karnival

psych-horror, folk horror, gothic rot, class rot, bureaucracy as its own horror subgenre (the DMV IS lovecraftian, argue w me), transylvanian strigoi/moroi lore bc i am UNWELL about it specifically, historical accuracy as a personality trait at this point. comedy only counts if it's secretly dead serious. i want the aftermath not the disaster, the disaster's boring, show me what's left standing. no romance unless it's gothic about it, this is not a negotiation

gothic/deathrock, visual-kei, psychobilly, horrorpunk, italo-disco, eurobeat, happy hardcore, breakcore, glitchcore, witch house, darkwave, dark folk, dark ambient, balkan brass chaos, tchaikovsky n shostakovich at 2am no questions asked, avtorskaya pesnya, cabaret, dvorovye pesni, unreasonable amounts of bms/iidx. genre loyalty is not a thing i believe in, my ipod would need actual therapy

french cinema, švankmajer's puppet nightmares, soyuzmultfilm, giallo (style AS the entire plot, no further explanation offered), italian arthouse, żuławski, hungarian slow cinema, romanian new wave (basically my own folklore obsession's home turf, tracks), yugoslav black wave, kaurismäki's deadpan tragedy, so-bad-it's-genius trash cinema completely on purpose, musicals of ANY decade, zero shame, none

utena. THE blueprint, permanent soul-anchor, everything else just orbits it, case closed. steins;gate, code geass, dorohedoro, madoka, serial experiments lain, paranoia agent, golden kamuy, dungeon meshi, baccano — n azumanga daioh for when my brain rage-quits n needs zero plot zero stakes just vibes

poe, lovecraft, wuthering heights, kafka, kundera, bulgakov, gogol, kharms, borges, shirley jackson, angela carter, don quixote, the manuscript found in saragossa. also unironically deep in socionics, enneagram, mythology n astronomy bc apparently i need a whole classification system for the universe AND myself, no i will not be explaining this further

utena obviously, kurisu AND suzuha (both equally me, don't make me choose), c.c. n her completely unbothered immortal exhaustion, franziska von karma arguing w full conviction over literally nothing, ryōshu n nikaido (loud, loyal, five seconds from violence or affection zero in-between), karin from fear & hunger, maka, fujino from look back (fujimoto knew exactly what he was doing), don quixote — novel AND limbus company version, both equally unwell, both equally correct

visual novels n scrappy lil indie horror have my whole heart — steins;gate, saya no uta, umineko, house in fata morgana, yume nikki, mad father, psychopomp n anything living in that same lo-fi dread family. deep in project moon's whole universe too (limbus company, lobotomy corp, library of ruina), loyalty-through-violence my beloved genre. otherwise genuinely not picky — persona 5, ace attorney, whatever, if it's telling me a story i'm already in