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veganpeachpie · 8 months

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2023 Media Consumption (so far)

Books:

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

The Herbwitch's Apprentice by Ireen Chau

The Herbwitch Princess by Ireen Chau

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Bluebird by Sharon Cameron

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

TV Shows:

Gilmore Girls (season 1)

Shadow and Bone (season 1)

Daisy Jones and the Six

Crash Landing on You

Movies:

10 Things I Hate About You (rewatch)

Pride and Prejudice 2005 (rewatch)

Fred 2010

The Parent Trap 1995 (rewatch)

Little Women 2019 (rewatch)

Moulin Rouge! 2001

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 2018 (rewatch)

Wonder 2017 (rewatch)

Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse 2018

Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 (rewatch)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 (rewatch)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 2023

Made of Honor 2008

Leap Year 2010

Knives Out 2019

Theater Productions:

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

The Play That Goes Wrong

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (ok I have to include the disclaimer here that I dislike the play and do not accept it as canon, but the special effects and staging are INCREDIBLE)

TBR List:

Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

1984 by George Orwell

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (once it's out in paperback and doesn't weigh a thousand pounds)

#books #movies #theater #gilmore girls #moulin rouge #daisy jones and the six #tbr #amor towles

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leossmoonn · 3 years

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tristan is a lot more douchey than i remember… mmm

#sara rewatched gilmore girls

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swashbucklery · 3 years

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i played a lil bit of candy crush during the vows because that corny stuff does not do it for me, but i'm still dying at TRUE LOVE'S MUSHROOM sdfgsdkfjhskdjfhjsdf.

(also, sara and mick's conversation on the steps got me right in the tit heart)

Look I will admit like. I have about 48 opinions on this episode simultaneously because on the one hand: marital ass bow, also kind of a weird choice to have a wedding immediately after your friend's boyfriend died and also he turned into a mushroom and you ate him and tripped balls for 25 minutes.

But on the other hand, today I was watching Buffy bc I discovered that there's a truly excellent deal on digital seasons and now I can rewatch it in all media formats at all times and like. Where is that post about how we as a queer community eat our own because I am thinking about thirteen year old babyqueer me printing off promo photos of Alyson Hannigan as Willow (circa Season 1 we are going deep 1990s) and hiding them on the inside of my journal because it was Very Secret how gay they made me feel. I am thinking about how in 2002 the WB wouldn't let Willow and Tara kiss onscreen even though they'd canonically dated for an entire year. I'm thinking about the complex wink-wink nod-nod powerful magic tomfoolery that show had to do to heavily imply that Willow and Tara were Doing Gay Sex and I'm thinking about the casual homophobia on the seasons of Gilmore Girls that aired in the same year.I am thinking about that and then I'm thinking about how today I woke up and my wife went out to harvest potatoes and I had a coffee and watched a show on the same network where two woman superheroes got married to each other and all their friends were there and nobody's mom was homophobic at the ceremony and they used the word wife like 6 times.

And both of these can be true at the same time. And it can also be true that I will be making fun of those wedding outfits for approximately 9 years.

And it can also be true that on the one hand, Sara and Ava saying i do in front of their friends doing a trust circle/rugby scrum was so beautiful that the magic mushroom who protects the earth woke up and was like LOVE WINS and just. . .murdered all aliens. And the fact that on a mainstream network show queer love didn't get them stabbed is a big deal.

And yet on the other hand, Love Wins is such a trite statement that ultimately has contributed to the flattening of the LGBTQ experience into something palatable and normative such that suburban moms can say Love Is Love and feel like that's supporting The Gays and that is! They are! But also being queer can be casual sex and it can be fucking a stranger in a dungeon and it can be being single and not all queerness is palatable to Your Friend's Mom Karen and it's still worth protecting and celebrating even if it makes Some People Uncomfortable.

Anyway.

This is a very long way of saying a) I have a lot of feelings and also b) as a married elderly person I thought those vows were actually very honest and sweet and a nice blend of like. Not too goopy but also not too traditional and hetero and it was sweet.

