch, a round small coffee table. To add an artistic flourish, there is a large painting on the wall hanging right behind the sofa.

Reading Nook

The reading nook had bookshelves, mounted on the wall, filled with books about myriad subjects.

Terrace

The terrace saw exposed brick and an array of seasonal flowering plants. It’s a perfect place for having some family time together and enjoy the soothing weather in the evenings. There is a small space attached to the terrace which is a perfect place to read and chill. It has a polished wooden floor, knotted chair, and a large glass window to enjoy the scenic view of the terrace. This part of the house is spacious and comfortable.

Dining Area

The dining area showcases industrial-themed decor with long wooden table and iron chairs, and a large potted plant. This room gives an earthy, rustic and edgy look to the abode.

Other Corner

On another corner of a room, we saw an industrial style cage lamp. There was a deep navy-blue couch in velvet with cushions of same shade with two black chairs that again embrace the industrial style.

Decorative Items

Shahid and Mira’s home was dotted with indoor plants, large paintings and artwork on the walls , providing an earthy and rustic look to the space.

Bedroom

Their bedroom went for an earthy aesthetic with a large wooden headboard and cushions with quotes on them.

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10 colourful boutique hotels to brighten up your day

Colour psychology studies have long discussed the effects of warmer, brighter colours on increasing positivity, productivity and creativity, while soothing shades of blue and green can induce a calmer state of mind. Join us on a multi-coloured journey around the world in ten vibrant visits to these aesthetically pleasing places.

Palm Suite, Rome – Italy

A riot of tropical colours and exotic patterns, these eclectic Roman residences are moments from the Eternal City’s ‘big five’: Capitoline Hill, the Forum, the Pantheon, the Colosseum and Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains. Housed within a grand 18th-century building, each of the 12 suites at Palm Suite has its own whimsical style – a statue of a tiger in one, a golden palm-shaped lamp in another. This meticulously mismatched palette is made to be as memorable as the Forum views.

Halcyon House, Cabarita Beach – Australia

Cornflower blue meets pastel pinks and soft greens, a patchwork of prints and an assortment of frames alongside hatstands and fabric headboards, seaside touches of shell trinket dishes and marine life illustrations. Not to mention the nautical blue and white striped loungers lining the picture-perfect pool. It’s easy to see why Halcyon House was our Most Liked Hotel of 2020 – ‘Instagrammable’ is an understatement, thanks to interiors by designer Anna Spiro.

Las Alamandas Resort, Costalegre – Mexico

Powder pink parasols provide shade along a private, white sandy beach, while fuchsia flowers sit beneath peachy walls and popping turquoise windows. Every colourful corner of Las Alamandas Resort is beautifully decorated with Mexican fabrics and rattan sofas in canary yellow that make a bold statement against white ceramic floors. Mexican hand-painted folk art is highlighted throughout.

Hôtel Lou Pinet, Saint-Tropez – France

This glamorous haven away from the glitzy Côte d’Azur crowds is packed with contemporary art and graphic prints, hand-picked by owners Leslie and Kimberley from their parents’ extensive art collection, alongside works from up-and-coming artisans. Designed by Charles Zana to recreate the glory days of the French Riviera, the artistically inspired aesthetic of Hôtel Lou Pinet is vibrant yet vintage, from the light-filled suites to the frescoes on the walls of the trendy Beefbar restaurant.

La Maison Bleue, El Gouna – Egypt

The clue is in the name at this blue-washed Mediterranean-style mansion. Inspired inside and out by Middle Eastern, North African, and European art and architecture, La Maison Bleue‘s Venetian-style façade and opulent marble hallways make an immediate impression. Take a leisurely dip in the blue lagoon, before watching the Egyptian sun dye the sky a dusky pink (to match the suites) behind the distant Red Sea mountains.

Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà, Verona – Italy

A statement art hotel combining contemporary works by world-famous artists with the grandeur of a 16th-century Venetian villa, Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà has been given an ultra-modern makeover by architect and designer Alessandro Mendini. Each one of the 59 rooms is individually decorated and masterfully styled with the use of vividly coloured fabrics and furnishings as well as works by Marc Quinn, Damien Hurst, Anish Kapoor and Vanessa Beecroft.

