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ugh, I see so much beautiful art here and I wish I never stopped drawing because I thought I wasn't good enough. I could be drawing queer fanart at the moment!! But I'm not so ugh.

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I really wanted to like k ancrum's Icarus but I can't 😭 there was not as much exiting art theft reviews led on, and it didn't feel like star-crossed lovers. I wasn't even sure what was going on. It didn't show as much connection between the characters than I expected..

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Honestly, maybe if someone had recommended Percy Jackson books to me when I was a teen, i might have actually read them then. I just saw them in the library and thought I don't wanna read them because the main character is a boy XD back then I only wanted to read about girls. Now after reading the sun and the star I get why they are really good books for teenagers

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I'm reading Rick Riordan (and Mark Oshiro) for the first time, the sun and the star. I saw some fanart made by @alessiajontrunfio and it inspired me to read this. I start to see why people like Percy Jackson and Riordan's books :3 currently half way through the book already

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How I think I look vs. how I wished I looked

The cutest picrew by @hellosunnycore

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on so many levels

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People still use tumblr, right? For me instagram has started to feel a bit unpleasant with the algorithm, AI and restricting political content and all that. I don't like X and I don't quite get how to use bluesky. So I hope to find the joys of social media again here. I know the fandoms, conversation about books and fan art has been amazing. I hope it still is.

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Under 2 weeks till made in abyss season 2 is here. It's been a while since I've waited something this bad :')

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I don't know if I like or hate Euphoria (I'm on episode 6 and I know am late with it xd). The characters are interesting, the music is great, it looks good (lighting, colours etc.)... but personally for me the drug use is triggering and the abusive sex makes me feel really uncomfortable. So I don't know if I should just give up or continue.

What everyone else though about it?

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Umm, wow it's been ages since the last time I've been on this app. I wanna get back to writing reviews again and I wanna make this kinda like my diary or notebook or smth.

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What page??

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”

Hello beautiful people. This quote is from Carry on but I can’t remember the page. Tried to find it but couldn’t. So If anyone know what page it’s from please tell me. <3  Thanks!

Much love to everyone

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Review: Patrik, Age 1.5

1 h 41 min, 2008, 13+, Sweden, comedy-drama, Netflix

Plot: Gay couple thinks they adopted a baby but the kid turns out to be a homophobic teenager.

The movies nice, optimistic and good-willed. Darker themes were mentioned (e. g. homophobia, sexual exploitation, hardships of adoption process, anger issues) too but the movie is about family and love. The ending is really predictable but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. So if you wanna watch something that has a happy ending and not too deep, you should consider this.

I personally like what the interior decoration was like in the early 2000s so I enjoyed looking at the setting. x3 It’s so random and crazy.

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Review: I am Jonas/Jonas/Boys

1h 25 min, 2018, French, Netflix (Apparently it has three different names...)

plot:  A turbulent past haunts Jonas, who recalls his teenage love affair with the impulsive, twisted and yet irresistible Nathan.

So the movie follows a guy named Jonas. He’s a wreck and he recalls his boyfriend, Nathan, and their relationship. From the beginning it’s clear that something happened to Nathan and what that is unravels in flashbacks.

I liked

the flashbacks, way the story was told. It made the whole thing more interesting and refreshing.

I didn’t like

the cliches. The characters were so typical for a movie where the main couple consists two men. Nathan is cool, impulsive, twisted, rebellious and irresistible. Jonas on the other hand is more shy, awkward and that sweet boy next door type. They are smoking together. The whole fucking aEsThEtIc That has been seen so many times nothing about it surprises me anymore.

it was plain. The description seems so much more exciting than the movie actually was. I liked the setting and plot (kinda) but it lacked something.

Didn’t hate but didin’t like either. Kinda wasted hour and a half for that.. Not impressed, sorry.

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Review: Sex Education

Netflix, 2 seasons atm, 8 episodes in each season, about 50 min.

Plot: 16-year-old Otis becomes a sex therapist at school. Idea comes from school’s baddie Maeve. Includes lots of sex scenes, teens and drama.

Probably all of us has seen the trailer. It seemed cool and interesting. I have heard people praise this series and I get why, I had high hopes but I was disappointed.

It was good to see a show with representation and different characters (e.g. sexualities, backgrounds). There were things that are nearly never talked about, like asexuality, douching and teen abortions. That’s good and I get why people likes this show but it didn’t impress me. The idea of the series is great.

Still,,, some things that bothered me. The most annoying thing was the lack of continuance. Like it felt like they were writing it along the way (did they? idk). Like the first season wasn’t whole, it was random pieces put together. Some things were addressed only in one episode and they felt so random because of that. For example the reason why Otis can’t ejaculate was suddenly put at the beginning of one episode and then “it all just made sense”. I felt like that was so random. I get that they may not want to dwell in one topic too long and the series is supposed to be humorous but it would have been nicer that some topics had been discussed more.

The second season is better than the first one. Things that happen are not so random and it feels like a whole story. In the second season there are much less clients for Otis which was kinda sad. I would have liked to hear more in depth about other characters problems and stories. Which leads to another thing that bothered me: Otis and Maeve.

Otis and Maeve were okay but definitely not my favorite. They are a big cliche! Making mistakes all the time and being angry and that was just so boring. I was more interested in other characters relationships. I really disliked many parents. Idiotic people who don’t realize that they have an effect to their kids.

There are many cute relationships and characters and development which is nice. I liked how it looked, colors, clothes etc. It was okay just not my cup of tea.

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Representation - Why It Matters

“They look like Ainu people,” my grandma had commented as I showed her Princess Mononoke. I had never heard of the Ainu people before. I asked her who the Ainu are, and she said, “they’re like Japanese Indians,” meaning Native Americans. “Mountain people.” 

After we finished the movie I immediately went to Google to look up the Ainu. My grandma was right, on some level. The pictures I saw of their garments, their houses, their salmon culture, their faces… it all reminded me so much of the tribal culture I grew up around in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. 

I told my mom what my grandma had said about the Ainu, and my mom said, “oh yeah. Grandma is Ainu.” Whaaaaaaaat? Apparently at one point my grandma had gone back to Hokkaido to visit family, and she brought back all of these unusual souvenirs. Wood carved bears and wood carved bearded people, a mirror with a wood carved woman’s face, and other little things that had always been a part of our household. The little knickknacks that are never questioned, but are some how just kind of always there. I didn’t know that they had come from Japan, and I certainly didn’t know they were Ainu souvenirs. 

Of course, my mom didn’t have the internet at her disposal in the 70s, and at the time misunderstood what it meant to be Ainu. She assumed that Ainu was a general term for people from Hokkaido, as opposed to a specific ethnic group. My grandma denied being Ainu, having grown up Wajin, but my grandpa seemed to suspect otherwise. “Sayuri, I don’t know why you deny your heratige. Of course you’re Ainu, look at your big mountain feet!” my grandpa would tease.

The more I read about the Ainu and their history, and the more I looked into my own family history, the more questions that had always nagged at my family seemed to be answered. The question of why we were always so different.

This whole journey started with a movie. Prince Ashitaka is Emishi, and there’s a lot of complicated history about the relation between Ainu and Emishi, but the point is would I have ever learned learned anything about my family background if this culture had never shown up on screen?

People who see themselves and their culture represented all the time take for granted what that can mean. For some people, it’s literally life changing.