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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!
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh (video game)
WHAT IS IT?: A full-motion point-and-click horror game released by Sierra in 1996. While the game is technically a sequel to the 1995 game Phantasmagoria, there is no character or plot overlap, and the game is a standalone. It takes about 6 hours to play entirely.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh is a cheesy FMV horror game from the 90s that deals with (with varying levels of success) queerness, kink, mental health, and abuse.
The player plays Curtis Craig, a 26-year-old introverted office worker at a pharmaceutical company in Seattle. Curtis is experiencing gory hallucinations, causing him to worry about his sanity. At the same time, some of his coworkers are gruesomely killed, and Curtis is a suspect. He starts to look into if there is a connection between these deaths, his hallucinations, his own past, and the company he works for.
In the middle of all this is Curtis's love life! There is his girlfriend, Jocilyn, who wants more commitment than Curtis is ready to offer; Therese, who is aggressively pursuing Curtis and introduces him to the kink scene, which he is intrigued by; and Trevor, Curtis's best friend, who is gay and who Curtis admits to his therapist that he has a crush on.
This video essay has a complete (spoilery) plot summary and a deep dive into the queer stuff in the game.
The gameplay is point-and-click puzzle solving. It is mostly not very difficult, but some of the puzzles are not intuitive, especially towards the end when both the puzzles and plot get pretty bonkers. There are walkthroughs online if you get stuck.
I think that the cheesy sci-fi and horror elements, the queer main characters, the kinkiness, and the wild plot all lay a rich ground for fic possibilities!
WHERE CAN I FIND IT: It is available through Steam or GOG. There are also playthroughs on Youtube, such as here.
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