#till as sayaka

[sqwigeon]

(taps mic) is this thing on?

[ravenclod]

hello hello it is officialy 1am here meaning it is the 20th of september - aka SAYAKA MIKIS BIRTHDAY

small appreciation post of some of my favourite pieces ive ever done of her [ Apr 2023 - Sept 2024 ] before my official post w new art that will be posted later💗

1st one is my absolute favourite sayaka art that ive ever done ♡

these are mostly digital, but GOD KNOWS how many times i have drawn this girl traditionally... over 50 times , id guess /srs

last one is the FIRST digital sayaka art i ever did, and i felt like it had to be included. some of these are older, but i still love them with my whole heart.

[cryokxsss]

The monthly sayaka appreciation post everyone

They Made her so pretty on the ova my pretty girl <3

[mo-ok]

Dengeki Sentai Changeman

[ghostdeals]

It bother me so much that people misunderstand sayaka miki's descent into madness in madoka magica. She doesnt become a witch "just because of a boy." Sayaka is a character who ties all her self worth into being in service of others. We can see this right from the start with her idolization of mami and everything that she was. She saw mami as this "perfect hero" even though mami i would say is mentally the weakest of the holy quintet. In the timelines where mami finds out about the incubator's true goals she always immediately breaks and goes crazy, trying to kill the other girls in her own twisted way of trying to "save them". Instead of seeing the fragile person that mami was, sayaka instead sort of treats her as a martyr, a goal to achieve. We continue on to sayaka's magical girl wish. Instead of wishing for something for herself, she instead sells her soul for the sake of kyousuke. Then when he starts dating hitomi she spirals not because she's sad about the rejection but because she feels replaced in his life, that he doesn't need or want her around anymore. Then she throws herself into her magical girl work not seeing that she's harming herself because she justifies it with "well im saving people that means what im doing is a good thing." She doesn't see that she's becoming more sloppy, more ruthless until its too late. It's only in the end when she turns into a witch that her story gets resolved.

Sayaka Miki is an incredibly sad character to me. While her actions have the illusion of being selfless and "for the greater good" she is actually incredibly selfishly motivated. Everything she does is in service of wanting praise and admiration from the people she cares about. If she helps kyousuke he'll appreciate her and love her, if she becomes a hero she'll receive praise and admiration for being a good person. This is why it is important that of all people it was kyoko that fought sayaka in the end. To homura, sayaka is someone to be saved. To mami, sayaka is her sweet apprentice/younger sister figure. To madoka, sayaka is her energetic and happy go lucky friend. Kyoko is the only one who from the start called sayaka out on her bullshit, seeing straight through her. And at the end, kyoko is the one who truly accepts sayaka. Sayaka as the witch Oktavia von Seckendorff is stated multiple times in official material to be "looking for love." In the end it it kyoko who gives her that love. Even when sayaka has lost her humanity it is kyoko who accepts her for the entirety of who sayaka is with all of her selfishness and desires. She is the one who sees what sayaka has become and stays together with her till both of their ends. Kyoko choosing to die with sayaka is her saying "I'm here for you, i know all of you, and I will love you regardless."

[const3llatio]

Sugar Cloud

Megumi x Fem!Reader

I used to think that life was just a jawebreaker,

you suck, and you suck, and you suck some more!

Synopsis ₊⊹⁀➴ In which a boy is forced to go see a musical since his friend’s sister is in it.

current status ₊⊹⁀➴ complete !

updates ₊⊹⁀➴ once a day (hopefully)

warnings ₊⊹⁀➴ this is my first smau 🤑, strangers to friends to lovers, the plot is actual shit, no curses!au, highschool!au, if the characters are ooc dont blame me !, cursing, lots of kys jokes, fem!reader, y/n is Toge’s sister, y/n is a nerd/theatre kid ☝️🤓, “connie stop putting a sayaka header for everything” NO

yes, the song is from ride the cyclone 🤑‼️ (im a theatre nerd of course i had to make at least ONE smau with a musical ☝️🤓) the only thing the song has to do with the smau is that y/n is in theatre and is performing ride the cyclone (credits to my pookie @todayisawthewhxlewxrld for the idea of using a song 4 the title, go check out his smaus digital display and spellbound 😋)

I used to think that life was just a heartbreaker,

It breaks and it takes till you can’t take no more!

ask to be added 2 the taglist ! (CLOSED)

(✎) indicates writing <3

shadow wizard money gang | wanted criminals

1. Lobotomize you

2. thumbs down emoji

3. oddly specific (✎)

4. thug it out (✎)

5. spreader of despair and despondency

6. seriously hates me (✎)

6.5; The conversation (✎)

7. all hope is (not) lost

8. how odd (✎)

9. erm what the sigma

10. ur tweaking (✎)

11. #shocked #upset

12. js like ur brother

13. one of us (✎)

14. how do i kick him

15. wer braking up (✎)

16. she forgor (✎)

bonus

1.

