Watching Pen15 and seeing them as little girls, even though they’re played by these grown women, had me bawling my eyes out. Watching the popular girls be racist to Maya and then her mimicking them and not knowing what it meant until her brother said something. Then when Anna realized she was part of the problem and she should’ve spoke up and she apologized. The show is so wholesome, and sad.
Anna going through her parents divorce and how it’s affecting her life, the relationship with her father once he’s moved out. Her feeling like she has to step up and take care of him, while also being told not to, and being met with no appreciation. It’s just so much like what 13 was for me with my parents splitting that it breaks my heart for her.
This show makes you cry and laugh, and sometimes Maya’s outbursts are almost hard to watch, but they’re just little girls.
the finale of pen15 was so hard to watch but i did cry after all of that trauma when shuji showed up for maya and anna and carried all their earthly belongings as he skateboarded them home.
maya erskine doing an episode on her show about her mother and do a love letter for that side of her mom that is woman and not just her mother and doing it in a beautiful way and talking about the struggle of being foreigner in a country that is not yours and how women let everything behind for motherhood….pen15 is literally one the best tv shows in the last years that its obvious made with lots of love and humanity to portrait womanhood
“Human beings appear to be the only mortal finite beings who wish to transcend their finitude. Thus they are the only emotional beings who wish not to be emotional, who wish to withhold these acknowledgments of neediness and to design for themselves a life in which these acknowledgments have no place. This means that they frequently learn to reject their own vulnerability and to suppress awareness of the attachments that entail it.”
— Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought
remember that one widely circulated internet post that was like, one day your parents picked you up and put you down and never picked you up again? that’s how i feel about the last time you woke up your mom in the middle of the night because you had a nightmare and she laid in bed with you until you fell back to sleep.
midsommar
Oh, come, come, come. Without a monster or two it’s hardly a quest. Merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
i think this is from the creator of courage.
Indie sleaze revival
professional lurker, i promise i won’t be weird18+ content warning if you’re gonna dig thru my account
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