Welcome!

My name is Briar (they/she). I am a multidisciplinary creative, scientific pantheist, and anarcho-communist based in the United States. My many fixations include literature, comics, linguistics, cartoons, witchcraft, iced coffee, and kissing women.

Favorite Media

Books

Prose Fiction

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Graphic Fiction

• Bone by Jeff Smith
• Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
• Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano

Nonfiction

• Elements of Pantheism by Paul Harrison
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Relationship Anarchy by Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés
• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Films

Live-action

• Donnie Darko, directed by Richard Kelly
• Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by
• The Dark Crystal, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz
• The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson

Animated

• Kung Fu Panda, directed by Mark Osborne
• Penguin Highway, directed by Hiroyasu Ishida
• Summer Wars, directed by Mamoru Hosoda
• The Night is Short, Walk On Girl, directed by Masaaki Yuasa
• Whisper of the Heart, directed by Yoshifumi Kondō

Series

Animated

• FLCL, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Gurren Lagann, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
• Last Exile, directed by Koichi Chigira
• Mission Hill, created by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein
• Noein, directed by Kazuki Akane

Games

• Fire Emblem: Three Houses, published by Intelligent Systems
• Night in the Woods, published by Infinite Fall and Finji
• Oxenfree, published by Night School Studio
• Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions, published by Game Freak
• Transistor, published by Supergiant Games

Music

Albums

• Beneath the Skin by Of Monsters and Men
• Demon Days by Gorillaz
• Language & Perspective by Bad Suns
• Mind over Matter by Young the Giant
• The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance