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src/data/media/anime.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   {
     "title": "Demon Slayer",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Modern shonen masterpiece. Ufotable's animation is legendary. Emotional core with Tanjiro and Nezuko.",
+    "blurb": "Ufotable's animation is on another planet and the Tanjiro/Nezuko bond at the center actually earns the spectacle. Every fight is a showcase. All four seasons down and I'd rewatch tomorrow.",
     "image": "/images/anime/kimetsu-no-yaiba.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Caught up",
     "note": "Through Season 6. Character-driven with incredible growth arcs. The war arc is darker.",
-    "image": "/images/anime/my-hero-academia.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/my-hero-academia.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The superhero school I didn't know I wanted. Deku's growth is the engine, and the war arc goes hard. Caught up through Season 6 and still rooting for these kids."
   },
   {
     "title": "Chainsaw Man",
@@ -103,7 +104,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Completed",
     "note": "Completed including Thousand-Year Blood War arc.",
-    "image": "/images/anime/bleach.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/bleach.jpg",
+    "blurb": "My comfort shonen. The Soul Society arc is peak, and the Thousand-Year Blood War comeback proved this series still had it. Completed the whole run."
   },
   {
     "title": "Gundam (All Series)",
@@ -111,7 +113,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Completed",
     "note": "All timelines, all series. War, politics, humanity through mecha.",
-    "image": "/images/anime/gundam-all-series.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/gundam-all-series.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Every timeline, every series. I'm a sucker for the politics, the moral gray, and the mecha spectacle. Picking a favorite timeline feels like picking a favorite kid."
   },
   {
     "title": "Evangelion",
@@ -125,7 +128,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Completed",
     "note": "Strategy, rebellion, moral questions. The ending is legendary.",
-    "image": "/images/anime/code-geass.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/code-geass.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Lelouch is the scheming antihero blueprint. The chess battles, the twists, and that ending. THE ending. Still the gold standard for me."
   },
   {
     "title": "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood",
@@ -151,7 +155,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Completed",
     "note": "Nation-building focus over battles. Also reading light novels (21/23 volumes).",
-    "image": "/images/anime/that-time-i-got-reincarnated-as-a-slime.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/that-time-i-got-reincarnated-as-a-slime.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Started as a joke premise and turned into the best nation-building power fantasy in the genre. Rimuru's crew is pure comfort. Also 21/23 light novels deep."
   },
   {
     "title": "Overlord",
@@ -357,7 +362,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Completed",
     "note": "Adventure fantasy inspired by the Arabian Nights. Dungeons, djinn, and a sprawling world that grows more political as it goes.",
-    "image": "/images/anime/magi-the-labyrinth-of-magic.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/magi-the-labyrinth-of-magic.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Arabian Nights inspired adventure that grows up as it goes. Dungeons, djinn, and a world that opens into real politics. Doesn't get enough love."
   },
   {
     "title": "Witch Hat Atelier",
@@ -671,6 +677,7 @@
     "category": "Long-Running Ongoing",
     "status": "Caught up",
     "note": "Caught up through current episodes (1,100+ episodes and ongoing).",
-    "image": "/images/anime/one-piece.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/anime/one-piece.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The commitment is the point. 1,100+ episodes and still catching me off guard. Oda planted seeds decades ago that pay off today. Fully caught up."
   }
 ]

src/data/media/movies.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "category": "Standalone",
     "year": 1987,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Fantasy adventure that defines \"quotable.\"",
+    "blurb": "The most quotable movie ever made and I will fight anyone who disagrees. Fantasy, romance, comedy, and Rodents Of Unusual Size. As you wish.",
     "image": "/images/movies/the-princess-bride.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "category": "Standalone",
     "year": 1997,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Sci-fi that asks the big questions.",
+    "blurb": "Sci-fi that sits with the big questions instead of dodging them. The faith versus reason thread stuck with me long after the credits. Underrated favorite.",
     "image": "/images/movies/contact.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "category": "Ghibli",
     "year": 2004,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Ghibli magic and Miyazaki's imagination.",
+    "blurb": "Peak Ghibli warmth and Miyazaki doing what he does best: building a world you want to live in. The art alone is worth it.",
     "image": "/images/movies/howls-moving-castle.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "category": "The Matrix",
     "year": 1999,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Red pill/blue pill, bullet time, philosophical questions that still resonate.",
+    "blurb": "Red pill, bullet time, green digital rain. It bent my brain as a kid and it still holds up. The philosophy isn't window dressing, it's the whole movie.",
     "image": "/images/movies/the-matrix.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
     "category": "Marvel Cinematic Universe",
     "year": 2018,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "The MCU at its operatic peak.",
+    "blurb": "The MCU at its operatic peak. Thanos is the engine and that ending is still a gut punch. Ten years of setup, paid off in one movie.",
     "image": "/images/movies/avengers-infinity-war.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
     "category": "Marvel Cinematic Universe",
     "year": 2019,
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "The decade-long payoff.",
+    "blurb": "The decade-long payoff. The Portals scene is the closest thing my generation has to a shared cultural moment. Worth every post-credit scene it took to get there.",
     "image": "/images/movies/avengers-endgame.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -357,7 +357,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Star Wars",
     "year": 1980,
-    "image": "/images/movies/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/movies/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The one that made Star Wars mean something. The twist, the cliffhanger, Hoth, the training. The blueprint for a great sequel."
