below are the tv shows i love the most! i mainly watch only live-action shows, but there are a few cartoons that i like too. bold = favourite.

• abbott elementary
• a league of their own (2022)
• angel
• buffy the vampire slayer
• call the midwife
• dead to me
• derry girls
• dickinson: season 2-3 on the watch list
• doctor who new who seasons 1-13
• euphoria
• fleabag
• killing eve
• the good place
• the haunting of bly manor: miniseries
• heartstopper
• how i met your mother
• legacies
• lost

horror is one of my all-time favourite genres, so i made a separate list for all the horror films i love! bold = top favourites.

• anna and the apocalypse (2017)
• black swan (2010)
• bodies bodies bodies (2022)
• bones and all (2022)
• byzantium (2012)
• child’s play franchise (1988-2017)
• coraline (2009)
• crimson peak (2015)
• fear street trilogy (2021)
• final destination franchise (2000-2011)
• the final girls (2015)
• house of wax (2005)
• i know what you did last summer (1997)
• i still know what you did last summer (1998)
• it (2017)
• it: chapter two (2019)
• last night in soho (2021)
• the lost boys (1987)

alongside horror, of course i love a bunch of other films!! i feel like my taste is a bit all over the place and i don’t have any other genre that i specifically cling to—i just watch a film and become attached to it if i significantly enjoy it. bold = top favourites.

• the amazing spider-man (2012)
• the amazing spider-man 2 (2014)
• arrival (2016)
• coda (2021)
• desert hearts (1985)
• disobedience (2017)
• emma. (2020)
• enola holmes (2020)
• everything everywhere all at once (2022)
• fantastic mr. fox (2009)
• heavenly creatures (1994)
• i care a lot (2020)
• imagine me & you (2005)
• in the heights (2021)

because the previous list (animated and non-horror catchall) was getting too long yet again, here’s another list! this is just for disney films. bold = top favourites.

• brother bear (2003)
• encanto (2021)
• lemonade mouth (2011)
• lilo & stitch (2002)
• luca (2021)
• moana (2016)
• the parent trap (1998)
• the princess diaries (2001)
• the princess diaries 2: royal engagement (2004)
• raya and the last dragon (2021)
• soul (2020)
• tangled (2010)

very, very long (you have been warned /lh) and alphabetised list of all of my favourite characters because i cannot narrow down anything for the life of me. i also tend to like multiple characters from the same show. bold = top favourites. ★ = i relate to the character in some way.

• the 11th/12th/13th doctor (doctor who)
• alice pieszecki (tlw/tlwgq)
• ★ allie novak (wentworth)
• amelia pond (doctor who)
• ★ anya jenkins (buffy the vampire slayer)
• barney stinson (how i met your mother)
• bear (person of interest) (yes he is a dog)
• bette porter (tlw/tlwgq)
• ★ bill potts (doctor who)
• bridget westfall (wentworth)
• ★ buffy summers (buffy the vampire slayer)
• clara oswald (doctor who)
• cleo sowande (legacies)
• cordelia chase (btvs/ats)
• ★ dana fairbanks (the l word)

separated list for all of my favourite characters from specifically films. this has the exact same key as the last list. bold = top favourites. ★ = i relate to the character in some way.

• anna shepherd (anna and the apocalypse)
• beverly marsh (it 2017 & 2019)
• cindy berman (fear street trilogy)
• ★ eloise turner (last night in soho)
• emma woodhouse (emma. 2020)
• ★ danielle (shiva baby)
• deena johnson (fear street trilogy)
• helen shivers (i know what you did last summer)
• julie james (ikwydls/iskwydls)
• ★ mia thermopolis (the princess diaries duology)
• ★ michelle jones (mcu spider-man)
• miles morales (spider-man: into the spider-verse)
• ★ peter parker (the amazing spider-man)
• peter parker (mcu spider-man)
• sam fraser (fear street trilogy)

another separate list for my favourite characters, except for books and comics. expect this to gradually grow throughout the year, hopefully, as i want to read more books in 2022! bold = top favourite. ★ = i relate to the character in some way.

• ★ celia st. james (the seven husbands of evelyn hugo)
• cindy moon/silk (marvel comics)
• evelyn hugo (the seven husbands of evelyn hugo)
• ★ gilda (everyone in this room will someday be dead)
• harry cameron (the seven husbands of evelyn hugo)
• kath miller (last night at the telegraph club)
• lily hu (last night at the telegraph club)
• ruby quinn (the falling in love montage)
• saoirse clarke (the falling in love montage)

another very long and extensive list. categorised alphabetically and by media/franchise. bold = favourite. ★ = extra favourite.

buffyverse:

• cangel (angel/cordelia chase)
• coffy (buffy summers/cordelia chase)
• ★ fuffy (buffy summers/faith lehane)
• rosenkins (anya jenkins/willow rosenberg)
• ★ tillow (tara maclay/willow rosenberg)
• xanya (anya jenkins/xander harris)

the l word & the l word: generation q:

• danalice (alice pieszecki/dana fairbanks)
• gini (dani núñez/gigi ghorbani)
• ★ sharmen (carmen morales/shane mccutcheon)
• ★ shess (shane mccutcheon/tess van de berg)
• shenny (jenny schecter/shane mccutcheon)

bold = favourite as always. follow me on goodreads.

• ★ everyone in this room will someday be dead
• heartstopper
• last night at the telegraph club
• marvel comics
• paper girls
• stumptown
• ★ the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
• warrior cats

my music taste is somewhat all over the place but also... not? because i tend to listen to the same artist for weeks, sometimes months on end. but the artists i do listen to don’t even feel similar to me, like, at all. my top artists are ranked (of course) but my other favourite artists are alphabetised. my spotify.

my top artists 2021 (spotify wrapped) + my favourite songs by them

• taylor swift (top 0.1% in 2021)
  • haunted
  • treacherous (taylor’s version)
  • dancing with our hands tied
• loona
  • star
  • starseed
  • egoist
• olivia rodrigo

i kin for fun and because i identify strongly with a character! i don’t take the practice of kinning seriously, but it does bring me comfort. i use terms like selfhood very loosely, it’s just for the sake of easily categorising. bold = high kin. ★ = selfhood. list icon = my original character lauren.

• aimee gibbs (sex education)
• alice lamb (summerland)
• buffy summers (buffy the vampire slayer)
• ★ celia st. james (the seven husbands of evelyn hugo)
• ★ eloise turner (last night in soho)
• elsa (frozen duology)
• ★ finchsong (original character)
• ★ fluttershy (my little pony)
• ★ gilda (everyone in this room will someday be dead)
• jamie taylor (the haunting of bly manor)
• judy hale (dead to me)
• katie mitchell (the mitchells vs. the machines)
• ★ lauren gardner (original character)
• leah rilke (the wilds)

a list dedicated to (most of) my favourite actors. idk i just like women and one or two men i guess?? bold = favourite.

• alycia debnam-carey
• amy acker
• andrew garfield
• ★ anya taylor-joy
• ★ auli’i cravalho
• cillian murphy
• cobie smulders
• eliza dushku
• gillian anderson
• hunter schafer
• jennifer beals
• ★ jessica chastain
• ★ kate moennig
• kiana madeira
• kieran culkin
• leisha hailey
• mia kirschner
• neve campbell