edited 022624; a very slow-going year for film to me... i have been watching a lot of shows to make up for it though!

goal: 40/100

december

• 28 days later (2002)
• the ritual (2017)

november

• una: short film (2024)
• good will hunting (1997)
• smile 2 (2024)

october

• deadpool & wolverine (2024)
• american psycho (2000)
• the substance (2024)
• outside (2024)
• dune: part two (2024)
• woman of the hour (2023)

september

july

• charm / clairo ♡
• patutunguhan / cup of joe ♡

june

• dilaw / maki ♡
• brat / charli xcx ♡
• tanong / maki ♡
• sad songs and bullshit pt.2 / juan karlos ♡
• 4 u / ajaa ♡
• 20:20 / vxon ♡

may

• heaven knows / pinkpantheress ♡

april

• i got heaven / mannequin pussy
• don't forget me / maggie rogers
• aperture / hannah jadagu ♡
• for your consideration / empress of ♡

— games i've tried this year. those with check marks i've actually beat

• citizen sleeper ♡ ✔
• slay the princess ♡ ✔
• fallout

goal: 3/10

currently reading

• she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan
• charm offensive by alison cochrun
• my lovely wife by samantha downing

finished

• yellowface by rf kuang
• maharlika vol. 1 by rexy dorado & john ray
• if you could see the sun by ann liang

ㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤㅤaraㅤㅤ| ㅤ 20+ ㅤ|ㅤ cancer sun, gemini moon, libra rising

listo to me, is a personal master list of interests that were previously tracked on different sites and different notes, compiled in one place for easy viewing. currently in my tv and (wannabe) gamer era.

top 10 biggest brainrots that overtook my brain for months

• justin (from sb19)

— recency bias is a fickle mistress, but there is not a shadow of a doubt that a ppop member was my biggest hyperfixation of 2024 to the point that i would probably willing declare bankruptcy just to see his face everyday. that's a joke, but with everything that happened this year financially, yeah... Barely. i actually like him a normal amount (by industry stan standards) coz he's neat (as guy who has inclination for cancers for some inexplicable reason). i just truly did Not think i'd be going thru the motions and cycles of stanning a new grp in my ripe age of mid 20s like i truly believed i was well past that. anyway, being into ppop is my biggest financial mistake and hope i can recover someday. one upside to this, and hop...

• ❝ i thought, if she sucks me dry and kills me... if it means i'd become sustenance for someone this beautiful, i'm okay with that. ❞ | goodbye eri, part 8
• ❝ to love the world is a participatory and reciprocal action — for what you give to the world, the world returns to you, many fold, and you will live days of love that will make your head spin, that you will treasure for all time. ❞ | how do i not have my heart broken, letter to jenny, nick cave
• ❝ it would be nice to have someone. someone who cares by my side. someone who gives me chances when i fail and feel hopeless. it would be nice to have someone who always gives me love. ❞ | love for love's sake, episode 8
• ❝ all my love is spinning 'round the room / if only it would land on something soon ❞ | end of a friendship, julia jacklin

ongoing ㅤ|ㅤ finished ㅤ|ㅤ favorite ♡

• abbott elementary (s3) ♡
• pluto the series
• the sex lives of college girls (s3) ♡
• skins (s2)
• the boys (s4)
• house of the dragon (s2)
• that time i got reincarnated as a slime
• ripley
• UMG
• flex x cop
• dungeon meshi
• 23.5 ♡
• frieren: beyond journey's end
• nana
• over the garden wall
• replacing chef chico
• derry girls (s2)
• platonic
• st. denis medical ♡
• what we do in the shadows (s6) ♡

— some channel recs for a variety of topics. these are my homepage regulars and i enjoy their work so much. most of them are very versatile that you'd find these topics to overlap with one another in their content:

music analysis/discussions

• mic the snare
• nathan zed
• middle 8
• lie likes music

lgbt+ history and in contemporary society/across media

• verilybitchie

gaming essayists

• pastra
• daryl talks games
• jacob geller

pop culture commentary/gen z trends

— youtube video essays are my companions thru everyday grind. these are my favorites, hopefully you'll find them entertaining and enlightening as much as i did. check out the rest of the videos of these channels too they're great

• stories that use time to hurt us by daryl talks games
• the complete history of horror cinema by magikarpusedfly
• deep discog dive: arctic monkeys by mic the snare
• what is nathan fielder? by super eyepatch wolf
• the bi-cycle and why it's so confusing by verilybitchie (one of my faves ever on youtube)
• the psychology of zuko by hello future me
• why radiohead spent 10 years making this... by lie likes music
• the scariest sentence i've ever read by pastra
• the fall of doctor who by jay exci
• the biology of subnautica: the full docu... by curious archive
• every radiohead album ANALYZED AND RANKE... by verdana

— lists i don't want to lose

• top 250 narrative, feature length filipi...
• pinoy pride movies
• an embarrassing list to binge
• be gay do crime
• sapphic films

• eight and a half (1963)
• diabolique (1955)
• the conversation (1974)
• jaws (1975)
• a woman under the influence (1974)
• manila in the claws of light (1975)