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favorite anime/manga: Y’know, I’m not that big of an anime/manga person: outside of Studio Ghibli films , I’ve watched and liked Akira and Neon Genesis Evangelion and...that’s about it. Seirei no Moribito / Moribito was OUTSTANDING and I’d like to watch more series like it, so if any of y’all know of other animated adaptations of Japanese fantasy novels, let me know!!!
favorite video games: I love Fallout: New Vegas enough to name my blog after the second most disgusting old man in the Mojave Wasteland.
Other than that: TES games (mostly Skyrim and Oblivion*), Dishonored,the Mass Effect Trilogy, the Soulsborne games, the earlier Assassin’s Creed games (up to and including Revelations; the series jumped the shark once Ubisoft REALLY started putting emphasis on the Ancient Aliens part of the story).
*I love Morrowind’s setting and story like No Other / am full of Vvardenfeels always and forever, but you couldn’t make me replay it to save my life.
favorite books: That’s a really tough one. I don’t have a list of all-time favorites, but there are some books I’ve read upwards of three times. Some of these are: Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner and Rider at the Gates, Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance, Ekaterina Sedia’s House of Discarded Dreams, Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series. The Secret History of Moscow (also by Sedia) deserves a special mention: it’s a damn good novel, and it’s...it hit home and is representative of my own background, I suppose: it’s a Neverwhere-like book about my home city, written by another expat Muscovite and full of little glimpses into some of the less-known parts of its history and 90s Russian Disillusionment.
favorite tv shows: I am a simple creature. I like sitcoms, Twin Peaks, and the first season of True Detective.
favorite movies: What We Do In The Shadows.
...as well as Snowpiercer, Inception, The VVitch, Hot Fuzz (+ most films directed by Edgar Wright, tbh), Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Mad Max: Fury Road, Alien, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit (the remake), Kill Bill (vol 1 & 2), Mowgli (the Soviet animated version of the Jungle Book, which is Superior to Disney’s Jungle Book in every conceivable way).
last song I listened to: Emily Portman’s “Tongue-Tied”
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