Blog #13: Year of the Snake - 2025 Wrap-Up

Okay this is gonna feel rushed. 2025 was a war. I had great times but there was so much transformation this year, it really did feel like a shedding of self. I love my creature comforts and I prioritize stability over so many other things. This year I experienced a reckoning as many of those other things came to roost. When I act with the MO just to make nice or to take the path of least resistance, I sometimes betray my own judgment and I actually like myself and trust my judgment. In that same vein, I feel stronger convictions about what it is I do want and I experienced a lot of positive growth this year.

Culturally it was a weird year, I guess it always is. I think since 2020 there has been a big shift in young people, a shift away from political content and an overcorrection (a really bad one imo) to the extreme earnestness and tightassery of the later 2010s. I’m seeing more nihilism if not just regressive cruelty. Some of that stuff is stupid, but it all isn’t stupid.

On the more hopeful side, I am also seeing some more, for lack of a better term, emotional moderation. I feel like the initial cultural shift away from this stuff is positive - the intensity is just not healthy and it cultivates a really lonely lifestyle. I love my generation and I really do love people, as trite as that may sound. The state of affairs this year was bleak and ridiculous, but there were a lot of awesome things too.

Personally, I feel more available to vulnerability in my relationships. I reached some new depth this year. I also got my shit rocked so much that I am taking in more online soothe-saying than ever before. Inspirational quotes, algorithmically driven horoscope readings, I could go on! I wasn’t about to book one or anything but I did promise Bonnie and Andrew to never indulge an impulse to go to a psychic (we all promised to each other not a me-only issue please don’t misunderstand me) I’m already so suggestible.

2025 moments: year of the snake 

I kept a list of 2025 moments of the year with Bonnie and Andrew that mostly I contributed to. This post was created by copying and pasting an existing iPhone note and even then I got really lazy about adding links.

  • Woah Vicky kidnapped 
  • Kylie and Timmy at the awards
  • Nicole Kidman drinking milk at national board of review 
  • La wildfires
  • Jan 16 - David lynch dies 
  • Jan 19 - Tik tok banned for 12 hours 
  • Rhoslc - finale 
  • Baddies: Africa announced 
  • Jan 21 - Elon’s “Roman salute”
  • Challengers panned at the Oscars
  • Jan 25 - Elon loses direct access to Trump, not because of Roman salute 
  • Grammys - Beyoncé charli sabrina chappel doechi Gaga - are the Grammys relevant again?? 
  • Tarriffs?? Trump applies ideas from his own ghost written book ‘Art of the Deal’ to his foreign policy
  • Ramona Singer RHONY - black rock twitter
  • Baldoni v. Lively: Candace Owens breaks into non-partisan mainstream journalism thanks to how awful Blake & Ryan are lol.
  • Onija in Pakistan. Onija world tour? Arrested in Dubai?
  • Super Bowl - eagles win!!!!! Drake humiliated L bigger than he’s taken in years.
  • 2/12 — Tokyo Toni apologizes to GloRilla
  • 2/14 — Andrew, has a romantic Valentine’s Day with himself at home.
  • 2/14 - euphoria season 3 announced with Rosalia 
  • 2/16 - SNL 50th Anniversary episode  - Valery Behan rejoices 
  • 2/18 - A$AP Rocky found not guilty of firing handgun at former friend 
  • 2/23 - Timmy chalamet’s pursuit of greatness speech 
  • Oscar’s? did anyone GAF? I didn’t all I remember is Challengers snubbed. 
  • March 6 - Mayhem is released. Drew continues to embrace a state of conceited independence 
  • March - trio trip to Oregon 
  • Meghan Markle I mean Sussex documentary released on Netflix 
  • March 19 - Azealia Banks gives interview, reveals she has finished a guided meditation album 
  • March 27 - Sundance moving to Boulder, CA :-(
  • April 2 - liberation day tarriff whatever 
  • Someone in rhoslc subreddit sentenced to same prison as Jen shah https://www.reddit.com/r/rhoslc/comments/1jvhawz/meeting_jen_shahmaybe/?share_id=Q1DXuJlfgAxsNtW9V9vK7&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
  • 4/14 - Katy Perry, Gayle King, & Lauren Sanchez, amongst others become the first all female crew to complete an utterly useless trip to outer space
  • 4/21 Pope Francis dies
  • Chicago pope !
  • 5/5 - met gala who cares. Diana Ross made an appearance for the first time since 2003.
  • 5/7 - Sam bit by a snake!!! Year of snake
  • 5/15 - My niece, Ivy June, is born the day after Bonnie and I’s birthday. Over 10 lbs!!!!
  • 6/7: happy pride! Addison Rae’s self titled debut album released 
  • 6/7: happy pride! Elon and Donald trump messyyy breakup - Epstein allegations 
  • 6/?: happy pride! Kristen Doute announces the birth of her baby, Kaia 🤍
  • 6/? I handle an active shooter situation in downtown slc by watching the od dumbest film of the year The Materialists 
  • 6/21: happy pride! Andrew sees G Flip with my gurl Shake 070 at Seattle pride 
  • Bezos wedding who cares 
  • 6/29: happy pride! Bjork Tokyo Toni Shelly and ghost of the mouse at Andrew’s apartment agree to debate the idea of Brent Milner 
  • Wow we have nothing for July and basically nothing for August 
  • July 2025 - Diddy convicted on lesser charges.
  • Jean ads culture wars - Addison wins for the substack hive mind that was paying attention to addison’s jean ads.
  • I guess labubu 
  • Do we need to talk about Epstein files 
  • 9/10 - Charlie Kirk shot at UVU - memer black-pilled shooter just like the one who came after and Luigi before. High watermark of how low trust and depressing it is out here these days. 
  • 9/11 - my plastic surgery office is the only place I get 9/11 copy from 
  • Jimmy Kimmel martyr status
  • Keith urban Nicole Kidman divorce 
  • Cora’s wedding <3
  • 10/3 - Taylor swift album drop and flop 
  • The week of 10/5 - charli caught liking this post about Travis kelce 
  • 10/11 - Diane Keaton died :( 
  • At some point in October I made the switch to Apple Music because of ICE ads. I know ads are everywhere and it’s government ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I am exposed to them everywhere. TBH it’s genuinely and actually the least I can do lol but that and everything else about Spotify. I don’t regret it because I got to transfer all my playlists!
  • 10/24-11/1: Halloween extravaganza - fairy, alien, Georgette from All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Jesse from Team Rocket.  
  • 11/5 - mamdani wins election and dick Cheney died
  • 11/6 - mamdani requesting Kim Petras from dj I win 
  • At some point in November Jennifer Lawrence starts on her press tour for Die My Love and I’ll say it! Welcome back angel. She reminds me of Barbara Stanwyck. She knows how to go there and she is running CIRCLES around her peers. 
  • At some point in November I Love LA comes out and even though the show is middling I am Rachel Sennott’s soldier and I stand behind her.
  • 11/18 I find out Carly Rae Jepsen is pregnant - she also got married!!!!
  • 11/19 Epstein files release vote
  • SpongeBob big guy pants okay? 
  • Week of 11/23: wicked for good press redux: Cynthia protects Ariana 
  • Last week of November madam morrible turn it around wicked witch 
  • Megan got flu 
  • 12/10 - Jen shah released from prison 
  • Rob Reiner murdered by son :( we love harry met sally over here 
  • Nicki Minaj and turning point USA: jd Vance assassin 
  • Megan, Bonnie, and Andrew agree to debate the idea of color analysis
  • Marty supreme release Christmas Day - brat boy winter!
  • Rang in New Year at Sara Landry rave with my best friends and had a sleepover after <3 - on New Years morning we got pho 


