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I just learned that allergies can lead to smell hallucinations! This would have been a cool moment if it wasn’t for the fact that the way I found out by smelling ozone in my parents house while house sitting for them. I just spent like half an hour looking for the source of the smell to make sure there wasn’t gonna be an electrical fire before I realized my nose was way too congested to smell anything 🙃

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It’s absolutely wild to me that a lot of tech has advanced in ways that feel intentionally anxiety inducing.

Package trackers have advanced just enough for me to see my package go west to Vegas instead of east to my home and then not update for 19 hours. Is the tracker not updating? Did they lose my package? Fuck if I know!

My laptop has a news feed in the taskbar, but it’ll now tell me there’s breaking news just to show me something like “man plays chess in park”. Will that be fixed? Of course not! How else will I be convinced to read the most unimportant article ever?

My health insurance has an auto pay function so now I won’t get screwed out healthcare if I ever forget. Of course in addition to auto pay, I also get monthly emails titled “IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION ABOUT YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE” that just let me know that I do indeed have auto pay. Will they ever change the email titles to something less concerning? I’m not counting on it!

Technology fucking sucks sometimes

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I was googling information about graduation attire since I’ll be graduating at the end of this semester and my university has the bare minimum of information on their website. I ended up going down a rabbit hole about the different kinds of stoles could be worn, and ended up coming across this image that absolutely needed to be shared.

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I made this reddit comment in a discussion about horror movies and political messages and now all I’ve been able to think about is more examples of political messages in horror movies, so I’m gonna talk about them here so my brain can move on and focus on other stuff.

The first time I ever saw Hellraiser, I legitimately thought “oh this is about AIDS” as soon as Frank started talking about needing other people’s blood. The fact that Kristy was unable to destroy the lament configuration at the end leaving her doomed to still face the cenobites eventually further confirmed this.

There’s a reason Nosferatu started getting remade after the COVID pandemic.

Around the 70s when the feminist movement was getting started and abortion was a major topic, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, The Exorcist, and Alien all were made and all had plots that either involved scary pregnancies or scary kids. Now that Roe V Wade has been overturned, there’s been new installments for all of these franchises as well as Immaculate which fits the bill.

Poltergeist was a criticism of Reagan’s trickle down economics. The movie focuses on a textbook americana neighborhood that was built on top of a cemetery in a plan that was promised to benefit both the living and the dead. The living would get the land and the dead would be moved to a park. But once the hauntings start happening, it’s revealed that the dead were never moved and there was never any plans to actually move them while the living got all the benefits they were promised, similar to how trickle down economics led to the rich getting richer while the poor got jack shit.

Anyways hopefully that was enough to get it out of my system

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I’m taking a film and culture class this semester and the early history of film is honestly so hilarious. Thomas Edison wanted to monopolize movies but then this french magician comes out of nowhere and makes the first ever movie with a narrative in the form of La Voyage Dans Le Lune, and it’s the most french ass film ever. Then the french magician never makes a movie like that ever again. Meanwhile Edison’s panicking because he still wants a monopoly so he hires an american guy to make a narrative film that’s more popular so people can give him money instead. The guy makes The Great Train Robbery and it’s the most american ass film ever, and then he never makes a movie like that ever again. Then The Great Train Robbery becomes so popular that a bunch of film studios pop up ensuring that Edison never gets the monopoly he wanted.

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I’ve learned recently that no matter what you do on the internet, if you live in a red state google’s personalized ads algorithm will just give you nonstop turning point usa ads. It doesn’t matter that most of my purchase history is queer novels, horror novels, and queer horror novels, google thinks I want nothing more than to watch nonstop videos of a weird faced man who believes the height of political discourse is combining high school debate club with the shittiest, most toxic meme subreddit you’ve ever seen.

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I recently decided to give Beastars a shot and bought the first volume the other day. Ever since I bought it, though, my brother’s been poking fun and has been jokingly calling it my “furry porn”. It’s been taking all of my self control to not point out that he was wildly into Blacksad not too long ago.

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It’s almost hilarious how different the final seasons of Lower Decks and What We Do in the Shadows are. Lower Decks has been absolutely determined to go out with a bang to the point where they even found a way to make garashir canon. Meanwhile wwdits basically said “fuck it” and has dedicated a season long subplot to Guillermo becoming a finance bro. It’s definitely a weird time to be a fan of both shows.

