The Joy of Listing

I just love making lists and ranking stuff.

  • Some huge icks of mine

    In no particular order except for No. 1.

    This is potentially part one of many because I have seemingly endless icks and find it very entertaining to list them all.

    1. People misspelling Elliott Smith as Elliot Smith
    • People singing along to songs they don’t know pretending that they know the lyrics when they obviously don’t
    • People not asking “and how are you?” After you’ve just asked them and they told you extensively.
    • People not respecting the boundaries of cats and continuing to pet them even though they obviously don’t want it
    • When you ask a man for a lighter and they hold it so close to them that you have to almost touch them to light your cigarette
    • People who smoke in a way where the filter gets wet from their spit
    • People not saying “Gesundheit” or “Bless you” when you sneeze
    • People calling people that are just assholes “narcissists” or “borderline”.
    • Men calling women “females”
    • People not liking a movie I love enough
    • Musicians desperately wanting the audience during a concert to sing along to their songs and then being visible annoyed because people don’t know all the lyrics
    • Screencaps of a movie with quotes from it that are from a different part of the movie than the screencap
    • People that are not native spanish speakers saying “Barcelona” in the correct way

  • Ranking of all the (former and current) H3 crew members based on how much I like them

    I would’ve ranked old jolly Ethan way higher back in the day. But being hated by a majority of the internet, betrayed by his former friends and feeling threatened basically all of the time has turned him into kind of a douche tbh. But I guess it’s kind of understandable. It’s still really disappointing and sad though.
    Hila is ranked so low because of how she seems to blindly enable Ethan in his douchebagery these days, which infuriates me a lot.
    AB because of how much of a simp he used to be for Ethan and idubbbz (of all people) and because of how insincere he seems now.
    Morgan because I don’t feel like I know her yet at all.
    Zach because he’s so macho and comes across as misogynistic sometimes.
    Sam because I believe (very parasocially and without a lot of evidence, I know) that she broke Ian’s heart and because she moved on reeeaally quickly after the break-up and Ian seems like such a sweet guy.
    Also Dan is on top because a) the podcast could not exist without him and b) he’s one of the most level headed and likeable people I “know” on the internet. Dan’s the best. His wife also seems so cool and likeable. They seem like such a sweet and cool couple. <3

    1. Dan
    2. Cam
    3. Ian
    4. Nate
    5. Olivia
    6. Tamara
    7. Lena
    8. Ethan
    9. Hila
    10. Sam
    11. Zach
    12. AB
    13. Morgan

  • My Top 10 Favorite Teen Shows

    I intentionally left out Gilmore Girls and Twin Peaks, because I see them more as shows that happen to have some main characters that are teens than “teen shows”.

    1. Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
    2. Daria (1997-2002)
    3. PEN15 (2019-2021)
    4. My so-called Life (1994-1995)
    5. Skins – Generation 1 and 2 (2007-2010)
    6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2006)
    7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
    8. Euphoria (2019-)
    9. The End of the F***ing World (2017)
    10. Veronica Mars (2004-2007)

    Honorable Mentions: My Mad Fat Diary (2013-2015), Sugar Rush (2005-2006), The O.C. (2003-2007), Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003), Gossip Girl (2007-2012), Awkward. (2011-2016), Clarissa Explains It All (1991-1994), Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004),

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  • My Top 10 Favorite Witch Movies

    1. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
    2. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
    3. Wicked (2024)
    4. Practical Magic (1998)
    5. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
    6. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
    7. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
    8. The Love Witch (2016)
    9. Hocus Pocus (1993)
    10. The Craft (1996)

    Honorable Mentions: Four Rooms (1995), The Wizard of oz (1939), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Bibi Blocksberg (2002)

  • Celebrity men where the revelation that they are predators really disappointed me

