still Kenning a bit right now

I’ve finally given in to the impulse to make a Ryan Gosling blog. I’m sure it’ll blow over soon. 30, she/they. Anything not for minors I’ll tag 18+

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Just so we’re on the same page:

Trans rights are human rights.

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The Notebook (2004)

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i drive.

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We won! After more than a year since the passage of SB 254, nurse practitioners can prescribe HRT to trans adults in Florida again 💊💉🧑‍⚕️✌️ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.460963/gov.uscourts.flnd.460963.223.0.pdf

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State of Florida Loses Federal Challenge as Court Strikes Down and Enjoins Law Targeting Transgender Adults and Adolescents Ruling in

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This is so so wonderful and a great reminder that holding your nose and voting for "not good enough" can save lives.

Federal Judges are appointed. This judge was a Clinton appointee until 2016. In 2014, he protected same sex marriage in Florida. Meaning reelecting a Democratic president who sucked paid off for the queer community 15 years later.

He is now a state judge which is an elected position in Florida. He attempted to protect formerly incarcerated people from having to pay back legal fees to get back the right to vote. The ruling against this voting rights abuse was overturned by a supreme court with 1/3 Trump appointees. Failing to stop Trump resulted in 1,132,493 people losing the right to vote.

In a single term, Trump appointed 28% of federal judges. That number is higher than two term president George w. Bush (who appointed 20% of currently sitting Judges)

People showing up in a red state and voting for a liberal judge meant they had a huge hand in protecting trans healthcare NOW.

For the love of God, VOTE like your trans neighbors' lives depend on it... because they do.

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If you are a citizen in the EU please sign this petition:

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Did you sign?

Yes (EU Citizen)

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Voting ended onJun 3, 2024

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Some info about this petition that might help:

Banning conversion therapy means banning the pseudoscientific practice of changing people’s sexual orientation or gender identity to conform to heterosexual or cisgender norms.

Conversion therapy is not the same as transitioning. It is things like using “therapy” to prevent someone from transitioning or “praying the gay away”. Many countries or regions already have bans.

This is an EU citizen’s petition. With enough signatures it will mean the EU parliament must respond to it.

You need to be citizen of an EU country and usually 18+, but for some countries 16+. A table listing ages by country here.

It looks legit to me, as in it doesn’t look like a scam. The URL is europa.eu. r/lgbt Reddit thread about it. Website of the group that initiated it.

It closes in May 2025. Feel free to take time to research it yourself if you can.

Good luck!

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I drafted this earlier meaning to wrap the movie ranking up and now I’m finally posting it:

The below 27 movies are all the Ryan Gosling movies I have watched to date, ever since I started binge watching his movies after Barbie. I probably won’t be watching anything else he was in, though I will probably add to this list when he makes new movies.

For now, I am at peace.

This whole thing started for me because Ken as a character kind of melted my brain (as did the rest of the Barbie movie) and then I watched the opening sequence of Drive and the next thing I knew was combing through the script of Only God Forgives trying to figure out the reasoning behind Ryan Gosling’s acting choices.

I’ve got to say, what an amazing actor, and what a amazing choice of films.

He is probably the best romantic lead of them all; his leading partner always seems to shine as much as he does. He brings real musical talent to the character whenever it’s needed. He makes worthwhile and interesting indie films and he’s incredible in them. His comedic characters are properly funny. His action movies are top notch. And every role he plays he’s always committed, always different, always nuanced.

I think if anyone deserves to be a movie star probably he does. What an all time great artist.

No need to respond but, thank you @peterb-aka-reason-to-life for following along on these ramblings. Your likes motivated me to finish writing down my thoughts, I appreciate them, and I also like Peter B. Parker, he’s really brilliant.

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The Fall Guy

(I watched this movie after I finished rankings. I really liked it, I’d probably rank this pretty high… maybe around 13)

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Nothing beats Ryan Gosling as a romantic hero. When his character’s in love with someone you know he means it. I don’t think the moment where he climbs out of the harbour to a love song would work so well if it were anyone else. That song is still ringing in my ears.

I loved much of the humour bits - my favourite is Colt screaming various things at Tom Ryder and others who are trying to kill him. (“You need carbs!!”) Also, some of the moments of realization Colt has are very subtle and added a lot to the suspense for me, like the moment he realized Ryder sabotaged him, or when he took a mouthful of gasoline in order to escape with a plume of flame. I just barely perceive he knows something I don’t but he’s hiding it really well. It’s cool af.

