#personal review on the move:

[corvidaequeer]

Shout out to the Sugeon in The Sea Beast (2022) -who was so insignificant that he didn't even have a name, had 5 minutes of screentime & maybe 3-4 lines, & he doesn't even have a single picture of him that I can find.- gotta be one genders & characters.

#the sea beast #tsb #tsb surgeon #personal review on the move: #wonderful & timely message about #the tragedy of perpetuating a needless war #& how history is written to benefit those in power by lying & pitting living things against eachother #& how the individual people lost to war are not the ones at fault for being deceived into fight the wealthy's wars #absolutely breathtaking animation & brilliantly color scheme #endless amounts of unique characters with many female & queer coded side characters who would have been men in all other media #no needless romantic side plot #largely (not all) fleshed out characters with believable backstories & motivations #good overall plot #...& then there's the execution of all of those wonderful things... #the pace of the movie feels both way too rushed & agonizingly slow #the introduction of the evil witch character halfway through the movie was confusing & anticlimactic #captain crow's decent into villainhood felt too sudden & rash to turn against his beloved adopted son #but none the less captain crow as a villain was an excellent choice none the less #a ridged white man stuck in his ways w/ unearned selfrighteousness & lust for 'revenge' is certainly a mirror of the villains of real life #as if the loss of his eye from a creature defending herself is equivalent to him intentionally committing genocide qualifies as revenge #as well as the villian of a pompous extraordinarily wealthy political power who uses said wealth & power to gain more- #-by sending the civilians to fight a war on their behalf so that they may reap all of the benefits & none of the risks #the fact that it was a king & queen is especially enjoyable that they are the bad guys in different ways from start to finish #i love Maisie Brumble but the amount of speaches she gives in such a short amount of time feels excessive. her strong will & level headed- #-speaches would have be much better suited (along with the rest of the movie) as a limited tv show or a 3+ part hour long specials #that would have given this wonderful little girl more time to show her plucky determination & unimaginable compassion & utter joy for life- #in other matters- while not a bad thing(especially for a children's movie) the message of the story was very plainly said allowed which is- #-good for children but leaves something to be desided if intended for a broader age range audience #again the outspocken message would've played better had the movie been longer & broken up so we could really WATCH more of the characters- #-actually learning the lessons over a longr period of time instead of a short period of self-reflection& analysis &a plainly spoken message

[carriesthewind]

I hate hate hate so much that etsy won't let me clear notifications to review purchased items. I have items that I am not going to leave a review for (e.g. stuff that is objectively fine, so I don't want to hurt sales, but didn't work for me for reasons that would not be helpful to another buyer), and the *fucking* notification button won't go away. It's genuinely driving me off the site because it bothers me so much.

#also i fucking hate the pressure tactic #it moves it from 'you can do this thing' to 'we're demanding you do this thing' #which makes me want to leave a bad review b/c i'm only doing it b/c it's so irritating #which 1) i don't don't do b/c its unfair to the seller #and 2) is a tactic that's unfair to sellers b/c i'm sure i'm not the only person who has this reaction!

[mossy-rot]

reading about autistic meltdowns is crazy. in retrospect maybe that time i ended up sobbing self isolating and lashing out at people because I couldn't figure out how to set up my laptop the same way it had been before might've been because of The Autism

#i cannot deal with changes to things I deal with regularly #i need to have my phone and comp exactly the same lest I Suffer bc i use them every day #also perhaps i would get so upset over my mom cleaning my room (although being a nice gesture) is because she would move shit to places- #i didn't know and messed up the system i had #also fuckin. executive dysfunction. that's some shit isn't it #i had to move to a new desk early in my job to run a different room and the desk setup was different and I Was Struggling A Bit #also people trying to calm me down during meltdowns is significantly worse and i read a bit that was like. #'trying to interject into the meltdown may cause additional sensory overload. it's most safe to let the person self-regulate.' well shit #that's about right huh #autistic burnout also seemed very familiar and its a little disturbing just how close everything hits #anyways im probably autistic. good night #mossy's rambles #text post #luci's rambles #autism #neurodivergent #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic experiences #if anyone would like to add to the pile and tell me im autistic feel free ig. ive already been peer reviewed

[bunnidid-reviews]

I just finished Chasing Dawn (The Alters) by Terra Katherine McKeown  and aaaaaa!!!!

aaaaaaa!!!!! It so good!!!!

