speaking of "women being pressured to fill a role & narratives spun about them" I am sooooo curious what the prop take on the ariana/cynthia wicked press tour is

I have such conflicting feelings about this book, but it's necessary "when the bright young things grow up" literature

i've never seen 500 Days of Summer, but with this comparison, uh, does the 2nd half have a complete personality transplant compared to the first half? 🫠

if Trump should have been a host on the View, Vance suffers from probably doing a tight five once at the law school talent show

"nobody cooks a turkey on a random day" sounds like someone doesn't have 2 frozen turkeys from jewel osco in their freezer from this sale to have surprise Thanksgiving at some time next year, buddy boy

the other xianxia we watched in the past few months (on Viki) is Legend of the Female General, which is not high art but I enjoyed a lot & would describe as a great fanfic (complimentary). A bunch of classic Kdramas just hit Netflix that are very fun too.

ok YES my Mom & I just finished binging Love in the Clouds, which was veryyy glossy & pretty. It takes a bit to get going but around ep 8 it takes off & is bonkers. Netflix still has Who Rules The World, which I really loved, it's "the world of martial arts balanced against palace intrigue".

unfortunately our midwestern dying one just has large hanging drapes with inspirational quotes over the empty hollowed out stores & it really adds a dystopian flourish

let too many clowns into your big tent and you can't be upset when people start calling it a circus

😆 oh no when a juicy one crosses the line into moral quandary

hahahaha yupppp. like when I was hearing about a specific kind of drastic keto that helped my uncle get off meds, while I was dementia caregiving, & I was sincerely like "if I stopped eating carbs right now, I would step in front of a bus."

i am SWOONING!! I didn't know one could stuff snickerdoodles 😍

oohh which book!! (i keep reading part of Dracula and not finishing it so I relate haha)

the true Victorian Christian trope is quoting the Bible and not even mentioning the reference because the person you're talking to is extremely biblically literate.

the silliest "devout Christian person" trope has to be "quoting the Bible, but only when you immediately follow it by solemnly intoning the exact chapter & verse."

even if you breathe the Bible, it comes out like "ahhh it's in Hebrews somewhere I think" or "Psalms! probably!" or "check me on this."

he's the only one living out fall correctly