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Laura Phenomenon
@lauraphenomenon.bsky.social
The main reason I bother to maintain some sort of social media presence is to prove I'm not a bot.

I also occasionally post autobiographical anecdotes disguised as film reviews over here: https://letterboxd.com/LauraPhenomenon
Randomly found this mug in the office kitchen and have immediately claimed it as my own! Can't stop showing it off to all my coworkers. (Everyone agrees it is perfect for me!)

Spreadsheets rule and so does tea!
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I got see to Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value at the Scandinavian film festival and I absolutely ADORED it! Very relatable!

But I genuinely wonder why, if there are seemingly quite a few people accross the world this emotionally-repressed & fucked up, home come we all think we're freaks?

#FilmSky
August 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I can't stop thinking about Cronenberg's The Shrouds.

It seems like a grotesque love story at first, until you realise that anyone who stays in a relationship long enough eventually finds themselves sexually attracted to a person with an aging, diseased body.

So actually, it's beautiful.

#FilmSky
July 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Dear fellow Millennials,

I regret to inform you that I have discovered a grave injustice.

Our much-beloved childhood classic, The Mighty Ducks, has a slanderously dismal 27% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Let's ignore the critics. Our warm, fuzzy memories will sustain us, always...

#FilmSky
June 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Can confirm this is true - and it's hilarious!

I have invented these phrases and my #AI assistant has assured me that I am 100% correct in my intuition that 'the frog is never the man' (Korean origins), 'a herd of giraffes never goes backwards,' and 'when the bird is in the oven, the cats play.'
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Had a fabulous time at NGV today! Every time I walk into an art gallery, the contemporary sculpture & installation wows me. Lee Bul's cyborg-inspired 'Untitled' is my favourite - if the gallery had let me bring in pillows, I'd have happily slept under that skeletal, technological, cybernetic beast.
February 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Had so much fun at AGNSW! I adore being overwhelmed by sculpture & installation on a grand scale. Captain Cook is sad (but shiny & chrome), a moldy lemon made of precious stones, a petrified petrol pump, a disused oil tank repurposed to create audiovisual sensory euphoria! I could live in that tank.
December 30, 2024 at 12:19 AM
At what point does it cease being a safety sign and instead become a slapstick comedy routine?
December 23, 2024 at 2:47 AM
This episode was so much fun! I was particularly impressed by the quiche with sausage chestburster. It was very effective! It inspired my to make this xenomorph cake for my horror movie club's annual Christmas party. It's a Santa chestburster cake! They all loved it!
December 21, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Fuck yeah, I made a Santa chestburster cake!
Can someone please make this wacky holiday horror/comedy movie for me: Ripley crash lands on Earth at the North Pole. Only it's 2 days before Christmas & Santa gets infected by a facehugger. Can he deliver all the presents before he gestates a xenomorph?
December 21, 2024 at 4:29 AM
MOVIE SWEATER ALERT: This epic piece of knitwear is worn by Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door. Swinton's colourful, cosy sweater contrasts dramatically with the movie's bleak story about cancer & euthanasia. (I really need to stop getting distracted by sweaters & just watch movies normally again).
December 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I told my Mum all about my fav artworks at AGSA: There was a mutant ape breastfeeding a human baby! And 2 headless horse skins sewn together! And a room of tangled strings attached to disembodied limbs!
She stared at me in agony, wondering how she could've given birth to such a fucked up creature.
December 16, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I'm pretty chuffed with how good these Christmas Ghostface cupcakes turned out! I made them from scratch for all my friends at my horror movie club! We've been meeting up to watch horror films together for about a year. Today we had a sunset picnic at the botanic gardens and watched Home Alone! Fun!
December 14, 2024 at 9:30 AM
I've found another awesome movie sweater for your last-minute consideration! It's worn by Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun and it's glorious! Unlike other garish movie sweaters, this one isn't comic relief. It's just her outfit. Because apparently that's what people wear in Orkney.
December 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Exactly: "The marketing cycle of The Substance has been surrounded by comments on how good Moore looks despite how old she is... According to The Substance, this fucking sucks, but according to the film’s marketing cycle, Moore & Qualley will get more buzz if they look snatched."

My ironic review:
December 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM
The horror-comedy movie Grafted wants to be Mean Girls meets Face/Off + it mostly succeeds. It's also doing its own thing with social commentary on identity & beauty standards. So it's a bit of a shame that it came out the same year as The Substance & will probably be shrugged off as Substance-lite.
November 22, 2024 at 12:14 AM
If you're interested in an out-of-left-field pick, I'd vote for Darryl & Sal Kerrigan's sweaters (or jumpers, as we would call them), in the much beloved Australian comedy film The Castle. The film is so cosy. It's about the importance of family, home and happiness. Straight to the pool room!
November 20, 2024 at 8:56 PM
So cosy. Such a good sweater.

Bridget Jones's Diary has a lot of features that make something cosy: it's a rom com, it's based on a classic Jane Austen novel, it's British (somehow makes it more charming), it's partially set at Christmas, Colin Firth is an adorable dork, and the knitwear of course.
November 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM