I appreciated numerous cool stuff this yr! I appreciated books, motion pictures, music, video games! The tip! Huzzah. We did it. I’m going to go eat an apple now.
*stares*
*waits*
Ugh, nice. Advantageous. You in all probability need me to, like, conjure names of issues, which actually could be very laborious for me, actually for 2 causes:
a) my mind is basically a sinkhole in the course of the road, and there’s simply no telling when a automotive filled with semi-useful info goes to drive proper into it
b) it’s additionally type of foolish to mark not time this manner however enjoyment of media time on this manner; for instance, I learn numerous books for blurbing functions that didn’t come out this yr however are cool future books, so do these rely? What a few film that got here out in 2024 that I noticed in 2025? why does this matter?
Additionally, ought to these be restricted by quantity? Solely ten books? High twenty? Why does that matter? It might’t matter! The quantity ten is just not a superior quantity and if I learn fourteen books I appreciated, fuck ten, I’mma inform you about fourteen.
No matter, fuck it, right here we go.
Books
We begin with books as a result of books are the very best. I write them. You learn them. There are numerous them by numerous genuinely great authors. They’re actually a common good.
Right here, in no explicit order, is a collection of books I appreciated from and in 2025, and no, I’m not offering mini-reviews, I bought shit to do. Simply know that I appreciated these a complete lot and you’ll like them too.
Apple: A Scrumptious Historical past by Sally Coulthard
Scorching Wax, M.L. Rio
King Sorrow, Joe Hill
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Clay McLeod Chapman
Home of Idyll, Delilah S. Dawson
Unfold Me, Sarah Gailey
When The Wolf Comes Residence, Nat Cassidy
Crafting for Sinners, Jenny Kiefer
Good Boy, Neil McRobert
Watching Evil Lifeless, Josh Malerman
Why I Love Horror, ed by Becky Spratford
The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer
One other, Paul Tremblay
We Are All the time Tender With Our Lifeless, Eric Larocca
What Stalks the Deep, T Kingfisher
People: A Monstrous Historical past, Surekha Davies
Not One among Us, Dan Chaon
The Birding Dictionary, Rosemary Mosco
The Evening That Finds Us All, John Hornor Jacobs
God’s Junk Drawer, Peter Clines
There are absolutely, absolutely some I’ve missed. Once more: mind is sinkhole.
Oh, and I popped these all right into a Bookshop.org record right here.
Additionally, since I’m a jerk who must eat meals to stay, and whose medical insurance prices are metastasizing in 2026, hey, Staircase within the Woods made it to the yr’s finest books record on Vulture for 2025, and should you’re so inclined to seize it or any of my books earlier than the yr is out, I’ll love you perpetually. Or no less than till I perish from an easily-preventable illness and am eaten by all of my quantum cats.
Music
Bought to see a pair exhibits this yr — a very elegant NIN and a bad-ass Tom Morello + The Neighborhood Youngsters. And I listened to numerous music. I’ve no extra profound commentary than that. Music is sweet. Yay music.
Right here’s what I appreciated:
Tron: Ares sndtrk: NIN
No Laborious Emotions: The Seashores
Soak: Black Honey
The Hives Endlessly, Endlessly The Hives: The Hives
Coydog: Carter Veil
Women: Princess Nokia
Good for the Soul: GANS
Laborious-Headed Girl: Margo Value
All That Is Over: Sprints
Moisturizer: Moist Leg
Reminiscence of a Day: Phantogram
Swallow the Knife: Sir Chloe
I’m Solely Fucking Myself: Lola Younger
The Clearing, Wolf Alice
Right here’s an Apple Music record of the songs I listened to rather a lot, although (although a few of these are odd that they’re in there, given I can solely keep in mind listening to them a few times, however who is aware of).
Films
Hey, motion pictures are nice! I imply it’s too unhealthy they aren’t going to exist anymore in a yr or two, functionally-speaking, and that film theaters obtained a demise blow this yr and finally every part is horrible, however within the meantime, I appreciated a buncha motion pictures this yr, so right here they be, in no explicit order:
Sinners, One Battle After One other, Frankenstein, Black Bag, The Monkey, Deliver Her Again, The Bare Gun, Predator: Badlands, Collectively, Coronary heart Eyes, 28 Years Later, Companion, Friendship
Weapons will get a particular shout-out as a film I 80% cherished and 20% hated, which nonetheless makes it nice, and arguably makes it attention-grabbing
Nonetheless must see Blue Moon and Wake Up Lifeless Man
TV
Greatest exhibits in 2025 —
Pluribus, Peacemaker, Andor, Severance, Job, The Chair Firm, The Lowdown, Murderbot, Alien: Earth, White Lotus, The Residence
Dang, it was a reasonably good yr for TV.
Video games
I really feel like this record must be longer, however I dunno!
The Blue Prince, Ghost of Yotei, Ball x Pit, Child Steps
And I feel that’ll do me for 2025.
Be at liberty to drop into the feedback and inform me what you really liked!
Or be at liberty to inform me what I’m lacking.
Or simply struggle me! FIGHT ME YOU FOOLS
nice bye
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