Gina Tan
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Gina Tan
@ginatan.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 1: The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 1: The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu
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I HIGHLY recommend working with Rachel!!!
my cover design services have re-opened! here is some of my recent work as well as pre-made options you can head to buy straight from my shop!
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December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I HIGHLY recommend working with Rachel!!!
Just finished watching Nosferatu... Idk kind of underwhelming. Love the gothic horror vibe though and all the actors are great. Next movies would be Sinners & Zootopia 2. I've heard only good things about Sinners so fingers crossed I'd enjoy it.
a woman with curly hair is crossing her fingers and making a face
ALT: a woman with curly hair is crossing her fingers and making a face
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December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just finished watching Nosferatu... Idk kind of underwhelming. Love the gothic horror vibe though and all the actors are great. Next movies would be Sinners & Zootopia 2. I've heard only good things about Sinners so fingers crossed I'd enjoy it.
Not only Spotify wrapped this year is more accurate but they're also much much better than the slop last year. I've been listening to a lot of old songs this year my top 5 are all pre-2000s songs. Guess, I'm getting old 😬
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Not only Spotify wrapped this year is more accurate but they're also much much better than the slop last year. I've been listening to a lot of old songs this year my top 5 are all pre-2000s songs. Guess, I'm getting old 😬
Should I start writing on substack? Or should I use medium? I enjoy writing article more than fiction (your girl just can't write descriptively to save her life) and as an ADHDer I have tons of interest that I have an overwhelming urge to put on paper (well, screen in this case).
a man looking out over the ocean from a pier
ALT: a man looking out over the ocean from a pier
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December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Should I start writing on substack? Or should I use medium? I enjoy writing article more than fiction (your girl just can't write descriptively to save her life) and as an ADHDer I have tons of interest that I have an overwhelming urge to put on paper (well, screen in this case).
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This fossil may look like chocolate, but you wouldn't wanna trilobite it. You'd break your teeth.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This fossil may look like chocolate, but you wouldn't wanna trilobite it. You'd break your teeth.
This is how I feel about my exes.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is how I feel about my exes.
I feel like rereading the Count of Monte Cristo
a woman is sitting on a couch reading a book titled pieces of our soul
ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch reading a book titled pieces of our soul
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November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I feel like rereading the Count of Monte Cristo
This is not a want. It's a NEED!!! 😖😖😖
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is not a want. It's a NEED!!! 😖😖😖
I shut myself from the world for 3 years (almost 4) because of depression & family problems (which is the leading cause to my depression) and now everyone has moved on with their lives & I am struggling to reconnect with them. It's so sad but then it is what it is =(
I never realised how lonely I am until I need someone to talk to & I don't have any =(
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I shut myself from the world for 3 years (almost 4) because of depression & family problems (which is the leading cause to my depression) and now everyone has moved on with their lives & I am struggling to reconnect with them. It's so sad but then it is what it is =(
I never realised how lonely I am until I need someone to talk to & I don't have any =(
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I never realised how lonely I am until I need someone to talk to & I don't have any =(
That feeling when you finished watch a movie that makes you think really deep & worse, confronting your own feeling so now you're just sitting there staring into the distance.
It may take me a few days to write the review for letterboxd.
It may take me a few days to write the review for letterboxd.
spongebob squarepants is sitting at a table in a diner holding a cup of coffee .
Alt: spongebob squarepants is sitting at a table in a diner holding a cup of coffee .
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October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
That feeling when you finished watch a movie that makes you think really deep & worse, confronting your own feeling so now you're just sitting there staring into the distance.
It may take me a few days to write the review for letterboxd.
It may take me a few days to write the review for letterboxd.
This is why I never take critics seriously bcs they always hate anything popular & they always let their own personal bias clouding their judgement when they should be as objective as possible.
americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-...
americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-...
On This Day in 1963, The Beatles Performed to a Tough Swedish Critic: “No Musical Importance Whatsoever”
Everyone's a critic, sure, but the one who reviewed The Beatles in Sweden in 1963 was especially cutting (and decidedly wrong).
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October 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is why I never take critics seriously bcs they always hate anything popular & they always let their own personal bias clouding their judgement when they should be as objective as possible.
americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-...
americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-...
For someone that claimed she's not really a film person, I actually watched & enjoy quite a lot of movies (both newer & old). Maybe I should open a letterboxd account 🤔
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For someone that claimed she's not really a film person, I actually watched & enjoy quite a lot of movies (both newer & old). Maybe I should open a letterboxd account 🤔
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Books to read on World Pasta Day (today)…
•The Heart is a Cannelloni Hunter
•Love in the Time of Carbonara
•Farfalle from the Madding Crowd
•The Merchant of Vermicelli
•Silas Marinara
•Remembrance of Things Pasta
•Pi-gnocci-o
•A Tale of Two Zitis
•Fear and Loathing in Lasagne
•Al Dente's Inferno
•The Heart is a Cannelloni Hunter
•Love in the Time of Carbonara
•Farfalle from the Madding Crowd
•The Merchant of Vermicelli
•Silas Marinara
•Remembrance of Things Pasta
•Pi-gnocci-o
•A Tale of Two Zitis
•Fear and Loathing in Lasagne
•Al Dente's Inferno
October 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Books to read on World Pasta Day (today)…
•The Heart is a Cannelloni Hunter
•Love in the Time of Carbonara
•Farfalle from the Madding Crowd
•The Merchant of Vermicelli
•Silas Marinara
•Remembrance of Things Pasta
•Pi-gnocci-o
•A Tale of Two Zitis
•Fear and Loathing in Lasagne
•Al Dente's Inferno
•The Heart is a Cannelloni Hunter
•Love in the Time of Carbonara
•Farfalle from the Madding Crowd
•The Merchant of Vermicelli
•Silas Marinara
•Remembrance of Things Pasta
•Pi-gnocci-o
•A Tale of Two Zitis
•Fear and Loathing in Lasagne
•Al Dente's Inferno
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Fun Fact: Until The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was published in 2023, the musician Sting didn’t have a name. People used to have to shout “Hey, you!” to get his attention.
