Happy back to Hogwarts Day!! 🍂

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+ here's the playlist I shared last year!

Avatar the Last Airbender | Book Three: Fire

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And that wraps up my Avatar rewatch! What's cool is that I finished the finale, and then the very next day my family and I watched the new animated Avatar Aang movie. (Brief little sidenote, Avatar Aang was AMAZING, but I'll save that particular bit of fangirling for another time. XD)

There are so many phenomenal episodes this season. We've got "The Boiling Rock," "Day of the Black Sun," "The Headband," "The Beach". Pretty much every episode was incredibly fun and/or moved the plot and character arcs forward in really beautiful and healing ways. 

All the characters just really came through for the finale and it was just amazing! My favorite character is still Zuko and favorite villain is still Azula. But this rewatch, I was also paying a bit more attention to Aang because, if memory serves, I've seen a couple people online say something along the lines of that they'd appreciated his gentle airbending spirit a lot more now that they were older. And I ended up feeling the same way. 

So yeah, it was just a great show and a lovely little summer project to rewatch each season and come share little rambles here. <3

Avatar The Last Airbender | Book Two: Earth

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I hugely appreciate Appa's willingness to fly us all over the world, however, no one is perfect, and an issue I have with him is that he can just be a touch too panicky at times XD. I'm looking at you, "The Cave of Two Lovers".

But I will say that during episode 15, my heart softened a ton toward the big sky bison. They did a phenomenal job with that episode. In this recent rewatch, I began to suspect that Momo is older than Appa because Momo seems more steady and mature. And there's a scene in episode 15 which implies Appa is somewhere in the ballpark of 4-6 years old, which, if that's still young in sky bison years, it totally accounts for the vibes I'm getting. So I would assume maybe Momo is more of a teenager or older in animal years. 

Azula is one of the coolest and most terrifying villains ever, Toph is my role model, and I lowkey understand Katara a little better for how she acts toward a certain character in the next season. What happened was pretty bad, actually.

It's crazy, I know, but I actually like the songs sung by the wanderers in "The Cave of Two Lovers". I've had the one they sing at the end of the episode stuck in my head off and on for years.

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Currently watching | Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender Trailer

Well, this looks amazing.
I still wish they'd brought back the original voice actors but I can’t complain too much cause this looks phenomenal.

edit: just found out Keith from Voltron: Legendary defender is playing Zuko, so now I really can't be mad XD.

Avatar The Last Airbender | Book One: Water

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First off, yes, this show still holds up after twenty-something years. It's amazing, and definitely deserves its highly esteemed place in pop culture. 

The humor is top-notch. It's the perfect kind of slapstick, silly comedy that always has me chortling.

Sokka was actually a lot more useful than I originally thought. Aang and Katara were constantly being foolish, and it would be Sokka who got us back on track. Or at least he tried to. They rarely listened to him. XD

Momo is the hidden mvp. He was wildly useful. Don't know why I never noticed him before. He's probably my favorite character now lol!

"The Great Divide" is still one of my favorite episodes in the whole show. I was dying laughing just as much as I was when I first watched it years ago.

Loved all the parallel shots between Aang and Zuko. It's especially noticeable in "The Storm". Also, their fighting synergy in "The Blue Spirit" was honestly peak.

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stray kids songs for summer!

Some SKZ beats to soundtrack these hot summer days!

(also, this week was Twilight Skies' one year anniversary! Woo!)

1. endless sun

2. astronaut

3. blueprint

4. the view

5. surfin’

6. miroh

7. haven

8. star lost

9. 0801

Currently Listening to | "back to life." han

(flashing light warning)

no trailer yet 😔

The fact that we have yet to receive an Enola Holmes 3 trailer despite Netflix still saying it's having a summer 2026 release is diabolical! 😭😭

All Good Things...

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I just realized it's January which means the FINAL book in The Fireborn Epic by Gillian Bronte Adams comes out NEXT WEEK!!

*screams and flails* I've been waiting for this book for TWO YEARS!! *screams and flails more*

Plz be good plz be good plz be good.

(also Jakim highkey looks like Aang here, lol)

Percy Jackson Season Two!!

Stooooppp!!!

Why were the first two episodes soooo goooddd!!!

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I AM JUST SO PROUD!!!!😭

*Swirls my cloak dramatically as I step online, lifting a megaphone to my face*

Stray Kids won ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the MAMA awards and I am ecstatic for them!!!

I love them all so much and I am SO PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a Pinterest edit of their win!

That is ALL!!

*Disappears in a flurry of smoke and sobs*

Messy and Bold and Free

My darling, 

you are allowed to bring all of yourself to this world.

Your mess is not surprising to God. His expectations are not unrealistic.

He knows you are human, are dust.

So bring all of yourself to this world and be messy and bold and free.

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 "He has said to me,

'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'
Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may rest on me."

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

The Dragon Warrior. Hans Zimmer

Reactions to The Runaway King

Me half the time at what Sage does:

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Me the other half:

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Me at the end of the book:

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I'm just so proud of him!
I haven't loved a main character this much in ages! 🥹
Somebody read this book (read book 1 first!) and join me
on this emotional roller coaster ride!

