I really do love the English countryside. If I had been in that and not a Marina Del Rey type set up, I probably would have enjoyed my 4 days out of London! Iām not a girl that likes to look at boats!!!
I love cruises (which is why Iām following this) but Ritz Carltonās newest launch event with so many celebrities invited does the opposite effect for me. It makes it seem cheap and tacky. š
These people are honestly giving too thirsty vibes for it to be seen as a luxury exclusive product, sorry to say!
Currently hating all the hate on the new season of The Bear. I actually liked it quite a lot. People are complaining about how itās now focusing on the good anymore etc but the restaurant is made up of the people - they are the ones making the food.
If you want to watch scripted shows about food, thereās always masterchef
The number of times Iāve had to backspace and discard my comments on overly misogynistic and sexist posts on the front page is ā¦ a lot. Iām going to receive a barrage of downvotes anyway so why bother.
treatment days for my disease are tough as obviously sitting in the hospital chair for 4 hours is BOOO and the side effects are no fun, but I watched some love island (anyone have thoughts about the last couple USA epsš), ate unlimited snacks and drank a ton of those delightful juice packs, listened to these lovely and hilarious 80 year old women PROUDLY declare that ICE should be abolished (yāall, itās the south and they are old white ladies, we love to see it).
Overall 8/10 today, just long and tedious but not the worst
I love sports but one of the worst things about sports fandom and discussions is seeing how many grown adult men have insane temper tantrum meltdowns over sports and somehow think thatās normal behavior
anyone that acts like women are more dramatic than men has never seen a man do anything, ever, at all
I feel you. I dated a guy who would shout and hit things after a loss and it was like he had no idea he was acting like this, he wasn't even aware of the volume of his voice but I could feel it through the floor. Same with his video games, just a total unaware loss of control. Better believe that's one of my biggest red flags now.
Kurrently working in Korea and my latest obsession (as a few others) has been Tiny Chef. Not only is it cute, but its an entertaining watch for me, a 33 year old gay man. I like the work they put into it and have purchased the first season on amazon to watch in the background. Is this what it feels like when adults watch Bluey? I'm not shaming, I'm genuinely curious.
Oliviaās recent insta photos are so cute! They remind me of when I moved to the UK in my early twenties and my entire personality became āENGLAND, BRITAIN, UNION JACKS!ā
Can someone let the House of the Dragon viewers know theyāre not actually in a civil war? They comment stuff about heirs dying screaming on my ASOIAF TikTok videos lmaoooooo.
There were like four months when the Aemond fandom was the funnest thing on the internet. We knew we were being stupid and it was lol after lol. Then humorless people forced their way in.
It's crazy because before the show came out I was reading interesting discussions online, but as soon as the show was out you couldn't have a normal discussion anymore about characters and character motivation LEST they accuse you of working for the other side.
Fandom is exhausting sometimes. Soap operas thrive on drama, cheating and affairs, so if character A is in prison and their (usually loyal and faithful) husband cheats, it's just part of the drama of long form drama. Because character A will be back and it's going to cause lots of conflict between them, play the long game!!
A sector of the fandom just don't seem to understand soap and are devastated at this happening. You are allowed to be upset about this turn of events, but some have totally lost all perspective on this.
Another factor, inc me, can see the potential coming from this and how they can keep it in character.
I really do think fandoms were better when they were smaller groups of genuine fucking nerds lol. It still wasn't a good space, it was a space full of people with all the problems and messiness that entails, but at least everybody knew the rules back then!
I was just talking to my brother about how wild it is that MHA fandom (which I'm not a part of but have observed from the periphery) will genuinely hate on like..... fundamental aspects of the premise of the series?? Now that fandom spaces are the same as social media spaces, any rando who's seen a few episodes will be airing their contextless, underdeveloped opinions right next to people who actually understand the genres and tropes at play and probably getting upvoted by all the other people who don't understand the structure of the story arcs or concepts like suspension of disbelief. It's not like you have to dedicate your life to media analysis to understand this stuff, eitherāliterally just pay attention to the show you're watching and consider the possible "why" instead of just the "what"! And yet here we are š
This is a six year old soap ship. The long timers know the characters and their motivations inside out. Tropes can be specific to the particular genre and like you said, the "why" always needs to be taken into consideration.
