- books
- gifted & talented ★
- what i talk about when i talk about running
- digital minimalism
- monsters: a fan's dilemma
- the essex serpent ★
- movies
- the life list (2025) ♡
- ready or not (2019)
- companion (2025)
- tv shows
- adolescence limited series (watched)
- smallville season 2 (watched) season 3 (watching)
- the last of us season 1 (re.watched) season 2 (watching)
- yellowjackets season 3 (watched)
- the wheel of time season 1 (re.watched) season 2 (watching)
- black mirror season 7 (watching)
- you season 1 (re.watching)
- the essex serpent limited series (re.watching)
- the falcon and the winter soldier limited series (re.watching)
- listening to
- the queen's gambit original score
- mixtape: dominATE
- quotes
- "Here’s what you need to know about the Wren family: Aside from being assholes, they’re also fucking frauds. And I don’t say that from a place of bias. I’m what the experts call a voice of God narration (God for short— who has the time for honorifics?) and I’m mostly here to observe and make the occasional comment as related to your understanding of the plot. So, like I said, the first thing to know about the Almighty House of Wren is that it’s a crumbling mess of conflict and lies, with the general obfuscation of reality as a treat."
- "She had never been an expert before, as such a thing implied maturity and age; instead, she’d been only an ingenue, a protégée, a possibility of a person. A break on the horizon. It occurred to her that the chance to grow up was an appealing one, if terrifying."
- "But she wanted to be perfect; that was the kind of love that, in her better moments, she thought she might deserve. That maybe love was something she could be good at, that she could conceivably do correctly, that she could earn, that she could win. From the beginning she had understood that success amounted simply to mind over matter— that if she could put aside the pain, she could do anything. She could do anything."
- "And it hurt, perfection hovering eternally out of reach."
- "That there was no other way to suffer honorably than with his hands, with his sweat, with the carnage of his devotion."
- "But as I get older, I achieve a pretty sublime form of clarity in which I accept myself, and no longer fear that my borders are permeable to the approval of others. As time goes on, I am less and less susceptible to the expectations of those outside myself, and as a result, the person I am can be more gently cherished."
- "I think for an hour about what it means to be alive, or I stare at the wall and contemplate whether I’ll ever not feel tired again. Everything changes. Everything changes. Nothing is ever the same (affectionate). Nothing is ever the same (threat)."
- crushes
- word of the month
apr 2 2025 ∞
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