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i really really hate liberals who do volunteering for orgs that help the homeless and then write thinkpieces about how a lot of homeless people are very educated and hardworking and its not at all their fault that theyre unhoused like. even if ur hypothetical homeless person is addicted to every drug abused their whoever commited many crimes and their situation is every bit their fault. no one deserves to live on the street.

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What on earth is it about Home Movies that is just tailor made to fall asleep to? Like i’m not even someone who falls asleep to TV shows like that but I swear to god that show knocks me out like a light so fast. Could not tell you any running joke or funny thing that might happen in it because i fall asleep before it might register in my brain. An excellent experience

#adult swim #i need sleep #its 2am #roniarose #allkidsoutofthepool #homemovies

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Man its like super genius that Mother 3 added a rhythm mechanic to the combat system. I already will habitually tap a button to the rhythm whenever I’m playing another RPG with a good soundtrack or funky beat. I can hear Itoi just going “oh just make that habit part of the game” Glad he was thinking of me and my odd gameplay habits!

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That being said i didn’t buy any good weapons or defense before making the climb up the electric tower and i’m stuck grinding until i can get out. Its not NOT part of the reason i’m making this post!

#mother #mother 3 #lucas mother 3 #rpg #shigesato itoi #video games #gameboy #nintendo #gameboy advance #roniarose

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I'm really glad I ended up finally reading and watching LOTR last year. I got married and moved out, two things that are pretty big life changes, where you hope things will be okay, but they aren't guaranteed, and regardless of outcome, end up changing who you are as a person. Watching a story where the stakes were higher, where Mordor was defeated, but coming home to to find everything the same except themselves. I know that regardless of what happens with me and my life, a visit home would feel similar. When I first really took in that major theme it became clear to me almost immediately why this story is considered so timeless. We can't go back to childhood bedrooms or carefree days unburdened by adult responsibility. Those things I think are worth protecting, as most of middle earth acknowledges with the hobbits, but its the hobbits themselves who acknowledge their own changes, mostly good ones even, that prevent them from living as they once did where they once were, that prevents them from ever going back.

It just makes me feel like even if something happens now, something I can't change about the world or myself, that I'll still find the strength to go on, even if I need to mourn my past self first.

#lotr #lord of the rings #hobbits #the road goes ever on and on #life changes #roniarose

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Much has been said about Disco Elysium’s portrayal of addiction but something I find really powerful is the way it interacts with your quests. How you can accidentally pick up quests to drink or smoke or do speed, and if you want to play a sober Harry you have those quests in the back of your (harry’s) mind all the time… an unfinished task, an unused source of XP, right there, always there

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i read the hobbit in 3rd grade and i thought it was really lame. however i liked bilbo baggins for some reason and i was fully convinced he was some sort of rabbit/mouse thing until i saw the lotr movies and was really, really confused

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Sometimes i think about how much of a twilight fan i might be now if i didn’t spend so much time internalizing misogynistic rhetoric and letting that constant need to prove myself in male spaces dominate what i did and didn’t check out as a teen. I ended up watching so much stuff i didn’t really like because i was so focused on making sure I wasn’t watching anything that was deemed “too feminine” for male dominated geek spaces.

I rewatched the films and while i liked them i think the time a story like that would have resonated with me the most has long since gone, I almost mourn the girl i never got to be in that way.

I put more effort into pushing past that stuff when i go to enjoy things now, it just sucks that i feel like i missed out on so much beforehand

#feminism #feminist #twilight #twilight movies #teenagers #womanhood #misogyny #internalized sexism #roniarose

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It was between that and some joke about them all being bootlickers, since i can’t remember the latter i’m glad i went with the former

Its actually so fucking beyond pathetic that this man is so fucking insecure that he bought an entire website he got addicted to and put himself in the hole big time, all so he could ruin the website to cosplay as a POSTER and make the replies chock full of people who paid to be in his psychopathic nazi dickrider squad, all while posting memes that would make your 40 year old reddit browsing uncle that sees every MCU movie when it comes out in the theater cringe backwards into their spine

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Its actually so fucking beyond pathetic that this man is so fucking insecure that he bought an entire website he got addicted to and put himself in the hole big time, all so he could ruin the website to cosplay as a POSTER and make the replies chock full of people who paid to be in his psychopathic nazi dickrider squad, all while posting memes that would make your 40 year old reddit browsing uncle that sees every MCU movie when it comes out in the theater cringe backwards into their spine

