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Rakshasi's Ramblings
Welcome! Here I will be serving up art, musings on society and the periodic existential crisis. WARNING: All work on this site is mine, born of blood, sweat, tears and the occasional summoning ritual (so tread lightly, copycats.)


Father Archetypes in Guillermo del Toro's Films
While I’ve examined women’s roles in movies (because I felt there was such a dearth of complex ones), it jumped out at me how many men in Guillermo del Toro’s movies fit into archetypal fatherhood roles, their characters too being complex, sometimes contradictory.
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Nov 214 min read
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Mean Girls: Unfair Portrayal or Anthropological Classic?
Should you come across a female narcissist, your safest option is to get away quickly; that is, if you even have the discernment to spot her. Not all of them are perched comfortably at the top and can’t always be identified by rank.
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Sep 1510 min read
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Tom Cruise: Hollywood's Ageless Vampire
(Photo Creative Commons License, FMT) When the time came to put together our class magazine, I was sure to turn up with a few good...
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Apr 116 min read
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The Great Indian Marriage
Everyone knows that the traditional Indian family raises its sons to be providers and daughters to be mothers, but the script of The...
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Feb 208 min read
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Hanging Rock: Marianismo, Beauty and the Missing Girls
Beauty is important female currency in patriarchy, and everyone, consciously or unconsciously, advocates for it.
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Nov 15, 20247 min read
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The Psychology of a Stalker: You & Baby Reindeer
The generic stalker has a relationship with his prey, and the relationship only goes so far as the prey gives. Anything is encouragement...
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Oct 1, 20246 min read
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Walter Mitty and the Perils of Maladaptive Daydreaming
When I was in primary school, an English lesson hit me a little deeper than usual. It was the story of Gauri the Dreamer , generically...
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Jul 12, 20245 min read
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Monstrous Fathers and Wayward Sons: ‘Tumbbad’ is More than Just a Parable About Greed
It’s been twelve years and Vinayak is old enough to know that his mother has no status and therefore, neither does he. A lack of status here
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Jul 12, 20243 min read
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