The longest monthly review post so far, with TV shows, movies, crossover fanfiction, fancomics, anime, and everything else. I'm so close to shouting Bingo.
I love P. G. Wodehouse (the author of the Jeeves and Wooster books, and I thought the TV series was very enjoyable and a good adaptation of the books. It's weird how other people's tastes are so incomprehensible. I am English, so maybe that makes a difference. I think a part of Wodehouse's appeal in the present day is the nostalgia element.
I just discovered this blog via twitter (a link to your review of Planecrash). I did like HPMoR. Homestuck, Worm, Worth the Candle and Planecrash are all stories I've heard people mentions so many times and they're on my TBR list. I might add the Tanya/ASoIaF fanfic to the list now, since I've read ASoIaF multiple times and I've given up waiting for The Winds of Winter.
Hi Akiyama, thank you for your words and especially for telling me where you came from, Substack is really bad at telling me. J&W might be a case of my attention span being shot, I guess, but it really wasn't grabbing me. I might give the books a try in the future, and you should try the Unofficial Homestuck Collection if you ever feel like trying the comic.
Disagree on Fargo Act 1 quite strongly. It was my favorite act, it's 1 < 2 < 3 for me, but I liked all of them overall. This might be just something that comes down to the mysterious thing called "personal taste". Fargo Act 1 was my first exposure to Bavitz and first thing to strike me was the literary quality and color, which made it quite clear that Bavitz is an atypical fanfiction author that actually comes from a literary background. The quality of writing alone could have kept me entertained for the act, but it's not just that. The characters and their arcs in Act 1 are just plain good as well, the Lovecraftian action likewise, the humor funny. I remember that at the end of Act 1 I mentally compared Fargo to Worm, both prominently having dark/fantasy/action/horror/YA elements, and found Fargo to be denser, meaner and funnier, packing significantly more fun per page. I still stand by that.
I agree with everything you've said, but it's not enough for me. Even if the characters and quality of writing are 10/10, I *will* dislike the story if the plot events that take place are boring. So yeah, personal taste. I liked 2 and 3 about the same, both far above 1.
I love P. G. Wodehouse (the author of the Jeeves and Wooster books, and I thought the TV series was very enjoyable and a good adaptation of the books. It's weird how other people's tastes are so incomprehensible. I am English, so maybe that makes a difference. I think a part of Wodehouse's appeal in the present day is the nostalgia element.
I just discovered this blog via twitter (a link to your review of Planecrash). I did like HPMoR. Homestuck, Worm, Worth the Candle and Planecrash are all stories I've heard people mentions so many times and they're on my TBR list. I might add the Tanya/ASoIaF fanfic to the list now, since I've read ASoIaF multiple times and I've given up waiting for The Winds of Winter.
Hi Akiyama, thank you for your words and especially for telling me where you came from, Substack is really bad at telling me. J&W might be a case of my attention span being shot, I guess, but it really wasn't grabbing me. I might give the books a try in the future, and you should try the Unofficial Homestuck Collection if you ever feel like trying the comic.
Disagree on Fargo Act 1 quite strongly. It was my favorite act, it's 1 < 2 < 3 for me, but I liked all of them overall. This might be just something that comes down to the mysterious thing called "personal taste". Fargo Act 1 was my first exposure to Bavitz and first thing to strike me was the literary quality and color, which made it quite clear that Bavitz is an atypical fanfiction author that actually comes from a literary background. The quality of writing alone could have kept me entertained for the act, but it's not just that. The characters and their arcs in Act 1 are just plain good as well, the Lovecraftian action likewise, the humor funny. I remember that at the end of Act 1 I mentally compared Fargo to Worm, both prominently having dark/fantasy/action/horror/YA elements, and found Fargo to be denser, meaner and funnier, packing significantly more fun per page. I still stand by that.
I agree with everything you've said, but it's not enough for me. Even if the characters and quality of writing are 10/10, I *will* dislike the story if the plot events that take place are boring. So yeah, personal taste. I liked 2 and 3 about the same, both far above 1.