(translation: Do you have any questions? || I'm sorry for my English with a translator ;) )
I was accepted to be a spy in role-playing! I'm still noob at drawing, but 7 hours of suffering with the mouse were not in vain. all the difficulties were in the anatomy, he was still crooked, the eyes did not turn out the way I planned. but everyone seemed to like the spy. Expect a pyromaniac soon :P (I condemn smoking as much as possible || and spread the songs of Mylene Farmer in the end >:/ )
tagged by @grusinskayas, thanks so much mari! <3
I'll tag @nitrateglow @oftwodarkmoons @valancystirling48 @lilbabylovergirl @jwclapton @nataliawoods @olivethomas @ritahayworrth @emmybrown @gayworths @astonishinglysane @womansfilm @davisbette @daniellesdarrieux only if you want to of course!
and anyone else who wants to do this please do! (and tag me!)
Only including things that were new to me this year in each category or the lists would be far too long!
top films: I just did the 9 favorite first watches post which were,
-The Dream Lady (1918)
-Danger Love at Work (1937)
-The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
- Pillow to Post (1945)
- Home Sweet Homicide (1946)
-Turn the Key Softly (1953)
- Minari (2020)
-Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
-Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
and I will add some more on to that as well!
-Husband Hunters (1927)
-Sunny (1930)
-Honeymoon Limited (1935)
-East Side of Heaven (1939)
-Spring Parade (1940)
-The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
-Marriage is a Private Affair (1944)
-This Happy Breed (1944)
-Guest Wife (1945)
-Molly and Me (1945)
-The Wicked Lady (1945)
-An Ideal Husband (1947)
-Deep Valley (1947)
-Night Tide (1961)
-The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
-The Grass Harp (1995)
-Luca (2021)
top tv series: I have such a hard time remembering what tv shows I watch throughout the year as I don't keep track of them the way I do movies but this is encouraging me to start making lists from now on.
From what I can remember -
-All Creatures Great and Small
-Sanditon
-The Great Canadian Baking Show
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
-Only Murders in the Building
-It's a Living
-Call The Midwife
top books: Did not read much this year and hardly anything new but here are a few I liked!
-The Surgeon's Daughter, Audrey Blake
-The Leavenworth Case, Anna Katharine Green
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
-The Secret Book of Flora Lea, Patti Callahan Henry
favorite song: This is going to be a long section!
Firstly my pride and joy, the playlist of expressing love of nature through music (mostly folk music but some others mixed in) that I worked so hard on at the beginning of the year.
A lot of it is not new to me songs but some of it is and mostly making a playlist is new to me.
Flower, Flower Oh My Love Playlist.
Now for some individual songs I discovered and loved throughout the year~ (choosing max of one song per artist that is also not included in my playlist or this will get way too long)
-Alvvays - Pecking Order
-Aurora - Your Blood
-Blackbriar - Fairy of the Bog
-Cécile Corbel - Come Back Home
-chirinuruwowaka - bakenokawa
-Coco - Fantasy
-hemlocke springs - sever the blight
-Laufey - Bewitched
-MARINA - Man's World
-Maxine Sullivan - Skylark
-Mylène Farmer - Sans contrefaçon
-Paramore - This Is Why
-Pomme - La rivière
-Ruby Throat- In the Arms of Flowers
-yanaginagi - More Than Enough
-Yutori - One Room
favorite quote:
- "listen, this would be a better world if there was more singing and less dictating." - East Side of Heaven, 1939
-"When all inside you burns like a star
It's after you burn out that you are
Reborn again, reborn again
And maybe if you called out for help
Then I could help you outrun yourself
Come run again, we'll run again" - Your Blood, Aurora
Tagged by @spacesweepers (thank you!), shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten songs, then tag people!
My playlist needs serious updating so a few of these I actually haven't really listened to in a while because I skip them as soon as they come up but
1. The Hell of It - Paul Williams
2. The Sun - The Naked And Famous
3. Pursuit of Happiness - Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat
4. A Quiet Life - Teho Teardo, Blixa Bargeld
5. The Beautiful Ones - Prince
6. Chale - Sho Madjozi
7. Nancy Boy - Placebo
8. Sans contrefaçon - Mylène Farmer
9. Work - Charlotte Day Wilson
10. King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar
(I just realised this post said to shuffle the repeat playlist instead of your personal playlist, maybe it would have been more accurate had I done that but too late)
I tag with no pressure @firewalkwithmedvd @swabianhotpocket @magical-my-ass
Comme ils disent by Charles Aznavour (1972) | about a gay man, he cross-dresses too. Don't really know how to explain that one. It's great, it aged really well (Aznavour was a straight man but he had several queer friends)
Sans Contrefaçon by Mylène Farmer (1987) | wasn't actually written with trans masculinity in mind, but it's a trans masc anthem at this point
Ziggy (un garçon pas comme les autres) by Céline Dion (1991; the original cover/song was in 1978 tho) | girl falls in love with her friend, a gay teen - is sad for herself but doesn't insult him or anything
College boy by Indochine (2013) | a song I found not so long after figuring out my own queerness so it has a special place in my heart. lots of cw for the visual clip (homophobia, bullying, conservatism, police violence, religious hypocrisy, physical assault, crucifixion)
J'ai le droit aussi by Calogero (2014) | gay teenager wants to live like he wants, is scared of other's view/judgement on him (including his parents)
Mohammed je t'aime by Gargäntua (2015) | being gay in the hood is like everywhere else - it may not be a good idea to be public about it. lots of cw for the visual clip (physical assault, homophobia, internalized homophobia, suicide). I hope one day Gargäntua will make a song about Mohammed finding happiness because he clearly deserves it if not for the trauma in this song
comme les autres by keen'v (2015) | gay man (teen?) coming out to his father, father is homophobic
C'est toi qu'elle préfère by Alice et Moi (2017) | sapphic anthem at this point; unrequited love
Normal by Eddy de Pretto (2018) | gay man responding to an homophobe (honestly i find it very satisfying)
Grave by Eddy de Pretto (2018) | the singer is an openly gay man, he talks to a wide range of different gay boys/teens/men and are telling them to not worry when they discover their homosexuality; that it's okay
Séduction by Joanna (2018) | bi woman falls in love with another woman
Ta reine by Angèle (2018) | wlw.
Amour censure by Hoshi (2019) | Hoshi is an openly lesbian singer; the song denounces homophobia
Immoral & Illégal by Gargäntua (2022) | 'Everything I love is immoral and illegal' - if that's not a queer feeling. More seriously, it's more me deciding to interpret the song this way then the song being about queerness. Still, whether you listen to this song and think about addiction, queerness, or any marginalized community, well.. well you can't change my mind about it having (intended or not) queer subtext
La mort avec toi by Gargäntua (2022) | literally 'partners in crimes', I decided it was queer for various reasons but you may not think like me