I don't have the time right now to write up the review, but if you want a thrilling urban fantasy with a really cool take on DID and magic, please check this out, it's so so cool!!! I am Hooked! I Am Compelled! In less pages than other certain books I've read, I'm so much more connected to each of the alters and their personal journies, as well as the magical lore.

If you check it out, please be mindful that there's some detailed fight scenes that get pretty bloody, implied sexual abuse and a chapter detailing ritual abuse(the chapter is titled Sigils and Scars Faded). I'll do a more detailed TW list when I can write my review

But yeah!!!! I loved this one

#did in books #did media #dissociative identity disorder book #dissociative identity disorder #media reccs #media recs #chasing dawn the alters #did in media #actuallydid #I am moving out very quickly and suddenly!! like literally just back from being with chimera we went wups no more house <3 #im very very fortunate to even have a house to stay in #but ill be off to see R in two weeks anyway #so yeah sorry to get personal! i want to write a review but itll have to wait for a moments respite

[temeryte]

archived. like this and i'll follow you on a new blog!

#out of character. #( this is in no way personal with anyone but every time I log into my dash I get overwhelmed ) #( i think there's so much going on at once and I just need to move for my sanity ) #( specially since i keep thinking i want to log in and remember I've missed so much and i need to catch up ) #( so i think moving is key. sorry I'm doing this again ) #( i'll also review my roster as i do it ) #( i have an extra character i wanted to add too ) #( okay this is too long now! )

[yloiseconeillants]

JUNELEZEN - Day 13 :: Ancient Times

all.is.right.in.creation

#junelezen #junelezen 2023 #the allagan tempest #azem tag #medusa #ariadne #emet-selch #endwalker spoilers #junelezen: medusa #OK LET US REVIEW: #medusa is pretending to be a reawakened ariadne because the halmarut crystal that emet-selch gave her doesn't work correctly #because the memories contained within are from emet-selch's recollection that just so happen #to be the same memories that ariadne had eternal sunshined because she doesn't know how to break up with someone like a normal person #but like as time goes on it becomes clear that emet-selch knows she's lying and she's just fucking committed to the bit anyway #and they drift apart and emet-selch wakes up daedalus and that's a WHOLE OTHER SITUATION (good for them) (oof) #the Bad Things escalate as the ascians are making moves to actually cause the calamity (thanks for dalamud daedalus!!) #and medusa is committing more and worse crimes since like #emet-selch is trying to test her loyalty too? it's complicated don't worry about it #POINT BEING: she's starting to indulge in watching the memories from the halmarut crystal like some fucked up soap opera #that she puts on before bed because like - the implication that someone loved her soul once is one of the few points of comfort that she ha #also she's killed like 6 clones of her girlfriend at this point which is not great for her mental health

[kithj]

i finished tell me i'm worthless... boy, was that disappointing.

i'll put this under a break because it's long and tw for antisemitism

most of my original criticism still stands. overall i feel like this majorly missed the mark. it's a shame because i think the core idea is interesting, but rumfitt didn't have the skill to pull it off.

one, i think this book is way too edgy. obviously i read and enjoy extreme horror so i'm familiar with it and i understand the purpose of it here (how could i not, she tells me a billion times directly in the book) but it did feel gratuitous and almost silly. i get that this was the house's influence - the characters are all breaking under FascismTM - but yeesh. this book could have existed entirely without most of this gratuitous writing and would have been better for it.

two, again, way too online. embarrassingly online.

