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

[anenko]

I'd love recs for something with fantasy or supernatural elements. I'm pretty well covered on the Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China front (although I'm open to any Must Read/Watch recs you may have!)

My attempts on Amazon bring up Serious Literature, which. . . isn't my thing. I'm open to reading/watching more from any corner of the world. I'd also really love recs from stories by Chromatic Canadians. Think along the lines of Rabbit Fall.

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Romance novel recs would also be welcomed. Preferably with competent heroines, and not too heavy on Alpha Male behaviour.

[gloss]

Chromatic Canadians ftw! Right now I am reading (and ADORING) Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms; I want very much to read her Kappa Child, about which I've also heard great things, but I'm having a hell of a time tracking down a copy.

Fantasy/supernatural: I cannot recommend Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar highly enough. It's categorized as "magical realism", a term I don't exactly like, but might serve okay; I'd say it's more (occasionally) surreal than fantastic, if that makes sense. It's phenomenal stuff, mundane and lusty and achey and melancholy and hilariously funny.

[glass_icarus]

Hiromi Goto's Half World! Chromatic Canadian writing non-Euro-fantasy YA = triple score? *g*

eta; also, I loved Helen Oyeyemi's Icarus Girl.

[dharmavati]

The Tara Trilogy by Indo-Canadian author Mahtab Narsimhan might be up your alley. The books are YA horror/fantasy adventures that incorporate Hindu mythology and Indian folklore in a contemporary rural Indian setting. They have very little focus on romance, though.