i'm smolperiot. 30s. i like faeries, music, pokemon, tea, strawberry cupcakes, cartoons, theatre, and singing. i want to eat my arms. happy halloween 🎃👽
aka dotfuls, she/they/he, sapphic, 30s. desert man. a sad tea-drinker. my gender is martin gore. i love cows, spiders, noodles, and lavender. my only explicit dnf is if you're a minor, pls and ty.
what to expect: shitposting, rebageled interests, weed-smorking girlfriends, politics, stream-of-consciousness, lo quality. cringe & free.
interests: cartoons, dancing (badly), theatre, music, literature, aesthetics, animals, tea, blood/gore, spooky shit, art, dolls, fashion, films, a video game or two, physical media, writing (x,x), singing, acting.
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getting into more detail about the stuff i like. you will find titles and people that may be considered problematic. i try to tag accordingly.
films, non-exhaustive. i like horror, animated films, dramas, b-movies, cult classics and also it takes me forever to finally sit down and watch something i'm interested in: sweeney todd (2007, 1982), phantom of the opera (many versions), nosferatu 2024, the love witch 2016, song of the sea 2014, emma. 2020, bad times at the el royale 2018, into the spiderverse 2018, edward scissorhands 1990, pirates of the caribbean (1-3), interstellar 2014, the rocky horror picture show 1975, rite here rite now 2024, james and the giant peach 1996, the phantom of the paradise 1974. ocean's eight (2018), corpse bride (2005) chicago 2002, steel magnolias 1989, in search of a flat earth 2020. (letterboxd).
music, extremely non-exhaustive-- my library is pretty extended. i like just about everything but i favor goth-adjacent genres and pop: depeche mode, kate bush, the cure, bjork, janelle monae, emilie autumn, chappell roan, ghost, rhianna, aurelio voltaire, the sisters of mercy, skunk anansie, the birthday massacre, the kills, britney spears, yes, hank williams, jamiroquai, missy elliott, atmosphere, massive attack, nikka costa, outkast, nightwish, siouxsie, tori amos, the killers, bauhaus, the damned, twin temple, florence + the machine, amy winehouse, edith piaf, gorillaz, dead can dance, dethklok, loreena mckennitt, joy division/new order, bruno mars, abba, type o negative, queen, ludo, marty robbins, tech n9ne, she wants revenge, sublime, david bowie, within temptation. (spotify).
shows, mostly cartoons. i also have a habit of never finishing tv shows: good omens, steven universe, the harley quinn show, sailor moon (1992), courage the cowardly dog, gravity falls, some doctor who, house, MASH, 21 jumpstreet, one-punch man, rick and morty, murder she wrote, keeping up appearances, invader zim, the grim adventures of billy and mandy, the late late show with craig ferguson, the powerpuff girls (1998), fullmetal alchemist (both), metalocalypse, king of the hill, downton abbey, regular show.
plays/musicals : king lear, a doll's house, eurydice, an oresteia (carson), love and information, sweeney todd, company, into the woods, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, the phantom of the opera (ALW), pippin, chicago, hadestown, damn yankees, wicked, ain't misbehavin', spamalot, the lion king, anything goes.
books-- i prefer magical realism, gothic, period, and nonfiction, and my to-read list is a never-ending pit: the gilda stories by jewelle gomez, persuasion by jane austen, dracula by bram stoker, rebecca by daphne du maurier, the thursday next series by jasper fforde, the bell jar by sylvia plath, shockaholic by carrie fisher, the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, carmilla by j. sherdian le fanu, circe by madeline miller, i'm glad my mom died by jeanette mccurdy, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg, the demon-haunted world by carl sagan, the bluest eye by toni morrison. (storygraph).
video games-- i don't like good video games sorry, also notorious for not finishing games so there are more i like that i just haven't bothered listing: stardew valley, american mcgee's alice, madness returns, pokemon (RSE, XY, ORAS), the sims 3, blood rayne, overwatch, grim fandango, undertale, doki doki literature club, baldur's gate 3, oblivion. (steam).
you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want
why does everything i pursue feel like ineptitude and failure? like it has to be because i am inept but like why does every fucking thing have to feel like this? why can't i like something and be good at it?