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Searching Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Because I need to find something so others might need to as well. Searching thread for ANYTHING! Movies, books, genres, fics, a new coffee mug, whatever. Change the subject line! It helps!

Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

So, I recently watched and fell in love with The Thing. I LOVE the theme of "You don't know who the monster could be. You can't trust anyone." I've also listened to one or two horror stories with the same kind of theme.

So I am looking for anymore movies/books/tv/fic/games where the protagonist(s) can't trust the world around them. Bonus if they can't even trust their own minds (ex. they are drugged so what they are seeing could be false).

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[aboutelle]

I just started reading "Splinter" by Sebastian Fitzek. It's about a guy who feels so guilty about causing the death of his family that he volunteers for a psychiatric experiment altering his memory and apparently that fucks him up pretty seriously. Might be something you're interested in... I just started it so I can't say if it's good but I've read a lot of other books by Fitzek and never been disappointed.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

It has pretty food reviews. It sounds like a combination of The Machinist and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

PKD's your fix. Specifically "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "Valis," "Minority Report," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

Also the Rotoscope(sp?) movie of Through a Scanner Darkly, with Keanu Reeves. Actually on par with the original, which is something I never thought I would say.

Basically, anything written by Philip K. Dick.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

Oh! Thank you! One of the stories I listened to, Sylvia's Blood was based off of a PKD's story. And I remember thinking I should read some of his stuff. Now I know that I must!

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[ex_earthshaker594]

My first thought was Perfect Blue (when Black Swan came out there was some buzz about it borrowing from Perfect Blue, to get an idea of what it's like), but a more approachable (read: "less likely to keep you up at night") Kon work that handles similar themes might be Paprika. I've also heard great things about Paranoia Agent.

If it doesn't have to be horror, C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces does a good job of playing around with this. My mind's sort of blanking on anything better, sorry :c

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding Phillip K Dick, and movies based on Phillip K Dick. GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a pretty amusing humorous Edwardian novel based on a similar premise. It's also one of the basic ideas of X-Files (Trust No One) and gets iterated in different ways in a lot of episodes, including one that's pretty much an explicit ripoff of The Thing.

Also, if you want some more recs, it might be worthwhile to try digging around these pages:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/paranoia
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/perception

Good female-centric fantasy

[philstar22]

I'm looking for some new fantasy to read on my vacation. I'd love stuff that was either female-centric or at least had interesting, complex female characters.

Things I really like are complex characters and interesting worldbuilding that makes sense in context and the author has clearly thought through all the way.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[(Anonymous)]

What kind of media, though? Could I rec a comic?

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[othellia]

No idea what you've read but...

- Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
- All of Tamora Pierce's Stuff (personal favorite has always been her Protector of the Small series)
- Started reading the Kushiel series recently and I've really liked those
- Terry Pratchett's witches books (Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum), and then also his Tiffany Aching books which sort of fall under the "witches" books, and then also Monstrous Regiment

And then also a pseudo-rec, my sister has been harping at me to read the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. Apparently they are amazing and I am missing out.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[(Anonymous)]

Martha Wells -- Wheel of the Infinite, Death of the Necromancer, Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, and the Raksura books. (The Raksura books have a male POV character, but female characters are very important.) Her worldbuilding is awesome.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[killaurey]

Hmmm. I dunno what you've read but, book-wise... maybe try:

Fires of the Faithful / Turning the Storm by Naomi Kritzer
The Raine Benares series by Lisa Shearin
The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[(Anonymous)]

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles are great if you haven't! Also pretty much anything by Diana Wynne Jones, those are lovely books.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[sarillia]

Can I rec my friend Shira Glassman's stuff? Her Mangoverse series started with one book that she used to summarize as "about a gay woman, a straight woman, and a dragon". It's pretty reminiscent of fairy tales but the worldbuilding is still strong because she wanted to create a Jewish fantasy world based on her home in Florida, something that she had never seen in the genre before. The main couple in this series is the only ship I have that I would call a OTP. I love them so much, and I love the other main couple too (one is f/f and the other is m/f). But the friendship between the two female characters I mentioned before is the biggest relationship, at least in the first book, which is called The Second Mango.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[(Anonymous)]

Patricia McKillip, Patricia McKillip, Patricia McKillip. Really great writer, and most of her recent stuff, which is the stuff that I like the most, has pretty good female characters. Really sort of old-school fantasy.

Also, Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion books are really good. And while the first novel in the series, Curse of Chalion, isn't particularly female-centric - I mean, it's not lacking in female characters, but the main character is a man - the second book, Paladin of Souls, has a great female lead, and is also a really fantastic book. Unfortunately, while it's not a direct sequel, there is a certain amount of background knowledge about characters and dynasties and events of the first book that isn't quite as well explained as it could be.

Also also Jo Walton

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[loracarol]

Definitely seconding Tamora Pierce and Patricia C. Wrede (the Enchanted Forest Chronicles).

Personally I like the Protector of the Small books best (when it comes to her Tortall series), and I think it's pretty accessible, even if you haven't read the previous two quartets? (If you have read them, though, ignore me. |D)

The ETC is also pretty good; the first book is from Cimorene's point of view (3rd person limited), and she's lovely. All the books have lovely female characters, even when they're not the POV characters.

If you're looking for something short and sweet, I'd like to add "The Ordinary Princess"; it's not the most complicated book in the world, but it's sweet, and Amy is amazing IMO. :)

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[(Anonymous)]

The Indigo series, by Louise Cooper. A fantasy take on the Pandora legend. The Pandora-figure, along with her telepathic wolf, must travel for centuries, immortal, defeating the demons she's let loose on the world.

Re: Good female-centric fantasy

[ariakas]

Kristen Britain's Green Rider series. The first book's a little shaky, but they get progressively better as the series goes on, which is always nice to see.

YouTube Music

[(Anonymous)]

I recently discovered Karliene and Taylor Davis on YouTube, and I was wondering what other amateur or semi-amateur musicians are out there. Who do you guys like?

Also, I don't follow music at all. What are some good or catchy recent pop songs?

Re: YouTube Music

[(Anonymous)]

Hank Green, Jonathan Coulton, Rhett and Link

Re: YouTube Music

[ginainthekingsroad]

iamamiwhoami is kind of borderline-applicable as youtube music as Jonna Lee had a decent professional career in a different genre before this, and they have real producers and are now signed to a real label and perform at festivals and stuff. But when it started, it was all done with anonymous artists/producers and all delivered through cool trippy youtube videos. They still do awesome videos and I adore their music.

Snowman items

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone remember seeing snowman items on CafePress (or elsewhere) from a shop roughly containing the words "Art by Angi[e]"? I'm a little shaky on the spelling, as the items of hers that I do have don't have her signature large enough to read it well. In any case, I really like her stuff and want to buy more of it, especially shirts. I bought a raglan sleeve tee a few years ago, and unfortunately boob growth since then has made it fit a bit small. *facepalm*

Fantasy with slavery as a plot/worldbuilding point

[(Anonymous)]

Would also take sci-fi.

Even fanfic is okay (especially if it's an AU or something where I don't really have to be familiar with the characters) but I'm not really looking for kink/erotica.

Re: Fantasy with slavery as a plot/worldbuilding point

[feotakahari]

I haven't read it, but I've heard good things about Guardians of the Flame. The titular "flame" is the belief that slavery is wrong, an unusual idea in a setting where it's practically ubiquitous.