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it's not glamorous, but it's also not honest work, and nobody needs to do it

[xx-narcissa]

venom 1, 2, and 3

yall i wanted to write this review so long ago bc now it’s been a few months since ive seen the movies and i forgot a lot of stuff 😭

but what i remember is i really liked 1 and 2 but did NAWT like 3 as much. like a lot of the stuff they did in the third movie seemed unnecessary and quite frankly stupid. that movie did not need to be made and im sorry if there’s any venom 3 truthers here but that is MY truth

i remember liking the second one it was pretty good and i liked the villain of the second one more than the villain of the first one, i also think the second one was funnier.

anyways no spoilers this time bc like i said i forgot half the shit that even happened but it would be nice to see venom again, so idk how but hopefully they can bring him back somehow since everybody else get to be brought back all the time.

i would give the first one an 8/10, the second one an 8.5/10, and the third one a 5/10. i highly recommend the first two, but if you watch those then you may as well just watch the third one too.

have a nice day yall and tell me your opinions about the venom movies if you’ve seen them 🤭

[xx-narcissa]

south park the fractured but whole

i played this game last week over the course of a few days and it has completely plagued my mind since so i just have to make a review for it.

overall 8.5/10. i would give it a 9 if a few things were different/added which i will indulge in below. but i definitely would recommend this game to anybody who watches the show. or even if you don’t watch the show. maybe you wont get every reference or understand every character but its still a fun play nonetheless and will definitely have you laughing the whole time. and this is coming from someone who has probably only seen 10 episodes of south park in their entire life.

if yall have any recommendations for games similar that you think i would like please let me know. also i never played stick of truth, i just played this because it was on gamepass but if anyone wants to slide me $30 so i can play stick of truth it would be greatly appreciated 😁

full review + spoilers below

like i said, i am not a south park super fan or aficionado or anything like that. i’ve seen a handful of episodes and i think the show is quite funny. i’d watch more of it if i could but i cancelled my hbo account so what can you do

warning you now, if you do NOT like south park and you do NOT like the humor (i don’t blame you, it’s not for everyone and i’ve met people who are avid haters of the show) then please do not continue reading. and honestly why did you even read this far? kidding. but fr though, don’t come at me for liking it (people have done that to me so i’m just trying to cover all my bases here).

now into the actual game.

before getting into the gameplay, i am so upset that i only just today realized (a week after playing) that the title can be read as ‘the fractured butthole’. HOW DID I NOT CATCH THAT 😭

also, this game is so fucking funny. south park in general is funny but something about actually immersing yourself into the little paper world just makes everything so much funnier. whether it’s the mission you have to do, the dialogue in the cut scenes, and even the dialogue during battles is funny as hell. all day every day i keep thinking of tweek saying “you go girlfriend” and wendy saying “tweek, don’t do that” 😭😭

okay now to the actual gameplay.

for the record, before this i did NOT like turn based combat. like if i wanted to wait my turn i would go play with pokémon cards or something. but surprisingly, i really liked it in this game. i think its just the way that it is handled made me like it. if everything were serious and nobody was talking or whatever then it would be awkward, annoying, and boring. but because of the fact that technically everyone is just playing make believe (ig except for some parts but we will get to that later), it actually makes sense for everyone to take turns and the mechanics for it weren’t ass so i was able to get the hang of it fast and have a lot of fun with it. and like i mentioned before the combat dialogue is so funny it’s hard to have any complaints about it (even if it does repeat).

outside of combat i do like the mechanics of exploring the world and doing random side missions and stuff like finding the cats and whatnot (whoever drew that yaoi, we need to have a lil chat). i like games where the world is big enough that you can explore but also where the world is contained enough that it’s not overwhelming. games like breath of the wild, skyrim, and assassins creed piss me off. don’t get me wrong, i love all those games but the fact that the world is fucking huge is annoying. i’m playing assassins creed odyssey right now and it’s annoying as fuck to go from fucking attika to korinthia to mykonos to makedonia then back to damn attika over and over and i hate the ship mechanics. even with fast travel its annoying. so i really like exploring the south park world because its just a small town. so while there are nooks and crannies everywhere to collect materials and whatnot, its not to the point where you want to stop playing because you had to go to one end of the map for one mission and the next mission requires you to go all the way back where you came from.

