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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:
<b>FANDOM NAME</b>:
<b>WHAT MAKES IT GREAT</b>:
<b>WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional)</b>:
(Bonus optional: What are you thinking of requesting for this?)
EDIT:
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!
Romances of Arquitaine (Books)
SUMMARY: This is a two book duology by one of my favorite authors, Lilith Saintcrow, who also writes under Lili St. Crow, S.C. Emmett, and Anna Beguine. Rather than providing a full summary, here is the back of the book blurb off Amazon!
Vianne di Rocancheil has been largely content to play the gawky provincial. As lady in waiting at the Court of Arquitaine, she studies her books, watches for intrigue, and shepherds her foolhardy Princesse safely through the glittering whirl. Court is a sometimes-unpleasant waltz, especially for the unwary, but Vianne treads its measured steps well.
Unfortunately, the dance has changed. Treachery is afoot in gilded and velvet halls. A sorcerous conspiracy is unleashed, with blood, death, and warfare close behind. Her Princesse murdered and her own life in jeopardy, Vianne must flee, carrying the fate of her land with her -- the Great Seal of Arquitaine, awake after its long sleep. Invasion threatens, civil war looms, and the conspiracy hunts for Vianne di Rocancheil, to kill or to use her against all she holds dear.
A life of dances, intrigues, and fashion has not prepared her for this. Nor has it prepared her for Tristan d'Arcenne, Captain of the King's Guard and player in the most dangerous games conspiracy can devise. Yet to save her country and avenge her Princesse, Vianne will become what she must, say what she should, and do whatever is required.
A Queen can do no less.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: My absolute, most favourite thing about this book is that Vianne is not a Strong Female Character. She does not mysteriously find strength, she does not pick up a sword and fight for her country, and she's really rather helpless, particularly in the first half of the first book. She is exactly what she should be as a pampered noblewoman who's been raised to be a princess' companion! She has her interests, but she is patently not prepared to become the figurehead of one side of a civil war. In terms of the romance, I love that her romance with Tristan is complicated (for reasons that would be spoiler-y to explain), and I love that this is not a simple series and that Saintcrow doesn't hesitate from the hard things, the wrong things, and the bad things. Trigger warning for Book 2: dubcon.
This book doesn't get the credit it deserves, and a big part of that is that it's very poorly characterized and marketed by its publishers. This looks and sounds like a Young Adult novel. It is not. See trigger warning above. This is what I wish Young Adult fiction would grow up to be.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Amazon, and probably anywhere else that you find books (especially ebooks).
I'LL BE ASKING FOR... Canon Divergence AU, explorations of Tristan's inner thoughts in The Hedgewitch Queen, or a continuation scene of some kind.
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