It was so very good. I went not having read the comics and didn’t really watch the show. My husband filled me in on the backstory on the way to the theater.
Everything was great, the acting, the directing, and the story. They knocked it out of the park in my opinion.
Not being a movie person, I was bribed with…
like, this was my rent, which I just spent on this thing that’s not happening.
In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them—and it was…
I have been single and celibate for almost twelve years. Some of the reasons are bad luck, some poor dating demographics (African descent, PhD, overweight) but the most compelling reason I stayed single after my divorce is that I learned to enjoy my own company and develop myself. I just didn’t want to be burdened…
As a Texan who’s had some pretty shitty OBGYN experiences and only feels safe going to Planned Parenthood can I just say
The concept of fate or selection negating agency is really strange to me. At one point in the second half of the story, Moana asks the ocean to “un-choose” her, because she decides that the path is too difficult. While this emphasizes the ocean’s participation in the story it also emphasizes Moana’s hard work up until…
I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. That loop has been playing in my head all day.
“Please plead the blood of Jesus over you and your family”
Hardcore fundie christians have such a weird internal language. You can always get what they’re trying to say, more or less, but they pick these deliberately awkward ways of structuring their sentences and it always makes me go “huh?” for a few until I’ve…