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i fear this movie was simultaneously the best and worst thing i've ever witnessed

minecraft movie notes

everyone cheered when they said lines from the trailer (flint and steel, the nether, chicken jockey, etc)

there was a technoblade reference of a pig wearing a crown

there was a LOT of romantic tension between jason momoa and jack black. no really. like there will be fics. and i will be reading them.

jack black sung a couple songs. they were decent

a plan involved jason momoa and jack black wearing mushroom hats and playing trumpet in front of a group of evokers to distract them.

endermen don't just attack you, they make you hallucinate the people you love saying they hate you. and then they attack you

jason momoa sacrificed himself but came back at the end to save someone (classic)

there was a weird america's got talent reference ? nether's got talent ? and it was the backstory for the main villain ?? (they played pigstep)

"first we mine, then we craft. now let's minecraft!" was actually a line. they said that out loud.

a piglin named chungus said he was gonna unalive the main characters.

jennifer coolidge did date a villager it was like 3 total scenes and largely ignored

in the post credits scene the end the villager spoke in perfect british english and it was revealed jennifer coolidge could speak villager then they got married

i think seeing it in theaters is the best thing you can do because the audience was hilarious i have so many videos of everyone applauding and laughing and commenting on stuff. anyways i know technically it sucks but whatever i had a good time

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I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

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artists i feel deserve more love and recognition !

hello chat … i am fully aware i’ve basically abandoned this account and i will probably post for another few months after this, but i want to make a list of musical artists i love that i genuinely think deserve so much more recognition than they get. so here we are!

alex sampson - based in ontario, canada

matthew mozingo - based in harrisonburg, virginia

del water gap - based in brooklyn, new york

hippo campus - based in saint paul, minnesota

the struts - based in derbyshire, england

alright, i’ll see yall in about 3 months probably when i remember this account exists again 🫡

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work stories (part two)

i don’t really understand people sometimes.

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customer: *orders an iced mocha latte with oat milk and an extra espresso shot*

also customer: *picks up a hot coffee that is definitely not hers an leaves with it* (she never came back for her actual coffee that she spent $9 on)

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Hi

Fave harry styles songs and 1D songs??

hi!! i am so late to this haha, i completely forgot i had this account...

as of right now? i think my favorite harry song is to be so lonely! i just really have been resonating with the lyrics recently and i love the gentleness/mellowness of the song

as for 1d, i've gotta say love you goodbye! it's such a gentle song but has such a deep-cut meaning, and i love how their lyricism evolved so much throughout their albums, and it really shows in made in the a.m. :)

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work stories (part 1)

so i am fully aware i said i would post work stories two months ago, however i completely forgot this account existed... but here is one of many that i have gathered from my first time working as a barista:

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me: *takes customer’s coffee orders and makes said coffees*

*less than a minute later*

me: *hands customer one of three coffees*

*10 minutes later*

customer: “where are my coffees?? why aren’t they done??”

me: “oh i’m sorry sir, let me take a look” *all three of his coffees are sitting on the counter* “oh, sir, your coffees  are right here”

c: “no, those aren’t my coffees. i don’t know how long they’ve been sitting there”

me: *looks at order number on the receipt and coffee cups and sees that they’re the same* “sir, the order number on your receipt and on the cups is the same, and these coffees are the same orders as listed on your receipt.”

c: “no, no, these aren’t my coffees! i don’t know how long they’ve been here!”

me: *gives him the mf stink eye*

c: *eventually takes the coffees and walks away grumbling*

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hi ! :-)

heyyyy guys so i just realized it's been a minute since i've been on here so... hello! how y'all been?

i'm back at school for the semester, but i have some stories from work this past summer that i've been thinking of posting, just because of the pure stupidity and absurdity i dealt with this summer.

that's all for now... but expect some work stories soon!

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Walz is a former school teacher, served in the army, and was very pro-active in getting progressive stuff passed in his legislature. Besides codifying abortion/IVF rights, see this list of his accomplishments. A solid pick.

