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!


This post on LJ

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Steampunk Tarot, Cyberpunk Laughing in the Wind, Listening Snow Tower

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FANDOM NAME: Steampunk Tarot Deck - Barbara Moore & Aly Fell

WHAT IS THIS: A beautiful steampunk-inspired tarot deck that is published by Llewellyn and should be available at various online retailers worldwide. Also available as a Fools Dog mobile app.

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Steampunk femslash!



This tarot deck has tremendous femslash shipping potential! One of the cards I'm nominating is the Three of Cups, and the card description is a fic prompt all on its own - Three women walk into a bar: a researcher, an aviatrix, and a fortuneteller. I totally love the expressions and the relaxed postures of the characters in here, and it's very intriguing to think about how the characters got here and what's in store for them next.

I'm also nominating the Queen of Swords, Page of Pentacles, and the Queen of Pentacles, which are three gorgeous cards in which the personalities and presence of the characters just radiate out of the cards. There's so much to explore in these characters and their relationships with each other - liege/subject loyalty kink, rival queens with a complicated history, spying in an enemy court, etc.

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FANDOM NAME:Cyberpunk adaptation of Laughing in the Wind (Cfensi April Fool Post)

WHAT IS THIS: An April Fool's announcement on Cfensi about a cyberpunk TV adaptation of the Chinese wuxia novel Xiao Ao Jiang Hu (aka Laughing in the Wind) that has also genderbent most of the major characters. While only a joke and not real, the Cfensi post goes into quite a bit of detail about the plot and character arcs, plus the setting is drastically altered, so prior knowledge of the original novel is not needed.

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Cyberpunk femslash!



Many of the major characters are now women due to the genderbending, which opens it up to lots and lots of femslash shipping potential in a cyberpunk setting! I'm nominating four female characters: Dongfang Bubai, Ren Woxing, Yue Buqun, and Ning Zhongze, and they all have antagonistic or love/hate shipping potential.

Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing lead the anti-corporation Sun & Moon collective, while Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze are leaders of a major corporation. Dongfang Bubai was once a follower of Ren Woxing before she plotted an uprising and imprisoned Ren Woxing, while Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze were lovers before Yue Buqun became more ruthless and twisted. Two of the characters also merged themselves with AI technology. So there's plenty of stuff to play around with here - cyberpunk worldbuilding, lovers turned enemies, power struggles both inter- and intra- organization.

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FANDOM NAME: 听雪楼 | Listening Snow Tower (TV)

WHAT IS THIS: A 56-episode wuxia extravaganza about love and conflict that is gorgeously shot and has tons of interesting characters, in which my favs are the female antagonist and the male second-lead hero that she's in love with. Available in full with English subs on Viki.

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: An antagonist ship between a female villain and a male hero!



The characters I'm nominating are Ming He and Qing Lan (a.k.a. Jia Ruo), who are the main antagonist and the second lead of the show respectively. They were on different sides, but Ming He met and fell in love with Qing Lan during a secret mission, and after that mission she sealed Qing Lan's memories so as to keep him by her side. Their story is a delicious tropey mix of conflicting loyalties and betrayal, loyalty kink during the amnesia phase, and a complex love/hate dynamic after Qing Lan remembered his past.

Here are three photosets about them: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Here's also a specific cut on Youtube featuring just the scenes in which they appeared together (total time just under 4 hours).

The show itself is very beautifully filmed, and the fight scenes in particular are very well-choreographed! In particular, I also really love the main characters - the male lead is the sickly but intelligent and cool-headed leader of the eponymous Snow Tower, while the female lead is the impulsive yet kind-hearted junior martial sister of Qing Lan who went through her own story of overcoming grief/loss and growing strong in spite of them.