#gotta do letterboxd for it soon

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Ghost World (2001) dir. Terry Zwigoff

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MATTHÄUS | 1999 | ND | they/he | austrian *also go by Hannah, Matt, Matza, Percht

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watching wrestling on and off since 2018, especially NJPW

i ship wrestling characters. (i don’t do rpf tho)

visual fav list ✨ (which i gotta update sometime soon)

Jay White before AEW summary 🐀

Hiromu Takahashi/El Desperado feud introduction 🌹

small Jay White/David Finlay feud introduction 🔪

video edits (fancams & others) -> #perchtsvidtag

my art -> #hanasartstuff

my wrestlemeta / narrative thoughts -> #wrestling thoughts tm

I have wrestling ocs. -> #perchtsocs

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did you watch hell house: the lake of fire? i don’t know how i feel about the film since tonally it seemed different from the others, but wanted to know what you thought/if you liked it since you know a lot about the franchise.

I did! Unfortunately, I have like no memory of what even happens in it lmao. I read the synopsis on wikipedia to see if it would jog my memory and I got nothing. (Time for a rewatch I guess!) I checked my letterboxd and I did watch it in 2022 and I even rated it but I didn't leave a review. Here are the HHLLC films ranked based on the ratings I gave them. 1. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) 2. ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Hell House LLC (2015) 3. ⭐️⭐️✨ Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019) 4. ⭐️⭐️ Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) The first film was really good imo, but then the second and third films fell short a little (from what I remember of them at least and from my ratings lol) but as the sequels go on they get better and better. The latest sequel I rated even higher than the first film. While the first film is now like a classic to me, I think we're seeing Cognetti grow as a filmmaker and improve his craft, which is really cool!! and it makes me really excited for the next installment (there's a mostly blank entry on letterboxd 🧐) and other future films! He's had a film called 825 Forest Road in post-production since like 2021 and I'm dying to see it but so far I don't think there's been any updates of when it'll be released. Hopefully soon! 🤞 Sorry if this didn't really answer your question, this is why I've now made it a habit to write something as a review for most of the films I watch because... sometimes I just completely forget. But thank you! Because now I know I gotta do a rewatch of the franchise 😁

[steveyoungjokes]

Is “Cop Land” (1997) copaganda?

(On letterboxd, too.) Some films feature "The City" as a character in the film, Cop Land has the entire system underpinning the entire U.S. of A as a featured player! The entire Bad Cop scheme, and therefore the lived material conditions of the police "across the river" from the city, and how it differs from those in the city, plus it relies on mob ties, questionable loans, and killing your neighbors for land, land, and more land! It's all premised on the idea that enforcers of the law are exempt from it ("sovereign is he [OR SHE!] who decides the exception," after all! I imagine most cops like the dude who wrote that line.) Wait, is this movie a leftist critique of police, property rights, local tax base issues, and american imperial patriarchal capitalism?!  

Well, our hero Sly applies some of the self-criticism he seems to have learned in Vietnam, and decides "what is to be done?" The answer: "Praxis" (which is the name of Stallone's shotgun). Like a good little insurgent, our hero Sly (1) does "the reading" after stealing it from a cop! Then he puts his newfound knowledge to work, by (2) Organizing: he confronts Ray Liotta, which leads Liotta to coming to his rescue. Stallone's kind demeanor to someone whom he knew was a murderer, brought him an ally when he needed it most. Then Sly does what he does best: (3) Direct Action through killing Cops! He puts up a good effort, gets some good numbers, but the Bad Cops of the film killed more cops overall, so we gotta hand it to ‘em! So NO, this IS NOT a leftist movie! Though it does illustrate why #ACAB.  It has one hero cop at the end, and every other cop kills other cops… in the aggregate I guess this is relatively Good Copaganda?

The casting is absolutely aces. Stallone is used perfectly, as the very believable bumbling sheriff. The cops are portrayed by actors doing their best slimeball impression, and they all nail it! Michael Rappaport does a perfect impression of a cop: entitled, alcoholic, abusive, racist, and scared as hell as soon as he doesn't have a badge, and his fellow gangsters (clearly he relied on his New York childhood for inspiration). Stallone's deputies are played by Noah Emmerich (ever stalwart… to his family! LIKE HE SHOULD BE!), and Janeane Garofalo who is a welcome tonal shift from the rest of the dudes, and offer the dudes another chance to show how creepy of cops they are. (It's a shame that she was blackballed for RIGHTFULLY calling out the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq for what they were, and I'm glad her career has survived!) 

