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wildlyfreemoon · 6 months ago

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i just watched geek girl on netflix! i have some... criticism... but i actually really enjoyed it! very cute and has similar vibes to like angus, thongs and perfect snogging/bend it like beckham (which side note: both great movies directed by the same woman) but yeah! has the vibes of a 2000s british movie - combined with the under-rated use of a teen girl voice over!

#i dont want to get too into my criticism -- but it was mostly surrounding like representation (and nick...)#the main takeaway should be that i enjoyed the show! and it was great as someone who read the books as a kid #but also i dont remember anything really about the books...#also nick was american and that was just so jarring at times like i would not really notice and then boom! american accent #slay yuji tho #(not the first time ive said that --> as a jjk stan)#geek girl #geek girl netflix #geek girl show #netflix #wildlywatches <3 #wildlywatches <3 geek girl #hope they do a s2 or smth! gave me the same feeling when i finished as i had with angus thongs and perfect snogging #urgh now imagining geek girl but with (young) aaron taylor johnson!#also so many posts under the 'geek girl' tag which are.... n sfw... like so shocking when i was just trying to see discourse about the show

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liquidstar · 8 months ago

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a friend who'd wait :)

#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops.#and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can!#and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol #finn's ocs #finn's art #i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me #and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun #i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here:#barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past #he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it #he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned #which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them #they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore #but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird #and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place #though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library #and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together #since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door #eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement #barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time.#barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate #but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd #he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself #but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done.#and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies.#and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them)#and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances''#from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov #sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3 #but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh

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northern-passage · 11 months ago

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Hi kit! Any books recs or your favourite ones? I’ve been having a thought time at uni and I need a break

hmmm well not sure what you're in the mood for, but i just read what we fed to the manticore and i cannot recommend it enough!!! it's not exactly lighthearted but it is really touching, approaching environmental conservation and even military oppression through the perspective of animals. i also finally just finished pageboy, which took me some time to read but i recommend it if you're interested in celeb memoirs (emphasis on celeb memoir; while i liked page's stream of consciousness about his experiences, it's very raw and lacking introspection, imo. but still worth a read if you're interested).

otherwise i don't have much to recommend that i haven't already before, i'm trying to really get back into reading consistently this year (and reading books that are actually good lol) a lot of the books i read last year weren't really good enough for me to want to recommend.

but i did really like minor detail, but if you're looking for a break maybe skip it for now as it's a very heavy read. if you're looking for a quick and weird extreme horror book then i'd recommend to be devoured.

i'm now reading i shudder at your touch which i linked a few days ago, i'm about 3 stories in and i've really enjoyed the second and third one (sea lovers was like right up my alley), but the first one is kinda a slog to get through (or not, if you like stephen king i guess)

#im also like 4 pages into house of hunger so i cant really say anything about it yet. but i am reading it #and im reading cobalt red but ive been put in time out by spotify and ran out of audiobook minutes so. i cant read anymore of that #for like 8 more days lol #like i said unfortunately most of the books i read last year simply. were not very good #aside from the few ive already recommended before #its hard for me to say any favorite books bc its been so long since ive read some of these #who knows if they hold up....#i used to be obsessed with the night circus by erin morgenstern tho. i should reread that bc i dont really remember much #i also always recommend the southern reach trilogy #ask #anonymous

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bmpmp3 · 15 days ago

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also on that end though - it does always surprise me when white people completely and utterly miss mixed race coding in like books and other fiction. which i guess i shouldnt be surprised because of how bad they are with any racial coding at all really like (gestures vaguely at the hunger games rue situation for the past 15 years) but like straight up they dont see it? they don't even see...

#the rue situation was nuts and horrifically racist but also so so bizarre like okay. i read the hunger games by having my 6th grade teacher #read it to our whole class a chapter a day and even in all her mispronunciations of every character name (she said cinna like CHEE-nah)#(went italian with it i guess.... also effie as EE-fee - etc) and the fact that i was 11 i remember CLEARLY that she was discribed as #having dark skin and dark curly hair and put two and two together that she was black. like. hello. can anyone here me. its so dark in here.#but in a much less horribly antiblack and racist situation ONE TIME my (white) mom tried reading a book i really really loved in 8th grade #a victorian ish period young adult novel about a spy girl and like the main character spy also was half white and half chinese iirc #and in like the beginning theres a bit where shes getting questions about her features and for safety reasons she plays it off that she #got it from her irish mother i think. and i read that when i was 12 and saw how she was written to be nervous saying that #and put two and two together and was like oh shes mixed race cool. and then later in the book it was plot relevant and then spelled out #but when my mom read the beginning i mentioned offhandedly that oh i loved that book as a kid cause it was fun and i thought it was cool #to see a mixed race main character in a fun basic spy thriller story like this and my mom was so confused like but shes irish?#and i was like. oh. um. maybe. and waited until she finished the whole book where it was fully spelled out for her to get it LOL #like it wasnt bad or anything it was just a surprise. my mom did understand it when it was spelled out later and thought it was neat #i mean she does have mixed race children after all (meeeeee LOL) but i was like so confused. i like. forgot. that white people dont #think about this stuff that often or at all by default so they just dont see it when its in front of them.#<- mixed race guy who rediscovers the concept of the white default brand new every day

