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this is what i think i look like.

hi, i'm sky!

or skyberia. if you wanted to know a little more about me, you've come to the right place!

on this page i've listed out a bunch of things that i really like! everything here really inspires me and my work in some way or another, and i would recommend (most) of them!

click the names of each thing for a little more info/my thoughts about them! (this may or may not work on mobile, depending. sorry if it doesn't)

this isn't an exhaustive list, just the (currently, as of writing) most important stuff.

favourite album

other music i like

Last.fm recently played

favourite games







other media favourites




non media favourites


sufi (my cat!)









Eviscerate
(2024) Eidola
hold me close, leap in the dark-- we may never know who we are.

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Eviscerate is Eidola's 5th studio album, released on april 12th, 2024. it's way heavier than any of their other releases, and also darker and angrier than anything else they've ever done. it is one of the only albums i can listen to front to back without skipping any of the songs.

i was there for this album's release. from the very first listen it has had my brain in a vice-like grip. i spent the next full week only listening to songs from it on repeat, and by the end of the year it had become my most listened-to album. i have a hard time putting my finger on why, exactly. i guess i just generally jive with hatred and destruction?

there is a story that is being told here throughout these songs, but admittedly it has always gone right over my head. my main enjoyement comes from wildly misinterpreting the lyrics to make them fit with whatever character i'm envisioning at the time. this record's release actually coincided with the very early conceptualisation phase of damaged mirror, and in turn has kind of become the soundtrack to that whole project. "god takes away everything", in particular, has shaped asa's character in ways i never thought possible for a single song to do.

recommendation

my favourite songs, in no particular order, are God Takes Away Everything, Ziggurat, Who of You Will Persevere?, A Bridge of Iron and Blood, He Who Pulls the Strings Ties A Knot, and No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper. that's like half the album. the other half is really good, too.

Disco Elysium
(2019) ZA/UM
a tremendous loneliness comes over you. everybody in the world is doing something without you.

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Disco Elysium is a 2019 CRPG made by ZA/UM. you play as an amnesiac detective who has to solve a murder amidst political unrest, in a world that is falling apart. it is probably the best game ever made.

i don't have to sing the praises of this game, you've heard it all before from a thousand, a hundred thousand different mouths. what i can speak on though is its immense effect on me. its art style has influenced mine significantly in ways that i feel are pretty noticeable, the choices made in the writing of its characters and in the building of its world spark such awe in me that i can only dream to try to replicate someday, and it actually altered the way that i think! embarrasingly enough i can't even help but label my own thoughts under specific skills at times.
the amount of failed encyclopedia checks that i hit in one day are too many to even estimate.

recommendation

this game is a miracle. go play it

We ♥️ Katamari
(2005) Namco
i can sing a song for you and me... i can make a song for all who feel love!

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We Love Katamari is the second game in the Katamari series, developed by Namco and released in 2005. you play as a small prince who has to roll a big ball around the world, collecting things to make it bigger.

this is one of the first games i ever fell in love with as a child. it is here and is the odd one out in this lineup of games for that reason and that reason only. i can't give you a particular way it has affected me or shaped my life because as far as i can remember it has always been there.

recommendation

it's charming and bizarre and great fun all at once. even if it doesn't do much for you, give it to a child in your life and see how they turn out.

The Beginner's Guide
(2015) Everything Unlimited Ltd.
if there was an answer, a meaning, would it make you any happier?

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The Beginner's Guide is a narrative videogame developed by Davey Wreden and released in 2015. "it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand."

i don't think i've thought about any work of art as much as i have this game. i came across it at precisely the time i needed to and that's about as much as i can get myself to say about it. it's such a well crafted and precise little thing, honed to a perfect point to stab you with. i've carried the wound it dug into me ever since i first played it.

my favourite thing about it is how, above everything else, it's a mirror. i love watching other people play it. the thoughts that they have and the conclusions they end up coming to about it are so different from each other and always say so much more about them and what they have on their minds than they actually do about the game itself.

recommendation

it's an hour and a half long. if you haven't played it yet, you should sit down someday and do it. even if it doesn't have the same impact on you as it did me, it could be a fun introspective exercise.

Persona 5 Royal
(2020) ATLUS
but it's how i feel, so there's nothing i can do about it.

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Persona 5 Royal is the 2020 extended rerelease of Persona 5, a 2016 JRPG developed by ATLUS. it is a videogame. there's teenagers and they have to fight god to save the world. so on and so forth.

i have to be so honest with you right now. i think persona 5 royal kind of sucks. right, so the gameplay's really fun, the OST's awesome and verifiably a classic at this point, the UI design makes me go insane every time i look at it, etc, but the thing i actually care about most of all in any game is its story and plot, and p5r is fucking incomprehensible. i don't even have the character space here to convey to you how badly and how often they fumble things in this story and how mad it makes me.

in spite of this. this game has changed me irrevocably. i am going to be suffering through the consequences of having played it for the rest of my life. i love it deeply and truly despite how awful it gets and how much anger it inspires in me. or maybe because of those things. who can say for sure at this point.

recommendation

if you have a similar disposition to me it might ruin your life forever, so there's that. also goro akechi is in there.


