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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩

@chellaramanan.bsky.social

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I make games. Sr Narrative Designer at Massive Entertainment #AvatarFrontiersofPandora Co-director @ 3-Fold Games on Before I Forget, WindrushTales. BAFTA member. Former games journo. Brit Caribbean living in Sweden who loves books and films.

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 1d

How are colds so trifling yet debilitating at the same time!?
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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 1d

The Greens coming out the gates with a message of hope and unity not division is everything rn 💚

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute melodrama but that was really sad 🥺
Saddest film since Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
He's literally crying for 2.5 hours

a close up of a man kissing a woman 's forehead with the letter z visible

Alt: a close up of a man kissing a woman 's forehead and crying. Saiyaara

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

Omg this is so cheesy.
Romantic male lead's first appearance is on a motorbike, shades on, guns out, smoking a cigarette. And now he's singing in the rain

a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right

Alt: a man, michael fassbender in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window and says perfection

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight's film is... Saiyaara. It's been a while since I did some Indian cinema.
Then the opening credits tell me Aditya Chopra and I'm like...

a man with a beard is smiling and the word ok is on his face

Alt: Denzel Washington smiling and saying "alright okay" emphatically

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

I love him so much 🙌🏽
Unapologetic 🔥🔥🔥

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah agree. I dip in for a few months, watch some great shows and dip out.
Don't sleep on Sugar with Colin Farrell. So good. Saying anything more than that is too much. Go in blind 🤌🏼

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. The entire cast is 🔥

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

Love this show. It made me sub to Apple after watching at my brother's. Haven't gone back for S4 yet.
People are sleeping on what a good dramatic actress Jennifer Aniston is.

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

I just DMed 😊

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

That was a pretty straight forward adaptation. They didn't play with Nelly as an unreliable narrator. They did do the whole book though.
I liked the design of the farm; usually it's too grand.
MacFayden as Hareton gets the happy ending 🙌🏽
It was okay. Good Gothic madness. Cathy was meh

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

This was a bit dull but now Kathy is having a full on Ophelia moment...

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ALT: a black and white photo of a woman in a white dress and veil

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

Okay... wasn't ready for Matthew McFadden with a Yorkshire accent smouldering as Hareton.
It's very Yorkshire and gloomy 🙌🏽
Looks made for TV but bringing all the grubby Gothic vibes.

Matthew MacFayden as Hareton Earnshawe bad boy smouldering

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

It's absolutely howling rain outside so today's matinee is... Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1998).
My ongoing journey through as many adaptations as I can find.

Robert Cavannagh and Orlay Brady, apparently 🤷🏾‍♀️

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ALT: a pixel art of a couple standing next to each other in front of a castle .

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 4d

Hah ha. Happy 40s to you 🥳

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

You haven't figured things out & that's fine. That's what 40s are for.
Don't stay in bad/meh relationships because breaking up is messy or hard.
Try things that scare you, they often lead to good changes.
Invest in yourself i.e. that course, hobby, opportunity
Start exercising now.
This isn't old

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

Plot twist his game becomes really successful and her new love interest loves it. The real happy ending.

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

The Life List.

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

Watching a romcom where the woman's family think her boyfriend is a loser because he's an indie dev and they don't think that's a real job. So she dumps him.
As if game dev isn't hard enough rn 🫠

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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 6d

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

😅
Np. I had to write it twice because I wrote the thread in one and then it got wiped 😭
So I posted one at a time the second time round lol

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. I was surprised it's all hype and no reflection.
I didn't even mention her obsession with sex 🙄
It could have taken a different path

Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 5d

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