Hiya! I'm a "Bolt" fanfiction author, with stories currently found under "Bolt_DMC" over at the AO3 website. Love art and culture in most all forms. Avid reader of fanfiction and non-fanfic.

Favorite authors: Scads and scads. And scads. Some favorite non-fanfic writers in alphabetical order: Lewis Carroll, Clark Coolidge, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, O. Henry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, C.S. Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, A.A. Milne, Wilfred Owen, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (H.H. Munro), J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Wallace Stevens, Tom Stoppard, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Harriet Zinnes. Favorite fanfic authors include: Aninat131, Charles_Rockafellor, irishredhead667, Lieutenant Saavik, PenNameSmith, Piandaoist, Plonq, shalomdebbie, Tempe O'Kun, thememoryofthatday, TG Weaver, WitchFlame, Yotsubadancesintherain5.

Favorite composers, Classical: It might be easier to list those I don't like. Some special favorites: Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Johannes Brahms, Elliott Carter, Frederic Chopin, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Lee Hyla, Charles Ives, Leos Janacek, Josquin des Prez, Gyorgy Ligeti, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Henry Purcell, David Rakowski, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Roger Sessions, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern.

Favorite jazz artists: Not as knowledgeable in this genre, but have thus far enjoyed what I've heard of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum.

Favorite pop/rock groups/musicians: As above with Classical. Desert island acts include: The Beatles, Elvis Costello (to "Punch the Clock"), Buddy Holly, Joni Mitchell (to "Hejira"), R.E.M. (to "Green"). Plenty of honorable mentions: The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Big Star, Blondie, Billy Bragg, James Brown, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Clash, Eddie Cochran, Leonard Cohen, The Cramps, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marshall Crenshaw, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Clark Five, Derek and the Dominos, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Flamin' Groovies, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, The Hollies, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, Katrina and the Waves, The Las, Little Richard, Lovin' Spoonful, Nick Lowe, The Mamas and the Papas, The Monkees, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Jonathan Richman, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smithereens, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, The Supremes, Talking Heads, Television, The Temptations, They Might Be Giants, Translator, Velvet Underground, The Who, Stevie Wonder, X, XTC, The Yardbirds.

Favorite films: I can only get my list down to 20. I skew towards older films, films that make me laugh, films that are well written, and films that I find structurally interesting. In alphabetical order: All About Eve, Battleship Potemkin, Bolt, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, The General, The Gold Rush, Groundhog Day, Hannah and Her Sisters, A Hard Day’s Night, The Lion King, Manhattan, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Rashomon, Singin’ In the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Vertigo, The Wizard of Oz.

Favorite TV shows: Again, down to 44. Also skew older on many of these, most being sitcoms: The Addams Family, Are You Being Served, Barney Miller, Becker, The Big Bang Theory (mostly the first three seasons), The Bob Newhart Show, Cheers, Columbo, Corner Gas, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Dick Van Dyke Show, F Troop, Fawlty Towers, Frasier, Friends, Futurama, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Golden Girls, Green Acres, I Love Lucy, Keeping Up Appearances, Leave It to Beaver, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Matlock, Monk, The Monkees, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, The Munsters, My World and Welcome to It, The Nanny, Newhart (mostly from season 3 onwards), The Office, Perry Mason, The Phil Silvers Show, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Suits, Taxi, The Twilight Zone (1959), WKRP in Cincinnati. Young Sheldon.

Favorite comic strips: Yes, they’re an art form. Narrowed to 12 newspaper and four online-only examples: Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, The Dogs of C-Kennel, Doonesbury, The Far Side, Krazy Kat, Life in Hell, Lio, Peanuts, Pearls before Swine, Pogo, Sam’s Strip (newspaper); Faux Pas, Garfield Minus Garfield, Housepets!, Red Meat (online only).

Favorite visual artists: Sensing a pattern here? Loads of stuff, favorites include: Hieronymous Bosch, Caravaggio, Max Ernst, Theodore Gericault, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Frans Hals, Duane Hanson, Winslow Homer, Paul Klee, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Georges Seurat, Tintoretto, Titian, J.M.W. Turner, Vincent Van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer. Favorite outsider artists include Henry Darger, Howard Finster, James Hampton, Grandma Moses.