100 Things List
Apr. 11th, 2025 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
got_quietSince 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.
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.
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Date: 2025-04-18 12:34 am (UTC)Fake was the first manga I hid under my bed!
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Date: 2025-04-18 05:32 am (UTC)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