2025 faves

i lied before, we're doing 2025 retrospectives after all. tagged by commanderspock and fake-monalisa on tumblr <3

🎧 music

albums

(2025 releases only)

• SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart
• Sophia Kennedy - Squeeze Me
• Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts
• Sorry - COSPLAY
• Leon Vynehall - In Daytona Yellow
• Haru Nemuri - ekkolaptómenos
• Bria Salmena - Big Dog
• Jane Inc. - A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH
• ganavya - Nilam
• Deradoorian - Ready for Heaven

... and some runners-up to the top 10 list:

• Wet Leg - Moisturizer
• Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves
• Circuit des Yeux - Halo on the Inside
• Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
• Debby Friday - The Starr of the Queen of Life
• Automatic - Is It Now?
• Faetooth - Labyrinthine
• Lady Gaga - MAYHEM

singles & standalone tracks

• "Toxicity" - Fionn
• "Mine or Yours" - Hikaru Utada (& its various remixes)
• "SLIME is BESTIE [Sega Bodega + JT]" - Shygirl
• "Foundry" - Yu Su
• "Koko (Sun's Signature Remix)" - Goldfrapp

📚 books

(fiction only & as usual, some of these were started in 2024 because I'm an insane person who reads 20 books at the same time and takes forever to finish any of them)

• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
• A Wizard of Earthsea & The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Beowulf: A New Translation - Maria Dahvana Headley (translator)
• Perfumes: The Guide (2018 edition) - Tania Sanchez & Luca Torin
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
• Margery Kempe - Robert Gluck
• Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
• Ballad of Sword and Wine (vols. 1-3) - Tang Jiu Qing
• Marilou Is Everywhere - Sarah Elaine Smith

🎥 movies

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)
• Sinners (2025)
• Carnival of Souls (1962)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Night Tide (1961)
• Strange Days (1995)
• John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
• Conclave (2024)
• Vampire Hunter D (1985)