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olderthannetfic · 1 year

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What things are you liking lately? Any potential recommendations for shows, movies, etc. I've been following for a bit and I've seen some of your posts and thought 'I should check that out' but when I come back it's often buried, so I thought I could just ask instead.

Sure!

I don't watch a lot. It tends to make me feel overwhelmed and like all my time evaporated. Sitting down with a show or even a film is a commitment and takes concentration. It's not something I do to relax or veg. So at any given point in time, I probably don't have a new show I just watched.

The last two things I've consumed are a documentary on Korean shamanism on youtube and a book on the same. I wish it were an audiobook. That would have been more convenient.

I'm still obsessed with Beyond Evil. I need to start my Viki rewatch to see if the subtitles are different. Seriously, it's like they made a show for me. The tension! The ice prince who's actually bubbling over with emotions! The creepy old guy with big serial killer energy! It's a show full of Big Emotions and stakes that feel incredibly high, but it also didn't kill off most of the characters I thought it would and feels way more in tune with my innate optimism than most shows about dark subjects. That ending! *chef's kiss*

Other stuff I've been talking about lately has been revisiting old loves. I had a Trapeze phase after @adnirod pimped it tirelessly for years on LJ/DW. Well, and after I saw spoilers that it didn't end how I expected. (Look, when you say you want a "fixit" for a trapeze movie, I'm going to assume some things. Haha.)

I'm looking forward to the Netflix live action YuYu Hakusho. If it's terrible, it's popcorn time, and if it's good, I'll probably write some Kuwabara/Yusuke. But that's not for another year.

Also next year, Onmyouji is getting an anime adaptation for Netflix, so I guess I'll be back on the anime (as opposed to manga) train. I'm a fan of that franchise in general and thought the two recent Chinese entries, The Yin Yang Master and The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity, were both interesting. DoE is a lot gayer, though nothing in this franchise is actually BL, just subtexty bromance. The old Japanese films are camp classics and were my big fandom in like 2006.

I finished watching Kei x Yaku because I requested it for Yuletide. It was super cute. I thought the show was flawed in various ways, but it had some great material. Ironically, the sister is probably my favorite part despite it being BL. I also loved how plotty it was even if not all of that was executed well.

I remain a fan of Ancient Detective, which I also requested for Yuletide. That show is fucking absurd, and I'm devastated we probably won't get a second season to resolve the cliffhanger/sequelbait. I wanted to see the muahaha villainy!

I'm in the middle of fertility treatments and finishing a novel, so that's mostly where my head's at. I've also been getting back into knitting and language study. I'm not really in a fandom acquisition phase.

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