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Fun Fact: Until The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was published in 2023, the musician Sting didn’t have a name. People used to have to shout “Hey, you!” to get his attention.
Not related but whenever I heard/read the word 'octopus' I automatically sing the Beatles' octopus's garden.
As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Not related but whenever I heard/read the word 'octopus' I automatically sing the Beatles' octopus's garden.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
name: gina
current read: the murder at the black cat cafe by seishi yokomizo
last show: alf
last film: stage fright (1950)
fav book this year: the moving finger (miss marple)
fav watch this year: young & innocent (1937)
+ something spooky:
current read: the murder at the black cat cafe by seishi yokomizo
last show: alf
last film: stage fright (1950)
fav book this year: the moving finger (miss marple)
fav watch this year: young & innocent (1937)
+ something spooky:
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
name: gina
current read: the murder at the black cat cafe by seishi yokomizo
last show: alf
last film: stage fright (1950)
fav book this year: the moving finger (miss marple)
fav watch this year: young & innocent (1937)
+ something spooky:
current read: the murder at the black cat cafe by seishi yokomizo
last show: alf
last film: stage fright (1950)
fav book this year: the moving finger (miss marple)
fav watch this year: young & innocent (1937)
+ something spooky:
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name: rebecca (becca/indie)
current read: holly, no earthly sunne, perils of the past
last show: american dad
last film: scooby doo
fav book this year: belladonna & wisteria by adalyn grace
fav watch this year: 28 years later, boy kills world, green book, jurassic world: rebirth
+ something spooky:
current read: holly, no earthly sunne, perils of the past
last show: american dad
last film: scooby doo
fav book this year: belladonna & wisteria by adalyn grace
fav watch this year: 28 years later, boy kills world, green book, jurassic world: rebirth
+ something spooky:
a person in a black hooded cloak stands in the dark
Alt: A Nazgûl turning his head.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
name: rebecca (becca/indie)
current read: holly, no earthly sunne, perils of the past
last show: american dad
last film: scooby doo
fav book this year: belladonna & wisteria by adalyn grace
fav watch this year: 28 years later, boy kills world, green book, jurassic world: rebirth
+ something spooky:
current read: holly, no earthly sunne, perils of the past
last show: american dad
last film: scooby doo
fav book this year: belladonna & wisteria by adalyn grace
fav watch this year: 28 years later, boy kills world, green book, jurassic world: rebirth
+ something spooky:
"I just like to engage in art in a different & critical way" is almost always a code for shallow hateful negativity-fest empty opinion. Same with people that "only want to talk about deep stuff" they're the most dull person ever. It's like conversing with an ai chatbot.
October 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"I just like to engage in art in a different & critical way" is almost always a code for shallow hateful negativity-fest empty opinion. Same with people that "only want to talk about deep stuff" they're the most dull person ever. It's like conversing with an ai chatbot.
I've been watching a lot of old films (40s & 50s) lately and in most of them the main characters were always cheating. And if you think insta love trope is a social media era trope, you're wrong. It was VERY prevalent in old hollywood films.
a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a tan striped jacket
ALT: a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a tan striped jacket
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October 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I've been watching a lot of old films (40s & 50s) lately and in most of them the main characters were always cheating. And if you think insta love trope is a social media era trope, you're wrong. It was VERY prevalent in old hollywood films.
What a fun album! This album is basically Taylor making fun of her haters (the funniest thing is they don't even realise it 😂) & said fuck it let's have fun and throw every glitter pens she had in it. I have a good laugh today, thanks Tay 😁
open.spotify.com/track/1jgTiN...
open.spotify.com/track/1jgTiN...
Elizabeth Taylor
open.spotify.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What a fun album! This album is basically Taylor making fun of her haters (the funniest thing is they don't even realise it 😂) & said fuck it let's have fun and throw every glitter pens she had in it. I have a good laugh today, thanks Tay 😁
open.spotify.com/track/1jgTiN...
open.spotify.com/track/1jgTiN...
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I have two books I want to read at the moment. Therefore I did the only logical thing a bookish person can do; read NEITHER
a man is making a funny face and saying `` exactly '' in front of a building .
ALT: a man is making a funny face and saying `` exactly '' in front of a building .
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October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I have two books I want to read at the moment. Therefore I did the only logical thing a bookish person can do; read NEITHER
It's still baffle me that people LOVE to go out of their way to listen to an artist that they claimed to hate bcs if I hate an artist, they're basically do not exist for me. Why revel in smth you hate when you can enjoy what you love??
a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .
ALT: a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .
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October 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
It's still baffle me that people LOVE to go out of their way to listen to an artist that they claimed to hate bcs if I hate an artist, they're basically do not exist for me. Why revel in smth you hate when you can enjoy what you love??