2.

back to smau masterlist

[kengan-daddies]

Hi there please could i get some fluffy romantic headcanons for kanoh agito! I’m curious to see what you’d think he’d be like in a romantic relationship

Love Life with Kanoh Agito

Love Life with Kanoh Agito

Love Life with Kanoh Agito

Anime : Kengan Ashura

Character : Kanoh Agito

Warnings : None

Kanoh Agito - Is a man of few words. He doesn't speak much throughout the day, he uses acts of service as his love language. He loves to help you in any way possible. Need to go to the store, he'll come with, need to do chores around the house, he'll help out.

Kanoh Agito - He's a warrior first before he's a lover, but love isn't unknown to him, having to watch over Sayaka for years has given him some love in his heart. Seeing her cute little smiles for years from baby giggles to young woman chuckles. It's given his heart some form of love, so he's not unaware of what it is.

Kanoh Agito - Is an honest man, who will tell you how it is, and if you cry then that's on you, he isn't sure why you shouldn't know the truth or why you deny it so hard, the truth is absolute, there is no such thing as if, and, and buts. Unless you're Ohma Tokita, who somehow always bends the truth to his passion.

He's also a simple man, he wants nothing in life really, he just wants a place to live with the love of his life where he can keep them safe and happy to the best of his abilities.

Kanoh Agito - Is a man who follows a strict schedule, so he'd be the first person in a relationship to awaken, if not which is rare, then he'll expect you to wake him up as soon as you do.

If he wakes up first, then he'll get up, take a shower, work out and train, take a shower, and even cook breakfast. If you wake up first, then he'll take a shower with you and will even help you make breakfast.

If he wakes up first and If you're still asleep till it's almost 11, then he'll wake you up from gentle rocking of your shoulder, telling you that breakfast is ready.

Kanoh Agito - Will either go out for a run or he'll stay home and spend the day with you after breakfast. If he goes out for a run then you'll have the house to yourself for about 30 minutes to an hour, if he didn't then you'll be home with him, possibly teaching him about something he saw on the internet or on TV.

Kanoh Agito - Who helps you with chores around the house. He sees this as a form of bonding. If you're washing dishes then he's doing laundry, if you're vacuuming then he's mopping, if you're wiping down the windows then he's wiping off the counters. He takes chores seriously, especially if you've given him a chore to do, he's like a child, as soon as he's done with a chore he'll come back and ask for another one. And he will want you to inspect his work.

Kanoh Agito - Who likes to cuddle on the couch and watch whatever you want to watch before lunch hour, another form of bonding. He enjoys watching TV with you, and he likes hearing your input on certain topics. And don't watch a movie with him that you've been dying to see, he'll ask questions throughout the entire thing, especially if it's something he's never seen before.

On days when he goes out for a morning run, he'll come back, and take a shower, and he'll want something to eat, so be ready to either cook up a meal or order some takeout.

Kanoh Agito - Who loves to help you cook lunch, he finds this another form of bonding and will take the job very seriously if you give him something to do.

"Throw this away." done, next. "Chop this up." Done, next. "Wash this out and dry it." Done, next. If he's chopping up food, he'll want you to inspect it once he's done. Don't tell him to 'watch the food', he'll take it literally and will stay in the kitchen till the food is done.

Kanoh Agito - After lunch, he likes to do a light workout/training sesh, he has to stay in shape and keep his training up.

He'll always give you the option of joining in, and he'll be so happy if you agree to do so, if not, then he won't mind. He wants to stay strong so that he can continue to fight and so that he can protect you too.

If you want to join in, then be ready for a pretty tiring workout, but he won't go so hard on you.

