yuletide | 2021 Yuletide Promo Post

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:

FANDOM NAME:
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional):

(Bonus optional: What are you thinking of requesting for this?)

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Useful tips (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):

- Mention what form of media the canon is. Is it a comic miniseries? Is it a twenty season tv show? Is it a book? Is it a twitter feed?
- Is it standalone or part of a series?
- It's best to make each fandom its own entry with its own title in the subject line! That makes it easier for people to find/see what you're promoting! Don't worry about 'spam', that is the entire point of this entry and you're using it exactly as intended.

For reference, last year's promo post!

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FANDOM NAME: Henry Sotheran Ltd (Sotheran's Twitter account)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: At first glance, this appears to be the Twitter account of a long-established London antiquarian bookshop. On closer examination, it reveals a surreal, somewhat gothic alternate London in which the bookseller attempts to maintain an antiquated business while dealing with (and potentially being an) eldritch horrors. Their ongoing feud with another antiquarian bookseller appears periodically, but the feed is studded with worldbuilding gems both for the bookshop and the wider city and world around it.

It's a London where Trafalgar Square has a taste for blood:

rule actually dates back to a musunderstanding from the 1850s, when it was illegal to feed pigeons *to* Trafalgar Square in case it acquired a more sophisticated taste for blood don't even get me started on the complex legislation required to evict the subterranean clowns from under Picadilly Circus

and it's wise to pay respects to the river:

it's good manners to say hello to the thames when you pass by in case the city takes umbrage and decides to strand you one day 5 miles from a tube station in a street you've never seen before filled with closed storefronts that only seem to sell violins and candles

A shop where books spontaneously generate:

every day I clear some books from my desk onto the shelves, and by the end of the day my desk is full of clutter again, like the liver of prometheus regrown to torment me

where unlit staircases provide traps for brigands:

where screaming in the building is revealed by the new phone system:

and where customer files contain very specific notes:

A bookshop with a dungeon in Tottenham Court for which they've apparently been paying rent to the wrong person. A bookshop with cellars somewhere in Birmingham. A bookshop with a ghost that turns the taps on full overnight. A bookshop with archives that go missing, and replacement archives that also vanish.

WHERE CAN I FIND IT: Sotherans Twitter

Edited 2021-09-19 13:18 (UTC)