The Coalies Are Back In Town

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Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Some people want some, you happen to have some.

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for short animes (< 24ish episodes) to broaden my tiny wading pool of canons! Preference to historical and then it's open season. Tell me why you like your tiny anime canon!

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried Moriarty the Patriot? It's a Holmes adaptation but from Moriarty's point of view. Very slashy including brother incest if that's up your alley. It's two seasons and the ending is open season for fic, pretty much.

I'm also very curious to see it anyone shows up wanting Vanitas no Carte, which is period vampires. It is...extremely anime, with pretty and interesting people engaging in all sorts of hilarious or melodramatic circumstances. Lots of horny blood drinking and ships of various combinations. Only 12 eps, the last one is airing this week. The setting itself is really interesting too and I could see someone really making use of the new worldbuilding tag (if that goes through?).

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

House of Five Leaves! It's a historical series about a shy ronin who gets hired by a group of bandits, and it's lovely. 12 episodes.

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

91 Days, a 12 episode mafia anime set in the US during the Prohobition era that follows the revenge quest of Angelo Lagusa, whose parents were murdered by a mafia family when he was a child.

Joker Game, a 12 episode anime set mostly pre-WWII about a fictional Japanese spy agency that focuses mostly on cool spies doing spy stuff.

Both anime have a lot of slashy potential!

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

Like the Clouds, Like the Wind is a TV movie about a country girl in ancient China who's trying to become the concubine of the Emperor (because she hears it's an easy life with lots to eat). Once there, she has to deal with court intrigues, secret plots, and more.

It's a fun movie with lots of interesting female characters, and I quite enjoyed it. (and no, it's not a real Ghibli movie, it just shares a character designer)

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

Erased (on Netflix in my country) aka Boku Dake ga inai machi is 12 episodes, has some lovely characters, and a suspenseful, tight plot! It's a small fandom that focuses on a guy who is sent back in time to solve a series of child murders - except he's stuck in the body of his 12 year old self, and he might be the murderer's next target.

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

It's a little bit over (26 episodes) and fairly recent history (1950s), but the 2004 Tetsujin #28 series is very good. It's about a young boy in post-war Japan who inherits a giant robot that his father built in the last days of the war, that he's now trying to use for good. Along the way he has to deal with all the terrors and war crimes the adults around him committed back in the war.

Re: Canon Recs - short anime

[(Anonymous)]

There's no way you haven't seen Mononoke, but... holy shit Mononoke. Edo period-ish and then a time skip to 1920-ish. Synopsis: a travelling medicine seller investigates and banishes spirits. Vibes: like an acid trip through kabuki hell. I'm rewatching it for the first time in ages and goddamn it's still a masterpiece of art horror, 100% gorgeous 100% grisly. Absolute miracle that something as fresh and sharp as this was produced during the moe boom era. (3 + 12 episodes)

The Photo Studio is a wonderful animated short about a girl getting her photo taken over the years and the photographer who tries to get her to smile for the portraits. Spans most of the 20th century. (16 mins)

Not really a rec since it only just started (3 episodes so far), but if you want some Epic History in your historical anime then there's a Heike Monotagari adaptation. Personally, I think the show is all over the place, but it's by Science Saru so the design has that exceptionally clean, stylized quality and it will probably make all the Best Of lists at the end of the season.

Re: Canon Recs - books?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for books (either stand-alone or short series) with a preference for historical stuff, female characters, found family, adventure. I can take or leave romance. Tell me about your underrated fave!

Re: Canon Recs - books?

[(Anonymous)]

You might like Jill by E. A. Dillwyn, a novel from the 1880s about a young lady who runs away from home and makes her own way in the world as a lady's-maid. Jill and Kitty, the lady she works for, get into some terribly exciting adventures together when they go travelling. They're both great characters, and Jill in particular is a refreshingly unusual type of main female character for the 19th century—bold, brash, self-reliant and resourceful—and I love their relationship.

Re: Canon Recs - books?

[(Anonymous)]

I am a huge fan of Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s technically fantasy and there are some minor magical elements but it’s really more about this European-ish nation that gets into such extensive warfare in a vaguely mid-1800s time period that women (including the main character) are drafted. I think it’s so well written and has interesting character development.

The Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas is set in Victorian England and is a gender flipped Sherlock series (shocking, I know). There’s super slow burn romance and lots of mystery solving.

The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner is a historical fantasy series set in something like Turkey/Anatolia of the classical antiquity era. The main character is largely male but there are a good amount of very interesting female characters. Plenty of adventure.

Circe by Madeline Miller is a retelling of the legend of Circe (of The Odyssey fame). I really like Madeline Miller’s writing.

The Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher is a fantastic fantasy series! I love T. Kingfisher and this series does not disappoint—-I love the female characters in both books! Lots of adventure.

Re: Canon Recs - books?

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on the historical era(s) you're interested in, you might really like the Templar Knight Mysteries series by Maureen Ash! Superb detail on the historical setting and excellent found family. The books are pretty short and can be read totally independently of one another. IMO the first two books – The Alehouse Murders and Death of a Squire – are the best. Warnings for period-typical (late 12th/early 13th century England) Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Any recent horror canons worth checking out? Especially podcasts, audiobooks, movies?

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

I don't usually do horror, but I know some podcast fans are planning to nom Malevolent. It's a lovecraftian horror about a detective who loses his sight when he mysteriously gets possessed by a demon who controls his eyes. They have to work together to investigate how and why the demon was summoned to this plane, and they encounter all sorts of other creepy mysteries along the way.

You can listen here: https://www.diceshamepodcast.com/malevolent

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

The BBC just completed a mockumentary podcast series following two podcasters investigating various Lovecraft plots, one per season. I'm just now in the middle of the second season (out of three), and it's good quality and well-produced, really well-paced, with what seems like an over-arching plot that may or may not tie everything together in the end.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads

I feel like mostly I've been taking in older horror this year, though. I have a variety of movie recs from the late 70s through the mid-80s...

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

I'm excited for Last Night in Soho and very bummed that it is coming out after nominations

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

The Silt Verses, horror podcast by the same creators as I am in Eskew.

Re: Canon Recs

[(Anonymous)]

The first new Halloween sequel that came out in 2018 was really fun IMO - traumatized badass Laurie Strode, great complicated female relationships. And the second sequel comes out just before signups close!

(This trilogy ignores all previous Halloween canon except the original 1978 movie, so you can ignore all the stuff in between.)

Re: Canon Recs - WW1

[(Anonymous)]

Any recs for WW1-related canons? Military-focused or otherwise. I've got a new historical obsession and I'd love to pick up some new canons that I could offer for Yuletide.

Re: Canon Recs - WW1

[(Anonymous)]

Do you like m/m?
* = canon gay relationship
# = just before or after WWI but has implications of it

1917
Testament of Youth *
Another Country *#
For A Lost Soldier * (warning for consensual but underage/age gap)
The Grand Budapest Hotel #
Little Ashes *#
Lawrence of Arabia
Tolkien
Blizzard of Souls
Peaky Blinders #
Gallipoli

Re: Canon Recs - WW1

[(Anonymous)]

Pat Barker's Regeneration books!

Re: Canon Recs - magic wlw

[(Anonymous)]

Very into YA (books) at the moment but definitely don’t object to other forms of media. The wlw doesn’t have to be canon but would be nice to have a shippy element. Bonus points for incest 👀

Re: Canon Recs - 2021 Canons

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to watch or read something that's come out somewhat recently that I can easily watch/read. I like things that have good shipping potential and reasonably happy endings (or at least not sad/unhappy endings), although totally fine to be something that is still currently ongoing. Not a fan of horror or grimdark. Film, tv, book, webcomic, graphic novel, I'm into all of it.

Re: Canon Recs – fated slashy task/journey

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for canons in any media where male character A, of a high social class, is designated a hero and has to go on a long journey or perform an extremely dangerous task for reasons not totally within his own control. He is accompanied/aided by male character B who is of a lower social class and is devoted to A to the point of disregarding his own safety on numerous occasions. The stress of the task, or associated supernatural factors, mean that A is either self-destructive, horrible to B, totally out of it, a danger to everyone around him, or all of these things. Bonus if at least one of them dies at the end.