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2021 media wrapped
Media roundup of all the content I consumed this year barring fanart which I eat on the tl daily and wish I could cite…and everything I’ve forgotten about. So if we watched something together and I forgot, please remind me ;-;
THINGS I WATCHED
Shows/Series
Sweet Home 9.5/10
Squid Games 8/10
Hospital Playlist 2 9/10
Link Click 9/10
2gether + Still 2gether 5/10
Romance is a Bonus Book 7.5/10
Haikyuu 8/10
Movie/Single episode shows
Little Forest (Korean) 9/10
Your Name Engraved Herein 8/10
Space Sweepers 7/10
Wish You 7/10
The Call (2020) 6/10
Dil Dhadakne Do 7/10
Always be my Maybe 4/10
Variety
Amazing Saturday/Nolto/Doremi Market 9/10
The Game Caterers 8/10
I Live Alone 6.5/10
Run BTS 8.5/10
Youtube
Channels
ReacttotheK/Classical Musicians React Series
Jihyunkkung
Nebom
Zoe’s
HANSE
MMTG
Channel Fullmoon
Soy ASMR
Seoul Walker
Live Clips and miscellaneous
HAPPEN, Why, From the Rain, Like the first timeㅣP NATION LIVE - Heize
Film Out @ MUSIC BLOOD - BTS
‘Rock with you’ Band Live Session - SEVENTEEN
Where Are We Now Band LIVE Ver. [it’s KPOP Live] - MAMAMOO
Daydreaming [You Heeyeol’s Sketchbook] - Young K
When This Rain Stops Live Video - WENDY
Ue/ “Above”- Haikyuu!! - Ayasa (Ayasa channel)
A SHINee-ing Palette (With SHINee) - IU’s Palette Ep.5
Epik High Is Here 上 (Part 1) DOCUMENTARY
Empathy/공감 Highlight Medley - D.O.
Right Through Me LIVE CLIP - Day6 (Even of Day)
Dingo music KILLING VOICE - JANNABI, IU, Younha
Tiny Desk (Home) Concert - Miley Cyrus, Hayley Williams
Coin (Band Ver.) [You Heeyeol’s Sketchbook] - IU
Dingo Music 인스타콘서트/Insta Concert - AKMU
All Too Well: The Short Film - Taylor Swift
Dua Lipa Don’t Start Now Cover - STAYC J
HIGHLIGHT on Jessi’s Showterview
Super Tuna - Jin
Taemin Move Cover (Kingdom: The Legendary War) - SF9
GUMMY x Kang Seungyoon Begin Again Open Mic
An Encore (sea of hope) - ONEW x Lee Dong Wook
Yet to complete/catch up to
Work later, Drink Now
Stranger 2
Miss Americana
Going Seventeen
In The Soop SVT
In The Soop BTS
THINGS I READ
Books
When I Grow Up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen 8/10
The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges 7/10
Carson McCullers - The Haunted Boy (Penguin Modern) 7/10
Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - 7.5/10
Shaun Tan - Cicada 9/10
Shaun Tan - Tales from Outer Suburbia 8/10
Shaun Tan - The Arrival 8/10
The Weight of Memories - Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu) 8/10
Manga
Completed
Haikyuu - Haruichi Furudate 100/10
Old-fashioned Cupcake - Sagan Sagan 9/10
Hige to Suzu to Shabondama - ymz 7/10
Doukyuusei - Nakamura Asamiko 7/10
Sotsugyousei (sequel 1 to ^) 7/10
Occupation to beloved (sequel 2 to ^) 7.5/10
Blanc (final sequel to ^) 8/10
Hishakaishindo (Depth of Field) - Enjo 7.5/10
Ongoing
Sasaki to Miyano - Harusono Shou
Kieta Hatsukoi - Wataru Hinekure and illustrated - Aruko
Blue Sky Complex - Ichikawa Kei
Essays, Interviews, etc
To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time - Matthew Salesses (Longreads)
When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver - Nina Solis (Lithub)
Oh, Heaven - Eloghosa Osunde (The Paris Review)
Pine Street - Amanda Oliver (Rumpus)
We Can’t Comprehend This Much Sorrow - Teju Cole (The New York Times)
Dukkha - Sumana Roy (South Asian Avante Garde/saaganthology)
Sun in Detriment (alicesparklykat.com)
All The Tired Horses - Sara Gelston Somers (Rumpus)
Taylor Swift’s All Too Well and the Weaponisation of Memory - Lindsay Zoladz (The New York Times)
Who Is The Bad Art Friend - Robert Kolker (The New York Times)
Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World - Ada Limón (Lithub)
Before - Danielle Cadena Deulen and Shara Lessley (Rumpus)
