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media review / march
Apr. 1st, 2021 02:58 pmi have an obsession with tracking things - i actually used to do these media reviews i've seen people do on here back when i still used a bullet journal, but since i am incapable of being consistent with anything in my life i stopped lmao. anyway, now that i have this account i thought i might as well try it out? i'm kind of on a dreamwidth roll rn i feel like, so i'll just take advantage of it before i inevitably get tired of it and move on to something else to spend all my time on. btw this is probably going to be extremely long, because i apparently am incapable of shutting up, and NO I STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THE CUT TAGS >:(
overall i'd say pretty good film month? i'm very inconsistent with the amount of media i consume - last month i didn't watch any films at at and this month i kind of went ham in comparison. i watched a bunch of ghibli films - i spent a huge chunk of this month being ill because allergy season has been trying to murder me so i could really use the pick-me-up. arrietty was my favourite; invented cottage core, the cat returns was a lot um.. weirder than expected, and ocean waves offended me on a personal level hjsdhjs but all three of them had the nostalgic ghibli quality to them that i adore. also beautiful animation and music!! i'm actually pretty sad about ocean waves because it could've easily been a favourite if it had ended differently? i actually feel the same way about from up on poppy hill, while watching i was so sure i was going to love it and then it took a very strange turn lol </3
emma. was one of my favourite films this month visually. such pretty colors and cinematography. plotwise it was mostly just white people going to tea parties and visiting estates and courting each other which i have figured out just Isn't My Thing. i know those types of period pieces are appealing for a reason but they're just not for me, i guess you could say it isn't my cup of tea lololol. also i really did not like mr. knightley's sideburns. it was all i could think about when he was on screen, why did they give the main guy those ugly sideburns while every other male character didn't have any?? but anya ... <333 that scene where she puts a strawberry (?) in her mouth <333
about the atla film... needless to say this was not good um. i watched this with a friend which made it a lot funnier, i think i would've gone insane if i'd watched it alone. when it was done we just kind of sat at a complete loss. it was unbelievably horrid. a few comments:
"they are white... they're all white :0"
those were the only two shows i finished this month - i'm generally really slow at watching tv-series lol. i loved them both? i rewatched atla with my parents, we saw one, sometimes two episodes each day so we've been going at it for a while. this time around i noticed a few details i hadn't picked up on when i was like 16 - zuko using fighting styles from all four nations in The Final Fight, the swampbenders having sino-vietnamese names. my dad is a philosophical buddhist so he also provided me with some fun facts he noticed; gyatso meaning ocean in tibetan, azula's fighting style being more direct and aggressive than the typical fire bending style, the philosophy behind aang's To Kill Or Not To Kill dilemma etc etc. it was a super interesting rewatch!!
i watched jujutsu kaisen with a friend over discord which has been my main source of social interaction this month sdjsdh T___T first of all, devastated to announce that i have fallen victim to gojou, no one is more annoyed about this than me. second of all i adore the friendship between the main trio. they care about each other so much, and they deserve to live in peace and be happy ://. i love the characters, especially the show's depiction of its female characters. they're badass without falling in the I Hate Other Women trap, nobara is just A Delight; she is such a bad bitch but she also likes things typically associated with hyper-feminity and her character has you know.... actual character lol. i realize the bar for good female characters especially in shounen is pretty low but nobara is a good character okay T____T
this was the only book i read this month but i really loved it so that's a plus! it's probably one of my favourite books in general now, i read it for class, and i probably wouldn't have picked it up anyway so school finally did one thing right lmao. this book was just really interesting? it dealt with a very wide variety of topics that played really well together: female friendships, motherhood, racial, cultural and sexual identity and um the meat industry. it makes more sense when you read the book lol.
