snowflake challenge #2

[milo_r]

Challenge #2  In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom

I got stuck on this because I feel like all the fandoms I main'd this past year are 1) already massively popular and 2) if I started actually writing a manifesto for any of them (but let's face it, mostly for Steve/Eddie) it'd probably reach dissertation length, so I never quite found the strength to start.

There is however an animated series that gave me an existential crisis (positive) and almost made me cry in front of my mom, even though I wouldn't say I'm in the fandom for it: Tear Along the Dotted Lines. It's a Netflix show but an Italian production, which means the international crowd didn't get bombarded with it when opening the app so you might have missed it even though it's been out a little more than a year (it's also available on all the best pirate sites near you, obviously).

Zero is a thirty-something cartoonist from Rome dealing with your classic millennial woes, which fundamentally amount to struggling to grow up and find your place in the world when all the milestones you're supposed to be hitting don't happen. The six-episode show follows him on a trip out of town with his friends and the personification of his conscience, a talking armadillo, and that's about how much I can say without spoiling the experience. It's mostly a comedy show, then it gets too real. It deals with grief and feeling directionless and behind everyone else and not knowing how to value the relationships in your life, which means it's probably either not for you because you're done with all of that or just what you need to watch right now, depending on how many friends of your age are starting to get mortgages and children. I belong to the second group, so it's one of my favourite things I watched in 2021.