The Misconception of Identity or, It’s Almost My Birthday and I’ll Talk About the Human Condition If I Want to - Mollie (aka twitter user molliemorgeson) (substack)
What SHINee Taught Me About Grief, Friendship, and Joy - Victoria Huynh (TeenVogue)
The Professor - Irina Dumitrescu (Longreads)
How Twitter can ruin a life - Emily VanDerWerff (Vox)
Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134 - Elissa Schappell & Claudia Brodsky Lacour (The Paris Review)
Why Do So Many of Our Fathers Love Authoritarian Figures So Dearly? - Bhawna Jaimini (Livewire)
Does Your Revision Process Need More Taylor Swift? - Anne H. Putnam (Catapult)
All the BTS, Seventeen and TXT interviews on WeverseMag, memorably Jungkook’s after Butter Release and The8’s after Your Choice Release
Today’s “K-TEEN” seen through STAYC X Gen Z - Oh Minji (Weverse Mag)
Hanif Abdurraqib—Moments of Shared Witnessing - interview with Krista Tippett (OnBeing)
The Ability to Cry - Yiyun Li (The New Yorker)
The BTS Years - Claire P. Dodson (Teen Vogue)
That Currency Thread - in_seclusion (dreamwidth)
alternative confessions - hyojungss (dreamwidth)
“i love you and i like you”: passion and burnout in Haikyuu!! - iwa1zumis (tumblr)
oikawa and hinata in brazil: the duality of sand, and what it means to begin again - kitaoftheearth (tumblr)
ご飯が大事です: food is important - kitaoftheearth (tumblr)
hunger, hinata’s bike, and brazil - suckishima (tumblr)
Blueberry muffins and milk: I, II, III (kageyama meta) - potionwine (tumblr)
This Is An Essay by Hanif Abdurraqib About Sneakers - Hanif Abdurraqib (Ssense)
Poetry
Not making a list as there are semi-regular updates here.
Academic/Coursework (What I can remember of it)
Books
Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation - Thongchai Winichakul
Gender and the Politics of History - Joan Wallach Scott
Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago - H.L. Platt
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia - James Scott
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire - Leslie Pierce
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire - Leslie P. Pierce
The Broken World Of Sacrifice: An Essay In Ancient Indian Ritual - J.C. Heesterman
Mapping an Empire: The geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843 - Matthew Edney
Rules Without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences - Frits Staal
The Powers Of Art: Patronage In Indian Culture - Barbara Stoler Miller
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History - Sidney Mintz
Essays
Ritual Perfection and Ritual Sabotage in the Veda - Brian K. Smith
Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra - Ann Stoler
The Mauryas Revisited - Romila Thapar
Confluences Of Nature And Culture: Cities In Environmental History - Lawrence Culver
Prehistoric Construction of Mothering -Kathleen Boleen
Asokan edicts: The genesis of the imperial idea and culture in early India and the debt to Iran - B.P. Sahu
Knowing the Country: Empire and Information in India - C.A. Bayly
Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature - Annette Depla
Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance - Ann Stoler
Chasing a Ghost?: Environmental Change and Migration in History - Uwe Lübken
EMOTION, IDENTITY, AND THE FEMALE SUBJECT: Tamil Women’s Magazines in Colonial India, 1890–1940 - Mytheli Sreenivas
Contributors To The Urban. Landscape: Women Builders In Safavid Isfahan And Mughal Shahjahanabad - Stephen Blake
Approver's Testimony, Judicial Discourse: The Case of Chauri Chaura - Shahid Amin
Geographies Of Knowing, Geographies Of Ignorance: Jumping Scale In Southeast Asia - William van Schendel
Buddhism, Art and Ritual Practice: Dong Duong at the Intersection of Asian Cultures - Parul Pandya Dhar
