elysia

can you believe it rains diamonds on other planets?! why on earth are there blood diamonds

i never lived in the walled city (it was torn down before my birth) but for the first 18 years of my life i lived nearby. it's a park now with a cycling path & little museum to commemorate its past. always been fascinated by it, how it grew like an organism, how it inspired art, games, etc & how it functioned despite chaos and smells. very cybernetic, a place that feels like it shouldn't have existed. wish there was more video footage of it. have to be careful not to romanticize it tho. my mother tells stories about going there for cheap, delicious (and unsafe) food & dentist appointments

it's fine i just didn't think it would be chinese

(blank review, as negative space intended. wait i messed that up)

it implies the meaning isn't real </3

i owe it to him for getting me back into playing piano through touhou bangers

whereof thereof... iykyk

i love it here existing in this body&spacetime

room: :| room (china): :O

boo!! matter is good & dualism is illusory. knowledge will not save you. inherently prideful spiritual malaise. hermeticism is way better, esoteric without the hubris

would be the best country on earth, unfortunately i'd rarely leave. please make it happen..! even better if (more of) california, alberta & alaska were included

it's what you make of it really (until you become broke or fear uselessness). other than that, funemployment is epic

what other city has poetry written on the walls in different languages? beautiful in the summertime. cozy & quaint botanical garden, great museums. leiden university's summer school for language and linguistics is unparalleled. it may be the philological centre of the world. walkable, bikeable, with lovely canals that soothe the soul

i understand why its residents want to nuke sf but of all the american cities i've visited, it's my favourite. beautiful weather, a wonderful mechanical museum featuring machines from the 1900s, two-storey fish stores with more biodiversity than actual aquariums i've been to, seals you can watch at fisherman's whorf, etc. there is darkness & evil lurking, but even at its most dystopian, sf has a certain charm

one of the goatest of all time. wow i also never realized that he was handsome on top of everything else before reviewing him for this website. talented is an understatement; his wisdom, dedication to worldbuilding, masterpieces continue to inspire the great art from folk metal to modern authors like rf kuang. gentle, mythopoetic, uncompromising. makes me want to visit oxford.

a remarkably simple yet classic comfort food. excellent if done with fluffy eggs and a tasteful demiglaze. common additions include melty cheese & mushrooms. may be a candidate for top wasian dish--it certainly mogs korean army stew

one of the most distinct genres of music; dreamy yet heavy, blissful & melancholic, melodic & distorted, dizzying & at-once present, elusive & accessible. created by & for shy sensitive young people. the genre can either be done poorly or the most beautiful thing you've ever heard.

best chinese dish ever. a delicacy, so difficult to hand-make. perfect soup melting in your mouth, love at first bite