January

  • New Year's with the fam
    • Extended!
  • 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
    • oomph
  • Buying a ticket to London because I'm fucking going to London
    • Also Paris
    • Also Amsterdam wattup

May

June

  • Wonder Woman
    • WONDER WOMAN
      • W O N D E R W O M A N
        • W O N D E R W O M A N
  • Getting to go to E3 as ~industry
    • K-fucking-BBQ
  • 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
    • Today is a good day
  • 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
  • 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
    • Chateau Versailles

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
      • Narrator: she did
  • Pork Carnitas
    • Forreal tho
  • 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
    • Lynn Gunn.
  • 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 +