FUCK IT WE BALL because all things are divinely so, my life's trajectory was already revealed to me three years ago when i first saw this post, went "haha lol", and then subconsciously decided to internalize it apparently (?). my life is a joke. i hope it's funny to everyone else because it's actually kind of funny to me. if you thought five years of doing my annual wrapped post was a lot, wait until you hear i'm doing it for a 6th time baby! happy six years of pirated dreamwidth year-end memes on a site where there is no social algorithm and no vanity metrics. i was really onto something when i said fuck the algorithm huh. who knew. well, the post did apparently.

• PHANDOM 2.0: ITS NEVER OVER

"is this what it's like to be normal" no THIS IS [_lack of desire to participate in fandom culture_] BITCH!!! WE [_acknowledge that fandom culture has grown out of touch and is no longer aligned with our content consumption habits but we will always be Real Media Enjoyers_] IN THIS MUTHAFUCKA BETTA TAKE YO SENSITIVE ASS BACK TO [_having a carrd in ur bio_]. yes i lost my internet religion but also gained internet spirituality. im like the buddha if he was a hater. or maybe if the buddha didn't gaf at ALL. in light of my newfound nirvana i'm trying out new ways of tracking, recording, and thinking about digital engagement.

1A. ECOSYSTEM CHECK

[GOT INTO +] the pitt, dan and phil, tennis rpf, [STAYED IN -] ycmal universe, [MIGHT STILL BE IN ?] f1,

did not expect to get into a new tv show. OR back into dan and phil my original beloveds (i wrote them on my fandom list back in september and THEN they hard launched like i manifested that for real), or that i would find love (tennis rpf) again after hockey rpf but what can i say. i'm fujoing out so hard rn. something also very freeing about not needing to change my entire internet presence to match my main hyperfixation because it also means no i did not outgrow fandom. and thank fuck because i love fandom even more now that i'm mostly out of it looking in. i am now permanently xbb24ac2a on twitter, and t1erradelfuego on tumblr.

• WE LUV DA PITT

i started watching as a joke in spring semester and then it quickly became Not A Joke because. well. mel/frank. of it all. and some really good fanfiction as well as frankly insane cast chemistry and deeply interesting actors behind it. pball you WILL get an emmy nod in 2026. i've been such a pballer that their crave ig page posted my happy birthday tweet on IG. what can i say when you look like sebastian stan and say things like "you don't need to wait for the pitt to start living. life is happening all around you, look around." and this really got me thinking on the way the industry thrives on actors breaking out at a young age vs the experience lost when you have career actors only coming into hollywood 30+.

• DAN AND PHIL 2.0

it broke my mind so hard because what do you mean i've been growing up with them this whole time! nothing in life is ever truly static or fixed in place in the same way not everything has to change. my life CHANGED when the hard launch dropped. i'm dj khaled suffering from success. i subscribed to their phatreon. what do you mean i'm 8 and watching dan and phil in my room past my bedtime all over again. they came home to me :(

• tennis rpf

look whatever is happening b/w jannik and carlos is like fedal except this time i was here from the very beginning. do i like tennis. next question. am i obsessed with the levels of devotion and freakmatching between them. Yes. something deeply sexy about trading no. 1 with the same guy and coming to see him as your partner as much as your rival. i need to fujo out on ao3 about them.

• honourable mentions,

heated rivalry (tv show) (never thought i'd write THAT), f1 with a steel chair in the 2nd half because of twitter & a deeply interesting title fight for my baby boy max ver5tappen.

1B. CONTENT & CONSUMPTION TREND REPORT

2025 AVG SCREENTIME: 3 hours, 45m

• INFLUENCING FACTORS

i would say i struck gold but the app's name is opal. yes i think i'm funny. anyways last year quinn jacob and i tried to make an icloud family account so we could track each other's screentime and that didn't work but this did! and by a lot. it's like i came up with it in my dreams. how did they know only the power of minigames could deliver me from the little black screen of evil (social media). this app healed my relationship with social media to the point where i can go on twitter and instagram and see the things that people i know are getting up to and i don't feel bad about it all! because i'm too busy living my life in the real world to feel like i'm missing out on anything. oh my god i cured my FOMO.

and by living my life i mean doing the things i want to be doing which exist mostly on the big screen i.e. my laptop. now do NOT ask me about my laptop screentime but it is honestly unavoidable because of the nature of my work and play. i actually don't mind though because i have been running/swimming/lifting and getting off my phone so much more in general. what do you mean i get kind of excited when my phone dies.

> BOOKBOXD: 23 BOOKS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2025

[plankton voice] i never thought i'd add this meme to my listowrapped... i never thought we'd get here

the year i healed my attention span long enough to read TWENTY THREE (23) books in 6 months. possibly more if i can finish Your Name Here and Kristin Lavansdottir in the final two weeks. words can't express how excited i am to be reading again. it's like remembering i have access to infinite beautiful sometimes boring but ultimately different worlds. to not be yourself for however long it takes to read a book is a blessing, because then you can really look at yourself. externalization, baby! it started in july with ministry of time by kalienne bradley which was PHENOMENAL (and a very good reminder to never stop writing fanfic because it could very well be published) and then i found mhairi mcfarlane and proceeded to go hog wild crazy like a wild boar in the italian countryside after optimal growing conditions for truffles. anyways. thank you mhairi mcfarlane for introducing me to purple rain by prince. my life is irrevocably altered. and i need to write.

other highlights of booxboxd inclue the TBR roulette which is where i randomly select a book from my evergrowing list of tbr books that i've migrated to google sheets (and will be migrating to an exclusive airtable app!) which has spawned some bangers like Margo's Got Money Problems by Rufi Thorpe and Come and Get It by Kiley Reid. I can't believe i'm reading non-romance novels again.

but the real prize truffle and what arguably kickstarted the recursion was reading sea of tranquility by emily st. john mandel which. mind you i've had in my goodreads TBR since it was published back in 2022. it's like i knew i wasn't ready to read it yet and held off until the TBR roulette suggested it to me on Aug 31 and i understood it immediately. aside from the fact that part of it takes place on VANCOUVER ISLAND it was so gorgeous and so well structured that it changed my perception of content, form, and the relationship between them.

what was the genre breakdown? what was the proportion of romance to non romance novels? what is the future target for 2026?

> LETTERBOXD