J'aime, je n'aime pas.
Inspired by the list of Roland Barthes, certified literary babygirl.
I like: cardigans, writing, reading, recipes that let you save old bread, Revolutionary Girl Utena, flowy skirts, couscous, emotions that feel both universal and impossible to put into words, sugar cookies, fictional men, weird art, winter clothing, large pillows, loosely held gender convictions, magical girls, unreliable narrators, reliable narrators, narrators who are of middling reliability, girls with swords, USB flash drives, unconventional punctuation usage, smile lines, etc.
I dislike: bad textures, lightning to USB cables, words with bad mouthfeels, seafood, oversimplifcations, needless complications, capitalism, the French, every currently-existing citation system, graph paper, holding batteries, looking at phone screens after waking up, decision-making, "spontaneity, evenings with people I don't know, etc."
Media I Like :)
Note: A lot of these cover some potentially triggering concepts! Although I believe each one covers and depicts these topics well, I want to make sure people know what they're getting into. Hover over the "(Trigger Warning)" tag next to the items to get a quick list of warnings!
Shows and Movies:- Revolutionary Girl Utena and Adolescence of Utena are so important that it gets a mention on both this list and the J'aime list. The only reason this "Shows and Movies" section gets to go first is because of Utena. (Trigger Warning)
- Lupin the Third
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Revue Starlight and Revue Starlight the Movie
- Sailor Moon
- Madoka Magica (Trigger Warning)
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Spirited Away
- Spiderverse! Both of them.
- Gravity Falls
- Amphibia
- The Green Knight (2021)
Literature:
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (Trigger Warning)
- "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy (Trigger Warning)
- "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" by Isabel Fall
- "Lena" by qntm
- "Inside the Wolf" by M.B. Smith
- "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
- "In the Cart" and The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- "Twerk Villanelle" by Porsha Olayiwola
- "Cattails" by Nikky Finney
- "Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes, certified literary babygirl
Games:
- Undertale by Toby Fox
- Butterfly Soup by Brianna Lei (Trigger Warning)
- Disco Elysium
- Pokemon Platinum
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Videos:
- Petscop by Tony Domenico (Trigger Warning)
- Local58 by Kris Straub (Trigger Warning)
- "who wrote Caramelldansen?" by jan Misali
- "Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss" by Brian David Gilbert (Trigger Warning)
- "Line Goes Up: The Problem with NFTs" by Folding Ideas
- "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response" by hbomberguy (Trigger Warning)
- "I Made That Awful Jeans Chair" by Jenna Marbles
- Basically every single Jenny Nicholson video.
Music:
- Most Lemon Demon songs, but especially: "Aurora Borealis" and "I've Got Some Falling to Do" (Trigger Warning), and practically the entirety of Spirit Phone
- Expert in a Dying Field by The Beths
- "cold weather" by glass beach
- "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" by Queen
- "Nobody" by Mitski
- "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" by ABBA