FAVORITE MUSIC
AFI (post-hardcore/emo)
Against Me! (punk/folk punk)
Agalloch (folk metal)
The Agonist (melodic death metal)
Akira Senju (jrpg/anime composer)
Alice in Chains (grunge)
American Football (midwest emo)
Archspire (brutal technical death metal)
Asian Kung-Fu Generation (jrock)
At the Drive-In (post-hardcore)
Atheist (progressive death metal)
Bad Religion (punk)
Beastie Boys (hip hop/rock)
Beyond Creation (technical death metal)
Bleak Flesh (neoclassical death metal)
The Blood Brothers (post-hardcore/sass)
Blood Incantation (ambient death metal)
Blotted Science (progressive metal)
Boston Manor (emo)
Brat (grindcore)
The Callous Daoboys (mathcore)
Cap'n Jazz (emo)
Captain Jazz (screamo)
Ceremony (hardcore)
Christopher Larkin (game composer)
Cursive (indie/emo)
Darkthrone (black metal)
Dead Kennedys (hardcore)
Deafheaven (blackgaze)
Death (death metal)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (mathcore)
Drain (hardcore)
Drug Church (hardcore)
Equipoise (technical death metal)
Finch (post-hardcore/emo)
First Fragment (neoclassical death metal)
Frail Body (screamo)
The Front Bottoms (alternative)
Fugazi (post-hardcore)
Full of Hell (grindcore)
Funeral Diner (screamo)
Gatecreeper (death metal)
Glass Beach (post-emo)
The Interrupters (ska punk)
Ithaca (progressive metalcore)
Laura Jane Grace (folk punk)
Lena Raine (game composer)
Lil Nas X (rap/pop)
L.S. Dunes (post-hardcore)
Mick Gordon (game composer)
Misfits (horror punk)
Moonlight Sorcery (melodic black metal)
Motion City Soundtrack (emo/pop punk)
My Chemical Romance (emo)
Nails (grindcore)
Nirvana (grunge)
Orchid (screamo)
The Oval Portrait (emo/post-hardcore)
Panopticon (atmospheric black metal)
Parkway Drive (metalcore)
Pinkshift (punk)
Queens of the Stone Age (desert rock)
Rage Against the Machine (rap metal)
Refused (hardcore)
Senses Fail (emo/post-hardcore)
Sharptooth (hardcore)
Silent Planet (metalcore)
Sleep Token (progressive metal)
Slugdge (extreme metal)
Soungarden (grunge)
Streetlight Manifesto (ska punk)
Suicidal Tendencies (crossover thrash)
System of a Down (nu metal)
Taking Back Sunday (emo/post-hardcore)
Tears for Fears (new wave)
Thursday (emo/post-hardcore)
Toby Fox (game composer)
Underoath (metalcore)
United Nations (hardcore)
Vial (punk)
The Wonder Years (pop punk)
FAVORITE GAMES
Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past, Majora's Mask, Tears of the Kingdom, Skyward Sword)
Super Mario Bros (Super Mario 64, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Super Mario Sunshine)
Mario RPGs (Paper Mario, Paper Mario: TTYD, Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, Super Mario RPG)
Metroid (Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, Metroid Dread)
Castlevania (Draculas Curse, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Order of Ecclesia, Symphony of the Night)
Chrono Trigger
Sea of Stars
Undertale/Deltarune
Axiom Verge
Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Dead Cells
Celeste
Pokemon (Crystal, Emerald, Heartgold, Black)
Xenoblade Chronicles
The World Ends With You/NEOtwewy
Shin Megami Tensei (Nocturne, IV: apocalypse, V, Strange Journey)
Fire Emblem (Awakening, Sacred Stones)
Triangle Strategy
Final Fantasy (IV, VI, X)
Earthbound
Wargroove
Live a Live
Donkey Kong Country (snes trilogy, tropical freeze)
Kirby's Adventure
Sly Cooper 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
FAVORITE BOOKS/AUTHORS
Seth Dickinson (Baru Cormorant, Exordia, short stories)
The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
Jeff Vandermeer (Southern Reach, Dead Astronauts, short stories)
Ancillary series by Ann Leckie
World War Z by Max Brooks
2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
NK Jemisin (short stories)
Ted Chiang (short stories)
Wayfarers by Becky Chambers
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain, Prey)
Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes
Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine
Neon Yang (tensorate, short stories)
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle)
Cixin Liu (short stories)
FAVORITE MOVIES
2001 a Space Odyssey
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Thing
The Void
The Menu
The Blair Witch Project
Cloverfield
Jordan Peele's horror films (Us, Get Out, Nope)
Train to Busan
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Scott Pilgrim VS the World
The Cube
Primer
Booksmart
Alien
Parasite
The Invisible Man
FAVORITE SHOWS
Scavenger's Reign
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Death Note
Fringe
Community
The Good Place
Severance
Bob's Burgers
Gravity Falls
The Owl House
Infinity Train
Steven Universe
Adventure Time