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I'm Sianya Dawnmist
This is where everything lives.
You’ll find writing, reflections, and notes across games, films, books, music, audio, and television, alongside a few pieces that don’t fit neatly anywhere else. Some posts are fragments, some are longer, and some are best dipped into rather than read all at once.
There’s no intended order here. Follow your interest, or simply browse.
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Taste & Curiosity
The Selves Inside the Books
I’ve been thinking about comfort reads. Not necessarily comforting books. That feels like an important distinction. Some of the books I return to contain murder,…
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The Bayou Tapestry
This morning, I was complaining to ChatGPT that my sleep tracker is a liar. This may be slightly unfair. It is a small device strapped…
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I Don’t Possess the Reference Point
I watched a video by Dawn on Sunday morning before going out. I like Dawn’s music. I like his art. I like his vlogs, even…
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Did We Watch the Same Film?
When I read Emily Wilson’s comments about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I genuinely paused for a moment and wondered whether we’d watched the same film.…
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Have I Fallen Out of Love with K-Dramas?
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for a while now. Have I fallen out of love with K-dramas? The obvious answer would be yes.…
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The Odyssey (2026): A Film I Admired More Than I Loved
Christopher Nolan and I have a slightly complicated relationship. I never really clicked with Inception and Interstellar left me rather cold, so The Odyssey wasn’t…
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Arirang – BTS, Identity, and the Myth of “Compromise”
It’s been five days since BTS released ARIRANG on 20 March 2026, and I’ve already listened to it end-to-end more times than I can count.…
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Wuthering Heights – red corridors, wild moors, and the moment the film finally broke my heart
Warning – I am going to be a bit dramatic, but the film is dramatic, so… here we are. These are my initial immediate thoughts…
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Return to Moria EP6 – Into the Deeps, a ladder-based tragedy, and Tel reaching her limit
Return to Moria EP6 originally streamed on 19th March 2026 – we went back into the Deeps feeling far too confident, immediately made some absolutely…
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The Strange Infantilisation of Male Idols
There’s a pattern in parts of idol fandom that becomes impossible to ignore once you start seeing it. Adult men, successful professionals in their mid-twenties…
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Return to Moria EP5 – The Second Descent: we retrieve our bodies from Orc Town, accidentally become competent, and then immediately lose control again
Return to Moria EP5 originally streamed on 17th March 2026 – we returned to Orc Town to retrieve our bodies, discovered that strategy might actually…
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Stop Trying to Unmask Banksy – You’re Missing the Point
FFS. Stop Trying to Unmask Banksy. Every few months the internet decides it absolutely must solve the mystery of Banksy. Cue investigative threads.Cue documentaries.Cue people…
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