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summer review - Zurich
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slasher horror + letterboxd reviews ii
#i love doing this#i put three of my reviews in here guess which ones#horror#horror movies#horroredit#moviesedit#filmedit#cinema#horror cinema#horror letterboxd#letterboxd#peeping tom#a nightmare on elm street#friday the 13th#halloween#the texas chainsaw massacre#child's play#black christmas#i know what you did last summer#the house on sorority row#*mine*
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you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question
#she sounded so remorseful & i just stood staring like an anthropologist watching their phd thesis spontaneously manifest before their eyes#apparently she would watch the pilot episode to get a feel for the characters#and then just read a bunch of recaps & episode reviews instead of watching future episodes. what fresh steaming hell#this conversation took place like a year and a half after we were roommates btw. i had seen her maybe twice in that time period#i thought she was a standard frat girl but then 18 months later she appears in the wild grass to reveal unhinged character background to me#and i'm just standing there nodding feeling like i missed a weird opportunity i did not want or ask for#honestly thought i was the weirdest person in that apartment situation but now i'm wondering what our other 2 roommates were hiding#not my strangest college experience at ALL but like. definitely top 20#this wasn't the same person as Aquarium Girl btw but oddly enough they were roommates actually#(not at the same time that Recaps Lady and i were roommates but at different intervals idk)#anyway i probably should have interviewed at more than one apartment before taking over a sublease but summer sess is a weird time u know#oh and this happened in Hong Kong btw
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🌷June wrapped— spring is finally here! a good month for sharing meals with friends, soft slice of life books and lovers’ walk hikes
#books#bookblr#book blog#book quotes#literature#book reviews#poetry#studyblr#bujo#spring aesthetic#flowers aes#flowers aesthetic#spring vibes#summer aesthetic#summer vibes#cottagecore aesthetic#cottagecore academia#cottagecore fashion#cottagecore#glossyhobi#cottagecore style
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#ts4#ts4 edit#oc: nauthkee#i didn't have a caption idea for this so he doesn't get one#but. after reviewing his file...i have come to the conclusion that he unfortunately looks like this 90% of the time#eyebags dark circles expression & all#wears the same 2 pairs of boots everywhere even in summer#has 5 pairs of jeans that look exactly alike even though they're different#90% of his wardrobe is black and red aside from his comfy clothes#he has exactly 1 white shirt that says “community dick” bc yoni got for him as a gag gift on his birthday#he still wears it tho#no one ever knows how he manages to get laid bc he's always staring at people like he'll murder them for opening their mouths#the rbf is real#he DOES smile and isn't a complete dick but that's mostly at home and when he's not working#which isn't often
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Folks, we’d like to show you clips of one of the crappier big movies of the summer, but we’d get sued. Yes, we’d get sued for showing you clips of [redacted].
#mst3k#mystery science theater 3000#crow t robot#godzilla 1998#godzilla 98#second annual summer blockbuster review
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ok book club <3 what are we reading that’s actually good and would maybe fill the trc shaped hole in my soul???? and don’t say reread. unless you say reread the dreamer trilogy because i’m so close to giving into the urge.
please. please. give me your suggestions.
as a frame of reference here are non-trc books i love & would recommend (different content, same soul):
watch over me by nina lacour
in memoriam by alice winn
under the whispering door by tj klune
these violent delights by micah nemerever
the anthropocene reviewed by john green
summer sons by lee mandelo
a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki
i need an actual book club but tumblr took away my group chats :(
anyway love you please give me suggestions!!!!!
#i am also not really a fantasy person#BUT i like magical realism (i just don’t like the whole world building thing personally)#thank you#and maybe let’s all be best friends and read books together#trc#bookblr#book recommendations#book recs#the raven cycle#the dreamer trilogy#maggie stiefvater#nina lacour#alice winn#in memoriam#under the whispering door#these violent delights#micah nemerever#the anthropocene reviewed#summer sons#lee mandelo#a tale for the time being#ruth ozeki
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raven branwen cringe posting -_-
#rwby#raven branwen#strq#my art#sad little pathetic cringe ass bug i found by the river bank 🐛#summer threw a hammer at her or something. i don't care.#i think the show would be infinitely better if her stupid bionicle mask could emote... try running from your feelings then bro 🤣#whatever subscribe to her youtube channel. she only posts tea reviews & sword sharpening vids 💯💥💣
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High Fashion Crowley: Sunglasses edition
my contribution to the
Wingz Summer - Vol. 01 Issue 02 - Swimz which is OUT NOW
(click the link, have a look you know you want to)
ko-fi if you are so inclined and like what you see
@goodomensafterdark
#good omens#crowley#sunglasses#fashion#Goooo Onnnnn Click the link#Possibly pilfered sunglass reviews#WINGZ II: SWIMZ#Wingz Summer#Swimz#good omens after dark#afterdarkchef
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august of another summer, and once again
the pond by mary oliver // nothing twice by wislawa szymborska // late august by margaret atwood // august by alex dimitrov // paradoxes and oxymorons by john ashbery // again august by haley mlotek //
#literature#web weaving#poetry#quote dump#quotes#poems#mary oliver#devotions#wislawa szymborska#august#margaret atwood#alex dimitrov#john ashbery#the paris review#summer#aesthetic#a bit corny but lots about empty spaces#yearning#and general moping about
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“No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you.”
