I love the themed nominations idea! :D Werewolves definitely seem to be hot this year; Teen Wolf has EXPLODED on Tumblr. Do you think you'd do more games along the style of Echo Bazaar, or were you thinking of other types of games?
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (HBO, based on the book series) and Capital Scandal (kdrama) are my FAVORITE SHOWS EVER; they're both just one season, one with six episodes and one with 15, so I'm definitely going to encourage people to look 'em up when the 'hey, check out this canon!!' post goes up this year. I'd highly recommend both of them, with no reservations. Fabulous casts, fabulous ladies.
Static Shock is an early-2000s cartoon based on Milestone/DC teenage superhero Static. It's cheesy and ridiculous and terrible in its own ways, but usually not in a put-a-foot-through-my-TV way, and its depictions of family and friendship made me super happy. The fact that they had a really diverse cast of characters was such a breath of fresh air, too, and I was pleasantly surprised by the subjects they addressed that usually aren't touched by Saturday morning cartoons, even if the execution was clunky in places. I just finished watching the entire series on YouTube -- bless YouTube and people's childhood nostalgia.
And "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" are a modern-day Pride and Prejudice YouTube adaptation (Lizzie is a media studies grad student who vlogs), where all of the characters have Facebook and Pinterist and Twitter and Tumblr accounts so you can follow the threads of the story all over the place; I make faces at it sometimes but it's mostly pretty charming. I'm really ready for the inevitable Yuletide fic where somebody doctors up fake tweets and Tumblr posts and goes bananas with that whole aspect.
I love Young Avengers and The Red Star, too; they're just harder to get people into, since YA is tied to decades of Marvel comics canon that you have to delve into, and Red Star is an incredibly obscure comic from an independent publisher that seems like it's going to go unfinished at this point.
And now I have practiced my view-my-canon rambling for the day, at you; sorry!! If you were potentially interested in having new canons recced, the order in this comment is probably the order that I'd rec in.
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (HBO, based on the book series) and Capital Scandal (kdrama) are my FAVORITE SHOWS EVER; they're both just one season, one with six episodes and one with 15, so I'm definitely going to encourage people to look 'em up when the 'hey, check out this canon!!' post goes up this year. I'd highly recommend both of them, with no reservations. Fabulous casts, fabulous ladies.
Static Shock is an early-2000s cartoon based on Milestone/DC teenage superhero Static. It's cheesy and ridiculous and terrible in its own ways, but usually not in a put-a-foot-through-my-TV way, and its depictions of family and friendship made me super happy. The fact that they had a really diverse cast of characters was such a breath of fresh air, too, and I was pleasantly surprised by the subjects they addressed that usually aren't touched by Saturday morning cartoons, even if the execution was clunky in places. I just finished watching the entire series on YouTube -- bless YouTube and people's childhood nostalgia.
And "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" are a modern-day Pride and Prejudice YouTube adaptation (Lizzie is a media studies grad student who vlogs), where all of the characters have Facebook and Pinterist and Twitter and Tumblr accounts so you can follow the threads of the story all over the place; I make faces at it sometimes but it's mostly pretty charming. I'm really ready for the inevitable Yuletide fic where somebody doctors up fake tweets and Tumblr posts and goes bananas with that whole aspect.
I love Young Avengers and The Red Star, too; they're just harder to get people into, since YA is tied to decades of Marvel comics canon that you have to delve into, and Red Star is an incredibly obscure comic from an independent publisher that seems like it's going to go unfinished at this point.
And now I have practiced my view-my-canon rambling for the day, at you; sorry!! If you were potentially interested in having new canons recced, the order in this comment is probably the order that I'd rec in.