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the amazing spider-man 2 is a very relatable movie because sometimes you go out of your way to reconnect with estranged childhood friends only to find out that you have absolutely nothing in common and they may be a little bit crazy

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sometimes family is a man coming out of cryosleep for the first time in forty years, his boyfriend who was forcibly put into cryosleep and unlikely to survive waking up, the turtle they adopted forty years ago, and a drone ai with the voice and personality of said doomed boyfriend

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ah to be the designated baby sitter and also resident germaphobe. 70 milligrams of caffeine at 3:00 and i’m still ready to go to bed at seven after hours of tag, smash bros and arms.

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the new hyperfixation nausea is back!

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the magnus archives 🤝 slow horses book five

smoking kills!

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guys (major spoilers for slow horses and jujustu kaisen) i did not expect the plot of season four of slow horses to copy jujustu kaisen i mean come on. why must the main character find out that his father (mother?) is the big ultimate bad guy and he has numerous half brothers because his father (mother?) wanted to create and army of people (creatures?) who would be powerful and do his (their?) bidding.

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folks, unfortunately their true love will never come to be.

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folks is it gay to have an embarrassing nickname for your long time rival, then to beat him up and steal his clothes? (to wear)

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okay i don’t know a lot about the river guy but FUCK is there a lot of sexual tension between him and the clive schill look alike

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all righty here’s the update on my evangelion watch, post end of evangelion. i had to watch it on netflix cuz the place i was using before didn’t have it available, which was annoying but also it meant i got to watch it in sub cuz the other sight only had dub. there were trade offs. i may or may not watch death and rebirth, because the internet has told me it’s a retelling (?) of the first 26 episodes, and i have no access to the rebuilds, so this might be where this wild ride ends. anyway, for my review.

FIRST. technical stuff. the animation was definitely cleaner for this (movie budget yay) and there were totally some truly beautiful shots, even if you can’t really figure out what the fuck was happening in them. the japanese voice acting makes both shinji and asuka less annoying, which is appreciated, though i can’t tell if it’s a result of better voice acting or not knowing exactly what they’re saying.

SECOND. my big problem with this movie was that they kinda fucked up all the female characters. like as weird as some of the shit is in the show, this was quite a bit weirder. like for gods sake, someone give rei clothes, and im just going to pointedly ignore misato cuz i don’t even wanna talk about that. i do think asuka got a bit of a glow up, in part cuz of the voice acting improvement, but i think it just felt really good to see her win for a change. beyond that, why. what did you do to my poor gay girls.

THIRD. okay. this part is the thematic comparison. because the movie is pretty fucking different from the show. the biggest thing i noticed is that while there’s one theme that seems to be pretty much the same, the narratives seem to have completely opposite opinions on it, ie NGE ending with everyone happily experiencing instrumentality and EOE ending with them undoing it, and seeing the world in ruin. while i still didn’t really get my plot explanation (and im sure by now that i never will), EOE does do a better job of showing hot instrumentality kicks off, while NGE just kinda throws you in to the weird philosophical bullshit. (that i love). I think in general, i liked NGE better, but i wish there were another 3 or 4 episodes to develop shinjis relationship with kaworu, show his grief, and explain how instrumentality happens. AND AT FIELDS. THATS LITERALLY NOT EXPLAINED AT ALL IN NGE.

FOUR. my fourth point is kinda random, but we’re learning about theater history in my drama class rn and it’s constantly in my head cuz it’s so fucking weird. now. i haven’t actually read or researched much about this, so if there are any theater history experts here and i horrifically misportray something, im sorry. but one thing EOE really made me think of was Artaud, who’s a 20th century playwright. his whole thing was this thing called theater of pain, which is like this idea of shocking your audience and really big on like spectacle. anyways, we learned about this one play called the spurt of blood, which is like a really gory and lewd bible retelling. (can you see what i mean?) anyways, the connections.

alright then. if i understood what happened in that fucking movie better i would tell you. i would love to do a more thought out theme comparison, or look more into the religious imagery (how did i just now realize that the eva explosions are crosses?) but im tired and don’t have the energy rn. idk if this is longer or shorter than my first post, but i hope you enjoyed!

ps the movie suffered severely from its lack of a sick anime opening.

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you know i didn’t expect evangelion to be so strange and philosophical but i probably should’ve know once the weird freudian shit started coming up. anyways, here’s my immediate thoughts:

themes were. nice i suppose.

fanservice was wild but im also like 100% not used to the number of female characters. like they may not have been particularly moral or well written but they were there.

my one hope was that we would get the op (banger) playing during the final climax. did i expect the climax to be a global (?) existential crisis? no. did the theme song play as shinji learned to love himself? yeah!

my main qualm is that we didn’t get as much of an explanation for all of the wild shit going on. maybe it was in the japanese cards that kept coming up but i can’t read that and the platform i was watching on didn’t sub them so i wouldn’t know. like i realize that the weird science shit and history and whatever wasn’t really the point, but dammit it was cool and i wanted an explanation.

ooo i didn’t say this but the mech animation slapped. like i have very little problem with cgi for things if it’s done well, but this totally proves that it can be done by hand (though i suppose not animating super extensive battle scenes like the stuff in most of the newer stuff i’ve seen that uses cgi)

sort of building off the mech animation but robots with flesh and blood inside makes me irrationally happy. my favorite trope in anything is the kind of body horror where something that is not human has human shit inside. SO cool to watch animated.

alright. this was pretty long. i’ll probably watch the movies when i get a minute, maybe they’ll provide me some closure on the more plot centric stuff. overall, i liked it! weird (confusing) and weird (sex stuff) at times, and unexpected, but the themes are cool, and i liked a lot of the characters. (well, up until the last five or so episodes maybe). thanks for reading!

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what i would give to own a cable knit sweater that’s fitted the shoulders and and is not overly long but is loose in the chest and the hips so i can look like a haunted fisherman who has seen things he cannot explain.

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guys sin triangle by sidney gish is such a satoru gojo song i will not be taking criticism

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some of my favorite “not boy or girl, the secret third gender” moments from my life

performing in mamma mia: not gal or pal, dancer

working as a camp counselor: boys cabin or girls cabin? day camp preschoolers.

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i think we should start editing sukunas face markings onto random characters just to throw people off

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mag 186 and jjk chapter 265 are like the same to me. having a conversation in a magic dream world with a bitchy person who is visually identical to yourself? i’m just saying man. i think i’m onto something here.

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mothers will teach you how to squeeze a lemon and then be like, why do you squeeze a lemon like that?