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

[esmenet]

I'm primarily looking for stories that include or focus on important non-sexual relationships, preferably between women.

Other things I really enjoy:

—introverts having friends
—slice-of-life stories about people hanging out and having fun
—magic or implausible science that isn't big and flashy and a huge deal; just, y'know, normal
—technical details! Like, if a character really loves their job or something, I want to hear all about what they do and why they like it.

Some examples: BOSS, Samurai Champloo, Ashita no Ousama, Gokusen, Natsume Yuujinchou, Nobuta wo Produce, Land of the Blindfolded, Hourou Musuko.

[littlebutfierce]

I'm really not going to rec K-On! to everyone, promise! But it's totally about girls just hanging out & being friends & rocking out. (There are nods to femslashiness, but I actually think they are fewer & far between-er than most of the fandom wants to believe & I think it's pretty easy to not read them in & just have it be all about friendships.)

... the technical details thing makes me think of, um, pretty much ALL the baseball anime/manga series I've seen. Though baseball may not be your bag at all -- if you are interested I can narrow it down! (I will say lots of people go "I never thought I'd be interested in hearing ppl talk about baseball until -- " but yeah, not for everyone.) Um, although Moshidora in particular has friendship between two girls as the core of the story (around one of them being the manager of the baseball team, & using Peter Drucker's Management as the way she runs the team -- so ticking two boxes).

Kimi ni Todoke's main plot revolves around romance, so you may not be interested, but there's also really awesome stuff about friendship between girls.

[esmenet]

Ooh, K-On! I need to watch more of that. It was the show that really got me back into music again. (Though I do wish the show would focus more on their music and practicing and a bit less on their running around at the beach. Not that I mind the latter, really—but music.)

I have never actually read a single baseball manga! But I do often like sports manga, even though I think "oh, I don't like sports manga" sometimes. Moshidora sounds lovely!

I stalled on Kimi ni Todoke, I think because our library didn't get more of it in for a while. But I think I remember the girl-friendship a bit, and I really should pick it up again. Thank you!