Beware the potential spoilers behind the cuts. And if by any chance you are a fan of any of these, please let me know your thoughts!

Starfleet Academy - watched the first two episodes of it tonight and I enjoyed it. It was a little weird, 'cause it was a different set up than I was expecting (I did not watch any trailers going into it, nor any news articles other than the fact that Tig Notaro and the Doctor from Voyager would be in it). ( Read more... )


The Hunting Party - Season 2 started airing, and I'm enjoying it so far, I really loved Season 1 so I was excited to see it return. I just did a rewatch it (first season is only 10 episodes so it's a semi-quick rewatch) - still love it! It stars Melissa Roxburgh (from Manifest and Tracker) as Bex Henderson, Nick Wechsler (aka Kyle from Roswell) as Oliver Odell, Josh McKenzie (from La Brea) as Shane Florence, Patrick Sabongui (David Singh from the Arrowverse) as Ryan Hassani and Sara Garcia (apparently also from The Flash) as Jennifer Morales. ( Read more... )The fandom for the show is super small but hopefully it grows more. I definitely recommend it if you enjoyed the Blacklist or Fringe or Mindhunter or other procedural type shows.


Animal Control - came to Netflix and it made me realize I missed a whole season (season 3), so I did a rewatch of the series and am currently up to date. I laughed out loud a lot with this show and I really enjoyed it. If anyone likes animals and enjoyed Community, I'd say you'd like this. This is also a small fandom? Not a lot of fanworks (gifs or fics that I could find). I did come out of this rewatch shipping completely different ship ( Read more... )


Stumble - NBC's newest show that reminds me a lot of early Glee (and weirdly Pitch Perfect). It's sitcom show filmed mock-documentary style for the most part I guess like the Office but it's about the cheer coach and her cheerleaders. Jenn Lyon (Esther Finch from Dead Boy Detectives) portrays the coach, Courteney and I absolutely love her (definitely on my favorite characters). Kristin Chenoweth is Tammy Istiny, former assistant coach to Courteney and even though her storyline is predictable - I like her. I think my favorite cheerleader on the team are Peaches and Madonna though. But the whole team is great. Definitely check it out if you like sitcoms, although like Animal Control might not be for everyone. Again super small fandom.


DMV - enjoying this sitcom a lot and I am appreciating that it is not a mock-documentary type show - while I like Stumble, I do not enjoy that concept of a sitcom. Now this show reminds me of Parks & Rec, so I recommend it if you enjoyed that show or Community.


Fallout - THE LATEST EPISODE MAN. So many feelings. Did I expect what happened would happen? Duh. It's not that huge of a surprise but the WAY it was shot was. Beautiful. I do of course want like fix-it Ghoulcy fics right now though... 


Doc - these last few episodes are so emotional, and I did not really expect to see where it took them. ( Read more... )


High Potential - I really liked this episode, and I enjoyed the Morgan/Karadec scenes of course. ( Read more... )

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Found out a "fanweek" happening next month that I'm interested in DC Rarepair Week (Feb 8-14), we shall see if I remember it. I'm interested in participating because I tend to ship a lot of rare or rare-ish ships for DC. I'm going to try for pairings I haven't written before... or maybe just any since I technically haven't written any DC stuff in 6 years (the last being Courtney/Henry Jr. of Stargirl TV series and Kara/Maxwell of Supergirl TV series). Both are actually extremely rare pairings.

Also discovered a DC Fandom Events tumblr, which lists & tracks various DC challenges & when they are happening which is helpful because I've been wondering what other "fanweeks" would be happening this year since I know a good portion of fandoms are located on other platforms such as AO3 or Tumblr or Discords now and not everything is promoted to fandomcalendar or whenisitdue or one of the other communities about events. Usually I stumble upon them way after they are done - plus fanlore's fanweeks category are mostly about ones years past and as far as I can tell on all the ones I was interested in only happened once or twice.  Discovered Raven/Dick apparently has their own "fanweek" in the past so hopefully a new one happens this year - I just have to remember to check in April. According AO3 tags, there is less than 700 works for Raven/Dick so they can be considered rarepair for the DC Rarepair Week.