James Mangold did a bang up job writing Cop Land. Having Stallone in the film helps the audience think they're watching an action movie, which makes the tight writing and directing all the more rewarding as the detailed visual cues/clues wash over you throughout, until you realize you're watching a thrilling mystery. This really is a tier above most other cop movies! This is probably because it's just a western movie in an urban setting. Brilliant really! When someone can successfully pull of a genre swap like that, it's very notable, and this is no exception. Great movie!

[hqlourd]

Absolutely anytime, lovely! Chill is definitely something that I can support, it's so nice to be content with what you're doing and who you're doing it with, y'know? I totally agree that sometimes you just gotta let everybody have their successfully happy ending in the sun, and not ask too many questions about what came after that. Because, I mean, we've all seen sequels ruin what people had in mind for their favorite characters, right? I prefer to just believe that most of my characters are living their best lives without me... the ones that aren't already dead, that is. Beach time is always my favorite antidote for whatever ails me, especially if I've got an acai bowl in one hand and my favorite beverage in the other – I hope you're able to indulge soon. I can't say I've been handling it with grace but I'm flattered nonetheless! I always said no marriage after my parents failed theirs, but then love happened – you are so not the problem, though. Please tell me about it!!! I want to see it, and I'll write you a wonderful review on Letterboxd.

i'm glad to hear that chapter is behind you now. and thanks for the well wishes. things have been pretty chill on my end lately, just keeping busy with work and catching up with friends, there's no drama going on anymore and i finally feel like everything's going to be alright. oh, hell yeah! i don't see a reason for them to even think of a sequel. sometimes it's better to leave a story where it ended, you know? of course i would like to see how lizzy is doing now but i don't think there's a lot for them to tell. beach time sounds like the perfect antidote to all the craziness. navigating the joys of co-parenting post-divorce must be its own adventure. props to you for handling it all with grace. is it bad that i keep saying i will never get married? i think the problem is me. i've been promoting my new movie like crazy, i swear it's a good one! will you watch it if i tell you all about it?

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

I’ve decided to used Letterboxd again for list-making purposes! I’ve decided to do some recommendations by decade, so here’s my picks for the 100 films of the 2010s I think are must-watch experiences. It’s a mix of my own bias as well as what’s objectively great so keep that in mind.

I’ve gotta say, if you knew where to look the 2010s had insane variety. There were also a lot of franchises, but most of them were pretty good. The best films here are always the most stylish or with clear direction; Taika Waititi, James Gunn, Robert Eggers and more all really made their mark with solid entries. This was a great decade for Keanu Reeves too, with his big John Wick comeback.

Obviously there were a lot of superhero films but most of them I don’t think were really worth putting on with only a few exceptions. Infinity War and Endgame are on here, but it’s more for the sheer spectacle and the former’s use of its villain; I think most of the other superhero films are overall better.

Sad to say there wasn’t really any “so bad it’s good” films I felt warranted making the list. As much as I personally love Cats and think Skimbleshanks is the greatest character in history, I think it’s still too soon to see if the film has left an impact. Same thing with The VelociPastor, an intentionally bad movie that nearly made the cut.

Another close one was Annihilation. Great movie, and I love Natalie Portman, but Color Out OC Space technically came out in 2019 and I think that movie is a lot better, a lot creepier, and more cohesive (plus it has Nicolas Cage).

Obviously I couldn’t see every film of the decade so if there’s something you think I missed out on, let me know! Maybe I’ll check it out. And I hope if you haven’t seen some of these films, you’ll check them out yourselves!

[adultswim2021]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force #28: “Broodwich” | November 2, 2003 - 11:45 PM | S03E16

Man, do I love this one. Shake digs his way to an underground tunnel where some kind of demonic presence lives. He foolishly accepts the Broodwhich, an irresistible sandwich that transports the eater to a hellish dimension full of threatening monsters who attempt to slaughter Shake. It only appears to take effect while Shake’s mouth is full of sandwich, and once the sandwich is fully consumed Shake will be trapped there forever. Does shake have enough self-control to save his mortal soul?