If one of the boys wants to hang out with him for the evening he'll have you stay with Kaolan or Ohma, since he trusts them to be the most responsible... more leaning towards Kaolan.

If you want to come with, then be ready for him to be on your ass. He's not a possessive lover, but he is very aware of you, with everyone hanging out in one area, Lihito is bound to try and flirt with you.

Kanoh Agito - before dinner, he'll want to probably go out with you somewhere for a while, and if not, then he'll be down for a light nap with you.

If he's out with the boys then you'll be spending the day with either Ohma or Kaolan until he gets home, and he always gets home 30 minutes before dinner. Simply because he wants to spend the most domestic parts of the day with you and because no other man can eat at his table without his presence.

Kanoh Agito - Who loves cooking dinner with you just as much as he does lunch, he'll help with whatever task you give him, after dinner he'll want to take a shower with you. It doesn't have to be sexual, he just wants you to be as close to him as possible while you both do a normal human activity that's not weird. Because using the toilet together is apparently weird, from what you told him.

Kanoh Agito - Who is usually the last to fall asleep, he'll hold you close to him, watching TikTok with you over your shoulders or a TV show you wanted to watch until you fell asleep.

If it's TikTok then be expecting questions. He'll turn everything off once you've fallen asleep, giving you a kiss on your temple as he drifts off to sleep as well.

[tired-sayaka-ada]

Alternative Death

OOC : Teeee angst <3 picrew

⚠️TW : Blood, death (wow), the usual for my writing atp. Basically an alternative where Sayaka dies or something

Sillies : @pleasepress1forfrontdesk @oscarsgallery @city-of-c0rpses @till-we-become-monsters

Loud ringing, a harsh pain going through my chest. I can't see. My vision is blurred and my glasses have been knocked off my skull. Everything is a mess of color I can't understand.

But I can feel everything. The blood pouring from my veins and staining everything it touches. I can feel the cold concrete against me, like it will swallow me whole. I can still taste. The overwhelming metallic of my own blood on my tongue.

Is this how everything ends? With seeing anything at all?

I can still feel everything, I can feel my upper body being dragged into someone's lap. Their hand on my cheek and lifting it for their gaze to meet mine. A face I can't see. But I recognize the touch all too well. My half fuzzy mind telling me to do something. Anything. But I can't move a muscle nearly an inch.

I can feel my face meet the soft fabric of someone's sweater. It feels so nice. As nice as the warm arms wrapped around me. The ringing hasn't stopped, but I hear his words. I hear all of it. But I can't understand it.

I can feel the small drops of water landing onto my crimson damped skull. Of what I can only assume is tears.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry you have to see me like this. There's too many things I want to say but lacking the energy for even half of it. But with a cracked voice I say what I can manage

"I love you...Levi..."

All I'm able to do is let my memories fly by as everything fades. My heart running flat against a warm body. My pulse letting it's last faint beat go cold.

I'm sorry.

[veiled-sayaka-doa]

Needle and Thread

Ooc : definitely not an excuse to make more sayaka (neka.cc)

Warnings : None

Silly readers : @pleasepress1forfrontdesk @oscarsgallery @till-we-become-monsters @myluckymoon @city-of-c0rpses

White fabric bunched into soft ruffles and lace delicately sewn into the bodice. Beautiful work...all put together by hand with the intent to be on someone's skin as they walk down the asle. My mother always told me a women's most important dress would be the one she wears on her wedding. A dress intended for a bride. My closet is full of them. Altered and cut up to be fitting.

I've gotten a new one recently, a train skirt flowing behind it. It'll need to be trimmed. But I can make work of the left over fabrics. Taking a seam ripper by it's light blue handle and carefully tearing away the flowers on the top, a flower I can't recognize and the lace rips before I can think about it more.

"A women's most important dress she'll ever wear is the one on her wedding day, remember that, Sayaka."

I can hear those words a bit to clear. It's just another dress isn't it? By now I'd think the dress makers at any bridal store recognize my face. Walking in as they ask me when the wedding is planned and giving a confused face when I say there won't be one. I don't get asked that anymore. If anything their faces resemble that of pity.

Wearing a dress like these. It's just a dress isn't it? It's fabric pulled together by string and needles. Nothing too important.

What to wear this for...I'm not sure, at times it takes months just for me to wear one to a sort of event or just a rainy walk.

