• hotline miami
• life is strange ( original, before the storm)
• disco elysium
• fallout ( fo3, new vegas, fo4)
• outlast ( ol2, trials)
• we know the devil
• sorry we're closed
• half life/portal
• yume nikki
• puppet combo
• jazzpunk
• undertale
• lsd: dream emulator

• gregory & the hawk
• the go! team
• death grips
• kero kero bonito
• phemiec & ugliarchy
• palehound
• nicole dollanganger
• florist
• el huervo
• black dresses
• josé gonzález
• mothers
• haley heynderickx
• daughter
• diet tea other cola
• arlo parks
• uffie
• vashti bunyan
• streetlight manifesto
• ROAR
• adrianne lenker

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• i do not believe in bad art! (with the obvious exclusion of generative a.i.) there is art that disappoints me, art that i don't like, but that doesn't make it "incorrect." any art made with love is art worth preserving.
  • an extension of this point: i can find artistic value in anything. if you can't, if you think the curtains are just blue, we won't get along very well.
• i'm a pretty political person. i lean heavily left and will probably not get along with centrists or people who get uncomfortable talking about politics. it's not all i talk about! but it's very important to me!
  • with this being said, i am very anti-military in all regards. i won't be a good conversationalist for people to want to joi...

• photography
• horror/slashers
• queer culture
• outsider art & abstract expressionism
• character & media analysis
• writing
• html/css
• old web & internet culture
• my (and my friend's) original characters
• sci-fi & dystopia
• character design
• (tabletop) roleplay
• ranking/reviewing
• magic: the gathering

• cruelty squad
• hylics
• house of leaves
• it's always sunny in philadelphia
• kitty horrorshow games
• heaven will be mine
• flesh and blood

• hotline miami
  • characters: the son, the fans (especially ash & alex), evan & sharon wright, beard
  • ships: bikon, nearly every combo of beard/jacket/the girl/richter, pardowright, coreyalex, marktony
  • misc: the hotline miami 2 supplementary comics, the politics (russo-american coalition, hawai'i war, 50 blessings), fan campaigns (BURIED and WILD THING especially), the russian mafia, the aesthetics, traits of the early fandom
• life is strange
  • characters: chloe price, kate marsh, max caulfield, victoria chase, rachel amber
  • ships: pricefield, pricemarsh, marshfield, maximum victory
  • misc: the nightmare sequence in polarized, setting and soundtrack, the moments of quiet, "sacrifice arcadia bay", photograp...

(note: this is from a purely artistic standpoint! i don't know these artists personally.)

• robert mapplethorpe
• max schwartz
• niklas åkerblad
• adam adamowicz
• hope gangloff
• john sanderson (photographer)
• rebecca sugar
• karl koplinski
• nils hamm

i hope this list grows long and long and plentiful as i begin to study art properly ^_^