Service Orientation - FFA Post #315

[sunnymodffa]

Do you have suggestions for changes (that would make meme easier to navigate or understand for nonnies old, new, or equine) to the text rules & links section of the header part of each post? Do you have recommendations for changes/updates/clarifications to the information we provide in the personal and rules posts

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Canon Recs

[anonymous]

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Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

Inspired by a thread in the previous post. I'm fine with all media types.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

The "cozy fantasy" thread we had a few months ago (http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/68815.html?thread=324428751#t324428751) overlaps pretty well with this, I think, so you might find some good suggestions there.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

The first 3/4 of The Paladin by C.J. Cherryh fits. It's a low-magic or no-magic (depending on how you read it) fantasy set in a world inspired by ancient China, and is mostly about a young woman and an older man living on a mountain and training in martial arts. They go out on a revenge quest at the end, but even then most of that's a road trip.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

Mercedes Lackey's first two Valdemar books, Arrows of the Queen and Arrow's Flight. The big battle against evil doesn't happen until the third book in the trilogy. The first book is mostly about a Special Teenager From An Abusive Home coming to a magical school and learning that she's an important figure in the magical world, while taking classes and dealing with bullies. The second book is a road trip. While there are a couple of fights, they're for low stakes, and most of the plot is the heroine being snowed in in a cabin with a mentor fixing some of the problems they've uncovered in her magical education.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

DA

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

Maybe Steven Universe? It's a recent cartoon (11-minute episodes) about a young half-magical boy who is part of a team with three immortal adult women magical heroes; he lives with them and they sometimes relate to him in kind of a parental capacity

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

Jill Murphy's 'The Worst Witch'. Inept student goes to a magical boarding school and has inept adventures. There's a TV series too, which is less good IMO, partly because it introduces boys, but it's worth a glance.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

The manga Akagami no Shirayukihime. It's about a girl who flees to the neighbouring kingdom and becomes a pharmacist after her country's prince demands her to be his concubine. The characters do have adventures and there are some fights, but it's nothing like saving the world from doom or anything like that. It's a very slow series with lots of focus on the characters.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Re: Canon Recs - Fantasy slice-of-life

[anonymous]

The anime Natsume Yuujinchou was a joy.

Re: Canon Recs...Philip Purser-Hallard

[anonymous]

Has anyone read Philip Purser-Hallard's (and friends) "Tales of the City" stories/novels? I'm curious about hs upcoming Sherlock Holmes anthology, which takes place in the City of the Saved universe. I enjoyed his Holmes story in one of George Mann's anthologies, but I'd like to find out more about his multiverse fiction before I preorder Tales of the Great Detectives. Is it good? Okay? Interesting? Part of me thinks it sounds brilliant, but part of me is worried it's a pale imitation of PJF's Riverworld and Wold Newton stories, which I found a bit hit-or-miss, despite loving the concepts at play.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Can anyone rec any movies, TV eps, or books dealing with fictional school shootings? Specifically with scenes of the event itself, or the aftermath, rather than just the build up.

I've seen Elephant, The Life Before Her Eyes, the episodes of Cold Case, and read We Need to Talk About Kevin and that Picoult novel.

Cheers!

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Season 1 of American Horror Story. It's more a subplot than a main focus, but I thought it was interesting.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

The Devil's Mixtape by Mary Borsellino!

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Stephen King/Richard Bachman's Rage (also in the Bachman Books).

It's from the POV of the kid who holds his algebra class hostage after shooting two teachers.