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!

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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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For reference, last year's promo post!

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Fandom name: Scream (movies)

What is it: An American live-action franchise of four slasher horror movies about traumatized young woman Sidney Prescott, whose story keeps inspiring new killers to try and murder her (in a flip from the classic slasher franchise structure, which largely kept the same killer from one movie to the next with new leads each time).

What make it great: I love the development of our main characters over the series, both individually and in their relationships with each other. The movies really focus on Sidney's trauma as the survivor/final girl, the different ways that she deals with that trauma, and how she grows and changes as a person. The series is also really fun slasher horror and very meta, commenting on classic slasher tropes (although IMO you don't need to be familiar with them to enjoy the Scream movies). She's not the only women who gets development, though; I love that our obnoxious reporter character Gale Weathers, played by Courteney Cox, not only doesn't die but gets to be a little bit badass in the end (and continue showing up in later movies). The development of her relationship with Sidney over the course of the movies is really neat, as they move from antagonism to something closer to war buddies. And Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott is just very hot.

Other fun relationships include Gale Weathers' sometimes fraught but extremely cute romance over the course of the movies with the local deputy, played by David Arquette; and the intense, codependent, slashable relationship of high school boys Billy Loomis and Stu Macher in the first movie.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Fic about Sidney and Gale together, in tones ranging from h/c to casefic to horror. I definitely ship it, if you're looking for femslash possibilities!

Where to find it: Can be rented from Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, etc

Content warnings: Lots of bloody murder! Mostly stabbings, but a handful of other memorable kills as well. There's also a very weird sexual backstory about Sidney's mom, including some offscreen sexual assault.