Chatfilter: what is getting _your_ fan juices flowing these days?
August 24, 2023 6:43 PM Subscribe
Could be anything! A tv show you love, a book series you adore, a kpop group you think is great...could be something new, could be revisiting an old classic. If something is giving you that passionate fan energy, I wanna hear about it!
What it says on the tin
These days I personally watch a lot of anime (too much anime lol) so I sort of consider that what I am "into." I am curious about responses in any and all domains though if there are any other anime fans, I see you and want to hear from you!
What it says on the tin
These days I personally watch a lot of anime (too much anime lol) so I sort of consider that what I am "into." I am curious about responses in any and all domains though if there are any other anime fans, I see you and want to hear from you!
I really wish something would click for me to get into. Netflix, Prime, D+, Hulu, et.al. seem to be just empty scrollfests. I’m lucky if I make it 15 minutes into something before I lose interest and bail.
Bookwise, I rely largely on what’s available from my library via Libby, and the scifi (my preferred genre) selections are meager, and frustratingly mixed with dragonshit.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:18 PM on August 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
Bookwise, I rely largely on what’s available from my library via Libby, and the scifi (my preferred genre) selections are meager, and frustratingly mixed with dragonshit.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:18 PM on August 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: so to answer my own question (didn't put it in the q because didn't want to center myself)...
posted by damedeshou at 7:19 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
- symphogear is always in my head
- I've been doing a watchthrough of all of the fate/nasuverse anime adaptations and recently finished the Garden of Sinners series of movies. on the whole it was fantastic...the 5th movie in general is really amazing, the soundtracks are all amazing, but on the whole despite ups and downs, its just a super interesting, thematically interesting (and I think successful!) work
- this anime season's Undead Girl Murder Farce is an absurd amount of fun
posted by damedeshou at 7:19 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Wow, this question finds me two days away from this music fest, walking distance from my house, and my favorite band is playing!
posted by vrakatar at 7:44 PM on August 24, 2023
posted by vrakatar at 7:44 PM on August 24, 2023
The Seattle Mariners!
posted by rouftop at 8:31 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by rouftop at 8:31 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
I’ve been rewatching loads of Sam and Mickey’s YouTube channel, stop motion animation featuring Barbie and her family, made by two Australian women who do most of the voices. (Not intended for children.) Hilarious and well-written. You have to get to know the characters a bit. Not as crude and mean as Robot Chicken.
posted by Glinn at 8:32 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Glinn at 8:32 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Formula 1 is back after their summer break and I am SO excited to get up in ... eesh six hours to watch practice
I don't know how to fully convey this through text but I'm internally giggling and jumping up and down in happiness! I love the cars going zoom and the commentators talking about the cars going zoom. Sometimes the cars do not go zoom and that's also very exciting.
Arguably the best sports intro music too. (The 2021 intro video features Perez doing a subtle Black Widow pose towards the end.)
posted by Baethan at 9:40 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
I don't know how to fully convey this through text but I'm internally giggling and jumping up and down in happiness! I love the cars going zoom and the commentators talking about the cars going zoom. Sometimes the cars do not go zoom and that's also very exciting.
Arguably the best sports intro music too. (The 2021 intro video features Perez doing a subtle Black Widow pose towards the end.)
posted by Baethan at 9:40 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
I have watched every single inning of every single Yankees game this year (painful) and the previous 4 years. I DVR every game to watch faster without the commercials. The new pitch clock is great.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:21 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:21 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
The Broadway musical version of Beetlejuice! I found it via these unexpectedly wholesome and touching Try Guys videos about auditioning for and performing in a Broadway show. That led me to listen to the cast recording, which I enjoyed way more than I expected to, which then led me down a major YouTube rabbit hole of watching clips from the show and a bunch of behind-the-scenes content. And then I realized the touring production would be coming to a nearby city in about two weeks, and I got tickets, and we went to see it (which was our first time being back in an indoor theater since before covid), and it was so fun, and my former-theater-kid heart was so happy!
posted by peperomia at 11:29 PM on August 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by peperomia at 11:29 PM on August 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
After years of people telling me to watch beyond Season 3, I am just now getting into the latter seasons of Deep Space Nine, and am reading the FanFare rewatch posts alongside my fangirling about the show. I'm going to have to watch it again from the start as soon as I'm done!
posted by rosiroo at 12:28 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by rosiroo at 12:28 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
the audiobook for The Expanse is well done.
posted by j_curiouser at 1:14 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by j_curiouser at 1:14 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Earlier this year I discovered The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, which absolutely got my fan juices flowing in a way that little does at the moment. Something about the characters and their chemistry really clicks for me. There's lots of fanfic and fanart about the series too. There's a new book coming out at some point - it will be hard for me to leave that series behind when it is concluded.
posted by unicorn chaser at 2:23 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by unicorn chaser at 2:23 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
This is going to sound so dumb but I've given myself a major crash course on the MCU this summer after having only seen the first Iron Man movie and the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie when they first came out respectively. Disney+ has been my friend (also FanFare) and I have now seen all the live-action movies available on the platform except the Eternals, and most of the TV series except Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Secret Invasion and Ms. Marvel.
