blaugust 03: lists
posted sunday august 03 2025 / last updated sunday august 03 2025
#blaugust / what is blaugust?
it's pretty nice outside; i'm catsitting right now & sitting with the windows open and my best friend's cat on my chest. my blog post for today is a collection of lists — i might update this from time to time in the future, so consider this an ongoing page!
favorite songs
- cop car - mitski
- troy - gawain and the green knight
- homesick - house phone
- oom sha la la - haley heynderickx
- cotton - the mountain goats
- diamond mine - hop along
- small red boy - ajj
- haunted house - sir babygirl
- ignorance - paramore
- high horse - the crane wives
- canary in a coal mine - the crane wives
- hello cold world - paramore
- geodisic prison song - the taxpayers
- louisiana hot sauce rainy nights - the taxpayers
- no place - ezra furman
- dixon's girl - dessa
- mineshaft - dessa
- if & when - doomtree
- hips & envelopes - squalloscope
- brand new city - mitski
- this too shall pass - danny schmidt
- honorable madam - daniel kahn
- thank you for the venom - my chemical romance
- famous last words - my chemical romance
- feel better - penelope scott
- black sheep - metric
- samo & grace - cake bake betty
- relative fiction - julien baker
- dirty knife - neko case
- casual - chappell roan
- what i have to - miya folick
- pet body - miya folick
- san cristóbal - mal blum
- mockingbird - anaïs mitchell
- family happiness - the mountain goats
- rusalka, rusalka - the decemberists
- make you better - the decemberists
video essays i recommend
- Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House - jacob geller
- The Last Things Humans Will Leave Behind - we're in hell
- Why Utopianism Is Good Actually - we're in hell
- Vulcan | The Planet That Didn't Exist - zepherus
- The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers, and Mediums - super eyepatch wolf
- Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response - hbomberguy
- The Vampire Graves of Europe - miniminuteman
- were the magicians in Now You See Me wizards or what? - leo vader
- THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS | PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 14 - jon bois
- RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC MARATHON. - jon bois
- Indiana Jones and the Objective Existence of God - jacob geller
- Fear of Big Things Underwater - jacob geller
- Disney's Animatronics: A Living History - defunctland
emojis i use a lot
- 💖
- 🫀
- 💀
- 😔
- 🍓
- 👻
- 🌸
- 💞
- 🔪
- 👁️
- 🕯️
- ⚔️
- 🗝️
- 🎀
- 💌
- 🔖
- ‼️
- 🌀
- 🏳️🌈
- 🏚
- 😘
- 🦀
- ✨ used to be near the top of this list but it's sadly been claimed by ai bros, which is bullshit, but alas
unicode symbols i like
- ⟣⟡⟢
- ✧
- ⚰︎
- ✩
- ✸
- ✴︎
- ❦
- ❤︎
- ❣
- ↝
- ⤸
- ≈
- «»
- ✂︎
- ⚘
skills i'd like to learn (with varying degrees of realisticness)
- cooking + baking
- writing in shorthand
- swordfighting
- and other kinds of fighting
- being able to pinpoint a year/decade from a picture of a historical piece of clothing
- driving (technically learned already but it's been a while)
- ceramics
- needle felting
- rug tufting
- geocaching
- hiking
- journalling regularly
characters i would name a cat after
- merricat blackwood (we have always lived in the castle)
- harrowhark nonagesimus (the locked tomb)
- the thing (john carpenter flavor, not fantastic four flavor)
- parker (leverage)
good shades of pink
- e63196
- ef589a
- f55399
- fbbed5
- fc6384
- ff5c89
- ff6b97
- ff48b0
- ff64be
- ff748e
- ffaec1
more good colors
- 5b2547
- 196764
- c9e194
- c984b9
- dfbbea
- f13d2d
- f28621
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