now to the plot

it’s so silly. i love it.

honestly i couldn’t even tell you what it was. at the end of the day, it’s not a game where the plot is meant to be dissected and be some super serious thing. so i wont worry too much about some finer details. i will just say at times i was confused with what was going on because im thinking all these powers and shit are fake right?? so like in the police station or in the church, those fight scenes should have played out completely differently. but again, it’s not that serious so this isn’t necessarily a complaint just really an observation.

while the plot was lost on me at times (again, not super serious), it was still fun every step of the way. from fighting wine drunk randy (i love that man that’s my husband) to butters dad to many assed cats, it was all fun. and when it turned out that the big bad villain was cartman all along (who is shocked…) i definitely laughed. i don’t remember what the hands name was but ykw, he was cool.

also just want to mention ik that we as the new kid don’t talk but i got pissed as hell at the part in the lab where i had to sacrifice one of my parents and then i come back and everyone is like “oh what took you so long?” “oh gee thanks new kid you started all this” “you took us too far to the future” blah blah blah ONE OF MY PARENTS JUST DIED??? like i really wish we could have stood up for ourselves and said that bc omg i needed them to be humbled so bad but anyway

one thing that did annoy me a bit as you progressed was the fact that it felt like at times you couldn’t take a single step without a raisin girl or a ninja or a 6th grader or a minion or a fucking crab wanting to fight you. i get it’s to keep things interesting so you’re not just wandering doing nothing and it can give you opportunities to level up and whatnot, but there were times when i was just trying to do a mission or something and get from point a to point b and now i have to juke out all these people who keep trying to fight me. so if i could change that maybe just make them appear slightly less frequently if that’s possible. but again this was only really a problem towards the end once you’ve already fought all these people at least once.

also i like the whole superhero ordeal. its funny seeing how much they all get into it. but its also cute bc i mean these are kids at the end of the day like aw my sons.

now the characters

i’ll try not to make this too lengthy since for one there’s a lot of characters and for two i’m sure you all already know all of these characters. so i’ll mainly focus only on those that were prevalent/playable in the story, so the kids who were superheroes pretty much. and i will touch on how i liked their character in terms of combat.

cartman is cartman. a natural born instigator. the whole “your dad fucked your mom” thing made me laugh every time he brought it up. again, his hand was cool. as for combat, the coon was definitely a favorite and i used him a lot before he was locked later in the story. also his combat dialogue is funny so i liked having him there. won’t get into the logistics of every move but overall definitely a good character for combat

we didn’t see much of stan in the beginning part of the game due to the opposing franchise thing. honestly, i don’t have an opinion of him really. in the game or show. i’m sure it’s just me but he definitely flies under the radar imo even though he’s a main character. still love him though. i do not like toolshed though. he has like one decent move but if you can’t get enemies positioned perfectly then i swear he’s just useless as fuck i’m sorry

kyle is definitely one of my favorites, probably more so in the show than the game. i say this because i do not like human kite. its cute when he does his laser and says “pew pew” but other than that it is just a waste of a character slot unless you need a healer.

one thing i like about kenny is that he’s an actual superhero just pretending to play pretend. and it’s always funny when him and tolkien are fighting together and tolkien says “damn mysterion, it’s like you trained for this shit or something” 😭 speaking of, i love mysterion. definitely a must have character for combat. and just cool overall. little ass kicking fourth grader iktr

oh god why are there so many characters let me try to speed this up

and speaking of speed we have kingie jimmy valmer. another favorite of mine. and i love fastpass. not a character i used often but when i did use him i found that he was actually pretty useful and funny as well

tolkien. i hate to say this about a brotha but good god i cannot stand tupperware. it’s like they picked their superheroes out of a hat and he got the last and lamest one. it’s also gross when he throws up and it fills the container on his head omfg ew. unless i had to use him i did not like to use him in combat. but as a character i do like him he’s nerdy and adorable.

