music/ honorable mentions
(too many here to put in the text box)

tv [this was gonna be a list of 15 but that didn't fit the grid so it's 13]

The Pitt
Andor
Severance
Fantasmas
Stranger Things
Evil
What We Do in the Shadows
South Park
Alien: earth
Adolescence
Big Mouth
Long story short
King of the hill

i like cartoons

movies [non 2025]

really fell down on watching older movies this year cause i was too busy bein cool and doin stuff most of these were just oscar catchcup

Perfect Days
Nickel Boys
The Celebration
The Dead
Harlan County U.S.A.
Look Back
A Complete Unknown
The Substance
Wicked
Blitz

movies [2025]:

Train Dreams
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet
Superman
Pavements
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Naked Gun
Megadoc
Nouvelle Vague

gonna start posting here again in 2026 i think here's some very late 2025 top tens:

I don't understand how the narrative has become, "yes he sucks but weren't we all happier four years ago" when every year from 2016-2020 was:

Found out about a grant/contest THIS MORNING with a deadline of TONIGHT so if you're wondering how I spend my birthday the answer was "glued to an office chair doing 121 pages of rewrites" and honestly I'm not sure there was anything better I could have been doing

My back hurts tho