mangojewel

all the best lifetime movies end at the psych ward

the eye makeup for the black women on suits is UNPARALLELED. tight-lined brown eyes with a slight wing, you will always be famous

never gonna give you up is friends-to-lovers propaganda

shibuya kebab playing the best of the 80s mix as i eat my mildly expensive spicy chicken shawarma meal

i always order the cold noodles instead of hot and every single time i regret it

⬅️ looks stupid after trying to open a bank account at Japan Post when i don’t speak Japanese and also cannot fill out forms

josh groban as sweeney todd is actually inspired. the role matches the vaguely sinister undertones of his public persona

gaten matarazzo is so talented! he’s really holding his own in this extremely stacked cast

sweeney todd cast recording (2023) is by far my favorite

sunset bike ride in awajishima

ok managed to get the adapter AND navigate the subway back to my neighborhood (¥150 fare 🫨) without asking for help which is an accomplishment in my book

help I am so lost in akihabara and I cannot remember the phrase for “help me” and my map says I am close but every turn seems to be the wrong one and I just need to buy an adapter so I can charge my computer 🫨😰😩

in the end tho we got some pretty good deals!

every time I accompany one of my aunts on their errands in the bronx/queens, we end up in an unfathomably long line in the city’s worst-maintained burlington warehoused tj ross, suffering

shopping in outerboro nyc is the practice of continual acceptance that you must wait in ridiculously long lines for the most mediocre things imaginable

alwaysa devastating realization 😑😔

amazing what drinking water can do for your health

even in the darkest moments, life is full of abundance and wonder!!!

vividly remember buying this and some soda-flavored lip smackers from the kmart with my babysitting money, totally unbeknownst to my parents

witnessing the death of the publishing industry via material culture (I found a copy of Astro Girl! magazine from 2008)

seriously tho this process is very cathartic and now I must destroy every stray piece of paper in my home

packing up my childhood home and encountering so much random shit that hasn’t crossed my mind in over 20 years. maybe minimalism is a little bit valid

nothing better than fresh fruit right out the fridge on a hot and humid summer day

a brown cow is standing on a beach. it is looking out at the ocean and the water is rushing against its ankles.

literally the most hectic 48 hours of my life

this weekend, i am going to camouflage myself within my enclosure like the big cats at lincoln park zoo. you will not see me unless I want to be seen

by sunday, i’ll have made a dress, ran a 5K, given a presentation, done my mid year review, finished drafting my schiaparelli dupe, seen the Barbie movie, and vacuumed my whole house and all my furniture 🫥

when this week is over i’m gonna drink a gallon of water and pass tf out

the beyonce gays just bid farewell to our barbies in chorus, “bye barbie” echoed throughout the car. truly living through a pop culture moment rn

beyonce stans and barbie moviegoers outnumber the post-game cubs fans 2:1 in this red line car… universal energy shift

something so cathartic abt scrubbing your kitchen floor