just paid the deposit on an apartment we really wanted 🥺
(as an aside, it was also literally the only place we visited which actually looked like the listing, instead of using """ai enhanced""" photos – as if finding places to rent in sydney wasn't already hard enough)
filling in rental applications with my french bf and he's realising how fucked the australian renting process is. "why do they need so much information? are they going to ask for a sample of my shit next?" just broke the news that no one uses the same platform so we have to start over every time.
apparently it's a known issue! though because I haven't actually gotten it open I can't confirm it's the issue, but it's the logical assumption.
battery on my switch expanded while it was packed away. ordered a battery replacement kit to fix it. bf said he'd do it but when the kit arrived i decided to try it myself, and promptly stripped two of the screw heads by accident so now neither of us can get them out 🙃
All the time!? Unless I'm misremembering, I think it was a rotating role for us, so everyone got to do it for a week.
clicked through to someone's bluesky from a scruff profile and now every time i open bluesky it opens on his page instead of my timeline. think I'm being haunted cos I didn't woof back.
a group of straight twenty-somethings on the light rail """jokingly""" expressed disgust at the thought of using a seat some queers just vacated until one of them saw me and my bf and quickly piped up, "what's so disgusting?" like we're a learning moment in an afternoon special. happy mardi gras.
i definitely want to come down sooooooon
committed to march in the mardi gras parade because the bf has never been to mg before, and it's the most fun way to experience it, but have no other plans because atm i have no idea if i'll reach the end and curl into an empty husk or ride the adrenaline high into wanting to dance all night
unfortunately my barber continues to do a great job, because his occasional references to conspiracy theories have become much less occasional
not to sincere post, but tonight was one of the busiest nights of my year – festival awards for local queer short films – and it's genuinely just so nice to bring together so many people who are all so passionate about the future of queer cinema. filmmakers, jury, audience – overwhelmed by the joy.
i know real estate listing photos have always been misleading, but whoever decided to introduce ai furniture to muddy the waters even further deserves endless suffering. the ones that only use the edited photos without including the original empty room versions are particularly heinous.
everything i learn about new zealand sounds like it was made up as a bit
"The Chokey" from the film Matilda – a dank, metallic cupboard with rusty spikes poking inwards
the box:
an outdoor screening I was presenting tonight was cancelled due to rain, which is a bummer, but it's also the first night i've gotten to stay home in a week (to work, but still) so I'm not mad about it
still handsome, but I'm a sucker for the beard
photo of a screen showing a tv platform menu with a "Chine New Year | Year of the Horse" section populated with posters for films about horses
photo of a screen showing a tv platform menu with a "Chine New Year | Year of the Horse" section populated with posters for films about horses, including "Pure Grit", "Black Beauty" and "Secretariat"
photo of a screen showing a tv platform menu with a "Chine New Year | Year of the Horse" section populated with posters for films about horses, including "Nope", "My Little Pony" and "Zou", about a zebra
photo of a screen showing a tv platform menu with a "Chine New Year | Year of the Horse" section populated with posters for films about horses, including "The Cup", various "Shrek" films featuring a donkey and various "Madagascar" films featuring a zebra
parents have foxtel, and oh to be a fly on the wall when someone pitched doing a section on the home page to mark Chinese new year, and they settled on a selection of films and shows about horses, none of them Chinese, rather than Chinese cinema.
(don't worry, it's zebra and donkey inclusive)
"you don't understand, no one cared about the adoption storyline! they made megan hilty sing 'cheers (drink to that)' in the middle of times square! the only time they let karen's brown boyfriend perform a song was a bollywood pastiche! no, seriously, watch it! why are you going to bed!?"
just hit a major relationship milestone (making my bf sit through videos of songs from smash while gesticulating wildly about how quickly it went off the rails)
the perfect man doesn't exi-
Absolutely! We'll have On Demand from 27 Feb-9 Mar (films will be announced later) – I'll share some comp codes so you can watch some gay shit. ❤️
Might be too soon, but we're showing it again Tuesday if you want to exchange your tickets. Otherwise it's in general release next Thursday, so you'll definitely get a chance to see it eventually. xo
Oh god, sorry to hear, Ray! I hope you're not in pain and you'll have time to process and heal. Big hugs. Let's catch up when you're feeling up to it and I'm post fest. 🥰
you've cursed yourself to at least three people doing this to every one of your selfies from now on
home sick (again) and got teary watching the bad bunny performance so i'm probably in a good place
ignore wide-release:
Save Yourselves! ('20)
The Dustwalker ('19)
My Grandpa is an Alien ('19)
The Quiet Hour ('14)
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same ('11)
Drones ('10)
Femalien ('96)
Purple People Eater ('88)
Munchies ('87)
Thirteenth Bride of the Prince ('87)
Liquid Sky ('82)
Solaris ('68)
genuinely interesting observation! i think maybe only Bumblebee (2018) and The Fifth Wave (2016) fit your criteria?
briefly forgot that was a movie and assumed you and @bara.bsky.social had a talk to me/don't talk to me system.
why did they do that to stanley tucci's face
all your favourites are back! meryl, anne hathaway, emily blunt, catherine tate as perpetually offended closeted gay man