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13eyond13 · 6 months ago

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Time to start reading The Queen of the Damned I GUESS

#the last/only time i read it was probably like 2006? 2007?#here is what i remember about it #lestat continues being a rockstar #armand is like dating daniel and trying to dress modern in jean jackets and shit #louis is just like lestats cute groupie? i forget if he does anything hahaha he like never does anything after book 1 tbh #but thats why we love im hes just there being a cute passive buzzkill like he always does best #theres a lot of akasha the queen and theres a big like vampire war or something??#i really dont remember a whole lot else at all #also i remember watching the movie based on it and its so funny and so bad fjdkdkss #full of nu metal and shit #anyways im sorry to subject you all to my vampire chronicles enthusiasm #I KNOW IT'S NOT COOL OK BELIEVE ME I KNOW #however this series really is one of the all-time entertaining series to me #and it's like the most junk foody of junk foods for me entertainment wise #i always feel almost queasy after bingeing on it too much and yet #then i want more the next day #i have grown accustomed to a daily dose of their undead drama and cannot go without for very long #i wonder how far ill get into the series this time #i got so mad at how every book got further and further away from focusing on the main characters i actually cared about after a bit iirc #maybe this time i will actually stick it out #i stopped after book 6 the first time around and there's apparently like 13?#and apparently the last 3 or 4 of those are p new and were written after i dropped it as well #vampire chronicles spoilers #interview with the vampire spoilers #p #vmpcs

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yuridovewing · 8 months ago

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im sure im gonna be singing this book’s praises but rn i just wanna get this out of the way- i get the feeling that gar face didnt age well

#naturally theres the whole ‘’oh hes got a disfigured face and hes the evil one’’#thing #but also him being an abuse victim. i dont remember how much they go into his family #or if they leave it at just that one chapter #i dont think ill harp toooo much on this bc like. its an issue worth talking about yes #but at the same time i dont really blame a kids book for not grasping all the nuances of child abuse #and i dont think appelt was going ‘’disabled abuse victims are bad’’ or anything. theyre common tropes unfortunately #but. im only on the first gar face chapter idk lol #from what i remember he serves his purpose as an antagonist well enough #the underneath liveread #edit on his second chapter: yeahhh sorry underneathheads i am remembering how much i didnt care for him lol #like. again he serves his purpose well in thr story from what i remember #hes a good contrast to how the animals and shapeshifters are written #but hes just kiiiinda boring to me. im kinda glazing over the alligator king chapter

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allergic-to-four-leaf-clovers · 9 months ago

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BED!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

#also I FOUND MY WEIGHTED BLANKET!!!!! IT'S UNDER MY DUVET BUT YK #also yhe pride flag will be repositioned dont worry #going on a bit of a ramble rn but like. ive just found a couple things that have been hiding under the drawers of my old bed #for example i found a cool bandana i thought i lost for like. a year. and now im obsessed with it so prepare to see that maybe #and i also found a snood i had that still fits me even though i even wore it in first school #and the crazy thing is that i dont remember #anything of first school #the only thing i have are school books from yr 4 and that snood #along witg like. old pictures of me #then again they look absolutely nothing like me. like. blonde with really long hair?? nu uh not me (not anymore at least)#i dont remember much of anything now that i think about it #i dont remember what i did last year #i cant even remember what year i came out as trans #i cant remember when i joined tumblr #and when i first made rayan or foster or zuriel or ailean or even the day i made ruaridh #perhaps its my shit sense of time but i have such a horrible memory that first school may have never happened if it werent for the fuzzy and #few things i actually. remembered. though i doubt i remember them correctly #idk if its anything that Happened™ that blocked out my memory or something. i know a certain thing may have since it kinda scarred me (ig??#idk i dont wanna sound overdramatic) but. you know im just a silly guy with a silly memory #anyway sorry for that vent lmao

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general-du-vallon · 10 months ago

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I for sure have different opinions about characters in 2024 than i did in whatever the other years were. Espec Aramis. I was gonna write a big post but actually all I really mean is I like him. I got a bit into negative against Aramis things last time around, I intend to keep on liking him this time. this time around i am watching for pure hedonism to enjoy the characters doing fun fighty things and then I will read many fanfictions,