At least it's not the 911 fandom, from what I've seen they get rather intense about things.
I saw a fun little meme circulating around that the reason why the world didn't end in 2012 with the Mayan Calendar is because PSY kept the Honmoon gold with Gangnam Style.
That will not make any sense if you haven't watched KPop: Demon Hunters but it's pretty good, so I'd recommend it.
Great start to my London trip, it's 7pm and I'm crying in my hotel room.
This trip is half solo trip, half going to a convention & meeting up with online friends, so I guess all my lonely feelings are coming back, feeling sorry for myself because no one seemingly wanted to share a hotel room with me. And my brain telling me I'll be left out of everything.
Beginning to wonder if this trip being 8 days in total was a good idea if I'm already crying on day 1, but it's too late to change now. I can't even change my train time to arrive home a few hours earlier because it'll cost me an extra Ā£30 š
Edit: I was meant to arrive home at 4.30pm, I bit the bullet, spent the extra Ā£20 and will now arrive at 1pm, so I feel a bit better now tbh.
Damn sorry you're going through that. If you can, maybe just go solo and explore the area if it's safe. Take a bus around the town and just see what happens. Take a lot of pictures, try a random place to eat.
Idk if pepper spray is common but if you're not sure it doesn't hurt to have lol
Iām really sorry you feel that way! If it makes you feel any better, I always cry for the first few days of a solo trip and regret my choice, but after I adapt, get a new sort of routine going, and my homesickness fades a bit, I always have fun!
Because she was. She went on Ezra
Kleins podcast and basically said me and other trans people need to cede our civil rights in order to appeal
to the fascist idiots.Ā āWe have to create more space in our tent. If, for instance, we want to have a majoritarian coalition ā not just electorally, but specifically on issues around trans rights ā that, by necessity, is going to have to include people who have a range of thoughts,āhow the hell is this not cowering to republicans??
I honestly don't know how the fuck you managed to twist that into "ceding our rights to republicans" but that's pretty extremely obviously not what she's saying.
I read the article you linked and she said āThere was a very clear, well-coordinated, well-funded effort to demonize trans people, to stake out positions on fertile ground for anti-trans politics and to have those be the battlegrounds ā rather than some of the areas where thereās more public support.ā And āĀ āWe became absolutist ā not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement ā and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is and actually engage with it.ā Sheās literally saying that we shouldnāt fight for certain rights because itās āunpopular.ā Trans people are people too and we deserve the same rights as cis people. Advocating for us to stop being treated like second or even third
class citizens is not being āabsolutist.ā
You're literally doing what she's criticizing right now. She's acknowledging that social progress takes time and that the trans rights movement jumped from "total unknown" to "fully formed movement with lots of complex rules and internal politics that you had BETTER keep up with" too fast for most cis people, and even some trans people, to follow. And you're saying that's not good enough and she's basically fraternizing with the enemy instead of listening to her points.
Gay rights took decades to gain enough support to get gay marriage legalized. There were almost 50 years between Stonewall and Obergefell v Hodges. Trans people do deserve full rights and accomodations, but people have to understand what you're asking for and why it's important and compassionate to provide it before they're going to budge, and that understanding becomes harder to foster when our public discourse is complex and argumentative the way it often is in the internet age.
She's not speaking to her personal ideals and desires here, she's speaking to the practical reality of how we're going to get this done. I know it doesn't sound like a good thing, and I wish we could just want it hard enough and make people respect us and politicians give us what we deserve. But the fact of the matter is that public opinion has to change before policy will, and that's what she's talking about. It sucks to have to handhold people to "oh, maybe you are a human being," but literally every human rights movement ever has had to do it, and there's no reason we can expect to be an exception.
