★★★★★: autumn & winter, concerts, city lights, tea, coffee, beer, wine, lemons, limes, sanpellegrino, 70s music, leaving the radio on in the background, indie horror games, pokemon battles, collecting things, amusement parks/the fair, board games without much strategy, curry, dessert, collecting stickers, making playlists, stories set in the 60s - 90s, martin mcdonagh's movies, sumikko-gurashi, my best friend remi <333, solving the nyt connections

★☆☆☆☆: weather that is too hot, period dramas, stories centered around royalty & lineages, jumpscare-heavy horror (everything needs moderation!), milk, silence, swimming, licorice, cold showers (unless in dire heat), poker (i will lose), tiktok, shortform content in general, white chocolate, creating problems out of nothing, losing my nyt connections streak