Recbox for beanboy

[beyondthealgorithm_mod]

Username: beanboy

Preferred Genres: fiction, poetry, feminist & queer stuff, action

DNW Genres: horror

Preferred Media Types: books, tv shows

DNW Media Types: none

General Likes: feel-good, women with swords, found family, explicit queer & BIPOC representation

General DNWs: animal harm / death, rape, ambiguous endings

Fandom Preferences: all of the things listed and just new content?

Requests for Content Warnings: rape and anything non-consensual (even if its consensual noncon), animal harm

Examples of Media Enjoyed: Community, Pacific Rim, The Queen's Gambit, Letterkenny

Examples of Media to Avoid: None

Streaming Services I Can Access: Hulu, Netflix

Languages I'm Comfortable With: English

Comments

Rec: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

[nowrunalong]

Hi there, beanboy!

I feel like I’m about to rec you something that is popular enough you have likely already decided whether you will or will not watch it, BUT. It touches on basically all of the things you mention liking, so JUST IN CASE you have no opinion on this one yet, I'll try to sway you!

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is an animated series on Netflix. The show is complete at 5 seasons. It is a kids cartoon, but I think it’s easily enjoyed by adults, too. I mean, I enjoyed it! :’D Girl finds magic sword that turns her into a superhero, and then fights evil! With friends! (But evil isn’t always black-and-white.)

It’s got a diverse cast of characters (and the voice acting cast is pretty diverse, too, which I think is uncommon for American animated series), including more queer characters than you can shake a stick at. Superpowered princess wives! Adorable gay dads who work in a library! Nonbinary shapeshifter character who uses they/them pronouns! Main ship is F/F friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers! And even more characters than that! There are literally too many to list off the top of my head.

No content warnings here as it is a kids show. It does deal with some serious topics including some mind control scenes, but due to its rating, there is no graphic or sexual content at all. Also, one of the characters does acquire a cat, but iirc nothing harmful ever happens to them within the show. <3

All-in-all, it's a feel-good story about friends, and family, and families of choice, and how good friendships actually require that people put in effort, and how everyone deserves to be loved and to be treated with respect, and ALSO being queer is super chill and normal. (I'm SO thrilled that shows such as this one are being created for kids, especially. I know it would have been such a positive influence on my own life while I was growing up.)

It’s full of action! It's full of heart! I highly recommend it! :D

[flowersforgraves]

Hi there,

I have a couple books to recommend!

1) Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga. This is a modern fantasy set in the fictional country of Kekon, where jade is power and family is everything. It's been described as a crossover between a Hong Kong gangster film and a political drama, and I would strongly recommend it if you like complex power dynamics, well-considered worldbuilding, and strong women. While it's a fantasy setting, the books touch on race within the setting in a really powerful way, including one of the protagonists struggling with his mixed-race identity. The same protagonist is also gay and in the second book has an ongoing relationship with another young man. The series also explores violence and anger and power, and how each can manifest differently. The first book is called Jade City, and while it's not exactly feel-good, I think it's a strong story that you might appreciate.

2)Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse. This book is post-apocalyptic (the current USA has been flooded and dissolved) in a sense, but it's really more about the ending of apocalypse in a lot of ways. The story follows Maggie, who is a Diné (Navajo) monster hunter. She uses her cultural heritage and connections to fight against both outside and internal threats, and is a really strong exploration of an Indigenous future. For content warnings, there are mentions / implications of rape, but nothing 'onscreen.' There's also some animal harm/death in the context of hunting for food, and the trickster god Coyote is involved in some fights in his animal form. In book 2, there is offscreen dubiously consensual body modification, though I'm not sure that's exactly what you wanted CWed. Please feel free to come talk to me about this series if you have any other questions!

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to recommend Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (Comic: 1983) W.I.T.C.H (Comic: 2001-2012), Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga: 2001-2003), Stargirl (TV Show: 2020), Young Avengers (Comic: 2005), Anything by CLAMP, and Motherland: Fort Salem (TV Show: 2020), as all have either powerful female characters, queer representation, BIPOC representation or all three.

[lets_call_me_lily]

Hiya, not sure if you've already come across her, but Tamora Pierce?
Her Tortall universe spans 3 quartets, each with a different female protagonist (the first one is more sword, the second is more sorcery). She also has the Emelan universe, which has a different magic set-up, and multiple quartets there, too - that universe has an even stronger found family vibe. She's got some queer characters, but they're not so explicit. Fair dinkum, some people don't like the fact that a lot of her relationships have quite large age gaps; she sees it as being part of the medievalish era that her writing is set in.

Hopefully she's new to you and you enjoy!