• stoner - john williams
• the unconsoled - kazuo ishiguro
• the credo of being and nothingness - wole soyinka
• a lollipop or a bullet - kazuki sakuraba *has a translation available to read on the internet archive
• semiolgy of graphics - jacques bertin

• paul’s math notes
• serge lang’s basic mathematics
• 3blue1brown

*those marked with an asterisk are includes explicit scenes

a list of visual novels for the cold season, only includes ones that i have played

• mahoyo/witch on the holy night
  • as the name suggests, the story is a build up towards the "holy night", or christmas. aside from being a part of a grander cinematic universe, it also does a great job of capturing the mood of winter as the part of the time that seems to stand still through the eyes of highschoolers from the countryside who are uncertain about their futures, not readily accepting the spring that comes
• tenshi no inai 12gatsu/ december when there is no angel *
  • a protagonist with a murakami-esque melan...

films to watch when the weather gets colder, only including those that i have watched. not in order

• honorary mention: dead poets society (1989); a mandatory fall watch
• the banshees of inisherin (2022)
• the lighthouse (2019)
• the grand budapest hotel (2014)
• the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya (2010, requires watching the anime series first)
• mother (2009)
• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
• love letter (1995)
• possession (1981)
• past lives (2023)