SO FUCKING GOOD WTF??? the guitar riff, the vocals, the melody... I love this song so much yes im listening to the full album only today despite having loved yoru ga akeru for years... full album review coming soon!

FINALLY REVIEWING BOOK 5 I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS TOOK SO LONG... esp considering this one's my favourite 😭 as always, the without spoiler review first! for me personally, i like this book the most from arc 1 because the way sunny is developed and given more depth is absolutely AMAZING. like it really reflects on how you can never really know a person just by how they act, right? in a way i think the themes of not being heard, or not being taken seriously are things all children (and teens and adults!) can relate to, so it makes sunny a character that i can empathize with and her journey throughout the book is VERY satisfying to read. i also love the way she kinda defies expectations, believing in something everyone else thought was fake. and somehow it led to the best outcome. it really shows how sometimes faith is needed, and it's not necessarily a rejection of truth if you have something you believe in that has no physical evidence of existing. yeah getting lowk spiritual.... i also like the themes of found family in this book, which ill elaborate more on in the spoilers section! and i think the resolution of the arc is beautiful, it kind of reflects on how one should be independent, but should also know the balance. sunny did a lot of things on her own; but she was wise enough to rely on help from others when she knew it was required, and i think that is really just the crux of Sunny's character: independent, but trusting. you can have both and be amazing. and now, spoilers ahead!! i absolutely love sunny. like hands down favourite dragon from this arc. the way she just...defies everyone by going out on her own??? and i think the way she deals with her complicated feelings towards starflight and just everything in general is much more mature than the other dragons in the previous books. i say this because the other dragons were convinced they were correct for the majority of their books before an incident forces them to develop, but sunny on the other hand is so much more open-minded that she never hesitates to try to see what the other side thinks. she's considerate of everyone's views, and I also appreciate her sympathy towards peril. and regarding the found family themes, notice how Sunny's mother Thorn's circle is also dragons that aren't blood-related. sunny and thorn are probably the most similar child-parent in the arc, and I think they both kind of represent maturity for one's age. thorn i believe is a younger dragon but commands the scorpion den (and later down the line, the throne), and sunny has a flexible mindset that lets her imagine herself in other dragons' claws. an underrated quality in the dragon world AND in our real human world. I think sunny really encapsulates the meaning of kindness with strength, where you don't have to pick just one. and often having empathy requires more strength and courage rather than sticking to one's own beliefs. i do wish sunny got more angry at her friends for not taking her seriously (especially tsunami) because gurlie you don't need to tolerate that disrespect considering you literally solved the war on your own 😭🙏 anyway enough sunny glaze, let's talk about some of the other characters. thorn, firstly. love her. she's exactly the kind of queen the sandwings needed, having experienced the rough life of living in a crowded oasis, having to steal scraps to eat, and etc. another example of empathy and strength going hand in hand. i like how sunny acknowledges the fact that sunny would not be able to be queen because she wouldn't be able to be harsh with punishments and stuff. so in a way i think thorn is the more "mature" version of sunny, or maybe what sunny could've been if she grew up with her mom and grew up seeing more unforgivable crimes. considering the only thing sunny had really seen while growing up was the neglect/abuse of Kestrel, Dune and Webs; who in her mind all had reasons to be that way, ig she wouldn't have picked up the ruthlessness that comes with being queen. I feel like I'm rambling ugh... ending review here cuz I'm tired and braindead 😭 see you guys on the next one!

