happy one year anniversary to the checkout counter! this can now be subscribed to via RSS and viewed in a cool format on my (brand new!) website.

i've enjoyed making these little lists over the past year—maybe you've found something interesting to check out during that time :)

1. scavengers reign: the visual style of moebius meets miyazaki's nausicaa and vandermeer's annihilation. what an incredibly lush world that lets the story pause to sit in quiet moments of beauty and horror.
   though i'd look forward to a potential season two, the final episode left me with a neat conclusion. a wonderful experience.
2. the secret commonwealth: there are so many things in this book that baffle me—or i outright hated—but it still keeps in the back of my mind. it's dense with magisterial politics and philosophical debate, all the while following the thread of fairytales and the world of the half-seen. i was less impressed by the spy thriller segments (particularly since the main spy figure we follow has the personality of a beige wall), and i'm unconvinced that the orientalism in the latter half is subverted in any meaningful way. i'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time—at least, until i can get my hands on the sequel.