2020 Yuletide Fandom Promo Post

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Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

<b>FANDOM NAME</b>:
<b>WHAT MAKES IT GREAT</b>:
<b>WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional)</b>:


For reference, last year's promo post!


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Not sure how much point there is to posting this with only one day to go until signups close, but...worth a shot, probably! Also anyone reading this will probably notice most of these fandoms have something in common, whoops.

FANDOM NAME: Avengers Academy (Video Game)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: This silly little mobile game shut down almost two years ago and I still miss it, despite all the frustration involved in loving a game packed to the gills with microtransactions. The premise was really fun: it was a new Marvel universe with younger versions of a whole bunch of Marvel characters (even villains, with a few exceptions), drawing from the MCU and comics and ranging from extremely popular to very obscure, and for various reasons they were all going to school together. The art was great and the writing was top-notch, and it was really fun both seeing new aspects to familiar characters and meeting completely new ones, and then watching them play off each other. The overarching plot about the timefog wasn't really fleshed out by the end, so that's a good avenue for fic, and it's just as good for feelings, fluff, and hijinx.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: If you didn't play it while it was around, unfortunately there's no way to play it now. If you did play it and just want to refresh your memory, though, there's a lot of good info on the wiki and the subreddit. There might also be some Youtube videos, although I haven't checked that.

FANDOM NAME: Loki: Where Mischief Lies - Mackenzi Lee
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: If you like Loki in the MCU or the comics, you're probably already interested in this. It's not necessarily canon for either of those--like the other Marvel YA novels, it's kind of its own separate thing--but it's an interesting story that spends a lot of time digging into Loki's motivations when he was still young. Loki is also canonically queer in this. The great part for fic is that it's pretty open-ended: you could more or less fit this into MCU Loki's backstory (probably less so 616 Loki, although several elements haven't shown up in the movies), but you can also...not do that, and take it in any direction you like.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Anywhere you get your books. I was able to read it for free as an ebook because my library had it through Hoopla, so that's a good option to check.

FANDOM NAME: What If... Thor Was Raised by the Frost Giants? (Comics)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's Marvel comics, but it's also an almost completely self-contained story that doesn't require loads of other reading! It's also a fascinating AU of just how different Thor and Loki's lives could have been if Odin had been defeated during the battle with Jotunheim, and it presents all kinds of possibilities for future stories in this AU or just slice-of-life stories about Thor and Loki growing up. It's also very open-ended, which is just kind of begging for followup fics.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Anywhere you get comics. The digital version is $2 on Comixology. I'm pretty sure it's also on Marvel Unlimited, which does have a free 7-day trial.

FANDOM NAME: The Bifrost Incident (album by The Mechanisms)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: I don't actually know much about The Mechanisms but apparently they do complicated concept albums, and this one twists up Norse mythology with steampunk space trains and Lovecraftian cosmic horrors. And I need fic.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Looks like it's all on Youtube.

FANDOM NAME: Silent Hill 3
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Silent Hill 2 is more of a classic in a lot of ways, but this game also has ridiculous amounts of ambience and symbolism--and although I think 2 works better as a self-contained story, 3 is my favorite because of Heather Mason, the game's protagonist, who shows herself to be incredibly tough despite a WHOLE BUNCH of trauma. The plot is a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game and it does get convoluted at times, but ultimately it's about a teenage girl fighting to reclaim her agency from the people who tried to make her an object for their own ends, and I love that type of story.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Well, if you happen to have a PS3 or Xbox 360, you can play the HD version, which basically everybody hates but I thought it was fine, maybe just because I didn't know better). Compared to other options (mainly the original PS2 version), I think it's still reasonably priced. Otherwise you're mostly looking at emulators and the subreddit has some good info. Or of course there are always Youtube videos--this one is nearly five hours long and it's supposed to be the whole game without commentary.

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FANDOM NAME:Endgame Series by James Frey
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's a little bit like the hunger games but on a greater scale. Twelve teenager from different lines of humantiy are set up to fight in some sort of deadly game whose line while survive. Only one player can survive in the end.
The whole series is exciing to read. There is no plot armour for any of the characters and the cast is really international.

Cozy Grove, Greenglass House, The Twisted Monastery Fortress

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FANDOM NAME: Cozy Grove
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Ghosts! Adorableness! Fishing, cooking and bug catching! Occasionally vividly creepy things!

The premise is that sometime in the world's past, people started being able to see ghosts and other things, and it shows in a person's eyes - no pupils, just solid color. Whatever happens in history in regards to this is only slightly touched on in letters to the main character, a Spirit Scout (yes, like Girl Scouts) who is on their solo camping trip to move up in their training, yay!

This is not the island you were supposed to land on, you won't be leaving for awhile, and 'people' in this world includes anthropomorphic bears. Have fun, Scout! >:D

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): I've got it on Switch, and I know it's available on Steam also.

FANDOM NAME: Greenglass House Series - Kate Milford
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A children's book series with ghosts and a very subtle but pervasive sort of magic that covers time travel and alternate realities, as well as... let's call it iron of questionable sentience. The main stories started in the Greenglass House, built by a smuggler for his wife and two kids, with the glass having been collected from various places for his daughter. More recently it's been moving into the nearby city of Nagspeake, but all of the books are set in a shared reality the author calls the Roaming World.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): https://clockworkfoundry.com/

FANDOM NAME: The Twisted Monastery Fortress by Sandro Del-Prete
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Since this one is artwork, the answer is also the link below, sadly the best resolution image I could find
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): https://im-possible.info/images/art/delprete/the-master-of-illusions/162.jpg