2025

Published, 2025

printer's workshop: left printing press

What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn’t pump out that many posts, so here’s just a general list of what we published this year. Wrote a post about the TikTok ban. Reminder: It’s still theoretically banned. lol. Celebrated the new Turnstile album. You should listen to it — it’s super good. We are now just so surrounded by ads. So of course we need more ads. I got mad. A post about how judges are going to be on the...

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Favorites, 2025

close up of a blue jay perched on a branch

Getting towards the end of the year over here at V&V (and apparently everywhere else), and so it seems appropriate (like everywhere else) to post some favorites of the year. Here, in really no order, are some of my favorites of 2025. Now, note these are not “Bests, 2025.” I have not consumed all the media that was created in the past year, and I do not have the faculty to even judge these things on any semblance of objective scale. No, these are merely favorites. Things I liked, perhaps some more than others. Music Tunde Adebimpe...

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