January
- New Year's with the fam
- Holy fuck, Spirited Away at the Egyptian Theater
- What a magnificent movie in such a magnificent place
- The best egg tart I have ever had in my life, and also Hidden Figures
- [obession #001] Supergirl
- Technically this started last year, but shh
February
- [obsession #002] The Tunnel
- Clémence Poésy and Laura de Boer
- I remember the alt code for e aigu now
- Goddamn
- GODDAMN
- I've literally listened to this full set at least once a day for a week now
- We haven't even gone yet but the Zelda Escape Room. We'll probably fail but whatever I'm sure it'll be great.
- We failed and it wasn't great.
- The SNK Escape room was better, and we aced it!
- Mostly the other geeks in our group did it.
March
- Giving $5 to a dude playing the erhu in an NYC subway
- Getting to watch the French and German WNT face off in NJ
- Beating France 4-1 in FIFA 16 while the roommate was getting ready for work
- My heart swells
- Approved for an industry pass at E3
- I probably won't be able to actually go, but it's still cool.
- I'm in the ~industry
- Experiencing Game of Thrones in concert
- Shouting out "SHAME" with the audience
- Getting goosebumps when Serj Tankian performed "The Rains of Castamere"
- [obsession #003] Black Sails
- There is nothing important that does not include you.
April
- FLIRTING WITH SUVI
- Totally fine that I can't flirt with Natalie Dormer because Suvi.
- 1st trivia night with Noah's Boyz
- Beating 8 other people for a round of free shots by guessing random shit and winning a round of rock paper scissors
- [obsession #004] Wynonna Earp
- [obsession #005] Josephine Vander Gucht
- Buying a ticket to London because I'm fucking going to London
- Also Paris
- Also Amsterdam wattup
May
June
- Wonder Woman
- Getting to go to E3 as ~industry
- Mako
- I'm reading one of the 2016 Kate Bishop comics listening to an Odesza song and shit, this is taking me back to Chatrone and Pulp Fiction and "Red"
- Ok I'm caught up on Hawkeye now
- Ok I'm re-reading "Red" now
- goddamn I would like to go back to 2014 now
- Oh jesus I spent 2 hours reading Nat/Sharon fics today goodbye
- I am basically bffls with an overwatch player named korrasami
- Highlights of this conversation
- Being referred to as "otter"
- Getting heckled by her
- Warned about the lesbian beam behind me and taking care of it myself (p sure she was impressed by that)
- Asked if I was a guy or girl, and then if I was gay
- And then bonding over it!
- The purest part of this community bless
- Also let it be known that as D.Va today I also protected a sombr from Hog after he hooked her, and also also ate Hog and Pharah's separate ults
- Finally finished Noto and Edmondson's Black Widow
- I'm only a little dead inside
- G O D D A M N
- [obsession #007] Alex Vause
- Fairly minor, but I'm reading a 50k Vauseman angst fic, which I haven't done for anything in like 2 years, so...
- nvm I abandoned it about 3/4 of the way but I am still in love with Alex Vause
- The beach was alright I guess
- Day after dim sum + wonder woman was cool beans
- So last night I had a dream that involved, in separate parts, Alex Vause and Freya Mikaelson and I woke up pretty damn content
- NPR gifted me with this wonderful article about filipino food and the lady reminded me of mom
- Even though I'm p sure she never actually ever cooked this
- Also it's pride month and while I'm queer all year round, I've enjoyed the increased positivity about it all
July
- Mako's first road trip
- Complete with an excellent weekend with good company and good eats
- Seriously, this has been on a loop for the past 2 days
- I would literally die for Elena Tonra
- Also I was pretty competent at summer league last night
- We lost, but I had fun and the other team picked me out as lady mvp so there's that
- And Xe gave me the fire stick so there's that!
- [obession #008] Sophie Cookson
- Fairly minor but fuck she's hot
- jfc that USWNT game against Brazil
- aka that one time the red stars beat brawnt
- aaka that one time christen press fired literally everyone up
August
- I am alive Daughter is doing the entire score for the Life is Strange prequel
- Tamsin Wilson is a person who exists how did I forget that
- Yoooo I'm in London
- Fish and chips
- Afternoon tea
- The Elizabeth I coronation portrait
- Ancient Egyptian shit!!!
