Friday open thread: recommendations
Nov. 24th, 2023 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12For this Friday open thread, I decided to do something a bit different. Rather than asking a prompting question, answering it, and then looking at everyone's responses, I wanted to make something that might enable people to get input from beyond their own Dreamwidth circle. The idea, in short, was to host a giant recs post.
Maybe you have just joined a new fandom, and are interested in fic recs. Perhaps you want to spend the weekend binge-watching a new TV show, but are feeling uninspired as to which one. Maybe you need to do some clothes shopping, but have very specific requirements.
Whatever the context, put it in the comments section here, and add any further details or information you feel would be helpful to get the recommendations you need. Recommendations can be as broad as you want — covering any form of media, fanworks, or consumer item. If there are any limitations (e.g. cost, availability on a specific streaming platform, published in a specific region, etc), please include them — and if making a recommendation, please bear people's specific limitations in mind. (E.g. if someone says it needs to be available on free-to-air Australian TV, don't recommend something only available on US Netflix, etc.)
Normally I keep these open thread posts pretty flexible, but for ease of navigation, please give your comment a title summarising what it's about (e.g. 'Baking recipes - gluten free and no dried fruit'; 'Horror novels available as ebooks in the UK';), and use the comment itself to provide further details. People can then add their recommendations as replies to the comment.
Please make as many requests as you like, but make a different comment for each request. As more comments come in, I will edit this post to link to each comment, enabling people to navigate to any request for which they'd like to make recommendations.
Updating with links to specific requests
If you have recommendations for any listed request, please reply to the relevant linked comment. I will continue to update this as more requests come in.
Recs for cosy Murderbot fic
Movie recommendations for mixed-age family Christmas
Bookbinding paper available in the EU
Danmei audiobooks in English, Spanish or German
Recs for books similar to Victoria Goddard's Nine Worlds books
Hearty vegetarian wintry recipes — no raw onion
I hope this post helps people find the things they want!
Maybe you have just joined a new fandom, and are interested in fic recs. Perhaps you want to spend the weekend binge-watching a new TV show, but are feeling uninspired as to which one. Maybe you need to do some clothes shopping, but have very specific requirements.
Whatever the context, put it in the comments section here, and add any further details or information you feel would be helpful to get the recommendations you need. Recommendations can be as broad as you want — covering any form of media, fanworks, or consumer item. If there are any limitations (e.g. cost, availability on a specific streaming platform, published in a specific region, etc), please include them — and if making a recommendation, please bear people's specific limitations in mind. (E.g. if someone says it needs to be available on free-to-air Australian TV, don't recommend something only available on US Netflix, etc.)
Normally I keep these open thread posts pretty flexible, but for ease of navigation, please give your comment a title summarising what it's about (e.g. 'Baking recipes - gluten free and no dried fruit'; 'Horror novels available as ebooks in the UK';), and use the comment itself to provide further details. People can then add their recommendations as replies to the comment.
Please make as many requests as you like, but make a different comment for each request. As more comments come in, I will edit this post to link to each comment, enabling people to navigate to any request for which they'd like to make recommendations.
Updating with links to specific requests
If you have recommendations for any listed request, please reply to the relevant linked comment. I will continue to update this as more requests come in.
Recs for cosy Murderbot fic
Movie recommendations for mixed-age family Christmas
Bookbinding paper available in the EU
Danmei audiobooks in English, Spanish or German
Recs for books similar to Victoria Goddard's Nine Worlds books
Hearty vegetarian wintry recipes — no raw onion
I hope this post helps people find the things they want!
Re: book recs?
Date: 2023-11-25 02:08 am (UTC)As
Re: book recs?
Date: 2023-11-25 02:19 am (UTC)I like: fantasy, worldbuilding, tikkun olam, found family, and joy.
Re: book recs?
Date: 2023-11-25 02:26 am (UTC)You may enjoy Laurie J. Marks' Elemental Logic quartet (begins with Fire Logic). It can be dark at times (it begins with colonisers doing a genocide, which sets the stakes of the series), but it absolutely hits worldbuilding, fantasy (the elemental logic it's named for is the magic system), found family (and some nice polyamory), and all the protags are out to try and better the world.
Re: book recs?
Date: 2023-11-25 10:27 am (UTC)