like many others raised on the web, the media i've experienced has frequently impacted me throughout my life, and needless to say i've ended up with quite a few faves, especially as a neurodivergent artist having accumulated a bunch of interests and art styles. this page is simply dedicated to lists of my favorite things, organized by media type! :3

GENERAL

character/creature design, worldbuilding, graphic design, art mediums, animals of all kinds, plants, fungi and other weird organisms that aren't animal or vegetable, cryptids/urban legends/mythological creatures, old tech/web, robots and ai (mostly fictional, i do not support irl ai as it is currently being handled), experimental music, virtual pets

VIDEO GAMES

sonic the hedgehog, pokemon, five nights at freddy's, deltarune, yume nikki (+ all its fangames like 2kki, .flow, etc), ib, OFF by mortis ghost, night in the woods, minecraft, portal, the stanley parable, spyro (especially the legend of spyro! eternal night was my very first video game), hylics, lsd dream emulator, klonoa, the sims, ultrakill, persona, okami, oxenfree, faith: the unholy trinity, carrion, half-life, psychonauts, splatoon, vividlope

ANIMATION, TV, FILM, & WEBSERIES

gravity falls, over the garden wall, serial experiments lain, 2001: a space odyssey, electric dreams, the walten files, coraline, spiderverse, short circuit, wolfwalkers

MUSIC

GHOST & pals, electric president, pilotredsun, pengosolvent, cosmo sheldrake, lauren bousfield/nero's day at disneyland, CLANN, hakita/heaven pierce her, glass animals, will wood, dream puzzles, c418, iamx, studio killers, julie, crumb, crush 40, dangerkids, neil cicierega/lemon demon, tally hall, graham kartna, san fermin, mirah, alias conrad coldwood, toby fox, massive attack, junie & thehutfriends, chuck salamone, jack stauber

LITERATURE, WEBCOMICS, & PODCASTS/AUDIO DRAMAS

watership down, redwall, the cartographers by peng shepard, i have no mouth and i must scream, the magnus archives, the property of hate