#i'm still not thinking about sara being the Final Original it's fine it's whatever #i'm chill about it #anyway it turns out i have a lot of feelings about this wedding #and 50% of them are life is beautiful #50% of them are if they have sara and ava call each other wifey all season next year i'll drive to vancouver and give them such a lecture #inside me there are two wolves #and both of them are fucking lesbians #avalance: time wives #fandom nursing home roommates association #legends of tomorrow #lot spoilers #btvs #cw dcu feelings

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vivaciouslady · 3 years

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thank you to my dear @marilyn-monroes-jeans for tagging me in this ❤️

MUSIC

• favorite genre: this is so difficult because i listen a a lot of different things but probably 1930s-1950s standards, golden age musicals, or just whatever taylor swift is currently doing

• favorite artist(s): julie andrews, john denver, taylor swift, ginger rogers, soccer mommy, one direction (i yearn for the good old days), tchaikovsky, debussy

• favorite song: once again i have a TON but my favorite songs of all time is probably Farewell Andromeda by John Denver (the live version from An Evening With John Denver) and You’ll Be Reminded of Me (from Vivacious Lady) by Ginger Rogers

• most listened to song recently: either August by Taylor Swift or Old Cape Cod by Patti Page (both have the best end of summer in new england energy)

• song stuck in your head currently: the theme from Come September (1961)

• five favorite lyrics (not in any particular order):

- “Welcome to my evening, the closing of the day. You know I can try a million times never find a better way to tell you that I love you and all the songs I play are to thank you for allowing me inside your lovely day” Farewell Andromeda by John Denver

- “my house of stone, your ivy grows, and now i’m covered in you” Ivy by Taylor Swift

- “and when your heart is broken in two you’ll be reminded of me and i’ll be laughing… you’ll be reminded of me” You’ll Be Reminded of Me by Ginger Rogers

- “It's a bite of the apple, the touch of your lips. I'm stuck in the bathroom and sick over it” Scorpio Rising by Soccer Mommy

- “Birds love and bees love and whispering trees love, and that's what we both should do” He Loves and She Loves from Funny Face (1957), the original and the Julie Andrews Cover

BOOKS

• favorite genre: classics and fantasy

• favorite book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

• favorite author: Jane Austen

• favorite book series: Nancy Drew (but if you want an answer that’s more of an actual contained series i’d have to say Throne of Glass by Sara J. Maas)

• comfort book: The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

• the perfect book to read on a rainy day: We We’re Liars by E. Lockhart, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

• favorite book characters: Anne Shirley, Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Nancy Drew

• five quotes from your favorite book(s) that you know by heart:

- “That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. ‘My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.’ I stopped.” Ella Enchanted

- “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Pride and Prejudice

- “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” Pride and Prejudice

- “He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.” Ella Enchanted

- “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” Pride and Prejudice

TV & MOVIES

• favorite genre: for films it has to be rom-coms or just anything old hollywood in general (i know that’s not a genre) and for TV i like dramas and comedies

• favorite movie(s): Vivacious Lady (1938), The Sound of Music (1964), Stage Door (1937), and The Dream Lady (1918)

• comfort movie(s): (I have so many i’m sorry this isn’t even all of them) Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (2008), Ever After (1998), BBC’s Pride and Prejudice (1995, yes I know this is a miniseries), Funny Face (1957), Summer Magic (1963), The Parent Trap (1961), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Curly Top (1935), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Come September (1961), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Cinderella (1997), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Last Jedi (2017), and all my favs

• movies you watch every year: White Christmas (1954), Auntie Mame (1958), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Legally Blonde (2001), and literally all of my comfort movies (if i’m being honest all of these are comfort movies as well i’m a mess)

• favorite tv shows: Derry Girls, Downton Abbey, New Girl, The Julie Andrews Hour, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl (original), The X-Files, Criminal Minds, Sex Education, M*A*S*H, and The Haunting of Bly Manor

• most rewatched tv show: I think Derry Girls and Gossip Girl are probably tied for this one

• ultimate otp: oh my god obviously jamie and dani 🥺 (but also mary/matthew and mulder/scully my loves) EDIT: HOW DID I FORGET JEAN MAITLAND AND TERRY RANDALL OH MY GOD I WAS ONLY THINKING ABOUR TV BUT THEY ARE MY OTP

• five favorite characters:

from tv shows - Mary Crawley, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, James Maguire, Orla McCool

from movies - Francey Brent/Morgan, Danielle De Barbarac, Maria von Trapp, Mame Dennis, Mia Thermopolis

bonus: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy from the 1995 adaptation because it’s technically not a movie or tv show it’s a miniseries

oh wow okay that was so long!! i’m (no pressure) tagging: @retrodame @johnsonshildy @norashelley @chantalstacys @glamourofyesteryear @lickingyellowpaint <3 (sorry if you have already done this tag)