I'm now so invested in live-action Marvel that I've even seen a lot of the Netflix/now-Disney stuff (Daredevil, Jessica Jones etc.) as well! I won't stop talking about it now to my family and am very much annoying them at this point.
I've been a casual Star Wars fan over the years (I am old enough to have seen the first movie in theaters when it first came out and have seen all of the subsequent films in theaters) but never really got into Marvel stuff, but my son is a huge Spider Man fan and I also wanted to familiarize myself with the franchise because so much of it is just so ingrained now in (American) pop culture references.
I was recently watching Season 2 of Abbot Elementary and felt so proud to have gotten the Marvel references in the Halloween episode ("I am inedible/inevitable", Melissa/Scarlet Witch screaming when Baby Thanos tears the yellow gem off Mr. Johnson's forehead etc.).
Sorry this is so long but I've been really enjoying this huge chunk of pop culture that I've been missing all these years. Better late than never I guess!
posted by misozaki at 4:14 AM on August 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
I'm now so invested in live-action Marvel that I've even seen a lot of the Netflix/now-Disney stuff (Daredevil, Jessica Jones etc.) as well! I won't stop talking about it now to my family and am very much annoying them at this point.
I've been a casual Star Wars fan over the years (I am old enough to have seen the first movie in theaters when it first came out and have seen all of the subsequent films in theaters) but never really got into Marvel stuff, but my son is a huge Spider Man fan and I also wanted to familiarize myself with the franchise because so much of it is just so ingrained now in (American) pop culture references.
I was recently watching Season 2 of Abbot Elementary and felt so proud to have gotten the Marvel references in the Halloween episode ("I am inedible/inevitable", Melissa/Scarlet Witch screaming when Baby Thanos tears the yellow gem off Mr. Johnson's forehead etc.).
Sorry this is so long but I've been really enjoying this huge chunk of pop culture that I've been missing all these years. Better late than never I guess!
posted by misozaki at 4:14 AM on August 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
I really enjoyed reading Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan novels, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. I got back into sci-fi in a big way during the pandemic after a long time of reading mostly "serious" literary fiction, and these are some of the best books I've read in a while. I guess you'd call them a space opera. They're written by a woman, featuring women as most of the main characters, and they are just so poignant, imaginative, political,,, I dunno, it's hard to describe, but they really get into deep ideas about what it means to be an individual, and they deal with imperialism from the single-person level all the way up to a multiplanetary empire. I've talked my wife's ear off about these books and I'm happy to have the opportunity to do so here as well, so thank you!
posted by number9dream at 5:29 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by number9dream at 5:29 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Well, it's Hobonichi Techo season. All month, the makers of my favourite notebook and paper have been releasing new covers for the 2024 editions of their various planners, which go on sale next month. So I have been busy studying cover designs and cases, deciding what kind of sticker themes would go with them and choosing which ink colours I'll put in my fountain pens.
posted by guessthis at 6:32 AM on August 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by guessthis at 6:32 AM on August 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
We started and finished The Righteous Gemstones this summer and loved it. Three seasons are out on HBO and it's been renewed for a fourth.
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 7:39 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 7:39 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Similar to misozaki, I got a DisneyPlus login from my girlfriend recently and I’ve been filling the gaps on MCU TV shows I had missed, and it’s so much fun to watch them in chronological order back to back as you get immediate payoff of the inter-series characters and Easter eggs.
posted by ellieBOA at 8:18 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by ellieBOA at 8:18 AM on August 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
I'm deeply invested in the newer generation of queer Thai shows lately. At this exact moment my brain is fluttering around currently-airing show "Only Friends" and fully-aired show "Moonlight Chicken", which a bunch of friends are watching for the first time so I'm rewatching with them. Both on YouTube if anyone wants to check them out!
