Parsley Rose
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Just a small town girl, living in a dystopian wasteland, trying to survive the next big Feral Ghoul attack. I'm from a vault that ran questionable operations on sick and injured prewar to postnuclear apocalypse vault dwellers. I like stars.
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Small Victories
I went to Michael's yesterday. It was the first time in a long time where I went and did something I actually enjoy. I stopped counting how many times I picked up a pencil to draw and came up blank, or how many times I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I slept but not being satisfied - or worse; knowing I didn't sleep and feeling satisfied by that. I don't know how long I've been laying here tonight, contimplating going back to sleep, or staying up to watch the sun rise while it's still in me to look for the glory of the new day, it all just feels so mind-numbingly dull and insufficient.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Humans
I watched the How to Train Your Dragon remake
The Problem with "Faithful" Remakes Dean DeBlois's live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon succeeds technically while failing conceptually. This is a film that mistakes fidelity for purpose, creating a nearly scene-for-scene remake that raises an uncomfortable question: why does this need to exist?
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Critique
The Light Switch
The door slammed shut behind me, and the darkness swallowed everything whole. I hadn't meant to come inside. The old Caldwell house had been abandoned for thirty years, its windows like hollow eyes watching the neighborhood. But my phone had died mid-walk, and when the October rain started sheeting down, the partially open front door seemed like an invitation rather than a warning.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Fiction
The Last Human
The coffee maker still worked. That was something. Lorna stood in the kitchen of a house that wasn't hers—hadn't been anyone's for three years now—and watched the dark liquid drip into a chipped mug. Outside, vines crawled up the sides of skyscrapers. A deer grazed in what used to be Times Square. The planet was healing, they would have said, back when there was a "they."
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Fiction
An Honest Review on "Mom"
I recently finished watching "Mom" for the second time, and if anything, I appreciated it even more on the rewatch. This show masterfully balances laugh-out-loud comedy with genuine emotional depth, making it one of those rare sitcoms that can make you cry and laugh within the same episode.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Critique
I went back and watched Twilight: New Moon (2009)
The Sophomore Slump New Moon, the second installment in the Twilight saga, attempts something genuinely daring for a blockbuster franchise: it removes its male lead for the majority of the film's runtime. This bold narrative choice serves the story's emotional arc but simultaneously exposes the franchise's structural weaknesses. In an era where young adult adaptations were rushing to capitalize on the success of the first film, New Moon takes the unexpected route of dwelling in darkness, depression, and absence—a risky gambit that doesn't entirely pay off.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Critique
Secret Letter . Content Warning.
There's something about mortality that makes us want to take control of the uncontrollable. A few days ago, I wrote down my final wishes—not because I'm planning to go anywhere, but because after eighteen years of living with the noise in my head, I needed to do something that felt like putting my hands on the wheel. I'm no more suicidal now than I was at fifteen; I just needed to vent, to organize the chaos, to pin down something concrete in a life that's felt anything but.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Confessions
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Pull up a chair and settle in. This is where we dig deeper, question harder, and explore what makes stories tick—and sometimes, what makes them disturb us in the best possible ways. This isn't a space for hot takes or surface-level reviews. This is where we roll up our sleeves and get into the meat of storytelling, examining the bones and sinew of narrative, the blood and breath of character, the heart of what makes cinema move us.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in 01
So I watched Allegiant (2016)
Allegiant, released in 2016, occupies a unique and unfortunate position in franchise history: it was designed as the penultimate chapter of the Divergent series, the first half of a split finale that would conclude with Ascendant. Instead, due to poor box office performance and audience apathy, it became the accidental endpoint of a franchise that never received proper closure. This dual identity—intended setup piece and unintentional finale—haunts every aspect of the film, resulting in a viewing experience that feels simultaneously incomplete and exhausting.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Critique
I Sat Down and Watched Insurgent (2015)
Insurgent, the 2015 sequel to Divergent, arrives with the unenviable task of expanding upon a world that was already thinly constructed while advancing a story toward increasingly convoluted territory. Directed by Robert Schwentke (replacing Neil Burger from the first film), Insurgent represents both the best and worst tendencies of middle-chapter sequels: it's more visually ambitious and action-packed than its predecessor, yet it also feels narratively hollow, trading character development for spectacle and coherent world-building for escalating confusion. The result is a film that simultaneously improves upon and regresses from Divergent, creating a frustratingly inconsistent viewing experience.
By Parsley Rose 3 months ago in Critique