This one is really wonderful, and one of my favorites. The premise is pretty good; it’s a little evocative of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror story where Homer has to resist eating a forbidden doughnut. The spooky Broodwich dimension is very fun, and there’s a scene set here where it’s just Jon Glasser and H. Jon  Benjamin having what sounds like a mostly improvised conversation. Coulda aired this back-to-back with The Shaving and made it part of the Adult Swim Halloween stunt.

I also love how this one ends, where the demon voice has to apply slightly more pressure to get Shake to do what he wants after Shake figures out that by removing the nasty sun-dried tomatoes from his sandwich that he has successfully avoided consuming the entire sandwich. The final image of Shake, lobotomized under the guise of winning “free brain surgery”, eating the tomatoes just so the demonic forces can successfully murder him in the netherworld is just so goddamn funny and perfect.

MAIL BAG

Do you like Hootie and the Blowfish?

No

Come on now, give it up for hootie.

NO!!

How do I make the perfect pasta meal?

You gotta buy the good stuff. Like, the $3 bag of spaghetti instead of the $1 dollar one. Then YOU K NOW IT NEEDS SAUCE. Marinara? Butter and Cheese? olive oil? These are ideas that YOU need to have. Seek council at your nearest church if you are stuck for “the wet stuff”.

You gotta make garlic bread with that using a toaster oven and the BROIL setting; DON’T LET IT BURN. This is non-negotiable. Then, and this is the most important part: eat it with someone you love. Are they at work? Take it with you to their job and eat it in front of them. Are they having diarrhea? Just pop the bathroom door open and go hog. Have they passed on? Sneak their ashes into a parmesan shaker and just go nuts. It’s important to remember any meal could be your last so be sure to say grace. Okay? Jeez!

if u could spark up with one of the adult swim stars who would it be,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_porn_actresses_that_have_appeared_on_Adult_Swim

Hi this is Traci Lords, can you please drop my movies from your Letterboxd wishlist. Also: I think Brak is cute!

Sorry ma’am. I will remove it as soon as I can, but it’s currently being used as evidence in “a court case” and I am not allowed to take it down right now. In fact, I’ve been told that I am not allowed to discuss it unless I link to it, and act vaguely proud of it. I’m sorry! This all seems so weird to me but I must obay the courts. obay. how do you spell that word. My spellcheck says its wrong but I can’t think of any other way to spell it. obaye. o’bay. obae. Huh

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I watched all 26 episodes of an obscure Australian cartoon in one week and I’m not okay - My journey with Wicked! (2001) PART 1

Here it is, the reason I started this blog in the first place. I need to talk about this cartoon I ran into completely by chance. 

It all started, like you would, with Tubitv.

Good ol’ Tubi, the free streaming service that makes you either an expert at being able to find diamonds in piles of garbage or a connoisseur of said garbage. It’s thanks to Tubi that I put down that I watched Alpha and Omega: Family Vacation on Letterboxd for all to see and judge, but it’s also thanks to Tubi that I finally ended up watching Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Anyhoo, one day I was browsing their family film selection when I ran into this selection. And that was the day my life changed forever.

What you see before you, posted to a streaming service accessible in the United States, is the movie adaptation of an Australian TV show that never made it to the United States, which is based off a series of Australian children’s books from the 90′s that also never made it to the United States. It made it to other territories like Germany and the United Kingdom (and it apparently did super well in France but don’t quote me on this) but the TV show ran for one year and then disappeared without a trace after one 26 episode season.

How obscure is this franchise? Well, for starters, at the time I’m writing this in 2020, the books, the TV show, and the movie all don’t have a single Wikipedia page to call their own, and the easiest way to get info about this thing is to find the (rather tiny) TvTropes page. 

Let’s just get right into this shall we.

What is Wicked!?

Before you try to be all cute and make any references to the hit musical, there’s a reason I’m putting that exclamation mark there.

Wicked! started out as a series of six children’s books written by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman. I actually grabbed a kindle copy of all six books (because I’m in this thing too deep and I wanted to see how the cartoon compared with the source material) and I gotta say, they’re very charming.