    1. Andrew Callaghan (Host of Channel 5/All Gas No Brakes)

      Both the revelations about him and the ones about Neil Gaiman really fucked with my head when their respective SA allegations came out. First because I was a huge fan and had a parasocial admiration for both but mainly because they had always framed themselves as “the good guys”. Neil Gaiman being a vocal “feminist” and Andrew a leftist “woke” guy. I really thought they were “one of the few good ones”. 🥲
    2. Neil Gaiman

      I gave away my Sandman Comics Collection recently and I also can’t listen to Amanda Palmer or Dresden Dolls anymore knowing how complicit she was in his abusive behavior, which is really really sad because her music has meant a lot to me since I was a teenager. I am just gonna pretend Coraline isn’t based on a book of his, because I love that movie so much
    3. Woody Allen

      I know it was always known in my lifetime that he is disgusting. But my mom was a huge fan so I grew up on his movies not knowing about the extend of his abuse. I only knew that he “married the daughter of his ex” which is not even close to the full story. Watching “Allen v. Farrow” made me so sick I threw all of his movies I had on DVD in the trash and never (re)watched another movie of his.
    4. Kevin Spacey

      He used to be one of my favorite actors and my sister and I both really admired him and had this parasocial idea in our heads of how great of a guy he was. Thankfully he plays a creep/asshole/terrible person in all of my favorite movies he’s in so it’s not hard to rewatch them for me.
    5. Johnny Depp
    6. Ninja (of Die Antwoord)
    7. Snoop Dogg
    8. Joe Gatto (of Impractical Jokers)
    9. Louis CK
    10. Cee Lo Green

    Dishonorable Mentions: Dustin Hoffman, Joss Whedon, Anthony Kiedis (RHCP), James Franco, Jonah Hill, Ben Affleck, Kanye West, Justin Roiland


    A lot of celebrities are “only” in the dishonorable mentions because my expectations of them as people were very low to begin with, despite me really liking their art
    (*cough* Kanye *cough*).

  • Primavera 2026 Line-Up Tierlist

    I already have an early bird ticket because it’s literally the best festival and I’ve never regretted going.
    This is the acts I plan on seeing (if the time table allows it) put in tiers based on how excited I am to see them live.

    TIERSACTS
    happy tears, dream fulfilled <3Viagra Boys
    Rilo Kiley
    The Cure
    Mac De Marco
    have seen them already, but happy to see them againGorillaz
    Little Simz
    Wet Leg
    Don’t know every song but very excited to see live anywayMy Bloody Valentine
    Einstürzende Neubauten
    Addison Rae
    Massive Attack
    Ashnikko
    Slowdive
    Know very little of them but intriguedLola Young
    Doja Cat
    Pink Pantheress
    Ethel Cain

  • Top 10 (Currently living) Celebrity men where it would completely destroy me if they turned out to be creeps

    1. Nathan Fielder
    2. David Byrne
    3. Hbomberguy
    4. Bill Hader
    5. Charlie Kaufman
    6. David Tennant
    7. Jon Brion
    8. Andy Samberg
    9. Michael Cera
    10. Keanu Reeves

    Honorable Mentions: Tim Robinson, Elijah Wood, Kyle McLachlan, Pedro Pascal, Noel Fielding, Richard Ayoade, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement, Beck, Kendrick Lamar, Robert Pattinson, Steve Carrell, Larry David, Charlie Day, Mike Mills, Stanley Tucci, Adam Scott, Nick Offerman, Todd in the Shadows

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  • My Top 10 Favorite Contrapoints videos


    I know lots of people dislike her and she’s been “cancelled” a billion times but I will always stan Natalie. I’ve rewatched her video essays sooo many times and I just don’t get tired of them.
    I am also more parasocially invested in her life and career than I’d like to admit. I want to be her friend so bad. She has such great taste in everything and is so funny and smart and pretty. 🥺

    1. The Male Gaze (Patreon Tangent)
    2. Cringe
    3. Envy
    4. Twilight
    5. Alpha Males (Since deleted because it was pre-transition)
    6. Gamergate (Patreon Tangent)
    7. Shame
    8. J.K. Rowling
    9. Incels
    10. Canceling
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  • My top 10 Favorite love interests in Gilmore Girls (+who I hate)

