DE: Canon share

[bjornwilde]

Have an online source for your canon, ideally a legal one? How about a new canon you've consumed that folks must know about? Now's your chance to share!

Comments

[gredya]

AAAAH thank you for getting the DE today. I was so busy fretting over all the holiday stuff I need to get done that the DE completely slipped my mind. (but i did the holiday stuff, yay, christmas and hanukkah are a GO this year)

[bjornwilde]

Not a problem. I hope the stuff gets sorted quickly and properly!

ETA: And I fail at reading the whole of your comment. I'm glad things got done!

[bjornwilde]

Touji's canon, the Tokyo Ravens anime, is available to stream online at Funimation. I'm pretty sure it is free, but my work's firewall seems to be blocking it, so I can't be sure. The original lite novels have been translated by a fan here, in case you watch the anime and are hungry for more; the anime ends at about the halfway point of the novel series to date.

In new canons I've been consuming, Bitter Spirits has drawn me in with just 50 minutes of the audiobook, despite the paranormal romance of the book (I usually have low tolerance for romance). Roaring 20's with magic and a spirit medium as one of the main protagonists? Not to mention it's taking place in San Francisco? I never stood a chance.

Another fun urban fantasy with a strong golden age comics/pulp feel, is the Grimnoir series by Larry Correia. Think urban fantasy with Lovecraftian elements, set in the late 1930's, with action akin to Michael Bay's films. No links for free versions of the books though. Maybe check out your local library?

Izana's canon is on Netflix, both seasons of the anime. One warning though, the first season has flashes of fan service, but the second season is dripping with it. The manga, which goes beyond the anime in story, is available on not quite legal sources or Amazon, Google Play, and Comixology.
More later maybe.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's entire canon (well, almost -- Tri's not yet complete, and I don't think Crunchyroll has any of the four tie-in movies, not even the one with the Sinister Banjo Music) is available for free and legally at Crunchyroll -- but only if you're American.

(There are also a plethora of more legally grey ways to watch it, which might be one's best chance if you're not American. Or if you want to watch the subbed version of 01 and 02 instead of the dub, although the dub is excellent.)

[i_ship_it]

That is one of the nicer parts about my pups being from YouTube canons. Here's Dodger's canon in it's entirety. All two episodes!

And here are the relevant bits of Wilford's canon. His canon is a bit more piecemeal and has less of a continuity, and I didn't feel like hunting down everything (especially since some of the video game playthroughs are looooong, and Wilford tends to have small parts within them). Even what I did link to isn't in post-order, but in an order that seems to make a bit more sense to me.

I have no idea how to do one of these posts if I ever decide to actually app Xephos...

[harryhotspur]

Open Source Shakespeare is probably my favorite free online edition, but frankly none of the free online ones are very good. "The Hollow Crown," which is an okay adaptation but is where Harry's icons come from, is sometimes on Netflix and widely available less-than-legally too. My secret favorite film version, though, is the very odd "Chimes At Midnight," directed by and starring Orson Welles. Also that Hotspur leaps excitedly from a bath and runs naked down the hall at one point.

The miniseries of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is also on Netflix now! I think the first half is great and the second half is eh and the last episode is bad. But the casting is almost perfect.

[mnt_raph]

I've got back-up copies of the original run of TMNT comics, should people be even the slightest bit interested in such a thing.

[sdelmonte]

Every episode of the Poirot series is on Netflix, in roughly the order of publication of the books and stories being adapted (even if all the post-war novels are retrofitted to take place in the 30s).

DC Comics has collected the most recent (New 52 era) Swamp Thing series, and most of the previous runs. You can find them at Amazon, and I think a lot of the canon is also for sale on Comixology.

Star Trek is on both Amazon Prime and Netflix, and all the movies are on Prime. And odds are that you can find reruns of Trek someone on cable or secondary OTA channels.

The Teen Titans cartoon is on disc, but sadly is not available on any streaming service, as far as I know.

And (not that I've played Alex Knox lately) the 1989 Batman film comes and goes from Netflix and Prime. It probably depends on whether Michael Keaton has an Oscar nomination at this point.

[mightbeagoodone]

The BBC series Sherlock is available on Netflix, and I believe you can purchase it on iTunes. ACD's original novels and stories are available for free on Project Gutenburg.

You can rent or buy the Marvel movies in all the usual places. The Marvel comics app is free but the comics aren't; but they've started a monthly read-all-you-want plan that I intend to try at some point.

You can also rent or buy Mad Max: Fury Road in all the usual places. I also recommend the score if you need some epic, inspiring music for your gift-wrapping or housecleaning.

[diehard_daniel]

Daniel and Vala's canon is on Hulu or Netflix I think. Death's is on Netflix. The rest of mine are books and yeah, you can probably find them at your local library or on Kindle. That includes Tass, Tegid, Wil( Though the TV show, which I pull from a bit is also on Netflix).

Young Dracula made it to youtube somehow, though I am not sure about how legitimate it is.

[have_no_mercy]

Smallville is on Hulu, I believe? I don't know, I can't access it. It's on CraveTV up here, but I can't access that, either.

The Force awakens is on Netflix up here, as I assume it is in the US.

I'm sure Farscape is available somewhere.

[bjornwilde]

BTW, not sure if you've been keeping up with Star Wars Rebels, but Hondo has become something of a regular guest star. He's lost his fabulous coat though.

[bjornwilde]

Farscape is on Netflix, or at least was a few months ago when I started watching from the beginning. Need to get back to that.

[have_no_mercy]

Ah, thanks. I don't really keep up with what's on yours.

[i_am_your_host]

The televised 1993 London production of "Cabaret" is still up on YouTube! It feels watered-down, but it is essentially the version that came to Broadway in 1998 (and 2014), with just a few tweaks to characters, songs, choreography, dialog, and aesthetics. The cast recording is on Spotify, and hey, the revival is currently on a US tour. It's not the Liza Minnelli movie, which I think most people realize? Though it has crossed my mind to have Joel Grey's version of the Emcee pop into Milliways for crack purposes.

[gredya]

What I really wish I could find online, legally or not, is a way to watch the James plays that Mary of Guelders and William Douglas come from.

But lacking that...here's the actor who played William Douglas talking about Macbeth, with football analogies and a tight tee-shirt. Somehow it's peak William Douglas without any William Douglas.

[i_am_your_host]

Och, that accent.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

i know, right? sometimes i'm like "oh maybe i'm overdoing it with william" and then i go back to that video and...nah

[ceitfianna]

Oh my god, he's the cutest thing ever. Scottish accents are the best, part of the reason why I adore James McAvoy so much.

[darklighthero]

Jak's canon is the Jak and Daxter series, a video game on the PS2 and PS3 series, you can watch all the cutscenes on youtube if you search.