As I wrap up my 2024 year in review, here's a collection of my favorite things from this year—mostly media-related! While I wasn't great at keeping track of blogs/newsletters, and tweet links I read, I've included the ones that stood out below.
Sorted randomly, unless I add a ⭐ indicating MY EXCITEMENT.
🎞️ Movies
- The Wild Robot (2024)
- Bottoms (2023)
- Perfect Days (2023) ⭐
- Challengers (2024)
- Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Nimona (2023)
🧝🏻♀️ Anime
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023) ⭐
- Dungeon Meshi (2024) ⭐
- Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (2024)
🧚🏻♀️ Manga
- Drama Queen (2024)
- Dungeon Meshi (2014) ⭐
- Exorcist wo Otosenai (2021)
- Ichi the Witch (2024)
- Centuria (2024)
🪄 Webtoons
- The Remarried Empress (2019)
- I’m the Queen in This Life (2022)
- Vampire Family (2024)
- Omniscient Reader (2018)
🎹 EN Songs/Tracks
- End of Beginning - Djo
- Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
- All You Children - Jamie xx
- White Noise - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge
- Everything is Romantic featuring Caroline Polachek - Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek
- hey now - Kendrick Lamar, Dody6
- Backseat - Fred again.., The Japanese House, Scott Hardkiss
- Weak - Vintage Culture, Maverick Sabre, Tom Breu
- It’s You - San Soda’s Panorama Bar Acca Version - FCL, San Soda
- I'll be there - warner case, Jean Tonique
- Peach - salute, Sam Virji
- youth (make it last) - slenderbodies
🎸 JP Songs/Tracks
- More than Words - Hitsujibungaku
- Sleep Walking Orchestra - BUMP OF CHICKEN
- Frieren the Slayer - Evan Call
🛍️ Purchases
- Maison Margiela’s From The Garden EDT
- Montigo’s Stone Ace Bottle (Medium)
- Mi’s Portable Bluetooth Speaker
- Casio’s LTP-V007L series
- Wooden full frame body mirror
- Vans’ Era Mini Cord sneakers
📖 Read links
- Stop being lazy - Scott Domes
- is loving yourself inauthentic? - Scott Domes
- written in the body - Ava
🐦 Tweets
- a trauma book I was reading had an interesting claim that indecision is often because the person looks for the approval of an internalized authority figure but is unable to predict what action they would approve of. (Link)
- My theory for self-sabotage is that if you’ve always worked hard, you believe that how much you deserve something comes from how much effort you put in, so when something great happens for you, you feel like you don’t deserve it because you haven’t earned it, so you turn it down and go after something more challenging, something that gives you that familiar sense of struggle (Link)
- Instead of saying "you have to practice to get better", I've got an aerials instructor who says "whatever you do is what you'll get better at". I love the reframing. (Link)
- being rejected is actually very cool because it means you’re trying and that is far more than what most people are doing. (Link)
- nobody is more stressed than a person who has a lot of interest or passions and is still confused about their career. (Link) Lol I like this because it’s literally me