    1. Dave Rygalski
      (I grew up watching The OC and therefore have a huuuge crush on Adam Brody. And this role is the most attractive he’s ever been imo. Great boyfriend, musician, music nerd. And the episode where he reads the entire bible in one night just so he can officially take Lane to prom is bf goals.)
    2. Luke
      (I don’t think I need to explain. He’s just the best. Cis-het men should study him to become better people.)
    3. Jess
      (Yeah, I know he’s a shitty boyfriend. But he has amazing taste in music, movies, books and is a genius, underachieving bad boy. That’s exactly my type unfortunately.)
    4. Marty
      (I am still so mad that Rory chose Logan over Marty. Marty was such a cute, sweet, non-threatening guy. The only reason he’s not higher on this list is his shitty behavior in the later seasons. but Season 4+5 Marty is the perfect guy imo.)
    5. Kirk
      (Hot take: Kirk is hot. Yes, he’s dorky and extremely weird and not conventionally attractive, but that’s exactly why he’s hot to me. The only down-side which puts him lower on this list is that he lives with his mother.)
    6. Jason “Digger” Styles
      (I know some people disagree, but I reeeally liked Jason as a love interest. He and Lorelai had such great chemistry and he’s funny, witty and a little eccentric. Also quite good looking. I don’t find the actor playing him attractive in any other show, but this role + the beard really suit him.)
    7. Doyle
      (I love how he matches Paris’ freak. He’s sooo into her and not at all threatened by her genius and ambitions. Also I like that he’s a bit effeminate. But I hate the scene where they’re broken up and he’s drunk and weird to Rory.)
    8. Max Medina
      (He’s sweet and good looking and how he pursues Lorelai in the first season is really attractive, but he’s also a bit boring. And I don’t like the other sides of him we see in Season 2.)
    9. Alex
      (Also sweet, witty, good looking but kind of boring besides that. Also we don’t really know much about him because of how minor a character he was)
    10. Robert
      (In case you don’t remember who he even is. He’s the friend of Logan’s who asked Rory to go to the Tarantino birthday party with him. I just think he’s hot and weird and I needed a 10th and hated/didn’t care for everyone else. Sorry)

    Honorable Mentions: Rune and Jackson. Both are not my type but I love them as characters.

    Who I hate:
    Logan (!!!!)
    Christopher (!!!)
    Dean (!!!!!!)
    Zach (!)

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  • My Top 10 favorite highly specific genres of movies

    1. Movies about weird people falling in love (Science of Sleep, Eagle vs. Shark, Silver Linings Playbook, etc.)
    2. Coming of age movies about weird/outcast teens (Rushmore, Ghost World, Juno, etc.)
    3. Movies that are just one long deep conversation (My dinner with Andre, Before Sunrise-trilogy, etc.)
    4. Psychological thrillers (bonus if “erotic” and/or from the 90s)
    5. Girly teen movies (80s/90s/00s) 
    6. Rom Coms (especially the 90s ones)
    7. Extremely fucked up movies dealing with uncomfortable subjects like rape, pedophilia or self-harm/suicide in a kind of way that doesn’t feel inauthentic or like trauma porn (think Todd Solondz movies)
    8. Atypical horror that is more focused on fucking you up psychologically rather than with gore (Ari Aster movies, Jordan Peele movies, etc.)
    9. Movies about dysfunctional families that are both devastating and hopeful (think Little Miss Sunshine, Kajillionaire, etc.)
    10. Documentaries about artists or musicians

    Honorable Mentions: Screwball comedies from the 30s/40s, many different documentary sub-genres, mockumentaries, christmas movies, movies about queer people that are actually made by queer people, movies about dreamers (they’re almost always autistic-coded lol), classic murder mystery movies, stoner films, movies about music nerds,

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