• Communication and interaction
• Languages
• Material cultures
• Food history
• Scented candles
• Open-world games
• Urban planning
• Architecture
• Hozier lyrics
• Ambient music
• Politics of representation
• Software archivism
• Augmented reality
• Horror films
• Websites
• J-rock
• Dogs

• Biking
• Guitar
• Reading
• Visiting cafés
• Film photography
• Video games
• Making Spotify playlists
• Browsing Pinterest
• Journaling in new environments
• Scrapbooking and collaging
• Upcycling
• Cooking
• Crochet
• Geocaching
• Writing silly Letterboxd reviews

in no particular order:

• Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019), Billie Marten
• Solo in Rio 1959 (2005), Luiz Bonfá
• Windswept Adan (2020), Ichiko Aoba
• A Song for Every Moon (2017), Bruno Major
• A Shape of Light (2016), Kensuke Ushio
• Halcali Bacon (2003), Halcali
• Marginalia (2017), Masakatsu Takagi
• Beatopia (2022), Beabadoobee
• Evermore (2020), Taylor Swift
• First Love (1999), Hikaru Utada
• Michigan (2003), Sufjan Stevens

• Pride and Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright

in no particular order:

• "Futile Devices" (2010), Sufjan Stevens
• "Stop This Train" (2006), John Mayer
• "Can't Take You With Me" (2014), Bahamas

• Succession (2018-2023)
• Severance (2022-)
• The Boys (2019-)

• @sseongryul (ig)

• Desire path
• Third place
• Speculative fiction
• Circular economy
• Systems thinking
• Mary Oliver
• A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning
• Solarpunk
• Participatory design
• Aya Takano
• Environmental psychology
• Feng shui
• Fruits (magazine)
• Roland Barthes
• Slow movement (culture)
• Chinese folk religion
• Spiritual naturalism
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Taoism
• Coffee wars

• in postcolonialism: worlding (origin: Spivak, Rani of Sirmur essay)

actors:

• Jeremy Strong
• Anya Taylor Joy
• Colin Firth

musicians:

• Ichiko Aoba