caryn
in this moment, i feel such lovely warmth
about me
hello! i'm caryn!
age: 16
pronouns: she/her
nationality: canadian
ethnicity: chinese
languages: english, cantonese
i'm a huge romantic and dreamer, INFJ, and according to a personality test, i'm also 3% emotionally stable. i love impressionism (really, anything to do with visual arts and art history!), dumb film trivia, asian representation, quoting movies, long takes, judy garland, and seventeen, among other things. film feels like an escape from reality to me, and it's helped me get through some very tough times. it's one of the things that saved my life, and i'm eternally grateful for it. i want to become a film critic someday, but i'll probably never get a job.
my favourite films are the ones that make me feel alive, emotional, happy, and/or in love. i unironically enjoy barbie movies. just check out my letterboxd list of favourites here. if you want to know more about my taste in film, check out the rest of my letterboxd @xie.
my favourite director is probably wong kar-wai. i absolutely adore his visual and poetic style, and how he captures the feeling of loneliness unlike any other.
on a side note, i've identified as ace for a couple years, though it's still a weird gray zone for me. as a cishet ace, i'm not a part of the LGBTQ community because in my opinion, being ace is not inherently oppressive in itself.
i hate that issues of equality and justice have been made political. i believe in morality and humanity. police brutality is real. climate change is real. women deserve autonomy over their own bodies. sexual abusers, predators, and apologists have no place in hollywood. protect trans people. listen to indigenous people. those are just a couple examples, hopefully you know where i stand on current affairs.
anyway, let's be friends!
actors i love
lucy liu
amy adams
natalie portman
judy garland
harrison ford
tim curry
keanu reeves
takeshi kaneshiro
tony leung
taika waititi
ryan gosling
michael j. fox
andrew garfield
david tennant
among many others!
music
i don't know how to describe my music taste. i like music that makes me feel like i'm living out an indie movie, where i'm riding on a motorcycle through city streets late at night.
i listen to a lot of older music from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, movie scores, k-pop, alternative, and indie. i rarely listen to specific artists, so the ones that i love are very dear to my heart.
i listen mostly by genre, on an individual song-by-song basis. like every angsty preteen, i was a huge marina, lana, and lorde stan. still kinda am. these days, seventeen has my whole heart.
dm me if you want my spotify i guess, this really isn't too great of an idea of my music preferences -- though my public playlists are lowkey trash and what i really listen to isn't completely on there, be warned!
my favourite artists
seventeen
judy garland
mini mansions
marina and the diamonds
lana del rey
lorde
lenka
rex orange county
the walters
akmu
red velvet, twice, aoa
sales
honey moon
my favourite albums
going seventeen - seventeen
the family jewels - marina
froot- marina
ultraviolence - lana (and her unreleased!)
shadows - lenka
pure heroine - lorde
apricot princess - rex orange county
first man - justin hurwitz
the shape of water - alexandre desplat