Rat Race - not remotely as funny as I remember it.

Catch Me If You Can - still holds up.

With this mindset, you might as well stop engaging with any art out there. In fact, you should stop using theories and philosophical ideologies. Stop buying clothes and stop eating food because you are 100% supporting someone who’s a bad person by living and engaging with the world.

All this purity bs is so draining. One can like a work of art without agreeing with the person who made it.

You can watch coraline without supporting neil gaiman. It’s pretty easy in todays world, but be careful, because you’re probably currently using a phone or a computer that was manufactures by very evil people who are using child labor and are exploiting the earth’s resources and possibly also raped somebody at some point.

Don’t get vaccinated either or visit a doctor because you never know what evil person or company benefits from your wish to stay healthy.

I hope it will help too! It is hell to be haunted by anxiety thoughts. All the best <3

🫠 man, my condolences.

In that case, a gym membership or something like it might be your best option. You don’t have to go hard or be perfect, but throwing some earbuds in and following a set routine can really help empty the mind for an hour as well. I used to go to the gym when I lived in the city and it was so nice to have an hour a day where the only thing I had to do was "go on treadmill for 30 minutes, go do three sets of five differnet exercises and then go stretch for 10 to 20 minutes.

I found my own workout plan by watching a few gym youtubers and looking up exercise programs that seemed beneficial. I’d do arms and stomach one day and legs and back the next and just switch day to day. Nothing crazy or ambitious, just something to get the pulse up and to escape my own mind for a bit.

If gyms aren’t too expensive, then consider it and if it is too expensive, consider home yoga. For that, you only need a mat and you can find tons of programs online. Yoga is also good wheb you’re in an apartment and you might not have a lot of space and have neighbors.

I hope you find a way! Exercise really does help woth anxiety! It’s bit a cure, but it makes life bearable <3

It’s been cozy week. We watched Sword in the Stone, Babe and we are in the process of watching Hachiko.

We attempted to watch Coraline and Bambi as well, but Coraline wasn’t the right kind of cozy for this week and Bambi is honestly incredibly boring if I may be so blunt. Love the artistry, especially the backgrounds, but the narrative and pacing is very annoying. I have always had a problem with movies where I get the sense that the people who made it didn’t really have much to say and instead stretch out the time with gags that go nowhere and characters meandering without much purpose. Mostly, it is clear that Bambi is from the experimental time at Disney where they wanted to make Fantasia type movies that were less driven by story and more driven by mood. Bambi wants to be a vibe, but is still trying to be story with dialogue and I don’t think it works. I think it would have been better if the whole movie had leaned into the Fantasia angle and been a silent film with compelling visuals timed to dramatic music. We could still have the story about a deer growing up and stepping into the role of a king by the end. Just leave out the annoying and useless dialogue and commit to the idea. Maybe also cut it down to half an hour max and have it be a tight, but engaging sensory experience.

Tbh, i really hope they don’t show the doom of valyria.

This is where the original show started to fall apart, when they showed what happens to craster’s babies midway through season 4. The show proved in that instance that it didn’t understand nor respect the most fundamental rule of asoiaf: the maesters control the narrative AND we can only know what has been witnessed by humans who lived long enough to return to civilzation and tell the tale. We can only be shown what the maesters deem acceptable. Some loon returning from a horrible encounter with the supernatural, will not be accepted as credible. The books are stuffed to the brim with instances of people returning from some far off place with stories that cabnot be verified and therefore they are dismissed by the narrative unless they are a pov character. We cannot have that with Aegon the Conqueror, as he nor anyone who lived during his time is a pov character. He is only talked about in historical texts written by the maesters.

The maesters are, btw, very strongly anti magic and seek to discredit any and all rumours of magical events happening in their world.

With the doom of valyria, it is a historical fact that valyria fell into ruin, but the maesters have an invested interest in shushing the magical elements to it, even though some details have managed to slip out to the wider public.

