Promotion Fest: “Rec me!” Comment Meme

[dark_administrator]

Hello, doers of darkness!

To kick off our fandom promotion fest, let’s have a recommendation meme:

• Comment with your favorite tropes, narrative kinks, character archetypes, and other qualities that you look for in a fandom.


• Reply to other people’s comments with recommendations for fandoms with chromatic creator(s) and character(s) that suit their preferences.

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Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I am a sucker for chosen family stuff, finding the people who suit you/discovering therefore you're not weird, bad or wrong. Examples of what I mean: Natsume Yuujinchou, Kimi ni Todoke, ahahahaha. Other stuff?

[troisroyaumes]

Hourou Musuko! But you already read/watch this series. ^^;

I think you might already be familiar with this series as well, but Otomen (manga and J-drama) comes to mind as a good example of finding friends who accept you for who you are.

It doesn't strictly fall within this story type but Nabi's protagonists are a group of orphans on the run who have no ties of blood to each other but have very much become one another's family.

Hmm, I should really try not to make my recs all East Asian media...in Amitav Ghosh's The Sea of Poppies, the members of the Ibis who hail from all sorts of backgrounds come together and form a crew...the "chosen family" aspect doesn't really kick in until the latter half of the book but I think once it does, it's really compelling.

Naguib Mahfouz' The Harafish does focus on family-by-blood relationships but I think more importantly it tells the story of how a group of outcasts settle in an alleyway and form their own community. Granted, this community forms its own conflicts and tensions so the focus isn't entirely on acceptance, but I think it still works as a variation on the story type. (I'm actually not at all sure how one would go about making fanwork for The Harafish, but it's an excellent book.)

[trascendenza]

I agree about Sea of Poppies -- I was just thinking the other day that I couldn't figure out why the second half of the book was when I really started to get into it, but I think that's exactly why, because that's when those relationships become much more the focus.

[snowynight]

Sea of Poppies is really, really great. I second the choice.

[littlebutfierce]

Oooh, thank you -- someone recced Otomen in the WisCon gender binary panel, so now two ticks in its favor.

Also those books sound worth checking out at some point (alas, my book reading has slowed to a crawl lately...).

Thanks!!

[torachan]

If you haven't seen the drama of Nobuta. wo Produce, I think you would like it.

[littlebutfierce]

Oooh, that sounds fun--thank you for the rec!