top tracks:
misc:
- fire emblem: three houses:
i still play this religiously, which is honestly?? very impressive for me. we've been going strong for 4 months now :0 i just finished my third playthrough of the game, which means i've cleared 3/4 of all the routes (the main three, i'm only missing the church route now). i played my recent route (the blue lions route) on hard which meant i actually had to think strategically (gasp) and not just randomly move things around and hope no one dies lmao.
my favourite route so far is probably the golden deer route because what can i say, i am a sucker for underdog narratives!! i love the other routes too tho - black eagles could probably come out on top of my rankings if it wasn't for the fact that it's short and leaves a Quite Important Plot Point unresolved. or well, it's solved but it happens off screen lol
favourite characters are claude (!!!), hilda, lysithea, sylvain, felix and dorothea, i think they're all super neat, except sylvain and felix who are just bastards sdhsjdhjs. my favourite supports are any supports where felix is being uncharacteristically nice and not a huge bitch because it's funny (felix/lysithea, felix/bernie, felix/sylvain A support etc etc). also big fan of marihilda and ferdibert supports for the Gay, and lysithea/cyril for the innocent puppy love that just guts you at the end.
- bnha chapters 304-307
i was debating whether i should put this under books but decided against it since they aren't in book form yet. but Yes i follow the bnha manga willingly, and read the new updates every sunday because i enjoy suffering <3 the current arc is batshit insane and has removed years from my lifespan, i am living in a constant state of stress for these poor children.
about season 5 of the anime which has jus started airing - i haven't watched it yet, and i'm not sure i'll follow along each week of if i'll just wait until x amount of episodes are out so i don't have to wait but i'm so excited to see the team bakugou fight and the dabihawks scenes ANIMATED aaah it's gonna be so cool... dabihawks..... "you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up" versus "you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid"......
-these two articles on the vietnam war, cw for heavy, graphic themes such as rape, murder, genocide:
films:
the secret world of arrietty ★★★★
the cat returns ★★★.5
ocean waves ★★
emma. ★★★.5
the last airbender 0.5 lol
the last black man in san francisco ★★★★.5
little women (2019) ★★★★★
the cat returns ★★★.5
ocean waves ★★
emma. ★★★.5
the last airbender 0.5 lol
the last black man in san francisco ★★★★.5
little women (2019) ★★★★★
overall i'd say pretty good film month? i'm very inconsistent with the amount of media i consume - last month i didn't watch any films at at and this month i kind of went ham in comparison. i watched a bunch of ghibli films - i spent a huge chunk of this month being ill because allergy season has been trying to murder me so i could really use the pick-me-up. arrietty was my favourite; invented cottage core, the cat returns was a lot um.. weirder than expected, and ocean waves offended me on a personal level hjsdhjs but all three of them had the nostalgic ghibli quality to them that i adore. also beautiful animation and music!! i'm actually pretty sad about ocean waves because it could've easily been a favourite if it had ended differently? i actually feel the same way about from up on poppy hill, while watching i was so sure i was going to love it and then it took a very strange turn lol </3
emma. was one of my favourite films this month visually. such pretty colors and cinematography. plotwise it was mostly just white people going to tea parties and visiting estates and courting each other which i have figured out just Isn't My Thing. i know those types of period pieces are appealing for a reason but they're just not for me, i guess you could say it isn't my cup of tea lololol. also i really did not like mr. knightley's sideburns. it was all i could think about when he was on screen, why did they give the main guy those ugly sideburns while every other male character didn't have any?? but anya ... <333 that scene where she puts a strawberry (?) in her mouth <333
about the atla film... needless to say this was not good um. i watched this with a friend which made it a lot funnier, i think i would've gone insane if i'd watched it alone. when it was done we just kind of sat at a complete loss. it was unbelievably horrid. a few comments:
"they are white... they're all white :0"
"they pronounce aang as if they're british... ohng.... wa er bending"
"i do not like this" x100
"they all look dead... ACT. DO SOMETHING"
"who ARE you"
"why do they need to move around for five minutes to bend one thing"
"oh no fire! said the fire bender"
"that looks like contemporary dance"
*general confused screaming*
"WHY IS HE BREAKDANCING"
"this movie would not have passed our media exam"
"ah yes, the great library you keep mentioning, that you will not expand upon"
"i love her energy, go girl give us nothing"
"i love her energy, go girl give us nothing"
"they just wanted a mythological creature and put in a dragon because they thought it was cool"
"how do they give us too much information without giving us any information at all at the same time?"