holy shiiii i loved this book like the world building??? the subversion of expectations??? and by subversion of expectations i don't just mean in a "they thought X was like this, but turns out it was the opposite" it was like they set it up so you would think X was the opposite but then X ended up being exactly as it was set up... mindfuckery insane when i was first reading the series glory seemed like a badass to me but on my most recent reread she was just a bitch with a more edgy undertone than tsunami...but again, character development ourghhh i think from a baseline glory had more depth and tsunami less before their respective pov books that's why i like glory a bit better this is one of my favs because it just reveals a whole nother ecosystem in the wof world that seems unusual in comparison to the way the other parts of the world work and now, spoilers ahead !! the main theme on this one I think was definitely the choice to become different and also the acceptance of rest as an essential part of keeping yourself healthy. glory absolutely HATED the fact that rainwings needed suntime (basically a whole hour of more sleeping and being lazy) and it made her feel useless during that time of the day. eventually she realises that she works better when she's had her rest and a grumpy glory benefits nobody (but when is she ever not grumpy?) I also like how rainwing skills never seemed particularly useful to her when she first found out about them, like swinging through trees with your tail instead of flying, finding exotic fruits, identifying flowers by scent and maybe also befriending unsuspecting sloths... :3 even the sleep darts, i love how they were incorporated in the next book's plot. I think there was also an important lesson in learning that the people who are related to you may not share the same thoughts or believe in the same things, like how rainwings really thought they were better off being non-violent and not participating in the war. glory was always going to be an exception, and that is okay. it's okay for people to be different and believe in different things, and you're not always going to get along with them. i also love that she had to choose rainwings for the trials instead of her own friends. another thing glory struggles with is trust, and we see her completely wreck that flaw by choosing rainwings who she doesn't even know that well over her friends because she knew the other queens would pick rainwing skills. it's also a part of accepting that the rainwings, no matter how lazy they seemed, had special skills only they could use and not other tribes. it also kind of makes glory face the inherent racism she had towards her own tribe because of how much the guardians brought it up that the rainwings were lazy and shit. and that's enough yap about this book WOOOOOO

okay so this one...this one was so heartbreaking. i know starflight is a lowk unpopular character through the first three books but I've always had a soft spot for him... the book has major themes of imposter syndrome, feeling useless, and also guilt. the way it adds so much more depth to the story of the nightwings in general...this book really just shows us that people aren't always what they seem on the outside. and we see that you can never ever generalise a demographic, because there will always be differences in opinions and thoughts even in the same demographic. i also love the themes of found family. there's also another really important thing we can learn: even the smallest action you take, no matter how insignificant or useless it seems, does contribute to the solution. much more than doing nothing at all. and now, spoilers ahead!! my favourite part of this book is starflight meeting his father, mastermind. at first it seems like a dream come true; his father is everything starflight wanted in a friend, someone who'd understand starflight's thirst for knowledge, someone who'd encourage him instead of telling him to shut up. but later on, he realises that his father was treating rainwings as a science experiment instead of real dragons, treating them inhumanely (indragonly?) and realised he could not be more different than his father. he also meets his sister in this book who is just very obviously wildly different lmao. the reason I had such a soft spot for him is because I've always loved the quiet, intellectual types. he's also a nightwing, the most mysterious dragon tribe. speaking of, THE NIGHTWING QUEEN WAS SUCH A BADASS???? ok i know that she approved the whole rainwing abduction thing but imagine the love you must have for your entire tribe to risk your own life for them to find a better home. they always knew she was going to die before reaching the rainforest, whether or not there was going to be a battle about it. i just absolutely love how badass of a ruler she is. this plays into the blood relatives not being similar thing as well, as greatness, the queen's daughter, is an absolute cowarddddd LMFAO I think the tribe's absolute desperation for a new home was expressed really well in this book. the state of their dragonets, the way they hunt, the strategy they employed to give themselves the upper hand in the war, AND the control and influence they had on the entirety of pyrrhia because most of the scrolls were written by them... absolutely brilliant. speaking of scrolls, I love how the nightwings' plan really puts into perspective how important media really is in our world. your sources of information drastically influence your perception depending on if they have biases or political undertones. then ofc we have the stupid FAKE prophecy, used to manipulate the war for its entirety. this is one of the things I love about wings of fire, it reflects the real world so well in the way its political structures, world building, and ripple effects are written. as for fatespesker... I'll always have a place in my heart for Starflight × sunny. i didn't like fatespeaker much until arc 2. she's sweet, but she feels like a character they just threw in to add spice to the romantic bits of the series. also, the progression of glory × deathbringer...mmm. they are my forever home ship. idk why it works but it works.