#i’d prefer long seasons if they didn’t have so much filler #rewatching/watching once depends on how much i liked the film/series lol #this was so fun #tag game #tagged

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sunflowerliberty · 3 years

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tagged by @byourladyhell - thanks!!

three ships: three random ones in no particular order are: noah/brian from I’ll Give You the Sun, howl/sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle, and Gilmore Girls’ Rory/Jess.

last song I listened to: “Five Years” by David Bowie

currently watching: this probably refers to tv shows but Im between those atm, but I am recently rewatching a lot of 90s/early 2000s teen movies for kicks

currently reading: I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters and Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers. Both are for class, and both are great so far.

how’s it going: well reading week is officially over and I have a midterm in a few days, so as usual, a bit stressed but plowing through 🙃

tagging: @write-the-stars @anyone else who sees this and thinks its fun - but no pressure :)

#el rambles #about me #tag meme #byourladyhell

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sickness-health-all-that-shit · 4 years

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Hi! So, let's talk about ships! What are the ships you absolutely love and what are the ships you absolutely hate? You can pick any show you want! 💞💞

hey sorry it took me a bit to get to this! wild ramblings ahead lol

so, I was thinking about my favourite OG ships the other day because of a post I saw on my dash, so I’m gonna talk about those ^^ they’re basically all from shows that haven’t been on the air for a while, bc frankly apart from gallavich, I’m not that much of a shipper these days, or I’m much more of a casual shipper whereas I used to get much more into it in a pretty intense way when I was a teenager (as I say, with one obvious exception). also I always tend to ship canon ships, apparently if they don’t have a strong chance of being endgame I’m not intrerested lol. so to finally answer your question some ships that I absolutely loved when I was younger and that I’m still very attached to are Luke/Lorelai from Gilmore Girls, Buffy/Spike from Btvs, Veronica/Logan from Veronica Mars (we’re gonna pretend this hasn’t been on the air for years too 🙃 better that way), Pacey/Joey from Dawson’s Creek, Pam/Jim from The Office (I’ve been rewatching lately and oof, man). ships I hate are usually the ones that stand in the way of my favourite ships (a lot of the ones I mentioned are caught in a love triangle/there’s an opposing ship to mine). I’m gonna mention a few ships I like from recent/current shows bc I do have a few of those too lol: Claire/Jaime from Outlander, Ava/Sara from Legends of tomorrow, Eric/Adam from Sex education aand I honestly can’t think of more now, but there are definitely a fair few I missed. but yeah in general, apart from Ian/MIckey, I’m not much of a shipper and my attitude to ships will be pretty neutral or like ‘yeah sure I ship them, but I’m not that bothered really’ lol

thanks for asking </33

#anons #answered

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inthistownwereallmonsters · 4 years

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I was tagged by @babysprousehart

rule: tag people you would like to get to know better or catch up with

1. top three ships in any order: Bughead obviously (Riverdale), Brittana (Glee) and Luke x Lorelai (Gilmore Girls)

2. last song: Goodbye by Miley Cyrus

3. last movie: haven’t watched many recently. I think Hustlers was the last one I rewatched

4. currently reading: rereading the Harry Potter series

5. currently watching: Dance Moms

6. currently eating: Goldfish

7. currently craving: some Italian food

🎶 put your playlist on shuffle and expose your first 10 songs! 🎵

1. (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay - Sara Bareilles

2. Never Stop - Hilary Duff

3. Toxic - Britney Spears

4. Me Against the Music - Glee Cast

5. At Last - Etta James

6. Santa Baby - Taylor Swift

7. River - Idina Menzel

8. Best Mistake - Ariana Grande feat. Big Sean

9. Blue Christmas - Kelly Clarkson

10. Human - Christina Perri

I’m tagging: @aliciarm @sprouse-hart3 @sprousehartalways @breezingflowers

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raxtenten · 6 years

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Tagged by @bitterotter, thaaaaankkk you

Rules: Tag 6 people you want to get know better and answer the questions.