Emily Henry, Happy Place
#booklovers#bookworm#books#biblophile#bookish#booklr#book review#smut books#book community#bookquotes#emily henry#happy place#book life#books and reading#book lover#summer reading#reading
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Summer 2024 Anime Overview: DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION
A giant mothership is hovering over Tokyo. The aliens haven’t done anything or even made themselves known yet, but Japan and America are already trying to blow that UFO up, and show off who has the best weapons, causing many civilian casualties along the way. While all this happens, two girls are just casually living their lives. But are they as normal as they appear?
One thing I want to say is if you watch this anime and care about being intensely spoiled, do not watch "episode 0" until you've finished episode 16. It actually slots chronologically between episode 16 and 17, and that's where the episode took place in the manga, so I have no idea why they did that. Fortunately I had someone to warn me about that, so I will be that someone for you.
Dead Dead Demons DeDeDeDe Destruction or De x 8 as I will be calling it, can be really tough show to watch—not because it’s bad, it’s very good, but because of how depressing and visceral it is at times, and how devastatingly accurate it is to the shitshow of our world. This tends to be balanced a bit by the touching friendships (and possibly? More?) of the very likeable cast of teenagers…but you also feel a huge sense of dread about their safety as things ramp up and their stories deepen.
The anime goes hard on criticizing the military industrial complex, Japan’s government, America’s government, xenophobia, treatment of immigrants, rich people, and conspiracy theorists. All things I also hate, so that’s great. What hurts is how you could easily see the events happening—waging war on the aliens despite no provocation, people using an app to to hunt down and slaughter them...
It shows how even some of the protestors of the genocide use their movement to cover their own selfish motivations, meanwhile countries taking the situation as an opportunity to vie for power and dominance, rich government officials lie to their people and abandon them…obviously there's a lot of commentary here on how we dehumanize immigrants and minorities and enable genocides for capitalism and political power.
It's very bleak, and there were a lot of episode that had me just feeling sad, especially comparing it to current events. But there's also this interesting focus on normal people trying to live their lives during this alien "invasion", and the kids who still go through the dramas and upsets of everyday life. And especially the “I’d burn down the world for you” intense emotional relationship between Kadode and Ouran, the two teen girl leads.
Ouran is the main lead, and she’s a chuuni beyond chuuni, acting wacky and cheerful and spouting nonsense-- except if you pay attention, she's saying some pretty valid things—critiques of capitalism, war, government surveillance—but then following it up with something wild like “and that’s why I should rule the world”. You get the sense she’s cloaking an awareness of how shit the world is in humor, and as the show goes on and as her surprisingly intense and weird backstory unfolds, it becomes clear why that is.
The relationship between Ouran and Kadode is the center of everything--their bond IS the show. It's that kind of ride-or-die, I'd-kill-for-you, I'll-be-by-your-side-even-if-the-whole-world-is-against-you, in-every-life-i'd-find-you-and-love-you, soul-bonded, fiery devotion and love. They are the most important person in each other's lives, full stop. It's those kind of relationships that are so transcendent it goes beyond simple definitions of romantic and platonic. In other words, my kind of shit exactly.
But, as far as romance goes, Ouran, at least, is definitely queer and the depths of her determination to keep Kadode safe in a world that wants to destroy her girl that would make Homura Madoka Magica blush. (Kadode is more ambiguous, but she’s definitely soul bonded with Ouran. And honestly should just date Ouran because god she needs to be rescued).
There’s also a gentle empathy for marginalized people underneath all the horror—the girls befriend an alien trying to survive in the guise of a human, and it doesn’t seem like a coincidence that the first person our alien tells absolutely everything to is the gnc/potentially trans person of the group, Makoto (To be specific, they seem to still be figuring out their identity, but they definitely present feminine and specifically came to Tokyo because their small town wouldn’t be okay with how they like to dress). The way Makoto immediately shields their alien friend from others when they make the reveal that they saying “Don’t let them see, it’s not safe” and how it’s followed up by the alien reassuring Makoto that their friends will be okay with it if they take their wig off to swim...it makes the metaphor extremely clear, and it’s always nice when a series can explore marginalized characters both textually and metaphorically.
Through the kids, we get kernels of hope in this story, a reassurance there are kinder people in this world, and a hope that kindness will endure.
As depressing as the story can be, what it has to say is important and it doesn’t hold back in making you see what it’s going for—from the “Cool Japan” logo flashing right before the Japanese government gives a weapons demonstration that will later kill citizens and destroy innocents...
