elysia's compendium

♡ recommendations ♡

• shows
• thriller: breaking bad, ozark, mr. robot, dexter; resurrection, money heist
• sci-fi: severance, silo, sweet tooth, utopia
• mystery: true detective, twin peaks, white lotus
• survival: yellowjackets, the wilds
• comfort: house of anubis, the good place, totally spies
• anime: madoka magica, death note, angel beats, gurren lagann, parasyte
• docudrama: dopesick, painkillers
• movies
• documentaries: century of the self
• art cinema: in the mood for love trilogy
• thriller: battle royale, kokuhaku, lady vengeance, kill bill, mulholland drive
• sci-fi: donnie darko, 12 monkeys, dune
• historical: kill your darlings
• comfort: the princess bride, any old barbie movie
• books
• novels: babel by rf kuang,
• theory: the medium is the massage by marshall mcluhan,
• philosophy: tao te ching by laozi, fragments of heraclitus
• religion: language and myth by ernst cassirer, the sacred and profane by mircea eliade
• poetry: songs of innocence and experience by william blake, mythopoeia by jrr tolkien
• misc: essays and aphorisms by arthur schopenhauer
• music
• shoegaze: my bloody valentine, slowdive, fleeting joys
• instrumental: rachmaninoff, chopin, scriabin
• metal: sadness, alcest, harakiri for the sky, saor, sojourner
• hyperpop: bladee, ecco2k, yung lean
• misc: carissa's wierd, flower face, deafheaven

♡ favourite youtubers ♡

• linguistics: jackson crawford, graham scheper, alexander arguelles
• religion: let's talk religion, esoterica, religion for breakfast, jonathan pageau
• deep dives: tor's cabinet of curiosities
• comedy / commentary: goodwork, jreg, gattsu
• video essays: final girl digital, mickey galvin
• finance: patrick boyle, ben felix

♡ rabbit holes ♡

• secret societies: mcluhan's letters to pound & voegelin, golden dawn drama
• prehistory:out of place artefacts, antikythera mechanism, gobekli tepe, oral traditions, the emergence of writing
• niche academic/lit world lore: quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, 'cockney school', 90s science wars, linguistics wars
• tech & mysticism: divine machinery, ccru, techgnosis, hauntology
• misc. concepts: negative capability, automatic writing, agnotology
• mysteries: voynich manuscripts

♡ seen live ♡

• in hk: the vaccines, chvrches, bastille, the 1975, one direction, twentyone pilots, imagine dragons, m83, hillsong
• in vancouver: eden, all time low, deafheaven (x2), bladee, ecco2k & whitearmor, daniel caesar, peach pit, holy fawn, dethklok, babymetal, mass of the fermenting dregs, panchiko, ride, amenra, slow crush, explosions in the sky, fog lake, foxes in fiction, deftones, laufey, kontravoid, alice longyu gao, wild nothing, lunar vacation
• wishlist: muse, sadness, wisp, alcest

♡ words ♡

beautiful words

• acedia: apathy
• alacrity: cheerful readiness
• aleatory: depending on dice throw
• alpenglow: soft, rosy light in mountains
• amaranth: a flower that never fades
• amaranthine: purple
• anadyomene: rising from the sea
• anamnesis: memory
• ananke: fate
• anthesis: flowering period, truth emerges
• aphelion: farthest orbit point from sun
• ataraxia: tranquility
• apotropaic: magic to turn away evil
• asphodel: flower associated with underworld
• asterism: star pattern
• aurelia: golden chrysalis of a butterfly
• austromancy: divination by observing wind
• avalerion: mythical bird, king of all birds
• azygous: single vein
• balisage: wayfinding markers or beacons
• bellicine: velvet, silk
• benthic: deep-sea, abyssal
• berylline: blue-green
• bdelygmia: filth
• brimlight: gleam of sun/moon over the sea
• brontide: distant rumbling of thunder
• brumous: wintry
• caelian: heavenly
• caliginous: misty, dim, obscured
• callipygian: having shapely buttocks
• calyx: outer part of a flower, protecting petals before bloom
• catoptric: evoking mirrors / reflections
• chresmology: the study of prophecies
• chrysalis: a protecting covering
• chrysopoeia: gold-making, alchemically
• cicatrix: scar of a healed wound
• cirrus: wispy clouds high in the sky
• cithara: ancient stringed instrument
• clairaudience: ability to hear beyond normal
• crepuscular: dim light of dusk & dawn
• deliquescent: melting into a liquid
• diaphanous: delicate, translucent
• dithyramb: a wild, passionate chant
• drosera: sundew plants, glistening
• dulciloquent: speaking sweetly
• dysania: the struggle to get out of bed
• eburnean: ivory-like, smooth, pale
• eglantine: wild rose
• eidolon: ideal
• empyrean: the highest heavens
• enchiridion: handbook of wisdom
• eos: rosy-fingered, dawn personified
• epektasis: continual striving towards God
• etiolated: pale, drawn out, lightless
• erebus: primordial darkness
• eremitic: solitary
• exuviae: cast-off skins or husks
• flavescent: golden
• fulgurant: flashing
• galantine: relating to snowdrops
• glaucidium: little owl
• glaucous: blue-green
• gloaming: twilight
• heliophany: appearance of the sun
• hiraeth: longing for home, impossible
• hyaline: glassy
• iridule: a delicate, rainbow shimmer
• kalopsia: the delusion of beauty
• kairos: weather; time; critical moment
• lacuna: gap, cavity
• lacerate: tear
• lambent: softly glowing, flickering
• lissome: graceful
• luculent: shining, clear in expression
• lustrum: five years
• mausoleum: tomb
• mauve: violet
• meristem: plant tissue enabling growth
• metanoia: heart transformation
• moiré: an iridescent, shifting pattern
• moue: a pout-like expression
• nepenthe: elixir to induce forgetfulness
• nephology: the study of clouds
• nepsis: spiritual watchfulness
• naiad: water nymph
• niveous: snowy
• noctivagant: night-wandering
• numinous: religious
• nyctophilia: love of the night
• oneiric: dreamlike
• ocellus: eyelike spot
• ommatidia: individual eye units
• ophidian: sinuous, serpentine
• oriflamme: a sacred banner
• orison: prayer, plea
• palingenesis: rebirth
• penumbra: the fringe of an eclipse
• peregrinate: travel
• perfidious: deceitful
• plangent: resonant
• propinquity: space / time proximity
• prosomion: hymn
• pyrrhic: won at too great a cost
• roscid: glistening with moisture, dewy
• selene: moon goddess, luminous
• seraphic: angelic
• sibylline: prophetic
• silvestrine: woodland-like
• solivagant: wandering alone
• susurrus: hushed
• sylph: slender, graceful woman
• synaxis: liturgical worship gathering
• tenebrous: dark
• thaumaturge: worker of wonders
• threnody: song of lamentation
• vatic: prophetic, visionary, lofty
• velutinous: having a soft, velvety texture
• vesper: evening
• vitrine: glass display case
• wend: meander
• xeric: extremely dry
• zephyr: wind