Baldur's Gate 3
(2023) Larian Studios
this is a gift, you know. i won't forget it.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a CRPG developed by Larian Studios and released in 2023. it is a videogame version of a D&D campaign. there's fantasy magic people and they have to fight god to save the world. so on and so forth.

what drew me to this game was how i heard it had a bitchy white-haired-red-eyed guy who looked good covered in blood, but what made me stick with it was how much weight it placed on player choice, something i have always looked for in games. the variation in outcomes is fascinating and lead me to playing it multiple times over just to see how i could alter the story further... the problem is that this is also kind of its downfall. the writing has trouble just *cohering* while juggling all of these different variations and outcomes, put that on top of an already weak and uninteresting overarching plot, and...

well, you still get a really fun game that i really love and sunk over 600 hours of my life into, is the thing. despite all my gripes with it and its general shortcomings (or maybe because of those things) it did spark an amount of creativity and inspiration in me that is going to be hard to match. without it i wouldn't have some of my most beloved original characters, so i guess i have it to thank for that.

recommendation

this shit's incredibly easy to sink hundreds of hours into, so watch out. it's great fun though. can get your brain going in interesting directions

Scarlet Hollow
Black Tabby Games

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Scarlet Hollow is a horror visual novel developed by Black Tabby Games, it has been released episodically since 2021. you travel to scarlet hollow, an old tiny mining town, in order to attend the funeral of your aunt and reconnect with your cousin. then bad things start happening.

admittedly this feels a little out of place for this page of inspirations, given how i don't think it has had as big of an impact on me or my work as every single other piece of media listed here-- but i have made it my mission to shout it out and to try to get more people to play it whenever and wherever i can, so here it is. this is everything baldur's gate 3 was not to me. all the promises of a story that accounts for player choice that fell flat over there are kept here, to a completely, absurdly deranged degree. this game restored my hope in the idea that you Can actually make a game with a billion branches that still coheres and maintains its quality throughout. this not to even begin to sing the praises of the rest of it, all the art and the music and so on...
i must briefly acknowledge that black tabby and i are seemingly on the same insane wavelength, too. here's to complicated mother-monster child relationships. and the torture basement.

recommendation

please for the love of god play this game. i'm begging you on my hands and knees. it's too crazy and well made to be as obscure as it is. go play it. if not for me then for yourself. you can't keep yourself from experiencing peak like this

Better Call Saul
(2015-2022) Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould
i love you too. but, so what?

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Better Call Saul is a crime-drama show created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. it's a spin off and prequel to Breaking Bad, and it is a perfect series of television.

that probably sounds a bit weird if you don't know anything about it but you just have to believe me that i don't say that lightly or just about anything. i'll gloss over what's already well documented about it: the writing and the complexity and depth of all the characters, the beautiful and extremely deliberate cinematography, the usage of colour symbolism throughout-- those are all fantastic. what i think particularly stands out to me is how it knows how to aim exactly where it hurts most. prequels are inherently tragedies, and this show knows that better than anything. there are some moments, specially towards the later seasons, where it gets so harrowing even thinking about it now makes me feel insane amounts of dread. this is all a good thing.

recommendation

you can watch it without having seen breaking bad, though you might miss some references here and there, and the last few episodes probably won't make very much sense. i rewatch it at least once every year. i have to just to feel alive.

Interview with the Vampire
(2022-2024) Rolin Jones
there are stories that need to be told.

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Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire is the 2022 television adaptation of Anne Rice's 1976 book, "Interview With The Vampire". a vampire tells his life story to a journalist. and then some other things happen.

one of the things i love most in this world are stories about stories. i also love vampires, and characters who suck morally, and insane gay people who desperately need a divorce, so this is practicaly everthing i could ever ask for in a piece of media. but the thing i was saying about stories about stories-- in this particular case, what excites and enchants me the most is the dissection of the storyteller. the way the story is told, what's omitted and where the emphasis is placed, and how that all tends to say more about the person telling the story than it does about what actually happened. the conflict that arises when these quirks and inconsistencies are pointed out, too... i could go on about this for hours. maybe someday i will.

recommendation

if you are interested in any of the above mentioned things, i can't recommend this show enough.
just don't go looking for a season 3. it's not worth it.

I Am In Eskew
(2018 - 2019) Eskew Productions Ltd
i hope that it mattered, having someone beside you in the dark.

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I Am In Eskew is a horror audiodrama by Jon Ware and Muna Hussen. it is about a man and his relationship with an ever-changing and impossible city of horrors.

eskew is one of what i'd probably call my "comfort" pieces of media, it's something i like to put an episode of on before going to bed-- which sounds strange given how this is very explicitly horror with very strong body horror warnings up at the top, but i think it makes sense once you start listening. the gentle near-monotone of the narration and the constant drumming of rain in the background makes for a very calming listen, even if the descriptions are of people being tormented in dozens of fun and horrifying ways.

as with most other stories i enjoy i think it's the insane expressions of loneliness that gets to me the most here. there's a post i saw recently celebrating fictional characters who are wretched pathetic cowards in similar ways that you are. david ward is one of those characters to me.

recommendation

if the fact that one of the first search results when you look up "i am in eskew" is a reddit post that just asks "does i am in eskew ever get better?" says anything it's that it's probably not for everybody. but eskew is for me. and maybe it could be for you, too. you just have to visit it and see.

sometimes, when it's particularly windy, i will go outside and just stand out there for half an hour or more. i'd recommend this to everyone.

my favourite type are cirrus clouds.

something about how quiet it is because everyone's asleep. and how it's often colder. i think it makes me more productive. i dream about inverting my sleep schedule and becoming a night-only person sometimes.

my favourite combos are red and black and red and blue. the specific shade of red you see all throughout this site and also in damaged mirror is #9A1A1D.

they're just perfectly shaped. such well designed creatures.

anything remotely chocolate flavoured i will eat and probably enjoy, unless it is bad. in which case i won't.

if you are able to take a nap do it. my life's philosophy.