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#shoresy

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i grew up listening to oldies because my dad liked this one am radio station so now i am just watching tv shows and movies minding my business until they play an oldie

#even like 1920s and i am like fuck childhood memory trauma unlocked

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I think a lot about who I am to other people in the world–particular who I am to strangers as a mere concept in their lives.

Today this woman called our information desk and said, “my son’s band is playing tonight. I want to come see him, but he never answers his phone…..I want to be there. Have you heard anything about his band?”

And I felt so bad for this lady but I’m not in the music scene around here so I had to tell her no, sorry.

Five hours later, I’m hiking and run into a group of guys setting up for some outdoor performance, and as I watch them unload the drums it hits me.

“Hey,” I said, “are y’all in a band?”

They said yeah and smiled and I told them “one of your moms called today. She wants to watch you play, but she can’t get a hold of you. Call your mom.”

And they all pulled out their phones and started discussing whose mom it probably was as they presumably dialed their own.

And now, unless we meet again and recognize each other, that’s who I’ll be forever to those guys–some mysterious courier for mom-messages who came out of the woods and told them their mom called.

I didn’t even tell them why their mom called me. Who am I to their mom?? Nobody even asked. They just took my word for it and called their mothers.

Amazing.

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so much of my childhood was very weird psas and tv shows funded by the canadian government that my sense of humour is now just bits from the house hippo and what not to drink under the sink and pineapples teaching you french and why when you are 18 you can give blood, because it’s a fluid, and it comes from the heart

#canada #who's that girl it's jen

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TED LASSO 3.05 | Signs

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Benoit Blanc calling out rich people’s bullshit

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BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

#barbie

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BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

#barbie

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BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

#barbie

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) // Dir. Leonard Nimoy

#the voyage home #star trek

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STAR TREK IV: the voyage home (1986)

#star trek iv: the voyage home #the voyage home #star trek

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from 1986 to 2024: #growth

— STAR TREK IV — “The One With The Whales”

— STAR TREK: PICARD — Season 2 Episode 4: “Watcher”

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#the voyage home #star trek #picard

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#dr. mccoy #the voyage home #star trek

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#Monsters Inc #the voyage home #star trek

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i don't pick up callers who say unknown. like my guy, you call me and are a stranger??? i feel like i would just not get to talk to a psycho killer in a horror movie. like i would never pick up until they got ahold of someone in my contact lists' phone. even then i would be like, they never call, this is clearly a pocket dial.

#who's that girl it's jen #nah nah nah you're not getting me to a second location #street smarts

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i miss the part of fandom where we would watch together in real time then hiatus would be a feral expanse of creativity that would bring such innovative fics to the masses that it was just a wild time. it's just harder to tap into that now. i guess we still can but gosh what a time it was. speaking as an introvert who has a hard time keeping in touch it was great to jump on and just be with everyone's enthusiasm. some of my favourite things were jumping on a crack pairing or just taking one throw away line and world building with other fans with that

#who's that girl it's jen #who wants to have feral crack ships in the back parking lot of a tim horton's with me? #THE ANTICIPATION WAS THE BEST