ELVIRA LIRAEL

General

01 :: COMPUTING
cybersecurity
malware development
operating system development
linux
open source software
web design / old web
reverse engineering
regenerative web3
network pentesting
privacy advocacy
self-hosting
homelab tinkering
vulnerability research

02 :: HARDWARE + FABRICATION
soldering
robotics
raspberry pi
hobby welding
tools / hardware
lockpicking
circuit bending
arduino projects
pine64
hardware mods & homebrew
repair and restoration

03 :: SCIENCE + THEORY
hobby chemistry
astronomy / space
philosophy
mold cultivation
history
cryptography
ethics of technology
critical theory
political philosophy
ancient history

04 :: COMBAT + ROLEPLAY
LARP
buhurt
combat sports
fursuiting
cosplay
blacksmithing
tabletop roleplaying
medieval reenactment
campaign writing

05 :: MISC. OBSESSIONS
micronations & sovereign states
obscure knowledge
making / breaking / understanding things
urban exploration
cryptography puzzles
alternate history
data archival
conspiracy theory analysis
lost media preservation
weird wikipedia deep dives
transit systems
survival skills & bushcraft
pirates
knights & armor

Music

01 :: METAL + NOISE
black metal
death metal
brutal death metal
doom metal
drone metal
groove metal
sludge metal
slam metal
stoner metal
magick metal
grindcore
goregrind
gorenoise
mincecore
cybergrind
harsh noise
death industrial
power electronics
powerviolence
war metal
blackened crust
funeral doom
atmospheric black metal
depressive suicidal black metal
red an anarchist black metal
raw black metal
blackgaze
progressive metal
thrash metal
speed metal
noise rock
noisecore
djent (lol)
industrial metal
nü metal (ironically and unironically)
deathcore
blackened death metal
folk metal
viking metal
celtic metal
symphonic metal
gothic metal
alternative metal
nintendocore

02 :: PUNK + HARDCORE
crust punk
d-beat
hardcore
emotional hardcore
emoviolence / skramz
mathcore
folk punk
ska punk
digital hardcore
anarcho-punk
street punk
oi!
stenchcore
garage punk
surf punk
post-hardcore
thrashcore
crossover thrash
skacore
queercore
riot grrrl
horror punk
deathrock
psychobilly

03 :: ALTERNATIVE + GOTH
post-punk
no-wave
goth rock
darkwave
industrial
psychedelic rock
grunge
ethereal wave
coldwave
neofolk
dark ambient
ritual ambient
shoegaze
doomgaze
dream pop
slowcore
midwest emo
indie rock
lo-fi
noise pop
synth-pop
new wave
art rock
progressive rock
no wave
stoner rock
post-rock
math rock
emo revival

04 :: ELECTRONIC
breakcore
jungle
drum & bass
gabber
IDM
ambient
drone
nightcore
tänzelcore
hardcore techno
terrorcore
speedcore
extratone
splittercore
breakbeat
liquid dnb
bass music
riddim
chillwave
vaporwave
synthwave
retrowave
EBM
aggrotech
acid house
acid techno
chicago house
witch house

05 :: INTERNET + RAP
hyperpop
digicore
scenecore
crunkcore
sigilkore
distrocore
dungeon rap
evil plugg
pluggnb
phonk
horrorcore
necrotrap
trap metal
torturecore
regalia
cloud rap
emo rap
trap
drill
g-funk
jazz rap
abstract hip-hop
experimental hip-hop
lo-fi hip-hop
boom bap

06 :: FOLK + ROOTS
folk
outlaw
reggae
americana
alt-country
country (old school)
bluegrass
appalachian folk
dub
ska
rock steady
dancehall
reggaeton

07 :: CLASSICAL + JAZZ
classical
jazz
avant-garde jazz
free jazz
bebop
cool jazz
jazz-funk
soul jazz
smooth jazz (guilty pleasure)
big band
swing
orchestral
minimalism
contemporary classical
film scores
video game soundtracks

++ AND MUCH MORE

Movies

01 :: HORROR
psychological horror
body horror
folk horror
cosmic horror
surreal horror
experimental horror
splatterpunk
extreme horror
gothic horror
found footage
analog horror
unfiction
lovecraftian
slasher
zombie
vampire
werewolf
cannibal
monster movies
survival horror
cyberpunk horror
art horror
mumblegore

02 :: SCI-FI
dystopian
cyberpunk
speculative
post-apocalyptic
solarpunk
steampunk
dieselpunk
retrofuturism
biopunk
nanopunk

03 :: CULT + EXPERIMENTAL
cult cinema
underground film
no budget films
surrealism
avant-garde
arthouse
exploitation
grindhouse
so-bad-it's-good
trash cinema
camp
outsider filmmaking
new french extremity
absurdist cinema
psychedelic cinema