#I remember being very against what he does in s2 to marguerite but really. Ihaven't got there yet but I think this time i will have differen #will have different thoughts. also i really enjoy him and porthos and intend to carry on with that so.#I think as much as I may have ranted (ah. I definitelly... ANWHAY) I was prob as much just annoyed at him and anne being not a story I care #about or wanted. Which I guess is a me thing. I GUESS. I qute liked sylvie and athos doing their thing in s3 and dart and constance are #whatever I guess but I love constance an awful lot so I suppose I never minded them so much.#I am biased against anything to do with anne which is unfair. I try so hard to like her.#Also milady I think I just don't understand what the fuck they did with her in the tv story. I say this like there is another thing where #another thing where I do understand the fuck they did with her. there isn't. I dont even rlly remember what Dumas did with her in the books #other than row her across a river and behead her after his grim little musketeers judge judy and executioners scene.

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night-dark-woods · 11 months ago

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if no one ever takes any of my other media recommendations, you should all check out just a single episode of Just King Things, a podcast where two media academics who grew up on his books read all the works of stephen king in publication order.

pick one for a book you hate! pick a book you love! pick a book you saw the movie for! or start at the beginning and listen to the whole thing despite having never read or watched a single stephen king art object (like me!)

i truly think JKT provides such an extremely helpful and nuanced and important take on media analysis Especially in terms of like, online pop culture analysis, and it's been so extremely useful and validating to listen to the boys discuss king's works in a way that holds the critiques and their enjoyment of his work in both hands as equal and looks at them all at once.

like whenever i get fed up and feel like im banging my head against the wall seeing people turn their likes&dislikes into something with a moral basis because thats the only "valid" way to criticize something online in fan spaces, or on the flip side seeing people explode about any criticism of a piece of media they like as though it is a personal attack on their own status as a "good person," its so so so nice and refreshing to be able to take a step back and listen to the hosts talk about these books in such a measured and complex way.

(and also, if you chuck $5 their way, you too can receive emails like this from the boys:

Transcript:

You ever wonder what would happen if a guy who did murders appeared on an island during the worst storm of the century? You ever think about who would get hurt if he had powerful psychic energies that zinged and zonked all of the most sinful people? You think about that stuff? Do you? Why?

Also he's a wizard.

Join us as we talk about the miniseries event of the millennium, 1999's Storm of the Century, on the bonus episode post.

End transcript.)

#my posts #like really and truly it is so refreshing and has given me new tools for analysis #and has also introduced me to a ton of books ill never read because i dont like them BUT i still enjoyed hearing about them!!!#and the bonus episodes are SO worth it bc i know nothing about film and cameron knows so much and i get to learn everything #they read 5 star reviews sometimes if they are funny and there was one thats like 'this is great for if you miss sitting in a lecture hall-#-but could never remember anything for tests' or something similar. and yeah exactly!!!#they are also very very funny.

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claitea · 2 years ago

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weird question but. does anyone know any horror game playthroughs good for someone who gets scared really easily HJEBDJFB

what i mean is like. i like the mystery and aesthetics of horror But i'm a wimp and watch playthroughs while doing something else so i'm not completely unnerved and jumpscares dont hit as hard bc i'm not looking directly at them

#clai speaks #i was watching someone play phasmophobia earlier for instance. that was okay #honestly tho i think i liked reading the descriptions of the ghosts in the book the most though HJSVDHBF I LIKE FLAVOR TEXT #also recently started watching someone's playthrough of sally face?#i dont know anything about it really i just remembered the title from Ages ago and that it was popular #thats pretty okay too so far #its rough being a coward with an interest in ghost stories HSJBDJFB

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thetangibleghost · 1 year ago

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do autistic people with special interests like trains or bugs sometimes absolutely hate that they have a special interest in that? like my special interests are psychology and supernatural and both of them make me want to scrape the inside of my brain with a spoon sometimes. Like I hate that I can't control these thing and like cant just give my self a new interest. Like i can try but some of them are just SO sicky.

#star trek also to a degree but like only TOS so i dont really mention it 😅#when i was a kid i was into paleontology and space i never hated liking those #but i wasnt like. I didnt have a cool knowlege bank like other autistic kids #like i really sucked at my special interests #edit: like i tried i read a bunch of books and stuff but it was just really hard to remember things that i wanted to rember like the numbers #the closest i got was a bunch of facts about mars #i think it was the DID lol #edit2: OMG and the paranormal i was so into cryptozoology and ghosts and shit #but i never got into creepy pastas or anything like other kids #Or like anything online #really

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youmustfixyourheartt · 1 year ago

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fucked up what happened to mike crew.