Relationship Status: Single, I’ve dated 3 guys, had multiple flings, and many crushes on girls who I were too shy to approach (everytime I did I said stupid things cuz i’m a dumb gay)

Favorite Color: Red

Top 3 ships: Currently, Sara/Ava from Legends of Tomorrow, Benny/Courier from Fallout: New Vegas ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), and Lorelai/Luke from Gilmore Girls (I’ve been rewatching it and like honestly it’s cute and gives a good laugh)

Lipstick or Chapstick: LIPSTICK, chapstick is gooey and i hate it

Last Song: ZIPPER by BROCKHAMPTON, I keep telling myself I need to listen to more music, but then I just listen to brockhampton

Last Movie: Black Panther, I’ve been watching a lot of tv shows, but not movies lately

Top 3 Shows: Currently, Legends of Tommorrow, Black Lightning, and Gilmore Girls; I highly recommend Black Lighting it is literally soooo good, Legends of Tommorrow and Black Lighting are honestly the only good shows on CW anymore, IZombie is on thin ice

Currently Reading: The Magicians by Lev Grossman, I’ve been reading this book for months, but haven’t had the time to finish, when I’m finally finished, I will finally watch the tv show, but I also need to read the two other books in the series, will I ever watch the show?? :^) who knows

tagging @sinkingwithallmyships, @batl689, @nuclearmu5hroom, @mcwhoops, @kula-bb, and @ohnoagremlin

do this if you want, if you don’t want, don’t do

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mockingjayne12 · 7 years

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How come paul never watched season four? I mean he wrote it, didn't he?

no, actually he didn’t. he is the creator of the show, but the last episode he wrote was 3x01, and then he peaced out, only to come back again for the revival, which is why he redid the international breakout (from season three) as well as reworked the ending of season four, because it wasn’t what he wanted.

so while it was never his choice to kill michael, he has said that he never actually watched season four, which to me was glaringly obvious, much like amy sherman-palladino never having watched season seven of gilmore girls before writing the revival.

personally, i think that is a fatal flaw. certain things don’t make sense because of details disregarded, due to their complete lack of knowledge of what the hell even happened to the characters that they’re writing about.

it would be like someone writing the beginning of a book, someone else coming in and writing the middle, and then the same guy from the beginning comes in and writes the end without having any clue what happened in the middle.

and that was never more obvious than when sarah mentioned several times in interviews that she had to go up to paul and be like, “look, sara would NEVER,” in regards to her getting married, and changing her name, and letting mike call jacob dad. because unlike paul, sarah actually went back and rewatched the series and knew her character better than the people writing her.

without her who knows what kind of season we would’ve gotten in regards to misa.

fucking bless her.

#prison break #sara scofield #michael scofield #misa #sara tancredi #sarah wayne callies

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onceuponaseriesrewatch · 4 years

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Once Upon a Series Rewatch Press Release--6x21-6x22 The Final Battle

6x21-6x22 The Final Battle

Summary: Henry awakens to a cursed Storybrooke and discovers Emma has been in the mental hospital, and the Black Fairy is the new mayor. Henry attempts to help Emma regain her memory while Gold tries to find out what has really happened to Belle. Meanwhile, Snow, Charming, Regina, Zelena and Hook are trapped in a crumbling Fairy Tale Land and desperately try to figure out a way to be reunited with Emma and Henry.

Written by: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Directed by: Steve Pearlman (part 1); Ralph Hemecker (part 2)

Staring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White/Mary Margaret); Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan); Lana Parrilla (Evil Queen/Regina); Josh Dallas (Prince Charming/David); Emilie de Ravin (Belle); Colin O’Donoghue (Hook); Jared S. Gilmore (Henry Mills); Rebecca Mader (Wicked Witch/Zelena); Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold)

Guest Starring: Lee Arenberg (Leroy/Grumpy); Raphael Sbarge (Archie/Jiminy Cricket); Beverly Elliott (Granny); Deniz Akdeniz (Aladdin); Peter Marcin (Chief); Giles Matthey (Gideon); Andrew J. West (young man); Alison Fernandez (little girl); Ingrid Torrance (severe nurse); Jaime Murray (Black Fairy); Karen David (Jasmine); Gabe Khouth (Mr. Clark/Sneezy); Faustino Di Bauda (Walter/Sleepy); Sara Tomko (Tiger Lily); Olivia Steel Falconer (Violet)

The Final Battle airs February 16 at 8:00 pm EST

#ouasr #once upon a series rewatch #ouasr press release #6x21-6x22 the final battle

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userlaylivia · 2 months

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one of my favorite things about gilmore girls is seeing the development of rory/paris because they hated each other at first and then slowly became best friends and I love that so much!! now it's been years since I watched and idk if I'll like rogan in any way after years of not watching but I just can't see it lol literati will always be my otp and luke/lorelai and if rory had to end up with anyone besides jess it should've been paris just saying!!