Casas Del XVI, Santa Domingo – Dominican Republic

A treasure trove of 16th-century houses in Santo Domingo’s colonial zone, Casas Del XVI feature local works of art, ancient Dominican artefacts and beautifully carved wood furniture. Maintaining the houses’ original architecture, each one is individually decorated to reflect the area’s historical and cultural significance. All of the properties have a central courtyard with zesty walls, perfect for an evening aperitif or outdoor dining.

Ovolo The Valley Brisbane, Queensland – Australia

A dash of urban cool here, a touch of rock and roll there (thanks to owner Girish Jhunjhnuwala‘s love of the 1980s music legends), Ovolo The Valley Brisbane is located in an ultra-hip entertainment district – and has the interiors to match. Step inside, and you’re met with energetic contemporary design fused with understated luxury. Think plush velvet, pops of colour, loud wallpaper, and one-of-a-kind artwork.

Hôtel du Petit Moulin, Paris – France

An historic 17th-century building with an original baker’s shopfront, Hôtel du Petit Moulin is a truly unique residence with flamboyant interiors designed by Christian Lacroix. From brightly coloured 1960s furniture in the bar, and plush textiles, leather sofas and highly decorative walls in the lounge to green corridors with polka-dot carpeting that lead to Baroque, Rococo and Couture designed rooms, it is a fascinating journey through the artistic expertise of Lacroix.

Galleria VIK Milano, Milan – Italy

Housed within Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Italy’s oldest active shopping centre, the Vik family have established a Milanese home-from-home inspired by the architecture of the 19th-century arcade and the city’s world-renowned design scene. Reflecting the art and soul of Milan, Galleria VIK Milano is part hotel, part modern art gallery. Clearly unafraid of colour, bold murals, striking sculptures, and a vibrant palette paint a vivid picture, though no two rooms are the same – each bearing the hallmark of a renowned artist, from Giuseppe Gonella and Pino Pinelli, to Felipe Cardena and Shinya Sakurai.

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LAMPS SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR DESK SETUP

Lamps or mild has been an essential a part of our existence for the reason that cavemen first discovered fire. Being one of these merchandise that we can’t just stay without, lamps should be one in all the maximum experimented upon product designs. Collecting some of the fine of these conceptual lamps from Blue Rhino, Bovano, Bulbrite, Crystorama underneath Render Weekly’s table lamp challenge, every lamp design featured right here marries shape and functionality with some terrific rendering capabilities to supply dramatic results. We all recognize we want a desk lamp, specifically when maximum of the globe is caught quarantined at domestic and these desk lamps will help you focus, declutter and stay extra organized, giving a bounce to your productivity!

The Blooming Lamp makes use of a clever guide fan-like spreading technique to offer you complete control on the quantity of mild you get. Designed by means of Yohan Lansard, Blooming Lamp’s fun, interactive layout is as a good deal playful as it's far functional.

The Clamp Lamp! The name has a exceptional ring to it and so does the functionality. The Clamp Lamp’s splendid ability is the way it is able to clip itself to the side of your desk, providing you with a catch-all tray at the bottom and now not occupy and precious desk space. Designed by means of Raghavendra Rao, this eye-popping orange-coloured lamp is certain to stand out!

Leo De Brito’s desk lamp is a easy but iconic design, with a focus on getting every element right. Available in numerous shades that complement every other, this lamp is sure to be a assertion piece anyplace you area it.

  Yes, we want purely useful designs like a lamp on our desk, however designers are here to jazz up your life, or your desk in this case. Designed by using Nikhil Kapoor, the Fidget Lamp as its name implies invites you to come and play with it. With a small marble in region of the conventional switch or knob, you could trade the intensity of light by way of simply moving the marble up and down alongside the groove placed in the surface!

Peep Lantern with the aid of Roshan Hakkim loves the information and we love those information. Showcased with the potential to throw out 6 different shades, the design has a sleek shape factor and appears at domestic in any tech-primarily based space. Sleek, edgy and modern, this is an excellent addition to any bachelor pad!