the last black man in san francisco and little women are my favourite films from this month :') they were both so beautiful, especially tlbmisf was just stunning. i will think about the opening five minutes until the day i die. everything about this film was gorgeous; the cinematography, the score, the story, the performances [cries into hands]. it was just....!!! it spoke about gentrification and friendship and ideas of masculinity and belonging and it was all just so moving
as for little women, i know i just said period dramas aren't my thing but this doesn't revolve around drinking tea and courtships >:) i feel like everyhing that can be said about it has been said already? it was good, the equivalent of being hugged (not to say it wasn't sad at all because it was). the depictions of relationships between the characters were wonderful, especially those between the sisters. something i really liked was how casual the physical touch and affection was; so many hugs and casual touches not just between the sisters but also things like laurie putting an arm around beth or john patting amy on the shoulder, you know small things that just show how much they've become part of the family. this movie was just filled with so much love [cries even more].... i love love!!!
as for little women, i know i just said period dramas aren't my thing but this doesn't revolve around drinking tea and courtships >:) i feel like everyhing that can be said about it has been said already? it was good, the equivalent of being hugged (not to say it wasn't sad at all because it was). the depictions of relationships between the characters were wonderful, especially those between the sisters. something i really liked was how casual the physical touch and affection was; so many hugs and casual touches not just between the sisters but also things like laurie putting an arm around beth or john patting amy on the shoulder, you know small things that just show how much they've become part of the family. this movie was just filled with so much love [cries even more].... i love love!!!
series:
avatar the last airbender ★★★★★ (rewatch)
jujutsu kaisen ★★★★
jujutsu kaisen ★★★★
those were the only two shows i finished this month - i'm generally really slow at watching tv-series lol. i loved them both? i rewatched atla with my parents, we saw one, sometimes two episodes each day so we've been going at it for a while. this time around i noticed a few details i hadn't picked up on when i was like 16 - zuko using fighting styles from all four nations in The Final Fight, the swampbenders having sino-vietnamese names. my dad is a philosophical buddhist so he also provided me with some fun facts he noticed; gyatso meaning ocean in tibetan, azula's fighting style being more direct and aggressive than the typical fire bending style, the philosophy behind aang's To Kill Or Not To Kill dilemma etc etc. it was a super interesting rewatch!!
i watched jujutsu kaisen with a friend over discord which has been my main source of social interaction this month sdjsdh T___T first of all, devastated to announce that i have fallen victim to gojou, no one is more annoyed about this than me. second of all i adore the friendship between the main trio. they care about each other so much, and they deserve to live in peace and be happy ://. i love the characters, especially the show's depiction of its female characters. they're badass without falling in the I Hate Other Women trap, nobara is just A Delight; she is such a bad bitch but she also likes things typically associated with hyper-feminity and her character has you know.... actual character lol. i realize the bar for good female characters especially in shounen is pretty low but nobara is a good character okay T____T
books:
my year of meats - ruth ozeki ★★★★.5
this was the only book i read this month but i really loved it so that's a plus! it's probably one of my favourite books in general now, i read it for class, and i probably wouldn't have picked it up anyway so school finally did one thing right lmao. this book was just really interesting? it dealt with a very wide variety of topics that played really well together: female friendships, motherhood, racial, cultural and sexual identity and um the meat industry. it makes more sense when you read the book lol.
cw for depictions of abuse, rape, animal slaughter, and general unpleasantries regarding the meat industry.
