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Preferred Genres: science fiction, ergodic literature, urban fantasy (i.e. not high/historical fantasy), slice-of-life/coming-of-age, mystery, philosophical, intrigue, crime/autopsy, magical realism, comedy, poetry, horror themes (provided happy ending). I really like J-dramas (one season) that are focused on plot if you have a source, or really obscure-ish little animes.

DNW Genres: romantic comedy (romance in other genres is fine), angst, melodrama, historical fiction, period fiction, non-fiction/documentary, apocalypse/post-apocalypse

Preferred Media Types: text-based (third-person pov preferred) or video-based, short if visual (i.e. one season)

DNW Media Types: audio-only media (i.e. podcast), graphic novel (manga/manhwa/manhua are okay), video games that don't have at least one playthrough on YouTube (since I don't play, only watch)

General Likes: clever dialogue/banter, visually appealing (colour/composition) or textually appealing (prose style), intricate plot, 2LGBTQIA+ representation (especially aspec), ethnic diversity, friendship, happy ending, three-dimensional female characters, established relationships, queerplatonic relationships, philosophical musings

General DNWs: major character death, angst, explicit sexual content, unhappy ending, grim reality, systemic injustice, prison/justice system, racism, graphic gore, USA-centric view of the world, abuse/corporal punishment/dub-non-con, focus on politics/religion

Fandom Preferences: slash/femslash potential, genfic potential, completely optional but appreciated: prevalence of Blanket Statements (i.e. Transformative Works Policy), openness to podfic in fandom events (if the fandom is big enough to have events. Tiny fandoms/be-the-first fandoms are cool too!)

Requests for Content Warnings: anything that would fit even a bit in an Ao3 Archive Warning (following their definitions). I do not mind spoilers at all (I appreciated all the "tags".)

Examples of Media Enjoyed: Dennou Coil (anime), Check Please!, Studio Ghibli,
ACCA-13 (anime), Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak, Hyouka (anime), GOTH (light novel, manga, film), Good Omens, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book), Red, White, and Royal Blue, CLAMP (especially xxxHoLiC), Mars (manga), Diary of June (film), Ergo Proxy (anime), Chihayafuru (anime), the first season of Bakemonogatari, Steins;Gate, KADO: The Right Answer (anime), K (anime), Hozuki's Coolheadedness (anime), Midnight Occult Civil Servants (watched anime partway), The Perfect Insider (anime), Occultic;Nine, Eden of the East (anime), Natsume Yuujinchou (anime but haven't watched all), Mushishi (anime), Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (anime), Control (videogame playthrough), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (videogame playthrough), Wagnaria!! (anime), Durarara (watched anime partway), Another (anime and film), Tatami Galaxy (anime), Inception, Lemony Snicket (books), Blood+/Blood-C (anime), Hunter X Hunter (only watched first seasons), Carry On/Wayward Son, The Rook by Daniel O'Malley, I Want to go Home by Gordon Korman, Cloud Atlas, Lisey's Story/Insomnia by Steven King (only these two), Mind Transfer by Janet Asimov, The Replacement/The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff, Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell, Pushing Daisies, Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, Ouran High School Host Club (anime), Mr. Brain (J-drama), Monsters (J-drama), Bloody Monday (J-drama), I can hear your voice (K-drama), God's Quiz (K-drama), The House of Leaves, The Funeral Procession of K (manga)

Examples of Media to Avoid: Watership Down, Say "I love you" (anime), Shin Sekai Yori (anime), Puella Magi Madoka Magica (anime), Kimi ni Todoke (anime), Madeleine L'Engle, Anne Rice, SAW, The Office, Arrested Development, Anne of Green Gables, 50 Shades of Grey, Boys over Flowers (K-drama)

Examples of Fandoms with Fanworks I like (but I won't/will no longer consume the canon): Harry Potter, Hannibal, Schitt's Creek, MZDS/CQL, The Hobbit/LotR/Tolkien, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Daiya no Ace, Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basuke, Merlin (TV), Sherlock (TV), My Hero Academia, Bungo Stray Dogs, Star Wars, Death Stranding, Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X, The Raven Cycle, Shameless, Stargate Atlantis, X-men, Pern, Hamilton (production), Anita Blake books, Captive Prince, Suits, Dr. Who/Torchwood, The Magicians, The Witcher (video games only, not the show), Kingsman, Rivers of London, The Magnus Archives, Bond, Guardian, Jim Butcher books, Artemis Fowl (books), The Social Network, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Pacific Rim, DC/Smallville/etc., Marvel, All for the Game, Narnia, Stranger Things, IT, Elementary, The Mentalist, Lucifer, Damien, Silicon Valley, Sense8, Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood, The Vorkosigan Saga, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dexter (books and TV)

Streaming Services I Can Access: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, Funimation, Viki, Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube Premium, Spotify, Apple TV (whatever it's called). I'm happy to straight-out buy stuff too.

