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[bjornwilde]

OK, I got nothing and need to get working....so what new canon have you discovered and are enjoying?

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[bjornwilde]

I recently discovered The Owl House and am hooked! To the point, I might buy the first season digitally so I can watch it. Grumbles at Disney for not having it on Disney+ yet. It reminds me of the old Beetlejuice cartoon though it is clearly its own thing. The first episode is on Youtube in its entirety.

I also bought and started the old D&D videogame Planescape: Torment on my iPhone and am mostly enjoying it. The controls are clearly designed for a larger screen and I had to turn my brightness up to 100% cause this game is dark, but I don't regret the purchase yet.

I also started Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and it is fun, though I wish the game would not lose its connection ever five minutes. :/

Funny enough, I am having the same problem with Warriors of Waterdeep, which I would love to play more but the connection timeouts are prohibitive. I don't get this with Marvel Future Fight or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, so I know it's not my WiFi.

I also started dipping my toes into the Underrealm books, mostly due to a Tumblr post claiming lots of minority rep in the books. It does this, and in a casual "what like it's hard" kind of way but I'm not 100% into them. I don't know if it's the fact it's still generic European fantasy world or if it's the attempt at a fantasy grammar akin to Shakespeare (though it's not as fluid as the old Bard). I think I will continue with the Academy Journals as one of character really took hold of me, but I don't know if I'll continue with the whole world.

[magnus_archivist]

On Netflix I discovered The Untamed, which is a murder-mystery Chinese tv show and... so, so very and wonderfully bizarre. There's overdramatic fighting! Weird clan wars! Ghost/demon possessions! A very stubborn mule! Killer rock statues! IDEK what's going on, somehow we're on a second timeline and they almost just got eaten by a seaweed monsters, life is good.

I've also just gotten 'The Lost Future of Pepperhollow' which is not necessarily a new canon, as I've been a huge fan of Natasha Pulley's last two books in the same 'verse, but now I get more Mori and Thaniel! :D

Also, the WTNV crew just put out 'The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home', which is, unsurprisingly, about the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home, and is evidently great, and I have that book too. I have all the good books, yo.

Also, if I haven't said it enough (and the new pup isn't evidence enough), I'm still loving 'The Magnus Archives', I'm halfway through season 4 and WHAT THE HELL.

[takethatnature]

I don't have a Switch but I'm having fun watching everyone else play Animal Crossing: New Horizons.