poets/essayists/authors/playwrights etc:

• john keats
• cyril wong
• ocean vuong
• li-young lee
• richard siken
• rhiannon mcgavin
• .. shakespeare

books:

• anything by alice oseman
• blue period .. man pleas read blue period
• simon snow trilogy
• AFTG trilogy. im sorry i read this when i was 13 and it still has me in a chokehold they are never letting me go

fics i dont ever stop thinking about:

• kittebasu's Crossfire, aka misawa bible https://archiveofourown.org/works/10693503
• tinypersonhotel's Let's Keep This Professional https://archiveofourown.org/works/4739804 (tsukkiyama)
• aradian_nights' Love Has Conducted Us Unto One Death https://archiveofourown.org/works/15598959 (dabihawks)
• halfbloom's If It Wasn't For You https://archiveofourown.org/works/24959362 (kagehina)

ao3 writers i would not hesitate to sell my soul to

• cityboys, batman, fruitily, brella, perennials, spacedhowell, fatal, darling, iphido, birdcat, hiuythn, bluu, etc ...

creative zines you should check out:

• @purenowhere https://www.purenowhere.com/home
• @antifragile.zine https://antifragilezine.com/