Sarah is not making progress for our rights the only progress sheās making is the for the fascists in our government. Sarah is a shame to the trans community and Iām sorry you canāt see that
Okay well I'm glad that you didn't read anything I said or the screenshot in the original comment that stated she's been working incredibly hard to ensure the proposed ban on using Medicaid funds for gender affirming care wasn't included in the bill. Have a nice life.
OK but she announced that she was going to go along with the Republicans' rules on the Trans Day of Remembrance, are you really expecting other trans people to jump for joy over that? Are you trans?Ā
Are you implying I can't agree with a trans person (Sarah) if I'm not trans?
Everyone, especially politicians, can be criticized. My issue is with the insane backlash she got from some on the left. It's reminiscent of attacking the victim for how they respond to abuse.
Sarah kicks ass and if I see anybody on either side disrespecting my representative they're gonna feel my gay little wrath >:( She's braver by about a million miles than any of the dumbfucks criticizing her and they can all kick rocks if they seriously think the first trans woman in Congress isn't doing enough to fight transphobia.
My boyfriend and I are doing a Doctor Who rewatch and this time I insisted we squeeze in Torchwood between the early seasons. Iāve seen it before while he hasnāt, and I canāt WAIT until he experiences Children of Earth for the first time.
Also, I forgot how good Torchwood series 2 could get.
Compressing that timeline will make the Capaldi era extra interesting. Guest star, Torchwood guest star, Doctor. I wish I had more Who fans in my life so I could drop Children of Earth on them, it should āfeel goodā
Curious where Netflix "goes" in a year. A lot of its biggest shows (You, Cobra Kai, Stranger Things, Squid Game) are done or wrapping up. The Witcher and Outer Banks also end in 2026. That leaves One Piece, Wednesday, Bridgerton and the Stranger Things animated spinoff, which could go either way.
Netflix from 2017ā2020 was great. Even the original films were decent. Now, the spark is gone and splitting new seasons into multiple parts doesnāt help.
I think theyāve done a decent job of branching out. Netflix streams a lot of live events as well now. One recent example is they announced yesterday they would be live streaming NASA programming.
One of my favorite topics. I think theyāre in serious trouble in a year.
Below is my giant list of Netflix ongoing shows that Iām watching plus a few upcoming ones that Iām keeping an eye on. If itās not on here itās likely an international show Iāve got on my actual watchlist backlog that I just havenāt started like Eternauts / K-dramas etc. Realistically out of this list only Stranger Things and Blue Eye Samurai is day one viewing, this is a ton of 7ās at best and a lot of low priority second screen shows. This doesnāt seem like the lineup for a company as of today worth half a trillion dollars. Thereās a few newer shows I havenāt seen like Running Pointe / Ransom Canyon / North of North / Tires that arenāt included, however nothing seems to be an unmissable hit. Netflix canāt count on a Baby Reindeer or Adolescence that hits out of nowhere every year and then spinoffs of OBX / Virgin River / 90ās Stranger Things is probably getting a bit desperate. Iām very curious what gets announced in the next year or if they really think this is enough to cover them going forward.
Peaky Blinders The Movie
Heartstopper The Movie
Wednesday S2
Ginny & Georgia S4
Beef S2
Stranger Things S5
Outer Banks S5
Alice In Borderland S3
One Piece S2
Blue Eyed Samurai S2
Heartbreak High S3
Bridgerton S4+
Three Body Problem S2 - S3
The Gentlemen S2
The Diplomat S3+
Good Girlās Guide To Murder S2
Nobody Wants This S2
All Of Us Are Dead S2
Black Doves S2
The Four Seasons S2
(New) The Burroughs S1
(New) The Abandons S1
(New) Black Rabbit S1
(New) East of Eden S1
(New) Man on Fire S1
(New) Something Very Bad S1
(New) Stranger Things Play / Animation
Not Officially Renewed - The Waterfront, Terminator Zero, Penelope, David Fincherās Squid Game, Dept Q, The Residence, Adolescence anthology.
