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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!
Grand Designs (UK TV)
FANDOM NAME: Grand Designs
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: long-running British reality/documentary show in which host Kevin McCloud covers the building of a custom-built home that is unusual, ambitious, risky, expensive, or some combination of the above (usually all). It rises above the usual sort of show in this vein in that Kevin is very well-informed on matters of design and engineering and is also fond of explaining problems with mundane objects in a very funny way. (One episode involves making a trifle, complete with custard, sherry, and cake.)
Inevitably, the builders run into trouble—cost overruns, weather, unforeseen problems with the romantic old building they "fell in love with", choosing to project-manage their whole build when they have no experience—but it's rarely a schadenfreude show; more often than not you just really want to see these poor overwhelmed people pull it off. One of my friends nicknamed the show "Measure Once Cut Twice", which pretty much sums up the usual sorts of troubles people bring upon themselves. There are at least two or three cases of massive hubris, one of which occurs in the 2019 season in spectacular fashion, and the other involves a gentleman that I refer to as "batshit Irish castle man". If you know you know.
I'm eager to see Grand Designs crossed over into some kind of genre setting, original or otherwise—supervillain lair, superhero HQ, haunted house, portal fantasy, etc etc. Kevin has a very distinctive style of narration which is great fun to riff on—he opens each episode with a philosophical rumination that ties into the key ambitions of the project at hand and loops around back to it in the end, and then there are the hilarious explanations of building problems.
For more, this Decider article does a great job of explaining the show's charms.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): Various seasons are streaming on Amazon and Britbox. If you're in the UK, you can stream it on Channel 4's web site.
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How does this keep happening.
Spouse heartily enjoyed Kevin M.C. Loud, by the way.
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We still talk disparagingly about Ridiculous Basement Lady and California House on a Crumbling Cliff in Wales.
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This is the Ridiculous Basement; the pictures make it look a lot less daft than it actually was. They tried really hard to make the whole thing lighter and airer, but in the end, it's still a basement.
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But you absolutely sold me with this: I'm eager to see Grand Designs crossed over into some kind of genre setting, original or otherwise—supervillain lair, superhero HQ, haunted house, portal fantasy, etc etc. I super hope someone writes this for you!
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Irish Castle Man is still hard at work as of April of this year, though he's got a web site for the castle now. I really hope Kevin does a follow-up.
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Have you also watched the Australian and NZ versions? The NZ one is my fave.
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I have not! We've gotten through all the UK episodes available in the US, so I reckon we need to track down those now.
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I really like the NZ one because the host (mostly) isn't judgemental and often tries to educate the audience about various aspects of architecture and the like. So I learn things and also watch pretty houses. I often want to fight Kevin about how he feels about updating old buildings.