Eric M. Dillon
Appalachian Digital Humanist
Things I Like
Academic interests: game studies, internet aesthetics, Appalachian studies, digital humanities, adaptation studies
Television shows: WandaVision, Agatha All Along, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Summer Hikaru Died
Films: Jennifer’s Body, Valley of the Dolls (1967), Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Truman Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Ex Machina, Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Literature: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967), Crapalachia, “Franchise” (1955)
Videogames: WILL: A Wonderful World, Mouthwashing, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995), RimWorld, Zoombinis (1996), Detroit: Become Human, The Sims 2, The Rise of the Golden Idol, Until Then (2024), Sanitarium, Hypnospace Outlaw, Remember Me (2013), Who’s Lila?, Team Fortress 2, Toontown Rewritten, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward… among many, many others.
Words: esoteric, turnabout, roundabout, tchotchke, atelier, bricolage, ephemeral, lethargic, ludic, paradox, tangible, algorithm, computation, avarice, luxury, vanity, ego, utopian, chromatic, scholastic