Languages I'm Comfortable With: For canon: anything with English subtitles (as a second choice, French, Spanish or German. Dutch/Italian/Portuguese in a very tight pinch.) For fanworks: English

Note: I have a really narrow corridor of canon-likes right now (sorry! it's a strange time!) so I'm totally okay with not receiving any canon-recs BUT I love getting into fanworks while being fandom-blind. So please take this as a request for either canons that fit my likes, or fandoms with fanworks (primarily fanfic) that fit my likes. I'm also cool with RPF fandoms.

Date: 2020-12-21 08:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadaras
A book you may appreciate is Gamechanger, by L. X. Beckett. It's near-future sci-fi that posits that we're actually fixing the environment we fucked up, we've figured out immersive VR games (and they're a big thing!), and oh maybe someone's trying to break the system we made to ensure we could fix the world?

Reasons you might enjoy it!
- One of the two lead characters is nonbinary
- Polyamory is socially normalized, and one of the lead characters is in a polyamorous family (with a child) at the beginning of the story—and still gets a romance arc with the other lead
- Said romance arc is rivals-to-friends-to-dating
- Cool stuff about the nature of AI and what makes something sentient
- I found it to have a really positive outlook on people and society, personally.


I think you also might want to check out the author Nicole Kornher-Stace, who has made it her life's work to publish books about friendship. Whether or not characters are explicitly aro-ace, she's writing as an aro-ace author and showing the kinds of relationships on-screen that she's interested in.

Date: 2021-01-03 06:44 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Thanks for the recs!! Gamechanger sounds 100% up my alley and I will definitely check it out. Nicole Kornher-Stace also sounds really awesome—I would absolutely love to read more friendship-centric books. Thank you so much!

Date: 2020-12-31 10:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] flowersforgraves
Hi bluedreaming,

I believe I've mentioned Dreaming of Sunshine in other contexts, but I think it may be something you enjoy! While it is written in first person, it's a weighty fic (clocking in at about 716,000 words) with an active recursive fandom. You don't need to be aware of Naruto to enjoy it, and in fact many of the participants in the twice-yearly recursive exchange (which includes podfic!) have never seen or read Naruto and only know the canon through Dreaming of Sunshine. If you are familiar with the canon: It's a self-insert original character fic, where the author has been reincarnated as Nara Shikako, twin sister of Nara Shikamaru, and takes Haruno Sakura's place on Team 7 with Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. DoS itself hits a lot of your likes (intimate friendships, philosophical musings, POV female character, banter, plot -- its tagline should be 'epic plotty gen'), and the fandom is strongly focused on gen, T-rated at most works. There are high-stakes moments, as well as serious arcs (including characters dealing with PTSD), but overall it's not an angsty work.

Date: 2021-01-03 06:46 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Thanks for the rec! I’ve seen the name come up but haven’t really been familiar with it (my familiarity with Naruto is purely in passing plus one or two fix-it fics) so I really appreciate knowing more about DoS. The details you touch on sound awesome!

Date: 2021-01-02 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hi, I have spent a while thinking about recs for you, and I would like to recommend the K-Drama "He is Psychometric" from 2019, about a boy who is psychometric, a girl who's father was framed for a huge apartment fire and their attempt to clear his name. HIStory 3: Trapped, a Taiwanese drama about a police officer who falls in love with a mafia boss (LGBTQIA relationship).
Both are on VIKI.

Date: 2021-01-03 06:49 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Thank you! These sound really intriguing (I’ve really enjoyed psychometric themes previously, and the LGBTQIA dimension of the second drama is intruiging) and I will look these up! Thanks for noting they’re on VIKI!

Date: 2021-01-02 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Sorry, posted comment too soon, there's also Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016), a K-Drama about a military general cursed with immortality trying to find love to break that curse. It's mainly romance and contains no romantic comedy elements.