   },
   {
     "title": "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi",
@@ -499,7 +500,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Jurassic Park / World",
     "year": 1993,
-    "image": "/images/movies/jurassic-park.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/movies/jurassic-park.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The movie that made dinosaurs feel real. The T. rex paddock scene is flawless and the John Williams score lives in my head rent-free. Saw it too young and never recovered."
   },
   {
     "title": "The Lost World: Jurassic Park",
@@ -531,7 +533,8 @@
     "category": "Transformers",
     "favorite": true,
     "year": 2007,
-    "image": "/images/movies/transformers.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/movies/transformers.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Giant robots punching each other and somehow it rules. Optimus Prime on screen for the first time hit younger me hard. Pure spectacle, zero apologies. One of very few movies I saw in theatres more than once"
   },
   {
     "title": "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen",
@@ -758,7 +761,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Ocean's",
     "year": 2001,
-    "image": "/images/movies/oceans-eleven.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/movies/oceans-eleven.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The smoothest movie ever made. The cast, the plan, the vibe. Everything a heist movie should be and impossibly rewatchable."
   },
   {
     "title": "Ocean's Twelve",

src/data/media/tv.json

@@ -2,88 +2,79 @@
   {
     "title": "Breaking Bad",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "The character study of a decade. Walter White's transformation is devastating. Meticulously crafted, transcendent storytelling. One of TV's greatest dramas.",
+    "blurb": "The character study of a decade. Watching Walter White transform is devastating, and the craftsmanship is meticulous top to bottom. One of the best shows ever made, full stop.",
     "image": "/images/tv/breaking-bad.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Found family comedy with the perfect ensemble. Andre Braugher's deadpan Captain Holt is legendary.",
+    "blurb": "The found-family comedy with the perfect ensemble. Andre Braugher's deadpan Captain Holt is comedy royalty. Rewatches never get old.",
     "image": "/images/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Parks and Recreation",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "The show about people who care about their community. Leslie Knope is everything. Optimistic government comedy.",
+    "blurb": "A show about people who actually care. Leslie Knope is everything, and the optimism is genuine, not forced. My comfort rewatch.",
     "image": "/images/tv/parks-and-recreation.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "The Bear",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Grief and anxiety in a kitchen. Frenetic, anxiety-inducing, emotionally devastating and incredibly human.",
+    "blurb": "Anxiety and grief in a kitchen, filmed like a panic attack. It's frenetic and emotionally devastating in the best way. Hard to watch, impossible to stop.",
     "image": "/images/tv/the-bear.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "WandaVision",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Multiverse introduction through sitcom pastiche. Brilliant.",
+    "blurb": "The MCU at its strangest and most experimental. Sitcom pastiche hiding real grief, and it actually landed. Brilliant.",
     "image": "/images/tv/wandavision.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Suits",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Sharp dialogue, workplace politics, the Harvey/Mike dynamic, Louis Litt's incredible character growth.",
+    "blurb": "Sharp dialogue and the Harvey and Mike dynamic are the whole pitch. And Louis Litt's growth sneaks up on you. Pure comfort TV.",
     "image": "/images/tv/suits.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "30 Rock",
-    "blurb": "Fast-paced industry satire. Tina Fey's meta comedy about SNL and network TV. Sharp, absurd, culturally relevant.",
     "image": "/images/tv/30-rock.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "House",
-    "blurb": "Brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician solves impossible cases. Hugh Laurie's performance is iconic. A favorite.",
     "image": "/images/tv/house.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Arcane",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "One of the best animated series ever made. Stunning visuals, emotional storytelling, transcends its video game source.",
+    "blurb": "One of the best animated shows made, period. The art is staggering and it earns every emotional beat without leaning on you to know the game.",
     "image": "/images/tv/arcane.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "The Wire",
-    "blurb": "The definitive Baltimore drama. Institution-level storytelling that redefined what TV could do.",
     "image": "/images/tv/the-wire.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "The Sopranos",
-    "blurb": "The mob drama that started the golden age of prestige TV. Tony Soprano is one of TV's great characters.",
     "image": "/images/tv/the-sopranos.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Succession",
-    "blurb": "Corporate power dynamics and family dysfunction. Brutal, funny, devastating.",
     "image": "/images/tv/succession.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "The Crown",
-    "blurb": "British royalty drama across decades. Impeccable production, character-driven.",
     "image": "/images/tv/the-crown.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "The Queen's Gambit",
-    "blurb": "Chess prodigy story that became a cultural phenomenon. Beautiful, satisfying.",
     "image": "/images/tv/the-queens-gambit.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Ozark",
-    "blurb": "Financial planner launders money for cartel. Tense, complex, character-driven.",
     "image": "/images/tv/ozark.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Peaky Blinders",
-    "blurb": "Birmingham gangsters in post-WWI England. Style, violence, Thomas Shelby.",
     "image": "/images/tv/peaky-blinders.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -116,7 +107,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Prestige Drama",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/game-of-thrones.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/game-of-thrones.jpg",
+    "blurb": "When it hit, nothing else was close. The political scheming and the sheer scale set the bar for a decade. I watched every week."