amazing intro to an amazing series, would recommend to literally everybody i love the exploration of expectations vs reality, the major reveal about the main character's biggest insecurity at the end, and the world building is just immaculate. for my wof reviews, I'm going to say what I thought the major theme in the book was and expand on it a little. spoilers ahead! the main theme i feel in this book is "you are not what society perceives you as". I say this because clay, our protagonist, is a mudwing, who are perceived as strong warriors on the battlefield, good fighters, and especially by the guardians who didn't know any better, "violent monsters". they saw clay cracking at the other dragonets' shells and assumed it was because he was born with a violent streak, oblivious to how mudwing biology actually works. I especially love peril and clay's relationship in this book, as peril perfectly contrasts what clay thinks of himself. she embraces her inner "killer", whereas clay believes dragons should not be killers at all. i may have a bias towards peril lmaoooo she's so great in later books. her betrayal as well hits really hard as it kind of shows the dragonets that they can't trust ANYONE. it's more of a shock for clay though, since he let peril in while everyone else already decided she was a threat when they saw her on scarlet's arena. lastly i just love the end of this book. the initial heartbreak of finding out his parents do not gaf about clay, then the siblings flying after him and explaining that mudwings stick to their siblings. i also love the twinge of fear we see in the other siblings and Reed, the bigwings whose position was now iffy because they found their "real" bigwings. and clay also refusing to join them because he acknowledges that reed is the true bigwings 🥹 it just shows how big clay's heart actually is and he must be protected !!

so... I watched the new Spider-Man movie and... DON'T BE DECEIVED BY THE LOWER RATING I LOVED THE MOVIE IT BROUGHT ME TO TEARS... i do have some mild criticisms about the plot and the science aspect of it, hence why i deducted a a little bit from the rating. acting was top notch as always, love how zendaya captured all those nuances required for the plot, no spoilers here though (yet) I'm not sure if it was just me tripping but there were a lot of incidents that were referred to that I don't think have happened in movies... Might just be my bad memory, I appreciate that the movie still made sense though. I think Spiderman movies in general are more approachable for beginners to watch, as compared to the rest of the Marvel saga, which is pretty neat. This one was a tear-jerker though... I like the emotional themes that were discussed in the movie, but it felt a little forced in the end. Like, the ending wasn't as convincing to me and the "lesson" you learn at the end felt pretty generic, even though the circumstances were more nuanced. They also didn't develop the important new characters as much as I would've liked...backstories felt a little basic for Marvel. I do love the classic humour that comes with student characters LMAOOO. Ned is a sweetheart with or without his memories. and now, spoilers ahead !! ok so...jean is attractive asf ehe. besides the point. the whole jean turning good at the end part because of ONE shared memory felt a little forced to me. like you're telling me this girl with telepathic powers and the impulse to do anything it takes would just suddenly stop after one instance of empathy shown to her or smth? my mom predicts that she'll appear again later, do some evil shit but my prediction is that she'll get dragged into the mini women avengers squad. still don't really know where they're going with that. the other thing, i feel like the plot this time was much weaker as compared to other Marvel movies. like it felt like one incident just being told in enormous detail, ig? and the threat of jean just didn't feel very grand because we had no clue if v-max was some weapon or whatever. also I just KNEW that guy from damage control would be trouble...never trust authorities, kids! it is slightly overused now in marvel though, which is why i was able to catch on so quick. interestingly enough, i was able to understand a lot of the scientific shit they said in the movie about the genetics. but when you have all that stuff i keep asking more questions as to how the shit actually works which is, ofc, never really answered in the movies because it's fiction. the tech doesn't exist yet. interesting in theory but somehow knowing exactly what they were bs-ing about takes the fun out of the sci-fi aspect. the depictions of overstimulation were very cool in 3D. for some reason MJ and ned felt very...idealised as characters this time around? like they were supposed to be perfect in every way, which is not what i felt watching the previous spiderman movies. if it's on purpose that's a pretty cool detail, considering peter hasn't been part of mj or ned's lives for four years presumably. from his pov they'd naturally seem idealised or "perfect". overall, great movie, but it doesn't have the underlying existential thread most Marvel movies have imo. and maybe that's not such a bad thing after all.

