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valar-did-me-wrong · 6 days ago

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My mother starting Rings of Power as a new Tolkien viewer-

Galadriel: THE Lady

Elrond: her Prince boyfriend (elrondriels you are winning)

Gil galad: "I've seen someone wear that dress in _____'s wedding"

Harfoots: kids, all of them

Stranger: grilled chicken man

Halbrand: the titanic guy

Arondir: Shahrukh Khan

(I want you all to know that's the BIGGEST PRAISE you can get for romantic acting here)

Bronwyn: "she can become a Bollywood heroine anyday"

Theo: "he's got your hair from 1st standard" (🙈)

Durin: royal dwarf

Disa: "gold suits her, she'll look so pretty in our jewellery!"

(long winding discussion on how Disa needs more hair jewellery, definitely a maangtika)

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jawz · 2 months ago

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i saw the tv glow is legitimately one of the stupidest, most tryhard movies i've ever seen in my entire life. absolute dogshit. and everyone is pretending it's the most lifechanging thing they've ever seen LOL give me a break! the gall to claim this is inspired by fucking DAVID LYNCH??? i can't

#fake 'deep' shit for ppl who watch steven universe every day #i truly didnt relate to anything onscreen despite it being sooo aimed at me in so many ways.#i'm also convinced the director is racist and ofc after reading hundreds of reviews. Not One mentions #the main character's race or the alienation of being mixed......... um.#i think people are getting Very Very Dumb overall.#and it;s no coincidence that prior to being embraced by actual trans ppl all i saw was a million NON TRANS ppl falling all over themselves #to be like OOOOOMGGGGG THIS IS THEEEEEEEE TRANS EXPERIENCE COMMITTED TO FILM!!!!1!!!#like god thank you so much for speaking on something you know nothing about !!!! <3 #anyway the movie glorifies suicide more than pretty much anything ive ever heard of (including 13 reasons why)#and paints transness as Killing the Old Self. what a bleak and brutal thing to put onscreen and then CLAIM IS POSITIVE????#if this is aimed at kids (not sure if it rly is but it certainly would appeal to them and has the emotional maturity of a 14 yr old) then #its 100% going to inspire suicidal or self-injurious behavior. and it's insane and reckless as a filmmaker to craft this supposedly hauntin #and supposedly beautiful narrative where THE most important step is FUCKING KILLING YOURSELF. it's self hatred at the deepest level.#if anyone wants to shit talk this director with me lmk because that Worlds Fair movie is also some of the worst TRASH ive ever watched!!!#Amy Nicholson was spot-on abt it as always tho so i was vindicated by that

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shadowglens · 11 days ago

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i do still think datv feels very … disconnected from the previous trilogy, and that parts of it don’t really Feel like dragon age to me. that being said, i’m still having a fun time

#txt #sophie plays datv #datv spoilers #i kind of went into the game expecting this though after reading reviews #i still think BioWare really failed with not having a world state import #datv definitely suffers from not having those little callbacks from previous games that made the others feel connected #i also agree with what a few people have said about the accents being all over the place for each region #i think all the new factions and regions and things aren’t helping either #because they’re new and don’t feel the same as previous games - and there’s no little threads of familiarity to help with that #and a lot of these places have been so hyped for 10+ years that they inevitably probably don’t feel as good as i expected them to #all that being said I am still having fun though #despite the hand-holdy storytelling and disconnectedness #I can just tell that datv won’t be my fave instalment in the series tho rip #oh another gripe i have is that rook really has no personal investment in the main storyline #like??? why should they care???#every previous protag has been intrinsically connected to what’s going on #rook just feels like a random picked off the street to save the world #it all feels a little impersonal to me but whatever

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hell-river · 2 months ago

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I finished Lonesome Dove on the weekend and it has literally taken me two days to be coherent about it. People are so right when they say ‘if you only ever read one western, read this’. This is The Western of all time. This is the most stunning and comprehensive example of a character driven story that I have ever seen. I cried like three times.

If you hate character driven stories you will probably hate it but honestly if you want to learn anything about writing characters and structuring stories you should read Lonesome Dove. I would and probably will recommend it always for writers despite it being nearly 900 pages long lol.

