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@dunndunndunn

first i guess is movies because there weren't really any movies huh? anyway the only good one i saw was WOLFWALKERS by tomm moore and ross stewart

it's very cute

1/1/2021, 10:57:29 AM

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@dunndunndunn

there wasn't any good tv (is there ever) so let's just skip that one

1/1/2021, 10:58:22 AM

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@dunndunndunn

the best serialized comic that ended this year was HER TALE OF SHIM CHEONG by seri and biwan, translated by hyeshin kim https://www.tappytoon.com/en/comics/hershimch

1/1/2021, 11:03:15 AM

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@dunndunndunn

the best ongoing serialized comic about food and extremely good facial expressions was SUITO-TO! by okino yui https://mangadex.org/title/47003/suito-to

1/1/2021, 11:07:47 AM

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@dunndunndunn

books! i didn't read enough books from this year, but of those i did read, the best was THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT by hilary mantel

i very nearly teared up at the end!

1/1/2021, 11:10:25 AM

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@dunndunndunn

honorable mentions go to THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS by elena ferrante, translated by ann goldstein

and HEX by rebecca dinerstein knight

hex in particular has some LINES https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1328407433975238656

1/1/2021, 11:11:42 AM

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@dunndunndunn

best fine art was FIND YOUR WINGS by linda adair https://www.abendgallery.com/art/find-your-wings-by-linda-adair

1/1/2021, 11:15:36 AM

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@dunndunndunn

lol she’s doing nfts now award rescinded

4/17/2021, 1:12:03 PM

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@dunndunndunn

best podcast was ANIME IS FOR JERKS by @dunndunndunn and @prophet_goddess https://anime.gripe

1/1/2021, 11:17:02 AM

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@dunndunndunn

it may shock you to hear that last year (2020), there were in fact good video games https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1206661093868728320

1/1/2021, 11:18:49 AM

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@dunndunndunn

the best game – understood broadly – was, obviously, BLASEBALL

the best game understood narrowly was PERFECT PARK https://tjern.itch.io/perfect-park

1/1/2021, 11:20:10 AM

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@dunndunndunn

oops i forgot to thread this with my list from last year https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1212453540779577345

1/1/2021, 11:21:21 AM

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@dunndunndunn

oh yeah and the best tweet from last year was obviously https://twitter.com/dril_gpt2/status/1217873097052839938

1/1/2021, 11:29:23 AM

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@dunndunndunn

best movie that i happened to see in 2020 was WHITE MATERIAL by claire denis and marie ndiaye

best book i read was CORREGIDORA by gayl jones

best game i played was SOMA by frictional

1/1/2021, 12:17:14 PM

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@dunndunndunn

no! stop! no best of 2021 lists until tomorrow

what if the best thing ever comes out in like, the next couple hours

12/31/2021, 12:54:09 PM

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@dunndunndunn

i ~consumed~ a lot of ~content~ this year that was not from 2021 though and most of it was more interesting https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1335733311302352897

so!

12/31/2021, 12:58:29 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best game i happened to play this year was DETENTION (2017)

i streamed it at midnight on a weekday and the vibes were ideal

12/31/2021, 1:00:44 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best album i heard for the first (probably) time was Rossz Csillag Alatt Született by Venetian Snares (2005)

all of you plus my 15 year old self are fuckers for letting me miss out for so long

https://venetiansnares.bandcamp.com/album/rossz-csillag-alatt-sz-letett

12/31/2021, 1:03:13 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best film i happened to see this year was PARASITE (2019)

yes i KNOW but letterboxd says it was on 3 Jan of this year, so only like, a year and a half late

12/31/2021, 1:06:12 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best novel i read this year that wasn't published in 2021 was HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor (2017, en trans 2020)

heartbreaking and transcendent

12/31/2021, 1:08:47 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best tv i saw this year was seasons 2 and 3 of Forbrydelsen (2009, 2012)

they take one of the best procedural dramas and elevate it to a series that questions not only its own format but the very institution of the police and, ultimately, state power

12/31/2021, 1:14:53 PM

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@dunndunndunn

ok afaik nothing super amazing came out in the last hours of the year but it could have happened!!

https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1477020271814930434

1/1/2022, 11:08:33 AM

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@dunndunndunn

that said it is now definitely safe to start declaring the incontrovertible, objectively best things of last year (2021)

(it's 2022 now)

1/1/2022, 11:10:13 AM

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@dunndunndunn

there were a lot of good posts on here, but there can be only one best tweet of 2021, and it couldn't be anything other than sebulba mode https://twitter.com/bransonreese/status/1393790661942382596

1/1/2022, 11:12:53 AM

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@dunndunndunn

honorary mentions to two drilbot tweets, who continue to kill it

dumpster fire of a girl https://twitter.com/dril_botposter/status/1422353807443365889

i need to go back ther https://twitter.com/dril_gpt2/status/1418468371037831170

1/1/2022, 11:14:08 AM

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not as good as last year's winner, but it was truly an all-timer https://twitter.com/dril_gpt2/status/1217873097052839938

1/1/2022, 11:15:12 AM

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@dunndunndunn

the TRASH ACADEMY (me and my friends) are voting on the nominees for the second annual trash awards today, so i'm going to continue poisoning the well with my own personal favorites

1/1/2022, 11:29:41 AM

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the best film of 2021 was TITANE by Julia Ducournau

it's deranged, beautiful, and unlike anything else. a remarkable addition to the Cars franchise

1/1/2022, 11:30:53 AM

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@dunndunndunn

nothing i played this year was unambiguously Best, so i'll cheat: three games that delighted me with their takes on the golden rule of Go Fast Never Stop

- Gearshifters https://store.steampowered.com/app/1017160/Gearshifters/
- sunny-place https://store.steampowered.com/app/1489120/sunnyplace/
- Buck Up and Drive! https://fabiofontes.itch.io/buck-up-and-drive

1/1/2022, 11:49:02 AM

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@dunndunndunn

(the game i played the most of was, by a quite horrifying margin, Storybook Brawl. i would be less embarrassed by this fact if the game looked nicer.)

1/1/2022, 11:50:52 AM

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the best album of 2021 was AGOR by Koreless. bouncy and unearthly, the more i listen to it the more i can't stop listening to it

https://koreless.bandcamp.com/album/agor

1/1/2022, 4:07:35 PM

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honorary mentions in no order:

- PROMISES by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/promises
- KWASY I ZASADY by Błoto https://bloto.bandcamp.com/album/kwasy-i-zasady
- ICONS by Eli Keszler https://elikeszler.bandcamp.com/album/icons

i got jazzpilled last year and so can you

1/1/2022, 4:10:55 PM

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@dunndunndunn

the best novel of 2021 was almost the last thing i picked up before the new year. i read the synopsis and knew i had to read it, and my instincts have never been more right

1/1/2022, 4:27:49 PM

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PITY THE BEST by Robin McLean is the best novel of 2021 and the best thing i read last year, period

it's hard to summarize because so much of what it is is constituted by how it's written, which is like nothing i've read in years https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1475015429177315329

1/1/2022, 4:31:11 PM

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it's about surviving trauma, it's about how we try (and often fail) to coexist with each other and with nature. it's about how we tell stories to understand ourselves in a violent world

it's very, very good

1/1/2022, 4:34:05 PM

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@dunndunndunn

honorary mention goes to MATRIX by Lauren Groff, which was lovely but which i couldn't help comparing to other greater works (The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Hild by Nicola Griffith) https://twitter.com/dunndunndunn/status/1472827562669838342

1/1/2022, 4:41:08 PM

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