• hello! my name is harold a.k.a hal
  • he / him , strictly no they
  • trans mlm , aroace
  • humanities soldier
• note on socials: i only have ig & substack under halogenide, i don't use any other sites..

↳ interests

i don't focus on anything specific, not every single thing i like is listed down below ( for stuff i really like )

• special bullet for one room ta
• journalism , rpg maker games, literature, comics!!!!, web fiction of all kinds, formula 1, oc work , queerness, eroticism as a theme: sex as character study, minecraft youtubers :(, phighting (it doesn't deserve its own mention), no home (it deserves its own mention) , lollipop and propellor hat

i have a whole lot of books on my (literal and imaginary) shelf that i've yet to get to. years of unlisted, untouched pages, to be (re) read. not limited to physical literature, webcomics and such included.

book reviews will be placed in ongoing!

↳ completed

• before the coffee gets cold (2015) ★ 2.5/5
• scott pilgrim (2004-2010) ★ as a series, 4.25/5
• the yellow wallpaper (1891) ★ 5/5

↳ following

• one room ta (2022-present)

↳ in progress

• most of nikolai gogol's work, compiled in selected stories
• understanding comics: the invisible art (1993)

↳ study

• relearn basic mathematics
  • focus heavy on arithmetic before moving onto algebra, geometry, etc.
• indulge in a whole lot of non-fiction
  • start with saved substack posts in discord dump
  • print physical essays out
  • watch video essays too
  • write observations here
• (the subject of) learning & thinking critically
  • unlearn past notions regarding media consumption
  • improve comprehension tenfold
  • meaningfully engage with various ideas

↳ fun

"One day, I will be on the podium, counting the BPM of a laugh track, lighting up my zyrtec with a weak flame & weaker heresy. It'll be very impressive. If only this, God, if only this."

• Retrospect: Ars Poetica. Jaiden Geolingo

"Someday, I will write no journals, only grocery lists. I will live on that hill everyone keeps dying on. My mother has loved Spain as long as I have been holding my breath. It has been so long and so long."

• Andalusia, 2009. Kaylee Jeong

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night.. You, only you, will have stars that can laugh!"

i'm not too much of a tv guy, movies and shows combined

↳ completed

• i'm drunk , i love you (2017) ★ 4.5/5
• scott pilgrim takes off (2023) ★ 3/5

↳ following

• ersatz (2026)

↳ in progress / passively watching

• supernatural (2005-2020) (god i know.)
• soul eater (2008-2009)

↳ want to watch

• third world romance (2023)
• that thing called tadhana (2014)
• i saw the tv glow (2024) (been putting off for a long while)
• the IT movies...
• frakenstein (2025)
• 10dance (2025)