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[dhampyresa]

Recruit people into your fandoms and/or pairings and/or characters!

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(Thanks anon for the reassurance ;w; I hope you find some cool new stuff to get into!)

The Lone Gunmen is a TV series about the three men who make up the titular Lone Gunmen newspaper group, which is dedicated to exposing the truth in conspiracy theories about government corruption and cover-ups. It's a much more lighthearted and comical spinoff of the X-Files, but it stands perfectly well on its own. (I'd personally highly recommend watching the two episodes of X-Files that feature them and show how they met, 5x3 Unusual Suspects and 6x20 Three of a Kind, but they're not necessary.) The plotlines often involve common fic tropes (taking care of a baby? yup! prison episode? of course!) and the writers were definitely aware of how many X-Files fans had the hots for the Gunmen, because they lean pretty hard into fanservice and shipbaiting. The three main characters and their dynamic as a found family are an absolute delight, in no small part thanks to how different they are. Melvin Frohike, the oldest and shortest gunman, was a counterculture radical in the 60s and now specializes in surveillance and photography and wears nothing but leather and ugly vests. Richard "Ringo" Langly, the youngest and tallest, is a punk rocker and D&D enthusiast who used to sell bootleg cable while hacking on the side. And landing right in the middle is John Fitzgerald Byers, a suit-wearing former FCC employee named for the president who was killed on the day he was born, and whose faith in the establishment was shattered on the day he met the other Gunmen. All three of them are varying degrees of weird, geeky, and paranoid, but they're still presented as heroic American patriots (played by Canadian actors) who are doing the right thing by questioning everything. They're joined by Jimmy Bond, an optimistic but not too bright football player who adores them and funds their paper, and Yves Adele Harlow, a mysterious woman who slips in and out of their lives as both an ally and a rival. All 13 episodes are available on Youtube!
(I'm not sure if this needs a content note, but just in case: the first episode, which aired several months before 9/11, revolves around an attempt to crash an airplane into the WTC. Ultimately the plane doesn't connect, but it's a very close call. If anyone needs more details or timestamps for scenes containing certain things or anything else, please let me know!)

Max Headroom is probably familiar to a lot of people, considering he was the face of MTV and Coke (and the infamous broadcast signal intrusion), as well as the host of two different talk shows. In the dystopian cyberpunk canon he comes from, he's the results of the brain scan of a journalist with a head injury turned into a fully sentient AI. The TV series is about the injustices of society uncovered by Edison Carter, the journalist who provided the blueprint for Max, and the people he works with at Channel 23—Bryce Lynch, a 16 year old programming genius who designed Max, and Theora Jones, whose job is to hack into security systems so that Carter can access restricted or guarded areas and get the full truth. The plotlines are sometimes comical and sometimes a little on-the-nose, often both at once (courtroom proceedings being televised as an obnoxious buzzer-filled game show is ridiculous... but really, how many steps removed from that is Judge Judy?) There are tons of offhand mentions of concepts that leave room for worldbuilding headcanons. The technology is all delightfully dated/nostalgic, and there are some plots involving concepts that had barely been explored at the time, like malicious Trojan programs and firewalls. All 14 episodes are free to stream in the US on the CW Seed (and for people not in the US, I can confirm from Canada that using a proxy works just fine. but i never said that shhh)

Liar! Uncover the Truth is an otome game, and it's absolutely hilarious—both intentionally and unintentionally. The concept is that you, a recently single wedding planner who's yearning to get married, meet ten gorgeous men at a matchmaking party... but a mysterious fortune teller warns you that 9 of them are hiding terrible secrets. Your mission is to sniff out the liars and find your dream husband. There's a ton of content, including shipbaity bonus stories about your love interests getting close, and a lengthy sequel that's currently being published. This is a matter of taste, really, but despite the fact that I found some of the love interests absolutely repellant, every single one grew on me thanks to the way the sequel has been handling their sometimes genuinely frightening lies, and how they own up to lying and strive to rebuild trust. The translators/localizers/writers clearly took some liberties and had a lot of fun with Liar. Lines like “hold onto your panties, bitch, shit's about to get real” and “a guy who matches all your ideals is as rare as a unicorn that fights evil with the power of music” are probably going to stick with me for the rest of my days. It's free to play, but it does take a bit of a time investment unless you pay for more story tickets. It's available for iOS and on Google Play!

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[(Anonymous)]

Liar! Uncover the Truth looks so fun. Will definitely download it!