100 Things List

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Since I am avoiding a deadline at the moment I spent all night making up a random list of 100 items of formative media modeled after queenlua 's list of 100 books. I started out with books, but hitting 100 titles that really had a notable impact on me was impossible, largely because my memory is not strong enough for me to recall enough of them and also because I read a lot of schlock that doesn't linger. So instead it's Books, Movies, TV, and Games (and 3 bands).

This list is here. Looking it over it's a whacky mix of stuff that grabbed me at an early age but never would have otherwise made a dent (most of the movies) or stuff that really changed my brain one way or another. There are a few books on there that suck ass but my reading them still resulted in a permanent change in brain chemistry, so they stand with the rest. I also tried to stick to a single instance within a group. So, not every Ghibli film, not every Blizzard game, etc., just representative or particularly notable titles.

If you decide to join me in wasting some time let me know how many you matched with and if there's stuff you have strong opinions about or find intriguing.

I'm sure when I wake up tomorrow I'm going to think, "Why is X not on the list?!"

ETA:

I did in fact realize there were two things that absolutely should have been on the list.

The first is Anne Fausto-Sterling's Myths of Gender, which had a massive effect on my understanding of society's understanding of gender. The other is Language in Thought and Action by Hayakawa, which first got me into linguistics and probably turned me into a total sophomoric ass sometimes re. semantics.

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

34! Didn't even think to include Farside in my quiz but omg it was SO influential on me artistically especially in my youth.

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My uncle had a bunch of Far Side and Bloom County books at his place so they were the number 1 most influential cartoons of my young life.

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"The Count of Monte Cristo" is funny because it's still something I haven't read but I do love Gankutsuou, AND I still need to read Steven Brust's Dragaeran take on the story ("The Baron of Magister Valley")

I used to love "The Enchanted Forest Chronicles". I'd reread it a lot. I get mad when people complain that crap like "Eragon" fills the "unfilled" niche of dragon fantasy when that quadrilogy exists.

Are you watching the "100 Years of Solitude" live-action series adaptation? I started with a friend. I don't like the story but the production did a good job. And it's fun to listen to in Spanish.

I used to be really obsessed with the movie soundtrack for "The Phantom of the Opera". I still hum it every now and then.

Have you seen the animated adaptation of "Watchmen"? I need to watch Chapter 2 at some point. I thought Chapter 1 did a decent job.

"Castle in the Sky" is one of my friend's favorite Ghiblis. I never liked it, sadly.

Final Frontier is one of the reasons I want to do a rewatch of all the movies. I watched them all many years ago, some on laserdisc, and I remember very little about most of them except the Spock trilogy (I used to rewatch it all the time lol I liked that it was a nice trilogy), bits of Nemesis, Generations, and First Contact.

I used to replay "The Curse of Monkey Island" a bit, though I was really bad at it lol I think I only ever beat it once because I just ran into roadblocks. Did you play "Return to Monkey Island"? There's also a really fun video about the series that RetroyAhoy did that I rewatch a lot https://youtu.be/9F9ahZQ7oP0?si=uSUlorMhJeMDkZaW.

Apologies for being affected by Ayn Rand.

Ah WoW. Too many years there.

I used to rewatch "The Land Before Time" and its movies a bit until I realized the first one just scared me and I should stop lol

Oh I finally watched "Escaflowne" (series and then the movie, haven't touched the books) recently :D Wrote some fic for it too :3 Allen is my beloved.

I'm gonna get to watch "Gargoyles" with me because they've never seen it :3 I'm looking forward to a rewatch, it's been too long. I went and browsed some fanfic on Ao3 recently and it was nice. There's lots of great writers in this fandom.

"Batman Beyond" 4ever :3333 Terry, my beloved.

We used to watch a lot of "Magic School Bus" and had lots of the books, and I was watching a complete playthrough of "The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System (1994)" recently because I never managed to beat it lol

I still want to read all the "Animorphs" books someday. I used to reread one of the prequels and the last book a lot.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is so good. The movie adaptation is amazing.