three, some of the choices were.... Interesting. ila in particular was not working for me. it was obvious that ila existed just to counter alice's racism and antisemitism and that resulted in it being so incredibly forced - literally felt like the guy racist people online make up to get mad at. "well what if a jewish pakistani lesbian who is actually a closeted trans man was a T*RF and called me a slur?"

whatever rumfitt was trying to do with these characters, it failed. both characters are just empty vessels. alice feels like the main character, a white trans woman that hides her racism and antisemitism behind leftist speak and performative gestures. meanwhile ila was just a guy that was made up solely to foil alice as a T*RF and weakly attempt to counteract her white womanhood and ila was the flatter character because of it. of course ila is a person that could exist in real life i guess, and i do understand what was trying to be discussed here - this kind of intracommunity conflict, the way marginalized people will turn on each other & become complicit out of fear and desperation (the book literally calculates "intersectionality scores" for the three characters, for fuck's sake) but... come on. yes these people are horrible and the house is bringing it out of them, but could you be a little more subtle, have a little finesse? one of the girls literally has her body broken into the shape of a swastika. come oooonnnnn......

i wish this was a better book. the idea behind the house and the house being its own character is what interested me the most. the house as this symbol of their trauma, this haunted thing that is always looming over them. the walls of the house as the constant crushing pressure that marginalized people feel to conform under fascism. the house is a monster with roots that spread through the entire country. but this was wasted. i wish the book had focused more on that, i wish it was more of a haunted house novel instead of, again, a twitter call out speedrun. this book mentions twitter, 4chan, and tumblr, ila gets "cancelled" on twitter, and i cannot stress enough that the book calculates intersectionality scores. but there is no real commentary made, there is no real reflection or criticism of the "oppression olympics" on display here. it just points it out for us in case we didn't get it, and then later there's a chapter-long ramble that tries to take another swing at it and fails, in my opinion.

it's disappointing that both of rumfitt's novels revolve so heavily around twitter/the internet. i undersand its significance, as a gay person online, but these books are so limited in scope. they will not hold up to the passage of time, and anyone that is not super online will not connect with these stories. of course i'm not trying to say that everyone should be trying to write the next Great Classic, and i don't expect anyone to write something just to appeal to a wider audience, but in my opinion this reliance on twitter and 4chan and "cancel culture" is extremely detrimental and honestly embarrassing to read, and i also feel like i know way more than i should about alison rumfitt and how she spends her time online.

and rumfitt really needs an editor to tell her to pull back on the overexplaining. she seems to be really logged in so maybe she thinks her readers have the reading comprehension of a twitter user, but the overwriting is awful. the few times she does something interesting she immediately undermines it by overexplaining it or fumbling desperately to justify it for the next five pages. she takes quotes and ideas from other authors - audre lorde, shirley jackson, isabel fall, just to name a few, but she seems to fail to grasp what actually made their work so compelling. it's all very flat. she directly states the entire metaphor of the novel within the first chapter - the house is fascism and we're all haunted and possessed by it. and then she beats you over the head with it for the entire rest of the book.

i will say that i can appreciate her attempting to grapple with this conundrum of forgiveness (though i detest that it was presented through a lens of "cancel culture"). ila and alice both do horrible things, and we know why - they were desperate and afraid. but (supposedly, we don't ever see this on the page) they change and become better people by the epilogue. they resist the house, they resist fascism. this needed to be shown on page to work, but instead the book ends abruptly and we are given a single page summary of ila and alice getting together afterwards. where was the character development? what about all the people ila and alice hurt? what about hannah? i'm not asking for a happy ending, but give me something. these characters were literally empty. there was nothing there except the hateful ideologies they represented. ultimately i did not care enough for either of them to be invested in this question of forgiveness or what happened to them after the house. i just wanted the book to be over.

i'm honestly kind of baffled by how recommended and hyped this book is. though i do find this problem pretty often in the indie horror space; if something it gratuitous and shocking (here it's just racist and antisemitic and transphobic) people will rate it higher just because they think it's "transgressive" and that automatically makes it good and smart. it's not. this book is trying very hard to say something but somehow it says nothing to me.... there is no real substance.

