Hmm…well the obvious answer is SAW, since it’s one of my comfort movies, one of my biggest hyperfixations, it helped me on my journey to self-discovery, it’s one of the movies that inspired me to want to make my own movies, and a multitude of other reasons.
Of course, SAW definitely isn’t the only piece of media that affected my life and the way I view both myself and the world around me, so I’m gonna list some honorable mentions:
The books “Wonder”, “Flora and Ulysses”, “Outsiders”, “Animal Farm”, “1984”, “The Things We Carried”, “Code Talker”, “Night”, the “Chicken Soup for the Kids/Teen Soul” books, the short story “All You Zombies”, the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omalas”, the short story “The Lottery”, the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, The short story “Screaming at the Wall” from the book Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales, “Frankenstein”, “The Fault in Our Stars”, “They Both Die at the End”, and the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” book series.
The musicals “Dear Evan Hansen”, “Seven Ways to Sunday”, “Falsettos”, “Ride the Cyclone”, and various Starkid musicals
The movies “Fight Club”, “Donnie Darko”, “Back to the Future”, “Stand By Me”, “IT”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “Pacific Rim”, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, “Dead Poets Society”, “Project Hail Mary”, and “Iron Lung”
The following webseries/ARGs: No Through Road, 2Kawaii4Comfort, Marble Hornets, House of Puso, Don’t Look at the Moon, Searching for a World that Doesn’t Exist
The video games Sally Face, Omori, DDLC, my house.wad, In Stars and Time, Danganronpa
The TV shows Gravity Falls, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, South Park, Good Omens, Community
The webcomics The Glass Scientists, and Long Exposure
The r/nosleep stories “Psychosis”, “Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages”, and “He Didn’t Want to Hurt Anyone”
and, of course, a bunch of different fanfics (in fact, I could make an entire post dedicated exclusively to fanfics I’ve read that have deeply and personally affected me (and I probably will make that post at some point))
Anyways, I’m tagging @droppatch, @drwolfensteinsblog, @3l3ctric-dr3am-machin3, @very-fucking-queer, and any other mutuals of mine who want to join in!
