Recbox for WolffyLuna

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Username: WolffyLuna

Preferred Genres: Sci fic (esp space opera and military sci fi), fantasy, romance

DNW Genres: First person shooter video games, episodic series where events re-set to zero after every episode.

Preferred Media Types: Books, visual novels, video games, short animated series (~12 episodes or less), podcasts.

DNW Media Types: Live action tv series or movies.

General Likes: I love media with "I did not expect that, but I should have totally guessed that was coming!" twists. Media I can really sink my teeth into and analyse, either from a theme perspective or a "who is the killer?" perspective. Characters with traumatic backstories, explorations of trauma in general. Worldbuilding. Queer characters. Villains with sympathetic-but-not-necessarily-good justifications for their actions. Action scenes. Characters who cannot be together romantically for [insert reason here]. Tragedies. Bittersweet endings. 'Earn your happy ending.' Badass women. 'Shippy' moments and romantic comedy elements.

General DNWs: Unplanned pregnancy as a major plot point. Plots that revolve entirely around abusive relationships (either romantic or familial.) In visual media, high amounts of blood/gore/torture scenes.

Fandom Preferences: I have a slight preference for fandoms with femslash potential and a reasonable exchange presense, but it's a slight preference, and I'd still be interested in male-heavy canons or canons without much of an exchange presence.

Requests for Content Warnings: Torture in written works, underage sex, rape in general.

Examples of Media Enjoyed: The Machineries of Empire Series by Yoon Ha Lee, Warhammer 40k, Mo Du by Priest, Mo Dao Zu Shi by Moxiang Tongxiu, Sarazanmai, Revolutionary Girl Utena, My Next Life As A Villainess, The Tensorate Series by JY Yang, The Magnus Archives, The Adventure Zone, The Silmarillion, The Reluctant Royals series by Alyssa Cole, We Know the Devil

Examples of Media to Avoid: Most of my examples of media to avoid are covered by either my genre or medium DNWs.

Streaming Services I Can Access: Youtube Red, Australian Netflix (not all things on American netflix are on there), Cruchyroll, Animelab.

Languages I'm Comfortable With: English

Comments

[shadaras]

Have you read The Expanse? (it's also a TV show, but the books by James S.A. Corey came first.) It's a great solar-system level sci-fi series with a lot of great worldbuilding about what it's like to be in space, political divisions between people, and also some weird alien stuff. The first book is a bit frustrating because it's the part with the biggest focus on white-man-pain, but if you can push through that there's a ton of diverse characters to love.

(Gideon the Ninth is also very in your wheelhouse, but I assume you've heard of that via exchanges and the like?)

I think you'd also like Can Ci Pin by priest, if you haven't already read it. Galaxy-spanning sci-fi, lots of cool action, a fair amount of political scheming, the main leads spend literal years separated for ~reasons~ (but are both very strong and powerful people in their own way, if kind of morally compromised), everyone's fucked up for various reasons. (It's dude-heavy, unsurprisingly, because it's danmei, but there are some cool women in there.) (cw for a plague arc that gets resolved safely, and there's some stuff that happens that can distinctly be read as torture but I can't remember if it was explicitly framed as torture.)

[wolffyluna]

Thank you for the recs! I've read the first book of the Expanse, but I'll go check out the second one!

I also haven't read Can Ci Pin yet, so thank you for the recommendation for that!