omg, 1 + 2 + 18 + 25 from the end of year asks!! hell yeah 🤙🏻🤙🏻
YAAAAY thank you so much!!
1. song of the year — it wasn’t my most-played on spotify, but i really liked free by ultra naté this year!! i listened to it a lot as inspiration when i was working on an always sunny fic i did for a zine project, and it’s also just a really fun and warm and liberating song. i was really bumping it a lot over the summer!
2. album of the year— bring me the horizon FINALLY released post human: nex gen this year, and it was SO much fun!! i was really skeptical about it after being sort of of lukewarm on a lot of the earlier singles, but there were some really great surprise hits on the track list for me. YOUtopia, top 10 statues that cried blood, and bullet with my name on were all INSTANT bmth classics for me.
18. a memorable meal this year— over the summer, my close friend group did our annual meetup vacation, and this year we did it in new mexico! there was one evening we all did a MASSIVE home-cooked dinner together, with a traditional palestinian rice-and-tomato dish whose name tragically escapes me, nachos with homemade guac, and a really great corn salad that we all ate outside at sunset. the meal would have been beautiful and memorable enough on its own, but this was also the night i proposed to my now-husband! it was such a beautiful moment, i’ll never forget it 🥹
25. did you create any characters this year? describe one— YES!!! most of my OC creation this year happened via final fantasy xiv, as that’s been one of my main hobbies in 2024. one of the new characters i made for that game is named wu’kunah tia! he’s a transgender cat person who has some Issues with the tribe he grew up in and has since struck out to try and found a tribe of his own. he’s flirtatious, silly, and not the brightest, and it takes him a long time to grow into being the hero that the world is forcing him to be.