this one's only getting a lower rating because i fucking hate tsunami 💀 but the writing is great in this one too, and i love how much depth the book adds to tsunami's character and the family dynamics we see in this book. spoilers ahead! so the main theme of this one definitely feels like arrogance... it's just a thing i associate with tsunami's character as well, the bossy, "you need to listen to me because i am authority" type thing. another theme i feel like duty/responsibility of choice, not of necessity. tsunami chose to take on the responsibility of protecting the last female egg (auklet) because she *wanted* to, not because someone asked her too. at the end, she was loyal to her friends not because she felt like she owed it to them, but because she realised that that was where she belonged. the themes of guilt in this one go so hard too... like when tsunami realises that the seawing she killed in the arena was her own father, droven into insanity by queen scarlet. her actions in the book also feel like a direct contrast to how clay was in the previous book. while clay focused on not killing anyone, tsunami recklessly attacked anyone she saw as a threat in this book. I like how from both points of view there was a downfall. clay's unwillingness to fight/cause conflict made him trust in peril, who ultimately betrayed them; whereas tsunami's approach made HER untrustworthy to any other dragons, even to her own mother iirc. balance is key after all. wings of fire is a depressing read sometimes...and the scene where tsunami waits for the assassin in the hatchery? chills. and that's it for this review~~

choco vanilla ice cream. pretty basic. it wasn't a lot of ice cream. me sad.

what do we think

no photos but a few days ago my mom bought a pack of oats and I've been eating them for breakfast almost everyday... oats are SO yum if you know what kind of flavours you like!!! i tried making oats on my own today and it turned out awesome so here's my "measure with your heart" ahh recipe xD ingredients: - oats (i used yu oats, that's the same brand whose chilli oil i have also been in love with) - cocoa powder - sugar - milk - water - cinnamon powder - peanut butter (i used the smooth kind that's sugar free but i think crunchy peanut butter would go awesome with this too) steps: - take three spoons of oats (yes that's enough for a full breakfast because mine is protein packed and proteins help you fill full) in a saucer/deep dish/i actually don't know what to call it and add enough water to soak the oats - put it over medium flame and cook until it becomes like a paste (i had to add some more water to mine later cuz i used too high heat sob) - add sugar to taste (i think i might've taken two tablespoons or a little less than that) - add cocoa powder until you get the desired colour (i wanted mine to taste very cocoa-y so i added like a tablespoon, don't underestimate cocoa powder guys) - add a bit of cinnamon powder (i...lowk don't know the taste so i just yolo-ed the measurements for the cinnamon powder) - add a bit of peanut butter (i wanted to add more but my peanut butter jar was almost empty so i only managed to put like a teaspoon) - mix it all up and then add milk! add milk until you get your desired texture. the reason i did this last is so that the cocoa powder gets dissolved and doesn't feel grainy/powdery when you eat (and also because i forgot to do it earlier...haha...) and that's my recipe!! if you guys try it lmk how it goes~~

just something i randomly came up with today I just ran my fingers through my hair, And it pulled out a bunch of strands. I just stubbed my toe on my desk, Minor inconvenience turned to an unbearable pang. Little things build up over time, Like grains of sand sifting in an hourglass. I'm going to cringe when I reread this poem, Another inconvenience to add to the mass. Oh well, I'll let myself off this once— For being so dramatic about a moment's incident. Paper cuts making my fingers *leak*, Blood on everyone's shirts and hands. Excuse me for taking a drop so seriously, Excuse me for bringing it up. It's true, minor inconveniences can build, Like sand when time has run out, on the bottom of the glass. It may be just an inconvenience to you, But for us it's a discussion that must be had.