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Fannish Friday: Autumnal Favorites
It is still decidedly summer here, but I am dreaming of the day the heat breaks and fall finally arrives.
In honor of that, tell me about your favorite autumnal media! It doesn't have to be set in fall or explicitly talk about it--anything that gives you autumnal ~vibes~ will do.
For instance, both Pamela Dean's Tam Lin and Anne of the Island take place over the course of several years and so visit all the seasons, but I associate both of them strongly with autumn, perhaps because they're both school-focused. Anne of the Island is, imo, by far the most autumnal of the Anne books. The high school books in the Betsy-Tacy series cover each one academic year, but I also associate them with fall.
Same with my favorite Tana French novel, The Likeness. I think it's actually set during winter? But it feels autumnal to me, perhaps because of its academic associations. Same with Possession, which, when I think about it, has a lot of summer-set scenes, but I still think of it fallishly.
There is really nothing autumnal about Loreena McKennitt's The Book of Secrets, and yet I find myself wanting to listen to it during the fall. Maybe "The Highwayman" feels very fall-forward to me? I don't know!
It's really hard to think of movies that are strongly seasonal that aren't either winter (Little Women (1994), Shop Around the Corner, While You Were Sleeping, Fargo) or summer (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Almost Famous, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Room with a View). I can think of one spring-coded film (The Secret Garden) but I'm coming up short on others.
Anyway, I would love to hear about what media you revisit when the summer ends!
In honor of that, tell me about your favorite autumnal media! It doesn't have to be set in fall or explicitly talk about it--anything that gives you autumnal ~vibes~ will do.
For instance, both Pamela Dean's Tam Lin and Anne of the Island take place over the course of several years and so visit all the seasons, but I associate both of them strongly with autumn, perhaps because they're both school-focused. Anne of the Island is, imo, by far the most autumnal of the Anne books. The high school books in the Betsy-Tacy series cover each one academic year, but I also associate them with fall.
Same with my favorite Tana French novel, The Likeness. I think it's actually set during winter? But it feels autumnal to me, perhaps because of its academic associations. Same with Possession, which, when I think about it, has a lot of summer-set scenes, but I still think of it fallishly.
There is really nothing autumnal about Loreena McKennitt's The Book of Secrets, and yet I find myself wanting to listen to it during the fall. Maybe "The Highwayman" feels very fall-forward to me? I don't know!
It's really hard to think of movies that are strongly seasonal that aren't either winter (Little Women (1994), Shop Around the Corner, While You Were Sleeping, Fargo) or summer (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Almost Famous, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Room with a View). I can think of one spring-coded film (The Secret Garden) but I'm coming up short on others.
Anyway, I would love to hear about what media you revisit when the summer ends!
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That's one I've always meant to read but keep getting put off by how long it is...but I really should pick it up sometime. Maybe in November!
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell always feels autumnal to me, but I'm not sure if that's intentional or just something I came up with on my own.
Like you I can't really think of any appropriately seasonal films, other than spooky Halloween-type stuff.
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I thought of JS&MN and realized that it feels more winter-y to me? Possibly because of the beginning in York? But I definitely can see it being autumnal!
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I think I mostly associate books or music or movies with a time and place when I read/watched/listened to them, so for example I associate Little Women with lazing about in a cabin on March Break as a kid, and Les Miserables with taking the bus to work in the winter, and the Aubreyad with sitting at a table in the local farmer's market in summer, and so on. It's nothing intrinsic about the season itself, and the season that's my current association has nothing to do with when I might choose to reread the book next!
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I think I mostly associate books or music or movies with a time and place when I read/watched/listened to them
I like this, and your examples! There are definitely things that I associate with certain times in my life, too!
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But one I can think of is Lord of the Rings - they pass through several seasons, but the mood is certainly autumnal for Middle Earth, with this age on the verge of passing away.
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And I agree--LotR definitely does feel autumnal in that sense.
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I also completely agree with the commenter above that LOTR is intensely autumnal. For the second year running, I'm following along with a chronological-in-my-email Dracula Daily-style LOTR project, and that has hammered it home more than anything. It just started up again a couple days ago!
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I loooved my Dracula Daily experience when I did it! It's so fun!
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