alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
really liked this movie. not quite my favorite of del Toro's movies that I have seen, but I think maybe the best-done of them.
watching nightmare alley
they're not even fortunes! the first time there were ads in the fortune cookies it was something else and like, they were still fortunes iirc... possibly themed fortunes, but... not just, jokes or calls to action.
i really h8 how the local chinese restaurants have cryptocurrency ads instead of fortunes in their fortune cookies.
insomnia, my dear friend and dire foe, we meet again
quoted snarky response to sexist linguistic conservatism
(translation of the quote: «"You all have to respect the Spanish language. This is already done in Uruguay, in France, and in other countries," they said as if Spanish were spoken in French schools.»)
quoted snarky response to sexist linguistic conservatism
«“Tienen que respetar el idioma español. Esto ya se hizo en Uruguay, en Francia y en otros países”, dijo como si en los colegios galos se hablara castellano.»
this was rlly funny
oh no my computer was doing the thing where it thought it was charging even when it wasn’t and also didn’t actually charge. hopefully letting its battery run out will fix whatever got confused like it did the last time.
it is too humid :<
hmm, not sure if the princess's maidservant siding with the revolutionaries and asking her to abdicate in the beginning here is laying groundwork for the princess's subsequent gradual realization that the revolutionaries were right or undercutting that subsequent arc.
re: writing about sex
i mean, i'm definitely squeamish about writing sex, but it may also be appropriate to be discreet about this particular instance. also i need to get over the squeamishness. there's like, at least 3 or 4 sex scenes that are going to have to happen on-page, purely in terms of what's essential to the narrative arc
writing about sex
not sure if i genuinely need to only discreetly imply that this character is masturbating in this scene or if it's just me being squeamish about writing about sex.
(this measurement brought to you by me listening to screen violence director's cut while showering)
that was a long shower. nearly the non-director's cut length of screen violence by chvrches
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