Comics, Music, and Books
Aug. 31st, 2011 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engHetalia is something that I know pretty much entirely from fannish osmosis. (You've been warned.) It started as a webcomic and has since gone on to become just about all the things. There's a manga and an anime and a video game and a few other things. Hetalia's good if you like historical politics - a good chunk of it is about WWII (apparently), and its characters are anthropomorphic representations of countries. Canada is a supporting character. If you poke around that link there's a lot of info and how fannish people are about it starts to become evident. The fandom's pretty huge, from what I can tell, not being in it.
Also doing the anthropomorphic representation thing is Scandinavia and the World, which I read and can actually talk about. There are 230 comics right now, so doing an archive binge isn't too terrible. It's very much a western-centric thing, but it's a different western perspective than I'm used to seeing and politics that I don't really know, so I find that interesting. The strips tend to be fun and happy.
At some point in the past yearsinesofinsanity gave me a copy of Nice, Nice, Very Nice by Dan Mangan and it has since eaten my soul, essentially. I've been listening to it a lot in the past six months. (myspace, Youtube)
Also,readbystarlight? I am in the process of making a Bandom recruitment series. It is coming for you. I realise that this is all very creepy, but seriously, you've read 2/3 of the crossover fics I'm reccing for that already. Do you have any requests? (Tropes that you'd like? A desire to read all the space stories right now or anything?)
Books. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooks. There are very pretty pictures and interesting bookshelves and libraries.
ETA: Also: muppets.
Also doing the anthropomorphic representation thing is Scandinavia and the World, which I read and can actually talk about. There are 230 comics right now, so doing an archive binge isn't too terrible. It's very much a western-centric thing, but it's a different western perspective than I'm used to seeing and politics that I don't really know, so I find that interesting. The strips tend to be fun and happy.
At some point in the past year
sinesofinsanity gave me a copy of Nice, Nice, Very Nice by Dan Mangan and it has since eaten my soul, essentially. I've been listening to it a lot in the past six months. (myspace, Youtube)Also,
readbystarlight? I am in the process of making a Bandom recruitment series. It is coming for you. I realise that this is all very creepy, but seriously, you've read 2/3 of the crossover fics I'm reccing for that already. Do you have any requests? (Tropes that you'd like? A desire to read all the space stories right now or anything?)Books. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooks. There are very pretty pictures and interesting bookshelves and libraries.
ETA: Also: muppets.
