• rafayel: duskbright steps / first day in my first ever adult job wow / rafayel day: bday ad hunting @ glorietta with ces / smaller and smaller circles

• hello! i am lilac, a girl in her early twenties. pronouns are she/her. nice to meet you! :)

• kpop (mainly tbz & txt)
• animated films & series
• morning walks
• collecting stickers & keychains
• journalling, writing poems
• the sea: swimming, admiring hues of blue from the shore
• every shade of pink!
• playing games. honkai star rail, love & deepspace
• fruits 🥭🍊🍎🍇🍌🍉
• reading. novels, webtoons, manga series, fics, essays & articles, etc.

• the curse of familiar: pw talks with f.h. batacan
  • I always think about how little power people like me, ordinary Filipinos, actually have. We really have nothing. But if there’s anything that a writer has, it’s the power to seed something. I want my stories to have the curse of the familiar. If I plant a seed in your head, then maybe I’ll tickle you into anger.

• sewing machine
• canon af35m ii, film rolls
• asics running shoes.. or their kahana gel 8
• andante kitten heels in mahogany
• new mattress
• kobo e-reader
• weighted blanket
• maison margiela: sailing day
• devotions, mary oliver

watches:

• howl’s moving castle (2004)
• sentimental value (2025)
• tamon’s b-side (2026)
• love between lines (2026)
• love through a prism (2026)
• yuri!!! on ice (2016)

reads:

• in the name of the trees by merlinda bobis
• the poet empress by shen tao
• book lovers by emily henry
• isabela by kaisa aquino
• smaller and smaller circles by fh batacan
• martyr! by kaveh akbar
• character by carolina hau

• banana heart summer, merlinda bobis
• in the name of the trees, merlinda bobis
• isabela, kaisa aquino
• smaller and smaller circles, f.h. batacan
• laut: stories, sigrid marianne gayangos
• 17 prayers to the many-eyed mother
• character
• the solemn lantern maker

• love through a prism
• resurrection
• kiki’s delivery service
• the poet empress
• skip and loafer
• isabela

• january: yearly studio ghibli film watching tradition with howl’s moving castle / relyenong bangus lunch prepared by mama.. so good.. / rafayel & xavier-centric main story update! / getting new eyeglasses / catching up with jasmine after five years!! / interviews 💭 / finally getting a job.. 🥹 working on my requirements, back-to-back taguig visits / cubao date with fd / taking new id pics! i’m too silly & whimsy for corporate what do u mean.. 😿
• february: venice mall-sm north-uptc solo date / meeting up with my college friends / receiving a rose for valentine’s :] / happy winter olympics; starting medalist and rewatching my beloved yuri!!! on ice
• march
• april