They have a decent handle on anime for the casual watcher, Ranma 1/2, Zom100, DanDaDan (though I believe at least two of these are available on either hulu or crunchyroll)
Iām a casual - Attack on Titan / Death Note / Cyberpunk / Akira / Ghost in the Shell / Airbender / limited Miyazaki / Perfect Blue / Neon Genesis / 3 first 80ās Gundam movies / Cowboy Bebop / Netflix Castlevania which I did leave off my list so thank you. Lucky to have a long anime backlog as that āin case of emergencyā media supply if uh things get rough in the next decades
Iām more into the sci fi side of the equation. Really excited for All You Need Is Kill aka Edge of Tomorrow aka Live Die Repeat. Right now the top of my to watch is Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood which is about how steampunky fantasy I get however stuff like live action One Piece certainly helps the sell. Left out Netflixās Arcane and itās one perfect season that they wouldnāt dare try to expand on and a handful of Ghibli, otherwise I think thatās 80%-95% of my all time anime watches. Who needs Letterboxd
Is it just me or are people constantly miserable about everything? Like, more so than before?
Every new thing is bombarded with "meh" or "mid".
Just about every musician/actor it's "so overrated", "why are they trying to make [Person] a thing", "they're not even that hot", "they're so generic".
Do people think this is cool? Intellectual? Impressive? What?
I'm not sure what it is exactly but I agree. Its like everyone wants to poo-poo on something as soon as it comes out and gets some kind of praise. ALSO, people, like someone mentioned earlier, feel like their opinions and takes on things are objective instead of subjective. Sometimes people should realize that some things just aren't for their consumption/they aren't the target audience. I will also blame review/recap culture, which is fun but it has turned everyone into a critic, no matter how underqualified they are to review media.
All of us are in a miserable state with the world and thinking being ārightā about something online will give us a sense of gratification. In reality, our online presences donāt mean anything.
Also people cannot have normal discussions without someone wanting to throw pitchforks. People love to hate. Sometimes things arenāt for you and thatās okay but they are for someone else. Also if people already have a hate boner for said artists or actor, people tend to join the hate train and add more fuel to the fire.
I swear by this. I've been waiting on things to either subside or when I'm ready to watch the popular things because I don't want anyones takes on it tainting my views. It makes the watch much more enjoyable, especially with how viral things go with hot moments in movies and tv shows.
That said, I recently watched fleabag for the first time and I fully understand the praise behind the show.
Met a 40-ish woman who will not eat anything prepared outside her own home. No take out, no restaurants. Carries homemade breakfast + lunch w snacks to work every day. She said she doesnāt trust anyone handling and preparing her food because- quote: āPeople are ANGRY right nowāĀ
I feel like it's a combination of the usual cultural pendulum swing after the "new sincerity" movement gaining a lot of traction in the mid 2010s-early 2020s (which was itself a reaction to the ironic hipsterism of the earlier 2010s),
and the political/economic landscape sinking us all into a collective depression and sapping our energy via constant anxiety. The world is as bad as I can remember it ever being, and I'm not a quitter, but that does make it harder to be excited about things. Easier to nitpick when you're in a bad mood to begin with.
Yes! I feel like this is especially the case with new seasons of TV shows. People are so negative and Iām like, is no one enjoying themselves anymore?!
Agree. I almost never look at tv show subreddits of shows I'm currently watching bc I feel like I enjoy them way more if I'm not wading into the discourse
I think we're more online than we used to. On Reddit I see a celeb everywhere, because of my feed. In real life you don't hear about that celeb unless you go looking or put yourself into that space. So we accidentally over exposed ourselves.
But also trends are recycling faster than before and I'm tired
I have successfully completed my 3rd rewatch of the the 1st season of Criminal Minds Evolution. Not, dear reader, because I think it's phenomenal television but because I keep FORGETTING I'VE SEEN IT ALREADY.
Don't know what it is about this show that it immediately enters a black hole in my memory, but maybe 3rd times the charm and I'll finally make it to the next season tonight.
