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a masterlist of all the interactive fiction games i’ve played. they’re separated into two categories (cog/itch.io), in alphabetical order. please remember to check the content warnings of the games you play. my personal favorites are in bold and my likes are in italics.

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bat opens up their little bat wallet to find they are all out of moths. A worthless $100 bill flies out for emphasis

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Poor things (2023) + trivia

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"If a man talks shit, then i owe him nothing." so true except for Him. my Babygirl. Talk all the shit you like baby you're doing great

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one thing about me is that I've got all the patience of a child faced with an assortment of kazoos and will not, cannot watch a movie that doesn't interest me immediately

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what are some classic movies that you love and don’t get tired of?

Hmm, I’m going to divide this list into different kinds of classics (and they’ll probably all be modern classics) and I’m basing a lot of them on whether or not I change the channel or channel surf if I’m around a TV and it comes on. 

Also, movie genres overlap, so a lot of them could be considered comedy or romance or crime etc.

Teen Classics

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is that movie where if I’m really, really sick, I will watch over and over again.

Sixteen Candles

Never get tired of it.

Clueless

This movie is fucking ICONIC, I love it.

10 Things I Hate About You

Because this is one of the best exchanges in teen drama history. Lol. Never gets old. And it wasn’t until I was older that I appreciated the movie’s self-awareness.

Grease

Don’t judge me. Grease was a favourite of my mother’s and the movie theatre across the street from my apartment played it all the time and we would go and see it all the time and every time I watch it, I discover a joke I didn’t know was in there.

Fantasy/Adventure/Action Classics

Black Panther

I’m calling it now.

Back To The Future I & 2

I didn’t realize how many times I actually watched both movies until recently and was like … wow, I never change the channel when either movie comes on. Not the third one though, the third one can suck it.

Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

If I’m stressed or feeling sad, if I have a really shitty day, I will watch the director’s cut of this trilogy, there’s just something really comforting about it.

Bad Boys

I just find it hilarious and Will and Martin have great chemistry.

The Mummy

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

No explanation is necessary, really.

Classic Romantic Comedies + Romances

You’ve Got Mail

I think it’s a very witty film, I think it’s a great film about New York, I think it’s just an enjoyable film that’s also very good despite the fact that there are certain things I can’t suspend my disbelief about but I actually own this movie and I watch it from time to time, I like it very much.

When Harry Met Sally

Also written by Nora Ephron and of course also starring Meg Ryan, Queen of the 90s RomCom.

Love and Basketball

This movie meant so much to me as a preteen and it’s another one I own. I just don’t get bored of it.

Coming To America

McDowell’s, guys. MCDOWELL’S. After ALL this time I still find that hilarious.

Pretty Woman 

I don’t know why, I just never get bored of this movie.

Titanic

This one is weird because I HATE this movie now but I’ll always watch it if the opportunity arises because it was such a big part of my formative years.

Jerry Maguire

Again, it’s iconic but I find it odd that I never get bored of it.

As Good As It Gets

It’s wonderfully written and I’m in awe of the dialogue every time I watch it.

The Best Man

I was way too young to understand a lot about this movie when it first came out but it’s been a big part of my cinematic viewing life, I watch it every once in a while and I don’t get bored.

Social Drama Classics

Do The Right Thing

It is always relevant.

Boyz N The Hood

It’s a hard watch and I’m a lot more critical of it now but I will never change the channel if it’s on and I never feel like it’s not worth watching.

Malcolm X

It’s rare that I have an opportunity to watch Maclolm X just because it’s a long movie, it’s nearly 3 and a half hours but I’m never bored of it when I do watch it.

Get Out

It’s the kind of movie I like to study.

Legal Drama Classics

A Few Good Men

IT IS SO OVERDRAMATIC, I LOVE IT EVERY TIME.

The Social Network (I was debating whether or not this would be considered a modern classic, it certainly was treated that way in 2010, there were a lot of critics who said it’d go down as a classic so I’m putting it in)

Again, I have issues with Sorkin but his dialogue is usually on point so, I watch a lot of his work again and again and The Social Network is a part of that.

My Cousin Vinny

It’s a hilarious movie, I laugh every time, and it’s been praised as very realistic of courtroom procedure and I find it interesting.

Crime Movie Classics

GoodFellas

It’s one of my favourite movies of all time so I never get bored.

The Godfather I & II

Love them both, I’ll watch either of them from time to time.

L.A. Confidential

It’s kind of an absurd movie actually but I never get bored of it.

The Usual Suspects

Sports Drama Classics

Raging Bull

It’s a brilliant film honestly.

Old Hollywood Classics

His Girl Friday:

If it’s on TV, I will always watch it.

Halloween/Thriller/Horror Classics

Hocus Pocus

I love this movie SO much.

Scream

Oh, Postmodernism.

Christmas Movie Classics

Home Alone and Home Alone 2

Home Alone 2 is my favourite out of the two because he’s lost in New York and it really did impact my desire to move to NY for a bit, like he was living my best life, but I am never bored of either movie. It is in fact not the holiday season until I watch a Home Alone movie.

Love, Actually

It’s another movie, I watch every Christmas.

Elf

Every Christmas.

Gremlins

I don’t watch it as often as the others but if it’s on I’ll watch it and I’m never bored.

Disney Classics (not to be confused with Disney’s line of Disney Classics)

The Lion King 

I never get bored of the Lion King but I won’t watch it often because Mufasa dying still gets me right in the fucking chest. Like I teared up just getting that Mufasa/Simba gif.