tweek. a favorite of mine as well. i always used wonder tweek once i unlocked him. useful and also i just love tweek can you blame me. once i did the counseling thing i just bust out laughing whenever the yaoi anime thing would show up. “who wants to see some beautiful boys ultimate action” love you tweek but NOBODY😭

craig. another favorite. i’m a creek truther what can i say. definitely one of the funniest in terms of combat dialogue and also whenever he says ‘super craig’ so enthusiastically and goes right back to his regular monotone voice it kills me.

wendy. omg i love her that’s really bestie. especially because i made my character a girl so i really felt us vibing fr. my lineup was pretty much always call girl, wonder tweek, and mysterion but sometimes super craig and captain diabetes would be switched in there as well.

scott. now we ain’t gonna talk about the diabetic rage thing we just not 😭 but omg he’s such a sweetie. it was funny when he just straight up passed out, i was sitting there for a minute so lost. like i said he is a character that i used a lot, i love his special power where he eats the candy and becomes a little hulk, so cute

timmy is annoying bc who tf said you could just be that op

and last but not least butters. we stan butters here. i didn’t like using professor chaos much in combat but i do really like butters and i liked his dialogue in combat.

OKAY i’m sorry that that section was so long i forgot just how many playable characters there were and im honestly probably missing one or two.

last thing i will touch on is a couple things i think would have been interesting if they were added.

from what i’m aware, the gameplay is a bit different depending on the race and gender you choose. i chose to be a black girl and i thought it was funny how every time i said something my parents would act like its some big secret. like look at us we are very much black people 😭

and telling mr mackey that i am a girl was so funny, “oh we were all under the impression that…let me call your parents” “your son just told me he’s a girl. oh you knew that.” like what😭

on that note, i think it would have been interesting if somehow all the other kids found out about me being a girl. this wouldn’t impact the game much especially if it happens at the very end but i think it would have been funny to just see how everyone would have reacted to it. especially when they made comments here and there like “the new kid has the best secret identity, you can’t tell if he’s a boy or a girl” “you know new kid, there’s nothing wrong with being a feminine boy” “i thought feminine guys were only in the 80s but you are rocking it new kid”

with those comments i was under the guise that somehow they would find out and it could have just created a funny little moment to tie everything together.

but i did laugh when my parents revealed that my real power was just being an insta baddie 😭

which also let me say i don’t find fart jokes funny at all i think they’re very juvenile but honestly the whole ‘amazing butthole’ thing got some laughs out of me so i can’t complain on that.

also for the record the fight where we fight our past self is my favorite boss fight in the whole game.

okay this is much longer than i anticipated so if you read all the way down to here you’re a real one, have a treat 🍭

i hope at least someone likes these long media reviews because i like writing them and would like to write more

love you all stay safe drink water and stan spontaneous bootay for clear skin

[xx-narcissa]

just finished ‘kevin can f**k himself’

well i finished it a few days ago but i had to really let it marinate in my head.

overall, 7/10. i would recommend it if you like drama series or whatever. honestly idk what to compare it to because i think the show is very unique in the directing style but if anybody knows a show or movie similar to it then please let me know and hopefully i’ll be able to check it out.

more detailed review + spoilers below

okay so first impressions i really did not expect the rest of the show to go the way that it did but it was very interesting, although i will say the ending seemed rushed but im assuming that was due to the network and not necessarily the shows team.

i had a love hate relationship with allison. and by that i mean every time i started to like her she did something to make me hate her again😭 definitely i tried to be sympathetic of her situation and how it may make her act but she was still annoying at times and definitely if it weren’t for patty she would have gotten herself into a lot of trouble.

also i want to make sure i mention the directing style (if that’s what it’s called). the transitions from sitcom to drama were so great and honestly chilling. and it’s so fitting for how real life is. obviously not exactly but we all know at least one person where it’s like whenever they’re around they become the main character of some strange sitcom that’s all about them and the problems they make and how everyone else has to clean up behind them and their mistakes. if you don’t know anybody like this then i envy you because these people are draining 😭

but back to the actual contents of the show, patty definitely was my favorite character even from the very beginning. i also began to like neil in the latter half of the second season, where he finally began to realize kevin is not a true friend and wouldn’t care if he lives or dies. i think if the writers/producers had even just a little more time then they could have fleshed out that plot line even more, especially throwing peter into it as well and showing how everyone was slowly distancing themselves from kevin rather than just walking out and ghosting him, as we saw through allison’s struggles it’s not that easy whether you are a spouse, family, friend, partner, whatever.

