I wasn't sure where this was going but as I started putting the pieces together I was SHOCKED. this is WILD

incredible. never watching it again.

Good information here and gives a lot to think about if you’re wanting to join existing mutual aid projects or organize something yourself. I would recommend reading this physically as it gets a bit dry listening to the narrator read a bunch of charts.

somewhere between 3 and 3.5 there are great aspects of the writing and many of the characters are compelling but there are repetitive thoughts and conversations (not in a way that feels like it's adding to the story) and the way Ava Reid writes about fat people is off-putting the say the least.

This is ridiculous but in a fun way (don't think about the details too much). Barbie and Dacre are great in this. I also appreciate how this relates to the original Faces of Death. It felt truly purposeful.

I was skeptical but had no reason to be. this is very good. takes the original idea and expands it in such an interesting way. I love you, Nia DaCosta! I love you, Jordan Peele!

you know what? hell yeah. this was so fun. I love an Italian setting and add in some comedy and chemistry and I'm SOLD. the family is beautiful and fun, as well

Donny Osmond sang his ass off on this one

unfortunately this is one of the funniest movies of all time

probably my fav Hozier album finished my jigsaw puzzle listening to this one

This is such a beautiful story that is about the way people within the art world interact with each other but the themes more broadly apply outside of that group. At first, there were a couple of perspectives that I wasn't super interested in but over time they started to grow on me and I became more invested.

this album is beautiful. I put it on while working on a jigsaw puzzle on a bright Sunday morning and it was a treat

that was stressful surprising amount of vomit I hope for therapy for everyone after the events of this film

the cinematography alone is reason to watch this

everything I had watched or read about what happened at Sarah Lawrence left me with this confusion as to how Larry kept it up for so long. I always believed the telling of events but that piece just hadn't clicked for me yet. there is a chapter in this book that, when read aloud on the audiobook, suddenly made it all click. in this chapter it's just Larry talking and talking nonstop and the bombardment of praise and advice and cutting remarks circling around each other made me really feel what that must have been like.

I had only a vague idea of what was happening but I was laughing

Being a 13 year old girl is full of contradictions. You want to be an adult. You're aware of more adult aspects of life and the pressures that come with it. You're also still hanging on to those aspects of childhood. It's smoking a cigarette someone else got for you while you're combing your Barbie's hair. It's thinking about how to look "sexy" while swimming and playing with your friends. It's shooting basketball after going through something so traumatic. Toxic captures this beautifully.

spoilers for history IG I'm generally agnostic and yet I've thought about Ann Lee at least once a week since I first saw this film back in January. Ann Lee was so clearly traumatized. she grew up in poverty. when she married to birthed and lost four children in seemingly a short period of time. she was jailed for practicing a religion outside of the church of england. it's no wonder that while in prison, she experienced visions and concluded that the reason for her trauma was the sex that lead to the children she lost. these visions meant that she was seen, by the Shakers (the shaking Quakers) as a leader and it became more dangerous for her to practice her religion as that wasn't something women were really able to do at the time. this danger lessens at first but then greatly increases when she comes to America because they clearly won't take kindly to a group lead by a woman that believes in abolition and are pacifists at the start of the revolutionary war. through all of this she remains strong in her convictions and beliefs. there are of course questions about how much of what we know of Ann is rooted in myth, misogyny, and just lies. there are also concerns that her beliefs are very rooted in this purity culture that still harms us hundreds of years later. all of this adds to why I think about Ann Lee so often. she's interesting and the way she navigated her trauma is something I think I'll always think about. my ancestors were Quakers so knowing Ann Lee is from an offshoot of that demonination makes me feel strangely connected to her. also, I was reading about the Shakers and at the end of the movie, they list that there are only 2 active members but I found an NPR article from August 2025 that said they went up to 3.

this is like if a bad horror movie and a bad action movie had a really fun child.