Will i ever buy one without making it my own? Without tearing it to shreds?

[mimiexe15]

Hitomi in Mira Magica

Hitomi! Well, at least what she looks like in Mira Magica she has grown up she has grown and now is an adult and works as a therapist trying to help others get through their grief like she did when her too close friends went missing

she did find her friends Sayaka and madoka only to realize their witches who want to drain all the life on earth and make a newfound heaven out of it and I know she’s kind of traumatized from it since they’re kind of haunting her now and want her to join their council

basically they’re going to try to turn her into a magical girl and then force her into a witch

They’re still wanting her to join till this day in AU she works as therapist trying to help her get through her stress

(bonus. The heart on her cheek is a witches kiss)

Yes, I use my Gacha cause I’m lazy. This is what I think she would look like as an adult though I hate how this character gets hate just because she had a crush Sayaka childhood friend, but listen she was willing to put their friendship first before their love she cares for her clearly

Why do you guys portray her eyes? Someone who hates her friends and is completely selfish When are they going to make her a magical girl?!?

bonus photo

[rockwgooglyeyes]

. . i know i may not sound very coherent when i say prepose this silly idea to you but . . madoka . . magica . . au . ? for alnst ocs . ? ?

specifically the witch part . . ill be putting out a official question for this on the s39 account but . . may i ask what you would think of the possible designs of the witches for some of the ocs ? your free to pick whichever you’d like by the way !

i have been brainstorming a bit . . but i only have smol thoughts myself . like sai and or himei both maybe having orchestra halls similar to sayaka’s as their labyrinths to represent khoi and tallis, or maybe azure’s being pretty empty other then an endless sky of stars . . or maybe they’d even be combined type witches like walpurgisnacht made from the pairings instead ?

sorry that this is pretty unorganized and a bit random : ( but i hope that your monday is hopefully going well and it continues that way, if not getting better ! love you rock : > ( sai & khoi : @bittersweet-adagio / himei & tallis : @lookatmysillies / azure : @azureitri )

Good afternoon, Apri! I love you, too <3 My monday is going alright, I hope yours has been good or at least, relatively inoffensive heh

Considering that, to my knowledge, a witch is created when a magical girl gives into despair, the witch forms for each of the ocs would have to be representative of each character's breaking point.

With that in mind, I think orchestra halls is really fitting for Himei, because of Tallis' musical skills and specialization in the harp, which is pretty much just a classical instrument that is played in orchestral or performance settings (unless it's a celtic harp but that's different lmao). For Sai, I feel as though it might be a little more complicated than that? I feel like it could be an orchestra hall again but specifically at night, with ghosts haunting the halls, or maybe a hedge maze at night where there is classical music playing and the faint sound of laughter but the farther in you go, the darker it gets and the hedges are stained with blood?

I think the empty world filled with only stars would work better for Tov (@ivanttakethis), actually! Similar to that scene in Howl's Moving Castle (the movie) where they're surrounded by the dancing star figures and it makes Howl's wizard form flare up? I'm thinking something like that, where the stars circle ominously and there's either singing or laughter or both, and the stars are all representative of the people she loves. The ground of the world would be visible below, too, to further disorient the people inside.

For Azure, perhaps some kind of world where there's not any real distinction between the sea and the sky, like they can't be told apart from each other, and the surface that people can walk on is a cloudy/white cap substance? A world barren of land, something commonly associated with life, leaving any inhabitants to be consumed by the churning sea and the endless sky.

Maybe a place filled with plants and animals in cages, squawking and whining and crying, for Solei (@solei-eclipse)? Because of Ouro's practice of growing plants and keeping animals, something with both would probably be pretty fitting for Solei, who grew up surrounded by those things and then, against their will, was turned into another creature to be caged. Perhaps animals in the cages even wear the faces of their friends, screaming out in agony for Solei to save them, even as Solei can only see them as prey.

Those are the main ideas I have right now, I hope they make sense? To be perfectly honest with you, I've read some of the Madoka Magica manga but . . . I haven't finished it. I just know the lore via osmosis heh so I'm really sorry if I got anything wrong <3 love you Apri thank you so much for trusting me with your idea!! I think it's super fitting

(makes me think about an ALNST canon madoka magica AU with Sua as Madoka, Mizi as Homura, Hyuna or Luka as Mami, Ivan as Kyoko and Sayaka as Till . . .) (anyways hope you have a good day!!)