04 :: DARK + WEIRD
dark comedy
psychological
occult / supernatural
absurdist fiction
satire
black comedy
tragicomedy
surrealist comedy

05 :: ANIMATION
experimental animation
adult animation
surreal animation
cartoons
rotoscope
stop motion
claymation
puppetry
anime

06 :: CRIME + THRILLER
crime
psychological thrillers
neo-noir
mystery
true crime
noir
gritty thrillers
police procedurals
heist movies
courtroom dramas

07 :: EVERYTHING ELSE
comedy
drama
action
romance
coming-of-age
slice-of-life
family drama
war films
historical epics
biopics
whatever looks interesting

08 :: NSFL FILMS
documentaries
shockumentaries
mondo films
death films
gore mixtapes

Television

01 :: CRIME + DRAMA
the sopranos
breaking bad
better call saul
narcos
house
mr. robot
cowboy bebop
peaky blinders
twin peaks

02 :: ANIMATION
adventure time
fionna and cake
regular show
the grim adventures of billy & mandy
ed, edd n eddy
dexter's laboratory
the powerpuff girls
chowder
the marvelous misadventures of flapjack
bee and puppycat
barbapapa
my little pony: friendship is magic
moomin
care bears
steven universe
over the garden wall
the amazing world of gumball
gravity falls
rocko's modern life
ren & stimpy
beavis and butt-head
south park
king of the hill
home movies
clone high

03 :: ANIME
vampire in the garden
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex
cyberpunk: edgerunners
sailor moon
yu-gi-oh!
blood-c
serial experiments lain
neon genesis evangelion
berserk
hellsing
devilman crybaby

04 :: COMEDY + ADULT ANIMATION
harley quinn
the boys
aqua teen hunger force
xavier: renegade angel
tim and eric
the eric andre show
ntsf:sd:suv::

05 :: HORROR
goosebumps
the nightmare room
are you afraid of the dark?
the haunting hour
tales from the crypt
tales from the darkside
courage the cowardly dog
z nation
american horror story
midnight mass
the shivering truth

06 :: TEEN + COMING OF AGE
degrassi high
degrassi: the next generation
degrassi: next class
skins uk
the end of the f***ing world

07 :: REALITY + CHAOS
wildboyz
jackass
viva la bam
the dudesons
loiter squad
tosh.0
ridiculousness
impractical jokers
the basement yard

08 :: SCIFI + FANTASY
the twilight zone
the x-files
black mirror
love death + robots
futurama

Books

01 :: COMMUNISM + MARXISM
karl marx
the communist manifesto
capital
wage labour and capital
value, price and profit

friedrich engels
socialism: utopian and scientific
anti-dühring
the origin of the family, private property and the state
the condition of the working class in england

vladimir lenin
what is to be done?
state and revolution
imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
left-wing communism: an infantile disorder
materialism and empiriocriticism
the development of capitalism in russia

joseph stalin
foundations of leninism
problems of leninism
dialectical and historical materialism

mao zedong
on contradiction
on practice
selected works
quotations from chairman mao tse-tung
on guerrilla warfare
on protracted war

rosa luxemburg
reform or revolution
the mass strike, the political party and the trade unions
the accumulation of capital

georg lukács
history and class consciousness

e. p. thompson
the making of the english working class

02 :: ANARCHISM
murray bookchin
post-scarcity anarchism
the ecology of freedom
towards an ecological society
social ecology versus deep ecology

peter kropotkin
mutual aid
the conquest of bread
fields, factories and workshops
anarchism: its philosophy and ideal

emma goldman
anarchism and other essays
living my life
my disillusionment in russia

mikhail bakunin
god and the state
statism and anarchy
revolutionary catechism

alexander berkman
what is anarchism?
prison memoirs of an anarchist

gustav landauer
revolution

03 :: BLACK POWER + LIBERATION
malcolm x
the autobiography of malcolm x
malcolm x speaks

angela davis
are prisons obsolete?
women, race & class
freedom is a constant struggle
blues legacies and black feminism

black panther party
black against empire
the black panther party
revolutionary suicide
to die for the people

charles e. cobb jr.
this nonviolent stuff'll get you killed

george jackson
soledad brother
blood in my eye

frantz fanon
black skin, white masks
the wretched of the earth
a dying colonialism
toward the african revolution

bell hooks
ain't i a woman
feminist theory: from margin to center
teaching to transgress

w. e. b. du bois
the souls of black folk
black reconstruction in america
darkwater

assata shakur
assata: an autobiography

04 :: OTHER POLITICS
thomas sankara
thomas sankara speaks
we are heirs of the world’s revolutions
women’s liberation and the african freedom struggle

muammar gaddafi
the green book

kim il-sung
with the century
selected works
on the juche idea

ho chi minh
selected works

05 :: EDUCATION + HISTORY
rashid khalidi
the hundred years’ war on palestine

ilan pappe
the ethnic cleansing of palestine
a history of modern palestine

nur masalha
palestine: a four thousand year history

howard zinn
a people's history of the united states
you can't be neutral on a moving train


