Recbox for Shadaras

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Username: Shadaras

Preferred Genres: Scifi and Fantasy (I like all subgenres within them!). I've been reading a lot of cnovels lately, too; mostly unlimited flow and things that care more about plot than romance.

DNW Genres: I was trying to think of genres I'd DNW and kept coming up with exceptions, so I'm not gonna DNW any genres at all. Sitcoms

Preferred Media Types: Books! I am happy to have recs for visual stuff too but I tend to read faster than I consume any other form of media.

DNW Media Types: Youtube. Audio-only content (if it has transcripts, then feel free to rec it).

General Likes: Queer stuff (especially polyam, bi, aro, and ace! I like both f/f and m/m.), competence porn, politics, characters being clever, military stuff (war and strategy and tactics), worldbuilding, philosophy, religion (especially when it's not Christian/Christian-expy), linguistics/fun things with language, anthropology, science!, plotty stories, gen shenanigans/team as family/found family, genre bending/blending, mysteries/casefic, romance so long as it's not the only plot

General DNWs: Anything to do with Nazis

Fandom Preferences: No preferences. (like, 90% of time I know nothing about the fandoms for media I consume?)

Requests for Content Warnings: Rape, transphobia, blood magic, extensive descriptions of self-harm or suicidal ideation

Examples of Media Enjoyed: Star Wars (movies, cartoons, legends EU, new EU, video games...), Modao Zushi (I like all the adaptations too), everything Max Gladstone has written (Ruin of Angels and Empress of Forever are special highlights), Quanzhi Gaoshou/The King's Avatar (Hudie Lan; I like the novel better than the adaptations), Tamora Pierce's works (Protector of the Small and Emelan especially), Nirvana in Fire (TV), Friends at the Table (Podcast), The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (Zen Cho), anything Neon Yang has written (originally published under J. Y. Yang), The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison), Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir), The Coldfire Trilogy (C. S. Friedman), Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin), Atomic Blonde (movie), The Old Guard (movie), Battlestar Galactica (2003), The Expanse (TV), The Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
[if you want more ideas of what I've consumed and like, look at the stuff I've written fic for at Shadaras]

Examples of Media to Avoid: so I understand why this section is here but also I have no idea what to say about it because media that I don't like just kind of bounces out of my head because it just wasn't for me?

Streaming Services I Can Access: Paid: Netflix, VRV. Free: Anything that streams to the USA.

Languages I'm Comfortable With: English (including English subtitles and English translations)

Comments

[wolffyluna]

You might like The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee! It's a military space opera novel trilogy, plus some short stories.

Captain Kel Cheris can escape disgrace by re-taking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, and her best chance is by allying with the traitorous undead general Shuos Jedao. But there's a question of how much she can trust Jedao, and whether taking the Fortress is worth the price--

The series has some great space battles, and really creative worldbuilding (including sufficiently advanced math being indistinguishable from magic and a really interesting political system). The politicking in the series is also great, especially in the later books where it takes some more prominence. And while it doesn't have a mystery plot in the traditional sense, the first two books do have over arching myseries. (The first book's mystery being "how trustworthy is Jedao?" and "Why is Jedao the way he is?")

Also, multiple queer characters! Including Cheris and Jedao, and some of the characters introduced in later books are queer also.

Content warnings: rape, suicide, some transphobia. Depending on how you define it, there is some blood magic and self harm too.

[shadaras]

I've read those! I keep meaning to go back and reread them (and read the short stories/novellas that go with them). :) So: You are absolutely correct that I would like them, because I do!