Accio... Something Else

Hey y'all and thanks for checking out our Accio... Something Else episode! A huge thanks to Adal Rifai (from Hey Riddle Riddle and Hello from the Magic Tavern) and Zach (from My Cabbages!) for joining me for this episode. Here's our Big Fuckin List of Shit You Should Watch/Read/Play/Listen To. I've added links to where you can find this stuff -- streaming links work in America but if you're abroad no guarantees.

The Avatar series

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• The Legend of Korra, the sequel series
• Braving the Elements, the ATLA watchalong podcast hosted by Janet Varney, voice of Korra, and Dante Basco, voice of Prince Zuko.
• Also check out My Cabbages, the Movie Night Crew watchalong podcast!
• There has never been a film adaptation of any of this!

The Percy Jackson universe

• ​Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series
  • The author, Rick Riordan, also has simply a ton of other books to try.
  • There's a TV show by Disney which has just finished casting! It's slated to release in 2023.
  • Also check out Of the Eldest Gods, the Movie Night Crew readalong podcast!
  • Hey, maybe don't watch the movies!

Lord of the Rings

• You don’t really need to read the books if you're on the fence, but if you want to, they're definitely an adventure!
  
• The movies are excellent, and if your heart's not in reading the books, the movies will certainly do.
  
• Check out our cousin podcast, That’s What I’m Tolkien About, the Tolkien readalong podcast hosted by Mary Clay!
  
• There's also a spinoff TV show in the works at Amazon called The Rings of Power, slated for release on September 2, 2022. Check out the trailer!

Magic School

• Anime in general is the place to be for magic school. Here are just a few of our suggestions: 
  • Little Witch Academia
  • RWBY
  • My Hero Academia
  • Soul Eater
  • Assassination Classroom
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Honorable mention to bookshop.org/a/65495/9780380698714Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar which isn't technically school for magic but it's definitely a school that is magic.

Magic Kids Who Don't Go to School

• The Tinkerbell movies
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Stranger Things

The Chosen One Trope

• The Star Wars universe
• Disney’s The Sword in the Stone (1963)
• Dune by Frank Herbert
  • It's being adapted into a three-part film, and Part 1 is out now! It's a really excellent adaptation.
  • Maybe don't watch the 1984 movie? That's a recommendation for your sanity.
• The His Dark Materials series
  • Check out the books by Phillip Pullman!
  • It's being adapted into a TV show over on HBO, one book per season, and two of three are out already! Season 3 is slated for release in fall 2022.
  • You can watch The Golden Compass movie if you want, we're ambivalent.

Misc. Excellent Animation

• Steven Universe
• Infinity Train
• Adventure Time
• Over the Garden Wall
• Hilda
• Gravity Falls

Broadway

Sam from Content and Capable recommends Broadway particularly if you enjoy the music from Harry Potter!

• The Phantom of the Opera
• Cinderella
• Heathers
• Wicked (coming to Richmond this fall!)
• Hadestown (coming to Richmond in 2023!)
• Beetlejuice

Other Random Books

• Anything by George Saunders
• S recommends The Riddle Master​ by Patricia A McKillip
• Lelia recommends Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Lelia also recommends anything by Roald Dahl
• The Fifth Grade Monsters series by Mel Gilden
• ​The Blameless by ES Christison
• The Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor
• Alex recommends A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• ​Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Other Random Movies

• Lelia recommends Willow (1988)
• Return to Oz (1985)
• Flight of the Navigator (1986)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
• ​Labyrinth (1986)​
• The Last Unicorn (1982)
• Unicorn Store (2019)
• Studio Ghibli in general
  • Howl's Moving Castle (2005)
  • My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Other Random Games

• ​Undertale
• Breath of the Wild

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Other Random Podcasts

• ​Hello from the Magic Tavern
• Dungeons and Daddies

Dungeons and Dragons

If you like magic, if you like adventure, if you like getting your hands dirty, if you like hanging out with friends, if you like anything we've listed so far today -- try Dungeons and Dragons.