Comics: Lucifer - Mike Carey, Sandman spin-off Tank Girl V for Vendetta
Books: Dark Tower series - Stephen King. * Tripods trilogy - John Christopher. ** Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Peter Pan - JM Barrie
*I fell out of love with this hard while waiting for the 5th book, and I still haven't finished the last, but the first three are probably still my most re-read books. **Teenage boys save the world, and there is an excellent reason for that - capping is an amazing concept, brainwashing that happens at 16 and is completely normalised by society & only the rebellious kids that are scared & run away have any hope of forming a resistance. And they're not great soldiers, & its only a deeply flawed society they could possibly build, and they were some of the first scifi books I ever read, because despite mum reading the hobbit to me before I could read, I got sidetracked with Enid Blighton between the ages of 5 and 11. Damnit, now I have to consider the Faraway Tree.
Fanfic - A Hundred Years Ago by trifles. Peter Pan fanfic, and one of the most fascinating & poignant stories I've ever read. Wendy tries to neaten up Peter's dreams, & sees the story of one of the Lost Boys. Written quite like Peter Pan, like it should be read aloud, and I would love to see it in print with gorgeous illustrations like the edition of Peter Pan I had growing up.
Vids: Living Dead Girl by bradcpu - I love the b grade horror genre-ness of this Faith character vid. It's immersed in genre while somehow telling its own story and having an awesome aesthetic. Handlebars by flummery - Has this been universally declared king of all vids yet? This is mentally subtitled in my head as All Shall Love Me And Despair! because it seems very much the same temptation as Galadriel, of replacing a Dark Lord with a Queen/Doctor. And I know that its not that the Doctor is as full of self-restraint and wisdom as Galadriel, but just that he enjoys adventures more than administration.
done waiting for everyone else to nom half my list so I don't have to make tough choices
Lucifer - Mike Carey, Sandman spin-off
Tank Girl
V for Vendetta
Books:
Dark Tower series - Stephen King. *
Tripods trilogy - John Christopher. **
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan - JM Barrie
*I fell out of love with this hard while waiting for the 5th book, and I still haven't finished the last, but the first three are probably still my most re-read books.
**Teenage boys save the world, and there is an excellent reason for that - capping is an amazing concept, brainwashing that happens at 16 and is completely normalised by society & only the rebellious kids that are scared & run away have any hope of forming a resistance. And they're not great soldiers, & its only a deeply flawed society they could possibly build, and they were some of the first scifi books I ever read, because despite mum reading the hobbit to me before I could read, I got sidetracked with Enid Blighton between the ages of 5 and 11. Damnit, now I have to consider the Faraway Tree.
Fanfic - A Hundred Years Ago by trifles.
Peter Pan fanfic, and one of the most fascinating & poignant stories I've ever read. Wendy tries to neaten up Peter's dreams, & sees the story of one of the Lost Boys. Written quite like Peter Pan, like it should be read aloud, and I would love to see it in print with gorgeous illustrations like the edition of Peter Pan I had growing up.
Vids:
Living Dead Girl by bradcpu - I love the b grade horror genre-ness of this Faith character vid. It's immersed in genre while somehow telling its own story and having an awesome aesthetic.
Handlebars by flummery - Has this been universally declared king of all vids yet? This is mentally subtitled in my head as All Shall Love Me And Despair! because it seems very much the same temptation as Galadriel, of replacing a Dark Lord with a Queen/Doctor. And I know that its not that the Doctor is as full of self-restraint and wisdom as Galadriel, but just that he enjoys adventures more than administration.
Ok. 10. Calling it. Only took me about 36 hours.