...to the Trump-alike American President (and let me tell you it’s startling to be watching a show in Japanese and suddenly Donald Trump impression in perfect English) *(had to use the manga here because Crunchyroll didn't close-caption this part :/)
Then there's the American tourists, who were clearly va’d by someone really good at English, potentially a native speaker, and it’s incredibly funny how much of their dialogue has “fuck” in it and seeing the subtitles skip over that. Also much of their dialogue is treating the devastated Japan as a tourist attraction and saying how funny it all is to them. Logan Paul has entered the chat.
De x 8 very clearly hates America and recognizes it as a blood thirsty colonial power, which is correct, but the show is just as hard on it’s own country, saying the Japanese government would happily get back on the colonizing horse if they had an excuse, and many citizwns would mindlessly support them.
A small thing I appreciate is far from the usual anime aesthetic where everyone is blandly cute, the anime gives a ton of people ridiculously cartoony features that make everyone distinct—and being goofy looking is not meant to indicate a character is stupid or ugly—Makoto’s a super sympathetic character with giant cartoon buck teeth and one character that’s even pointed out as pretty has like, a pig snout nose. (It also makes it so the character noted as being drop dead gorgeous...actually is, instead of coming off as just as conventionally attractive as the rest)
Soooo a lot of good stuff going into this story. Let’s talk about some caveats.
There’s a continuing storyline between Kadode and her adult teacher, who takes her to his place to have sex with her. When he does, she ends up ditching him because of her feels for Ouran (gay) and I thought that would be the end of it, but nooope he’s a groomer, they pick up dating again when she’s in college, literally months after the previous encounter. The dude is presented as a scumbag, he cheats on his girlfriend, he seems generally apathetic, his clear discomfort with Kadode calling him “sensei” shows that he knows what he’s doing is wrong …and ultimately the relationship is shown to be unfulfilling, with Kadode directly stating so and acknowledging he’s just advantage. That doesn’t stop it from being uncomfortable though, especially since it’s confirmed he and Kadode have sex eventually (offscreen, thank god) and honestly, I felt it dragged on way too long. The first encounter pretty much demonstrated everything we needed to know about the whole thing in my view.
And of course there’s a ton of potentially triggering content in a story like this—from genocide to suicide to child murder to almost anything you can think of. Also like, one character has a sister complex, but on the milder side for anime. One where it’s conceivably platonic, and it’s not like he goes after her boyfriend Yuri Forger style, so it doesn’t bother me too much. There's also a good dose of fatphobia. And finally moment where a woman reveals she has ADHD (which I've never actually heard anyone say in anime so I actually got a little excited the more fool me) and then is almost immediately shown to be faking it.
The ending…is another big sticking point for me. It feels disconnected from the rest of the series, mainly focusing on a character we barely know and likely don’t care about and spending very little time with the characters we do, presenting an interesting status quo and immediately abandoning it, and while earlier episodes of the series presented "actions have consequences and we gotta live with them" as a major theme, it was suddenly like, actually they don’t!
The ultimate ending, again, hinges on a decision from a character we don’t care about and honestly feels like a deus ex machina. It felt almost like the author really wanted a happier ending but knew that wasn’t in line with the story he’s told so far, so he just tacked it on. Or maybe it was an editorial mandate, who knows. I think the most satisfying way to see watch episode 1-16 as its own pretty satisfying complete story (which works really well), and then treat episodes 0 and 17 as their own separate thing, a potential additional ending but not the definitive one. At least that’s what I did.
Overall, De x 8 is a show with a lot to say and it gives you plenty to chew on. While it is often depressing, it is very rewarding. The unbreakable bond between two messy girls, as well as the moments of ordinary joy and small human/alien journeys are the core of the show, and what makes it shine. I definitely encourage you to give it a watch. It's being really slept on, and it shouldn't be.
#dead dead demon's dededededestruction#dead dead demons#dead dead demon's dededede destruction#dead dead demons dededededestruction#dead dead demons dededede destruction#god help me this title#anime#summer 2024 anime#anime overview#my reviews#ouran nakagawa#kadode koyama#dddd#dead demon's destruction
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review of arctic monkeys at summer sonic by rockin'on, october 2014
#my scans#arctic monkeys#alex turner#nick o'malley#matt helders#jamie cook#am era#summer sonic#rockin'on#the review says alex's hair kept falling into his face..where are the photos of this..!!#no hate to dracula alex it's just not my fav look
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my tbr pile for june! i got a concussion this weekend and haven’t been able to read the last couple of days so i’ve been cranky.
#bookworm#bookstore#bookish#booktok#books & libraries#books and reading#booklr#book quote#book review#books#library#tbr list#tbr pile#summer tbr#monthly tbr#2024 tbr#tbr#sylvia plath#anais nin#albert camus#marguerite duras#inspo#light aesthetic#moodboard#instagram story#light moodboard#book tumblr#classic literature#classic lit art#jane austen
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We've been enlisted to do yet another Summer Blockbuster Review. The government wants us to inform the citizenry of their compulsory big expensive studio movie watching duties.
#mst3k#mystery science theater 3000#crow t robot#tom servo#mike nelson#michael j nelson#second annual summer blockbuster review
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