𝙞𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙩, 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬

[mynorthernattitude]

"listen to your body"

my body: go get a cinnamon roll the size of a tire

[mynorthernattitude]

"listen to your body"

my body: go get a cinnamon roll the size of a tire

[herpsandbirds]

[niemalsgenugmr]

Don’t use AI to write. Use childhood trauma like a real poet.

[dailydeathinparadise]

Gemma Chan as Jennifer Cheung DEATH IN PARADISE (2011 - ) Ep. 207

[pumucklll]

[sersi]

Gemma Chan as Gigi Ling The Five-Star Weekend (2026) 1.01

[schershangs]

so like i'm actually devastated rn....

[dailybrittanysnowpics]

[icantjustbeherewithoutanaccount]

"Not everything has to be gay"

No shit sherlock, but these mfs are

[forbescaroline]

FAVORITE MOVIE SHIPS: Beca & Chloe - Pitch Perfect Franchise (2012, 2015 & 2017)

[schershangs]

watching pitch perfect 2 for the first time (i'm sorry) and CHLOE BEALE what the FUCK WAS THAT LINE ABOUT EXPERIMENTING IN COLLEGE

[schershangs]

watching pitch perfect 2 rn and let me just tell you, the bechloe brainrot is real yall….

[selhkie]

who I’m channeling in 2026 and the next decade to come

[bookshop]

Crazy Rich Asians’ mid-credits scene is brief, but very revealing

Who is that guy, and what’s up with that Look? Hello, Charlie Wu.

Throughout Crazy Rich Asians, the novel, Astrid is presented as a sort of  modern Asian Audrey Hepburn: She just has it. But alongside her glamour and mystique, her warm, down-to-earth personality makes her one of the series’ few deeply relatable characters. The books are sharply satirical, and even Astrid, as nice as she is, is presented as a girl who needs to learn to embrace her proper role as the fashion princess of Singapore’s unofficial ethnic Chinese royal class. In both the book and the film, her tendency to tiptoe around her wealth is a major factor in the shame and unhappiness Michael brings to their unequal marriage.

But waiting in the wings for Astrid as her marriage to Michael falls apart is an old boyfriend who, imagine it, has always loved her unconditionally, without expecting her to change for him. That’s Charlie, and he loves Astrid enough to take her just as she is: rich, beautiful, and goddess-like.

The Astrid/Charlie romance makes the book’s Austenian influences even clearer

Crazy Rich Asians owes a deep debt to British satirists — particularly Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray — in the way it lampoons the excesses of the rich while indulging in its own opulence, as well as its presentation of the cross-cultural messiness of modern postcolonial Asia. The movie doesn’t really pull hard on either of these threads, but they’re major themes of the novel.

As for Astrid? Her plot is straight out of Austen’s novel Persuasion — perhaps Austen’s most overtly romantic book, in that while it’s about the perniciousness of family pretension and classism, it’s also about two people who never stop loving each other despite getting in their own way. There are also definite shades of Austen’s Emma in Charlie’s dynamic with Astrid, as he, like Emma’s Mr. Knightley, waits faithfully for his heroine to mature and realize they’re soulmates.

All of this deepens Crazy Rich Asians’ commentary on colonial narratives, even as it indulges in familiar romance tropes. The film isn’t just a riff on Austen, after all; it’s a conscious reclamation of Westernized storytelling devices that have, for centuries, marginalized Asian figures rather than incorporating them in those narratives.

But these days, Singapore is a major international city-state, and the use of these familiar English-authored tropes (along with its title) reflect the book’s awareness that this modern postcolonial society is now empowered, for better and for worse, to colonize right back.

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[wondersmith-and-sons]

@sweetlyenchains replied to your post: best movie detail about crazy rich asians was…

Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt some Astrid/Rachel vibes

listen. listen listen listen. i’ll be real. in my dream of dreams, it’s Astrid who goes after Rachel in the end.

Keep reading

[tvmusiclife]

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[randomthingsthatilike1]

dont get me wrong–i did like nick. i did NOT hate nick but god was i shipping astrid and rachel so much in this movie

like…….my guess is one of the reasons that astrid married michael is she didnt want someone who was only besotted with her money and her family and her style–but it backfired with michael since that did matter to him, but in a negative way. the asshole–it made him feel insecure and like he shouldnt depend on astrid for anything, even when it was just her time.

rachel, on the other hand, we see genuinely wouldn’t care about astrid’s spending or her money and the dresses–the issue in CRA is not that nick comes from money, but that they had been dating for a long time and then he brings her to his family without any preparation whatsoever about the viper’s pit he’s throwing her in, or the fact that he wasn’t being honest with her–she only knew about astrid.

and astrid’s issue with michael in the movie was she was worried about his ego–worried about doing what she wanted, taking up space and eclipsing her husband. it was a relationship based on anxiety.

but with rachel she’s just so uncaring of money. She could have so easily had eleanor pay her millions of dollars, or been like i’m gonna be mrs. young and get money that way–she decided to leave, because she wasn’t going to make Nick leave his family. she wanted nick to be happy.

When she and Astrid were burying that fish together–she just saw Astrid the person, Astrid her friend, in pain and suffering and wanting to help make Astrid feel better, even if that was just a wordless hug. Rachel was the only person Astrid told about the affair as well, other than her grandmother, and that was out of desperation.

Astrid was also the one who repeatedly kept telling Nick that he needs to prepare rachel and be frank with her about what she’s getting into with their family. Like….she does seem much more aware about navigating that relationship between her family and Rachel than even Nick does.

a) Rachel would never make Astrid feel like she had to choose between Rachel and her family like Michael did and

b) Rachel would love Cassian. MIchael decided that he needed to be good enough for Astrid’s family and that involved work–forget about what he was doing to his wife and son, he was going to look like he was a good husband for THE Astrid Leong, even if that meant missing his son’s birthday. Rachel, on the other hand, genuinely enjoyed spending time with Nick’s family when it was actually his family–she flat out said she loved learning how to make dumplings with Nick and Astrid and all the Aunties and Oliver and Cassian.

Rachel is the daughter of a single mom who had to constantly work not because of prestige, but to make sure that food ended up on the table–she would be there for Cassian for every birthday, every holiday, every recital and play and award ceremony.

Plus when Astrid buys her beautiful girlfriend things not because she wants to flaunt her wealth but because they genuinely remind her of Rachel and of things that Rachel might enjoy Rachel probably just be like “hey thanks this is nice of you I love it” instead of being insecure that she cant reciprocate monetarily because Rachel would know that there is more she could do to demonstrate love than only through monetary means.

(also at this point astrid is going to get divorced anyway and shock her family that way–why not take it further and have a lesbian relationship while she’s at it?)

(btw–whats their ship name?)