#if this is incoherent and rambling it's because I very recently had a 15hr flight + 6hr layover + 7hr flight & I'm hella jetlagged

[laundrybiscuits]

Tagged by @greenlikethesea! Genuinely quite touched that you thought to tag me even though I've basically been MIA lately!

last song: "The Party" by Yuna

favorite color: Celadon and indigo, probably

last book: “Land of Milk and Honey” by C. Pam Zhang—a near-future climate dystopia scifi (I refuse to say cli-fi. I won’t do it. I REFUSE.) that’s sort of like…The Menu meets Venomous Lumpsucker, with bonus toxic yuri and a commentary on "heritage"-oriented conservation ethics and Orientalism.

last movie: "I Saw the TV Glow" which was absolutely right up my alley.

(For some reason, I kept thinking of Chungking Express; they are obviously VERY different films, but there's something about the way both start out with a lot of space and sort of collapse inwards, getting tighter and tighter before releasing the tension in a sudden but understated shift. I don't think this is necessarily a very strong analytical angle, but I might go watch Chungking Express again anyway.)

last show: Does Dropout count? If we’re talking scripted TV, I recently rewatched some IWTV.

sweet/spicy/savory: I think my favorite foods (e.g. nyonya laksa) are actually all of the above! Why pit three bad bitches etc etc. I also genuinely enjoy bitter/sour flavor notes—I don't think my palate is particularly sophisticated, but I do appreciate a little contrast and balance. 

relationship status: Happily partnered!

last thing I googled: "samyang scoville chart"

current obsession: The un-fun answer is work. It is actually a legit character flaw that I get a bit intense about work; I really need to set better boundaries, but somehow I always have an excuse about why this is totally absolutely just a temporary push while [justification du jour] is going on. It's not great.

Fandom-wise, I’ve been a bit tempted to dip into Wicked lately—shockingly, there aren’t that many Gelphie fics on AO3?? Wild. I do not actually have the time or energy to actually do anything at the moment, but I was into the Oz books as a child + Maguire's Wicked as a teen, it was my very first Broadway show, and I just interviewed someone who worked on the movie. Perhaps most crucially, I also recently read an extremely bad take in a professional review that Wicked is boring because it's about not being mean to green people.

Historically, spite has been a VERY effective motivator for me. I don't have time but I keep thinking...maybe I do? I mean, I don't. But maybe I do?

looking forward to: Seeing a bunch of my friends soon! Ever since I moved back to the US about a year ago, my social life has gotten a little, ah, idiosyncratic. My life is in kind of a weird place right now!