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writing !

i don't really talk about myself on here. i mostly just post long essays about things i enjoy, because i do love to do that. i've still been writing a lot recently, but it's not my usual kind of stuff. i've been writing a lot of poetry. some stuff has happened in my life recently that's triggered a lot of emotions for me, and i've just been writing poetry whenever and wherever i feel. i never used to understand how poets or lyricists could write such amazing words that conveyed so much emotion. i could never do it myself. but now i think i understand. people really do mean it when they say their best and proudest works have come from personal experience. i understand it now because i know what that experience feels like. it's been really cool to watch how my writing has blossomed over the past couple of months and i've produced some of my proudest works thus far because of everything i've been feeling. i dunno, i've just been proud of myself recently. maybe one day i'll post some of my writings, but for now i think i'd like to keep them for myself for just a little bit longer :)

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no one flirts with women as shamelessly as frat boy niall did

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college is such a weird time

like, here i am one day thinking "hey, maybe i can make a career out of music!" and then the next i'm thinking "holy shit what am i getting myself into." it's also weird because i constantly question what i'm actually doing with my life. the only thing i really want to do is put something into society that's worthwhile, but i don't know how to do that. i'm majoring in music industry, but i honestly don't even know what i wanna do with that degree. i guess the ultimate dream is to be able to make music and travel the world, but that doesn't really feel realistic. most of that part of the industry is luck, right place right time, etc.

i guess what i'm trying to say is that i don't really like not knowing what my future looks like. i'd never really been able to see myself past my high school graduation, and now that i'm past that, i just feel like i don't know anything. everything is uncertain. i'm sure everything will work itself out, but it's still scary.

i wanted to put this out here for both myself and other people. the unknown is really scary, and i've been trying to work on staying more in the moment rather than thinking all about the future. it is hard to not though. but i guess i just want to say i know it's scary but it's also okay to be scared, for anyone else who's kinda feeling the same right now :]

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bunrry makes me weak

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zuko has one of the best character developments in tv history

(this "essay" has been on hold for like 3 months but i've finally finished it, so enjoy!)

i will literally fight people on this, he's one of my favorite tv characters ever. now, i've rewatched avater the last airbender probably over 10 times in full, so i would say i have a pretty good idea of his character development. i want to preface this by saying, like everything else i post here, this is just my opinion. please feel free to add your own opinions and comments! now, into the world of avatar:

i think it's important to start from the very beginning, when zuko was just a kid. we don't see much of his childhood from before azula was born, but i think it's safe to assume he was loved and praised by both of his parents before she came around. if you've seen the show, then you know a lot of zuko's character in the first season and part of the second season is desperately trying to win his father's acceptance and approval.

we see zuko slowly becoming more and more jealous of azula in the flashbacks to his childhood, watching her become his father's favorite. a great example of this is the flashback where azula showcases her firebending abilities to firelord azulon, and she quietly taunts zuko when she is praised by her father and grandfather. zuko gets agitated and wants to show off his own skills to prove himself, but is unable to produce a powerful flame like azula. he's embarrassed, and feels inferior to azula (season 2, ep. 7: zuko alone). there are plenty more examples of this sort of thing but i'm not going to get into it.

another thing that really created the divide between zuko and azula and ozai, was zuko's relationship with his mother. while his mother loved both azula and zuko, she obviously favored zuko. i don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but each child being favored by a different parents definitely creates a sort of rivalry. i know she favored zuko because of the way he was treated by his father, but i don't think it made things any easier for him because it just reminded him how much he disappointed his father.

obviously, a big turning point for zuko was when he was challenged to an agni kai by ozai, which really stuck the idea that the only thing he ever wanted to do was please his father, and in his attempt to do so he was banished instead. we see a flashback of this battle in season 1, episode 12: the storm. the thing is though, the cause of the agni kai was because zuko simply spoke out of turn at a war meeting, which really shows how ozai thought of zuko, though it was no secret to begin with.

moving onto season one, obviously we see the result of zuko's childhood trauma in the very first episode. the only thing he wants to do, or thinks he wants to do, is to earn his father's approval. he's desperate to find and capture the avatar, simply because he wants to be accepted. i think it's easy to see that deep down, zuko is not a bad person. he's angry and he feels rejected by the person who is supposed to love and support him. even in the first couple of episodes, you can tell he's not truly like that. take the middle of the first episode, for instance. he tells iroh that he needs to find the avatar, because his honor relies on it. you can see from his character design that he has bags under his eyes, and he just looks and sounds exhausted. i think he's just so tired of being angry all the time (season 1, episode 1: the boy in the iceberg).

