Hylden · current inspirations
Currently
on the shelf.
What's feeding the atmosphere lately: books, sounds, ideas, leaves. The shelf changes with the weather. That's the point of it.
Things on the shelf
The Pale Beyond
A ship locked in the ice at the cold edge of the map, with a crew to keep fed, warm and loyal as the dark draws in. The lines the passing boat recites are borrowed from its opening verse.
Disco Elysium
A detective story where the hardest case is being a person. Still unmatched, word for word.
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Ten volumes of grief and compassion at geological scale. I'm on the seventh now, Reaper's Gale, still deep in the middle of it.
Trip hop
A slow trance to focus inside. Beautiful melancholy, with determination running under it.
Folk dancing
Going to balls, turning with strangers until the room moves as one body. I come for the laughter and the brief feeling of a crowd thinking together.
Slow cinema
Films that trust you to wait. The long take as an act of respect.
Rainy city photography
Neon on wet asphalt. The city developing itself like film.
Matcha
Good powder does more than hold off tiredness. It sharpens focus and opens up how much of the world I can feel.
Process philosophy & Daoism
Change is the only constant; everything is mid-transition. Meaning is a process, with no clean start and no end.
On repeat lately
Otha, Jungle, Low Roar, Daphni: songs built to move to, with a thread of melancholy through the best of them.
the shelf rotates, and sometimes spirals back.