#sara rambles #sara rewatches gilmore girls #1x04 #rory gilmore #paris gellar #rory x paris #literati #rory x jess #jess x rory #anti rogan #not really but I did say something about them so just to be safe lol #raris #is that their shipper name idek lol #gilmore girls

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clayray3290 · 7 years

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Clayray Closeout 2016

Oops, I was too busy celebrating New Year to post about these. I’ve tracked my music tastes using Last.fm for ages and had posted about my top tracks each year for the past 5 years, so here we go again. But first!

Music - Artists

Glass Animals

Beyoncé // Britney Spears

Secret

Civil Twilight

Jeon Hyosung

Tegan and Sara

Heather Maloney

Jesse & Joy

Sonamoo

I got really into Glass Animals this year. I had first heard them back in 2013, but their most recent album How To Be a Human Being (which you will soon see is very high on my albums list this year) really snagged my interest. I saw them live in September and was in the Top 1% of listeners on Spotify this year, so yeah, I was in deep. Not only do they make fantastic music, they are adorable British boys and I also just love how the album was such a fully engrossing creative project for them with other offshoots in different media.

I also saw Civil Twilight and Heather Maloney live, which is why they’re so high on the list. I almost went to see Jesse & Joy this year, but didn’t end up getting to go, but their album from late 2015 was great. In addition, I saw Aaron Tveit in concert, but considering that a lot of his music is ensemble work from musicals, they don’t scrobble as him individually, so he’s not on this list. There was a lot of Aaron Tveit this year, lol. I went to New York a bunch this year with my new roommate, and so after seeing him in concert, we went to NYC for a gala thing that he was also at. And I spoke to him!

Secret hit their 7th anniversary and then Sunhwa left the group, so there has been a lot of reminiscing about the last seven years and also, in a way, mourning the loss of the OT4. As Admin of Secret4Times, obviously this hit me pretty hard. But, looking forward to what’s next in store for Secret, and also for solo efforts. Hyosung’s solo album this year was excellent, landing her at #5 on this list. I actually am usually slightly biased towards Jieun, but her solo album came out later this year and actually I found it weaker than her previous albums (though I love I Wanna Fall In Love) so you don’t see her here.

Other music trends with me that aren’t necessarily reflected here: Went to the World Figure Skating Championships this past year and was there for the ShibSibs’ heartachingly beautiful Fix You in person and words can’t even express how much the emotion of it just filled me up. Also, what with Sing Street (which will you see on the Albums list below) and Stranger Things, there was a lot of 80′s in my life. I also went to the opera twice this year, The Merry Widow and Carmen, so I have felt quite cultured.

Music - Albums

Beyoncé - Lemonade

Glass Animals - How To Be a Human Being

Jeon Hyosung - Colored

Sonamoo - I Like U Too Much

Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death // Sing Street - Sing Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Royal Pirates - 3.3

Yuna - Chapters

Rooney - Washed Away

Glen Hansard - Music from the Motion Picture Once

Look, of course Lemonade is #1. Obviously. What more is there to say.

Most of these albums are recent releases by artists that I have been a fan of for a while. I have generally liked Tegan and Sara, but this album is just chock full of great, incredibly catchy songs. Many of the other tracks on that album almost made my top tracks list. On kinda the other end of the spectrum, I really enjoyed Yuna’s and Rooney’s albums, but it is more of a general wash of appreciation, rather than certain standout tracks.

I’d been a fan of Royal Pirates since their rock covers of Super Junior days, but to be honest, many of their actual releases up until this hadn’t quite made it into my heart. This album, though, finally crossed over that threshold for me.

This year I watched a lot of movie musicals. I’m generally a fan of musicals and a fan of movies, so there ya go. You can see the Glen Hansard ones - Sing Street and Once - both made this list because they had the advantage of being viewed earlier in the year. But I also watched Grease Live (TV not film in a way but whatevs), The Song (LOL does this count? This Christian kinda-musical drama was a fun watch with Sarah), 2gether (Also not exactly counting, but I’m being broad in my categorizing here), The Music Man (a rewatch obviously), Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, The Last Five Years, La La Land, Sweeney Todd, and my Christmas rewatch of In the Good Old Summertime. I did listen to more 2gether and if La La Land had been out earlier, I would definitely have more listens to that soundtrack. Speaking of movies...