Aladdin

Jafar is one of my favourite villains of all time but also I find Aladdin so mean, like so so mean (whereas The Lion King was just straight up traumatizing) and also quite hilarious.

Beauty And The Beast

I, for one, don’t actually care for the relationship between Belle and the Beast but I’m never bored of the movie.

Hercules

Because both Hades and Meg are my patronus.

Finding Nemo

Because it’s Finding Nemo.

Cool Runnings

I repeated this ALL THE TIME as a kid. Lol. But I love this movie to death despite the terrible Jamaican accents. It’s just such an important movie to me. And I love that because it’s a kid’s film, they can’t say motherfucker.

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Taigen’s love confession NEEDS to come before he finds out Mizu is a woman.

Listen. I have given this a lot of thought and the more I think about it, the more I’m sure. When looking at Mizu and Mikio’s marriage, we can see how Mikio was in to the idea of a strong woman only so far as he was still stronger than her. This is clear when Mikio insists that he wants to “see all of [mizu]” and insists that they spar; Mikio doesn’t unsheath his blade even though Mizu tell him not to hold back. He assumes he is stronger than her and when this is proven false, like the beta bitch he is, he bails.

But with Taigen it’s different. Mizu and Taigen’s relationship has been a power struggle from the start. Taigen wasn’t introduced to Mizu as a woman or a wife. Taigen has always seen Mizu as a swordsman first. And when the hostility between the two starts to cool, it is because of their mutual admiration of the other’s skill. Mizu’s strength and boldness are what win Taigen over in the first place.

We also see a very important juxtapose between when Mizu pins Mikio to the ground and when she pins Taigen to the ground. In the first instance, Mikio pushes Mizu off him and calls her a monster. He feels put off and emasculated by being overpowered. In the Mizu/Taigen scene, however, once Mizu has Taigen pinned, he stares, awestruck, into Mizu’s eyes and gets a raging hard on. Instead of feeling emasculated, Taigen get so aroused that he has a full blown bi awakening.

So we know that Taigen is different to Mikio in that he is attracted to Mizu BECAUSE she can kick his ass, not in spite of it. But Mizu has been burned before. Badly. So if Taigen were to confess his feelings and tell Mizu that her strength is what he adores most about her, she’d be like, “right, sure, heard that one before.” And that’s why Taigen needs to confess his feelings BEFORE he finds out what’s in Mizu’s pants.

In my daydreaming about a Migen love confession, I find myself reminded of this quote. How Mikio was like the exotic bird collector. He only liked the idea of Mizu knowing her way around a sword so long as at the end of the day, he can still put her back into the caged-in roll of the house wife.

Taigen is also guilty of this with Akemi. I sure there is still no small amount of attraction and love between them, but I think Taigen pursues Akemi mostly out of the personal fable he has written about himself; the poor fisherman’s son who raises himself up to be the star of his Dojo and then marries a princess. He might not have wanted to cage Akemi as much as other men would have, but he still sees her as the exotic bird. The prize. And thats why I can’t ship them.

But with Mizu it’s different. Taigen even admits that Mizu is a better fighter than him. He KNOWS he could never cage her and by the end on the first season he strops trying, opting to stand beside her instead of against her (“it’s your fight, so it’s mine” 😭) So when he does confess his feelings, he has to do is as one man to another and make it clear to Mizu that her strength is what he loves most and that he would never want her to be anything less then the superior swordsman she is.

Only then will Mizu have a chance of believing that Taigen wants to be with her, not to subdue her into a wifely role, but to stand beside her in all her greatness. If Taigen’s confession were to come after he finds out she’s a woman, Mizu might just think, “oh, NOW you want to be with me, cause you think just because I’m a woman I’ll eventually submit to you.” Mizu needs to know she is loved AS SHE IS.

Also, I just think it would be HILLARIOUS if Taigen confesses, and Mizu is like, “ well then….. I guess I should let you know…” and then Taigen spends the rest of the episode with his mind fucking BLOWN and complaining that he has spent the last several months coming to terms with the fact that he is attracted to another man only to find out the man he is attracted to is a woman! He goes through a whole bi awakening for nothing!

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would've, could've, should've is chair coded from blair's perspective no i will not accept criticism

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I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?

On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.

I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.

And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.

And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.

So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.

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listen that was a romantic ass slow mo of a first meeting

four seasons planned...... look there is plenty of time to go there. it could happen. 'oh theyre just foils' yes they are but also why frame their twinned developments with intimacy and sex and orgasms. why are they building these associations and beaming it into our brains. why did akemi say she searched for love in mizus eyes????

anyway. just look ok

all the dreamy little snowflakes while the music swells tenderly. lingering gobsmacked eye contact. no cishet explanation for any of this.

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the dichotomy of eating ice cream in a sweater

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Over his dead body.

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Tumblr is currently serving me an ad for "Voda, the LGBTQ mental health app" offering "daily meditations, self-care and AI advice" and as a therapist I am begging you not to download an app where an AI tries to help you with your mental health. Please do not. They tried to have an AI chatbot counsel eating disorder patients and it told them to diet. That shit is not safe. Do not talk to an AI about your mental health please. You don't need to talk to a professional but talk to a PERSON.

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you can stab my hands bloody but you can't leave me behind

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‘you really have to turn around!’ ‘there is more chance of me eloping with your father to a flip-flop shop in hawaii!’ TEARS IN MY EYES

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naruto is literally the brokeback mountain of shounen anime