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Had the last drive to uni drive with my dad today, it’s crazy that in 3 months I’ll be done with my degree and idk if I’m ready for that. The drive was good we just sit and talk about sports and listen to music, today we listened to This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem (my favourite album, seeing them in June and I can’t wait) and Turn on the bright lights by Interpol (a album we listened to together during one of our trips in first year). I’m gonna miss it as it’s one of the only times I get to socialise with my dad, he’s not really a people person and works a lot of the time. To me those drives were a core part of my time at uni and was always something I looked forward to even if I was a bit hungover and stuck in a hot car for a few hours.
Apr 24, 2025
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I don't even need the ride, I just like spending time with him.
Aug 6, 2024
It’s soul healing I think. Went to see They Might Be Giants with my dad and cried at Birdhouse thinking about 8 year old me singing it with my dad. We‘ve also seen Belle and Sebastian and Yeah Yeah Yeahs together. He said we just need to see Avril Lavigne and Blondie now and we’ll have seen all the bands we used to cover when I was little (him on guitar me singing). Just go to gigs with your dad, the best gig companion.
Nov 17, 2024
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i spend a lot of time driving with my dad and idk what that man likes aux wise so i’ve started curating songs he nods approvingly at into a playlist and it’s become my dad aux playlist, incredibly helpful for someone whose taste you may not be so familiar with
Feb 18, 2024
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My school did a workshop about it when I was like 10 and I think the amount of care and dedication it takes to hand crafting each and every frame is so cool. When its done well you get a really stylised films, I’m thinking like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, ParaNorman and The Box Trolls all of which I loved as a kid and every time I rewatch them I get the same sense of childlike wonder I did when I watched them the first time. I know there’s a lot of crossover with CGI now when making them but just the concept of stop motion animation is really cool.
Apr 13, 2025
I have a memory of being hungover in a McDonald’s being surrounded by middlesborough fans, listening to this song through shitty earbuds and it was a weirdly dreamlike moment. Now every time I hear this song I think of that moment.
Apr 25, 2025
This is gonna be a bit long but. I’m 20 about to turn 21 in a month, from York in England. I am about to graduate from university in July and submitted my dissertation 12 hours ago. I have no idea what I want to do after I graduate and that’s fine. I do media and cultural studies as I find people the habits they form and the stories they tell to be interesting. I think my interest stems from being an only child and not having adequate socialisation from an early age so i ended up consuming a lot of media, either that or autism idk man.
My friends say I’m funny, compassionate and give good advice. I also overthink and apologise way too much. I discovered the mock northern English accent I do is basically ripped straight from my grandma who died when I was young. I told someone that and they said ‘it’s like she’s living on through you’ which made me uncomfortable. I am an extrovert but I struggle with my own self confidence so I don’t break out of my shell that often. I started to write stand-up comedy which people found to be funny, but I realised that it wasn’t something I would’ve like to done seriously as I think I’d start to hate it.
Music is my biggest passion, I played the trumpet growing up and I started to learn the guitar 2 years ago and I barely play as it’s at my parents house. I ran a music blog on TikTok that got 4k followers and I met and worked with some cool people. I’d like to make music but I know I can’t sing, that doesn’t stop some people though. And I can only write parody songs. My favourite artists/bands are: LCD Soundsystem, Cameron Winter, Clairo, Blood Orange, King Krule, MIKE, billy woods & Black Country, New Road.
I’m Bi although that’s not really true I say that because it makes people more accepting generally, I realised that I don’t care about gender in a partner as long as their is some romantic connection. I didn’t realise I was gay but people around me assumed I was. I’ve only been in one relationship in my life, and not been on many dates. I probably have the most embarrassing first kiss story out there, so much so I don’t count it as my first.
The best thing I learnt in therapy and something that I tell everyone one is that you should focus on what you can control within your own life and not to care about how other people perceive you, don’t do things just for the sake of validation and don’t avoid things because your scared of looking lame or being judged.
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