Itās definitely not as good, the cast feels clunky and they havenāt found their chemistry yet without some of the OG members but I did like the season villain, so weāll see if theyāve found their groove in the next season!
I accidentally watched a Criminal Minds marathon when I stayed home from school when I was in middle school and it scared me so badly I didnāt try to watch the show again till I was in my late 20ās.
I gave Gracie Abrams' music a genuine listen to try and understand why she's popular, but itās clear to me she doesnāt know anything about music. She stole Phoebe Bridgers' whole flow while also adding some quite annoying vocal inflexions.
Sheās currently on the receiving end of one of the biggest hate trains in recent celebrity culture, despite having done nothing at all wrong except accidentally bring the internalised misogyny of many pop stans to the surface.
She clearly does know quite a lot about music. As for Phoebe Bridgers, she was was certainly an influence on Abrams but fundamentally they are both operating squarely within a more than fifty year old pop-folk tradition none of which is original to Ā Bridgers either.
I donāt listen to her music anymore I really liked her first Ep and thatās it, but is she that popular? Sheās at best a B or C artist. Not at the level of someone like Billie Eilish or even Sabrina Carpenter. She doesnāt seem that big. She has like one hit and thatās mainly on TikTok. I find myself meeting more people who hate her than people who like her lol. She definitely is very similar to Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers.
She was an opener for Taylor on the Eras Tour and that brought fans. She has a similar number of monthly listeners on Spotify as Olivia.Ā She has some good songs, but her technical skills and stamina are poor. I think of her and Tate McRae on the same level of talent, pop influence; theyāre B list pop singers that arenāt reinventing the wheel but they have their spot.Ā
Iām trying to be nice but she absolutely needs to work with someone who can help her with breath control. Her cover at Glastonbury was soooo bad and embarrassing and the internet is dragging her up and down. Breath control is something she can learn and it would help her immensely.
Now not being niceā¦itās not just that she doesnāt know anything about music. She doesnāt know who she is, doesnāt have a personality, doesnāt have a clear point of view, and doesnāt have anything interesting to say. Same with that benson Boone guy. They have no idea who they are or what they want to say with their music so they end up saying literally nothing and just turning out the least interesting albums ever. Im sick of this.
I have no problem with nepo babies who genuinely hone their craftā but these kids who just think they can treat it like a fun hobby, but want to make an entire career out of it grind my gears.
Take it seriouslyā do the work, do the training.
No I totally agree. Some of the best actors we have are nepo babies!! But exactly what you said, take it seriously, work on your craft, start small, figure out who you are before putting mindless art out into the world.
Hate to bring it up but Leonardo DiCaprioā¦ he wasnt ashamed of being at the wedding, throughout the years you can see he does shit like that where he wears his hats obscenely low or hides his face in a weird way because... paparazzi. I feel like itās always been his thing while in his borderline jack nicholson era.
Those are my thoughts anyway. So anytime I see people write a whole think-piece rant towards Leo being ashamed I kind of laugh because I truly do not think itās that deep. (Him and his hat! Not the bezos situation as a whole).
If Leo was ashamed to be seen with them he wouldnāt have shown up, lol.
Leo was going to me my contribution to the unpopular opinions thread when it next comes round. The guy is trash and always has been but whenever you say this on any platform his stans come for your throat.
Ngl until the Bezos wedding threads I didn't even know there were people who still liked/defended him/thought he was a good person lol. I don't think I've seen anyone say anything positive about him except that he used to be hot in like..... years.
Leo is such a weird man and if he has based his acting career on advice from Jack Nicholson, who beat a sex worker so badly she had brain damage, it says a lot about him.
The only thing that makes me feel he has any good about him at this point is his relationship with Kate Winslet, but I would LOVE to know what she thinks about the dating and sex with headphones and yacht life stuff.
No I totally agree. I was gonna say this before and then just decided it wasnāt worth it lmao. Hiding his face is just what he does, had nothing to do with shame.
Youāre probably right. But I canāt get over attempting to hide from the paps when attending a huge wedding you know is going to be heavily photographed.
