#hallie rambles

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not Pokémon things that are super good about detective pikachu:

1. I love how diverse the world is! I mean if they’re gonna have all types of Pokémon working together with humans, why not show all types of humans. Its honestly one of the few movies that actually feels like it’s set in a city bc it’s not just all White People city’s are diverse! And they got that right!

2. Along the same lines but seeing more biracial diversity on screen makes me happy. I really hope between the success of spiderverse and detective pikachu more studios and especially studios making films geared for kids start making my diverse casting choices Bc every kid deserves to have their story told!

3. Uh can we talk about what a respectful and iconic king Tim is him being nice and respectful to others is never treated as a joke of punchlines it’s one of his best traits and they really highlight that! Good life lessons only!!! He really drank the respect women juice

4. You can tell Ryan Reynolds truly cares about this roll and put his all in, and that makes me happy to see actors treat animated movies as more than just an easy paycheck, their care goes into the roll and kids can tell it’s just such a better voice acting job than something like say the ugly dolls movie which feels really phoned in. Ew

5. The dialogue and banter is so funny and realistic I live for good screenwriting

6. They really came for buzzfeed’s unpaid intern listicle writing throat

7. “Top ten cutest Pokémon? They’re all cute” is one of the funniest lines I’ve ever heard in my life

Detective Pikachu Good

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salted caramel brownie lava cupcakes idk they’re good

BROWNIE PART (these are also good homemade brownies)

- unsalted butter 1.5 sticks (melted)

- brown sugar .5 cup

- granulated sugar 1 cup

- 3 egg

- 1 tsp vanilla

- 1 tsp salt

- 1.5 cups flour

- .25 cups cocoa

- .5 cup or whatever you want of semisweet chocolate chips (optional but v good)

the salted caramel part

- 1.5 bags of chewy caramels

- like a quarter cup of half and half

- a splash of vanilla

- sea salt

preheat oven to 350. first mix all of the wet ingredients, I do melted butter, then sugars, then salt, then eggs, then vanilla extract. then fold in the cocoa and flour. last put in the chips. don’t whisk them in fold them in. they’ll get stuck in the whisk

SO this is literally. so easy. yet so iconic. what you do is you make your fav brownie. I make mine from scratch but I guess box mix would work idk get a cupcake pan and cupcake tins. you fill half the tin. then you put in the chewy caramel. then you cover the rest with brownie mix. boom. do that till you run out of mix. you will have leftover caramels and that is good. I really like to put some sea salt flakes on top of the brownies at this point so they get seasoning but I guess that’s optional. bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes or whenever you feel good about it. take it out and let em cool.

while you’re letting them cool make the glaze. it is the half and half or heavy cream or whatever and the rest of the melted caramels. melt the melted caramel with the half and half and then stir. do not just. put caramel in the microwave that is weird. mix until smooth. put the caramel on top of the lava cake things. sprinkle on some SEA SALT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

boom. enjoy the glory of easy desert that people will assume is super fancy and hard to make 🤠🤠🤠

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I watched puffs and I’m very excited to play sally and others but I def see myself taking her in a different direction than the actor in the film version. her interpretation was great but that’s not the kind of actress I am. I am no geek.

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i think im gonna wild out and join a mcrp server just to play as everyone’s favorite disaster messenger, pilot

anybody got any good mcrp server recs or wanna join me

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I’m worried seeing some of the portrayals of mental disorders on TUA, most specifically w/ klaus’s PTSD (and could his powers be considered schitzophrenia parallel? I am not authority but I want to say soft yes) as well as Vanya’s emotionally attached powers could be parallel to something like BPD, or Diego’s clear severe anger issues. I don’t want to say these are what they parallel bc I’m not a mental health expert, but to me if I had to guess what they would represent this is what I would guess.

But I guess on ons hand it’s cool to see someone like klaus grow and find resources through family and support systems instead of using drugs to dull the pain. As someone who has been through PTSD and has intrusive thoughts it’s nice to see a portrayal moving away from unhealthy coping mechanisms towards healthy. Even if you have relapse it’s the journey towards a better life that matters. It reaffirms my own personal struggle with mental health.

But on the other hand I really really I mean REALLY fucking hate the portrayal of Don’t Use Pills They Dull Yoh You’re So Much Greater Without Pills like that hurts. Bc I know as someone who takes medication I’m like a fucking anxious slug without my medicine and I don’t want that portrayal to become normalized, even if it’s “just fiction”

Anyways I think this might be my biggest gripe with TUA tbh but I still love it

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I haven’t been on this account at all and I wanted to show you guys why because I’ve been teaching myself the ukulele over the ast two weeks and I mean idk I’m certainly not good at it or anything but it’s the first time like ever I’ve had a hobby I don’t need others for and there’s no competition or expectations and I’m just playing it for me and where I used to just like watch YouTube in my spare time I just wanna play and it’s made me really happy!!!!

Anyways this is last leaf by ok go it’s not that good but it’s a sweet song that means a lot to me

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while I am jewish and celebrate Christmas, I do so only secularly to appease my Christian side of my family. My experience does not translate to all other Jews

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I love my spooky boy he rubbed his head in caulk bc he’s a big stinky idiot