throughout the entire first season, you can see more and more of zuko's past come out, like in the episode mentioned in the previous paragraph. it's not until the final episode of the first season that we start to see zuko's true self start to come out. when zuko and zhao are fighting and zhao slips, zuko's automatic response is to hold out a hand to him, forgetting about the fight. of course, zhao is stubborn and doesn't take it, and dies, but this tiny gesture kind of starts to show what sort of person zuko really is, even if it's for only a split second. another instance from this episode is when iroh tells zuko he is surprised he's not so focused on capturing aang at that moment, to which zuko simply replies that he is tired. it makes me think that he's starting to slowly realize he doesn't really want to capture the avatar, he's only doing it to, once again, please his father and earn back his honor.

as we move onto the second season, we can see zuko's development really start to pick up. in season 2, episode 1: the avatar state, azula visits iroh and zuko, telling them that ozai wants them to come home, only for them to find out later that they were going to be taken at prisoners. at the end of the episode, iroh and zuko cut off their top knots, seemingly signifying a sort of newfound freedom from the control that they've felt from ozai. what i mean by "control" is not necessarily real, physical control but moreso emotional control. even when he wasn't there, ozai still had somewhat of a hold over zuko, the "promise" of his honor back, the "promise" of his love and support. by zuko cutting off his top knot, it kind of shows that zuko is beginning to be less afraid of his father's power, and is starting to let go of the idea that he needs to earn his honor back. he's slowly starting to see his father for who he truly is, with less doubt in his mind that his father doesn't truly care about him.

another big step in zuko's journey of development and self discovery was in season two, episode five: avatar day, when zuko decides to travel alone "to find [his] way in life". i love that he's still at the beginnings of his development but it's becoming really clear as to where he's headed characterwise. after all he does for lee's family, which granted, isn't much but is still something, he's shunned away from them when it's revealed he is a firebender and prince of the firenation. these interactions are extremely important in aiding his development: it would be extremely unrealistic if everyone just accepted him as a firebender even though he helped the town. from a moral perspective, it feels as though the people of the town should be grateful for his help, but at the same time the townspeople have valid reasons to be angry and afraid of any firebender that might pass through, especially one from the royal family.

the next major event for zuko's development was in season two, episode seventeen: lake laogai. this is the episode in which zuko makes the bold decision to set appa free after finding him in the undergrounds of ba sing se, as well as finally giving up his guise as the blue spirit. starting with the obvious, setting appa free lets more of zuko's true self come out, and while he still holds a lot of anger, resentment, and trauma towards a lot of things, he ultimately decides to do the right thing to help team avatar. as for his blue spirit persona: this is the first time i'm mentioning it here, but it was a thing within the first two seasons, though moreso in the second season. the blue spirit is something that's like a persona, someone zuko can be when being himself just gets to be too much, something to hide behind. zuko throwing away the mask once and for all is a good representation of him not wanting to hide anymore.

this leads into quite possibly one of the most important moments of the series: when azula kills aang in the avatar state, and gives zuko credit for it. in season two, episode twenty: the crossroads of destiny, zuko finds azula in ba sing se, and when given the choice between azula and iroh, he chooses azula. he chooses an attempt to what he thinks is regaining his honor. this moment was an excellent way to show that no matter how much growth he may have had over the first two seasons, at the time, he ultimately still cared so much about satisfying his family that he threw away everything he had built up to in that moment just to please them.

moving onto season three, beginning with the first episode. zuko and azula have made it back to the fire nation, but zuko is still wary because he has a strong feeling that aang is alive. his instinct is right, of course. but i also think he feels wary about being home because even though his father has congratulated him and says he's proud of zuko, he still doesn't feel like he "deserves" to be there, 1) because he didn't really kill aang and 2) because i don't think being home with his family quite sits right with him after everything he's experienced on the road. he also deeply regrets betraying iroh in that split-second decision he made to side with azula.

one of the biggest turning points for zuko is in season 3, episode 11: the day of black sun, part 2: the eclipse. zuko confronts his father and tells him that the avatar is likely alive, and how he only ever wanted ozai to love him. it's at this point that zuko truly lets go of his desire to please his father, because he realizes ozai is truly a bad person. he vows to help aang learn firebending and to help team avatar defeat ozai. after this encounter, zuko has finally stopped trying to please his family, and begins his journey to find and help aang.

