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snowflake_challenge prompt into today's open thread, since it's a fun prompting question:
Share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I always feel a bit weird doing these, because all my fandoms of the heart are fandoms-of-one, the sorts of things that I'd be lucky to get given as gifts for Yuletide, and they have potentially offputting elements (teenage protagonists, a writing style people will either love or hate, divisive relationship dynamics, and so on). So I can talk about why I love them forever, but assume that no one will take me up on the recommendation, or not be hooked by the same things that first hooked me. A lot of these canons are things that I've loved unstintingly for three decades; they're a part of me — they've seeped into my bones, into the story I tell about myself.
I've written a lot of primers/manifestos/gushing walls of emotion over the years!
Adèle Geras's Girls in the Velvet Frame (a widowed Jewish mother and her five daughters living their lives in genteel poverty in 1910s Jerusalem; a celebration of the quiet, powerful, ordinary lives of girls and women).
Kate Elliott's Crossroads trilogy (epic fantasy which interrogates the trope of the rightful, chosen, heroic saviour ruler, and pulls an incredible trick on both the reader and my favourite character in the books)
Bonus post about my favourite character from this series
Sophia McDougall's Romanitas trilogy (dystopian alt-history series in which the Roman Empire never fell, but instead spread to cover half the world, in which a band of misfits and dispossessed people (some with supernatural abilities) take on the might of empire)
Bonus post about my favourite character from this trilogy — my second-favourite fictional character of all time, the one, the only Noviana Una, the character depicted on my default icon
Catherine Jinks's Pagan Chronicles (children's historical fiction set during the Third Crusade in Jerusalem, and later in medieval Languedoc)
Babylon Berlin (historical fiction TV series — part crime drama, part political/espionage thriller, part devastating portrait of a very specific time and place — set in the Weimar Republic)
Trawling back through my tags, the only thing I'm surprised to find missing is Galax Arena. I guess at some point I'll have to write a primer for that.
What about you? Feel free to link back to your own posts if you've already answered this prompt for Snowflake.
snowflake_challenge prompt into today's open thread, since it's a fun prompting question:Share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I always feel a bit weird doing these, because all my fandoms of the heart are fandoms-of-one, the sorts of things that I'd be lucky to get given as gifts for Yuletide, and they have potentially offputting elements (teenage protagonists, a writing style people will either love or hate, divisive relationship dynamics, and so on). So I can talk about why I love them forever, but assume that no one will take me up on the recommendation, or not be hooked by the same things that first hooked me. A lot of these canons are things that I've loved unstintingly for three decades; they're a part of me — they've seeped into my bones, into the story I tell about myself.
I've written a lot of primers/manifestos/gushing walls of emotion over the years!
Adèle Geras's Girls in the Velvet Frame (a widowed Jewish mother and her five daughters living their lives in genteel poverty in 1910s Jerusalem; a celebration of the quiet, powerful, ordinary lives of girls and women).
Kate Elliott's Crossroads trilogy (epic fantasy which interrogates the trope of the rightful, chosen, heroic saviour ruler, and pulls an incredible trick on both the reader and my favourite character in the books)
Bonus post about my favourite character from this series
Sophia McDougall's Romanitas trilogy (dystopian alt-history series in which the Roman Empire never fell, but instead spread to cover half the world, in which a band of misfits and dispossessed people (some with supernatural abilities) take on the might of empire)
Bonus post about my favourite character from this trilogy — my second-favourite fictional character of all time, the one, the only Noviana Una, the character depicted on my default icon
Catherine Jinks's Pagan Chronicles (children's historical fiction set during the Third Crusade in Jerusalem, and later in medieval Languedoc)
Babylon Berlin (historical fiction TV series — part crime drama, part political/espionage thriller, part devastating portrait of a very specific time and place — set in the Weimar Republic)
Trawling back through my tags, the only thing I'm surprised to find missing is Galax Arena. I guess at some point I'll have to write a primer for that.
What about you? Feel free to link back to your own posts if you've already answered this prompt for Snowflake.
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Date: 2024-01-16 12:05 pm (UTC)