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absolute cinema

"Ok, ma'am that'll be $226.03."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

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Starting a collection

If you have more I'd love to see them this is my favorite meme format ever

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things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

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arcane ramble

rewatching arcane, i see now how vi is equally "to blame" for the chaos as powder. yes, powder blew up the building which made piltover stir up trouble in the lanes, but vi brought them there. vi also called the enforcers to get herself imprisoned which led to vander's kidnapping and the death of benzo. she also let powder keep the magic rocks as "their little secret" instead of telling vander or telling her to get rid of them. after first watching the show, i blamed powder/ half excused her ignorance because she was a child but now i see that both of their immaturities played a role in the first 3 episodes.

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Why i WILL be watching The Lucky One after reading the book

SPOILERS + this is a rlly shitty review its 2:17 am while im writing um... just trust that it's a good book

The Characters

Lead female and lead male makeup that one cliche- boring/untalkative guy meets an amazing girl with an obsessive ex

He love love loves her so much too

Loveable dog that DOESNT DIE

shitty ex has some character development before he dies

2. Perfect Ending

I thought I was going to be left devastated but no. Nicholas Sparks was feeding us

I was jumping around clutching my heart and thanking god

3. conflict

predictable but i didn't need it to be a surprise

ex tries to stir up a conflict, he's successful but with communication everything is fine. male lead doesn't know how to reveal secret but knows he should tell her.

the build up- everything leading up to the climax- was perfect.

4. My heart feels full

what i would have wished more of was corny little scenes where they admired each other but that's js cus im corny

otherwise i'm so satisfied and so happy and want to see the movie right away.

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i will NOT be watching The Girl Before series... here's why:

WARNING SPOILERSSSSSS

I did not enjoy the book enough so i cannot put myself through watching a whole reiteration of it. i thought the book would be about obsession- and in a sense it was but it wasn't like the Netflix series "You" kind of obsession.

my main points so i dont ramble

meaningless characters + unsolved details

Edward tells about his stalker, a man that follows him and has a sort of obsession with his buildings. looking back, this man could have been simon, explaining his immediate hostility towards him when they first met. unfortunately, there is nothing to back this up.

edward is also made out to be very mysterious, closed off, secretly aggressive, repititive, and overall sus. but at the end of the book, all of the sus attributes are shifted from edward to simon once we realize that simon was the villian afterall. it feels incomplete and wrong in my opinion because why is edward a perfectionist? why is he so secretive? why does he go after women that all resemble his dead wife? why did he repeat the same phrases and go through the same routines with them? were these all meaningless but creepy details to make us suspicious of him? if so, i think that is a stupid way (i know that sounds rude but i cant think of another word) to get readers to not easily predict the ending. i think that in a book, everything should have a true purpose- edward's characterisitics never had any true purpose. he broke the teapot simon gave to emma when he thought that emma wasn't looking and there was no explanation as to why. yes, to prove he was possessive, but placing that scene in the chapter made it seem like foreshadowing that he was capable of crazy things due to his overwhelming emotions-- but no.

insufferable character attributes

Emma, one of the 2 female leads, mentions multiple times how Edward is the kind of man she prefers- an ALPHA man. Me personally, it was cringey and almost made me want to stop continuing my reading. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, and the author may have done this on purpose to prove a point- but i was simply bothered by it. as the book goes on, emma even becomes more insufferable and starts calling edward daddy. to the point where i feel ashamed reading the book next to my classmates in school because i don't want them to peep over and see what embarrassing things i am indulging in.

no foreshadowing + poorly thought-out twist ending

these bullet points are kind of out of order but im too lazy to fix them and im sure u on tumblr dont give much a fuck. maybe i didn't properly go back in the book to search for these details, but simon never gave away that he could have been obsessed. Yes, it was obvious that he was deeply in love and attached to emma, but there was no sense of foreshadowing period- nothing to make the readers go "oh my gosh it all makes sense now!" or "how did i not realize before?!" maybe lack of foreshadowing was the way the author got us to not easily guess the ending but i think that a plot twist should at least SLIGHTLY be hinted at. because the ending , to me, seemed like it wasn't thought through all the way. I would have loved the plot twist of simon being the true killer if it had made sense. if edward's weird behavior had an explanatation,, if simon showed a bit more obsession beforehand,, if all the details in the book had a meaning that built up towards this plot twist... i would have been in love with the book. unfortunately, i cannot bring myself to sit through the show due to these details. (mostly because of emma saying daddy too many times for comfort.)

OVERALL

i am thankful for the journey of the book (mostly) but i could have had a better destination. i will not dismay people from reading it, but if i had the choice, i'm not sure whether or not i would take back the time i took out of my life reading The Girl Before by JP Delaney.

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A long statement about doja cat

I've been a fan of doja since the 2020 era and I've dove into her music since then.

I love how she's addressing all the hate she's gotten since she "quit music" in her new single "Attention".

I never thought her shaving her head was weird. I never thought it made her ugly. I never understood why people were so quick to jump to the conclusion that she had gone crazy and that her behavior was insanely out of the norm.

Doja has always been a silly girl. She went viral for a meme, let's get serious folks. She always posts funny pictures of herself and her tiktok account was doing numbers because of how goofy she was on there.

But because she wants to express herself in a way that appeals to her and because she wants to rock a hairstyle according to her own comfort (she said that she was never a fan of the way hair felt), now it's ok to bash her?

I would be fed up too if i were her.

people constantly want to demonize her regarding her new tattoos. people were quick to associate Lil Nas X with satanism when he came out. so of course you know a king had to do some satire shit and release montero on these haters.

the tattoos that doja got were artwork of creatures that were different. i believe doja got them because she saw herself similar to the creatures. they were misunderstood for being different but really they were just beautiful and unique.

vibe.com says "She also added an explanation noting that the figure is not 'demonic,' but actually is a symbol of imperfection. It is part of Fortunio Liceti’s 1616 artwork of 'monsters,' formally titled De Monstris. Public Domain Review—a non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of the history of art and literature—reported, 'Licenti did not see deformity as something negative, as the result of errors or failures in the course of nature. Instead he likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to shape, ingeniously created another form still more admirable.'"

doja was really pushed to the edge with the way the media was reacting to her self-expression. and i honestly feel like she dealt with it in a good manner.

im so happy she came out with the song attention because it also shows how with the attention of being famous, there are a lot of ups and downs. we can clearly see that doja chooses to stay doing her thing because frankly, she does not care what people choose to believe about her.

"your fear is not my problem" -Dojalations 4:20

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Happy year of the rabbit! 🐰May you fill this year with joy.

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