[lu3ky777]

Makoto knew that Shuichi was too much of a pussy to ever do anything to Kaede. So when Makoto goes to Kaede's music room and sees that her rear end is exposed to him from picking up some music sheets she dropped. He decides to rearrange her organs with his massive cock and rearranging her pussy and a hole that Shuichi never touched, her asshole.

Makoto came into the music room to listen to Kaede's music… but he got a front row seat to her sizable ass, she was reaching for something way underneath the piano and was completely mooning Makoto. Makoto knew Shuichi didn't really satisfy Kaede, at least not in ways he could~ so that's the justification he used when he walked over and spanked Kaede with his ENORMOUS lucky rod getting hard as he let it hang out of his pants. “Hey! What the-” Kaede was alarmed as she turned around quickly to see it face first, that huge cock and Makoto smiling sweetly.

Makoto groped Kaede's tits madly as he made out with her, it was surprisingly easy to make Kaede forget Shuichi. Though she was more focused on Makoto's now fully erect mass of cock, she had stripped down to her panties and bra while Makoto had gone shirtless. “Makoto maybe we should head to my room or-” SMACK another spank to her ass from Makoto who was oddly quiet “We’re doing it here because this is where you made me hard ok?” Kaede nodded as Makoto ripped off her panties and pinned her to the ground for the mating press of her life.

Makoto was ruthless as he fucked her hard and fast making the pianist scream melodically like Sayaka so often would for him~ Maybe Makoto had a thing for musical girls? He wondered if he should talk to Ibuki, or maybe even Hiyoko since she was a dancer~ Hell why even stick to the arts? Makoto's ravenous hunger made his imagination go wild as he imagined what he COULD do as he slammed Kaede's pussy into his own cock stuffer. Kaede's pussy was forever turned into Makoto's, but he had one more present for Kaede~ SPURT as he came inside her, filling her womb with more cum than Shuichi had in his many times of fucking Kaede. Each drop was more fertile than Shuichi's whole load~

Makoto pulled out of Kaede still rock hard, Kaede however was lost in pleasure as cum cascaded out of. Makoto picked up Kaede who drunk like leaned against the piano as Makoto began to tease her ass. “Makoto- Shuichi never used that sp-” SMACK to her ass as he began to fuck her ass rapidly “That's the point, I need to stretch out both of your holes~” Kaede was a drunken mess again slobbering all over the top of her Piano which she would have to clean later. Makoto kept slamming her ass for a couple hours till he finally gave up his load inside her, watching her lean over the piano and use it to catch her breath. Makoto however had simply pulled up his pants and left… well not before taking a picture and giving that ass one more SPANK

Later that night, after Makoto had gotten done fucking his girlfriends Sayaka and Kyoko, he had gotten a text from Kaede with her showing her nude ass next to a sleeping Shuichi with his tiny cock out with a caption that read “I just got done with this boy, will you show me how a MAN does it~” Makoto knew he wasnt nearly done fucking that night~

[shenenenigans]

big xael personality post ish…

character inspiration!

(left side, top to bottom) sayaka miki, rody lamoree, shin tsukimi

(right side, top to bottom) till, marceline abadeer, lapis lazuli

lyrics that are xael core 2 me!

(i don’t like my mind- mitski)

(that distant shore- steven universe)

traits from aftertaste (personal proj.)

numa isnt in alnst as of yet! might include him. dunno though

other!

still a loser freak

biggest character inspiration was shin tsukimi, can’t say why because um. your turn to die spoilers

associated with the color blue, so that will be his color code on this account

still a blood drinker

he was kinda based on my intrusive thoughts as well as some things from my past

MUCH happier before anakt garden and had a complete personality switch

unfortunately i haven’t decided on his guardian’s name yet

he does sh. he’s mostly seen with bandages and long sleeves to cover it up.

he’s kinda like the “i’m not a violent dog, i don’t know why i bite.” quote

would wear a jacket outside when it feels like the world is being baked in the oven

“sleeping? no i’ll suffer instead i think”

no siblings, only pet of their guardian

had a childhood best friend

hates himself lowkey

hes participating in the season i promise

can you guess why i put sayaka on his inspo board.