eventually he finds the gaang and joins them to teach aang firebending. katara is the least trustful of him, though she learns to trust him after he takes her to find the man that murdered her mother. zuko also gains the trust of toph, even after he accidentally burned her feet, the trust of sokka, by taking him to the boiling rock to save his father, and the trust of aang, by going with him to learn the true root of firebending. all of these events together really emphasize how desperate zuko was to prove that he no longer wanted to harm aang.

this is proved even more when aang suddenly goes missing before sozin's comet, and zuko leads the search to find aang. while they do not find him, june leads him and the rest of the gaang to the order of the white lotus, where he reconciles with iroh. he feels immense remorse for abandoning iroh, and of course iroh, being the amazing guy he is, says that he was never angry with zuko, he was only afraid that he had lost his way.

the final moment in the show that cements zuko's development is in the final two episodes: season 3, episode 20: sozin's comet, part 3: into the inferno and season 3, episode 21: sozin's comet, part 4: avatar aang. during this episode, zuko engages in a comet-enhanced agni kai against azula. he is able to use the skills he learned from when he learned of the true roots of firebending from the dragons, and that ultimately helped him win the agni kai. azula was fighting zuko with anger, while zuko was fighting with composure. this also showed how the recent events had changed the two characters: azula was known to be calm and calculated, while zuko was known to have a short temper.

however, without katara's intervention, zuko would not have won against azula. as azula was preparing to strike zuko with lightning, she notices katara behind zuko and attempts to strike her instead. she fails, as zuko jumps in front of katara to save her. as zuko struggles to recover from the strike, katara realizes that it is up to her to finish the battle. she freezes azula in a block of ice and chains her to a sewer grate, ultimately finishing azula off. she had finally gone insane and was just so exhausted of everything.

the reason this moment helped to cement zuko's development is because before, zuko was never one to accept help. he always felt that he needed to do everything on his own, and the fact that he was able to let katara finish the battle for him says a lot about his development. not only did he accept the help, he truly no longer cares about "getting credit" for winning the battle.

before i end this, i want to take a moment to talk about this idea of "honor" that zuko seems to have throughout the series. as we've already clearly established, he wants to please his father. but what does this honor really mean to him? to me, i think it changes throughout the series. throughout his childhood and the first season, his honor means making not only his father proud, but the fire nation. he had all this pressure of being prince of the fire nation, and i think he was terrified of disappointing the fire nation, because he's simply not like them. although he was raised with the idea that trying to take over the world and win the war was "good," i still don't think he ever really believed it like his father or sister did. i think that's likely the doing of his mother, who kept him grounded. she likely did not approve of the war and the fire nation's plans either.

during season one, i think his idea of honor mostly stays the same, although i think it shifts a little bit. while he still wants to please his father, it's more desperate, and i think he's starting to feel the exhaustion of trying to be perfect for ozai.

in season two, his perspective of what honor means to him begins to shift a bit more. he's on his own for the very first time and he gets to think about his childhood. as season two progresses, i think honor begins to mean that he should honor himself and his own values rather than whatever his father wants him to do.

finally, in season 3, his idea of honor is concrete. he has finally gotten to a place where he doesn't feel like he needs ozai's approval to gain his honor. he has finally realized that to gain his honor back, he needs to respect himself and his own values.

all in all, zuko is one of my favorite animated characters ever created and as you can probably tell, i think he has one of the best developments of a character in tv history. thank you for (hopefully) reading this, and i'll see y'all in a couple months probably!

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i would just love to experience what it's like to be the kind of girl guys go for, really, just that girl most guys have a crush on, or at least a few

but i will always be just a second/third/last choice girly✌️

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some of my favorite lyrics :)

call me what you like - lovejoy (bridge)

“this just in

i am a total fucking dumbass”

sunflower, vol. 6 - harry styles (verse)

"sunflower, my eyes want you more than a melody

let me inside, wish i could get to know you"

black and white - niall horan (bridge)

“and i want the world to witness

when we finally say ‘i do’

it’s the way you love, i gotta give it back to you

i can’t promise pocket fences

or sunny afternoons

but at night, when i close my eyes”

this town - niall horan (verse)

"you still make me nervous when you walk in the room

them butterflies, they come alive when i'm next to you"

self dysmorphia - mckenna grace (verse)

"and i'm just typecast as the friend

i'll make you laugh, but not the prettiest

i keep trying to work on me

but you can't photograph a personality"

portrait of a blank slate - lovejoy (verse)

"i decorate my mind

the same beige as the walls

i'm yours, i'm yours, i'm yours"

it's golden hour somewhere - lovejoy (chorus)

