Recommending media
January 19th, 2021 15:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mc776For a couple months after I first played Life Is Strange I'd gone back and forth about recommending it to steorra since it seemed to so unreservedly represent that kind of friendship that's been the subject of a few posts here.
After eventually finding my way into Pricefield fanfic I decided maybe not.
But then this interview happened and I've been reminded of why I considered making that recommendation all over again:
So, content warnings (which are kinda self-explanatory as to why I'm not ultimately actively making any recommendation): sexual assault, rape culture, suicide, implied genocide, blasphemy, aggravating loose ends everywhere, everything kinda cranked up to 11, prominent problematic character with all too familiar name.
As a much more general and unreserved recommendation, last week I discovered (through someone I was following on Tumblr for LiS-related reasons) Daughter of the Lilies and it's an excellent, if slowly updated, webcomic through and through.
Content warnings: graphic violence, genocide-related themes, weirdly overzealous cuss censoring
(Random personal aside: A couple days before discovering DotL I'd just decided to give up on reading Kill Six Billion Demons and was wondering if I'd been too depressed to care about any of the characters or what was happening. DotL felt like it filled in exactly the void I was feeling in K6BD and more.)
steorra since it seemed to so unreservedly represent that kind of friendship that's been the subject of a few posts here.After eventually finding my way into Pricefield fanfic I decided maybe not.
But then this interview happened and I've been reminded of why I considered making that recommendation all over again:
“I think the thing that hooks most people, myself included, is the beautiful friendship between Max and Chloe,” says Chamlis. “Now, before everyone freaks out, I am absolute Pricefield trash through and through. But there is a lot to be said for that feeling of having a best platonic friend. Someone you can rely on completely and that you would do anything for. Something a lot of people can identify with having when they were kids but probably not any more since they are adults, which, of course, adds to the feeling of nostalgia that the game invokes as a whole. I have had a Chloe Price in my life in my younger years. I've also had a Rachel Amber in my life. Hell, I've even been someone else's Chloe Price for a little while myself. But I think everyone, no matter who you are, has a little Max Caulfield inside them. Everyone can identify with Max, either within themselves or with someone close to them.”
So, content warnings (which are kinda self-explanatory as to why I'm not ultimately actively making any recommendation): sexual assault, rape culture, suicide, implied genocide, blasphemy, aggravating loose ends everywhere, everything kinda cranked up to 11, prominent problematic character with all too familiar name.
As a much more general and unreserved recommendation, last week I discovered (through someone I was following on Tumblr for LiS-related reasons) Daughter of the Lilies and it's an excellent, if slowly updated, webcomic through and through.
Content warnings: graphic violence, genocide-related themes, weirdly overzealous cuss censoring
(Random personal aside: A couple days before discovering DotL I'd just decided to give up on reading Kill Six Billion Demons and was wondering if I'd been too depressed to care about any of the characters or what was happening. DotL felt like it filled in exactly the void I was feeling in K6BD and more.)