Are there any "fanweeks" you are looking forward to this year? Or one that you hope will happen again? Doesn't have to be DC or Marvel...

So over at fandomtrees, I made a book rec comment for someone, but I don't think I have one here (unless you read my profile),  so I figured I should post it here. I'll probably add to it if I remember any other favorites. They are not ordered in any particular order.

I usually do Romance just FYI, so if you're looking for something "new" (but probably old), check out below!

Queer Love Stories:
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Non-Queer Love Stories:
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YA or Younger Stories:
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So let's talk about this little anime known as Sk8 the Infinity. It currently has 12 episodes, an OVA special and a stage play production with another season on the way!

Now, I've never really been into sports anime or manga before Sk8. I have never watched Haikyuu. I only watched Yuri on Ice because I love ice skating. And Free! because I love swimming. I did read and love Harlem Beat, so there are obviously some exceptions. Either way I just never bothered with sports anime or manga
since I'm not a sports person in real life. However, this has changed since XD.

So what made Sk8 the Infinity so special you might ask? Well, for me it came to me when I was in a pretty dark place that I won't be getting into here. Anyway, someone in a discord I'm in was watching it as it was airig and ended up sharing some screenshots. They were of the character Miya, the youngest character in the cast who's considered a protege child. I found him absolute adorable and curious about the series as the person started showing other characters. One being Kaoru aka Cherry Blossom (refer to the character currently being used for the icon of this post) and I instantly fell in love with his design and just knew if I did end up watching it he was going to be my favorite.

I was 100 % right.

And so I ended up diving head first into this series about street skating. I started the series with the dub and I stand by the dub and sub being equally superiour to each other. You can just tell how much the english cast had with the series while working on the dub and I don't know considering it's about skating, the dub suits it. I highly recommend it. Sk8 has been a serious that I rewatch both dub and sub depending on my mood.

Now there's a lot of love about Sk8.

First there's the awesome opening by Rude-α called Paradise and I'm really sad that this is the only video I can actually find that has the actual anime opening T^T. It's one I rarely liked to skip and would happily play before every episode.


Then there's the characters. While the story clearly follows Reki and Langa, our red and blue haired MCs. We have 8 protags and they all kind of pair well with each other. Reki and Langa are the new buds with Reki introducing Langa to the world of skateboarding. Kaoru and Kojiro who are long time friends/rivals. Ainosuke and Tadashi who have some deep rooted history with each other, one point being Tadashi working for Ainosuke. And finally, Hiromi and Miya, who I guess we can say have older brother/younger brother vibes, but that can be said for Miya with everyone. They are sadly the duo who don't really have any really history. As far my favorite characters went Kaoru and Tadashi ended up being my favorite characters. Kojiro, Ainosuke, Miya and Langa weren't that far off either. Reki and Hiromi took a bit for me to warm up to.

As you can expect from a sports anime, there is so much damn yaoi subtext and I am 100% here for it. Kaoru/Kojiro instantly won me over. I love those ships that bicker and fight with each other but you just know that they are soft for each other. While those soft moments are far and between, I just ugh! They make me so happy (and will probably be getting their own post later on.)

Ainosuke/Tadashi have a wild relationship, which goes into spoiler territory so I'll avoid that. But listen...woof.

And there's just so many other fun combinations to do with the cast. This series ended up being one where while I did have my all time favorite ship, I just also shipped some many characters together. If I'm honest, Kaoru/Tadashi kind of trumps Kaoru/Kojiro for my top ship, but I rarely will say that because it's such a rarepair.

I don't really want to spoil the plot for any one who hasn't seen it. I will say I think the story is pretty heartwarming. There's a lot to learn about friendships and it really is a fun ride.

Please, don't mind the palm trees. They were the true enemy of the series.

I can wholeheartedly say Sk8 the Infinity is one of my comfort anime. I can't tell you how many times I've rewatched it or introduced someone to it. It makes me feel and I know I'll love it forever.