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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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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.