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Jiayi (they/them)
carabinerr@proton.me
to neocities

Library

My own digital library where I keep track of media I have consumed and may or may not have liked, with a couple of words attached to them. I like downloading all kinds of tracking apps, whether it be for habits or seeing how many books I have read. But I never seem to truly keep it up, so here I can be more intentional about it.

I read more than I watch and I mostly read fantasy, I especially like epic fantasy spanning many places and characters whose stories weave together. I like dystopians, mysteries and in general books with social commentary. I like queer lit and queer romances. I ocasionally read non-fiction pertaining math sciences, but I would like to extend that to other fields and I would like to get into history books as well. I would read almost anything, though I don't like everything. I don't like dude bro speculative fiction and things where the only good character work there is, has been given to men, but most of the times I don't know how I feel about something until I've been through the entirety of it.

These are some of my all time favourites with a paragraph attacthed.

Books

The Locked Tomb

I read Gideon around mid 2024 and was entirely confused for maybe 40% of the book, reached the ending and immediately consumed the rest of installments, Harrow and Nona, after. Like many others I do not know how to properly describe these books and I don't think they're meant to be packaged down to just a few sentences. The 'lesbian necromancers in space' description is accurate, but also does not even reach the surface of what drugs these books are on. Muir is chronically online and I love to see it. The worldbuilding is great, the mystery great and the character interactions might be some of the best I've seen (ever), it's so freaking queer and the execution is near perfect in my opinion. I, like everyone else, am eagerly waiting for Alecto and I pray that this gets an animated adaption in the future.

The Root of Chaos

My first introduction to adult fantasy was 'Priory of the Orange Tree' and this was also the first fantasy book I had read that had a main queer couple, so this one has a special place in my heart. It's got the classic fantasy elements with the heir to a throne, a prophecy and dragons who are the breaking points of the world. Nothing we haven't seen before, but at the time, I actually haven't, so the impression left was big. By the time I read the sequel "A day of fallen night" I had delved into other adult fantasy books, so as I ended up liking it just as much, I could confirm that it wasn't just nostalgia that made me like these books by this author.

Mistborn

My introduction to Sanderson and the Sanderlanches in each installment blew me away. I read it in the last year of High School and remember going out to buy these books one after another as I sped through all three. Super cool magic system, intriguing plot and an somewhat epic scale. I was mesmerized. As I look back on it now, I realize there are a lot of things that I find issues with; most if not all the main and side characters outside of Vin are men, lots of cliches, corny characters and dialogue, and maybe a tad too simplistic of a writing style for my taste now. But I think it deserves a spot in my favourites since it had such an impression on me as somebody new to the adult fantasy genre (though many argue that this is YA, which I agree with on many fronts). This book really solidified for me what fantasy could reach in terms of epicness and plot, and why I stayed reading in this genre more than any other. I agree with the discourse that this is probably one of the best entries into fantasy there is, and it's not trying to be something it is not and Sanderson is anything but hard to read; so I say give it a try. And maybe I'm a bit biased because after I read 'Elantris', another book by Sanderson, which I really disliked, I started appreciating Mistborn more.

Percy Jackson

This one needs no introduction even for the reader that doesn't read fantasy at all or the non-reader. This one was my personality trait for years when I was a kid, secrelt hoping I was a demi-god myself, borrowing every book from the library and finishing them within the day. Nostalgia at its finest. I tried reading this again last year and I actually think they hold quite well even as an adult, though I definitely enjoyed them much more as a child.

Films

Everything Everywhere All At Once

My favourite movie of all time. I think I can say that with confidence. I've rewatched this about ten times now. And I cry and laugh as hard each time. It's funny, it's queer, it's about mothers and families and about being in the diaspora. Everything ticked the box for me. (There seems to be a theme)

Saving Face

Watched this in 2025 on a day I felt pretty alone and laughed and cried. I like this movie for the same reasons I liked 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'.

Slither

Watched this in the theatre with my partner and it was freaking awesome. Gross, funny, disturbing and just so camp.

Tv-series

The Good Place

Loved everything about this show. I've watched the first season multiple times now and it's never not funny to me. It is just so cleverly made in terms of it's comedy and it's philosophy if I have to use big words, and as each season pass you think 'it can't get better than this', but it can and it will. Most well-rounded end to a series too.

Animated

Zootopia

I'ts just really adorable man. And I love the clever world-building details.

One Piece

I think I started reading One Piece when I was around 10 and switched to the anime pretty soon after that, and although I kind of fell off around the Dressrosa arc, I still want to catch up to the anime. I've never cried as much as I have watching One Piece, the characters and their arcs really stay with you. The writing is just so. freaking. good. Just an amazing piece of fiction across all borders.

Attack on Titan

You can say a lot about this series, but I think it's undeniable that it deserves the praise it gets. After watching this, my expectations for any other type of medium being films or books or anime has risen trifold.

Princess Mononoke

I generally like all ghibli movies, but this one is my all time favourite (with a close second being Nausicaä). The atmosphere and the animation is just gorgeous, even the way the ugliness of mankind is portrayed is just done so freaking well. Beautifully made.

Manga/Graphic novels

Witch Hat Atelier

Gorgeous art. Great main characters. Mystery attatched. Moral dilemmas. Very interesting magic system and great world building. Excellent exposition. What more can I wish for. I am waiting eagerly for the anime.

Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon meshi)

Repeat what I said about Witch Hat Atelier. Fantasy manga boom?