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Username: acequeenking

Preferred Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Epic Poetry

DNW Genres: None

Preferred Media Types: Any

DNW Media Types: None

General Likes: an emphasis on families of the f'ed up variety (ex: the skywalker family, the main family in Supergiant's Hades) -- particularly when the situation isn't black and white (ie one character is not exclusively evil/another is exclusively good), characters who are NOT human but interact with humans (ex: Dr. in Dr. Who, any god with mortals) and may behave in ways that are beyond mortal comprehension, haunted houses, explorations of afterlife/multiple lifetimes, star-crossed lovers, female monsters/explorations of feminity in monsters, resurrection but changed/came back wrong resurrections, new explorations of fiction classics in modern times (ex: The Scarlet Letter->Easy A, the myth of Orpheus/Eurydice->Hadestown, etc.), anything and everything mythology, space politics, cooking shows/web shows

General DNWs: torture porn horror (ex: SAW franchise), Scat/Urine/Vomitplay, anything focusing exclusively on sexual violence on a child or excessive violence toward a child (a slap or children playfighitng or the like is fine; breaking bones or worse, I'd prefer a warning)

Fandom Preferences: I'd love a fandom that has a fair amount of love for female characters (femslash or not), but honestly I'm just looking to to expand my taste and find new canons in general.

Requests for Content Warnings: anything involving sexual assault on people under 18, super gory violence, heavy focus on animal cruelty/torture

Examples of Media Enjoyed: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Hadestown, Hades, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Space Channel 5, Yakuza, Tekken, Persona/Shin Megami Tensei games, Shadow Hearts, Final Fantasy, Star Wars: Original/Prequel trilogy, Star Trek (all of them but DS9 is my favorite), Greek mythology, Roman mythology, etruscan mythology, any mythology tbh, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Sorcerer to the Crown series, Hexate series, Sabrina: the Teenage Witch (both series), Stranger Things, Discworld (especially the Death! and Guards! series), Evil, The Haunting of Hill House/Bly Manor, Rome, Game of Thrones, Nier:Automata, Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile series, Suikoden series, Dishonored series, Crazyhead, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Parks and Rec, the Good Place, any and every cooking show on the internet I can find (PBS, Salt/Fat/Acid/Heat, Good Eats, Bon Appetit, Historical Kitchen)

Examples of Media to Avoid: SAW/Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff - I like my horror more spooky than gory, anything really long (I just don't have the time to watch 700+ episodes of a series anymore)

Streaming Services I Can Access: Hulu, Amazon, Disney, CBS, Netflix, HBO, Showtime, Spotify, Youtube (but not Youtube Red)

Languages I'm Comfortable With: I can watch/read English, Spanish, Italian but I'll watch anything with subtitles in one of those languages

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If you like horror and female monsters/explorations of feminity in monsters, you might like We Know The Devil

We Know the Devil is a short visual novel (~1.5-3 hours, depending in how fast you read). Overachieving Jupiter, trouble-making Neptune and shy and awkward Venus are sent to a Christian Summer camp for troubled teens, which tries to untrouble the teens with a combination of the great outdoors, hard work, guitar backed sermons... and sending teams of kids into the woods to meet and defeat the Devil. It's magical realism/psychological horror/religious horror with great atmosphere and music, dialogue that is deep and feels like the midnight conversations you had when you are 14. It is also as a work really interested in themes of monstrosity and being the other and monstrosity-as-metaphor.

The fandom is small but very enthusiastic about its female characters.

As a warning though: there is some violence, and the main characters do get injured. There is also some body horror, but it's less gory and more eldritch.

I wanted to recommend the book Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson to you! You said that you both love Greek mythology and Epic Poetry and if you like those then you'll LOVE this. It's a modern adaptation of the myth of Geryon, which is both a novel AND a poem (its so beautiful). I'm not even into Greek mythology on its own and this book makes me go absolutely buck wild with how fantastic it is. The descriptions are so beautiful and the way Anne Carson writes makes me go just a little bit feral. If you like Greek mythology i would generally just recommend basically anything that Anne Carson has ever written? But this book in particular.

Ace,

I just finished listening to The Strange Case of Starship Iris. It's an audio fiction podcast that ran 10 episodes. It's set in space in 2189 and the main cast are space smugglers, so that should give you a tell on the vibe. There are queer and enby characters, some fun worldbuilding and in-world languages, plus lots of space adventures. It's light on romance, but I would say the c-plot is romance, and there is a nice established relationship. There are over 70 fics for it, but I haven't read any yet. The transcripts are here.

For your likes - this is mostly female characters - and a female ship captain! Also lots of grey and an alien character who's race is supposed to hate Humans and vice versa, but they're a valued member of the crew and an amazing pilot!

For warnings, one of the characters has a pretty rough backstory, so its not so much on screen harm to a child, but briefly edging around relived trauma.

-Glasses

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Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson [book]

Space Queers!