The best way I can describe them is that they’re in the kid horror genre, but they’re less Goosebumps and more The Weenies book series by David Lubar in terms of gore and child endangerment. Wicked! has some artful depictions of blood and gore, but in a way that can be digested by the grade school crowd.

Being a former child, I can proudly proclaim that I would’ve adored this series when I was younger. Just look at these covers!

The plot of the books is that there’s a widower with a daughter and a divorced wife with a son who get married, and the two new step-siblings Rory and Dawn absolutely hate each other. They can’t stand the fact that their parents are getting married! Gross!

But then, on the day of their wedding, creepy things begin to happen after Rory receives an appleman doll in the mail, and then, over the course of six books, a deadly single-minded virus that feeds on hate and is targeting Rory’s bloodline begins to spread across wildlife, creating crazed mutant animals that try to kill everyone in the household. It’s up to Rory, Dawn, and Dawn’s grandfather Gramps to stop this virus before it kills Rory and his mother, and to do so, they have to seek out Rory’s father, who seems to be the mysterious cause and/or the solution to the virus.

I’m not sure how well these books did, on account of the whole “not Australian” affliction I seem to suffer from, but they seemed to do well enough to get a TV show adaptation.

And surprisingly, the TV show is a very close adaptation of the books, only they changed the plot in two big ways so that it fits an animated series with a “monster of the week” setup.

The first big change was that, of course, they toned down the blood and gore and removed the deadliness of the virus, choosing to go with a more cartoony mutagenic approach. Rory gets infected by the virus several times in the show, just like how he does in the books, but unlike the books, he never thinks that he’s going to die from it and it’s definitely treated as a more temporary thing. There’s no race against time either. Everyone is trying to live their lives except every so often, the virus shows up. A wacky cartoon virus with cartoony stakes.

That brings me to the other main change that they make in the show. Unlike the books, where the main villain is a mindless virus that feeds off of hate, an invisible foe that can only be defeated at the end of the last book with the help of Rory’s father, the TV show decides that that’s no fun and instead makes a main villain out of one of the main plot points in the books. Say hello to The Appleman. (Apple-Man? Apple Man? Fuck it, I’m going with the first one from now on)

Instead of having the virus mutate mysteriously and having the main characters constantly hypothesize what’s going to happen next, the TV show made a main villain who constantly reinvents new strains of virus in a laboratory that he set up in an abandoned refinery.

What then happens is a basic plot set-up that the show follows pretty consistently in every episode. The family is trying to do something, we get the theme for the episode, and The Appleman, who is a spiteful bastard who is trying to ruin this one family in particular (and I’ll get to that), decides to make a virus that will infect the theme of that episode.

Pretty standard cartoon stuff, right? Ah, but then you don’t realize the beauty of this show. But first, I gotta introduce the main stars of this show.

The Characters

(quick note: this bus is incredibly important to the plot, but only in the books)

First we have Rory (the boy holding up the tin) and Dawn (the mad red head).

Dawn is the step-sister who lost her mom, a bus driver, in a gruesome bus accident, Rory is the step-brother whose parents got a divorce and then his dad went missing, believed to have run away from his whole family. Both of them are meant to be the dual protagonists, but I feel that there’s just a tiny bit more focus on Rory. There’s a reason for this that I will mention later.

What is interesting to note is that they make Rory the smart, non-athletic little nerd that gets picked on a lot at school for being a dork while Dawn loves sports, is failing science, gets made fun of for not being as girly as the other girls in her class, and likes violent computer games. I wouldn’t exactly call them “fleshed out” but they did enough to make these kids feel like actual kids.

Also, they fight. Constantly. This is the main complaint of anyone who actually looks into this show judging by my brief skimming of Internet comments because these two constantly bicker and insult each other and that makes up like 40% of the dialogue in any given episode. While this is one of the main story conflicts and they’re like this in the books too, it just feels super exhausting to see these two constantly at each other’s throats in every single episode.

They get mean too. Which, surprisingly, makes them both more realistic (I babysat multiple times and kids can be pretty verbally awful to each other) while also making them just a tiny bit unbearable at times. Here’s some actual dialogue.

