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HUGE REC LIST OF THINGS
Dec. 29th, 2009 04:56 amBecause I've finally had time to READ and play and shit! Yeah! Time off!
So let's start with YULETIDE that wonderful time of year I discover there are fics written for pretty much everything I can think of and a few I didn't!
Most important. THE STORY WRITTEN FOR ME.
Rope (which is a Hitchcock film if you didn't know)
Only As Creators Can We Destroy
I WAS SECRETLY HOPING THIS WOULD BE THE FANDOM. Because there is nothing quite like a movie based on a famous murder case (Leopold and Loeb) done by Hitchcock in an experimental non-editing style with canon gayness and the perils of Nietzsche philosophies! This was essentially exactly the kind of dissection I was hoping for and it was SO nice to get into Rupert's head, as I wanted so much more of him in that film. Cause yeah. You can also read this if you haven't seen the film because it's so well laid out and the whole murder thing is given in the first five minutes ANYWAY and yeah.
Go go now!
And other Yuletiders that are full of awesome and win:
( recs for Boondock Saints, The Breakfast Club, Last Exile, Leverage, Lie to Me, Mad Men, Project Runway, Saving Face, and Spy Game )
And now other things!
Interactive Fiction
So I stayed up the night before my grades came out and did a lot of these! These were my favorites.
Photopia
Apparently some kind of classic IF that I had never run across. Really interesting and made me think a lot. Kind of an example in nonlinear story structure that is lovely.
Violet
This was so freaking cute, and even if I was sitting there trying to figure out the more puzzling aspects at least the hints were in fact useful and I didn't have to play find the verb much. It also lets you not be heteronormative, which was a feature that was strangely endearing to me, even if all it did was switch pronouns (but it's all about those pronouns, isn't it?).
Alabaster
A very interesting interpretation of Snow White, which ah, I admit to being mildly obsessed with. You're the Huntsman, and depending on your conversations with Ms. White and ah... others, you get lots of endings. I ended up with all the awesome ones completely by accident and then read the guide to find the less awesome ones. Really takes a lot of the symbolism to heart and the illustrations that change on the side were a really nice touch.
Flash Games
Every Day the Same Dream
Kind of an art game, but short enough you're not annoyed by its repetition. Brilliantly existential considering how simple it really is. Haunting too.
Boomshine
Just make chain reactions. This is apparently what my sister does when she's not doing homework.
Auditorium
Music, lights, and a nice learning curve. I'm currently still working through this one, but I love it.
So let's start with YULETIDE that wonderful time of year I discover there are fics written for pretty much everything I can think of and a few I didn't!
Most important. THE STORY WRITTEN FOR ME.
Rope (which is a Hitchcock film if you didn't know)
Only As Creators Can We Destroy
I WAS SECRETLY HOPING THIS WOULD BE THE FANDOM. Because there is nothing quite like a movie based on a famous murder case (Leopold and Loeb) done by Hitchcock in an experimental non-editing style with canon gayness and the perils of Nietzsche philosophies! This was essentially exactly the kind of dissection I was hoping for and it was SO nice to get into Rupert's head, as I wanted so much more of him in that film. Cause yeah. You can also read this if you haven't seen the film because it's so well laid out and the whole murder thing is given in the first five minutes ANYWAY and yeah.
Go go now!
And other Yuletiders that are full of awesome and win:
( recs for Boondock Saints, The Breakfast Club, Last Exile, Leverage, Lie to Me, Mad Men, Project Runway, Saving Face, and Spy Game )And now other things!
Interactive Fiction
So I stayed up the night before my grades came out and did a lot of these! These were my favorites.
Photopia
Apparently some kind of classic IF that I had never run across. Really interesting and made me think a lot. Kind of an example in nonlinear story structure that is lovely.
Violet
This was so freaking cute, and even if I was sitting there trying to figure out the more puzzling aspects at least the hints were in fact useful and I didn't have to play find the verb much. It also lets you not be heteronormative, which was a feature that was strangely endearing to me, even if all it did was switch pronouns (but it's all about those pronouns, isn't it?).
Alabaster
A very interesting interpretation of Snow White, which ah, I admit to being mildly obsessed with. You're the Huntsman, and depending on your conversations with Ms. White and ah... others, you get lots of endings. I ended up with all the awesome ones completely by accident and then read the guide to find the less awesome ones. Really takes a lot of the symbolism to heart and the illustrations that change on the side were a really nice touch.
Flash Games
Every Day the Same Dream
Kind of an art game, but short enough you're not annoyed by its repetition. Brilliantly existential considering how simple it really is. Haunting too.
Boomshine
Just make chain reactions. This is apparently what my sister does when she's not doing homework.
Auditorium
Music, lights, and a nice learning curve. I'm currently still working through this one, but I love it.