scrobbles:
i just made a last.fm account like two weeks ago so my numbers are only from the 16th to the 31st which?? i have 632 scrobbles in total how the fuck did i do that
top tracks:
- lost in paradise by ali - 17 scrobbles
- hai domo (man i dont even know...) - 11 scrobbles
- a town with an ocean view - 10 scrobbles
- moon by akmu - 9 scrobbles
- 月の丘 (the hill of the moon) by ichiko aoba - 9 scrobbles
top albums:
- lilac by iu - 47 scrobbles
- sailing by akmu - 39 scrobbles
- kiki's delivery service soundtrack - 35 scrobbles
- land of nod by thea - 22 scrobbles
- BABYMETAL by babymetal - 15 scrobbles
artists
- iu - 74 scrobbles
- akmu - 52 scrobbles
- joe hisaishi - 39 scrobbles
- babymetal - 22 scrobbles
- thea - 22 scrobbles
i can't remember the exact reason but earlier this month i started Thinking about fish in the water by akmu, so i re-listened to it, and now i've had the entire album on repeat again. i love akmu <3
lost in paradise is the first ending song for jujutsu kaisen, AND IT'S A JAM. i love that song with my whole heart, it's just instant serotonin injected straight into my veins. it's so so good and makes me so so happy.
about hai domo. the other day i felt like making a femblem lysithea playlist because... why not procrastinate some more.
land of nod by thea is such a gem :') it's so dreamy and vibey, if you're into j a z z and soul i'd definitely recommend checking it out!! i think my favourite songs from the album are inside out, one wish and place at the table
lost in paradise is the first ending song for jujutsu kaisen, AND IT'S A JAM. i love that song with my whole heart, it's just instant serotonin injected straight into my veins. it's so so good and makes me so so happy.
about hai domo. the other day i felt like making a femblem lysithea playlist because... why not procrastinate some more.
land of nod by thea is such a gem :') it's so dreamy and vibey, if you're into j a z z and soul i'd definitely recommend checking it out!! i think my favourite songs from the album are inside out, one wish and place at the table
misc:
- fire emblem: three houses:
i still play this religiously, which is honestly?? very impressive for me. we've been going strong for 4 months now :0 i just finished my third playthrough of the game, which means i've cleared 3/4 of all the routes (the main three, i'm only missing the church route now). i played my recent route (the blue lions route) on hard which meant i actually had to think strategically (gasp) and not just randomly move things around and hope no one dies lmao.
my favourite route so far is probably the golden deer route because what can i say, i am a sucker for underdog narratives!! i love the other routes too tho - black eagles could probably come out on top of my rankings if it wasn't for the fact that it's short and leaves a Quite Important Plot Point unresolved. or well, it's solved but it happens off screen lol
favourite characters are claude (!!!), hilda, lysithea, sylvain, felix and dorothea, i think they're all super neat, except sylvain and felix who are just bastards sdhsjdhjs. my favourite supports are any supports where felix is being uncharacteristically nice and not a huge bitch because it's funny (felix/lysithea, felix/bernie, felix/sylvain A support etc etc). also big fan of marihilda and ferdibert supports for the Gay, and lysithea/cyril for the innocent puppy love that just guts you at the end.
- bnha chapters 304-307
i was debating whether i should put this under books but decided against it since they aren't in book form yet. but Yes i follow the bnha manga willingly, and read the new updates every sunday because i enjoy suffering <3 the current arc is batshit insane and has removed years from my lifespan, i am living in a constant state of stress for these poor children.
about season 5 of the anime which has jus started airing - i haven't watched it yet, and i'm not sure i'll follow along each week of if i'll just wait until x amount of episodes are out so i don't have to wait but i'm so excited to see the team bakugou fight and the dabihawks scenes ANIMATED aaah it's gonna be so cool... dabihawks..... "you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up" versus "you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid"......
-these two articles on the vietnam war, cw for heavy, graphic themes such as rape, murder, genocide:
