![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7
Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 13th
❄ Challenge #7 on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
snowflake_challenge.
Wishlist!
I had to go look at other people's wishlists to see what kind of thing people were asking for, because I've not done one of these casual fandom wishlists before. Only exchanges, lol, which are very different. So!
- Music recommendations, and a reason why you're recommending it. And what I mean is...
- Your favorite song!
- The new song you just heard on the radio that you had to go look up immediately.
- A song that makes you think of a particular character, and who that character is.
- A song that would TOTALLY be the theme song of your life.
- The 14th random song in your library.
- A song in a genre you literally never listen to, except for this one.
- The song that flings you back to middle school/hs/a different period of your life.
- Any other song that you think would be awesome for me to know about...
- Basically, The Algorithm can only introduce me to so much new music at a time, and Boil The Frog is finicky. I love hearing about why a song is significant, too. That's the best part (beyond introducing me to new music.)
no subject
My favorite song at the moment is "Unintentional Big Dream" by Liu Yuning, from the cdrama Fangs of Fortune soundtrack. Liu Yuning does a lot of music for various cdramas (and has even acted in some of them), and this track is quite different from his usual style and sound he does for the majority of them.
My fourteenth random song: "Watch Me" by Joanna Pacitti
A song that takes me back to middle school: "Just Go" by Staind
A song I think you should know about: "Howling" by XG. I've fallen in love with XG since I discovered them last year, and this was among their most recent releases and it's so good. XG is an all-Japanese global girl group that sings entirely in English (and does promotions in South Korea, while also traveling globally for tours), their concept is of an alien wolf pack and their sound is very much a mixture of rnb/rap/hip-hop/pop that is reminiscent of 90s/early 00s music scene (example: "Left Right").
For scifi book recs, I absolutely love Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles. It's dense, weird, and continues to get weirder with each installment of his six book series. The Southern Reach trilogy (well, now series since there is a fourth book out) by Jeff VanderMeer is such a wonderfully crafted story. And while I haven't dived into the books just yet, The Expanse books by James S.A. Corey is something I tend to recommend simply because I know it's going to be good based from the television show, which the authors also had a hand in helping create.
For fiction featuring time travel, there is a lot that seems to qualify for me in some ways, particularly that of cdramas/cnovels/Asian media in general (it's quite a common trope, whether it's time travel or transmigration of sorts). Guardian is one that I found to be quite well-done, while in the novel it is quite different the drama had to change things due to censorship reasons, however they managed to do it very well, imho. The time travel, or time loop, aspect just fits so perfectly and adds so much emotional layers, on top of everything else.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is one that I go back to a lot when it comes to time travel, because obviously it is of the Terminator franchise so it's a given, but the way it is done in the show is magnificent. They utilized the concept of different timelines, of both going back and going forward in time, for different reasons.