#show recs please

[lasisgood]

I'm not sure what to watch rn

I mean i could watch the new Batman series, or i could watch something else, idk i mean i wanna watch something that's slower paced since it's late and i just can't think of anything.

so if anyone's got anything i'll give it a go

[disappearinginq]

Show Recommendations

Ok, peeps - I need new show recommendations, because either everything I like has gone off the air, been cancelled on a cliffhanger, or has just turned to crap. They don’t need to be fantastic or award worthy, I just want to find something where they don’t punish the audience. (Looking at you, Good Doctor). 

Two minor caveats: it cannot be entirely subtitled in English (I listen mostly, either because I’m working from home and only look at the screen occasionally and I regrettably am only fluent in English; or I am looking down at crochet projects when not at work) and I really don’t like raunchy or comedy based on cringe/secondhand embarassment.

These are the ones I currently have to recommend for new shows: 

The Recruit on Netflix - lawyer for the CIA has the worst first week of work ever Will Trent - based on a series of books, but I haven’t read them so I don’t know how far they stray. New show, one episode, Trent is made for angst with horrific backstory of being found literally in the trash as an infant, severe dyslexia, and recently off a case where he put away a bunch of dirty cops, so he has no friends in the Atlanta PD. 

Things that I’ve watched and liked but aren’t new and/or haven’t started airing new episodes yet: 

Miss Scarlet and the Duke  All Creatures Great and Small Endeavour  Granchester NCIS and NCIS Hawai’i Slow Horses Ted Lasso Fire Country (I am on the fence with this one. Solid premise, dodgy execution, I would rather not be rescued by these guys) 9-1-1 Hudson & Rex Outer Banks Murdoch Mysteries Umbrella Academy Dragon Prince Blackbird Bad Sisters X Company Republic of Doyle The Mandalorian  Lucifer (except the last season) So Help Me Todd SurrealEstate Cobra Kai The Sandman The Rookie 12 Monkeys Killjoys Heartland Leverage Clearly, my interests are wide and varied, so please don’t feel like you have to recommend a specific type. I like Found Family tropes, I can take romance if it’s a side plot, I just really want to find something to be enthusiastic about again, and I am not finding it on my own. I like older shows, newer shows, shows with animals, shows that ignore reality....I am dying from lack of creativity in my life. 

[depreshroom]

I think the main reason I fell out of head-over-heels love with tumblr is because I lost the cartoons that dragged me to find people with like-minded opinions, and lost the cartoons that fueled that creativity. Another words: give me new shows!! I miss writing, and all the things that made me excited to write and create books of my own!!

This is a call to action, I’m asking for show recs!!

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[lavenderknivess]

hi mutuals because i am a workaholic i have been so behind on watching new tv shows. can yall give me recs in my asks???

so far im looking to catch up on loki and american horror story when i get time

[mswyrr]

[reineydraws]

i have this fic series i'm still working on where mihawk sort of becomes rayleigh's kid and spends ages 11-17ish on the oro jackson.

shanks and buggy imprint on him (bugs considers him a sort of older brother figure/sparring inspiration and shanks has a crush that eventually turns into full-blown love) and this is how i imagine they're like on the day mihawk sets off on his own haha.

[noonytoons]

Guys I just finished season 2 of Doctor Who and imma need a long ass fix-it fanfic where Rose and the Doctor live happily ever after or I will crash out.

[sarah-yyy]

Jie jie LGIEF rec post rec post rec post!!!!!!!

what: transmigration period drama // still airing (we're on ep 22 atm) // 32 eps, roughly 35 mins eachwhere: viki // netflix // wetv (standard disclaimer that i don’t watch with subs so i don’t speak to the quality of eng subs) why: this show is so fun ohmgod!! the costume designs are SO PRETTY and everyone looks bomb af!! ding yuxi is so good in this!! he plays a 姐姐控 demon hunter who falls in love with the first non-jiejie girl who is nice to him, it's a+++. if this show ends strong, it's going to be one of my favourites this year. do not do not do not let the terrible title put you off 🥺

ANYWAY let's go. meet ling miaomiao:

(how pretty is this entire wedding look ohmygod 我又沦陷了)

read a bad web-novel and ended up transmigrating into it while leaving a bad review (😂) - not as the female lead (mu yao-jiejie), but as the evil second female lead, lin yu, who is always trying to sabotage the main character's relationship with the male lead (liu-dage).

that's these two btw:

mu yao-jiejie comes as a package with her didi, mu sheng:

massive jiejie complex on this boy. has two goals in life only and that is: stay by jiejie's side + protect jiejie with his life.

the mu family are v prestigious in the demon hunting circles, but had their entire family massacred by a demoness years ago, so it's just these two siblings left. 🥺

in the original novel, lin yu ends up marrying mu sheng (not by choice) and is tortured(?) by mu sheng in return for all the grief she caused mu yao. massive BE for lin yu. massive BE for everyone actually. we did say it was a p terrible novel, didn't we?

