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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 11h

girl, you're so pretty!

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Croí the Fox (er, Vixen) @croifox.bsky.social · 6d

every trans girl just starting out her transition deserves a gang of cis friends ready to treat her like one of the girls immediately irrespective of what she looks like and help her figure out girl stuff without being patronizing. i'm forever so grateful to everyone who filled this role for me

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 1d

oh nice

Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 1d

did you eat that dog? 👀👀

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 6d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 7d

Having Feelings about One Battle After Another

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 8d

I've never heard of this but I'm delighted by trying to piece it together by reading other people dunking on it in the replies

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 13d

Luckily for them, I remind them of this every time they whine for food in the middle of the day 😌

Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 13d

I'm worried my cats don't know attachment leads to suffering and it's clouding their ability to realize their inner Buddha-nature

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 13d

I'm worried my cats don't know attachment leads to suffering and it's clouding their ability to realize their inner Buddha-nature

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 26d

My girlfriend warned me that it wasn't very good, but I was not prepared for how bad Field of Dreams was, holy shit.

Talk about a movie punching above its weight in the cultural consciousness. There's a reason no one ever talks about the movie outside of the "if you build it" line

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 29d

At least I'm committed

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · 29d

While loading the dishwasher, she thinks "oh, this one still has water in it" before calmly pouring water all over the floor 😑

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mom sent me a Facebook vid telling girls how to protect themselves from "nice guys" 🤔

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Sep 9

The first time I got COVID it was from a Kaiser hospital 😔😔

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Sep 9

girl kog

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Sep 9

🤔

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Sep 6

I drank a coffee and now my tummy hurts a lil 😢

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'd like to think I'm a girl who can tell if someone's flirting with her, but when I was 22 I went on a date with a boy without realizing it.

... And he had kissed me, like, 3 months earlier

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

Maybe if she used them as leverage on the town she could be "weaponizing" the kids, but she doesn't do that, either

So what am I missing?

Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gladys uses people violently at times, but the primary purpose of her victims is to sustain her. The story is framed around these missing kids, but they aren't used as weapons until they turn on her. Thematically they don't seem to be weapons.

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

Also maybe I'm dumb but I don't get why the movie is called Weapons

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

3) I like endings that don't feel the need to tie everything up, but I would have liked a scene that gave us any insight into how our characters/the town are reacting to the conclusion of the movie

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

Relatedly, 2) hate hate hate that they had the gay couple brutally killed. Feels gross.

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

1) purely personal preference, but I don't like when people's good will get them killed, as when Marcus's husband invites Gladys inside

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Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Aug 26

I liked Weapons a lot. Good use of tension, creepy (though perhaps could have been even creepier), fun character switching. Delightful ending.

My three main complaints (spoilers follow):

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