"My dad sent it to me!" "Gee, he must think a lot of you to send you a doll full of worms." "Your mum thought so much of you she drove this bus over a cliff and into the river to get away from you."

GEEZ, guys...

Eileen, Rory’s mom.

It feels out of the three adults in the family, she gets the least amount of character development, but she does get a fair amount of screentime, so you can’t really say they’re intentionally ignoring her. She divorced her previous husband and works as a mail courier. Instead of owning a car, she drives a motorcycle, and, in the first episode, even drives it to her own wedding while dressed in a bridal gown. Rory’s mom rules.

She tries to bond with Dawn because she always wanted to raise a daughter, but Dawn clearly doesn’t like her new stepmom very much. Dawn is also afraid of the motorcycle and it comes up a couple times in the show.

Eileen is the adult that gets targeted the least by The Appleman’s schemes. There’s a very pointed reason for this, and I swear, I’m getting to it soon.

(quick note: yes, the show uses real photos to put in picture frames in the backgrounds and it’s real weird and never addressed)

Jack, Dawn’s dad.

Jack is a sheep shearer, just like in the books, and he’s a big easy-going dope that is hard not to love. Look at him hammer in this carpet. A true champ.

Out of the three adults in the family, he seems to be the one that nearly dies the most, with The Appleman going out of his way to specifically target Jack in some episodes. If you know Appleman’s backstory, this reads as absolutely petty spite and I love every minute of it.

Gramps, Dawn’s grandfather and Jack’s dad.

He’s an aging WWII veteran (one that has killed people in combat no less) who radiates constant Boomer vibes and, unlike Eileen and Jack, he actually sees some of the crazy shit that happens and will sometimes sense when something is infected with virus when the other two adults can’t.

In the books, he’s suffering pretty badly from dementia, but thankfully the cartoons drop that completely. I’m glad too, because I don’t have the confidence that they would’ve written it with enough sophistication to make it not seem ableist. Instead, he’s just your typical kooky cartoon grandfather.

He’s probably the adult that gets the most screentime because he will actually help Dawn and Rory out. Again, this ties into the books, where he was the main adult ally for the kids.

He says a lot of army-themed catchphrases. It’s a tad overplayed but it never really gets to a point where I would call it “annoying”. Also, instead of living in the house, he lives in a tiny granny flat on the property. Sometimes Rory spends the night there.

Last but not least, we have the star of the show, and the reason why the easiest way to find information of this show is to google “Wicked The Appleman”.

The Appleman, as explained, is the main villain of the story. Dressed in a very fancy suit complete with dress shoes and a nice blue tie, he lives in an old refinery full of rats, bats, and giant worms (called Slobberers), and he’s rocking a voice that can be best described as “Australian Mark Hamil” with an absolutely heavenly evil laugh. He has gross clawed hands, a rotten apple for a head, and likes making people miserable, because he’s basically the living puppet for a virus that feeds off of negative emotions. The main goal of each episode is to either defeat him or to stop the mess he’s made. Usually both.

Since all of his minions are non-sentient animals, a lot of his dialogue is him lurking behind something while he monologues to himself, sometimes turning it into a creepy little rhyme. He’s a pretty lonely guy, so him hanging out with this family can be seen as a very non-subtle cry for help.

The best episodes are the ones where he tries to lurk about in public with a very poor attempt at disguising his hideous features. Somehow it always works, you know, despite the fact that he has yellow eyes, the skin like a moldy apple, and no ears.

What Makes Wicked! Unique

(no, The Appleman doesn’t actually use that axe)

The first thing this show does that most of the formulaic shows don’t do is that it does, in fact, have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That’s why this show was packaged into a full-length movie - you can glue scenes together and actually make a pretty decent narrative, even if the resulting movie definitely had a “glued together TV show episodes” feel ala some of the bad Disney sequels like Cinderella II and Atlantis II. 

This show even has some plot-heavy episodes that dive into just why this whole Appleman situation is going on and why he seems to have it out for this one family in order to flesh out the characters more.

Because that’s a thing that this show does. The Appleman is a cartoon-y villain who cackles in his lab and constantly invents new strains of viruses that can mutate things like animals and household appliances, but he doesn’t do it to take over the city or to “destroy the world”. He does it purely to inconvenience this one Australian family, who he stalks pretty regularly. This is a thing that comes from the books and honestly, it’s a thing that elevates Appleman from “ugly-looking cartoon villain” to “pretty damn creepy, if also still cartoony in execution”.

