Call Me Berry!

just want a blog to blab on - 20s

[nitewrighter]

The funniest bit about Mister Magic is that like, there are a decent number of 'You're in a horror story' red flags that the cast just kind of coasts through because they all kind of have their own stuff going on and I as the reader am also coasting through because hey it's a horror story and I'm going through it because I'm curious, obviously--like I as the audience am very much here to see the Big Scary Thing whatever the hell it is. But my hardcore "You gotta get the fuck out of there right now," moment is at the very Mormon-coded Gala.

The book: "Oh we're a pretty sexist community where if a woman isn't married past the age of 25 we assume something's wrong with her and all the husbands are noticeably older than the wives and are generally unimpressive people who make their wives miserable."

Me, reading: uh huh uh huh, so you're in a bit of a time warp. That's solid horror setting-building, uh huh.

The book: "Hey, there's no booze and no one is dressed sexy at this function! Also, everyone here is white!"

Me: RUN YOU HAVE TO RUN NOW GET OUT OF THERE NOW. RUN RUN YOU'RE IN AN EVIL PLACE THAT'S GOING TO EAT YOU RUN--

[sunnywheeler]

family portrait.

[berrynotbarry]

I just finished reading this book and loved it and this was the first result when I searched it on tumblr and I love it

[jackabbot]

Go to school. What? Go to school. You're not a witness if you don't see what happens.

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[berrynotbarry]

The Pitt season one is so lovely because it’s before a Collins-and-Langdon-less Robbie starts tearing the ER apart with his teeth

[astraaureus]

Welp. Google's AI horseshit has arrived. And I'm not complying. They can pry my ID out of my cold dead hands. I will simply go elsewhere. Remember folks, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR IDs. Do not comply. Resist, fight it, use other browsers or sources beyond youtube and google controlled services. Call them. Email them. Make noise. Fight back.

[mocrlbmutwwwptth]

I've been using Google as my main mail service since 2006, and every single account or service I've ever signed up for was made with that address. For a long time I thought it'd be impossible to divorce myself from Google.

It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.

As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.

They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.

I've been using Google for almost 2 decades and it only took a few days to move everything. It's not a painful sacrifice; it's an easy change that, frankly, has absolutely been worth it.

[twilight-deviant]

Proton Shoutout

You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.

Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.

[tzikeh]

Switch everything away from Google. It's easy and it's important. Read above, click the link for Proton, download your gmail and switch.

[goryhorroor]

“2000s horror movies had to adapt rapidly in the new decade. by 2005, the horror genre was as popular as ever. horror films routinely topped the box office, yielding an above-average gross on below-average costs. it seems that audiences wanted a good, group scare as a form of escapism.”

[berrynotbarry]

It’s so funny watching a movie that supposedly takes place where you grew up, but you can clearly tell they didn’t film there

It does NOT snow in the town I grew up in, the reaction to seeing snow in another place isn’t “there’s way more snow up here” it’s “oh damn, it actually snows up here”

Also, I know what everyyyy Dennys in my town looks like, I know full well you aren’t in one of ours😭

[berrynotbarry]

It’s so crazy going from mostly lucid dreaming, where I’m aware I’m in a dream every time, to having no clue I’m in dreams. It’s so freaky waking up from a proper dream like that, I can’t believe that’s how so many people dream

[berrynotbarry]

Oh my god, rotted fish smell, die in hell forever rotted fish smell

[berrynotbarry]

I really used to reject the idea of personally being nonbinary, partially because I like he/him and because I don’t feel connected to they/them, but honestly there is a lot more freedom in that identity than I had been giving myself when I considered myself just gender-to-gender trans

“It/its” pronouns are such a fun way of completely rejecting the binary altogether and I love it

[berrynotbarry]

Sometimes, as a trans person with a painfully indifferent and thus not-supportive family, I feel like a tiny bird with tiny wings who is moving so much slower than other birds and has to try to much harder to make it the same distance as others can easily do

[berrynotbarry]

Spoilers for Half Man finale

Rubens reaction to Niall coming out was actually so fucking cute oh my god😭

“I’m proud. They can call us gay and proud” I’ll die, that’s the sweetest thing he’s ever said and then it leads to Ruben finally openly talking about his trauma and crying in front of Niall, of my god

The rest of this episode is gonna kill me

And then him sobbing cause Niall didn’t feel safe to come out to him😭

[berrynotbarry]

I always hated that the rainbow fish gave away his pretty scales. He had to ***literally scale himself back*** to finally be truly accepted by others

He had to change himself, downplay himself, literally break himself APART and GIVE AWAY PIECES OF HIMSELF TO THOSE WHO DONT EVEN LIKE HIM to be accepted

Like this is honestly a horror plot. WHY WOULD HE SHARE PIECES OF HIMSELF?? Why would anyone feel entitled to that??? Why is he guilted for not wanting to break himself into pieces for others??

It’s not sharing, it’s conformity. Shrinking and changing yourself because others want you to.

Always hated that story, even as an elementary schooler

[berrynotbarry]

I have no one to talk to about this, so into the void it goes

The progression of Kelly’s character in the office is bonkers to me. She started off as kinda just a normal woman, albeit one who talks a lot and is a bit immature, but one who was willing to slap her boss for being racist in her face

I fucking adore that version of Kelly, honestly. One that stands up for herself in a major way, in the moment of the transgression. There’s no scene of her later capitulating to Micheal like she always does with Ryan later on in the show

I haven’t gotten all the way through my rewatch, but I’ll say that I despise the ping pong episode so much. She’s just being such a jerk to Pam, not even to Jim. Hurting Pam’s feelings and trying to make herself seem superior over something that could have been a fun, friendly bonding thing

As the show goes one, they make her seem like a pushover dummy, who will occasionally be cruel when she feels like it. I understand the comedy in her on-again/off-again with Ryan, but it’s essentially just her constantly being hurt and manipulated (honestly just emotionally abused and taken advantage of, if we’re gonna be real)

And all of this leads to her becoming even more vindictive and manipulative on her own. She has sweet moments, like when she got everyone mugs with their faces on them for her watch party, or when she wanted to do matching Halloween costumes with Toby, but overall I feel like she often gets reduced to vapid/catty-stereotypical-woman-character and it makes me very sad

I miss the brief version of Kelly who will slap a racist and just wants a nice connection with Ryan. Not the one who needlessly insults people in the office, lies about being pregnant to manipulate her ex, and, oh yeah, claims she was raped when men do things she doesn’t like??? Which is a throwaway line that I just can’t stand from the episode where she punished Dwight and Jim with fabricated client feedback (which could have harmed their careers, way too far for such a small transgression, especially coming after she had promised to be at Pam’s art show and didn’t go)

It kills me that the writers weren’t capable of keeping consistent comedy without flanderizing their characters to the extreme that they did, especially when they were grasping for steward to find comedy that wasn’t centered on Steve Carell

[berrynotbarry]

Ate too much food today, feels like I’m gonna die😔

[berrynotbarry]

Getting my work from one side blog reblogged from one of my favorite writers who blocked me on my main account is a wild feeling

You like me, why do you not like me😔