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GREEN ROOM (2015) dir. Jeremy Saulnier

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If you have shared it with someone else or didn't finish the whole thing, select a "yes" option. Select the option that best describes your experience with cigarettes.

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#sorry but. is that the same scene as him searching how many guys can one guy take. #i am unfortunately omw to smoke right now. #⛷️

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A short animation of my cat Merlin begging to be fed. He usually starts this a full hour before food time.

#:3 #cats #art

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“I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.” Before Sunrise (1995), dir. Richard Linklater.

#i'm illllllll

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#riot recc'ing new vegas n then this showing up.....

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Not to be a teacher on main but a lot of people in the "video essay" community need a reminder on what an essay is. an ESSAY is NOT an explainer, an account of an investigation, or a summary of information. It certainly can involve those things. However, an essay is an argument for a particular idea backed up with analysis and evidence that supports that point of view. "the themes of Barbie, explained" is not really an essay. "how the themes of Barbie reinforce gender essentialism" is an essay. "the story behind this cooky subculture" is not essay. "how capitalism co-opted this subculture" is an essay. "all the ways Oppenheimer isn't historically accurate" isn't an essay. "here's why I think Oppenheimer is about the cult of individualism" is an essay. "I spoke to all these people about this topic and here's what they all said" isn't an essay. "I investigated this topic, spoke to these people, and here's how what they said supports my thesis" is an essay. At its most basic level, an essay answers the question of "why the fuck should you care?" at every point. It doesn't get bogged down in context or summarisation. A lot of "video essays" are not really essays they're just people saying, "I found this thing and I wanna show you the thing" and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just not an essay. Just because a video goes for longer than 5 minutes, doesn't mean it's an essay!!! I'm kinda annoyed at how the essay as a form is getting lost. A lot of people calling themselves video essayists are not actually making essays and as an essay enjoyer I am annoyed by this and think people need to call a long form video a long form video rather than calling all of them essays!!

#the amt of times i have clicked off of a video essay lately..... buddy what is yr fucking point. #i already had half an opinion when i got here you need to tell me something useful. #i think the medium is also a hurdle for a lot of people. had a film prof who stopped offering video essays as an alt to essays. #it wasn't just the impulse to summarize what was onscreen that was an issue. it was how students handled secondary sources that were usuall #text. presenting evidence became [read excerpt over clip] and that was it. no elaboration on the text or emphasis on any #technical/narrative elements in the clip. not to mention the fanciful editing and overabundance of filler clips !!

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#the boxes had not even occurred to me. his mind #dropout

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Sufjan Stevens ::: Chicago

You came to take us All things go, all things go To recreate us All things grow, all things grow

#for the love of god we have got to start uploading mp3s on here again #anyway. all things go 😌 #🎵

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Joe Keery um and yeah.

#why did he do that........... #whatevergirl .... 😳🙄 #joe keery

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bruce sprinsteen, late 70s

#scrolled by so fast n was like woah so cool springsteen in letterboxd merch...

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Ryoko Kui please return my calls

#ohhh. daydream hours to me. #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi art

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junimo breakdancing

animated on stream !!

#YAAAAAA !!!!! #stardew valley

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unknown title by bahira motaz shaheen, 2023, unknown materials

#art

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I need to (remembers to not make casual suicide jokes in order to encourage a more outwardly positive mindset and healthy conversational environment in my day to day life) kill myself

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obsessed with the fact that naked mole rats seem to have a whole caste of special little guy whose job it is to be really fat, horny, unhelpful, and disgusted by incest

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taylor swifts thinks shes phoebe bridgers, phoebe bridgers thinks shes elliott smith, elliott smith thought the best way to write songs was while watching xena: warrior princess with the sound off