I also decided for no real reason that it's time to re-read Jane Eyre, which I do every few years, so I'm having a lot of fun preparing to hate St. John Rivers a lot all over again.
posted by Stacey at 8:26 AM on August 25, 2023
I also decided for no real reason that it's time to re-read Jane Eyre, which I do every few years, so I'm having a lot of fun preparing to hate St. John Rivers a lot all over again.
posted by Stacey at 8:26 AM on August 25, 2023
I stumbled upon Japanese mystery author Seishi Yokomizo's Kindaichi Kosuke character via the films based on the books (particularly Kon Ichikawa's 6 films starring Koji Ishizaka but also Nobuhiko Obayashi's (of House fame) parody The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi). It is pretty clear that Seishi Yokomizo was influenced by Agatha Christie but what I really like and find interesting is how he distilled those stories' essence and applied it to Japanese culture, particular its emergence from WWII. I've only read the one book so far, Case of the Honjin Murder, and it is fairly dense with characters with deep connections to one another which might be a bit much for the casual reader.
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:19 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:19 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
This is the dumbest thing but: I started reading a nonfiction book about early horror film this week, and I think the author is wrong, wrong, wrong about a lot of things. Which has led to me continuing to read the book so that I can argue with it better, to the point of taking notes and doing other research so I can muster proper rebuttals to his dumb theories. Early horror film is one of my longest-lived interests but it's been a dormant one for a while, and being angry at this author has revitalized it in a way that I'm really enjoying. I'm looking forward to tracking down all the books in his works cited so that I can either learn new things or be angry at them too.
Also, this summer I've been reading or rereading a lot of the Victorian-ish scifi/horror/adventure books I either read as a kid or have always meant to read. So far, I've done the Raffles stories, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Prisoner of Zenda, The Picture of Dorian Gray, some Sherlock Holmes, and The Invisible Man. Revisiting Professor Challenger is probably next. It's been extremely fun.
posted by darchildre at 9:27 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Also, this summer I've been reading or rereading a lot of the Victorian-ish scifi/horror/adventure books I either read as a kid or have always meant to read. So far, I've done the Raffles stories, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Prisoner of Zenda, The Picture of Dorian Gray, some Sherlock Holmes, and The Invisible Man. Revisiting Professor Challenger is probably next. It's been extremely fun.
posted by darchildre at 9:27 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
The Goblin Emperor and the other two books in the series.
I just like these so much.
I have mostly stopped reading fiction bc I just can't handle anything sad which leaves me with very little choice.
But these are just so gentle and the world building so satisfying that I can't wait for the fourth book. Reading and re-reading in the meantime.
posted by M. at 11:44 AM on August 25, 2023
I just like these so much.
I have mostly stopped reading fiction bc I just can't handle anything sad which leaves me with very little choice.
But these are just so gentle and the world building so satisfying that I can't wait for the fourth book. Reading and re-reading in the meantime.
posted by M. at 11:44 AM on August 25, 2023
I read The Far Reaches collection of short stories because Scalzi wrote one of them. They were all great, but I ended up loving How It Unfolds by James S. A. Corey, so I decided that it was finally time to read The Expanse. (I watched the first ep of the show and liked it ages ago, but never got further.) Now I’m obsessed, and tearing through the books. I can’t believe I slept on this series!
My late night guilty pleasure these days are YT reaction videos for other media I love, mostly music. Watching some random stranger experience one of my favorite songs or bands or movies for the first time is weirdly satisfying. The concept is so odd, but somehow it’s also soothing me when I can’t sleep. It’s weird to me...
posted by gemmy at 6:48 AM on August 27, 2023
My late night guilty pleasure these days are YT reaction videos for other media I love, mostly music. Watching some random stranger experience one of my favorite songs or bands or movies for the first time is weirdly satisfying. The concept is so odd, but somehow it’s also soothing me when I can’t sleep. It’s weird to me...
posted by gemmy at 6:48 AM on August 27, 2023
Any World of the Five Gods (Challion/Penric) or Vorkosigan Saga stories by Lois McMaster Bujold
Nine Worlds books by Victoria Goddard
Anything non-horror by T. Kingfisher.
posted by fings at 9:22 AM on August 27, 2023 [2 favorites]
Nine Worlds books by Victoria Goddard
Anything non-horror by T. Kingfisher.
posted by fings at 9:22 AM on August 27, 2023 [2 favorites]
Right now I’m nerding out on Red, White, and Royal Blue. It just came out as a movie on Amazon Prime but I’ve only read the book. Sometimes a comforting queer romance is just what you need after a long day.
posted by librarylis at 8:14 PM on August 28, 2023
posted by librarylis at 8:14 PM on August 28, 2023
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On the more silly side, I have just stumbled into the world of YouTube videos of elaborate physics simulations where colored marbles compete to destroy opposing castles by bouncing around to pumping dance music. There are hundreds of these and I must watch every one.
posted by AndrewStephens at 6:59 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]