Sure, a lot of cartoon villains target the main protagonist in their evil schemes, but this one is definitely more personal.

He regularly follows Rory and Dawn to school and, when the family goes on a camping trip, he comes too. If Rory decides he’s going to hang out in the wrecker’s yard, The Appleman will be cackling and hiding behind totaled vehicles. If Gramps takes the kids out to the bay to go fishing, The Appleman will pull an ice cream truck out of his garage and follow them there. That’s how the main conflict is really set up.

I think if a scarier cartoon tried, they’d make him out to be this grotesque stalker, but instead, since this show is kinda goofy in execution, he’s like the shittiest cryptid in the world, constantly crouching behind trash cans and on top of rooftops while constantly cackling about how clever he is and how, miraculously, no one notices anything’s amiss.

This alone would make this villain interesting, but then they set up something about this show at the beginning if you watch the intro and the first episode and put two and two together.

Right from the start, the opening shows that The Appleman was once human by depicting his transformation by the virus. They don’t even try and pretend that he’s some demon or some sort of supernatural monster - he’s specifically a blue collar worker who had a nasty run-in with fate and mutated into this hideous apple-headed creature that now has to hide out in an abandoned refinery. You see why he’s dressed like that - he’s still wearing his work uniform.

Right after you watch that intro, the first episode of the show has Rory receiving a mysterious package from his father on the day of his mother’s wedding. It’s the first time that Rory and his mom Eileen have heard from their dad after he mysteriously vanished years ago. 

What’s inside? An apple-headed doll, which contains the first virus-infected monsters, The Slobberers.

When The Appleman makes his first dramatic appearance, he never says Dawn’s name, but he does know Rory’s name.

And, in case you didn’t pick up the hints from the first episode, the fourth episode really drives it home without spelling it out. Then the last episode of the series decides to say it out loud.

That’s right. Rory’s father, the man who mysteriously vanished from Eileen and Rory’s lives, is still an important part of the cartoon’s storyline, but instead of being the man who appears in the last book that knows how to cure the virus while also being the first victim of the virus, he’s the main antagonist.

The Appleman is Rory’s father.

And honestly, because of this little plot point, this show becomes a much richer experience once you look at the unhinged appleman who keeps unleashing horror on these kids and realize that he’s a divorced dad who constantly keeps tabs on his ex-wife's unstable dysfunctional family in order to make them more pissed at each other because that feeds the virus that mutated him.

This is a very cool concept. This is where Wicked! shines when, for all intents and purposes, it is otherwise a pretty average turn-of-the-century Australian cartoon that can be best described as “it’s okay, I guess” in terms of quality.

Because that’s really the rating I can give this show. It’s Okay.

It’s a very solid Okay, but I think any adjective more powerful than “Okay” is really pushing it. It’s not Great, it’s not Amazing. It’s Okay. Alright. Kinda Good.

But man, is it a wild ride.

Next time, I’m going to start discussing the actual episodes as well as this show’s pros and cons. Dividing this up into multiple parts partly because I feel like these things are more easily digested in smaller chunks and partly because I’m pretty sure tumblr now has a size limit on posts soooo...yeah.

Follow this handy link for Part 2 - The Actual Review!

[fuforthought]

Dude, you absolutely, positively, 100% can, should, and must write a novel. Anyone can do it, you don't need to have some special insight into the intricacies of plot and story. You only need patience and willpower. There's no wrong way to write a book, you just gotta find what methods work for you and DO IT. You write it for yourself and no one else! I've got several novels under my belt so if you do want to do it and want some advice or pointers, let me know!

I’ve started a novel about three times and have never gotten far. My main issue is a lack of faith in myself. I go back, read what I’ve written and immediately think it’s shite. i’m not saying it is; it’s just my general perception of myself. I wish to start writing again though. I’m starting with small movie reviews on Letterboxd and will probably pick up poetry again some time soon (I used to post a lot of poems on here). From there, maybe short stories, etc. etc.

I also need to READ. I don’t read nearly as much as I’d like to.