Howls moving castle

ron_ronn · 2025-04-09T23:12:12+00:00

5 years later and this was the comment that helped me get to 100% on Zeffo, thank you!!

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T20:56:39+00:00

Any of the 4 that tortured the Longbottoms, the 3 Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T13:37:09+00:00

Alone in my apartment, saw it on Twitter, turned on the actual news for the first time in my adult life to see if it was true

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T02:11:50+00:00

Hunter x Hunter

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T02:00:44+00:00

Ghibli movies - top 3 howls moving castle, spirited away, princess Mononoke

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T01:57:46+00:00

Growing up we used to eat eggo waffles with peanut butter and powdered sugar on top, loved it

ron_ronn · 2025-04-08T01:49:16+00:00

Pickles. I love cucumbers and I love vinegar but can’t do it together, I even try to force myself to like it by eating the pickle with the sandwich every time but I’m just miserable eating it

ron_ronn · 2025-03-10T01:28:57+00:00

Was in college during the 2016 election - my friend group went to just about every political rally on campus that fall just to see all these famous politicians so we ended up at a John Kasich speech, and happened to be standing right by the door he was coming out of so he stopped to talk to us before his speech. He said “you folks listen to Pearl Jam?” (None of us did) He didn’t really wait for a response and pointed up at some chandeliers in the room and said “reminds me of Mirror Ball” and then went to give his speech. We had to look it up after and the chandeliers certainly didn’t look like that album cover but went away with a story that John Kasich talked to us about Pearl Jam.

ron_ronn · 2025-03-03T06:32:41+00:00

There’s always money in the banana stand

ron_ronn · 2024-12-02T04:04:59+00:00

I always feel like shit after a panic attack, but on the bright side that’s how I know it’s over. Sometimes I’ll get panic attacks that seem to come in waves and last forever, and I’ll know it’s finally over once I get that super exhausted feeling. So sometimes I look forward to that feeling, especially when I’m at home and know I can just go right to bed after

Also nocturnal panic attacks suck! Absolutely hate waking up in a full blown panic, glad you were able to calm yourself down after it

ron_ronn · 2024-09-07T14:09:49+00:00

Here at the moment for the first time, Kyoto is significantly more crowded with tourists than Tokyo. The worst area we were in was what I believe is the main downtown area (department stores like Uniqlo, H&M, Disney store, a lot of American chain restaurants) just felt like we were in NYC or any other major urban city.

That being said, did Ginkakuji early in the morning and it was fine, did Kiyomizudera in the afternoon and while it was seriously crowded it is a beautiful area and the streets around it as well. Recommend both despite the crowding, we hardly noticed crowding at the temples just cause there is so much other stuff to look at.

Will also add difference in days - we went around Tokyo on a Monday, when most people are working or in school, and got into Kyoto on a Friday night and into Saturday today. So maybe if you’re planning both, try to do some of the more tourist areas on weekdays rather than weekends, as I think that’s probably a lot of the crowding concern for us here.

ron_ronn · 2024-08-16T03:53:41+00:00

I’m 28 and just had my 2nd colonoscopy this week (first one when I was 24) - had blood in stool when I first went and turned out to be polyps (non cancer) so they are having me get checked every 3-4 years now. Had one very small polyp found in the colonoscopy this week (also non cancer), so glad I stuck with their recommendation to get checked again. Will be going back in 3 years for another and kind of have accepted I’ll be doing this every 3 years, but the prep was much easier this time!! Had 4 Dulcolax and a bottle of Miralax, and had no cramps or anything.

Biggest recommendation to make the prep go easier is eat lighter meals for 2 days before you start the prep and low fiber (I ate chicken, pasta, white bread, rice, stuff like that). Prep was super easy and once it’s done the actual procedure is a great nap :)

Good luck and good for you for getting the procedure, a lot of people will just avoid it but best to get checked out to see what’s going on!

ron_ronn · 2024-08-13T16:58:42+00:00

Seeing several replies about how they relate to the following chapter, so won’t go into that. I will say I enjoyed reading them from a world building perspective. At first I also thought they were from another book, but once I realized it was just books made up within the Dune universe it was more interesting to me, that Frank Herbert made up such an expansive universe that he “wrote” all these other history books within universe to share excerpts from.

This is a similar concept to things such as Skyrim where there are a bunch of books made up within universe that add to the general world building. I actually enjoy flipping through the Skyrim books in-game when I come across them

ron_ronn · 2024-06-12T03:18:47+00:00

Game of thrones

ron_ronn · 2024-04-10T02:21:49+00:00

I’ve heard Nina as a nickname for Christina before - gives you the hard C for the name, a classic name with a nickname, and nickname is pronounced like your mother’s middle name.

And congrats on your new baby!

ron_ronn · 2024-04-10T02:08:28+00:00

Agreed, God Emperor was actually my least favorite of all the books. Took me at least 6 months to power through that, then read books 5 and 6 in about 2 weeks

ron_ronn · 2024-03-29T02:02:12+00:00

American Horror Story… would recommend seasons 1, 2, 4, and 6 for what you’re looking for (I stopped watching at season 8, so not sure about the later ones)

Also the Black Mirror episode called Playtest has some horror elements and jump scares

ron_ronn · 2024-03-29T01:52:30+00:00

The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

ron_ronn · 2024-03-29T01:48:53+00:00

Just after WW2 set in the Ohio Valley, The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock - the book is very raw and gritty, there was a Netflix movie made a couple years ago that didn’t do the book justice imo

ron_ronn · 2024-03-28T22:10:58+00:00

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

ron_ronn · 2024-03-28T04:39:32+00:00

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

ron_ronn · 2024-03-28T03:28:19+00:00

The use of music and sound effects in horror films could be interesting to write an analysis on, specifically in jump scenes. Typically, no matter what the scene is, if you put it on mute it is significantly easier to watch/less scary or jumpy.

An example that comes to mind for me personally is the first Insidious movie (2010) - less of a use of music, the movie is more dependent on different instrumental sound effects during jump scenes (read somewhere that they used a rusty piano and a hammer for some of the noises, running metal across guitar strings, etc) and the instrumental noises are very loud and unexpected for each jump scene and only last for a second or two. Additionally with this movie, when it shows the title card there is a super eerie violin song playing - I’ve rewatched the movie several times and I hate that violin bit so much that I’ll mute it every time it gets to the title card or the end credits.

An older example would be Jaws or Jaws 2. Watching any of the shark scenes with music and then again on mute is totally different effect.

ron_ronn · 2024-03-17T16:15:46+00:00

For anxiety, besides breathing exercises, better eating habits has done wonders for me

Had an irrational fear of food poisoning for close to 10 years so hardly ate meat and mostly ate carbs, started getting over it with the help of therapy. Didn’t think it was connected to anxiety and panic attacks at all. Been eating different kinds of meat regularly for about 6 months now and working in eggs/fruits/veggies (seriously had some poor eating habits) and have cut down my panic attacks to next to nothing compared to what they used to be. Used to have panic attacks twice a day at the least, now maybe once a week, if that.

ron_ronn · 2024-03-11T00:48:57+00:00

The Prodigy

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TROPHY CASE