McMurtry also writes some of the best female characters I have ever read (especially in the genre) and he writes them with so much genuine care and love and respect. Ultimately to me this is a story about a woman. Lorena is so central to literally everything that happens that none of it would have occurred on page without her. Clara and Maggie and Elmira have been effecting the story since before the reader even joins it.

The men in the story are also of course very fascinating as well and each of their perspectives and quirks are honoured as if they actually were real. There is not a single character that is taken as a joke, even though most of them, including many of the main characters, would be treated that way in other books or film.

5 stars obviously it will haunt me for the rest of my life

#it was also very funny and interesting but grief as a theme is so important to the story #you can see why McMurtry was such a good screen writer for Brokeback Mountain #the man will absolutely emotionally devastate you #my reading #lonesome dove #westerns #books #bookblr #reviews #writeblr

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scattered-winter · 4 months ago

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every day i kick a rock and bash my head into the wall because i'll never get to go on a big space adventure and become tightly close-knit with my new found family up there <//3

#re lrb..........#i mean realistically if i was in the voltron/quintenary stars universe chances are i would probably NOT be one of the people #going on the space adventure.#i'd be roped into the plot when the aliens invade and earth almost gets destroyed. spoilers for arc 2 btw sorry #but man. child soldierism aside i wish that were me so so so bad #sadly kicks a rock when will EYE have a deep and mystical connection with a giant ancient cat :(#its not even that i want to interact with the main cast bc i dont really i just. wanna be in their position man #i think one of the reasons why voltron grabbed me so hard (among MANY) is how badly i wanted to do what the main characters did #i remember when i was first watching it while it was coming out i would CONSISTENTLY daydream about being launched into space #with a handful of other people and having to fight a war and grow up far away from home and all the suffocating stuff that came with it #and then coming back years later already solidly knowing who i am and being confident in that #so i'd actually be brave enough to be unapologetic about it. and i'd be found family with the people i went to space with also #that parts important #idk man just. i dont like saying i was abused when i was younger because i really dont think it was like that and it isnt even close to #what how people who have really been abused have had to go through #but sometimes i really do wonder. like now that im (mostly) out and able to review everything with an outside perspective #not even getting into the cult survivorism stuff this is JUST family dynamics im talking about here #bc that shit is a whole other can of worms #i think my parents were genuinely doing the best they could with the cards they were dealt but. jesus christ.#i would have given ANYTHING to be able to run away from all that. and throw magic cats into the equation? brother im GONE #anyway this tags ramble has derailed in a MAJOR way. tldr i wanted to be a paladin sooooo fuckign bad bro #like it actually makes me SICK how much i want a lion. red you are my forever girl even if only in my heart <///3 #i still do want to do all that out of principle but its not as desperate now i just really love space and really want a big kitty friend #winter speaks

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im-still-watching-anime · 8 months ago

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i am officially, FINALLY all caught up again in both the manga and the anime for bsd and OH BOY there are thoughts and opinions but also WHO CARES because my tags are finally FREE to be unfiltered

#hnnnnnn #i am SO happy #i am BEYOND happy #i love the arc even if i complain about it a lot #but i am also hnnnnnn…….displeased……..with a few things #the anime fr about to catch these hands #i already KNEW they were rushing it from the few episodes i had watched #but the anime is usually SO good at pacing #that i fully trusted that certain things would be slowed down for significance/impact/etc #but instead the pacing just stayed WAY too fast for me #and they ended up cutting SO many small moments that had SO much importance like im going crazy about some of them #some of the lines they cut…….#or even adjusted slightly that it drew away the impact #ugh i KNOW there was a LOT to balance and a LOT of content to get through #but i am a little disappointed that so many emotional scenes were what ended up suffering for it #this is why i don’t usually like reading the manga for animes i watch #i always end up getting disappointed by the limitations of adaptations #that being said though regardless of general limitations i don’t think some of the rushing is above criticism #and i am going to go and eat glass while seething over the particularly offensive rushing/cuts😤#OKAY DONE that’s the last i’ll say about it i would just go crazy if i didn’t vocalize it somewhere #in general i was VERY happy with the arc in both the manga and the anime i have SO much love for it #definitely a favorite for me #and THAT concludes my very vague no spoiler review #i swear one of these days my self control is going to snap #and im just going to start posting my full essays and content analysis shit about everything i watch here #but for now we’re safe and all my rants will stay spoiler free tag paragraphs instead godbless🙏

