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littleredruns It’s cause the stage version didn’t use poppies there, El just made everyone dance all crazy or freeze or something. I don’t remember exactly but I know the poppies was new to the film

okay thank you, this makes me feel a lot better for not quite remembering what was going on there

with that context I do think the poppies were a fun change to make and made good use of the movie format, and was also a nice homage to The Wizard of Oz

I just saw Wicked and I overall really liked it.

It did not occur to me that Elphaba's poppy spell didn't work on Fiyero because of love, I just assumed that Fiyero has done too many drugs and he's built up a tolerance

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I just saw Wicked and I overall really liked it.

It did not occur to me that Elphaba's poppy spell didn't work on Fiyero because of love, I just assumed that Fiyero has done too many drugs and he's built up a tolerance

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Queer Eye is a worse show without Bobby Berk.

Not a problem with the new HGTV type guy, he seems like a perfectly nice dude and I like his designs, but by taking out the one queer eye guy who has an issue with organized Christianity, they've removed the absolute last potential source of conflict and interest in the show. I watched all of this newest season and then went back to watch one episode from season one, and the show just suffers when there are zero difficult conversations and it just becomes

"Hi! We're here to inspire you and make your life better! We love you!"

"Hi back! I'm so instantly inspired by you and my life is so much better! I love you back! I've been crying since the instant the cameras started rolling!"

There's this one woman in the new season who is deeply Christian, and there was a weird moment where they emphasized every one of the guys saying something like "yass, we love faith! yay Jesus!" and it just felt so pointed and weird? Personally it felt like they were looking me in the eyes and scolding me for having serious issues with Christianity.

And even putting my own problems with Christianity aside, this would have been a better episode of television with Bobby because the woman had recently experienced homelessness, something that Bobby has also experienced. That would have been so much more compelling and interesting to have two people who'd experienced similar difficulties, but with one person who felt rejected by Christianity and one person who felt like it got them through the worst period in her life.

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bitty in 2023 is thriving sharing recipes on tiktok until teenagers start accusing jack of grooming him bc jack is 33 and bitty is 28 and they are both cancelled

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send me an number and a ship and I’ll write you something based on my Spotify wrapped :)

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happy 2nd of december! time for our yearly poll of

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I googled Check Please to get a link for a friend, and AI had written this at the top of the search. Burst out laughing ngl.

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like the good news is that amtrak has recently expanded their offerings so if I wanted, I could take a line from Chicago to Miami (technically it is a combination of existing routes but it's still good; it does stop in Orlando so ), the issue is just still a lack of speed and a lack of frequent departures. I've also heard a lot of excitement around the Borealis route (another combination of existing routes but a win is a win) recently

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hey full offense to everyone in the notes: do you think that in 29,000 reblogs nobody else has told me about the goddamn mini line from Miami to Orlando that got scrapped? I heard about it about 28,000 reblogs ago. Sorry I didn't include the full history of south/central Florida railroad infrastructure in my three sentence post about how I want more people to be passionate and push for a better train system in the United States, inspired by seeing videos of people traveling to buy multiple elaborate popcorn containers

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

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jackholtz au where holster meets jack literally twice and is so inspired that he writes a 14,233 line epic poem divided into three 33-canto-long cantiche detailing holster's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise all with the profound inspiration and goal of being reunited with his true love jack but jack literally once again does not know holster and gets married to another dude and holster is banished from florence for the rest of his life and never sees jack again

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jackholtz au where holster is certain that jack keeps a tiny rat under his helmet who controls his movements to make him play hockey so well but he can never prove it and goes crazy in the process of trying

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at this point jackholtz hockey au where they are just friends

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final update on this, the Pokemon I traded at the wedding ended up being a SHINY LUCKY 100% (HUNDO) DRATINI which is a big deal, I've never gotten a pokemon that special before.

Also I've been walking too much and now my doctor wants me to stop walking everywhere for two weeks, which is kind of a struggle because I do love walking and also I don't have a car, but it's only two weeks

"why are you walking six miles in the sun" thanks for asking

I've got an old special research in Pokemon Go that requires me to have TEN BEST BUDDIES which is so difficult to do already

but THEN I looked up the next several steps and it wants me to do a lucky trade which is even MORE difficult bc I don't live near my Pokemon Go friends. HOWEVER I will see some of them in October, and one of them is currently a *Lucky Friend* which means the trade is guaranteed to be a lucky trade

so basically I'm trying to maximize the number of hearts I can get with my buddies in a day in the hopes that I can get through this step and the next step before October so that the remaining pieces of this research don't have to linger FOREVER

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I like that and I like the stats

For me, I'm very good at taking in data like this or like a fitness tracker in a fairly detached "this is good to know" way, more than in a competitive way if that makes sense?

like it's been useful to notice things like "oh, my all-time stats show about 20% nonfiction, but for 2024 it's only at 10%. Maybe I've been in a slump because I haven't been reading any nonfiction and I need to bring that up for this year"

I think I'd stop using it if I felt like it was pushing me to finish books just for the sake of being able to say I'd read them

Weird Q but how do you track your reading? Do you just keep track of how many books or do you use something? I'm thinking of using one of the websites/apps/what they are but wondered if you recomended any :)

I started using StoryGraph this year! I do also still track it by putting a sticker in the calendar section of my planner, plus a cute sticky note in the weekly section (with the title and author written on it).

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Weird Q but how do you track your reading? Do you just keep track of how many books or do you use something? I'm thinking of using one of the websites/apps/what they are but wondered if you recomended any :)

I started using StoryGraph this year! I do also still track it by putting a sticker in the calendar section of my planner, plus a cute sticky note in the weekly section (with the title and author written on it).

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also I know I keep singing her praises but T Kingfisher officially my top author of the year, and I don't think it will be possible to lose that title unless I read like 15 books by one author in the next two months

officially have read more in 2024 than I did in 2023! Really proud that I've been able to regain so much of my attention span and happy that I'm continuing to do better and get further out of the brain fog that I was in during the worst of my Hashimoto's.

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officially have read more in 2024 than I did in 2023! Really proud that I've been able to regain so much of my attention span and happy that I'm continuing to do better and get further out of the brain fog that I was in during the worst of my Hashimoto's.