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Miri

@miririnmiri.bsky.social

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Londoner🇬🇧 // I love cats, dogs, films, books, games, art, studying languages, walking, marine wildlife and lemurs // Formerly an office worker in Kyushu, Japan ✨九州でのOLだった🇯🇵 // Bilingual: ENG-JP/日本語OK

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 16d

My 31 Days of Halloween!

I decided to only do re-watches (so I can watch while chores etc) and pick random things I felt like revisiting rather than picking a theme etc. My all-time favourite horror film gets the 31st spot. Good luck to everyone else who is attempting!

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 4h

(It is a very good collection)

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 4h

I've been listening to Samanta Schweblin's newest short story collection in English ("Good and Evil and Other Stories") on my walk home from work - a different story each walk - and it is very stressful!!! My anxiety is high!!! I walk and listen to audiobooks to unwind, but not with her!!!

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 6h

Also all wildly different sizes, patterns and levels of fluffiness so uhh... I guess Lila was very popular with the males

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 6h

I have now been told the names of all of Lila's children and I 🥹🥹🥹

They are:
Skeletor
Charlie
Trico (!!!)
Rocket
Thimble

Skeletor's human is a lady goth who owns a tattoo parlour????

a video game character is sitting on top of a giant bear .

ALT: a video game character is sitting on top of a giant bear .

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 14h

I have learned from bitter experience (Colm Tóibín) that even if you love an author's books very much, you should very much not buy books partly because there is a glowing quote from them on the front or back cover.

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 14h

Another publishing sin I was reminded of when I was looking up a book I'm interested in: commissioning a beautiful cover illustration and then ruining it by slapping pull-quotes from authors I don't like on it. (Frankly, it would bother me even if it was authors I like).

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 15h

Does your mum contact you via Teams too

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 15h

I remember when I first read this and became obsessed with looking up roadside Santa Muerte shrines. And on my walks through St John's Wood on the way to work, wondering what gruesome and horrific cult rituals might be taking place behind the neighbourhood's closed doors.

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 15h

I'm enjoying the Japanese translation of one of my favourite novels but somehow the Japanese title (秘儀 - Secret Rituals) doesn't sound quite as poetic as the Spanish title (Nuestra Parte de Noche - Our Share of Night) 😬

Love the cover more than the British edition, though.

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

she immediately clocks that there may be drinking there so she KNEW lol

tl;dr team peter ok

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

Now I'm not trying to victim blame but
A. That cake clearly had walnuts in it, it's not like they were hidden.
B. Why on earth would you ask your older teenage son to take your younger and extremely awkward teenage daughter to a cool teen party (I know he lies it's a barbeque but

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

cemetery*

....you don't wanna go down tha' road (insert poor attempt at a Maine accent here)

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

I try to be patient, because I know she finds tech hard (I'm not the most tech-y person myself) but I feel like she always messages or phones me to do stuff before she even tries to work out how to do it herself. Grumblegrumble.

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

An underrated moment in this movie that always makes me laugh is when Gabriel Byrne is on the phone to the cemetary and goes "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'DESECRATED'??" (and then says to Annie nearby that they were calling about a payment issue)

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

why is my colleague asking me for the location of a file she created herself and saved herself... less than a month ago

a woman is smiling with her eyes closed while sitting in a chair .

ALT: a woman is smiling with her eyes closed while sitting in a chair .

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh could be! Although she was the one who started it lol

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

Re-Watch 15 - Hereditary

Another film I have watched about a million times. Sometimes I even put it on while I'm doing boring chores. I miss Hereditary and Midsommar era Ari Aster. I know he wants to move away from horror but at least we have these two gems.

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

She rose on her backlegs slammed on the window to threaten him (he did it too) while hissing and then she rolled on her back in front of him (which I always thought meant play/surrender?) while still hissing and then rose to slam the window again so... I don't really understand.

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

...I mean also Hutch tries to help her too, so not just the women, but it's such a stressful film full of horrible people gaslighting Rosemary that it's always such a relief when people are kind to her

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

ok yes leaving aside the obvious hypocrisy re the horrific actions of the director, but one of the best parts of this film is when Rosemary's female friends are like "NO, lady, something is genuinely wrong, you're not crazy" and they're so nice to her

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

my best friend's infant daughter's hobby at the moment is clapping and so for the three days they came to stay this week everything i did got a round of applause and now i have no applause my self-estsem is consequently impacted

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

I know I have seen it approx 50 times but Rosemary's Baby is just such a great film. For me, only David Lynch was better at depicting how dreams feel.

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Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

I also had a cat named Rosemary growing up (from when I was four to twenty-two!) but none of the four kittens she gave birth to was the son of Satan. ...I hope.

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

Eggs are my go-to when I've been spending too much but still need something filling. More egg for you if Mr Kat Steiner doesn't want any!!!

Miri @miririnmiri.bsky.social · 1d

I am obsessed with the hair and outfits in this film. Obsessed.