the vastness of the world!! i find it very moving especially because the horizon in singapore is always full of high-rise buildings, everywhere.

(i hope you like it, if you do check it out!! it's sweet and delicate and funny. there's a bit of stuff about society's unfortunate expectations re: gender, but i think the text presents those expectations without necessarily endorsing them...)

i can definitely see how those are compelling! i think i quite like us-against-the-world dynamics but in larger groups, so e.g. i have a soft spot for stories about plucky resistance groups, not that i've come across many of those.