november

• maverick — the boyz

october

• one sunny day — kassy

september

august

• queendom album — red velvet
• dumb dumb — somi
• thrill-ing album — the boyz
• realiti — grimes
• you can't sit with us — sunmi
• wishlist — 솜

july

• the land of fantasy album — jannabi
• after the play is over — dosii
• drink it — the boyz
• torna a casa — måneskin

june

• 陪伴是最长情的告白 (companionship is the longest confession)
• "a universe that includes you / can't be bad, but / does it? at this distance / you're a mirage, a glossy image / fixed in the posture / of the last time i saw you. / turn you over, there's the place / for the address. wish you were / here. love comes / in waves like the ocean , a sickness / which goes on / & on, a hollow cave / in the head, filling and pounding , a / kicked ear." from postcard by margaret atwood
• "since i have no sweet flower to send you, i enclose my heart; a little one, sunburnt, half broken sometimes" emily dickinson
• "the sunlight came into the room with the peacefulness one remembers from rooms in one's early childhood — a sunlight encountered later only in one's dreams ." james baldwin
• "but when friends' paths meet, the whole world can look like home for a time ." from demian by herman hesse

• zionist colonialism in palestine, fayez a. sayegh
• tainaron: mail from another city, leena krohn ↻
• the girl in the tower, katherine arden
• fair play, tove jansson
• demian, herman hesse
• the moomins and the great flood, tove jansson
• the bear and the nightingale, katherine arden ☆
• howl's moving castle, diana wynne jones
• filozoficzne i translatoryczne wędrówki po dolinie muminków, prof. hanna dymel-trzebiatowska
• echo, pam muñoz ryan
• dream work, mary oliver
• a time to dance, padma venkatraman ☆
• moominland midwinter, tove jansson

to watch

• the tale of the princess kaguya (2013), dir. isao takahata
• parasite (2019), dir. bong joonho
• itaewon class (2020, series), dir. kim sungyoon
• john wick 3 (2019), dir. chad stahelski (dying for an update about the dog)
• reply 1988 (2015, series), dir. shin won-ho
• portrait of a lady on fire (2019), dir. céline sciamma
• in the mood for love (2000), wong kar-wai
• when the camellia blooms (2019, series), dir. cha yeonghoon

watched

• spirited away (2001), dir. hayao miyazaki
• squid game (2021), hwang dong-hyuk
• hotarubi no mori e (2011), dir. takahiro omori
• liz and the blue bird (2018), dir. naoko yamada
• departures (2008), dir. yōjirō takita
• project nim (2011), dir. james marsh
• little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig ↻
• your name (2016), dir. makoto shinkai
• the princess diaries (2001), dir. garry marshall ↻

treasured moments, a private reminder of all the good and lovely

✧ october:

✧ september:

✧ august: finally getting things done with lufthansa, and maybe the september trip to the mountains is possible, and maybe i'm getting a bit excited / meeting julia and deobi-ing together / many trains rides and many runs to catch said trains / one dream i won't forget for a long time / meeting up with a friend in a local cafe (so many cafe visits these days!) / my birthday package for n arriving at last! and lots of tears / the boyz comeback! with such a good album! so much good music! / vannia learning the polish phrase for i love u orz / another dance class, this time with changmin & hyunjae, also this time even earlier / unboxing zoom (on google meets) with the best squad of gals, the amount of hyunjae and the screenrecorded reactions / one day absolutely rushed train tri...