i liked tammy and i liked her relationship with patty, trust i’ll almost always like a wlw relationship (as long as it’s not immoral in any way). however she was the same as allison in my eyes, where i have that love hate relationship with her. i appreciated that she cared for patty and made patty feel heard but i felt like tammy overstepped her boundaries way too often, just showing up and trying to push patty out of her comfort zone all the time. it’s healthy to encourage people to face their fears and whatnot but i think she just came off as pushy or possessive at times, especially when it came to allison. i understand she viewed allison as a bad influence but i don’t get why she felt so entitled to ‘protect’ patty. patty is a grown woman who has known allison for 15 years, so it was just crazy to me that tammy felt like she could come in and tell allison to stay away from patty as if she would understand their dynamic at all. and yes ik that patty and allison weren’t friends those 15 years but im still just trying to make the point that tammy was the outsider (and a fucking cop so did she really expect patty and allison to tell her every single thing all the time) so she really had no place acting that way in my opinion. she was also very rude with the whole “i don’t like you you’re not my friend” attitude. like no need to lie and sugarcoat it but you can at least fake it till you make it.

anyways enough about that i just felt a bit strongly about that point, mainly bc wlw representation is so hard to come by so i just get a bit upset when it doesn’t work well.

honestly idk why but i expected patty and allison to get together. i’m glad they didn’t though, i think they work better as friends. but also i couldn’t really understand allison’s motives at times. sometimes it felt like she was being purely selfish and treating everything like a transaction (not just with patty but with sam, diane, neil, and even kevin at times) but other times it seemed like she genuinely cared and wanted to help (mostly with patty but a little with diane and sam too). it was easy to tell that patty was genuine with allison and actually cared for her but i just could never tell if it was reciprocated so if anybody wants to give their two cents on that i’m all ears.

i wont even get into sam because i’ll get mad. all i’ll really say is i did not like his dynamic with allison at all. this is again where i could never tell if she was just selfish or actually cared about him (but with him im leaning more towards just being selfish). especially when he brought up that everything that they do it’s because she wants to. so yknow it’s whatever but i didn’t like it and this relationship contributed a lot to my dislike of allison as a main character.

i wont really get into pete or kevin either. pete is pretty one dimensional the whole time (in my opinion). and kevin was very one dimensional until we are able to see more into his destructive and manipulative side in season two, but even then there’s not much to work with until the very end (but like i said the ending needed more work so im trying not to touch on the subject too much).

i liked diane. i was confused at first bc i didn’t know that she was allison’s aunt so their relationship confused me. in the second season i definitely felt for her. the whole thing with neil caught me off guard but i guess they were both hurting or whatever. she was a fine character, not too remarkable but i didn’t hate her.

so overall, my main criticism would be the characters need work. not that they are ‘bad’ or poorly written or anything, i just don’t see any of them as necessarily relatable or likable except for patty (but that’s my opinion and you may have a different one!). and ofc i know that not every story needs to have relatable and likable characters but i think that it helps you hook and maintain an audience.

but i think that that issue definitely is squashed by the great story and direction. idk the circumstances of the show, if it was always meant to be two seasons or if they got cut short idk. if they made a third season i honestly don’t know what else they could have had happen so while i think the ending could have been fleshed out more, i don’t think there was a need for another 8 episodes. THAT BEING SAID, i did love what we were given. as mentioned earlier i loved the contrast between sitcom and drama where not only did the show change cinematically but also the characters in the scene changed the way they acted depending on if kevin was present and i think that that was super interesting and a very unique concept that i personally have never seen before. the plot line could use a couple tweaks here and there but i am no show runner or script writer so please take that sentiment with a grain of salt.

