reading

• alice in wonderland by lewis carroll illustrated by tove jansson | 2011
• the serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world by robin wall kimmerer | 2024

read

• just like home by sarah gailey | 2022
• listen for the lie by amy tintera | 2024

amanda ┊ 1990 ┊ libra ┊ brazilian living in belgium

photos ┊movies ┊books ┊postcards ┊pins ┊games

"Não há guarda-chuva contra o tempo,rio fluindo sob a casa, correnteza carregando os dias, os cabelos." João Cabral de Melo Neto

• fragonard emilie
• fragonard lilas
• fragonard belle de paris
• gucci flora gorgeous jasmine
• miss dior blooming bouquet
• chloé

"For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath, it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.” ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

the easy and good life with you

• turning silly sayings into "our thing"
• the smell of his head
• the way he holds a book while reading
• his hands, always
• when he suddenly looks at me, smiles and winks
• telling me he loves me out of the blue
• cuddling me to sleep every night
• little dessert surprises ever so often
• how he plays with his ring like a fidget toy
• always spoiling me with little gifts
• 'goodnight sweetheart'
• tucking me in when i go for a nap
• when he settles down on the sofa with his head on my lap
• his little dimples that only appear once in a while when he shaves

rewatches ┊ ♡ favorites ┊ ✧ with m. | † horror

march

• grafted | 2024 † ✧
• it's what's inside | 2024 † ✧

february

• o agente secreto | ✧
• the dead thing | 2024 † ✧
• the wrong paris | 2025 ✧
• searching | 2018 ✧

january

• smile 2 | 2024 † ✧
• people we meet on vacation | 2026
• the long walk | 2025 ♡ ✧
• kpop demon hunters | 2025 ✧
• shutter island | 2010 ✧

playing

• animal crossing new horizons

played

• snufkin melody of moominvalley | february | ★★★★☆
  • dlc: fuddler's courtship
• thank goodness you're here | february | ★★★★☆
• is this seat taken? | january ★★★★☆

songs i've been swooning over lately

january

• sideways, carly rae jepsen
• the loneliest time, carly rae jepsen

JUST F ING DO IT!

body & mind

• focus more on self-care
• be consistent with my skin-care
• try to start yoga or pilates
• sensory chamber and spa

learning

• start french classes
• tap dancing

hobbies

• improve my knitting skills
• start embroidery and cross stitch
• get back at doing collages
• scrapbooking for memory keepsake
• journaling and diary
• finally start the photo blog
• get back to playing AC until I designed the island of my dreams

literary

♥ favorites ┊✧ with m. ┊ last season ┊ rewatch

watching

• something very bad is going to happen | limited series | 2026
• the night agent | season 3 | 2026
• rupauls drag race | season 18 | 2026
• ghosts | season 5 | 2025-2026 ✧ ♥

watched

• slow horses | season 2 | 2022 ✧ ♥
• slow horses | season 1 | 2022 ✧ ♥
• our flag means death | season 1 | 2022 ✧ ♥
• single's inferno | season 5 | 2026
• the four seasons | season 1 | 2025 ✧ ♥
• love is blind | season 10 | 2026
• it: welcome to derry | season 1 | 2025 ✧
• fallout | season 2 | 2025 ✧
• my korean boyfriend | season 1 | 2026 ✧
• nobody wants this | season 2 | 2025
• the man on the inside | season 2 | 2025 ✧

riding the ebb and flow of the crowd.

• tei-shi | 24.02 | botanique
  • her presence is incredible. she needs nothing but her own body and a microphone. she is so underrated.
  • she sang "keep running", the first song i've ever heard of her.
• thundercat | 23.03 | ab ♥
  • wow, just, wow.
  • the improvs, the connection with the crowd, what a genious musician, what a genuine human being.
  • he invited a kid to crowdsurf and he went twice, it was the best day of that kid's life.
  • he asked everyone who was in front to jump in stage and it was the most thrilling incredible human connection I've ever seen.

• the floating sensation when the diazepam hits. the calmness, peace of mind, happy thoughts and overall sense I can accomplish anything. of course the downside is that it fades quickly and then i just get sluggish and sleepy.

belgium

• brussels (current home)
• antwerp
• gent
• brugge
• louvain
• louvain la-neuve
• mons
• dinant
• some small villages in the ardennes

netherlands

• amsterdam
• the hague
• delft

portugal

• lisbon

france

• paris