Remember also that the maesters are not the friends of the Targaryens and the recorded history of the Targaryen dynasty is full of contradictory accounts and theories that the maesters put more stock into than others. They actively push the narrative in a certain direction, away from magic, away from the Targaryens. Events like what happened at Harrenhall also seem very suspicious as it should be very well known and well documented history, yet it is hushed and turned into a ghost story by the public while the maesters shrug and somehow have little to say about what happened. Wonder why…

So yeah, I really really hope they show restraint and dont show the doom of valyria. That would be a genuinely stupid choice that will kill the mystery and integrity of the world. It is entirely on purpose that we, as the audience, are left in the dark when it comes to many different happenings in the world of ice and fire.

I dont even feel good about them making a movie about Aegon the Conqueror as that part of westorosi history is borderling on myth already, but it is better to show his reign than to show what happens to crasters babies, so eh.

And for everything that’s holy, i never want anyone to ever show anything from Valyria. That place needs to only exist in the words spoken by characters. It will entirely lose its impact if it is shown on screen.

But honestly, with the current track record of these shows, I am not gonna be surprised if they piss all over the integrity of the world to give the mouthbreathers among audiences some big valyrian boom boom on screen. It would be about as disrespectful as whatever the fuck season 8 was.

The only thing that has somewhat worked for me is to be physically active. I can clearly tell the difference between periods where I am active vs periods when I’m inactive.

Something as simple as taking a long walk in green areas have done wonders in the past. It empties my mind and I become nothing more than a machine that moves. It is the closest I can get to meditation and I think a lot of anxiety is trapped energy that needs a physical outlet.

I’m not diagnosed with anything, but I have been an anxious bitch for my entire adult life due to some bad things I went through, so I know how persistent and irrationally extreme anxiety can become.

Walking in forests and fields are not gonna magically cure life long brain patterns, but they sure as shit make them shut up for long enough that you get to enjoy life a little and are too exhausted to worry about all the stupid things that don’t matter, but your brain loves torturing you with.

When you have walked in a forest for an hour or two or even just 20 minutes, something inside you automatically calms. Nature is so important for the soul and we sometimes forget that. Of course, in case you live in a scorching hot desert, you may not have this option, but if you have a forest around where you live, go for a walk on a well used trail and take in the changing seasons. After a couple of weeks and months, the longterm effects will be apparent. You’ll still be anxious, but a lot less so.

A lot more people need to be aware of how Chris Hansen has a lot more in common with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nightcrawler than he does with this hero image of being a pedophile hunter.

I witnessed the Onision saga in real time back in 2019 and it is very, very clear that Hansen does not give a fuck about anything but money and his reputation - which he somehow routinely sets on fire like a dumbass. The word “grifter” was invented for people like him.

Then Eggers is the wrong guy for you, I fear. The only reason The Northman was done in English and not old norse was because they feared it would become too inaccessible for regular audiences. Other than that, Eggers loves his authenticism and always aims to make his movies as period accurate as possible.

Bring tissues. It’s a crying movie. Also surprisingly gory sometimes, fyi. But yeah, it is intensely beautiful and very emotional. The real family was brought on set and were actively involved in the making of the film. The real mother and Naomi became rather close friends if I’m not misremembering.

I also think this detail is really cute, but in an interview with Naomi Watts, she mentioned how she believed Tom Holland had a great career ahead of him and that he would become a big name. If you get the chance to get a hold of the behind the scenes material for this film, I highly recommend you give it a watch :) this movie was made by people who genuinely cared about the impact the 2004 tsunami had on its victims, which is always nice to see. So much love between strangers.

I have always had a complicated relationship with Harry Potter. Long before it was cool to hate that franchise, I was very critical of it for many different reasons and I never managed to get past the fifth book. Not at 15, not at 25, when I tried again and now that I am in my late 30s I have finally decided to bypass my old rule that I wouldn’t watch the movies before finishing the books. The fifth book is my nemesis.

So, I watched the movies this week. All of them. Have been very down and sad about stuff in my personal life and thought I might as well watch these films to get my mind off my own bs.

First three films are still the best ones. I will always say that Chris Columbus was the only director who actually understood and gave a fuck about the world and the atmosphere in it. Alfonzo Corone did a fantastic job of bringing the darkness into the world without sacrificing the whimsy and he managed to tell the story really well and make you feel the themes of grief and hope.

