my longest-running & primary special interests are criminology, philosophy, and literature.

my other interests include:

• medical science
• detectives in media
• lesbianism in media & history, with an emphasis on butchfemme
• ero-guro, as in the ero-guro nansensu movement of early 20th century japan. also as in the way cultures interact with gore and violence in sexual context, to an extent
• perfume and fragrances
• desi history + culture
• fashion & clothesmaking

• fyodor dostoyevsky
• vladimir nabokov
• bret easton ellis
• arthur conan doyle
• albert camus
• jean-paul sartre
• ludwig wittgenstein
• edogawa ranpo
• franz kafka
• edgar allan poe
• soren kierkegaard
• ito junji
• george orwell
• wallace stevens
• mirabai
• akutagawa ryuunosuke
• herman hesse

& many more... this is a list of favorite authors and not favorite books, so it doesn't encompass many works which i love but whose authors i am not familiar enough...

• dostoyevsky's literary works
• persona 3 reload, especially jundori & the s.e.e.s. girls
• skip & loafer
• ki ni natteru hito ga otoko janakatta

the books i'm currently working through are faulkner's the sound and the fury and bulgakov's the master & margarita.

i have very strong feelings about those listed in bold; the same goes for those in italics, to a lesser extent.

• ieiri shoko (jujutsu kaisen)
• akechi goro (persona 5)
• sherlock holmes (a. c. doyle canon)
• padmé amidala (star wars)
• yagami light (death note)
• mitaka asa (chainsaw man)