okay, this review is long enough. bye now drink water be safe and ladies carry pepper spray and maybe learn a self defense move or two 🫡

[xx-narcissa]

i just watched hereditary last night and oh was i not prepared in the slightest

i had seen a couple scenes before out of context but i had no clue about what the plot was (and to be honest i still don’t even know what the plot was supposed to be). it was crazy, unnerving, and confusing

alex wolff is very fine so i just felt bad for peter the whole time. but not just because of that but also because his pain was just so real and his crying was heart piercing, made me feel like i made him cry 😭

and omfg i did not expect that ending at all bc how the hell did we get here?????

overall it was good though, definitely long as hell so if you watch it get comfortable. like i said it was confusing but maybe my media literacy skill level just isn’t high enough yet for me to have understood the storyline. but it was so nerve wracking. the bass all throughout the movie but then those moments of eerie silence. they did a great job with creating that ambiance.

7.4/10 watch hereditary for clear skin

[xx-narcissa]

Botanical Names Part II

Names you can choose for your characters. Taken from the little signs in a botanical garden. So they are names of plants.

Nemophila

Artemisia

Phacelia

Tamarix

Luzula

Alliaria

Wisteria

Actaea

Carlina

Lilium

Inula

Aralia

Prunella

Larix

Magnolia

Daphne

Alyssum

Jacaranda

Achillea

Rosa

Camellia

Nymphaea

Victoria

Acaena

Crassula

Elodea

Adonis

Narcissus

Bellevalia

Calathea

More names!

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just like every meme i do i couldnt stop thinking about it until i did it

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he was 48 bullying an 18 year old

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LGBTVG SURVEY - Favourite relationship - Clementine and Violet

It’s just, I’ve watched people leave before. Family, friends. They never come back. But you did. And, now I can’t imagine what it would be like if you weren’t here

[xx-narcissa]

why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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Duntrent edition

Part 1 ◾️ Part 2 ◾️ Part 3 ◾️Part 4

[xx-narcissa]

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

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[xx-narcissa]

what is your problem with tiktok or booktok and colleen hoover lmao its not that bad surely

the fact that it actively promotes overconsumerism, the way it sells books to you by just playing into already heavily milked out tropes with very specific character niches that are seen in every book nowadays and how the reading is just seen as something aesthetic or a part of the "it girl routine" maybe? if those are enough reasons for you?

does the fact that these books are the first things you see when you walk into a bookstore not bother you? when you ask someone for a book recommendation they'll follow it up with "its a romance slow burn enemies to lovers". it's always about the aesthetic of the book, how many lines can you take out of context and post as a compilation of your super cute romantic annotations page on instagram. no analyzing the book, no theories, no symbolism or meaningfulness at all. how people stand reading those kind of books and still feel any kind of emotions over these flat as hell books with no world or character building is genuinely baffling to me

no one seems to know about actual literature anymore, which not to sound like a boomer but i think its definitely true. there's always been trend cycles, i agree such as the harry potter craze from the 1990s to the 2000s and the dystopia hunger games/maze runner/divergent blast in the early 2010s but tiktok has just.. shortened these cycles so much. as a result, people like our darling colleen hoover whose written around 46 books since 2015 (according to google) try come up with as much fresh content as they can as quickly as possible for the readers (see overconsumption). the fact that this lady outsold the bible is not outstanding to me, its fucking concerning.

and after all that, the result is badly written books with characters who're about as dimensional as a piece of paper, overuse of tropes, read like they've been written by a toddler, toxic-ass relationships being romanticised, very unnecessary sex scenes and countless other things. seriously if i wanted to read about the kind of stories hoover tells i would just open a wattpad account.

not clowning on those who made the choice to read it. i'm trying to highlight some of the flaws i find in authors like colleen hoover, sjm, ali hazelwood, casey mcquinston. some of them might be good, i wouldn't know because i actively try and avoid them at all costs. also i am BEGGING u all who will have an objection to this post to reach out of your comfort zone and read something different like non-fiction or fantasy or one of the classics for once if you only read booktok like seriously it might be hard but just do it for the love of god!! if you're annoying on this i will block you by the way i don't care