Movies

Now I don’t watch movies multiple times like I listen to music over and over again, so this is a subjective ranking and not numbers-based. I’m also only going to do Top 5 because I watch far fewer current movies as they are released than listen to music and also because I am tired lol.

La La Land I saw La La Land in a free preview and it is so so delightful. Another one of those movies that I came out of thinking, this is the culmination of everything that Clara loves. Except if I think about it more in-depth and critically, I get mad about the problematic mansplaining, white-splaining Ryan Gosling character (Shouldn’t have read that article), but as an experience, it just inspired wide-eyed splendor. Damien Chazelle went to Harvard, y’know, and I didn’t know this until recently, but he was in Chester French, and I’m friends with D.A. Wallach from Chester French on Facebook so I’m basically like two degrees away. Also I know someone from college who was like the assistant to one of the producers of this! So a lot of Harvard-ness around this, I guess.

Ghostbusters I didn’t see Ghostbusters in theatres, which I regret, but I saw it on a plane recently and it was so so great. Badass ladies were great, the humor was great, the theme song is forever great.

Zootopia I care a lot about children’s media and Zootopia deftly demonstrates how children’s media is so significant and meaningful for everyone. I thought it was going to be a cute animated movie and it was, but it delivered nuance and message in that cute animated package.

Train to Busan I watched Train to Busan only like a week ago with my family over the holidays. It’s an excellent zombie movie with some emotional heft to it, thanks to the always great Gong Yoo, and also I just marveled at the visual effects of the zombies just piling on top of each other.

The Handmaiden For some reason, I had gone into The Handmaiden thinking it was a Victorian lesbian vampire thriller. There are no vampires involved, and I honestly waited the entire time for them and was baffled. I went by myself to a screening at the Brattle and it was one of those things where I was like, is it weirder if I go by myself or is it weirder to ask someone to go with me? But anyway, it’s a lushly beautiful movie and I’m glad I got to see it.

Television

Signal This was actually really really tough between the top three shows. Signal won out in the end because of its tight plotting and emotional impact. It is def not a happy show, by any means, (really. NOT a happy show) but it is certainly engrossing and amazingly well-crafted.

Speechless The power of this show, on the other hand, is how light and happy it is. Micah Fowler is so sassy and the show overall is supremely funny.

Insecure As I said, it was really really tough to decide about placement for these top three shows. I had watched a little bit of Awkward Black Girl so I knew that Issa Rae was great, but this show is even greater than expected. The stories are so real and the performances are excellent.

The Good Place I don’t know how this happened but I guess I’m more into comedy now? I’m usually more of a drama kind of gal, bonus points if there is death involved. I guess this show does involve death, though, and it also has Kristen Bell so that works out? This show indulges in a little more silliness, which I appreciate.

The Wine Show Not a scripted show, but this show earns this place because it is just a ridiculous thing that it exists. Literally it’s just about Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys sitting around and talking about wine. Well, they go on like missions or whatever, but that’s basically it. I found out about this earlier in the year, I think, I remember talking about it at the airport on our way to some tour stop, and then after Harvard-Yale, started watching it a bit with Raafi and Zuzanna. I’m all about educational television made entertainment, so this is great.

The above list is of new shows that premiered in 2016, but there were also some other fantastic shows that I watched in 2016.

I got really really into the Norwegian show Skam over the holidays. I had been meaning to watch it for a while, because it is a teen drama! Exactly the kind of show I like! I marathoned it all during the break. The second season is the weakest (I have my qualms about the trite plot devices and it made me like Noora less than I did, which made me very sad), but the first and third seasons are excellent. The protagonist of the first season, Eva, developed so real-ly and it was this development that gave what the best teen dramas offer. I love the Russ Group Girl Squad, and so in a way was a bit sad that S3 didn’t focus on them quite as much, but Isak’s story was done so so well.

Also in 2016, I started watching Alias, Fresh Meat, Superstore, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend... And I watched the French show Les Revenants which is SO SO GOOD. Another big TV thing for me this year was The Bachelor franchise. I had somehow gone 26 years without ever watching anything in the franchise, despite my unabashed enjoyment of dating shows, and I got sucked in this year. Like really sucked in.

I also finished my Veronica Mars rewatch as my gym TV show and for a hot second tried to watch The Wire as my next gym TV show. That was a bad idea. I have since switched over to Gilmore Girls. I haven’t finished that rewatch yet, so obviously hadn’t finished before watching the revival series.

Alrighty, I have now egotistically reflected on my tastes of the year. Onto the next!

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