#2/5 stars #sorry i got kinda mean in this one. i just really did not enjoy this book LOL #it only got the second star bc i did like the house being a character and i liked the alternating povs & 2nd person #it doesnt help that i just read what moves the dead which is such an excellent haunted house novel #but. not sure after this if i'll read another book by her #if i had read this first i never would have picked up brainwyrms #i gave brainwyrms 3/5 for comparison it has all of the same problems but i suppose it's a good thing she's improving at least #i think brainwyrms does a better job with vanya & frankie when it comes to opposing characters & the parasites/pregnancy thing #my reviews

[kdramakitty]

#summer strike #i don't feel like doing anything #kdramanetwork #kdramakitty reviews #kdrama #I honestly could go off on a lot more things #(mild spoilers ahead) #like how Ji Young got somewhat of a character arc by recognizing that academia is garbage and wouldn't make Dae Beom happy #while also still wanting to move to Seoul herself #and I don't know if it annoyed anyone but I liked the progression of Bom and Jae Hoon's relationship #it felt more authentic than everything being totally fine #(spoilers end) #and overall I just really loved that Yeo Reum didn't find a new grand goal or dream and just got to be happy #maybe it's a personal thing but I feel like being 'successful' and 'ambitious' are really ideals thrust upon us #and so it was really lovely to see someone rise above that

[antisocialxconstruct]

I doubt I'm gonna get out to any other concerts until spring so I just wanted to Assess™️ year 1 of what I assume is a collection that will grow exponentially until it subsumes the rest of my wardrobe

#i already have a ticket to see Priest in march..... #they were here in summer but i didn't make it and i was kicking myself ever since but they're coming BACK.... 🙏🙏🙏 #rom speaks #anyway genuinely i feel like one of the best things i ever did for my mental health #other than. find a therapist #was move to a place where live music is just constantly and ridiculously accessible to me #award for highest quality merch.... probably royal blood for the ultra soft shirt and crisp print but des rocs gets a special mention #because I know from personal experience that printing hoodies is a pain in the ass but it still looks really nice #worst quality.... IAMX 😔 cheap gildan shirt and the back print is noticeably out of reg #actually starbenders and cold gun should get an honorable mention too because they were both opening bands #so ordering merch with SUCH complex prints was a huge risk but they both came out really good #thanks for coming to my screenprinting review

[gideonisms]

had just like a wildly bad brain day from morning to night but what's most important is, tomorrow I have leftover Coffee Treat. mercy was literally right the world could be ending my life could be falling apart but I WILL have that delicious coffee like that's my priority everything else is secondary

#like i was having trouble doing basic tasks like texting family back and making myself eat #do have a draft due tomorrow i have not done. idk probably just going to make a pretty template & fill like 3 bullshit sentences under #each heading. didn't say it had to be a *good* draft #the person who peer reviews my document tomorrow: where's the document #it's in my head dw about it :) it looks great i promise :)) #had a whole spiral about a) how everything is boring b) world events c) how i'll never get a bearable job #d) what it would feel like to move back in with family e) world events again #f) dying alone g) having to live with other people h) never having a cat i) never finishing another fic #i should make a poll #where are you on my scale of worries from plague war and housing crisis to what if i never get to cradle my very own cat in my arms gently

[juliannos]

I'm still pissed about our new work building. We have to be there 3 days a week but we don't have enough desks for that to really work out.

Like, very few people are gonna work in office on Fridays (It'll probably be me bc I hate other people). So that means Mon-Thurs are the main days. And we have 1/3 of the desks for everyone that we have to fight over.

But, hey, if you don't have a desk you can still work on your 11" laptop in the cafe! /s

Just let me be fully remote jfc

#ramblings #all of this was after we had to fight to have a monitor larger than 15" and to give us keyboard/mouse/dock at the stations #like they were expecting us to carry that back and forth #which lol fuck that #anyway this move is gonna suck for me #the person who hates open concept and cooperate working spaces #i review documents for govt regs #there is no collabing for that

[witchcraftingboop]

Boss: *Praise*

Me: Oh thank god! I thought you were gonna fire me!