Joaquin Bozicovich’s Braun inspired lamp is a visual rationalization of why Braun’s style rocked the world. It comes equipped with a 360-degree rotating head and the minimal comparison of a simple orange button with the beige body has us entranced.  

Lee Sung Wook’s unfashionable-stimulated lamp is certain to win every retro lover’s heart! Using metal against old school glass mild diffuser, it will in reality solid an complex pattern for your surrounding space. Mood lights for the vintage soul.  

Analog designs have a beauty that virtual layout is attempting to embody. Feel the full splendor of it in this design with the aid of Tyson Mai that comes with a puck-like-lamp head that may be rotated to switch it on/off as well as adjust what number of lumens of light would you want to receive!  

The minimal Halo-Lamp is an ideal layout for any current house. Focusing on the splendor of a round LED, the mild’s halo-like form holds the light and allows it do all of the talking. No greater frills to distract you from the sheer splendor of glass and mild in this design through Quentin de Coster.  

Inspired by the table lamp from the IKEA and Teenage Engineering collab task the FREKVENS, Adam Miklosi’s is rendered to be a beautiful pop of colour this is sure to mild up any table! Read the full article

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Arjun Kapoor and Nisaba Godrej inaugurate KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Festival 2017

South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ festival will screen 147 films from 45 countries

Mumbai,24thMay,2017:  South Asia’s biggest and India’s only mainstream LGBTQ film festival – KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival – 8th Edition, opened on Wednesday May 24, 2017, with Bollywood Heartthrob Arjun Kapoor gracing the festival along with Nisaba Godrej, Executive Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products. The star studded opening at Liberty Cinema had stylist and founder and creative director of Bblunt Adhuna Bhabani, filmmakers Shonali Bose and Arunaraje Patil, theatre actor Dolly Thakore, and eminent KASHISH 2017 jury of Screenwriter Anjum Rajabali, actor Lubna Salim, TV Producer and writer Vinta Nanda, editor Jabeen Merchant, Roy Wadia of Wadia Movietone and writer Aseem Chhabra walk the red carpet.

"I am happy to be part of a festival like Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival as it brings together cinema from all over the globe for a relevant, important cause. The LGBTQ community needs a voice and support, and cinema is the most powerful medium to reach out to people. I think they have put together a fabulous line up of films," said Arjun Kapoor. Arjun Kapoor and Nisaba Godrej along with Festival Director Sridhar Rangayan and gay activist and Humsafar Trust chairperson Ashok Row Kavi lit the ceremonial lamp.

"We are so very proud to partner the 8th KASHISH festival. Movies are one of the best mediums to tell stories, touch hearts and open our minds. We at Godrej believe that we are all equal and building a diverse and inclusive workforce is of utmost importance to us. We love and support the LGBTQ community not just because it is the right thing to do. Great talent is the key to our success and our individual capabilities are only determined by our attitude and hard work not by our gender, caste or sexuality,” said Nisaba Godrej, Executive Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.

“This year’s programming is unique and diverse, encompassing LGBTQ diversity from across the world as well as racial and ethnic diversity in the films that are being screened,” said an elated Sridhar Rangayan, festival director. “Several new countries debut in this year’s KASHISH, including films from Armenia, Nigeria, Kosovo, Rwanda, UAE, Trinidad & Tobago and Aruba! Being South Asia’s biggest LGBT Film Festival we have made a concerted effort to program films from Asia, South Asia and Asia Pacific. “We hope to live up to this year’s theme, ‘Diverse, One’ bridging all barriers and making it one of the most memorable events of Mumbai,” said Rangayan. This year the festival will also screen an increased number of feature-length narrative films, more than any other year.

The Festival will screen 147 films from 45 countries, that reflect the diversity of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, at two venues in South Mumbai – the city’s iconic art deco theatre Liberty Cinema and Alliance de Francaise. This year’s festival theme is “Diverse, One” and explores the diversity of the LGBTQ communities.

