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I saw some people making lists of 100 formative books or other media to see how many of them other people have read, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon! But I did all kinds of media in one list, which was both way harder than I expected to get to 100 and yet I feel like I've missed a lot of important things I just can't remember off the top of my head lmao.
But here we go: Lex Tinkaton's 100 Formative Media List
I included stuff from my teen years, so anything that influenced me as a kid or I was obsessed with as a teen. There's probably a lot of old books I've missed, I used to read a loooot of series like Animorphs, Goosebumps, etc. for older elementary/middle grade readers that had like 500 books in a series. Lots of typical 90s kid stuff, I filled up a lot of spots with Disney and other animated movies. I noticed when adding my favorite old anime and manga that a ton of it had to do with gay stuff, crossdressing, or gender fuckery, which looking back is like lol. It's fitting that Adolescence of Utena got the first spot because that movie rewired my brain when I saw it in what, 5th grade? Video games were tough to narrow down too because I still think back fondly on a lot of PS1/PS2 games that I still consider faves.
Anyway, if anyone plays, let me know how many you get! Which of you would've matched my freak if we'd met in high school.
But here we go: Lex Tinkaton's 100 Formative Media List
I included stuff from my teen years, so anything that influenced me as a kid or I was obsessed with as a teen. There's probably a lot of old books I've missed, I used to read a loooot of series like Animorphs, Goosebumps, etc. for older elementary/middle grade readers that had like 500 books in a series. Lots of typical 90s kid stuff, I filled up a lot of spots with Disney and other animated movies. I noticed when adding my favorite old anime and manga that a ton of it had to do with gay stuff, crossdressing, or gender fuckery, which looking back is like lol. It's fitting that Adolescence of Utena got the first spot because that movie rewired my brain when I saw it in what, 5th grade? Video games were tough to narrow down too because I still think back fondly on a lot of PS1/PS2 games that I still consider faves.
Anyway, if anyone plays, let me know how many you get! Which of you would've matched my freak if we'd met in high school.
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Adolescence of Utena was my first introduction to Utena and I had NO idea what was going on but I was enthralled. I forced my non-anime-fan friend to watch specific fight scenes. I found the soundtrack at a Media Play that was going out of business and listened to it nonstop. So basically: you should watch Adolescence of Utena jshfksjhsk
Evanescence doing that collab song for the new Devil May Cry cartoon got me listening to old albums again and Fallen is still top tier for sure. Every song is a banger!!
Wolf's Rain is one of my top 3 anime to this day, I remember staying up late Saturday nights to watch it air on Adult Swim. And YYH was sooo good, I was a super predictable Hiei and Kurama fangirl lmao.
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I was a super predictable Hiei and Kurama fangirl lmao
okay, but: Hiei & Kurama!!! I love them... when I rewatched the series in college I fell head-first into Hiei/Kurama as a ship asdfghjkl; and I still stand by it! Their dynamic is so good. (I do find it funny how, on paper, Kurama is the one who is super obviously going to be my fave character—fox-themed! pretty long flowing hair! plants with potential for plant-based horror! etc.!—but nope, Hiei is the one who stole that spot in my heart first.)
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They're such a classic ship... I feel like I was the same too, like Kurama SHOULD have been my fave first but Hiei actually stole the show initially. I remember printing out fanart of the two of them to make a collage page for the front of my binder in like 8th grade or whatever. The good ol' days...