2025 wrapped

Goodbye 2025!

Plants  

paraphrased from twitter

Strawberry 10/10

as long as you keep them hydrated & sunny

Lotus 2/10

wannabe hopebait of a plant, didn't flower. So like a sadist I watched it airdry for wasting my time.

Sunflowers : 12/10

*if you can be committed to replanting them. no one told me its only one flower per plant and then they are done for.

featuring dadi ma's hand

Basil

0/10 jaise marzi ugalo isne 10cm ke baad sookh jaana hai. No pictorial evidence to back it up. take my passionate hate for the ordeal as proof enough.

Purple Basil does grow easily though.

Books

paraphrased from goodreads

This year I finally dabbled with fiction. Leaving this curiosity behind in 2025. 

yk how you can't trust IMDb ratings for Indian movies and letterboxd ratings for politcally charged movies, you can't trust goodreads for ratings of books at least.

Art finds you when its meant to and stirs something in your soul when its time.

Although yes, modern art isn't as good tbh

I also got to compare my imagination of six of crows with the series and now I have to admit I relate with the superiority book readers feel which I once used to detest.

Also would you believe it ki chalte chalte 500 crore ki dhadkan is an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (I can't--) Operating in my 2026 with the same audacity.

Movies

paraphrased from letterboxd

I thought good movies were dead, but THEY ARE NOT. Film twitter influences most of my movie choices now a platform to log them too. I have a new hack to scout for good movies. Scout the top 4 of people who have highly rated your favorites on letterboxd.

rewatched Silver Linings Playbook &

embodied the unhinged of this movie in 2025 #crashout

and if there is anything I know now- 

*you CAN'T pre-empt what the signs mean*

Music

I might have that condition that Cynthia Erivo ji has, mujhe bhi suro me rang dikhte hai. 

Also I have thoda bohot ear for spotting totally unrelated songs that evoke similar emotions. And I don't know how to prove this but Stranger Things ka theme is an extrapolation of Orient Black Swan School Atlas ka theme music. Please believe me on this, I don't have their CD anymore but its SO SIMILAR

New in my playlists- The Smiths (I get it now), Fleetwood Mac because Daisy Jones

and Save Your Tears by the Weeknd takes the crown of one my most played on spotify 2 years in a row.

And my listening age coincides with my real age so make what you will of it.

#OnTime.

#Hashtag

(I can't stop)

Playlist curation was a random sidequest and Wuthering Heights did a number on me. #SueMe

Miscellaneous 

Nothing taught your girl patience but getting in that kitchen & doing some cooking did. #win 

Was an Absurdist for a while. Rolled the boulder down one hill at a time to the tunes of jazz music both of which I think are oddly alike.

Signing off!

full of gratitude :-))