Skybags and Godrej Industries are Principal Partners of the festival. IBM, Whistling Woods International and the Canada Consul General are Supporting Partners. Of the 147 films, 51 films will compete at KASHISH 2017 for South Asia’s largest cash prize for an LGBTQ film festival totaling Rs 2.25 lakhs. The top cash awards sponsored by Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares,  K F Patil Charitable Trust, Whistling Woods International,  Wadia Movietone and Lotus Visual.

KASHISH MIQFF was the first LGBTQ film fest in India to receive clearance from the India’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry, when it debuted in 2010. Skybags and Godrej Industries are Principal Partners for the festival, while supporting partners are IBM, Consulate General of Canada and Whistling Woods International.

Commenting on the association, Radhika Piramal, Vice Chairperson – V.I.P Industries Ltd had said “We are happy to associate with KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival; it’s a great initiative that spreads much needed awareness about the LGBT community. Films are a powerful medium to influence and bring about a positive change in the society. We are happy to lend our support to this initiative as it not just a festival but it’s a place to learn and become more aware. As an out lesbian, I am proud to be part of the LGBT community in India and support greater visibility of our community through this important film festival”.

The opening ceremony was followed by the screening of the opening film Signature Move, directed by Jennifer Reed and starring Shabana Azmi. Acclaimed Indian gay road drama LOEV will be the closing film on May 28, 2017.

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival

Founded in 2010, KASHISH MIQFF is held over 5 days at two venues. The festival this year will be held at Liberty Cinema and Alliance Francaise in South Mumbai. It is the first Indian LGBT festival to be held with approval by the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India. Voted as one of the Top 5 LGBT Film Festival in the world, KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is South Asia's biggest queer film festival and the only LGBT film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theater. The film festival this year will be held between May 24-May 28, 2017, at two venues in South Mumbai – the city’s iconic art deco theatre Liberty Cinema and Alliance Francaise. Delegate Registrations are open on Book My Show https://in.bookmyshow.com/festival/mumbai-international-queer-film-festival

THEME of KASHISH 2017: ‘Diverse, One’

The theme of KASHISH 2017 explores the diversity of the LGBTQ communities. The diverse shades of the rainbow remind us that as people we are all different and we are all unique. In the fight for an equal society, basic human rights and against laws that criminalize and discriminate, it is our shared values that bring us together. We are strongest when we come together, when we embrace one another’s uniqueness and celebrate our differences. We are Diverse, We are One.

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Black and White

Nina Royle - Workshop

This was brilliant - i’m really glad this happened at this moment in time. I’m currently struggling with colour - i’m not really happy with any of the colours i’ve been using. This workshop concerned only black and white. Nina talked about the relationship of these colours and their historical background. For example how the Impressionists never used black because it doesn’t exist in nature. But of course this is subjective - the black of coal or a ravens feather and the white of snow.

I was interested to learn about ‘vantablack’ - Anish Kapoor is allowed to use this in artwork.

Then we looked at several different shades of black and white. Nina talked about how the different tones come from different pigments (made in different ways from different materials)

Ivory black - opaque - cool black - made from bone - wealthy and exotic

Lamp black - fine pigment - absorbant - slow drying - transparant - used in cave painting - burnt in a lamp and then the soot is collected - used in kohl eyeliner 

Mars Black - 18th century - red rust - same as blood - when heated it goes reddish - industrial and modern black

Flake white - queen of white - used for ages - poisonous - creamy and human - buttery and fast drying - made of vinegar and horse manure and lead - rough materials make a beautiful thing

Zinc white - medieval - philosophers wool or flowers of zinc - antiseptic - thin and brittle - greyish white - like a philosophers skin.

Titanium white - 20th Century - harsher in colour - slower drying - wife of mars black - a white cube gallery is titanium white - 

Linseed oil - slow drying - orange peel texture if too much oil/pigment ratio

Liquin - makes it flow

to make beeswax mix - 1 part beeswax and 2 parts turps - a bit of linseed - melt pellets in a bainmarie and then add the turpentine keeping it warm.

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