exaggerating here, I have actually cried over the bolded ones. the rest nearly made me cry but I guess they still count.

• ep 12 of puella magi madoka magica (2011)
• 31 utaite relay chorus of 命に嫌われている hated by life itself - iori kanzaki
• the symbolism of the eglantine flower in victorian flower language
• fossilising trauma - blythe baird
• references to the truman show in the music video of fml - seventeen
• svt’s 13-member reunion & group embrace at mama 2023
• “like a joke that I wrote, I know I’m not alone in wondering/the vertigo of trying to get close to who I was before remembering” - is there really no happiness, porter robinson, smile (2024)
• the reinterpretation of the dreamland motif in helium - dreamland, glass animals (2020)
• the lyrics of look at the sky - nurture, porter robinson (2021) the day before new year's eve