Thursday DE: Now share with the class

[bjornwilde]

Thursday is here. Soon it will be Friday and then the weekend.

What are some media you’ve enjoyed recently that others might enjoy? How about a new or old band?

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[from_the_outside]

I just blitzed all of Derry Girls on Netflix and now I'm yelling about it to everyone I know. Go watch Derry Girls! It's great!

[bjornwilde]

I've been doing a lot of podcasts in the past couple of weeks, so here are some highlights:
Do you have a hankering for something like The Dark Tower but don't want to read it? Check out Tincture, A Weird West trilogy. This was a lot of fun and it was clearly inspired by Dark Tower. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to find it started life as a Dark Tower fanfic. I do admit by the third book/season I was ready to be done with it and I feel like they didn't explain everything that happened. To be far I wasn't listening every day so I could have easily forgotten details.

Faerie was fun and was sort of like X-files meeting White Wolf's World of Darkness. If you have listened to Tanis, Rabbits, of the Black Tapes, you will recognize the playbook/formula of the story beats since it was made by the same people. I enjoyed it but wasn't wowed by it if that makes sense.

Case 63 was a great 12 Monkeys/Alternate reality type story that left you questioning what might be really happening. Featuring Oscar Issac and Julia Moore.

The Left Right Game was an another creepy alternate reality story along the lines of Alice Isn't Dead or Rabbits. Creepy driving game that takes you strange places.

Borrasca...a very creepy Midwest gothic tale. Strong trigger warnings on this one for SA and violence. Nothing tremendously graphic, imho, but still fucked up.

[bjornwilde]

And as to music, I've been getting my old school Death Rock on and listening to Skeletal Family for most of the day.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

I've been enjoying the actually shockingly dense concentration of good anime this season (last season had maybe two good shows, and this season it's closer to twelve), so here's some which are Good, and which I Think People Should Watch (Or Else?):

Buddy Daddies, which is about two assassins who adopt a small child. It's equal parts murder action and two-dudes-coparenting-a-kid slice of life comedy, and it's very wholesome apart from all of the murder which is happening. Top quote: "Although it is true that we are Daddies, you must not forget that we are also Buddies."

Trigun Stampede, a remake of Trigun which makes the main character exponentially more pathetically ridiculous (and prone to crying to get his way). Pathetic meow-meows who cry at the drop of a hat but are also good at the violence and stuff are my jam, so this is a Good change. Although he hasn't shown up yet, it has Yamato's voice actor as resident murder-priest Wolfwood, bringing his total of wolf themed characters up to actually more than I care to count. Top quote: "Wow, these rampaging antelope who all have three guns are like some kind of Tri-gun Stampede."

Mononogatari, an action romance about a dude who hates tsukumogami (a kind of household god that inhabits objects) because they killed his family no really, who is also a magic tsukumogami cop, and then he gets sent to live with a woman who has a bunch of tsukumogami serving her, and now he has to learn to not hate tsukumogami and also have cute romance shenanigans with the woman he's living with. It is cute and good. Top quote: "I don't want to read this written narrative, it's a mo-no-no-gatari for me, you get it, it's a -- it's a pun because 'monogatari' is a written narrative, but 'no no' is something you would say if you don't want to do something, it's actually very smart, Eric is very smart."

Kaina on the Snow Sea, which is about a planet, and there's a snow sea on it, but there's also an ice shell kilometres above it, and the ice shell is melting, and a girl comes up from the snow sea and is like "I'm here to find a sage," and everyone on the shell is like "He's super-dead," and a boy on the shell is like "Bugs," and then they go down to the snow sea and stuff. It's by Tsutomu Nihei, who is really good at alien worlds, and it also has Yamato's voice actor in it, because he is in everything. Top quote: "Oh, man, that's a lot of snow, see?"

Honorable mentions: Nier Automata -- also has Yamato's voice actor in it; Hikari no Ou -- is by Mamoru Oshii, who is great, appears right now to be a slow, meditative art piece.

[bjornwilde]

I need to check out Kaina on the Snow Sea. The world sounds amazing and Nihei can come up with some pretty good stuff for SciFi.