A very disjointed reclist. If you know me personally it is also very predictable, probably.

Web originals:

Button: 17776 (2017): Can't even explain this without spoiling it. It's sci-fi of some kind.

Birgworld: Cute fuzzy aliens and their cultures.

Blightseed: My favourite fantasy setting at the moment. A low fantasy setting with super in-depth cultures and some specbio.

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: Found footage sci-fi/analog horror. An eldritch abomination is found beneath Texas, and turned into a tourist destination and mine. Consequences ensue.

Comics:

Runaway To The Stars (2024-): Hard sci-fi slice of life about an alien aerospace engineer from Jupiter. Go read the worldbuilding writeups and the older comics, too!

Button: Bicycle Boy (2013-): A cyborg wakes up with no memories, surrounded by corpses in the middle of the desert.

The Priestwife (2022-): a fantasy/horror comic.

Sakana (2010-): a slice-of-life rom-com set in the Tsukiji Fish Market.

Dungeon Meshi (2014-2023): Hungry dungeon spelunkers eat the dungeon.

Raruurien (2017-2024): a fantasy slice-of-life about a small family dealing with a recent loss.

Mare Internum (2015-2019): Scientists on Mars confront internal seas both literal and metaphorical.

Scenes From Imagined Films: Snapshots of everyday life.

Video games:

Mouthwashing (2024): A cargo spaceship crashes into an asteroid, and things get much worse from there.

Terraria (2011): A sandbox classic!

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017): An open-world classic! (Is eight years long enough to be a classic?)

TV shows:

Babylon Berlin (2017-): Weimar Germany! Haunted detectives! Political drama! Great characters! Amazing set and costume design! The most immersive historical drama I've ever seen! WATCH IT NOW

BBC Merlin (2008-2012): A loose adaptation of Arthurian legend. I have fond memories of it.

Stranger Things (2016-): 80s kids on bikes, interdimensional beastes, and D&D, among other things.

What Did You Eat Yesterday? (2019-2023): A fortysomething gay couple navigates work life, their relationship, queer culture and identity in modern Tokyo, and delicious recipies. Apparently this started as a manga, but I saw the show first and liked it more so I'll put it here.

Books:

David Crystal - How Language Works (2007): Nonfiction. An accessible overview of a wide range of linguistics topics. This book got me into linguistics so it will always have a special place in my heart.

Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (2020): Nonfiction. A detailed description of Neanderthal culture, and how scientists reconstruct it.

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On The Western Front (1929): (Semi-autobiographical) fiction. WWI from the perspective of a German soldier, and how the war changes him. Also, it has some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read.