miaomiao is Not Here for this. she doesn't want to be lin yu!! she wants to go home!! the system assigns her a task that will help her to do that - make mu sheng fall in love with you. 😏👌🏼

but my girl endures!! mostly because it's her only way out of this!! cue fun shenanigans with her trying to increase mu sheng's positive sentiments towards her (which started at like -200% 😂)!

mu sheng starts like this:

but miaomiao looks like this-

-on like a daily basis, so is it really mu sheng's fault that they become master and disciple! is it his fault that he has to give her a ring! what choice does he have but to become super protective over her 🥺:

it's all out of his hands!! he's got no choice!! who wouldn't fall in love with her!!

there are a few more plotty things in between but i'll leave us all off with just this for now. this show is incredibly fun and entertaining to watch, the plot is relatively simple and moves quickly, the leads are both a+++ in this (i actually forgot i was really into ding yuxi until yyxh), and overall just a very enjoyable watch!! 10/10 would rec!! START THIS SHOW BUDDIES!!!!!

(idk if the demon thing is considered a spoiler so i won't go into that but ahhhhhhhhhhh that's a huge huge huge selling point 😭 can y'all just take my word for it and start watching 😭)

[fivefeetfangirl]

I'm not kidding when I say this Hollywood strike is the perfect opportunity for a non-english show to become super popular and then inspire other non-english countries to make their own versions

[starplanes]

What are your favorite newish non-horror fiction podcasts? Bonus points if they're fantasy!

[vex-posts]

When the new favorite character curse consumes your braincells until there's nothing left but love, admiration, and the desire to put him through unfathomable torment <3

This is him btw. This is a middle aged man; he has three daughters and his wife left him. He's a bit if a pessimistic asshole but he cares about his friends. I love reading fics where he almost dies from blood loss <3

[thousandstories]

hey do u hv fic recs ?

i do! disclaimer that these are only a few of many amazing fics in this fandom. (also check individual works for content warnings.) i went pretty much exclusively from my bookmarks on ao3 as that's just where i save my favourites- i've tagged the authors if i know their tumblrs but otherwise check out their ao3 profiles <3

Heaven Is Not Fit by bloodofkingsonmytrousers / @you-know-i-get-itt (Jean/Renee / Jean & Renee, Time Loop AU)

honestly everything gia writes is incredible but this is one of my favourites. jeanee timeloop au with incredible twists & turns and an insane amount of emotion. i'd say more but if any fic deserves a spoiler-free reading experience it's this one. 100/10 ruined me for a month and counting.

anytime, always by kevjean (Kevin/Jean, Canon Compliant- Post-Canon)

post-canon, professional exy players kevin/jean where kevin's still trying to work through the trauma of his earlier years and jean seems to have made a lot more progress in healing (spoiler alert, they've both got stuff to work through). featuring biker jean, minor breaking-and-entering, and some lovely OCs. absolutely adore this fic.

we carry our own weight by wyverning / @wyverningx (Jeremy/Jean, Canon Divergence)

insanely well-done text-fic where jeremy messages the wrong number and finds himself regularly texting jean. it follows canon so well, the amount of research that goes into depicting the events is amazing. i don't want to give spoilers but the author really uses the medium to their advantage & everyone is so in-character (seriously, the jeremy dialogue especially feels like something straight from tsc). it's part of a series & it's excellent.

take yourself home by moonix (Neil/Andrew, No Exy AU)

amazing no-exy au where aaron only finds out andrew exists when tilda dies from non-car-murder-related causes. what follows is a mad race among his friends (the foxes) to track his twin down. i haven't really summarised the plot because spoilers, but it's excellent: the andrew POV is so well-written & his interactions with the various characters are perfect.

eyes wide open by jaylocked (Jeremy/Jean, No Exy AU)

love this one. despite being written several years pre-tsc, the characterisations are still absolutely amazing (not that them being different would be a deal-breaker, but it's still so impressive how the author took the hints of their personalities from the original aftg books and reached such a similar destination.) also jean has a service dog called napoleon & he's perfect (and jeremy's a high school english teacher!)

Lavender for Luck by Mercey / @merceyca (Kevin/Neil/Andrew, Witch AU)

please everyone read this, i need someone to talk about it with. practical magic/witch au where kevin escapes from the raven coven with jean and ends up being found by andrew and neil. kandreil shenanigans ensue. featuring neil having heartwrenchingly-fitting powers, andrew being insanely powerful, and riko getting a deserved fate. also jean is a cat and it works so well. (and while i was getting the link for this fic i saw the author's made it part of a wider series (though it's the only work at the moment) so that's my day made.)

[theriverbeyond]

been one of those days pass the yuri

[sabrondabrainrot]

Dear Tumblr

Will someone please recommend some good Sun and Moon crossover fics (with no reader inserts please)?

Or just a good sun and moon fic in general? It could even be tsams (but I might have read it already)

I crave.... Please....

[mswyrr]