#politics #twitter #elon musk #fuck elon #insecurity #us politics #social media #roniarose

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“hallelujah” by leonard cohen being played as an easter and christmas song, “zombie” by the cranberries” being played as a halloween song, and “born in the U.S.A.” by bruce springsteen being played as a Fourth of July/generic us patriotism song have got to be a special trifecta of the most no-listening-comprehension musical moments that happen on seasonal playlists every single year 

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Guardians 3 thought dump

Aaaah i actually liked an MCU movie for once

The Guardians were kind of the perfect team to go up against that type of villain, a team thats taken two movies to learn and are still in some ways learning that their differences and flaws are what makes them a family, up against someone who sees those flaws as a failure to be discarded. All of the Guardians spend a lot of time across all three films trying to escape how others view them, so this antagonist really feels like the perfect choice to culminate the trilogy

Also man the russos took a fat wet shit all over gamoras arc and james gunn still managed to salvage it and make it work, I was fucking terrified the whole movie that they were gonna end up together when thats literally impossible with this gamora, But gamora calls out quill immediately in this, and tells him thats shes not that person he so desperately wants. Peter still at least has the arc that he was meant to have regardless of gamoras fridging, where he needed to realize that hes projecting what he needs from other people onto those people, especially gamora. The movie still hints that they COULD end up being together, they just both need to spend time becoming more actualized versions of themselves. And peter needs to resolve more of his emotional baggage and sexism.

Its funny because from the way 2 ended its really obvious that gunn had planned for them to be together in 3 but that basically got ruined when she got tossed into the infinity stone pit. :/ i’m glad gunn was smart enough to realize that trying to redo 2 movies worth of relationship buildup across one movie was a bad idea

Lets see what else

Oh, hey Nathan fillion, long time no see! I’m glad you finally got to be in a story about a ragtag found family in space that didn’t end up getting canned, and i think the fight you did in the building that looked like a middle school science textbook illustration rocked, 10/10 keep rocking the Michelin man fit

I like that Adam Warlock is a big dumb idiot man that carries a pet around and listens to king crimson because its super obvious gunn had no clue what to do with him but had to have him there because the mcu continues to be an ever expanding nightmare mess. 10/10 no notes

Obviously the i am groot reveal was cute, and also a kind of cycle break that didn’t feel forced or like it had extra gravitas added to it, the reveal that the audience is part of the family now just gets to be a simple little moment

I love that nebula gets to be relatively more relaxed in this movie on the whole, she honestly deserves it, let her sip her lil sodie pop.

I loved Draxs lil dad moment in the third act as well, and how it ends up forcing nebula to learn that emotional intelligence is just as vital to have a practical intelligence. Up until that point she really underestimated him and a lot of the rest of the team because she had been taught by thanos a lot of the same things our villain believed, that theres only one kind of way to be, and that only perfection and results matter. She ends up learning through the guardians and drax that we each of our own individual strengths and perceived flaws, and that real perfection is in the culmination of those forces in our lives. I thought it was nice :)

The last thing i can think of is that I liked how a series defined musically by track from the 70’s and 80’s ends off with a track from the 2000’s. A way of communicating subtly our characters aren’t trapped in their past anymore. Great stuff

Anyways thats what i got atm, if you stumbled on this and are wanting more mcu stuff, sorry to disappoint, this is prolly the last mcu thing i’m checking in for unless something reveals itself to be more interesting in the future. I wanna try and talk more about other things tho, so maybe you will like those posts!

Testing this out

#guardians 3 #guardians of the galaxy #rocket raccoon #gamora #guardians spoilers #guardians 3 spoilers #RoniaRose

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"oh sorry, i guess i was infodumping again" - sad, shy, apologetic

"you sly dog, you got me monologuing" - cool, strong, confident

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i wanna b rich enough to subscribe to all my fav artists patreons and buy their work and buy presents for my friends and to be able to afford time off to make food for them and have fun together aaaa the dream

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LOTR Triptych, by Yaroslava Murashko.

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using a 20 year old computer to look at gandalf pics at 12:30am