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I went to a bookstore the other day and saw a novel called “Bored Gay Werewolf” and I immediately bought it. I didn’t even stop reading the summary or anything, I just know that based on the title I’m most likely the target audience for this book.

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In lighter news, my copy of the Godzilla 70th anniversary comic came in the mail today so I’m gonna be spending my evening like this.

I’m so fucking tired. Every election my vote gets drowned out by the bullshit that is the electoral college of Texas and I have no choice but to go “oh well, better luck next time”. The only problem though is that there won’t be better luck because the one thing I can rely on is poor voter turnout. Now I’m stuck in my apartment wondering if me staying here to try and make a difference is following in the footsteps of Granny Weatherwax and doing what’s right even though it isn’t easy, or if it’s more following the footsteps of crazy puritans who flogged themselves whenever they had an impure thought. I wish I could just hibernate and let the world pass me by like an actual bear, but unfortunately I’m just the useless gay kind.

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I’m so fucking tired. Every election my vote gets drowned out by the bullshit that is the electoral college of Texas and I have no choice but to go “oh well, better luck next time”. The only problem though is that there won’t be better luck because the one thing I can rely on is poor voter turnout. Now I’m stuck in my apartment wondering if me staying here to try and make a difference is following in the footsteps of Granny Weatherwax and doing what’s right even though it isn’t easy, or if it’s more following the footsteps of crazy puritans who flogged themselves whenever they had an impure thought. I wish I could just hibernate and let the world pass me by like an actual bear, but unfortunately I’m just the useless gay kind.

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Rewatching Knives Out is always so fun because the movie has little hidden details throughout the whole thing and I always find myself either picking up on hidden threads or making up threads that were never there to begin with. Anyway here’s two such cases when I rewatched last night alongside Clue (Clue’s not important to the story, I just want to let y’all know Clue+Knives Out is a great double feature). Are these details actually intentional or am I pulling all of this out of thin air? IDK, part of the reason I’m sharing these is so y’all can tell me if I’m onto something or not

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Back when I was in intro to archaeology, my professor showed us a documentary about the Piltdown Man Hoax and who could have planted the skull. Now if you’ve heard anything about Piltdown Man, you’d immediately suspect Charles Dawson, the amateur archaeologist who discovered the skull and is also linked to a few other fraudulent discoveries. The documentary, though, wasn’t satisfied with just having the most likely and obvious suspect, and so it went through every possible person they could link to the skull in order to build a sense of mystery. I’ve since forgotten most of the suspects, but one that I remember even better than I remember Charles Dawson was ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. Despite having zero actual connections to the skull, the fact that Doyle was a known prankster, was allegedly seen around the area the skull was discovered a day prior, and was apparently being mocked by scientists for believing in spiritualism was enough evidence for this documentary. The documentary also tried to claim that The Lost World could have been his admission of guilt, but if you thought the previous evidence was rocky then this is straight up fairy tale territory. Anyways, since that documentary Arthur Conan Doyle being responsible for Piltdown Man has been a conspiracy theory I choose to believe, not because I actually think it happened but because it be so hilarious if that was the actual truth.

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There will never be a book series quite like Discworld. One second you’re reading the silliest pun you’ve ever seen, the next second you’re either reading about how social and economic inequality leads to flaws the justice system or about how realizing our mortality can make us celebrate life more, and then several months later you finally learn about a niche historical event that Terry Pratchett used for a joke.

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I think a lot of religions could benefit from having their deity grow big and fight other deities. Like, I was raised cat and I struggle to remember anything beyond the our father prayer, but this

absolute angel just exists and I have memorized all of her songs and casually sing them while I do busywork. Maybe if Jesus came back in giant baby form to convince Godzilla and Rodan to fight Ghidora things would be different, but it is what it is.

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I just recently started reading The Haunting of Hill House, and I don’t I’ve ever felt so called out by a book before. Like, the book started out describing how Dr. Montague studied anthropology because it was the closest thing to studying the paranormal and I was lured into comparing myself to the characters because I’m also studying anthropology and like paranormal stuff. Then the book changed focus to Eleanor and how excited she was to finally belong to a group, which was immediately followed by her doubting if she truly belonged and now I’m debating whether I should look into therapy options or just play cult of the lamb until I feel better about myself.