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Current Music: Mawaru Penguindrum - Nornir

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A shelter from pigs on the wing

I just wrote an entire fucking review about the 1954 Animal Farm, shrank the BlueSky app, only to find it erased it all. GAAAAAAAAAAH! FINE we’ll take this to fucking Dreamwidth. Social media can’t fucking stop me from tl;dring and ranting about books and movies because it can’t be contained in 140 characters.

After getting psychic damage from the trailer of the upcoming Animal Farm "adaptation" coming 2026, I decided to hunker down and watch the original animated film in hopes of an antidote. I finished it feeling... underwhelmed.

( Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland )

Yeah, the movie just feels like a watered-down SparkNotes version of the book with a new happier ending tacked on so the audience doesn't have to feel traumatized and left to think. I like the animation and voice-acting, but that's about it. I don't have strong feelings about the movie overall. Like obviously, it's superior to the 2026 atrocity coming out and a thousand times more faithful to the source material, but that's a low bar. I know there's a 1999 version of Animal Farm done in the live-action "Babe" style, but I don't trust it to be any good or have interest in watching it. The world still isn't ready for an actual good adaptation of Animal Farm. :/ In the meantime, simply reread the book. Or if you want more Animal Farm stuff, listen to the Animals album by Pink Floyd. :D

Current Mood: productive
Current Music: Will Wood - Laplace’s Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

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God, I forgot how much I hate wrangling the HTML of LJ cuts.

There's a LOT of insane things going on IRL, but the short version is my boyfriend is graduating college at the end of December, so I'll be moving into his house with two of my dogs Neville & Lulubelle. My brother will have to be in charge of my last dog, Daisy Mae, and my two rats Karnak & Cahara, since the house is too small to support three dogs and my boyfriend's mom refuses to take rats. Dad is in early stages of dementia and thus unable to really take care of himself let alone me and my brother, so me moving out is an important step I'm taking for my life. So yeah. (deep breaths to try to keep myself sane)

I have a zillion WIPs under way, so I might as well list and describe them. Maybe it'll help keep my mind off things before I get my antidepressants back.

( LISA: The WIPful )

( Deltarune )

My Nanquest WIPs aren't posted yet, but I might as well list them:

( Nanquest )

This isn't really fanfiction, but it's not really original work either, so I'll list it anyway:

( Cookiequest )

There's a Sonic the Hedgehog fic I want to write about Espio's past, but I haven't started it yet. Only WIPS I actually finished chapters for count. :P

I might make a separate post for original novel/RPG Maker horror game ideas, but we'll see. But my unfinished toy novel still lives rent free in my head begging to be finished. :(

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Pokexchange 2025

Dear fellow Pokemon fan,

Hello! Thank you for participating in Pokexchange! I'm the mod and I snuck myself in for treats because I am incorrigible, sorry. I hope everyone has been having lots of fun!

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