march scrapbook
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latespringThe end of winter quarter, spring break, and the beginning of spring! Lots happened. I spent my spring break visiting friends rather than reading or watching anything, so this is rather sparse.
Ponyo (2008) ★★★★☆
This was cute!! I don't think I watched the whole thing (or at least can't remember the ending), but my friends put it on while we were cooking, and it was fun.
Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game (2017) ★★★☆☆
Em anime renaissance spring?
Listen, this is not a good movie for a variety of reasons, but! AKAASHI. (AND THEY JUST END THE MOVIE WITHOUT ADDRESSING [SPOILERS]??)
I don't think I read any books this month?? Which doesn't feel right, but I don't remember them if they've happened. I'll edit this later if I think of any.
Hunter x Hunter (2011) ep. 23/?
Nostalgic! I like this series. It has weird tests. It has Killua, my poor meow meow. It has tiny children doing inadvisable things. It has Kurapika (trans icon). What more could I want?
I'm doing a rewatch, it hits that spot of "engaging enough to zone out to but not boring" which is perfect.
Soul Eater (2008) ep. 12/51
Also nostalgic! Doing a rewatch because I'm doing a soul eater au (vaguely using the lore but not the plotline, but I still want to be fresh on the lore).
Naruto (2002)
Watched a couple of episodes of this with friends. It's fun!
We’re Here, We’re Here by K.M. Szpara
Short story about a boy and his boyband and wanting to sing. Fun trans rep. I liked it but I wasn't blown away?
Not doing great with the "finishing books" recently, but I think that's partially because I have some assigned reading I need to get to. I can't put that off for these, but I don't want to do it either, so neither gets done. I'll try to get some finished in April.
Currently:
- Yearly rewatch of Nirvana in Fire! 22/54
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- The Silent Sea (ep 1)
- Beyond Evil (ep 1)
- Vincenzo (2021), up to ep 10
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley P Chan, 1/4 through
Picked up again:
-Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (2/3 through)
Left this at home:
- Halfway Home by Reuben Jonathan Miller
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, 1/2 through
As a Father of Daughters by Hannah Aizenman
Drift by Alicia Mountain
Climate by Meghann Plunkett
Of what I have unlearned
this was the hardest.
One sandpiper singing
still, desire does not
have to leave you
ruined.
Cloud Demolition by Willa Carroll
Eclipse Season by Tracy Fuad
At the New York City AIDS Memorial by Stefania Gomez
Your absence is a bisected city
block where a hospital once stood.
Welcome to the Gut House by Noʻu Revilla
Femme Futures by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down by Emily Pittinos
How you can find that what you believed was singular, and needed
to be, is not—
This, too, a trick of light or distance—
the burst cattail no cattail at all, but a stalk
of lush grass weighted with snow.
This, too—how could you.
Red-Lipped Poem by Tarfia Faizullah
Glossolalia by Eugenia Leigh
The Pact by Victoria Redel
Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film by Rio Cortez
In Safranbolu by Monica Ferrell
Ghosts by Dana Jaye Cadman
Divorce Song by Jameson Fitzpatrick
At the Spring Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimké
The Spring Has Many Silences by Laura Riding Jackson
Lion by Tina Chang
I lived not to sate my appetite but to crush it.
On my haunches, I craved what could not be seen.
I am desire. I am survival.
I sit under the tree waiting for hunger.
SCROBBLES: 3,372 ▲
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 108 ▲
Stray Kids released an album and I really liked it!!! Charmer, Venom, Muddy Water, and Maniac were highlights, but honestly the whole thing was so good.
Some other highlights from this month: recs from friends (Wolf Alice, and GETCHA!). Rationale released a new song I really liked (ty Almay for linking me), and some of my friends got really into Astro (I loved Blue Flame, as evidenced below). The Boyz also released an OST that I liked!
Vienna Teng is just always good, any time music. Also picked up LATHI off of a recommendation from a skz vlive lollll. 总有一天 - Live… <3.
Artists:
Albums:
Songs:
Movies
Ponyo (2008) ★★★★☆
This was cute!! I don't think I watched the whole thing (or at least can't remember the ending), but my friends put it on while we were cooking, and it was fun.
Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game (2017) ★★★☆☆
Em anime renaissance spring?
Listen, this is not a good movie for a variety of reasons, but! AKAASHI. (AND THEY JUST END THE MOVIE WITHOUT ADDRESSING [SPOILERS]??)
Books
I don't think I read any books this month?? Which doesn't feel right, but I don't remember them if they've happened. I'll edit this later if I think of any.
