Hello Theres Gonna Be Another Kpop Boycott! From April 1st - May 1st. Again This Is Not Super Organized

hello there’s gonna be another kpop boycott! from april 1st - may 1st. again this is not super organized as far as i can tell there isn’t a hashtag or anything to follow (yet, not sure if there will be one in the future), but that doesn’t mean it’s a not a good idea. here is a thread that has ways to listen unofficially for hybe groups and here is a master post with resources for palestine and palestinian individuals and families

projects i have lined up (none of which are karmagisa related)

1. qala review

2. ouran high school host club in-depth character analysis

3. the sohma family character analysis that i promised nini (fruits basket)

4. appreciation of english dub (assassination classroom & ouran high school host club)

the way this is supposed to be a karmagisa blog but I haven't written the stories i was going to 😭

RUBY CRUZ as HAZEL CALLAHAN in BOTTOMS (2023) dir. Emma Seligman

indeed, rin is a lifestyle

me too

considering making a good old fashioned review about qala since i have many, many thoughts about this film and none of them are positive lol (fair warning, i don't like this film). i will touch on finer aspects like acting and performing classical music (since i am someone who's trained in hindustani music for 14 years). would you be interested in reading it?

hi there! thanks yeah it's really really good. but I'm getting kinda angered by the way people in our own community are behaving.

im kinda getting pissed at queer activist accounts making bold claims that they didn't even acknowledge the queer community when they don't even bother doing the basic research of seeing whether or not the actor spoke of the issues.

watch tv? check out the recap on jiocinema and colorstv? They LITERALLY dedicated their awards to us. the writers and the actors.

and bhumi gave a literal fucking interview in support of the community, but sure, we shall continue villanizing our supporters without doing the basic research. doing exactly what we're accusing them off too :))

badhaai do & filmfare and how it affects the queer movement

badhaai do won 6 filmfare awards!! and apart from that, 14 nominations. this is such a welcome surprise to me considering how much the filmfare panders to popular films and celebrities. while i'm convinced that best actor in a supporting role was robbed from gulshan devaiah (who played guru) as well as best dialogues + best director, let's not dwell on that negativity. the war to get same-sex marriage is still on. and i'd like to thank the team for dedicating their awards to the queer community. for those who have been complaining yet again that this was a profitable venture for the people involved, think again about how much it tanked in the box office. and yes, bhumi pednekar has addressed the on-going legal battle for same sex marriage here. i would ask for jaded queer individuals like me to step back and think that there are different ways of coming together to support a social cause. making an entire film is one of them. green lighting such a film is one of them. acting in such a film is one of them. considering what the extremely homophobic government is capable of, we must take all such things into account. and when queer icons like onir also come out in support of badhaai do (btw his red carpet look on filmfare >>>), we should take a page from their book to see where they are coming from. also i went and checked out the team behind badhaai do (not just the actors). apparently the director (harshavardhan kulkarni) and the editor (kirti nakhwa) are already in hot soup with the government since they returned a NATIONAL AWARD a few years back. their reason? the growing intolerance of the government. kinda iconic. and a reminder that this is the same government that routinely sends journalists, activists, historians to jail while dabbling in the same fields and falsifying facts and history. (lmao calling our trauma an "urban elite" problem is so ironic considering they are the urban elites). badhaai do getting the second highest number of filmfare awards is one of the many victories that we have secured. please remind yourself to not alienate any sort of support whatsoever just because it doesn't fit the stereotypical narrative of activism. and after all, activism in art is the most powerful of its kind, is it not?