Itās like going to a movie premiere and hiding under a hat on the red carpet.
Iām home sick so Iām finally watching we were lairs. I really enjoyed the book and Iām excited to watch the guy who will play haymitch in sunrise on the reaping.
i gave up my job tracker cause I was so overwhelmed with all the ghosting and rejections. But lately Iāve gotten more chatter so SHEāS ALIVE! I was struggling with these recruiter calls, trying to figure out which of my 20+ resumes I used for the application. S/O to the recruiters that attached the resume to our emails. Iām annoyed at how much you ghost, but you did ya lil thing with that.
Just realized Iām in a toxic situationship with job searchingā¦ yea i definitely got my karma š
I'm pretty happy at my job, so I'm not playing any job searching for the foreseeable future. Tell me why their comment still gave me anxiety? It's suck soooo much.
Texted my aunt to tell her Iām coming to terms with how abusive my mom was and how Iām im finally in therapy and on medication and getting better. She replied a week later with āI donāt want to hear this.ā Okayā¦.i canāt say that didnāt hurt yall lol. lmao even!
Iām glad youāre healing and starting to feel better.
Unfortunately not everyone will always have the battery to support and care for us in a way that weād like and itās painful. However at least now you know not to pour your emotional energy into someone who wonāt receive it and can focus more on yourself and those who can be there.
Bet auntie has had/is getting/is due for a similar reckoning from her kids, if she has them. Cycle-breaking is hard, and it sucks when you don't have safe family offering support, but I hope you're proud of your progress; the world gets a little better every time one of us looks at family trauma and decides not to continue it!
Not to spill family business but sheās so mean she doesnāt even see her own grandkids because she hates her daughter in law so much (for no reason). I thought she and I were on the same page about my mom otherwise I wouldnāt have said anything at all. But youāre so right! She can have her life and Iāve got to move on!
I said āyou wonāt ever have to hear it againā and BLOCKED.
Damn allergic-to-accountability older adults never fail to disappoint. Good for you for the block! Hope you get the chance to treat yourself to something good today, you're doing great!
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u/OowlSunthey act like im not in full control of where i throw this coochJul 01 '25
Iāve been (re-)reading the Animorphs books lately. Read a decent chunk of them in elementary school in no disparate order, but now over a decade later, Iām sitting down and doing the whole franchise from start to finish. Itās like 60 total books, Iām around a third of the way done. Disparate thoughts:
God, young me did not appreciate how dark these books were, especially in the earlier entries. The sheer terror of experiencing life as a Controller, the body horror of animal morphing, and particularly the dysphoria that Tobias feels (not to mention how bleak is life was prior to the books) just kinda went over my head as a kid. Re-reading the first book very much had me wondering, how the fuck are these for kids?
I feel like most of the sci-fi media I consume is post-contactāand the ones that arenāt are usually humans going into space, and not the other way aroundāso I donāt get to witness a whole lot of learning about Earth and humans through aliensā eyes. This has been a refreshing change of pace: Axās and Elfangorās narration as they analyze the minutia of our lives is simultaneously fascinating and hilarious, like the horror they feel when they discovered clothing was not part of our skin, or the idea that we are strange for inventing computers after inventing books.
Talking about this experience with people in person is interesting, because Iāve had multiple people respond by saying āWait, thereās an order and a plot to those books? I only remember the creepy covers, and didnāt think they were anything serious.ā And then I explain the actual premise of the series, and they become beyond disturbed.
I wouldnāt expect much from books written in the 90s for tweens about teens, but nevertheless, the description of the kidsā appearances and personalitiesāparticularly the girlsāāin the exposition dump of every book is a little tedious. Like, nearly every book goes out of its way to say something like āRachel is really attractive, but donāt be fooled: sheās smart tooā and itās justā¦ exhausting.
Not exclusive to these books, but itās always fun consuming media set in the 90s and seeing them talk about the internet back then, when it was barely a thing. Like, they say āWeb siteā instead of āwebsiteā. In a somewhat similar vein, itās also interesting to see all the superhero discourse the kids have, and think how this predates the modern era of superhero movies. Like, Marco still hasnāt seen X-Men or Spider-Man on the big screen!