Boss: ?? Why would you think that?

Me: Because! My performance review was the very last one on a Friday, so I got nervous!

Boss: ??? You... you schedule all my appointments! You made it the last one on a Friday!

#shout out to that one time when I first started when I solidified my standing as 'a crazy person' because corporate trauma #corporate shenanigans #I share my coworkers' goofy moments enough gotta include one of my own #btw yes he has since learned from this and will move my review to somewhere in the middle of the day and week if I forget to do so #did I traumatize him? the world may never know!

[zot3-flopped]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3LLDSprbGE/?igsh=MTN0dHNmMDZwcnBkaA==

why does he hype it up so much like it is gonna be beyond mid

He never gets good reviews that's for sure.

#the music press completely ignored his 2018 tour #except for one review that said he had 'a thick neck' and 'moved like a much older person' #😆😆😆 #niall horan

[mothric]

AYO THROWBACK TO THE TIME I TOTALED MY CAR ON MARIO DAY

I got ran off the highway and the person who ran me off didn't stop (:

#the road was SLICK with freshly fallen snow and this person pulled out in front of me off the shoulder WITHOUT. SIGNALING #so I instinctively stepped on the brake so I wouldn't hit them and I spun out (: (: #still one of the funniest things about this is that I was having a conversation about divine intervention literally 2 minutes prior #I narrowly missed a massive tree on the way down hee hoo #and I came out of it with nary a scratch #and this finally forced my parents to agree that i need a new car #which allowed me to move out #so i mean !!! praise God i guess !!!! #2022 in review #mar 2022 #mario day is march 10 btw (MAR10) #I remember this because I'd just been to a gamestop hoping there'd be deals (there weren't)

[sir-klauz]

Yuuusss a couple of animes I like all updateddddd.

BAM

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion

His voice is divine in the dub (as I’m sure we all know dubs can be swing and a miss sometimes), her outwitting him n getting him around her finger, it’s grand

BAM

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too

This. Guy. Is. Too. Nice. I’m so glad he got to help people how he wanted to and shove it basically to the people that hated him over appearances.

BAM

Oshi No Ko

(Heart anime atm, some traumas I understand, hence why I drove all my big social media’s into the ground)

And on the sideeee I’m watching Food Wars 4 basically for like, comfort background kinda times or going to sleep if I need sound. Ya feel?

Just. Yom. Is there anything else you can say to this anime aside from crying about how you’ll never taste anime food that looks so delicious because it’s not real food. Be still. Be still. Calm your beating heart at that reminder. Or, alternatively, get your own heart to cook your food for you:

#Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion #I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World Too #oshi no ko #anime #anime and manga #animecore #anime dub #anime sub #anime love #anime updates #anime news #neurodivergent #adhd #personal #anime rec list #anime recap #anime review #howls moving castle #hmc #howl’s moving castle #howl pendragon #noah wynknight #raeliana mcmillan

[lesbiansanemi]

Finally finished revolutionary girl utena. Very underwhelming I must say

#like. I guess I got what they were going for #I just don’t think it was executed for well tbh #also I was just not a fan of a lot of the storytelling elements they employed #like the constant and repetitive visual metaphors #kinda fucking annoying imo #like I get it I GET THE POINT LETS MOVE ON I DONT NEED TO SEE IT 50 MORE TIMES #I do acknowledge that particular gripe is more personal preference tho #I mean there were some positives like I didn’t dislike literally EVERY aspect of it #but that list is much smaller #but anyways. yeah. do have to admit I do NOT understand the hype here folks #it’s def getting added to my list of anime #where if someone is like ‘omG ITS LIKE PEAK ART AND STORYTELLING’ #I’m squinting heavily at you and probably don’t trust any of your other recs lmfao #but regardless! it’s done and finished and I can move on! #maybe when I have more energy I’ll type up a much more coherent review with more detail #but for right now I just need a palate cleanser #kaz rambles