"i won't announce my sheer descent

but, holy fuck, there will be signs"

two of us - louis tomlinson (bridge)

"i promised you i'd do this

so all of this is all for you

oh, i swear to god you're living

through everything i'll ever do"

never grow up - niall horan (chorus)

"hope we grow old but we never grow up"

you could start a cult - niall horan (verse)

'darlin', i will give up everything

who i'll be and who i am

you can have it all"

mirrors - niall horan (pre-chorus)

"she looks into her mirror

wishing someone could hear her, so loud"

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temporary fix by one direction has permanently solved all of my problems

(im so funny) (no but seriously that song is an absolute banger)

[little-dandelionn]

the barbie movie was incredible

no because you guys (the literal 0 people who follow me) don't understand how much i loved this movie. it's genuinely one of the best movies i've seen in years, and here's why.

for one, it confronts the fact that patriarchy is not beneficial for men nor women, and in fact, it actually harms both. like ken says in the movie, he quickly lost interest when he figured out it wasn't about horses. but for real, i think ken lost interest because he realized that being "in charge" wasn't what made him happy. being an accessory to barbie didn't make him happy either, but figuring out that neither of these things fulfilled him pushed him into the uncomfortable unknown, a place everyone hates. i like how we didn't 100% see what ended up happening with ken, what he decided to go with his life, his purpose. i think it makes it feel more real and relatable because in reality, a journey to self-discovery is a long one. it's not something that can be resolved in a 2-hour time frame, and not showing how his story ends was an incredibly smart choice by greta gerwig, because really, our stories never really end, you know what i mean?

for women, i think it's quite obvious how the patriarchy doesn't benefit/harms them. of course, women have been oppressed in a much more obvious way than men have for centuries. but i think seeing barbie enter a world where she isn't the "most important" or whatever (i'm not really sure how to describe it, kinda like the opposite of patriarchy i guess) was really cool because we get to see how the realization of treatment towards women in today's society might look from an adult's point of view who's just learning about it, rather than someone who's grown up experiencing it. seeing someone experience it where it wasn't the norm for them was a really interesting perspective to see, something we don't often get to witness in films. this point also goes for ken realizing the privilege he has in the real world, it was really cool to see how that sort of realization would affect someone who's been treated as an accessory their whole lives.

i thought sasha's initial confrontation with barbie was a very bold, but good, choice. seeing a young teenage girl clearly acknowledge the issues in our society that affect women and young girls was really refreshing because we don't often see things like that addressed in highly anticipated movies. just generally acknowledging the unrealistic beauty standards that are set for women in our current society was a huge step and i admire greta gerwig for including that in the movie. she could have easily just made it so sasha made a vague comment about it, but i love that she decided to just go full throttle with it and acknowledge it for what it truly is. i know that from an outsider's view who's maybe only seen some clips, it looks like that's a huge part of the movie, but realistically, the confrontation of unrealistic beauty standards was actually a very minuscule part of the movie, really only included to help barbie realize that she isn't doing what she thought she was for young girls, which is why i commend greta gerwig for including it. she could have replaced that bit with something having to do with unfair wages and how people still refuse to hire women for certain jobs purely because of their gender. but she didn't.

i also absolutely loved how ruth handler made an appearance as a character in the movie, mostly just because i liked seeing how the perspective of the creator of barbie might have looked had she been alive and really put into this situation.

a couple small details i thought were nice:

at the beginning of the movie, we see sasha wearing full dark gray/black/monochrome clothes, and then in the last scene we see her wearing a pink shirt.

i thought barbie going by the name barbara handler at the end of the movie was a really cute detail. it kinda makes me feel like ruth handler sees this barbie as her own daughter (which makes sense because she literally named barbie after her daughter lmao).

some things i wish had shown up in the movie:

i do wish that they had used ken's character to at least show a little bit of how unrealistic beauty standards for men can affect them, but then again that wasn't particularly the point of the movie so i'm not mad about it. i would love to see a movie sometime in the future, just any movie, confronting those societal pressures, because i feel like not many people talk about how societal expectations for men can affect them and translate into toxic masculinity.

i would have loved to see a bit more of a discussion about beauty standards for women, but again that wasn't the point of the movie so i'm okay with the fact that there wasn't more discussion about it. i still love that there was any discussion at all about it though, so there's that.