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2024 Yearly Favorites

  • Dec 31, 2024
  • 2 min read

If I could do this year over, there are things I would do differently. I would choose to not open up as much. To be less vulnerable. To trust less. But that would be its own mistake. Because the choices I made led me here for a reason. I don't know what that is. And here is not a pleasant place. But it is where I am.


It's been... a year. And here are my yearly favorites.


Books/Manga:

1. Caraval/Broken Heart Universe

2. By the Orchid and the Owl

3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

4. Warcross Series

5. A Silent Voice


Movies:

1. When Harry Met Sally...

2. Uglies

3. Spider-Man Homecoming

4. Black Panther

5. My Fault


TV/Anime:

1. Good Trouble

2. Dance Academy

3. NANA

4. Skip and Loafer

5. Riverdale


Video Games:

1. Persona 3 Reload

2. Paranormasight

3. Super Mario Bros. Wonder

4. Gnosia

5. Palia


Characters:

1. Fuuka Yamagishi (Persona 3)

2. Reth (Palia)

3. Mio Kurosuzu (Paranormasight)

4. Setsu (Gnosia)

5. Shoko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice)


Ships:

1. Rayna Drey/Coen Steeler (By the Orchid and the Owl)

2. Harry Burns/Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally...)

3. Mitsumi Iwakura/Sōsuke Shima (Skip and Loafer)

4. Shoya Ishida/Shoko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice)

5. Betty Cooper/Veronica Lodge (Riverdale)


Musical Artists:

1. Taylor Swift

2. Delerium

3. Ellie Goulding

4. Ivy

5. CLAVVS

6. Anna Nalick

7. CHVRCHES

8. Rilo Kiley

9. Ariana Grande

10. Gabrielle Aplin


Albums:

1. {Taylor Swifts's Entire Discography}

2. Long Distance (Ivy)

3. Bright Lights (Ellie Goulding)

4. No Saviors (CLAVVS)

5. Love is Dead (CHVRCHES)


Songs:

1. Edge of the Ocean (Ivy)

2. The Prophecy & So Long London (Taylor Swift)

3. Fade Away (Susanne Sundfør)

4. We Can't Be Friends (Ariana Grande)

5. Beloved (Say Lou Lou)

6. What If I Love You (Gatlin)

7. Secret (Chelsea Lankes)

8. Under the Blacklight (Rilo Kiley)

9. Keeps (CLAVVS)

10. 400 Lux (Lorde)

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