Fall Writing Challenges!! 🍂

Doing Ficfrenzy plus my personal version of NaNoWriMo, so I'll be working consistently on my book for approximately the next 45 days!! EEEK!!

Wish me luck!!

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Happy September!!🍂 (ft. a back to school Hogwarts playlist)

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     Happy September 1st, friends!!

     Hope everyone has a great first day back at Hogwarts! 

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Season 2, let's go!!!

It looks like they're gonna stick with Percy continuing to be an absolute boss of a main character, just like he was in the books!

December can't come soon enough!

"Let's go do the impossible."

Quote credit:

Disney Plus. (2025, July 24). 
Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Season 2 Official Teaser | Disney+ [Video]. 
https://youtu.be/82xS4goDWZY?si=9OX3VN_YG-W70yAY.

currently listening to... | "Goodbye" Seungmin

This might just be my new favorite Seungmin solo song:

stray kids ~lyrics~

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"Needle in a haystack, come find me

i'm not lonely but everything is so cold

...

i can't take it anymore

what should i do?

today, pretend not to notice and close your eyes

so, cover me now

cover me now

On a night when the moon is this dazzling

i cry out for someone to cover the light

in the daytime when the night is over

before you know it the warm light shines down."

cover me

"gave up my youth

for my future

i just want to 

rise up

stronger"

social path

"looking at yourself a lot goes in your mind

'i don't know if i'm ready to show myself'

you worry day and night

...

let me tell a little story

about the star that couldn't shine or blink

out of a million, billion

felt like an alien, alien

then that little star was surely going to become the biggest thing

making a fantasy, family, beautiful galaxy, galaxy"

Youtiful

"i will never make you lonely

you'll always be beside me

i'll cherish this happiness you gave me

i will never make you lonely

i will walk with you at your pace"

#lovestay

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"when everything was so hard

i didn't even know myself

no matter how long i waited

i just ran into more suffocating walls, ey ey

in my dizzy, messy mind

the bits of dust fly far far away

on the passing breeze

the rough, tiring storm passes

and now 

we can see miles away

i like the view right now"

the view

"the answers the world has given me are wrong

...

my future is bright

the excitement surrounds me

i hope i will shine

never never never let go

my future is bright

the excitement surrounds me

i hope i will shine

never never never let go

my future is bright"

blueprint 

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"you're doing well oh

you're doing well yeah

have strength, just endure a little more

i'll be next to you

you're doing well oh

you're doing well

you gotta take your time

you can do it

you can do just fine"

grow up

"step out of them voices

i'll cover my ears and shout again

step out of them voices

break free from the voices in my head"

voices

"never say goodbye because you and i are one

because we will walk in the same dream

please just smile next to me like you are now

farther than tomorrow

longer than forever

i love you"

neverending story

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post idea from brooke riley.

Lyric citations:

Stray Kids. “Blueprint”. GO LIVE, JYP Entertainment, 2020. YouTube, https://youtu.be/LYJDf9oPQ-0?si=HfyZZlyhOg8e8BCM.

Stray Kids. “Cover me.” ROCK-STAR, JYP Entertainment, 2023. YouTube, https://youtu.be/aUWO3DLFyss?si=xhVKReoUF2CzbsvT.

Stray Kids. “Grow up”. I am NOT, JYP entertainment, 2018. Translated by colorcodedlyrics.com. YouTube, https://youtu.be/xbmu_Hu2TWs?si=zMEueTqavK3ZFrnF.

Stray Kids. “#LoveSTAY.” JYP entertainment, 2021. YouTube, https://youtu.be/UcKxI5IdScY?si=y2S1kQzEF45snGl2.

Stray Kids. “Neverending Story”. Extraordinary You Pt. 7. (Original television soundtrack), 2019. Translated by MBCKpop. YouTube, https://youtu.be/bdl4rSJU0FA?si=V3KzpJ04lyuwSzUa.

Stray Kids. “Social Path (feat. LISA).” ROCK-STAR, JYP Entertainment, 2023. YouTube, https://youtu.be/U8EBxZdbles?si=OSSipp1lK33uhKE3.

Stray Kids. “The View.” NOEASY, JYP Entertainment, 2021. Translated by jellyskz on X. YouTube, https://youtu.be/O8LHEVjPeDw?si=TdFxlOeP5H9DKVpM. 

Stray Kids. “Voices.” I am WHO, JYP Entertainment, 2018. YouTube, https://youtu.be/2gZOhSYVqpY?si=n2R9g4ZqrfxapDXp.

Stray Kids. “Youtiful.” 5-Star,  JYP Entertainment, 2023. YouTube, https://youtu.be/RrFn_KJn7Rk?si=fm5YPEKLXGgWEIv6

wish (2023) // aesthetic

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"So I look out at the stars just like me

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and throw caution to every warning sign 

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What we do in this moment is defining 

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and we can take it on if we align 

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So I make this wish 

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to have something more for us than this

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So I make this wish

/

to have something more for us than this!"

DeBose, Ariana, et al. "This Wish (Reprise)." 

Wish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Walt Disney Records, 2023. 

YouTube, https://youtu.be/XiGIVarHQC8?si=xEQMOGvKdfkF1Bpz.

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I too have a wish, a dream. 

Let us see if it is meant to be.

"at all costs (demo)". Benjamin Rice and Julia Michaels