ooooooh my god all i can say is FELT!!!! also so disgusting but at the same time i didn’t think it was unrealistically so, it just felt so real, the way people will mutilate themselves just to please others and fit into conventional beauty standards. inner beauty? we don’t know her. young women are meant to be molded to be objectified by men!!!

“well, I don’t have any rules against men falling in love.” “so I can make love to you? heartfelt, passionate, worshipping, adoring, love… and you could still have meaningless sex with me, right?” WELL… YES. anyway, super fun rom com!!! visually stunning costumes and also gawrsh ewan in glasses!!! but deep down I know this is a cautionary tale of what centering a man does to a girl.

SO GOOD also my final Just a Little Guy™ ranking is: 1) SAM!!!!! crying screaming throwing up i love him 2) gimli, merry, pippin FUN GUYS 3) GOLLUM… he’s just a little guy!!!!

… wow

forgot how much i love this song also this is the energy i will be heading into 2025 with

this is CINEMA!!!! also if this doesn’t fucking radicalise u!!!!!!!!

PEETA?!!!! LMAOOOO no but he would’ve killed it on cake boss

the poor cat does not have a CLUE what a month it’s been

17 year old jesse mccartney ending insecurity

joe is such a terrible friend but oh wow what a fun movie!!

been in this sort of mood lately

gorgeous and divine with an undercurrent of discomfort and then the beer garden scene is when everything becomes straight up scary. crazy how this is relevant in every era because people are more than willing to overlook fascist sentiments burgeoning right in front of them until it becomes a large, unmovable mass. “think you can still control them?”

i am recognising that this is another film meant for tweens but i really enjoyed it!!! i felt genuine second hand embarrassment from how overbearing meilin’s mother was, and the girls’ friendship literally made me cry. them singing to her to calm her down and give her strength was soooo adorable. i miss my stupid friends!!! i’m gonna take this film as a metaphor for coming into one’s own, not just periods or puberty. and the breaking of generational trauma of immigrant Asian families having to fit the model minority narrative etc also this probably isn’t relevant to the film because i’m from a different country but chinese diaspora here refer to white people as “ang moh” aka “red heads” so i had this additional reading of the film being about a fear of assimilation/losing one’s connection to the past/accepting a mix in a multicultural society. but this is too much i know lmao!!! either way very cute

burst into tears at that last shot. knowing that it was based loosely on the investigation of the hwaseong murders, and that the murderer hasn’t been caught at the time of the film’s release made that last look into the camera a lot more heartbreaking and powerful. i know incompetent police work portrayed is a reality and a lot of people that can’t advocate for themselves suffer as a result but also kwangho’s whole storyline just upset me so much, there’s no justice ;___;

GOOD FOR HER

OLIVIA WILDE DID THIS???

already said this but tyler is so me if i ever got to eat at a lucas sin establishment

took me a while to read because i was consuming in parts on my commute to work but wow what an absorbing read. a lot of the time we think about how men treat women under this patriarchy but this book really put a spotlight too on how women treat each other. especially the grappling of feelings within oneself; knowing my own value as a woman is more than just my looks and what I can do for men, but also sometimes the want to acquiesce to that subservience. was really intrigued by how absorbed rika got with kajimana, and kajimana’s conflict between her words (“I hate the clammy nature of women”) and her actions (clinging to women). more quotes i’d highlighted on my kindle: “the changes to her body hadn’t caused them any trouble, and yet people’s reactions were critical, even fearful.” —> as someone who has been on the end people’s comments about my body since i was a child, it struck me to how briefly this FEAR was summarised in this novel. why are you fearful of my body!! why do you fear for me going into this world not skinny? “sometimes the worry she had - that this period of her life when she was at her most beautiful would be all used up by the girls around before she was discovered as a woman - would grow so intense that she wanted to curl up into a ball.” —> again, really captured the conflict between knowing your worth is not tied to men’s approval of your looks, but also wanting that approval.

second watch, this time with friends and it seemed both more fun and less good at the same time?? not sure but it was of course still an enjoyable watch

Actually really cute?? although i wish her newfound friendship (?) with the tour guide and security guard helped her work out her relationship with her son- that part felt like it was left hanging a little bit.