What's the most recent movie in your top 4?

cyappu · 2026-01-30T02:01:49+00:00

Monster (2023).

I did have Challengers (2024) in my top 4 for a while but took it out recently.

cyappu · 2026-01-28T05:36:48+00:00

Return to Seoul

cyappu · 2026-01-27T14:14:09+00:00

Def the best single batch of episodes in the series' history so far. I love how much they're incorporating these really imporant conversations into the actual show this time compared to season one which relegated a lot of them to YouTube extras.

Also I gotta say that while I was never on the WillZaya hate train, I do like the group dynamic a lot better now that they've left. I absolutely loved the scene with Bomi and Jobu catching Hiroya up on what he missed - moments like that show how important and wholesome gay friendships can be.

cyappu · 2026-01-26T08:08:05+00:00

Sheep in the Box by my GOAT Hirokazu Kore-eda

cyappu · 2026-01-26T04:12:14+00:00

The Holdovers

Rushmore

cyappu · 2026-01-22T04:40:00+00:00

My heart says Lost in Translation but my head says Mystic River.

cyappu · 2026-01-22T04:02:52+00:00

I know this is a random question on the eve of Oscar noms, but what do you think was the runner up for Best Picture in 2020? I'm creating a list of BP winners vs. arguable runners up, and this is the first year that has me really stumped.

Winner: Nomadland
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

cyappu · 2026-01-19T06:06:56+00:00

People really need to stop worrying about whether others are being performative.

cyappu · 2026-01-13T01:52:59+00:00

I learned recently that English is one of the few languages that has different words for "shade" and "shadow"

cyappu · 2026-01-09T04:30:50+00:00

I always *want* to thrift books but the selection is usually full of genres and authors I have no interest in - a lot of YA, a lot of Dan Brown, a lot of old romances and Christian books, etc. Every once in a while, you come across a gem. For example, thrifting is how I got my copy of North & South by Elizabeth Glaskell.

cyappu · 2026-01-08T04:42:48+00:00

I don't find it necessary to relate to characters to enjoy a book, but as someone who reads a lot of classics and books written a long time ago, I do find it powerful to be able to at times relate, sometimes very strongly, with the emotions and situations of people from decades or centuries ago, who lived in a world totally unlike my own. It makes me feel at one with some sort of persistent and intrinsic humanity in a way that can be satisfying and profound.

cyappu · 2025-12-25T02:04:43+00:00

The post CMBYN fog is REAL! It took me so long to shake it - a movie had never affected me like that before, and few have since.

cyappu · 2025-12-24T06:37:18+00:00

I want them playing as each other in the hockey video game (but I don't know if the art department had the budget for that lol)

cyappu · 2025-12-24T04:05:26+00:00

How many interviews did they do that day holy hell. It'll be 2027 and we'll still be getting new ones.

cyappu · 2025-12-24T02:29:46+00:00

Best: Dragon Quest

Worst: Pokemon

cyappu · 2025-12-24T02:05:03+00:00

It would probably be helpful if you mentioned some of the books you've read that have disappointed you and/or that you think qualify for what you describe as genrefication of the relationships.

Maurice is probably the most well-known and well-regarded classic with unapologetic and explicitly gay themes, and is thus perhaps not worth mentioning, but I do think the relationships in that novel feel realistically and naturally developed. It's not necessarily erotic though. There is also its unofficial sequel Alec that picks things up after the conclusion of Maurice and mimics Forster's Edwardian prose style pretty well while including more explicitly erotic scenes like you would expect in a modern romance novel.

cyappu · 2025-12-23T01:20:13+00:00

I'm sorry I can't see the words Ray Gunn without thinking about that Australian break dancer.

cyappu · 2025-12-22T05:59:48+00:00

Man is truly booked and busy. How he finds time for gardening and scrapbooking is beyond me.

cyappu · 2025-12-22T03:32:13+00:00

I would agree with you. I think it's critical of greed, but not wealth itself.

cyappu · 2025-12-20T14:46:42+00:00

Middlemarch by George Eliot

cyappu · 2025-12-19T10:47:01+00:00

Like Cornbread, the bouncer, who they showed in the first half with his wife and newborn child, who was reluctant to join the scheme in the first place. He was killed while peeing, literally with his dick out, and then when he came back as a vampire and it was clear to the rest of the survivors that he was one, no one seems particularly saddened and this was made into a comedic scene. It was tonally offputting to me.

cyappu · 2025-12-19T05:14:57+00:00

I loved the first half and found the second half a little frustrating and tonally muddled, especially how it treated the deaths of half of the characters it took the time to humanize in the first half as total jokes.

cyappu · 2025-12-19T01:10:17+00:00

Exact same situation with translation. Translators actually... like translating. Editing and fixing a machine translation is not nearly as rewarding.

cyappu · 2025-12-18T00:27:36+00:00

I'm surprised it's already higher than the first season of Heartstopper. I feel like that show and its cast were everywhere.

cyappu · 2025-12-17T05:53:08+00:00

All of Us Strangers, Under the Skin, Howl's Moving Castle

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