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that shit is so good.
and if you love the movies and haven't read it, i think it might deepen your appreciation for the films too.
Jan 15, 2025
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fellowship of the ring is one of the most heartwarming books i’ve ever read. it’s a great way to get my heart warm and mushy and also hopeful for the next year. samwise gamgee the companion that you are <3
Dec 28, 2024
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I started rereading it for the first time in like ten years last night and it was wonderful.
Jan 25, 2024
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The second book in the trilogy that the Ring movies are based on had my heart RACING and I am a seasoned horror fan. the whole series is fantastic, what I wouldn’t give to read them again for the first time 🥺❤️ I’ll circle back bc I love scary books and surely have more recs
Feb 26, 2024
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now that this is streaming on netflix i could finally show it to my partner after having raved about it for years and years now. one of my all time favourites, and one of the sexiest and most biting films of all time.
set in Mexico, it centres two young men, one of whom is the son of (corrupt) government official, salivating desperately over an older woman who impulsively agrees to go on road trip with them to a beach they've made up when her life starts falling apart. it seamlessly juxtaposes their trivial concerns and petty arguments, with the working class and Indigenous peoples of Mexico. it digs into class and sexual politics, and heteronormativity, whilst somehow remaining incredibly entertaining and super erotic.
also shout out to baby Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
Jan 19, 2025
probably the most important, game changing book i’ve ever read. should be mandatory, especially if you live in a current or former colonial state
Jan 14, 2025
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There’s a beach at South West Rocks in northern NSW called Trial Bay. It is the only place in my childhood that I remember being really, genuinely happy.
I haven’t been there in probably close to twenty years now but I can still taste the salt water when I would accidentally swallow it if I went into the proper surf, and the sweetness of this green apple syrup I would get on my snow cones that a random fella would sell there every summer. The sunburns I would get were insane because I would just spend all day snorkelling in the shallows. There wasn’t anything that interesting to look at but I was captivated by the idea that there was like a whole other little world under the surface of the water.
Whenever I think about what being at peace would feel like for me I think about those days at that beach.
Feb 16, 2025