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I'm never sure whether something influenced my tastes, or just happened to be the first example I encountered of a thing I was already predisposed to like. Like, I have always loved period works about repressed girls with homoerotic passionate feelings, and the earliest example I can remember is Anne of Green Gables, but I think I'm into that dynamic because I grew up as a repressed queer afab person, and if I hadn't read Anne of Green Gables there'd have been Jane Eyre etc.

I can think of plenty of things which influence my creations though. I imprinted as a child on the surreal 70s English humour of Monty Python, The Goon Show etc and it still shows up in my writing.

My mother had a bunch of Ivan Bilibin illustrated fairytales and those definitely influenced me as an artist. I've always had a soft spot for Russian fairytales, too, so I guess it did influence my tastes a little.