[ultimatemissadhd]

Silly Angsty Makoto Headcanon

(takes place after Sayaka's death and till the end of the killing game)

Makoto has separation anxiety in some way (can you call it that way? idk)

He HAS to see Kyoko at least once a day.

But not like spend time with her or talk to her nescarily (we all know Kyoko liked to disappear out of nowhere during the killing game) he just has to see her, they don't even have to make eye contact.

If he doesn't, he will get constant anexity that Kyoko is lying dead somewhere like in a bathroom for example and needs help. He gets worried that something happened during the night to her and he can't just go on about his day knowing she might be lying dead somewhere.

What didn't help was that Kyoko often skipped breakfasts.

[chickensoup1025]

"Sayaka! Open the door! You need to calm down! Let's just talk about this!" Leon's fist banged on the bathroom door.

"Don't come inside! Please don't hurt me!"

He let out a frustrated sigh at her words and looked down to see the knife in his hand. "Oh jeez-" he set it on the farthest side of the dresser and came back to the door, but doesn't knock anymore.

"Sayaka?" He tried to make his voice as gentle as possible, like he's talking to a scared animal.

"Please!" Her voice was wobbly. He could clearly imagine her crying.

Leon turned around and leaned against the door, "I'm not coming in. Let's talk."

"N-no..." Soft sobbing.

He spent a few moments looking for something to say. "Why me?"

He waited almost a minute till a feeble voice piped up.

"I knew you'd come if I asked."

He could tell she was leaning against the door too, but sitting on the floor. So he sat down too.

A beat.

"Do you... hate me or something?"

"...No. I don't hate anyone here." she took a second to breathe, "I don't want to hurt anyone."

Even though Leon could see the damning evidence of that being untrue--the katana and its sheath on the ground, her knife on the dresser, cut slash marks on walls and floor--he still had a feeling she was telling the truth.

"So why then?"

"I have to leave." Sayaka's voice was full of conviction. Leon could feel goosebumps form on his arms. "..my friends... they're not safe. I saw in my video- something happened to them! Our lives as pop stars- everything I've worked towards- gone! I-I... I have to get out of here."

Leon thought back to his own video he watched mere hours ago.

-

"We're rooting for you, dude!" On the screen, Leon's best friend flashed a big smile and a thumbs up. Next to him were two more of their friends, all who he's known since childhood. "Good luck with the baseball stuff-" they all broke into laughter. Then the boy on the right said, "no, seriously, good luck with the ultimate musician thing. You're gonna need it, too." "Cause you sound like a dying horse!" "Shut up," the other was pushed out of shot with a smile. "Don't listen to him. You got this. We're rooting for you." "You better come home and visit as much as you can though!" "We love you, bud." "Gay." Suddenly, a horrible, horrible voice played over the paused clip. It was Monokuma.

"Leon Kuwata, The Ultimate Baseball Star... amazing in the diamond, and quite ambitious with his music dreams. What nice friends he has waiting for him outside the academy! But- oh no! What happened here?!" The video cut to the same setting of their school's bleachers next to the baseball diamond. But now it was abandoned, with what looked like ash blowing in the wind. Some parts of the metal benches were obviously scraped or slightly caved it. There was blood that slowly dripped down the steps, but the worst part was at the top. A human thumb. The screen then cut to black with giant red words, "Look for the answer after graduation!"

A knot formed in Leon's throat at the memory.

"Your friends, too, huh?"

[filmnoirsbian]

Hi !! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books? Things that you think of as inspiration or just plain like? Genuinely curious. <3 im in love with your work btw i spent the other day binging your patreon

Some favorites that deeply impacted me from a young age up into teenagedom: the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Little Sister by Kara Dalkey, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, Piratica by Tanith Lee, the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Holes by Louis Sachar, The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, The Iliad and Odyssey (allegedly) by Homer, The Táin by many people, Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, The Ethical Vampire series by Susan Hubbard, The Howl Series by Diana Wynne Jones, the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, An Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Beloved by Toni Morrison, A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, World War Z by Max Brooks, This is Not A Drill by K. A. Holt, Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Crush by Richard Siken, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Some favorites read more recently: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, Engine Summer by John Crowley, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel, The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, She had some horses by Joy Harjo, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Cassandra by Christa Wolfe

Plays: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr, Fences by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond

Graphic novels: The Crow by James O'Barr, DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, Eternals (2021) by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol