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Recs (please give me them)
Dec. 18th, 2018 09:51 pm OK, anyone who knew me on LJ possibly already knows that I love recs. Specifically making them. I love reccing fic and I love reccing books. Sometimes I even like reccing music. My plan in the few days leading up to the new year, in the wake of the friending memes etc was to demonstrate this readiness to flog anything and everything to everyone like a cut-price salesman with too much stock.
And I'm going to. I have a list of ten books I've loved this year. Ten fics I loved. Ten songs that got me dancing.
And then I considered the obvious corollaries. Ten best films. Ten best TV shows. Ten best music videos. And not just came up short, but woefully short. I have completely fallen out of the habit of visual media by going back to that first/best comfort of books. I probably only watched ten films this year. T.V. shows wise I probably only watched five. Max. It's been a terrible year for finding new visual canons is what I'm saying.
So, before I start spamming with my recs for the things I love, I'd really love to hear the things you've enjoyed this year that involved actually watching them on the small or big screen. I can't promise I'll watch them (see above) but I am desperate for some new things, and willing to try. I'll give anything a go with only two minor caveats. One, I find it really difficult to watch long shows. If something has already been going for 100 episodes, I'm very unlikely to ever catch up. Two, prominent rape plotlines/backstories are not something I'm interested in.
And I'm going to. I have a list of ten books I've loved this year. Ten fics I loved. Ten songs that got me dancing.
And then I considered the obvious corollaries. Ten best films. Ten best TV shows. Ten best music videos. And not just came up short, but woefully short. I have completely fallen out of the habit of visual media by going back to that first/best comfort of books. I probably only watched ten films this year. T.V. shows wise I probably only watched five. Max. It's been a terrible year for finding new visual canons is what I'm saying.
So, before I start spamming with my recs for the things I love, I'd really love to hear the things you've enjoyed this year that involved actually watching them on the small or big screen. I can't promise I'll watch them (see above) but I am desperate for some new things, and willing to try. I'll give anything a go with only two minor caveats. One, I find it really difficult to watch long shows. If something has already been going for 100 episodes, I'm very unlikely to ever catch up. Two, prominent rape plotlines/backstories are not something I'm interested in.