"Maus" is excellent :3 There's a lot on that last page I connect with. I got a 38%.

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I love Gankutsuou! I read the novel first and have to say it did the book justice. I'd say the book is definitely worth watching. Had no idea Brust did a treatment of it.

I wasn't aware 100 Years of Solitude was getting an adaptation. I would never imagine it as an adaptation which makes me more intrigued to watch.

There was a year in high school where the Phantom soundtrack was all I listened to. And then I saw a play production and it just wasn't the same. And then I saw the Butler movie. =X

I haven't seen the adaption of Watchmen either. I've seen the Snyder movie and liked it more than a lot of people I think, but mostly because it was largely faithful to the book. But this is a story I'm otherwise not compelled to go back to. It feels too perfect as a comic.

Ayn Rand is the one of two books that I put on there that actually suck ass lol. I did this list while chatting with friends and when we got to that I told them that the biggest effect it had on me is it turned me into an extreme communist briefly because I thought it was so stupid. I tried to engage my teachers with it because I wanted to complain about it and they indulged me. So I guess I was lucky that I wasn't lured in by her BS.

I'm in the same boat with the Animorphs. I got far but never to the end. I just ended up reading the wiki plot many years later.

Allen is great. I hated him when he first showed up and then ended up loving him in the end. But Folken was my OTC. I have always been weak to suffering villains.

Thanks for going through so thoroughly!

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Disney's Encanto was seemingly inspired by 100 Years, so it makes some sense someone would turn it into a more actual adaptation. It's a very weird book to adapt, but they do a decent enough job from what I've seen.

I can't rewatch the Phantom movie anymore lol I don't touch anything to do with it. It was fine for what it was, anyway. And that's not saying much.

To be honest, I did an essay in college about Watchmen and the Snyder movie, and having looked at various analyses and rewatched it a few times, I would actually disagree that it was "largely faithful" to the comic. It's faithful in many ways. But not largely so, and in many ways, egregiously different. Snyder's going concern was that the comic didn't have enough sex and violence (that's his general concern with most comics, honestly), and it shows in his work (which is impressive, considering Watchmen the comic). And while I can't say I adore the things he cut, and I did enjoy the movie more on my first watch, before digging into it for the essay, and that opening montage is still wonderful, the things he cut had meaning to the narrative, and the resulting product isn't necessarily better (or enjoyable). I think a more important issue, which I noticed while watching Chapter 1 of the animated adaptation, is that outside my dislike of Alan Moore's work in general, it's a dated artifact that says more about middle-class white American views of the world than anything else, and it's just uncomfortable to watch from that mindset. And I question the value of adapting it at all. There's a lot of big messages in it that I think are still relevant, especially for a look at white centrists, but it's less interesting from an escapist angle.

You were very lucky with Rand then lol

Allen and Van just have fun chemistry that I enjoyed them lol I also thought the fandom's hatred of Allen was bizarre, but I think part of the issue is the writing is generally bad and he tends to get written terribly lol

[tinkaton]

*points at my icon* a Fake fan, nice

45/100 for me. you have read a lot of serious important things I have never even considered reading so most of it was matching on like, cartoons and stuff lol

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The cartoons are just as important as the serious stuff! The quiz I got this from was all lit and I felt inadequate going through it XD.

Fake was the first manga I hid under my bed!

[tinkaton]

idk if I could even scrounge together 100 formative things but maybe I should try just to see what I can come up with haha

that's so funny, I bought all the volumes easy enough because my mom wasn't too nosy until the last one which was wrapped in plastic so I literally had my friend buy it for me and smuggle it to me at school sjdfhskjfs

[kissed]

26! Damn, some of your picks like Akira and Diablo I should added to my own, especially Akira. That really brought the whole idea for me that anime can be works of art.

Great list! Plus I'm tickled to see that every list so far I've done has Xena on it. I think it's time for a rewatch!

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I think Xena awakened many things in many people!