TV
Hunter x Hunter (2011) ep. 23/?
Nostalgic! I like this series. It has weird tests. It has Killua, my poor meow meow. It has tiny children doing inadvisable things. It has Kurapika (trans icon). What more could I want?
I'm doing a rewatch, it hits that spot of "engaging enough to zone out to but not boring" which is perfect.
Soul Eater (2008) ep. 12/51
Also nostalgic! Doing a rewatch because I'm doing a soul eater au (vaguely using the lore but not the plotline, but I still want to be fresh on the lore).
Naruto (2002)
Watched a couple of episodes of this with friends. It's fun!
MISC
We’re Here, We’re Here by K.M. Szpara
Short story about a boy and his boyband and wanting to sing. Fun trans rep. I liked it but I wasn't blown away?
In Progress
Not doing great with the "finishing books" recently, but I think that's partially because I have some assigned reading I need to get to. I can't put that off for these, but I don't want to do it either, so neither gets done. I'll try to get some finished in April.
Currently:
- Yearly rewatch of Nirvana in Fire! 22/54
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- The Silent Sea (ep 1)
- Beyond Evil (ep 1)
- Vincenzo (2021), up to ep 10
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley P Chan, 1/4 through
Picked up again:
-Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (2/3 through)
Left this at home:
- Halfway Home by Reuben Jonathan Miller
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, 1/2 through
Poetry
As a Father of Daughters by Hannah Aizenman
Drift by Alicia Mountain
Climate by Meghann Plunkett
Of what I have unlearned
this was the hardest.
One sandpiper singing
still, desire does not
have to leave you
ruined.
Cloud Demolition by Willa Carroll
Eclipse Season by Tracy Fuad
At the New York City AIDS Memorial by Stefania Gomez
Your absence is a bisected city
block where a hospital once stood.
Welcome to the Gut House by Noʻu Revilla
Femme Futures by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down by Emily Pittinos
How you can find that what you believed was singular, and needed
to be, is not—
This, too, a trick of light or distance—
the burst cattail no cattail at all, but a stalk
of lush grass weighted with snow.
This, too—how could you.
Red-Lipped Poem by Tarfia Faizullah
Glossolalia by Eugenia Leigh
The Pact by Victoria Redel
Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film by Rio Cortez
In Safranbolu by Monica Ferrell
Ghosts by Dana Jaye Cadman
Divorce Song by Jameson Fitzpatrick
At the Spring Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimké
The Spring Has Many Silences by Laura Riding Jackson
Lion by Tina Chang
I lived not to sate my appetite but to crush it.
On my haunches, I craved what could not be seen.
I am desire. I am survival.
I sit under the tree waiting for hunger.
Music
SCROBBLES: 3,372 ▲
SCROBBLES PER DAY: 108 ▲
Stray Kids released an album and I really liked it!!! Charmer, Venom, Muddy Water, and Maniac were highlights, but honestly the whole thing was so good.
Some other highlights from this month: recs from friends (Wolf Alice, and GETCHA!). Rationale released a new song I really liked (ty Almay for linking me), and some of my friends got really into Astro (I loved Blue Flame, as evidenced below). The Boyz also released an OST that I liked!
Vienna Teng is just always good, any time music. Also picked up LATHI off of a recommendation from a skz vlive lollll. 总有一天 - Live… <3.
Artists:
- Stray Kids - 364
- TAEMIN - 209
- THE BOYZ - 143
- Rina Sawayama - 99
- Mitski - 83
- Astro - 77
- Wolf Alice - 71
- Rationale - 67
- Vienna Teng - 65
- Seventeen - 60
Albums:
- ODDINARY by Stray Kids - 257
- SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama - 76
- bury me at makeout creek by Mitski - 75
- Blue Weekend by Wolf Alice - 71
- NOEASY by Stray Kids - 70
- BLUE FLAME by Astro - 68
- Echo [From "Solo Leveling" (Original Soundtrack)] by THE BOYZ - 55
- LATHI (with Sara Fajira) by Weird Genius - 45
- Inland Territory by Vienna Teng - 39
- Freedom by Rationale - 38
Songs:
- Blue Flame by Astro - 68
- Venom by Stray Kids - 54
- Echo by THE BOYZ - 53
- Charmer by Stray Kids - 49
- LATHI (with Sara Fajira) by Weird Genius - 45
- Freedom by Rationale - 38
- Freeze by Stray Kids - 36
- MANIAC by Stray Kids - 36
- 总有一天 - Live by 声入人心男团 - 35
- GETCHA! (feat. Hatsune Miku & GUMI) by Giga - 33