   },
   {
     "title": "House of the Dragon",
@@ -244,7 +236,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Streaming Originals",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/cobra-kai.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/cobra-kai.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Turns a nostalgia property into something genuinely good. The Johnny and Daniel rivalry actually has legs, and it's more fun than it has any right to be."
   },
   {
     "title": "Squid Game",
@@ -261,7 +254,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Streaming Originals",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/invincible.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/invincible.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Takes the superhero thing seriously in the ways the movies can't. When it goes, it GOES. Brutal in the best way."
   },
   {
     "title": "Severance",
@@ -423,7 +417,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Marvel Universe",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/daredevil.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/daredevil.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The Netflix Marvel high water mark. Charlie Cox is born for this role and the hallway fights are legendary. Still the benchmark."
   },
   {
     "title": "Jessica Jones",
@@ -525,7 +520,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Star Wars Universe",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/the-mandalorian.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/the-mandalorian.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Star Wars finally felt small and personal again. Grogu is the obvious hook but the western framework is what kept me. Andor gets the prestige love but this is my comfort watch."
   },
   {
     "title": "The Book of Boba Fett",
@@ -557,7 +553,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Animation (Non-Anime)",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/castlevania.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/castlevania.jpg",
+    "blurb": "Gothic, violent, and surprisingly literary. Trevor Belmont's crew and the Dracula grief storyline are top tier. Animation that doesn't pull punches."
   },
   {
     "title": "Blood of Zeus",
@@ -589,7 +586,8 @@
     "favorite": true,
     "category": "Reality & Competition",
     "status": "Completed",
-    "image": "/images/tv/the-great-british-baking-show.jpg"
+    "image": "/images/tv/the-great-british-baking-show.jpg",
+    "blurb": "The antidote to everything else on this list. Pure comfort. I put it on when I need the world to be gentle for an hour."
   },
   {
     "title": "Hell's Kitchen",

src/data/reading.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "category": "Books",
     "status": "Complete",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Complete. Every novel, every era. The gold standard for me.",
+    "blurb": "The gold standard for me. Every novel, every era, all consumed. The way the shared universe quietly connects across worlds is something no one else is doing at this scale. Eagerly waiting the next era.",
     "image": "/images/reading/brandon-sanderson-cosmere.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "category": "Books",
     "status": "Complete",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Books 1-3 complete.",
+    "blurb": "Books 1 through 3 complete. Dune reshaped how I think about worldbuilding: the politics, the religion, the ecology all woven together. The original is untouchable.",
     "image": "/images/reading/frank-herbert-dune.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "category": "Books",
     "status": "Listening",
     "favorite": true,
-    "blurb": "Rereading by listening to the Andy Serkis audiobooks.",
+    "blurb": "The foundation. Currently rereading via the Andy Serkis audiobooks, which are fantastic. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy map and no one has topped the depth since.",
     "image": "/images/reading/j-r-r-tolkien-the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg"
   },
   {
@@ -28,28 +28,26 @@
     "category": "Books",
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Rereading",
-    "blurb": "Currently rereading. Up to Cabinet of Curiosities.",
+    "blurb": "The series that proved to me a great thriller doesn't need dragons. Agent Pendergast is one of a kind. Currently rereading, up to Cabinet of Curiosities.",
     "image": "/images/reading/douglas-preston-lincoln-child-pendergast.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Sarah J. Maas — Throne of Glass",
     "category": "Books",
-    "status": "Reading",
+    "status": "Reading"
-    "blurb": "Currently tandem reading Heir of Fire (Book 3) and Tower of Dawn (Book 4)."
   },
   {
     "title": "Emily Rodda — Deltora Quest",
     "category": "Books",
     "favorite": true,
     "status": "Reread-pending",
-    "blurb": "Planning to listen to audiobooks to reread.",
+    "blurb": "A childhood favorite I'm planning to revisit via the audiobooks. Don't let the middle-grade label fool you, the worldbuilding stuck with me for decades.",
     "image": "/images/reading/emily-rodda-deltora-quest.jpg"
   },
   {
     "title": "Fonda Lee — Green Bone Saga",
     "category": "Books",
-    "status": "Next",
+    "status": "Next"
-    "blurb": "Next series to read."
   },
   {
     "title": "The Hobbit",
@@ -136,7 +134,7 @@
     "status": "Complete",
     "favorite": true,
     "image": "/images/reading/overgeared.jpg",
-    "blurb": "Started rough and became an obsession. Grid is the most frustratingly lovable lead; watching the 'worst legendary class' snowball into something absurd never gets old. The crafting and base-building scratch my optimization itch hard."
+    "blurb": "Started rough and became an obsession. Grid is the most frustratingly lovable lead; watching the 'worst legendary class' snowball into something absurd never gets old. The crafting and base-building scratch my optimization itch hard and limitless blacksmith is my kind of power fantasy."
   },
   {
     "title": "Desolate Era (I Eat Tomatoes)",