☆paging doctor gorgeous☆

I've just got to drop a movie rec, here.

Tonight I saw Flow, and what I have to say is this: if it doesn't win an award for best animated film, there is no justice in this world.

It's a beautifully animated film with absolutely no dialog, stunning visuals, a beautiful score, and a quality that appeals really hard to empathy and emotion despite being quite simple. It's a quasi-fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world that is swept away in a great flood. As the waters rise, the protagonist, a solitary black cat, ends up meeting and befriending other animals along the course of the story.

These are "real," feral creatures that don't walk or talk or any of the other things animals often do in animated films, but they are slightly more intelligent in that they are more sentient (sapient?) in their ability to reason and to do other things actual wild animals wouldn't be able to do (like steer a boat).

It's a real treat that I'll recommend to anyone who will listen.

I was reminded today of a movie I watched a long time ago, once, and never again because I couldn't find it again. I half wondered if I had just dreamed the whole thing.

It's called The Brass Teapot and it's about this couple who ends up in possession of... well... a brass teapot, and they soon find out that

( cut for vague, non-descriptive talk of self-harm just in case )

I always thought the premise would make for a really fascinating AU, but I've never been able to work out what fandom I could use, or what pairing.

HM.

I got it in my head that I might see some good change in my life if I have not only a general to-do list, but a daily to-do list as well. Put some routine in my life, and develop some good habits. From here on out, in addition to work and whatever else I've got going on, I will do the following each and every day, circumstances permitting:

+ Take my vitamins.
+ Drink 2 liters of water.
+ Drink at least one cup of tea.
+ Stretch for 20 minutes.
+ Meditate for 20 minutes.
+ Exercise for 30 minutes.
+ Read for 30 minutes.
+ Write/Edit for 30 minutes.

Of course, if I want to do more of any of these things, great. I just can't allow myself to do less. We'll see how that goes.

Woke up to a disappointing message from a friend, this morning. We were supposed to go to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights this Sunday, and we've been looking forward to it. We got tickets at a pretty steep discount through his work, but then Universal canceled and refunded our tickets, because evidently purchasing them through his work was against the terms of service? I'm still a little confused about that, because if that's true then I'm not sure how it was set up to allow it in the first place, and a bunch of his co-workers had also bought tickets that were canceled and refunded. He tried to buy new ones, but this weekend is all sold out. We got new tickets for next weekend, so we still get to go, so that's good. Now I just gotta be hype for way longer.

I also didn't have therapy today, even though I usually have it every Thursday, because my therapist was away and unavailable. I'll have it Saturday evening instead, which is a very weird time for it, but at least we're still on!

My yearly October movie marathon is in full swing. I might have mentioned it before, but every October I watch one scary/spooky/gory/festive movie each day. So far I've watched:

1) my best friend's exorcism
2) sissy
3) the red book ritual
4) scream
5) interview with the vampire
6) the witch

If you've got any recs, leave 'em! There are some movies I watch every year, but I'm also looking for new things all the time.

Haven't been hanging around for the past couple of days, just on account of not having much to say. Since the last time I've posted, though, I've seen both Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything, Everywhere, All The Time, and both sure were an experience. Was sort of fun hitting up a double feature of sorts; a buffet of multidimensional chaos.

Also, logged in to find that the little ficlet thing I wrote for fandomweekly ended up scoring first place! Thank you to anyone here who may have voted for me. Not gonna lie, as someone who is only just trying to break back into the wonderful world of solo writing, it felt good to see. It felt real good.