Danielle B.

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

speaking of "women being pressured to fill a role & narratives spun about them" I am sooooo curious what the prop take on the ariana/cynthia wicked press tour is

I have such conflicting feelings about this book, but it's necessary "when the bright young things grow up" literature

i've never seen 500 Days of Summer, but with this comparison, uh, does the 2nd half have a complete personality transplant compared to the first half? 🫠

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

vance speaks like he killed at the law school talent show with a tight five (or a loose 10)& his oratory skill has never recovered.

if Trump should have been a host on the View, Vance suffers from probably doing a tight five once at the law school talent show

"nobody cooks a turkey on a random day" sounds like someone doesn't have 2 frozen turkeys from jewel osco in their freezer from this sale to have surprise Thanksgiving at some time next year, buddy boy

the other xianxia we watched in the past few months (on Viki) is Legend of the Female General, which is not high art but I enjoyed a lot & would describe as a great fanfic (complimentary). A bunch of classic Kdramas just hit Netflix that are very fun too.

ok YES my Mom & I just finished binging Love in the Clouds, which was veryyy glossy & pretty. It takes a bit to get going but around ep 8 it takes off & is bonkers. Netflix still has Who Rules The World, which I really loved, it's "the world of martial arts balanced against palace intrigue".

unfortunately our midwestern dying one just has large hanging drapes with inspirational quotes over the empty hollowed out stores & it really adds a dystopian flourish

boiled hog leaf is unquestionably the worst thanksgiving staple. can't believe there are hundreds of millions of people in america in 2025 eating boiled hog leaf at their thanks giving table. when i see boiled hog leaf i say "no thank you!" right away. keep that boiled hog leaf away from me!

let too many clowns into your big tent and you can't be upset when people start calling it a circus

this show has some of the most contrived 3rd act dialogue I've ever seen but GUESS WHAT I DROVE TO THE GROCERY STORE TO BUY A SIX PACK OF

😆 oh no when a juicy one crosses the line into moral quandary

hahahaha yupppp. like when I was hearing about a specific kind of drastic keto that helped my uncle get off meds, while I was dementia caregiving, & I was sincerely like "if I stopped eating carbs right now, I would step in front of a bus."

i am SWOONING!! I didn't know one could stuff snickerdoodles 😍

oohh which book!! (i keep reading part of Dracula and not finishing it so I relate haha)

welp taylor really wrote the "thank GOD I'm getting married!!" album didn't she

They don't know Taylor Swift released a song comparing Travis Kelce's dick to a redwood tree.

the true Victorian Christian trope is quoting the Bible and not even mentioning the reference because the person you're talking to is extremely biblically literate.

the silliest "devout Christian person" trope has to be "quoting the Bible, but only when you immediately follow it by solemnly intoning the exact chapter & verse."

even if you breathe the Bible, it comes out like "ahhh it's in Hebrews somewhere I think" or "Psalms! probably!" or "check me on this."

the house of guinness show is sensationalist nonsense but I am unfortunately having a lot of fun watching it

he's the only one living out fall correctly

Vaccine-preventable deaths are political violence

I'm so SO gutted to hear Kaleb is gone, one of the best writers I ever randomly found via the sheer quality of his work. This is probably the best article written on 2025, & you don't need *my* college-educated words to know it, please read.

oh man, that sounds worth it. (I never know with older prestige shows if the rep they have is for language or violence, but if I could do the Pitt, maybe I can hack it with a pillow!)

A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.

the way this could theoretically be black magic!annette... beautiful