I love good guys

Just for fun, want to recommend cartoons to me? I watch TV while riding my stationary bike, and my "exercise bait" selection is pivotal. Currently, I need something 20-30 minutes long to fit my morning workday schedule. Always, I need something interesting to me, ideally something so interesting that I'll get up on time and exercise for the privilege of another episode, instead of hitting the snooze button. Sometimes I can do this with well-loved shows, but... not knowing what happens next really helps with motivation!

I currently have Disney+, Paramount+, PBS Passport, and Amazon Prime (no Netflix, HBO, Showtime, Peacock, Hulu). If I can't find anything suitable that comes free with my subscriptions, I can buy, rent, or sub-subscribe (I had a $2/month Pokemon subscription on Amazon for about a year of the pandemic; it was an excellent happy place to escape to! but not a success as exercise bait; I completed the Unova arc and unsubbed). I do like good anime, though my experience runs to Rurouni Kenshin, Fushigi Yugi, Sailor Moon, Captain Harlock, and Robotech; yes, I am not young, and that's the point -- I missed everything cartoon-y that came out after, say, Darkwing Duck and Skeleton Warriors or so, and am just now getting back into the genre.

So: Avatar: The Last Airbender has been spectacular! An excellent story in just about every way -- I recommend it highly! -- and one of the best exercise-bait shows I've ever found. But, sadly, I have only one AtLA episode left, the third part of the three-part finale. I'm very sorry for it to end, even given that it's a proper moment for the story conclude. I would have happily followed these characters and their world much, much longer.

I somehow didn't see this until elistaire pointed it out just now, but hlh_shortcuts sign-ups have been open since 10/06, and will be open through 10/15 — tomorrow!

Coming to it this late, I doubt there's enough time for me to make up my mind whether to play and to compose a sign-up. (You've seen me agonize through these things, right? And I have a lot of hesitation in HL fandom.) But I always read in this exchange fest, and look forward to that reading very much!

For what I believe is the first time, Highlander: The Raven is now available for streaming on Amazon (per episode, $2.99 HD or $1.99 SD; for the 22-episode season, it's $19.99 HD or $14.99 SD) and also on Google Play (per episode, $1.99 HD; for the season, $25.99 HD).

Right now, the per episode HD price is much better on Google Play, while the whole season price is much better on Amazon. Only Amazon offers SD at this time (I think that Google Play doesn't do SD).

#13. Recommend at least three fanworks created by others.

Feel like Saturday morning cartoons? Try some Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985). I recommend...

( 'The Good Life,' post-finale back on Earth, ~19K words, by Evidence )

( 'The Trial by Existence,' alternate finale across the Realm to Earth and back, ~54K words, by Astolat )

( 'Shadows of the Past,' post-finale return to save the Realm, ~27K words, by Meltha )

Got any favorite D&DC recommendations for me? :-)

#10. Recommend a fannish reference resource.

In Dungeons & Dragons (the '80s cartoon!), I heartily recommend the astounding Dungeons & Dragons cartoon encyclopedia! It's everything I ever wanted to do for FK non-fiction, and more and better. If you ever loved this show, it's easy to get lost in delight there, link to link, script to script.

In Battlestar Galactica (the original series!), I rely on The Battlestar Wiki for anything I can't remember where to find in canon (and for what's beyond canon). It has a few blind spots, connected (I presume) to certain Real Life situations (e.g. Serina isn't in the recurring character list, though several less-frequent characters are).

As you probably know, in Forever Knight, I assembled my own reference materials back in the day, including a script-based flashback timeline (a variation on wiliqueen's phenomenal costume-based flashback timeline, and building also on Dorothy's version), a Crusades/FK chronology alignment, and 7 character FAQs (mainly the S3 characters). I started, but never completed, lists of all named FK places and things and FK characters, and an FK quotation concordance. To this day, I keep print-outs of my timeline and aired-order episode list on a bulletin board above my desk at home.