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skylilac · 9 months ago

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this book is acruakly soooo disappointing

#i was thinking like oh religion and queer angels and culty stuff that sounds fun but its actually SO BORING #every fifteen pages he started talking abt his ex like i still love him and also hes ENGAGED???? but he keeps saying betrothed like a weirdo #and like hes literally still in love w his ex but i KNOW thats not the real li but hes talked to the real li like six times maybe #like why put a love triangle if everythings lame and boring #and like the workd building fucking sucks its so bad all i know is global warming made it rlly rlly hot #and ok i get this kinda dystopian setting is hard to pull off but why is it SO fucking jarring i keep forgetting its dystopia #and like listen i get queer rep being important but this is SO BAD.#its like modern queerness + future dystopian apocalypse and it fucking sucks #like nothing abt queerness evolved over the last few decades?? are you fr?? we’re still having the exact same queer discourse??#if youre gonna write a love letter to queer survival at least be fucking CREATIVE #im not buying that human culture stayed totally static except for global warming and a religious apocalypse #what abt race what abt sports what abt food what abt jewelry and clothes and ughhhh this is so boring #ok and the li also has no personality traits bc every time hes there alk the mc says is #wow! he has floppy hair! that he pushes back w bobby pins!#oh my i dont know how to use the bobby pins he gave me so im gonna dramatically throw them on the floor when we have our only fight!#ALL I KNOW IS. he has floppy hair it might be black #this book fucking sucksssss im so upset i hate gr reviews #avery rambles

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keelanrosa · 7 months ago

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terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

#science #transphobia #cass review #less 'cass review' generally more 'zucker specifically' because this same problem exists outside cass #have lost count of the number of times i've seen 'well THAT study may have said most trans kids persist but it MUST be wrong'#'there's another study says the exact opposite. that one's right. obviously.'#but cass is why i'm annoyed by it now #normally i don't have a problem with critical observations and questions. yeah check your science! that's good!#there have been some bullshit studies and some bullshit interpretations of good studies! scientific literacy is important!#and normally also am willing to pretend the people pulling reaction 1 on some studies and reaction 2 on others are. not the same group.#but now there's a ton of cass supporters tryna say 'oh the cass review didn't reject or downplay anything for being pro-trans!'#'some studies just weren't given much weight for being poor evidence! not our fault those were all studies with results trans people like!'#…….………….aight explain why zucker's findings are used for the 'percentage of trans kids who don't stay trans' stat instead of anyone else's.#would've been more scientifically accurate to say 'yeah we just don't know.'#'studies have been done but none of them fit our crack criteria sooooo *shrug*'#like COME ON at least PRETEND you're genuinely checking scientific correctness and not looking for excuses to weed out undesirable results #am also mad about zucker in particular because his is possibly the most famous bullshit study #quite bluntly if you're doing trans research and think 'yeah this one seems reasonable' you. are maybe not well-informed enough for the job #there's just no way you genuinely look at the research with an eye toward accurate science regardless of personal bias #and walk away thinking 'hm that zucker fellow seems reasonable. competent scientists will respect that citation.'#that's one or two steps above doing a review of vaccine science and seriously citing wakefield's mmr-causes-autism study #it doesn't matter what the rest of your review says people are gonna have OPINIONS on that bit #and outside anti-vaxxers most of those opinions will be 'are you actually the most qualified for this because ummmm.'#people who agree with everything else will still think someone more competent could've done a much better job #people who disagree with everything else will point to that as proof you don't know shit and why should we listen to you #anyway i'd love a hugeass trans science review with actual fucking standards hmu if you know of one cause this ain't it #……does tumblr still put a limit on how many tags you can include guess me and my tag essay are about to find out.

