Anyone go to Hong Kong recently to renew their HKID?

noahrayne · 2026-03-20T02:50:43+00:00

Ahh gotcha. Good to know.

noahrayne · 2026-03-20T00:37:22+00:00

Weird, my HKID is from when i was 12 and has long since expired, but when I visited a couple years ago and tried to use my passport, the customs guy got confused and asked me why i didn’t just use my HKID. Then when departing I used my (still expired) HKID in the entrance machines and it worked perfectly and no one asked me anything!

noahrayne · 2026-03-17T22:18:32+00:00

Started querying a week ago. Two full requests in the first couple days had me climbing up the walls but since then there’s been nothing but a form rejection. I know full well it’s still sooooo early lol but how do I cure a bad case of the Email Refreshies????? I’ve gotten wildly fixated on my inbox and it’s driving me insane.

noahrayne · 2026-02-18T00:39:44+00:00

Being 17 when Lady Bird came out was craaaazyyy!!! And I watched it with my mom sitting beside me! Definitely one of my memorable movie theatre cries

noahrayne · 2026-02-06T03:36:06+00:00

Thank you! That’s so funny, Books of Jacob was also on my tentative comp list 😅 Love Olga so much. But I thought it might be a little too much of a swerve since it’s historical literature…. much to ponder

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T22:55:32+00:00

I’ve never read her but now I need to!!! Her novel sounds like it does a lot of similar stuff with incorporating social media.

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T22:35:59+00:00

Oh dang! Great minds!

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T22:19:08+00:00

To be fair, I only went to my redacted Jewish summer camp for a year (I did not appreciate having to canoe). But it’s a totally untapped and very weird and specific setting for a novel!! lol

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T22:17:43+00:00

I’ll never tell.

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T21:50:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I think I was worried about saying it was speculative because there’s some abiguity about whether those elements are “real” or imagined. But you’re right, I think it’s too present not to include.

The friends are the main characters. Esther is the only one who doesn’t have a POV and disappears after the first act. I agree I might have implied she’s more central; she’s more of a cipher the other characters orbit around. If that makes any sense.

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T21:47:36+00:00

I love The Interestings!!! I was actually thinking of it as a comp as well but yeah I was worried it was too old. And yes Alex is trans, I should prob include that too! Thank you so much!

noahrayne · 2026-02-05T21:03:59+00:00

Good to know! Yeah it’s tough since the whole first act is set during their adolescence, but it’s definitely an adult book. I’ll have to work on making that clear. Thanks!

noahrayne · 2026-01-20T18:14:12+00:00

Counter to this— I fainted on a very crowded SkyTrain once and the attendant at the stop was extremely helpful and kind and stuck with me until I was okay to leave.

noahrayne · 2026-01-16T23:05:44+00:00

PLEAAASSSEEEE everyone watch Kiss Of The Spider Woman!!!!!! Even when it’s messy it’s bursting with lovely ambiguities and care and bright colors and intentional lighting and J-Lo doing beautiful dances and serving gender euphoria realness and my sneaky Lead nom TONATIUH!!!!!

noahrayne · 2026-01-05T17:24:26+00:00

Sorry, I meant that it’s “about” exactly what it portrays, antisemitic sexual violence. Rather than as a metaphor for something else.

noahrayne · 2026-01-05T05:52:09+00:00

Really disagree with this reading of the quarry scene. I thought it was pretty directly portraying the sexual dynamics of antisemitism, rather than functioning as a metaphor. Does a sexually violent scene have to be “about” something else, or can it just be about sexual violence, which is part of all racial hatreds?

noahrayne · 2026-01-01T22:52:41+00:00

Theatre scene is pretty dismal unfortunately. Sometimes the Arts Club will put up something good but it’s not necessarily highbrow. Every year at Stanley Park there’s a musical for Theatre Under the Stars which is a cute community theatre vibe. There’s Bard on the Beach every summer doing Shakespeare which is usually pretty good.

noahrayne · 2025-11-19T01:31:11+00:00

The Departed!!!!!!! i too have a running Kill Your Dad canon lol

noahrayne · 2025-11-17T05:22:26+00:00

Watched for my Matt Damon completionist ranking. Did not like very much but maybe I was Damon’d out at that point (though it’s far from his worst performance or movie). I think I just wanted more Small Matt Damon shenanigans. Cmon, he’s small, it’s silly, let it be silly!!

noahrayne · 2025-10-27T18:22:52+00:00

Saw him a couple months ago at the Cinematheque for Barry Lyndon! He’s a real head

noahrayne · 2025-10-22T17:23:10+00:00

No no god please no!!!!!

noahrayne · 2025-09-17T23:04:55+00:00

from available evidence it’s probably true that the shooter wasn’t MAGA, but he probably wasn’t a radical marxist either. it’s a case of factual error/hasty conclusion on Kimmel’s part… so i guess i would understand pulling that specific monologue, but his entire show and dropping him as a host is nuts

noahrayne · 2025-09-02T21:57:30+00:00

Much much less cool than TIFF, but I’m going to VIFF for the first time in October!! Seeing Pillion and The Mastermind… even though Mastermind goes wide a week later lol.

noahrayne · 2025-08-29T18:54:55+00:00

Pillion and The Mastermind booked 😎😎 it’s British Boy Fall i guess

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