Looking Forward to 2026: Ins and Outs

In:

  • diy manicures with regular polish - cuticle care big in 2026
  • 3 person group chats - As many as necessary!!!!
  • Diva worship after taking the year off
  • Post WWII melodramas
  • red meat - and iron 
  • odd jobs 
  • patterned stockings - lace for me personally
  • sleepovers!!!
  • baths 
  • friend time over everything else - bigger than before!! than ever before bro
  • mobility training/fixing gait and posture
  • being so in my body and trusting my physical instincts
  • kissing 
  • teasing my hair
  • accepting that which I cannot change
  • gay girls >>>
  • hollywood regency era furniture and pastels
  • girl apartment 
  • babydoll and A-line dresses - party dresses!!!
  • cheeky cocktail
  • getting your lick back!
  • lady stoners
  • movies every day 
  • brine 
  • public radio
  • big bathrobes 
  • at home dinners with friends - group dinners out too!
  • dog-positivity 
  • Channing Tatum 
  • flirting! big time!
  • getting serious about jewelry journey
  • Madonna
  • Apple Music
  • group playlists - more smaller playlists!
  • road trips!!!
  • side comments
  • high quality earplugs for concerts 
  • having dinner with your friends in a city none of you live in (stole from Nora Ephron)
  • accepting spiritual advice via instagram DMs
  • really queeny gay stuff

    Out:

  • Spotify
  • meekness 
  • being a seen-it-all
  • nightmare baby daddies, male sluts in any stage of cycle 
  • intellectualizing my feelings instead of just feeling it 
  • agreed upon reality as a global population
  • Europeans - except you Kimmy <3
  • lecturing ppl - humility in!!!
  • influencers - continuing from last year
  • skinny kids in movies - skinny ppl in general seeming really charmless no offense 
  • poultry 
  • hostile takeovers of my friend group

    Next up: Year of the Horse. The snake cleared the path, the horse will help us take it!

Song I’m claiming first in 2026 for the Year of the Horse:

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