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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction]

 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS RELATIVELY INTERESTING. I WANTED A NEW BOOK AND WALKED BY A LITTLE LIBRARY AND GRABBED THE ONE THAT FELT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I'D NORMALLY READ. THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A FEMINIST WAY AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TOO WILD, BUT THE AUTHOR IS NIGERIAN AND WRITING TO SOMEONE NIGERIAN AND I REALLY LIKED THE POINTS WHERE  A CONCEPT WAS BROADLY RECOGNIZABLE BUT THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WAS UNIQUE. LIKE "USING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING SEXIST" IS DEFINITELY A THING HERE, BUT I LIKE THE EXAMPLE WAS "THAT IS WHY MEN HAVE TO PICK DAUGHTER'S FIRST NAMES" WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A THING HERE. MOSTLY PRETTY STRAIGHTFOWARD OTHERWISE (MOSTLY STUFF LIKE "DON'T JUST BUY A GIRL DOLLS, GET HER A HELICOPTER TOY IF SHE WANTS") PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST AN EMAIL THEY WROTE PUBLISHED INTO A BOOK. I GUESS THERE IS NOTHIN...
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The Sheep Detectives [movie]

 The Sheep Detectives [movie] WHAT THE HECK? WHY IS THIS MOVIE SO GOOD? LIKE, I AM NOT GONNA SAY IT'S ANYTHING LIFE CHANGING AMAZING BUT IT'S LIKE THE MOST "BETTER THAN YOU WOULD EVER THINK IT WOULD BE" MOVIE EVER MADE. PS. RETURN TO OZ JOKE / PATRICK STEWART SAYING "MURDER" INCREASINGLY WEIRD / THE NEON SIGN STORE
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There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook]

 There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook] THIS IS THE SCP BOOK AND I GOT RECOMMENDED IT ONE TRILLION TIMES AND EHHHHH, I GET WHY, I CAN IMAGINE A BOOK THAT IS 90% LIKE THIS THAT I LOVE BUT THIS JUST RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY. LIKE, THERE IS A STORY ABOUT LIKE, A CIVILIZATION THAT DEVELOPED AN IDEA SO RADIOACTIVE IT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THEIR WHOLE CULTURE AND THEY HAD TO BURY IT AND DESTROY THEMSELVES AND MADE THE LONGTERM NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE THING THE INTERNET LOVES ("THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR") AND THAT IS LIKE, LEGITIMATE COOL IDEA. BUT THEN THE IDEA WAS..... A BIG SPIDER THAT EATS YOU. AND THAT SUCKS. IT SUCKS IT KEPT INVENTING LEGITIMATELY INTERESTING SITUATION THEN SOLVED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE WITH A NEW DRUG. THE DRUGS EVEN HAD SEQUENTIAL LETTERING SO WHEN THEY SOLVED ONE PROBLEM WITH 'DRUG W' YOU JUST KNEW THE NEXT PROBLEM WOULD BE DRUG Y, AND THE FINAL SECRET DEUS EX BEING THEM USING DRUG Z IS JUST STUPID. BACKROOMS HAS A THING WHERE THE PO...
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Supergirl [movie]

 Supergirl [movie] OH GEEZ, WOMAN OF TOMORROW CAME OUT LIKE 5 YEARS AGO AND THIS CAME OUT TODAY. IT'S SO SUPER OBVIOUS "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" WAS WRITTEN TO BE 'THAT NIGERIAN GIRLS SCHOOL BOKO HARAM THING" WITH WEIRD MILD RACISM BUT THEN BETWEEN THEN AND NOW "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" BECAME "OH YEAH, AMERICA" AND MADE FOR A MOVIE WITH AN ODD TONE. (THE TONE WAS MOSTLY JUST "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" THOUGH) PS. I WAS GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW WEIRD THE BIG BADASS FIGHT WHERE SUPERGIRL IS JUST CLEARLY MURDERING EVERYONE RIGHT BEFORE THE HEART TO HEART WITH LITTLE GIRL AND HOW THIS WAS BAD MOVIE WRITING BUT THAT WAS 100% INTENTIONAL AND THAT IS GOOD MOVIE WRITING. NOW I NEED TO THINK HARDER IF THE WEIRD BAD "MY INNOCENT DAD: THE WEAPONS MERCHANT" IS BAD WRITING OR GOOD WRITING I AM GLOSSING OVER. ON THE OTHER HAND "THERE IS LIKE 10 SCENES OF SUPERGIRL GETTING HER POWERS BACK" SEEMED L...
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The Amazing Digital Circus [television, amazing]