Social Dimensions of Art in Early India - Devangana Desai
The Prose of Counter-Insurgency - Ranajit Guha
Etruscan Women: A Question of Interpertation - Larissa Bonfante Warren
The Desert And The Garden: Climate As Attractor And Obstacle In The Settlement History Of The Western United States - Lawrence Culver
The Syncretism of Religions in Southeast Asia, Especially in the Khmer Empire - Lawrence Briggs
Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E.P. Thompson
'Dirty' Hindi Literature: Contests About Obscenity in Late Colonial North India - Charu Gupta
Turning the stones over:Sixteenth-century millenarianism from the Tagus to the Ganges - Sanjay Subrahmanyam
History and social theory: notes on the contribution of British Marxist historiography to our understanding of class - Harvey J. Kaye
Maps In The Mind And The Mobility Of Asia - David Ludden
Re-reads
Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge - Bernard S. Cohn
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
The Making of Early Medieval India - B.D. Chattopadhyaya
Soft Science - Franny Choi
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence - Parthasarathi, Prasannan
Crush - Richard Siken
Bones, Stones, And Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers On The Archaeology, Epigraphy, And Texts Of Monastic Buddhism In India - Gregory Schopen
100 Selected Poems (Fingerprint Classics) - Emily Dickinson
Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India - Sumathi Ramaswamy
The Cambridge History Of Southeast Asia: Volume 1, From Early Times To C. 1800.
Come Close - Sappho (Little Black Classic)
THINGS I LISTENED TO
Podcasts
The Slowdown
Poetry Unbound
VS
Poetry Off The Shelf
Music
Thanking everything that has made it possible for music to exist. It really kept me alive this year.
Spotify Wrapped Stats
Minutes listened: 58, 152 minutes
Top Artists: Epik High, Shinee, Day6, EXO, D.O.
Top Songs: That’s Okay - D.O., LA DI DA - Everglow, Runaway - EXO, Right Through Me - Day6 (Even of Day), Above - Yuki Hayashi (Haikyuu OST)
Top Genres: Kpop, Dance pop, K-RnB, K-indie, Filmi
Top Albums
Tier 1:
HAPPEN - Heize
Lilac - IU
PAGE - Kang Seungyoon
Next Episode - AKMU
In The Meantime Alessia Cara
Tier 2:
Querencia - Chungha
Atlantis - SHINee
FLOWERS for VASES - Hayley Williams
Man on the Moon - N.Flying
Little Oblivions - Julien Baker
Fireworks - Gaho
Chaos Chapter Freeze
Epik High is Here Pt. 1
Hospital Playlist Season 2 OST
Top EPs
Planet Nine: Alter Ego - Onewe
Bad Love - Key
Return of The Girl - Everglow
Eternal - Young K
Empathy - D.O.
Stairs - Stella Jang
Dimension: Dilemna - Enhypen
Shehron ke Raaz - Prateek Kuhad
Top Singles/ Title Tracks
“0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You) - TXT ft. Seori
Madonna - Luna
Renegade - Big Red Machine ft. Taylor Swift
Film Out - BTS
Hoshi - Spider
Rait Zara Si - A.R. Rahman, Arijit Singh, Shashaa Tripathi
Am I Alright - Aly & AJ
Killing Me - Chungha
Tail - Sunmi
Roz Roz - The Yellow Diary, Shilpa Rao
Easy - WJSN The Black
Drunk Dazed - Enhypen
Mujhe Mujhse Kaun Bachayega - KK
Airport Goodbyes - The Black Skirts, WENDY
Rock with you - Seventeen
I’m A B - Hwasa
Advice - Taemin
Celebrity - IU
Nuvvunte Naa Jathagaa Lofi Flip - A.R. Rahman, Sid Sriram, Nakul Abhyankar
Where Are We Now - Mamamoo
New Finds
Scrubb
Racoon Racoon
Run River North
Lilas Ikuta
Miso
Sleeping At Last
Off Course
never young beach
Novo Amor
Mighty Oaks
The Japanese House
RIO
Shantanu Pandit
Yuki Hayashi
Guo Ding
Yumi Arai
pb’s personal wrapped playlist
Deflecting the task of choosing best ten or twenty songs I’ve collected all the songs, old and new that I’ve liked and/or listened to obsessively this year. LOL. Like I’d ever be able to go Top 25 and leave it at that. Well, I tried.