2020 Yuletide Fandom Promo Post

[crantz]

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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Comments

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[kitsunerei88]

I just wanted to say I did not know that Mira Grant was Seanan McGuire's horror pen-name and while I have read none of her work under her own name I *loved* Feed, so now these are on my list :O

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[hiddencait]

Ahaha yesssssss! My friends legit have just come to understand that any time they ask "what are you reading/what have you read lately?" there WILL be something on the list by Seanan McGuire in one pen name or the other LOL. Amusingly FEED is one I haven't gotten too yet, though I do have a copy on the physical TBR mountain. What do you like about her writing? I can rec which of her series or stand alones to start with under that pen name if you like?

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[kitsunerei88]

Honestly I've only read Feed but what I loved so much about it was that it was so non-traditional for a zombie book? It was a zombie book that wasn't actually about zombies! And obviously (from this and my own fandom promo post?) I love when a book is not exactly what it appears to be. Feed is basically a political/investigative thriller dressed up as a zombie book! And I loved the depth of world-building, too, and how seriously it treated the question of "what does a post-zombie world look like?"

I love those kinds of serious questions, and when books run the line between "genre" and "literary". They're both fun and feel like they have substance!

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[hiddencait]

Yeah McGuire/Grant ROCKS at grounded worldbuilding for sure! I think you'll enjoy the murder mermaids book then - it's got a mixed media/literary style to some of the formatting, and great diverse casts of characters/characters I don't often see in fiction - especially not in one place.

For her McGuire pen name - I think MIDDLEGAME is easily one of the most intelligently crafted books I have ever read with a fantastic non-linear (or well.. probably linear, though it starts to make more sense the longer you read lol) format and a story within a story (which is now getting a stand alone MG novel out of it). Just utterly fantastic and I have no idea how to tell you what it's about LOL. Also, SPARROWHILL ROAD (and the sequels, though I haven't read them yet) has a great non-linear format too and deals with urban legends and myths and how the stories get twisted as they're told and how people adapt to their circumstances and just... yeah. I loved it. If you like longer series, her October Daye books are FANTASTIC traditional urban fantasy and basically a master class on how to build a series with tiny foreshadowing hints in previous books having a huge impact on later books (I'm doing an audiobook marathon reread through all of it right now to get to the newest book and OOF I'm so impressed as I catch all the little hints!)

... that was... possibly more of an answer than you needed, but what can I say I babble about great books lol

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[kitsunerei88]

I will check out at least the murder mermaids then! I have to read more--there is literally so much on my TBR pile because I've been doing so much more writing recently.

Re: 3 Fandoms (I'll be nomming all 3): 2 Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant & 1 KPop Music Vid!

[hiddencait]

Whoot! I hope you enjoy it! And yeah, I was just telling a friend that my goal this year had been to knock off some of my unread TBR (especially the physical copies as they're taking over my house lol) but out of the 61 according to goodreads, only like 20 have been physical copies and more than half have been rereads. Apparently audio is the main way I'm getting my reading in this year. Oh well.

(I haven't been writing near as much as I'd like either but thus is life)