+ medieval history
+ islamic history
+ palestinian history
+ colonial history
+ imperialism
+ decolonization
+ labor history
+ torture + punishment
+ chechen wars
+ revolutionary warfare
+ history of prisons
+ history of policing
+ history of slavery
+ history of resistance movements

06 :: YURI (BROAD GENRE)
girls’ love
sapphic romance
queer slice of life
slow-burn romance
any weird little lesbian manga

[ non-problematic favorites only ]
> no incest
> no romanticized abuse

07 :: SPIRITUALITY + PHILOSOPHY
the qur’an
tafsir
tao te ching
zhuangzi
the dhammapada
the sutta nipata
the heart sutra
the diamond sutra
the lotus sutra
the platform sutra
the analects
mencius
xunzi
enchiridion
discourses
letters from a stoic
on the shortness of life
on anger
meditations
the republic


+ islamic philosophy
+ buddhist philosophy
+ daoist philosophy
+ confucian philosophy
+ stoicism
+ metaphysics
+ ethics
+ mysticism

Heroes

01 :: MARXISM
karl marx
friedrich engels
rosa luxemburg
antonio gramsci
eugene v. debs

02 :: LENINISM
vladimir lenin
joseph stalin

03 :: MAOISM
mao zedong
chiang ching
chen bo da

04 :: CUBAN REVOLUTION
ernesto che guevara
fidel castro
camilo cienfuegos
haydée santamaría
celia sánchez
vilma espín
raul castro
melba hernández
frank país

05 :: AFRICAN REVOLUTION
thomas sankara
amílcar cabral
patrice lumumba
samora machel
agostinho neto
julius nyerere
kwame nkrumah

06 :: BLACK REVOLUTIONARIES
malcolm x
angela davis (currently disappointed with)
huey p. newton
bobby seale
fred hampton
george jackson
assata shakur
kathleen cleaver
robert f. williams
ella baker
fannie lou hamer
bayard rustin
kwame ture fka stokely carmichael
robert moses
claudia jones
lorraine hansberry

07 :: LIBYAN REVOLUTION
muammar gaddafi

08 :: JUCHE
kim il-sung
kim jong-il
kim jong-suk
kim jong-hui

09 :: PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
ghassan kanafani
leila khaled
dalal mughrabi
laila abou akleh
shireen abu akleh

10 :: KURDISH LIBERATION
abdullah öcalan
sakine cansız
arîn mîrkan
şehîd rehana
nasrin abdullah
leyla güven
besê h. özkök
berivan aslan
dilar dirik

11 :: LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM
murray bookchin
noam chomsky (for theory)
cornelius castoriadis
daniel guérin
sylvia pankhurst
anton pannekoek
c. l. r. james
paul mattick
andre gorz
rudolf rocker

12 :: ANARCHISM
peter kropotkin
emma goldman
errico malatesta
voltairine de cleyre
nester makhno
alexander berkman
luigi galleani
gustav landauer
max stirner
leon tolstoy
oscar wilde
lucy parsons
ricardo flores magón
ruth kinna

13 :: SCIENCE + HUMANISM
albert einstein
richard feynman
carl sagan
nikola tesla
marie curie
j. robert oppenheimer
bertrand russell
stephen hawking
isaac asimov
alan turing
jane goodall
dorothy vaughan
katherine johnson
rosalind franklin

14 :: PHILOSOPHY + CRITICAL THEORY
friedrich nietzsche
georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
karl kautsky
herbert marcuse
theodor adorno
max horkheimer
walter benjamin
guy debord
jean-paul sartre
frantz fanon
michel foucault
hannah arendt

15 :: ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY + SCHOLARSHIP
ibn sina
ibn rushd
al-ghazali
al-farabi
ibn khaldun
muhammad al-ghazali
muhammad asad
ali shariati
malcolm x

16 :: BUDDHIST + DAOIST PHILOSOPHY
siddhartha gautama
nagarjuna
bodhidharma
dōgen
huineng
laozi
zhuangzi
confucius
mencius
xunzi

17 :: FEMINISM + WOMEN'S LIBERATION
alexandra kollontai
clara zetkin
sylvia pankhurst
bell hooks
audre lorde
combahee river collective
agnes smedley

18 :: OTHER FIGURES
enver hoxha
anton pannekoek
herman gorter
otto rühle
paul mattick
mario tronti
antonio negri
silvia federici
mariarosa dalla costa
georges sorel
fernand pelloutier
rudolf rocker
diego abad de santillán
murray bookchin
cornelius castoriadis
daniel guérin
c. l. r. james
sylvia pankhurst
andre gorz
michael löwy
james o'connor
andre gorz
joan martínez-alier

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