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⌈ Secret Post #2701 ⌋

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[The Almighty Johnsons]

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[X-Men Evolution]

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[The Dreaming Machine]

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[Parasol Protectorate]

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[Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Interview with the Vampire]

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[Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Team Fortress 2]

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[Severus Snape, Gerard Way]

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[Neil Patrick Harris/Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables/Hedwig and the Angry Inch)]

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[Gakuen babysitters]

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[The Walking Dead Game]

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[Billie Piper, Penny Dreadful]

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[Sherlock]

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So here is my experience with rereading/revisiting the authors I read growing up.

Heinlein: revisiting the juveniles is still fun, even though I have to regularly tell the Tumblr voices in the back of my head to SHUT UP. Rereading his "second age"/post-Crazy Years stuff, I suddenly understand aaaalllll the skeevy stuff that I just thought was weird/went way way way over my head at the time I first read them. Yeah, it doesn't hold up well.

Ellison: This was the one that really surprised me; I recently (last week recently) reread "I Have no Mouth..." and I was...meh on it. Makes me afraid to revisit anything else by him, because clearly this indicates I have completely lost my mind. And/or my taste and/or good sense.

McCaffrey: Yeah, no. No no no no no no. Very Bad Idea to reread anything by McCaffrey after you're about, oh, twelve. Even then it's iffy.

Asimov: I'm the anon currently slowly working my way through Foundation again. Seems okay for the moment, but unfortunately I'm having the "everything else ever was derived from this" with it so far.

Gibson: Hey, cyberpunk was my adolescent self's formative reading. But, yeah, very very very very dated, these days. Sadly. A lot of the Mondo 2000/Mirrorshades crowd's writing is the same, now. :-(

LeGuin: I honestly think this is the only writer on my list who has stood the test of time, and I get something new out of every re-read.

That's all I can think of, right now.

I don't think I've ever actually read any of those authors, except maybe an Asimov short story, now that I think about it. I'll have to try reading LeGuin, I've heard of her, but never got around to her books for some reason or another. Weird.

If you're starting with LeGuin, I would recommend The Dispossessed. Anything from the Hainish Cycle is reliably engrossing. The later Hainish stuff is much more atmospheric. The earlier Hainish pieces, are much lighter on description/exposition of the worldbulding (but no less fascinating) whereas the more recent pieces in the same universe are definitely all about the worldbuilding and how the characters are a part of the world, but not really in the way of plot-heavy interactions/conflict/etc.

For something completely different, but still LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven is a complete mindscrew, but in a good way.

Thanks for the recs! I've added them to my list. :3

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