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Well, here we are. We've finally entered that ambiguous period of time in between summer and fall: after Labor Day and before September 21st , the official First Day of Fall TM . If your brain is still school-pilled, you're likely thinking that summer is definitely over by this point. However, if you're a Gregorian calendar stan and a lifelong intellectual, you're still basking in the glory of the hottest and most gorgeous season. You aren't bound to the laws and standards of the educational sy…

If Twitter is a minefield, you can consider me the world's bravest soldier. At every corner on the bird app , there's something terrible to be seen. Sometimes it's an unhinged tirade from some hypocritical political figure. Other times it's a terrible take from somebody who has taken wokeness way, way too far. Other times, still, it's a minefield that consists solely of tweets from K-pop stans who insist on taking literally any subject or issue and spinning it to be about their heartthrob pop s…

Welp, it happened. I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power . And despite my low hopes (which have nothing to do with the cast) and disdain for Amazon, I really, really enjoyed the first two episodes. They were beautiful, compelling, and exciting - and Galadriel is nothing short of a badass. As a huge fan of the incredible trilogy from Peter Jackson (not The Hobbit, y'all), it's easy to be skeptical of new media that is based on Tolkien's work. And while we can't say it measures up co…

Even if you're not on Film Twitter, you've probably heard about some of the drama surrounding the upcoming movie Don't Worry Darling starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. The scandal began when the public found out that director Olivia Wilde had a love affair with Styles while filming the movie, merely months after splitting with her husband, Jacob Sudeikis. Rumors of beef between Wilde and Pugh have since arisen, which were only exacerbated when it was revealed that outside of the Venice Fi…

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Food for thought

Cinema is healing.

Poetic cinema

It's time to BeReal. Caring for p lants makes for a pretty good coping mechanism. Sure, it's gratifying to keep a thing, anything alive, but there are selfish reasons for flexing our green thumbs, too. After a couple rough years of social distancing and spending most of our time at home, many of us likely developed new hobbies (read: addictions) while twiddling our thumbs at home. For some people, that hobby was baking one million loaves of bread and gaining 10 pandemic pounds. For many of us,…

Memes about the Elder Scrolls series are nothing new; they can be found in even the most obscure corners of Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But it feels like memes that reference Skyrim, Morrowind, and Oblivion are still being freshly made despite the fact that Bethesda probably won't release Elder Scrolls VI for another hundred years. Since Skyrim was first released way back in 2011, fans have had to come up with inventive ways to keep the game entertaining, for example, by creating…

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Time for a good ol' meme sesh

There are plenty of average people who look like celebrities. With over 7 billion people on Earth walking around, doppelgängers are bound to exist. But it's a bit jarring when famous celebrities look exactly alike, because the pool of Hollywood actors is obviously much, much smaller than that of the world's population. But is it a just a coincidence that Samara Weaving, Emma Mackey, Margot Robbie, and Jaime Pressly look like they could be quadruplets, or does this prove that Hollywood has a ver…

The legend persists

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