⌀‡Basil‡⌀

General

✘ any art related stuff basically. maybe a bit of music if i have the motivation for it! i love making things, especially if they're gifts.

✘ PLANES! i love planes a lot :3 i hope to study aviation engineering one day. i live not too far from an airport so i get to see flights fly in and depart sometimes :D

✘ a fair bit of D&D!! at least when our group can somehow plan a session. i love creating sad tragic losers of life as characters and giving them NO redemption arc whatsoever >:3

Music

✘ practically obsessed with my chemical romance and all their side projects... don't mention them or you'll be stuck with me for a good few hours while i explain the entire lore to you

✘ the other usual stuff like pierce the veil, sleeping with sirens, bring me the horizon, the used, alexisonfire, ls dunes, shit like that

✘ VERY big on random punk bands speaking languages i don't understand. current favs are bérurier noir, les ramoneurs de menhirs, aдаптация & die verwesenden altlasten

✘ currently in my cybergoth phase, basically blasting miss construction, kmfdm and zombie girl nonstop... it's a problem, to be honest

✘ i've also been really into scene music lately. mostly just our lord and saviour s3rl, although i do sometimes blast dot dot curve, brokencyde, dropping a popped locket or millionaires just because i can

✘ go listen to Tureto Sindromas!! right now!!!

✘ my band's forcing me to listen to katarsis and ba. not sure how i feel about them quite yet but i felt it was important to know :)

✘ i'm a proud mindless self indulgence hater and i will be forever. they genuinely disgust me so much and the music isn't even that good anyways lmao

Movies

✘ life on the murder scene! i rewatch it maybe once every three weeks.. i know it word for word, basically. no, i am not mentally ill.

✘ any gen1 monster high movie!

✘ the spiderverse movies, god that stuff changed me as an artist

✘ i don't actually watch that much professionally produced media so... idk :/ both my movies and television tabs are gonna be so goddamn empty

Television

✘ MLP!!!

✘ the umbrella academy (there are only three seasons of it, don't fall for the propaganda)

✘ monster high (once again...)

✘ arcane (mostly season 1, imo season 2 was fumbled)

✘ do podcasts count? if so, i've been really into creepcast lately :3

Books

✘ august strindberg – "inferno"
i've never experienced neurosis, but i do relate to Strindberg's paranoid thoughts. the electricity in the walls and the fear of being electrocuted while sleeping is now something i commonly use in my creative writing works.

✘ oscar wilde – "the picture of dorian gray"
there's not a lot to say about the book that hasn't been said already. it's just an excellent depiction of hedonism, and really just a hard-hitting story.
what basil hallward said about people's names at the start of the book really resonated with me. it was something along the lines of "saying a person's name out loud diminishes some of their beauty/mystery/whatever". it might be a bit weird, but i have a tendency of avoiding saying people's names out loud, instead usually resorting to one specific feature about them instead (e.g. geographical location, clothing style, where i met them, etc.), and basil saying that just really struck a chord with me. if you couldn't tell by my name, he's my favourite character by far :3
i admire oscar wilde as a person, too. de profundis (the letter to oscar's lover, lord alfred douglas) really hit me hard. "to regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. to deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. it is no less than a denial of the soul."

✘ william shakespeare – "hamlet"
it might be cringe as fuck to list a shakespeare play as one of my favourite books, but it's actually true. i really didn't get my classmates' hate for it. 'oh noo, everyone dies at the end' YES because it's a TRAGEDY and that's how TRAGEDIES work.
anyway, hamlet's entire character really spoke to me. i, too, tend to really overdramatise and generalise things – even if it goes against my actual beliefs. and Hamlet reacting so strongly to everything just really hit me hard. admittedly, reading his monologues felt like reading my own rants.

✘ miguel de cervantes – "don quixote"
yet another odd choice, but i absolutely loved it. i have nothing more to say except repeat the same old 'he's literally me!!', just about don quixote this time. also, pencey prep reference??

✘ the holy hible
i'm not religious, but you've gotta admit, it's a folk classic!! the lore is amazing and its impact on art (and life, too) throughout history is immense. amazing, isn't it? currently on the first book of samuel. I DO NOT SUPPORT IT BEING USED TO JUSTIFY GENOCIDE!

✘ licia troisi – "chronicles of the emerged world"
this trilogy may or may not have kickstarted my 'not like other girls' phase. to be fair, as a kid, i thought nihal having natural blue hair and purple eyes and being an amazing swordswoman and loving dragons and whatnot was the raddest thing ever. "ohh but that's mary sue-" shut the fuck up!!! let fantasy be fantastical!!!
also, i really, really wanted to be sennar. he's genuinely just a likeable little dude AND he's smart!! literally the average transmasc's transition goals

✘ iliona ežerinytė – "verksnių klubas"
this started my emo phase before i was even aware what emo is

Heroes

✘ frank iero!! i've mentioned it a couple of times on here already but god, his music has done so much for me. i think i've been literally changed as a human being just by hearing stomachaches. he's also literal transition goals (ESPECIALLYYYY leathermouth frank!!!! oh my goddddd)
✘ oscar wilde, as you could've probably told by my rant about dorian gray :P
✘ my brother!! he's literally the most awesome person on earth and i will angrily stare at anyone who dares say otherwise. he's been an inspiration for me since pretty much day one and i think i may have accidentally become his less skilled copy.
✘ the one communist history teacher at my school. i'm gonna be having him as a teacher this year so i hope i'm not gonna need to take this back.
✘ my grandma from my mom's side! she might be annoying sometimes but i really admire her strength. she's been through a lot and she's very dedicated to her family. maybe sometimes too humble about it, which is a shame.

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