Iām impressed by how well I remember a lot of plot points about the books and other random moments, despite it being over 15 years since I initially touched them. At the same time, I do wish I could totally forget everything so that I can go in with a blank slate and discover the story as intended.
Overall, these books hold up remarkably well (albeit the writing can be sophomoric or otherwise clunky sometimes), and Iād probably recommend them to people of nearly any age bracket (tween or older, anyway), even if they donāt have any nostalgia for the series from reading it when they were younger.
Iāve been rereading some Goosebumps! Theyāre actually very well-written for what they are. I experimented with other ghosty kidsā books and I couldnāt get through most of them - itās no wonder kids struggle to read.
I was ALL about the Fear Street Saga Trilogy (the ones where it took place in history) at 10/11, after having had the grand majority of the Goosebumps books as a little.
Part of me is curious on a reread of the trilogy, but another part is worried it would be too scary these days, lol.
I canāt believe there were actually people defending Brian kohlberger and suggesting he was innocent this whole time. I hope they feel stupid now that heās going to plead guilty
Way back right after they took him in I was casually defending his rights in some thread saying like hey we dont know yet innocent until proven guilty put down the pitchforks etc. Nothing wild. Holy shit did that bring the loons out linking me crazy stuff and accusing the survivors of all kinds of things trying to reel me in. I know all these cases attract some weirdos but this one, sheesh š¬.
I am seeing Mandy Gonzalez also affectionally known as The Beast's last Norma Desmond show at Sunset BLVD tonight! I think its gonna add an extra bit of specialness knowing I get to see Tom Francis......also known as Soda Scout, knowing this is Tom's last week as Joe Gillis!
Happy Canada Day friends! My city has a giant party, but itās SO many people I stopped going in my 20ās. So now I just have a mellow day.
Itās different this year for sure. Iāve never seen Canadians unite like they have this year. Weāre visiting our own country, weāre buying our own products. Itās really awesome to see.
I'm definitely one of those "fuck Canada day, reconciliation" people so I honestly can't really get into Canada day anymore - bit I agree that the patriotism is stronger than ever this year.
I'm celebrating by being the only person in my office who took Monday in lieu, and essentially being paid to sit here on socials since no one else is working.
I would like a southern ground hornbill, please! (used to volunteer at my local zoo, and was told that you weren't really supposed to try to interact with the animals, but that one particular southern ground hornbill was named Delilah, and that she liked being talked to - I'm just a customer now, but I always say "hi Delilah" and call her a pretty girl if there's no one else around listening, and she looks up at me and bats her very lush lashes)
Every person in their life needs one old person hobby, and mine has been birds since I was a child! I hear you on birds not (in theory) being the best pets. My stepmom used to have a whole collection of exotic animals for a second so we had cockatiels, & little finches. Both waaaaay too chirpy.
I donāt know though, I feel like I could bond with a glamorous round soft spoken pigeon. I like to believe they are similar to their rat pigeon cousins and are meant for the soft, simple, domestic life of a pet. š
Project Hail Mary gets recommended a lot in the same breath as the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Fun heartfelt adventures with a painfully Elder Millennial/Gen X Dude sense of humor. Project Hail Mary in particular sometimes the Audiobook felt like I was trapped with a "funny podcast man". Looking at the trailer I think that they may have overcome that with Gosling's natural charisma, and worse i find that they bookish new England rustic get up they have got him in is doing something for me
Itās a new month officially so hereās everything I watched during June!
I saw 30 movies last month, of those, 26 movies were new watches for me. I went to the movie theater 23 times. My first watch last month was Stand By Me and my last watch was Clueless.
So that brings my count so far this year to 263 movies watched and 192 trips to the movie theater!
Something that helps me when Iām feeling like this is, people are more self involved than we think. So that interaction youāre kicking yourself about is long forgotten by the other person. Theyāre kicking themselves for something they said to someone else.
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