 The Amazing Digital Circus [television, amazing] I REALLY LIKE THIS A LOT. IT'S VERY GOOD. I DON'T FEEL LIKE I KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT. MOST ONLINE FANDOMS ARE KINDA BAD, BUT THE FANDOM OF THIS ONLINE FEEL REALLY UNIQUELY STUPID AND AWFUL. SO I KINDA HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF BEING FRUSTRATED ABOUT HAVING NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT DUMB INTERNET MEDIA. ENDING IN A "WHY DO YOU GET TO TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU CARE ABOUT BUT IT'S ANNOYING WHEN I DO IT" FIGHT THAT HAD REAL CONSEQUENCES. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S NOT SO SIMPLE, BUT I DO KINDA THINK I BLEW UP A MAJOR SECTION OF MY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OVER BEING ANNOYING NO ONE WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS SHOW (AND A PICTURE OF A CAT LAYING WEIRD)  PS. WHO CARES ACTUALLY
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You Weren't Meant to Be Human [book, audiobook]

 You Weren't Meant to Be Human [book, audiobook] I LIKE THIS QUITE A BIT. IT'S ABOUT LIKE, A BOOK ABOUT AN AUTISTIC MUTE TRANSMAN WHO HAS A JOB WORKING FOR A SECRET HIVE OF MAGGOTS AND FLIES THAT EXIST HIDDEN AND DO THINGS BY CONTRACTING WITH OUTCASTS AT THE EDGE OF SOCIETY. AND I AM REALLY WILD ABOUT THE WAY THIS BOOK MANAGES SOME LIKE DOUBLE TRIPLE REVERSE ALLEGORY. LIKE THE MAIN CHARACTER GETS PREGNANT AND THE WORMS FORCE HIM TO CARRY IT AND AS A PLOT IT'S LIKE, IT EXISTS IN THE SHADOW OF SOME OTHER BOOK THAT IS 'IMAGINE BEING FORCED TO CARRY A BABY AGAINST YOUR WILL IS LIKE HAVING TO BIRTH A PARASITIC WORM, THAT IS UNIMAGINABLE HORROR" BUT IT DOESN'T DO THAT, IT JUST GOES SO HARD IT JUST IS "IMAGINE BEING FORCED TO CARRY A BABY AGAINST YOUR WILL, THAT IS UNIMAGINABLE HORROR" I DON'T KNOW, IT DID IT WELL. ALSO I BET A LOT OF PEOPLE HATE THE ENDING, BECAUSE IT WAS HINTING TOWARDS A MUCH LAMER ENDING BUT SWERVED AND WENT TO THE ENDING THE BOOK HA...
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Dave Made a Maze [movie]

 Dave Made a Maze [movie] THIS MOVIE IS GOOD, BUT IT HAS THIS EXTREME FEELING THAT IT IS A MOVIE WITH LIKE 4-5 ACTUAL SCENES THEY REALLY CARED ABOUT THEN A PLAN TO KINDA VAMP FOR A WHILE TO FILL OUT SOME SCREEN TIME BETWEEN THEM. I FEEL LIKE THE SCRIPT IS LIKE "EXTREMELY WELL MADE SCENE WE SPENT HUNDREDS OF HOURS MAKING ABOUT THE NATURE OF DEPRESSION AND ART" FOLLOWED BY LIKE A PAGE OF "JUST SAY SOME RUSTY VENTURE STUFF FOR A WHILE"  PS. NO, THAT ISN'T WHO THE DIRECTOR IS, I LOOKED. IT'S A DIFFERENT GUY WITH THE SAME NAME. 
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