The glittery action while he was hallucinating a unicorn was sweet. All the action in this movie was super satisfying. I’m glad Emily Blunt got to do a bit as well.

I was pleasantly surprised about how off beat the movie was, when the trailers looked a bit corny. Truly it was really enjoyable, I was sorry to hear the box office wasn’t good.

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Ryan Gosling performing “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars 2024

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[Video Description: All the lights are in pink. Ryan Gosling starts singing seated behind Margot Robbie who is laughing. He’s in a hot pink suit, black cowboy hat and black sunglasses. He walks past Mark Ronson and a piano player. He does a dance routine with a team of Kens in suits and black cowboy hats, miming with empty champagne glasses. Gosling punches through a couple of pink foam boards held up for him. Simu Liu, Scott Evans, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ncuti Gatwa also appear as Kens and dance in front of the camera. Gosling is lifted up and crowdsurfs while surrounded by cardboard cutouts of the original Barbie’s face. Slash appears center stage in a top hat, playing guitar. Everyone stands up and sings and Gosling holds the mic for Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, America Ferrara and then Emma Stone. The camera guy puts his manly hand in Gosling’s, who kisses it and leads the camera man on stage. They finish the song to some fireworks and Ryan Gosling kisses his necklace. Everyone is clapping and Greta Gerwig is cheering. Kate McKinnon looks simultaneously bemused and delighted.]

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Kirk Douglas Award - Ryan Gosling Tribute Montage

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Ryan Gosling montage set to Dead Man’s Bones song Dead Hearts.

It’s quite brilliant and it made me appreciate Dead Hearts more.

(Please be warned it includes clips of an antisemitic monologue from a character Ryan Gosling once played.)

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26. Song to Song

I heard that this movie either worked for you or it didn’t, and on first watch it didn’t really work for me. I had difficulty liking or understanding most of the characters, I didn’t know why they felt the way they did and did the things they did. Perhaps I’ll be more with it on a rewatch. Some of the improvised scenes are interesting to watch, but sometimes I’d find myself thinking of other Ryan Gosling movies that used spontaneous moments but to me it seemed with more purpose.

Still it’s very beautiful, with lots of amazing actors interacting, and I liked a lot of the moments to do with Ryan Gosling’s character - he had the most coherent story, it seemed to me.

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The most interesting part of the movie for me was the arc of Ryan Gosling’s character BV’s relationship with Rooney Mara’s character. There was one impactful moment where I felt BV suspected Mara’s character was cheating, but did not want to voice it, and just felt sad.

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25. Gangster Squad

This seems like a movie made mainly to contain the elements needed to advertise it, but I find I’m able to get reasonably into it if I stick with it. I enjoyed Ryan Gosling’s character, I thought he was an admirable guy with his own personality, and really good in a fight. I liked that he doesn’t appear dangerous but proves himself to be very deadly with his actions. I wish his relationship with the main character O’Mara had been more deeply explored.

Also, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a couple in period clothing and they looked fantastic.

(I read somewhere that Ryan Gosling did this movie in exchange for funding for Lost River. If that were the case, that’s a worthy trade.)

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I guess I realized that the thing that centers me the most as a person, is to find common ground with other people. I really dig when I meet somebody that is completely different from who I am, and we talk for a while, and I figure out that we’ve got this place where we both live—everything else is different, but there is this one place where we both meet.

Ryan Gosling 2005 interview about his earlier movies. I found the whole thing an interesting read.

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[Image Description: La La Land alternative movie poster. Ryan Gosling as Seb and Emma Stone as Mia kiss as they embrace each other. He is in a suit, she is in a yellow dress and black high heels. The background is abstract piano keys in bright sunset colors.]

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Mental health stuff under the cut:

I say this to no one in particular... I think meditating on Ryan Gosling’s non-comedic films too much kind of deals damage to the psyche. This guy is in a lot of sad movies.

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24. All Good Things

I think the best way to watch this is to know and expect it to be a true crime story, with speculation on real events and a real mystery. I felt very sorry for the character that Kirsten Dunst plays, and the kind of person she had fallen in love with and not realized. I thought Ryan Gosling was very chilling as David Marks, in part because he seemed quite normal half the time, except maybe he was a bit sullen. I find myself looking back to see what I missed - which is probably realistic.

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I had trouble understanding why Marks murdered Katie when he seemed to really have affection for her. I’ve come to the conclusion that he must have felt that if he couldn’t have her, nobody could.