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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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)

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Title: Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
Media: TV miniseries
Time commitment? About 4.5 hours
Where to find it? The only legal streaming I was able to find is on Vimeo, region locked to Australia and New Zealand, but you can get the DVDs for less than $20 or check at your local library.
What is it?Children of Dune is the sequel adaptation to the much more famous Dune. It adapts the second and third book of the series, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. Dune is kind of famously philosophical, with lots of thoughts about messiahs and precognition and the future of human development. Children of Dune deals with the plot getting messy and incomprehensible by being entirely about a young, twinky James McAvoy emoting at worms and kissing his sister (how do you end galactic war? by turning into a giant worm dictator!). This is only a little bit of a joke. You don't need to watch Dune or read any of the books to understand what's going on.

What do you love about it?
Twincest, WORMS, powerful women doing politics at each other, and sloppy enough plotting that there's plenty of room for fic! I love the transhumanist themes of the pre-born, the Bene Gesserit, and the mentats. I love the theme of precognition as a trap. I love the visuals of Arrakis, a desert planet being slowly consumed by greenery, and the climate change themes attached to it. 

Basically: Do you love playing in a sandbox that has really interesting concepts behind it, but the execution is kind of dumb?

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?
Ghanima! Ghanima is one of the twins, and she is done so dirty by the narrative -- we have a plot entirely about how to see the future is to be trapped by it, and Ghanima is unforeseen and then... absolutely nothing is done with that. With the limited screentime she has, she's entirely excellent -- smart, daring, kind to her loved ones, vicious to her enemies. She also has super interesting interactions with all my other favorite characters. Her role is much more politically based than Leto's (her twin's), which is much more fantastic, and that gives some really interesting possibilities. I'll be asking for literally any expansion on her, pre-, during, or post-series, her interactions with any of the women running the show on Arrakis, and/or twincest with Leto. For what I'm requesting, you can honestly skip the first episode (the adaptation of Dune Messiah) if you want to.

Content warnings: Nonconsensual drug use. Very light body horror.