Christine Cherry

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

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This is the most I've been invested in the Oscars in nearly 20 years and that's largely because there's enough genuinely good and competitive nominees to make it interesting

The worst part of doing a second puberty in your thirties is that after it's over you're too tired to do anything else

The Half of It deserved to be lesbians' Love, Simon

The thing is, the movies that keep occurring to me are ones that wouldn't have been in the box office anyway because they came out on Netflix: Mitchells vs the Machines, The Old Guard, The Half of It

But obviously Turning Red and Luca, the only movies Pixar has put out since Coco that feel classic

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

It always annoyed me when people would characterize the prose of Lord of the Rings as something you have to get past in order to enjoy the story. The prose is the point!

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

If America was a country filled with people where the contents of the Epstein files could take down a president we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. He was elected AFTER access Hollywood, child separation, covid, being found liable for sexual abuse etc.

if anyone is wondering what happens to Democrats if they go down the path of Gavin Newsom and the like moving towards the far right... well, Labour is about 3 years ahead of them.

This is why I hate it when people unfairly/excessively trash red states. There are queer, trans, and under resourced people living in those places too and most of the time they can’t just uproot their lives

remember everyone saying that the government would lose interest in mn?

that was wrong. ice is still here, and still in full force.

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

It's not just Germany. Imposed identification as a member of an identity group classed as both lesser and a security threat is a strong predictor of genocide internationally. See Rwanda.

There are not many knowns in the social sciences, but we KNOW this one.

Please, Americans, make it stop.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

In just an hour and a quarter, we've already raised over $2500 for red state and national queer orgs! We can do this!

One thing people don't think about is that trans folks relocating to safer states are, without fail, relocating to FAR MORE EXPENSIVE states.

My rent here in New Jersey for a 1BR is *$1300* more than it cost to rent a 2 bedroom house in Oklahoma City.

And guess what group has trouble finding work?

I like to play the online version of the Blank Check Box Office Game and it's amazing how the tagline is a great clue for any movie from the 20th century and basically useless for any movie in the 21st century.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

What are your almost names?

I was very close to being Jessica but it never quite felt right. There's another name that I might have picked if it had occurred to me but thankfully it didn't because it wound up being my eventual husband's deadname

this is the meme. sherry is based af

imv a writer's most fundamental job is to make music with words. music can convey deep things about the human experience, but one doesn't generally ask it to conclude with a thesis statement. writing stories that way can be like picking up a woodwind instrument and trying to use it as a microphone.

Watching Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie two days after finally catching up with Hundreds of Beavers really feels a vision of the future of comedy movies

they call him “stephen root” because i’m always “root”ing for him to show up in whatever im watching

This is very close to my list but I don't feel confident enough about my 2020 and 2021 picks to post it.

I think Asteroid City is only going to grow in esteem in the years to come. What a great movie.

The one two punch of me watching this episode and then seeing Maude Apatow in One of Them Days hit me like a ton of bricks

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

One of the central tenets of 21st century capitalism is that you never want a satisfied customer

you always want another tier you can upsell people into, or a "new and improved" product that renders the old obsolete

This is a big part of why we hate virtually all brands