Nature
Ever since I was a young child I loved the nature around me - the plants and rocks in my family's garden and backyard, various bugs hopping around and hiding under the rocks, birds singing in the trees, and even family pets we took care of. One of my first more "serious" books was, in fact, a nature atlas describing Central Europe's flora and fauna... which has several pages scribbled over with wonky doodles. Damn it, little me!
Fast forward through my elementary and high school years, I loved biology lessons. More specifically, zoology lessons because botany was always boring to me (still had to cram it for finals, ugh...).
Speaking of zoology, learning about the natural history of our world's fauna can be a very fascinating pastime - in fact, dinosaurs are one of my favorite groups of animals! And yes, this includes modern birds as well, not just the Mesozoic creatures. Birds and arthropods have always fascinated me, from just looking at them and reading about groups of these animals to even handling them myself... and curing my mom from arachnophobia.
Music
Let's talk about music, shall we?
My music taste in its current form can be traced back to my early childhood, with my parents influencing it - both were big rock and punk fans at the time and still are. Sprinkle it with radio/MTV hits and you have a basis for my music taste at the time... but let's discuss more current stuff.
VISUAL KEI
My first contact with visual kei (or Japanese rock in general) was through various memes I looked up on Polish meme sites in early 2010s as a kid, but dismissed those as just some random bands (I even had a misconception that the GazettE's members were all women sans Ruki xD) until 2018/19 when I stumbled upon Dir En Grey... and then the floodgates opened.
Right now I adore the visual kei style very much and find it as one of my core inspirations for my works. Of course my favorite band deriving from that style is Dir En Grey (might not count for some but hey, the began as pure vkei), other favorites include the GazettE, DADAROMA, Kaneto-Juusei, The Piass and some others.
The rambles will go on... ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