And then there’s the fourth movie and onward. What. The. Fuck. I think I hate the fourth movie about as much as I hate the fifth book. The fifth movie, ironically, actually managed to tell the story in a tolerable manner and it bothered to build Sirius’ and Harry’s relationship while the fourth movie couldn’t care less. The sixth movie is a mess, though not as bad as the fourth movie. It is unfocused, storywise. It should have prioritized Snape as he really is the heart of that story, based on what I could glean from the sloppy storytelling in the movie, but he drowns in all the other bs that the movie seems to waste more time on so when you get to the cringy line “yeth, I am the Half-Blood Printh” I am over here like: Oh yeah, there was a book or whatever.

The Deathly Hallows should have just been one movie. Figure it the fuck out. Part one was a slow, boring mess and Part 2 was pretty entertaining even if it explained itself rather poorly. You have two movies to communicate your shit to me, and you still glance over all these different characters and concepts as if you expect every motherfucker watching your movie to have read the books. I also think it’s pretty lame that the movies, when they get to have two of them, skip over several important character deaths while wasting I dunno how long on Harry, Ron and Hermione going camping in the woods and having pathetic teen drama that doesn’t lead anywhere.

But seriously, fuck the fourth movie. What a total mess of incompetent film making.

Yes, it is literally based on the fan film. There was some shenanigans going on shortly after it was announced that Andy Serkis would make a professional adaptation of the film and the studio struck down the original film and channel on youtube for copyright infringement, but they were luckily able to plead their case and the movie is back up.

I forget when this was going on exactly, just that I was a spectator in real time while the drama was happening.

yep. It’s based on a boring, but relatively well made fan film from 2009 where Aragorn runs around in Middle Earth and is angsty. I have watched it and I appreciate the passion from the fans who made it, but there is no way I would ever think this movie/idea had enough flesh on the bone to make a feature length film. The fan film is like 40 minutes long, and it is so slow and dull, that I genuinely cannot remember what happens in it.

Thanks but no thanks.

There are so many great fantasy stories out there, that haven’t been adapted yet. Do them. Stop regurgitating the same three franchises over and over again. We don’t need anymore Lord of the Rings. We don’t need anymore Harry Potter and we most certainly do not need any more Game of Thrones - and this comes from someone who thought Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was okay and enjoyable.

Move on.

This is only one case. I don’t know shit, but my guess is that Harvey has quite a few more criminal lawsuits against him before he can settle back and do his time.

I don’t know how many more cases have been made against him at this point in time, but my guess it’s MANY.

He will die in prison.

My siblings, their partners and kids. A couple of friends I met while studying, my best friend and her family amd then my boyfriend and his family.

I am counting my siblings because our parents have tried to keep us separated with malicious lies for many years and we are finding our ways back to one another now.

I do not speak to my parents anymore.

The bully in this instance is retarded so actually, Greenland won. This deal is basically status quo, but Greenland is protected from invasion by the US because the orange monkey has signed in agreement that Greenland belongs to the inuit. That includes Greenland’s natural resources.

Furthermore, America has been neglecting their military pressense in Greenland, which was their duty to protect and now they are going to pour more military power into protecting Greenland as was their duty to begin with.

Trump hasn’t won shit, other than spending more money and resources on a piece of land that doesn’t belong to America.

The Danish and Greenlandic politicians are really good salesmen, who know how to make this idiot think he won.

This entire deal goes directly against his and his fanboys’ values, but they are too stupid to see it.

Aye, no shade. We all like different things. I like a universally hated movie called Velvet Buzzsaw, so you’re no gonna hear anything from me, hehe :b

Believr it or not, I really wanted to like Assassins Creed 3 because I had loved the series up until then. So yeah. Sad face.

The point is that he is very clearly native american and does not pass for a Spaniard. And on top of that, if they wanted him to be Spanish, why name him Connor?

It was the most nonsensical cover to give his character that it pretty much killed it for me right there. Up until that point, I had tolerated the stupid, but this was incompetent writing of the first order.

Assassins Creed 3 when the very obviously native american main character is given a fake identity as a spanish man named Connor.

I hated that game so much. My boyfriend kept playing it for some reason, so I got to catch snippets of the story along the way and I hated every second of it.

It never felt like an Assassins Creed game and I hated pretty much every character in that game, except Connor because he just didn’t have enough of a personality to hate him.