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vicktoryscreech · 11 months ago

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i put on quinton reviews most recent video then fell asleep only to be woken up by baby jennette mccurdy screaming and crying and stabbing a stuffed animal twice

#why put it on again before bed? bc i’m dumb #this ain’t the one to fall asleep to gang #i’m glad he included this part in there though it’s very important #quinton reviews

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bloodmoonlich · 7 months ago

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#omg i just found out im getting a raise!!#like randomly and not part of a performance review or an all staff raise #like they deem me important and that's why #my boss left me a letter #😂#he's working remotley this afternoon and we were texting about a work thing #and like omg he let me text him about work questions for awhile and didn't say anything #personal

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thebigqueer · 3 months ago

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i dont wanna eat anything or do anything and i just wanna lay around but i also dont wanna do that and i dont wanna watch anything or read anything and idk what i wanna do

#i was supposed to have someone review my resume and i was banking on the fact that maybe talking to someone instead of being alone in my roo #would help me out but the whole appointment system maker thing was messed up so we couldnt even meet #so i literally hvae nothing better to do than wait the next few days to get back to campus #and i was soooo excited to go back to school and i still am cuz i know itll make me feel better being around people #but im just a lot less excited than i was #cuz i just really really hate the idea of having to spend another fall semester getting over someone #like i couldve probably handled spring semester. but fall semester???? when theres already enough desolateness as it is???#like i just hate hate htae the idea of being on buses and starting to cry again and its midnight at 4pm when im crying #and theres people everywhere and the wrost part is shes literally on the same campus as me!!! so now i might actually see her!!!#and i dont want to!!!#i want to be friends but right now i know if i see her again ill just start sobbing on the spot #i was so excited for thsi fall sem but now im just notttt #and i know ill be busier (hopefully) this sem so im sure ill be better off than last year #but still like. idfk i dont know what to do. i think i just need to hear someone elses voice #im supposed to talk to my friend later today so maybe thatll help #cuz im kinda ready to tell someone about it but what if she telsl me she cant call what am i suppsoed to doooo #cuz last year the person iw as getting over lived a bajillion miles from me so it was easier!!! but she and I live 5 mins from each other #AND SHES FREINDS WITH LIKE ALL MY ROOMMATES #THEYRE ALL HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS !!!!#GODDDD.#i mean there are def upsides to this . for example its good we broke up now #cuz imagine if we broke up cuz of a fight and then thered be a big issue in the friend group #but it ended well and i dont think our friends / roommates will be 'picking sides'#as long as i just dont do anything drastic lol #adn who knows maybe our friendship will bounce back and i really hope it does!!#but she and i didnt start off as friends we kinda went into this knowing we were into each other to begin with #so like how do i be friends with her you know???#and friendship is soo important to me so its not like i dont want to be friends with her. i really really do. i just dont know how itll wor #like i value friendship over romantic relationships any day but also our relationship felt so deep to me #which is why im scared that we wont be friends even though i know we both want to be

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starswallowingsea · 3 months ago

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Finished five broken blades today and i enjoyed it enough if you're looking for a slightly older six of crows definitely give it a shot. I think my biggest issues were that i hated being in royo's pov and it felt like he had so many chapters and for WHAT literally why i think some of those chapters could have been better utilized building up aeri's plot twist (which as it was, was laid out nicely for the reader to follow and made sense when it was revealed but i much preferred her head to fucking ROYOS) or spending just a little more time developing sora and tiyung's relationship. I wouldnt say it was a super sudden switch but it definitely would have benefitted from more time with them. Also i wish we had just slightly more descriptions of the clothing because it felt a little too vague for me i couldnt tell if they were supposed to be more modern or inspired from a certain time period and culture. It didnt have to be anything fancy but just saying the yellow dress really doesnt do much and made it hard to feel like...connected? To the rest of the world but i may just be really into clothes

#shay speaks #book reviews #five broken blades #bookblr #for the last point i mean even just giving a one sentence line about like. sleeve cut #or even undergarments (stays corsets sokgot etc)#since the author is korean and taking inspiration from korean folklore i dont see why #the fashion couldnt be borrowed from historic korean fashion as well #idk it would have been nice to see more of that in the clothes bc i couldnt really #'see' the characters properly i mean ive talked before i cant really see in my mind's eye #but when i am trying to think of what a character would look like. clothes r important and the vague descriptions #hurt more than they help #anyway i also fucking hated royo can you tell i loathed his chapters so bad

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why-the-heck-not · 2 years ago

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resisting the urge to add jokes to academical papers

#poorly #bc yea I kept it there #it's a peer review small short essay that's not that official/important so why not #to add some color bc those are boring to read & grade tbh #studyblr #chaotic academia #study #studyspo #november 2022 #2022

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bloodofgrapes · 2 years ago

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