Date: 2021-01-03 06:50 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Thank you for the additional rec! I will definitely check this out as well ☆彡

2 recs: away (2020) & the martian (2015)

Date: 2021-01-02 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] aanjehlaa
i have a possible rec for you!

title: away
genre: science fiction
media type: tv show (1 season)
source material: netflix
wikia/imdb: imdb
trailer: teaser | youtube
cast interviews: behind the scenes | interviews with jake hamilton

notes: this show only has one season because it was cancelled. however, the ending is pretty solid, with the majority of storylines rounded up enough to inspire fandom extension, but not feel like a cliff-hanger.

there's a bit of politics involved, because of where some of the astronauts are from, but it's not overwhelming.

although the entry into the show is a middle-upper class, white, american, cis-het family -- (mum, dad, daughter) -- the cast is diverse, and you get to see the background of all the characters.

there is a canonically LGBTQIA+ relationship and characters. they don't quite get a happily ever after, because one of them is in space. but, they do get a possibly happy ending.

essentially, this show is about family, and questions how far people should go in regards to "loyalty". 'space' is the background, the 'mission' is the situation, and 'family' is the overarching theme.

despite how tense the show can be, there are no major character deaths.

~

thinking of this show reminded me of a film, based on a book. so, here is a second rec!

title: the martian
genre: science fiction
media type: film (based on a book)
source material: netflix
wikia/imdb: imdb
trailer: youtube
tumblr recs: gifset by vivenvalentino

notes: admittedly, i couldn't finish this film when i first tried to watch it. but, then i came back to it late last year because of donald glover, and thought it was quite good!

at 2h 21m, it's a long film, but it doesn't actually feel long because of the various characters you get to meet and the fact that it's focused on solving a problem.

essentially, this film is about survival, but you get to see ethical and moral dilemmas, too. (akin to away.) i haven't read the book by andy weir, so i don't know how much it's true to the original source material.

off the top of my head, i don't recall any canon LGBTQIA+ characters in this, so it's likely there's none, or it's vague enough to not stand out. but, there is a slightly diverse cast!

it's tense for a minute, but there are no major character deaths.

Re: 2 recs: away (2020) & the martian (2015)

Date: 2021-01-03 06:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Thank you! These both sound very intriguing and I really appreciate the note about no major character deaths. I also appreciate the notes about the diversity of the cast for both, and the LGBTQIA+ relationship in the first. The note about the possibly happy ending is also really appreciated! I will certainly check these out.

Date: 2021-01-03 10:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lets_call_me_lily
Hello! coming to you with some recommendations... I hope that there's something new here for you 💜 and that this is the kind of sci-fi you like! In no particular order, some recs:

BOOKS
- Listen I'm probably preaching to the choir here but, Terry Pratchett? He co-wrote Good Omens and his Discworld books (of which there are many) are fantastic, though YMMV - if you don't like footnotes, you won't like his style. i Iove his sense of humour.
- Wayfarers series & To be taught if fortunate (novella) / Becky Chambers (Queer relationships! Exploration of space and different cultures within it,with a focus on the characters.)
- Binti / Nnedi Okorafor (POC space novella, has two sequels, protag is based on the Himba people) and decides to leave Earth to go to an intergalactic university)
- Definitely second The Martian, both book and film!

TV Series
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - quite a light-hearted murder mystery series set in late 1920s Australia, not so great on the racial diversity though. Fun, with great costumes and some good female representation from the main protag Miss Fisher (who is neither virgin nor mother nor crone), her foil (and maid) Dotty, and Doctor MacMillan who pops up as best friend. There are deaths, but they're not the main characters, and it's not too bloody or gory iirc. On netflix.
- Leverage - found family heist series, again it's fun and quite Robin Hoodesque. There's an almost canon OT3? Amazon Prime (I don't have Prime so not 100% sure but google tells me so). Set in the US, one POC in the main cast.
- Firefly - space western! Unfortunately cancelled by TPB after a season, but there's Serenity the movie sequel(was on Netflix... don't think it is any longer but that could be just my region. Amazon Prime seems to win again) There are two POC in the main cast.

Date: 2021-02-21 09:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Hello! I apologize that I missed this; I thought I'd turned on tracked comments!

Thanks for the recs! I have seen Serenity a few years back (and enjoyed it). I really appreciate it!

correction to my language-use

Date: 2021-02-21 09:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Note: This is clearly after the fact, but I used the word "blind" in a way that I don't think I should have, so the sentence should read "...BUT I love getting into fanworks while [not being familiar with the canon]."

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