"The success of #IAmStillHere has also been a great source of national pride. After that film’s star, #FernandaTorres, won a 2025 Golden Globe for Best Female Actor, she said, of the other nominees, “Everybody deserves it, everybody! So I don’t know why they chose this #streetdog that speaks Portuguese, but I’m so glad.” The rhetoric was familiar, but in this case “street dog” was not being deployed in a self-deprecating way following a defeat; rather, it was a statement of modesty made by a Brazilian who had just claimed victory on an American stage. The confidence of the country is brimming such that the typical Brazilian stray dog itself, called the #viralatacaramelo, or the caramel-colored mutt, has surged in popularity, as the embodiment of Brazilians’ friendly, resilient, and multicultural nature. It has inspired adoption and marketing campaigns, appearances at Carnaval, and even legislative proposals that the caramelo become a national icon."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/will-trump-push-brazils-underdog-era-to-an-end

Mavoy Movie Awards 2025 results are here! #film #cinema #movies #awardseason #EvilDoesNotExist #TheSeedOfASacredFig #TheCountOfMonteCristo #IAmStillHere #Nosferatu

https://www.mavoymusic.com/2025/02/mavoy-movie-awards-2025-results.html

Current mental health status: I bought six pairs of these socks in different colors.

2022 may have been my worst brain year to date. I turn 40 in half a year and have been wrestling with a lot of regret: regret that I didn't ask for a math tutor in high school. Regret that I didn't pursue a different major. Regret that I got married young enough that getting divorced at 30 meant that I had ten years of marriage under my belt. Regret that I had poured my efforts into his career and not mine. And the regret that my mental health wasn't robust enough for me to hack it at the high pressure job I used to have even though I love my job now.... Even if I am overqualified.

My brain has been shouting at me constantly and that bitch is brutal.

I've been mulling over my regret decade for weeks now, and last night in the shower I finally realized: I am punishing myself for not bending the laws of space and time and being the adult I needed for younger me. It's literally impossible. I spent my energies surviving and I survived. It's not elegant and it's not refined, but I'm here.

My goal for 2023 is to shift my thinking from "I have lost" to "I am free from."

Because I'm not dead yet. And there are things I want to do.

#MentalHealth #OCD #2023 #IAmStillHere

And, I'll be spending my birthday in fucking court because of Husband's bad behavior and narcissistic tendencies.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

#IAmStillHere #ISurvived #NoCakeForAbusiveSpouses