Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

[thefourthvine]

I've been trying del.icio.us for a while, and I've come to the conclusion - well, it's nice to have all my bookmarks resident on the web. And it's nice to be able to put everything up there. But - well, okay. It makes me not want to do actual recommendations sets, and that's kind of why I have this journal, and it's the thing I love most. So that

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[thefourthvine]

Invader Zim! Not quite anime, but all awesome.

*heads over to Netflix*

*reads summary*

*blinks*

Well, Invader Zim wins at unexpected. Also, Netflix thinks BB will like it, too. I have to respect any series that is somehow linked (in Netflix's recommendations system, anyway) to Red Dwarf, Trigun, Farscape, and Spirited Away.

*adds to queue*

If only the world could know *exactly* what went into "Just As Required"'s being written for me, you all would think that I had *almost* earned such a wondrous story. But not quite. I'm still over the moon about it.

*interested*

I thought it was just, you know, for your general fabulousness. Did you have to save the universe, too? Because that story is good enough that it's totally worth a universe rescue or two.

Obviously, you should write a fearless, searing expose: "Behind the Scenes of 'Just As Required': Passion, Heroism, Zeal, and the Occasional Musical Interlude."

*looks hopeful*

[ziplocless]

4. My favourite is who_daily. A daily roundup of (it seems) all the Doctor Who links on LJ, this one can get very long though. I also like ds_weekly, farscape_weekly, hl_flash and despatches (age of sail).

[thefourthvine]

I already had despatches, of course. Age of Sail cannot be denied. And ds_weekly, because Ray and Fraser will always be one of my very happy places. But I had never heard of the Farscape or HL ones. Excellent.

*adds*

[thefourthvine]

And, of course, the Doctor Who one. I knew I was forgetting something.

*adds again*

[lalejandra]

I was really really really dubious about One Tree Hill when ethrosdemon first tried to get estrella30 and me to watch it--but then I watched it. If for no other reason, you should watch it because the dialogue is at the same time true to the way people, especially teenagers, really speak--and isn't annoying the way people sometimes are. The characters are deftly drawn without seeming two-dimensional. Moira Kelly! (But I'm only on episode #7, so I might not be the best judge.)

[thefourthvine]

*thoughtful*

Do you think it's still something I might like (and I refer here to FF, not the actual show; if I decide to start reading OTH, Best Beloved will be doing the watching of it) if I, in general, am not too keen on teenagers? (I mean, I acknowledge that it's a phase we all must go through, and teenagers have my complete and total sympathy. But I way overdrew my account at the Adolescent Angst and Drama Savings Bank in my own teen years - still paying it off as we speak - so I tend to avoid teenagers in fiction. We're always the most judgemental people who are a lot like we used to be, right? Wow. I really hope that's not just me.)

[lalejandra]

Hm. In that case, no--probably not. Right now, according to ethrosdemon, most of the OTH fic sucks--and I can't see that anyone who'd start writing in it (her, me, estrella30, um, maybe some other people I don't know) would take it to a place where it's more like dS or SGA or SV or something, with the crack and the futurefic. So, in conclusion, no. Le sigh!

[flambeau]

I'm not very helpful on useful stuff like firewalls and spam filters, alas. My ISP has a great spam filter, so basically I never have to think about it.

But!

5, A bunch of stuff in last month's Jeeves & Wooster recs at crack_van.

6, Does it have to be just one? I love travel books, and would rec Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed to just about anyone (there's a handy both-in-one Penguin pocket edition, too), and lately I've been rereading Wilde's Essays and Lectures (because I was rereading the plays and somehow I mind less being lectured when it's actually lectures), and Umberto Eco's How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (this one recced with a slight question mark because I've no idea what the translation to English is like, but I have no reason to think it shouldn't be good *g*), and Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading (the act, not the place), and Schindler's and Morton's travel books, and also a bunch of stuff in Swedish that isn't translated, alas. Oh, and Mark Kurlansky's book about the history of cod

[out_there]

Oh, god, yes, she's right about the anime. I can't vouch for Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, Escaflowne or Wolf's Rain, but the rest of those are damn good (so I'd assume that entire list is worth watching).

[thefourthvine]

A bunch of stuff in last month's Jeeves & Wooster recs at crack_van.

Ooo! Right! Last month I was totally swamped with work, so I didn't get a chance to read much, but I very much meant to go back and read those. In other words, thank you for providing a much-needed backup for my highly unreliable memory.

Read Mary McCarthy and the Wilde, but the Eco book sounds innnnteresting. As does A History of Reading.

Clearly, you should be recommending all the stuff you read to me. The stuff that's in English, I mean; Swedish is a fine language, and I hear it's very popular with moose, but I don't speak it. *sad*

Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Full Metal Alchemist, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin, Cardcaptor Sakura, Bleach, Slayers, Here is Greenwood, Yami no Matsuei, Escaflowne, Wolf's Rain.*thoughtful

[out_there]

Something Best Beloved should watch. Bonus points if it's anime!

I say Full Metal Alchemist because, yeah, I don't care if everyone else in fandom's already seen it, I only just started watching it on Wednesday and through a strong determination and hours staring at a computer screen am three-quarters through the 51 episodes and *desperately* wanting to know what happens next.

It's got magic. It's got anime humour. It's got Heroes on a Quest. It's also got more adult themes of government, rationals of war, and the horrible things that people will do to acheive their aims (either knowing or not knowing the consequences and costs).

It's also got continuityThat gets bolded because finding an anime series where the character met in episode four turns out to be met again in episode 26, proving part of the governments lies and still hinting at other truths we don't yet know, is rare as all hell. This is a series where I'm paying attention to all of the tertiary characters because any of them could show up again later and it could *

[lwdagreat]

Whee - I just posted my rec, and laughed to see I'd been beaten to it - although I must say you articulated the reasons why it's such a good show much better than I ever could. So once I again I second - watch Full Metal Alchemist :)

[out_there]

And yet you could explain the characters -- which is a bit beyond me. I get caught up trying to explain literally *everyone* and no-one can follow my meaning.

[thefourthvine]

*thoughtful*

I'm not sure if Best Beloved has seen FMA or not. But you make a very compelling argument, so...

*provisionally adds to list*