- France
September
- I am dead because Daughter's new album has killed me
- It has been on repeat for daaaaayz
- Taking a train from Amsterdam to Brussels, listening to "Hope" and feeling so perfectly content
- Amsterdam was cool beans
- Chilling all night drinking lots of beer and walking around night time Amsterdam
- Goddamn but the foooood aka burger bar and also that fucking train station sausage roll 10/10 would return just for those things
- France part ii
- Joking about running through the louvre first thing to get to the mona lisa
- Literally running (well, fast-walking) to the mona lisa to take basic ass selfies
- I found Sappho!
- French Tower of Tower, which I never got to ride at California Adventure rip
- Phantohm manour
- Apending our last night laying around in front of the Eiffel Tower
- Collectively oooohing when the lights begin to blink at the top of the hour
- I gave 2 euros to a guy playing the erhu(!!) outside the Centre Pompidou, which I hated but that basically made up for it
- CAROL
- C A R O L
- Can u believe carol (2015, dir. todd haynes) invented romance?
- Listening to music from before the storm nonstop on the flight home
- Did I mention how I re-watched Carol twice in the last two days
- Maybe I'll watch it again tonight
- Pork Carnitas
- An upline cut that made my mark go "oh."
- 1st place at regionals wattup
- Lovesong
- Fuck Lovesong, but Lovesong
- Rosie did the cheek kiss thing and we got photos with them!
- Basically Tamsin Wilson is a goddess
- This fucking masterpiece of a video
- Company of Thieves! In concert!!! Old Letters and! Gorgeous/Grotesque live!
- Genevieve is a goddess and singing along to Oscar Wilde was both a high school dream finally lived out and a cool beans reminder of the time we all sang Youth at the Daughter concert last year. I love that shit.
October
- Hanging with Brianna and co on her birthday
- PVRIS
- NOAH'S BOYZ DOUBLED AND WON
- Also we got another category all right, but didn't trust the double on that
- I've decided that I really like Ballast Point's Oktoberfest
- PORTLAND
- AMANDINE HENRY
- HARRY
- "GO BACK TO DISNEYWORLD"
- HENRY 1-0
- SONNET 2-1
- RASO 3-1
- SINC 4 FUCKING 1
- free Voodoo donut. subpar, but free so whatevs.
- old lady and young lady and man
- TOBIN. HEATH.
- I met Tobin Heath. There's photographic evidence.
- RIVER PIG + NCvCRS + Literally 3/4 of the Thorns lineup
- I got to talk to Sykes so basically we're bffls
- ditto with Menges, who is maybe my favorite non-gal defender ever (ps why isn't she a gal?)
- Daughter, again. But only half-again because that set was hella short.
- Sometimes I forget how incredible Tamsin Wilson is, and then I remember
- I've decided that my favorite Hamilton song is Dear Theodosia
November
- Wow sorry I did a bad job with this this month, but it was a good month
- Pharmercy 2.0
- I binged all of The Punisher and I don't care about hetero relationships 99.9% of the time but Karen?? ? ? and? Frank???
- THAT ELEVATOR SCENE
- I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONCE SO IS KAREN
- murder me
- Also I love Felicity and this stupid Crisis on Earth X Crossover is tempting me to go back to Arrow but I must limit myself to one (1) CW show at a time
- BUT ALEX AND SARA
- I love Maggie and I love Alex and Maggie but ALEX AND SARA I did not know how much I wanted that until last night
- and the time between me seeing that and wanting that for them and THEN IT HAPPENING
- fucking christmas man what a gift
December
- It's Carol 1st bitches
- You know what I've decided? I want to watch a bunch of lesbian movies this month, in honor of Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes
- The Intervention
- Saving Face
- [obsession #008] I just discovered this fic in my Marked For Later list on ao3 and it's???? too good?? I have taken multiple breaks to regain my in-office composure holy shit Carol season just keeps on giving
- I am deliberately pacing myself because it's so good I don't want it to be over
- like, how you want to go back and re-watch something for the first time, I am 100% sure this is how I will feel after finishing and I don't want that to happen because I want it to go on forever. The angst!!!! The pining!!! I cannot.
- [obsession #009] thelma (2017) dir. joachim trier
- I also really liked spending time with the fam today but I am thoroughly overwhelmed with my feelings for eili harboe and this goddamn movie I have been screaming about it on like 4 different social media platforms
- but, and I wrote this down in the journal too, I like listening to conversations in tagalog. maybe I can't speak it, but I like being able to understand and that makes me feel more connected to my culture.
dec 30 2016 ∞
jan 2 2018 +