Snowflake Challenge: Day 10

[lebateleur]

Day 10
In your own space, post a rec for fannish and/or creative resources and spaces. Tell us where you go to dig up canon facts for your fandom, or where you get all the juicy details about your favorite ship. Where do you like to hang out and squee like a squeeing thing? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is a little tricky as I've not been actively participating in fandom for the past several years. So let's see where I can take this.

In terms of general hanging out and squeeing, nothing beats LibraryThing for finding new reading material. I spend hours stalking people's libraries, tag surfing, reading reviews, writing reviews...

The only thing I've written in, erm, a year, was a Watchmaker of Filigree Street Yuletide fic, but here's what I'd recommend for digging up canon facts:

The Last Shogun - Ryotaro Shiba (最後の将軍 - 司馬 遼太郎)
An older book, but one that will still give you a good overview of the huge societal divisions underlying some of the major episodes in Mori's life. Incidentally, Shiba wrote some good historical fiction set in the same time period that NHK has adapted into documentaries and dramas.






Yokohama Yankee - Leslie Helm
A large part of the book lies outside Watchmaker's time period, but those parts that are within it are invaluable for getting a sense of how, and just how, different early Meiji-eara Japan and the West were, and what it was like to be someone who went back and forth between the two cultures.






ロンドン日本人村を作った男 - 小山 騰
For those of you who have unlocked your Japanese language achievement, this is a great resource for getting a sense of what the Japanese Show Village was like from an (albeit modern) Japanese man's perspective. You have to deal with a lot of transliterated names, which I at least find cumbersome in vertical typesetting, and the first two sections are set up in a History Channel "Revealing the Mystery of X" fashion, except the mysteries in this case are neither big nor dramatic. But the third section has plenty of great historical info to sink your teeth into.






In terms of general squeeing, I've been following this blog for the better part of eight years: ボーイズラブを読む.

これで以上です。



これで以上です。