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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 18h

I suspect a bridge troll of some variety.

Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, true but people tell me he's a streamer, but I can't imagine listening to him for 90 seconds, much less hours at a time, so I assume he guards a bridge over a stream and people got confused.

Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 19h

Me, in conversation: Asmongold does songs? Is that what he did to become famous? I'm not gonna lie, I was under the impression he was some variety of bridge troll.

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 19h

One of my favorite revelations in a horror movie was realizing the villain protagonists of Tragedy Girls have no sympathetic backstory or secret motivation, they simply do not view anyone other than each other as human and have no qualms about murdering people for their own amusement. And it owned!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 20h

It was awful!

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 23h

"Introduce yourself with one food you refuse to eat, one film you'll never watch again and one song you can't stand"

Food: I once tried jarred gefilte fish. Inedible. And I like gefilte fish!

Film: Whichever one of the August Undergrounds I saw.

Song: Fuckin Perfect by P!nk. I will not elaborate.

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: canned tuna fish

Film: Grease. I was horrified by its sexism from my first viewing at a sleepover and I remain correct

Song: Brown Eyed Girl. The worst

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: cucumber, however if you pickle it I'll eat em all day

Film: Jacob's Ladder, avoided it for years then was tricked into seeing it

Song: the whole of the fucking moon

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The Straights Aren't Alright: A Pod Com @arentalrightpodcom.bsky.social · 2d

After a slight unexpected hiatus we are BACK! Come join @cutiepuppyfire.bsky.social , @elessar42.bsky.social , and Charley talk about Amelie
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Amelie: A French New Wave Podcast - The Straights Aren't Alright

Join Ellie, Gillian, Charley, and River as they have a very wandering conversation about the 2001 movie Amelie, the French Cinema establishment, trying to figure out how pay phones work, and the ...

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely, what do people think the point of voting democrat is if the democrats act just like republicans?

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 4d

Been watching a lot of movies lately, and I mean that as a positive. #LastFourWatched

A list of recent activity on a Letterboxd account. The four films listed are:
-Belle (the 2021 anime movie)
-Black Narcissus
-Over the Garden Wall
-Anemone

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's KPop Demon Hunters

Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter’s 13 Going on 30

Giallo Biafra @fulciseyefetish.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Memoirs of an Invisible Man

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 5d

It might be recency bias and all that, but I really feel like Forever is a Feeling by Lucy Dacus is one of her best albums and a lot of my favorite songs on it are about Julien Baker (Most Wanted Man, Best Guess and Ankles in particular)

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 6d

It's a given in the music industry that "I've fallen in love!" albums are usually regrettable, and "I've gotten a divorce!" ones often have some of the artist's best work. So question for the group, what are the best "I've fallen in love!" albums?

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like we've gotten pretty numb to Trump and co's insane shit, so it's good to remember that these words are coming out of the mouth of like, the head of HHS and not a bizarre conspiracy blog written with no paragraph breaks in the dark corners of the internet.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 5d

A meme image of a low res picture of a man holding up two fingers in a peace sign as he drives his car. The text reads. "Incomprehensible. Have a great day."

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

It's increasingly clear to me that a lot of Democrats were supporting queer rights only on sufferance and cannot WAIT to throw us under the bus, even if it doesn't actually benefit them.

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

I suppose the play would be find a Swiftie to talk to about it and transcribe the conversation, but I dunno if I have a strong enough thesis to bother trying to do that.

I guess the first step would be listen to Life of a Showgirl, which I still have not done.

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not being sarcastic about that, by the by. I try not to be overtly dismissive of stuff I don't really vibe with, and I don't really Get Taylor Swift, but on the other hand I love Gorillaz (especially the Plastic Beach era) so I genuinely don't feel like I would do her and her fanbase justice.

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that Life of a Showgirl was recorded between shows on tour makes me want to find a thematic throughline to compare it to The Fall, the Gorrillaz album Damon Albarn made while on his iPad while on tour, but I feel like I'm not clued enough to Taylor Swift and I'll come off as dismissive.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

Newsom could have done nothing. It was, as you say, a minor show of support for trans people. It passed the state house and the state senate. He chose to say no, at a time when trans people are being actively targeted by the federal government. That's telling.

Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

I think vetoing a symbolic show of support for trans people is part of the same pipeline that got the Texas AG there. And I think you are asking trans people to make the same devils bargain they made in the UK over and over until their equivalent of the democrats just as bad on trans issues.

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 6d

Hey man, I get where you think you're coming from, but is there any way we can ask for more from the politicians who are supposedly on our side than "Not moving as fast down the genocide pipeline as Trump?" Like is that too much to ask?

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 7d

Oh movie podcast no one listens to, we're really in it now.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 8d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 8d

D&D out of Context: "As long as we're saying plan "Burn down the swamp" is off the table then yes, let's summon the elk."

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Ellie, Author, Dreamweaver, Visionary Plus Actor @elessar42.bsky.social · 10d

I can't even imagine getting mad at that, it's just self evidently true, when do they think the first act took place?

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