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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!
Miss Mack - Michael McDowell
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: This is an incredibly creepy, incredibly femslashy horror short story. (The setting is tied to some of McDowell's novels, but you don't have to have read them; it's just a bonus.) It's set in a small Southern town called Babylon, and it's about how Miss Mack--the kind of fat, badly dressed, traditionally unattractive woman who would normally be disregarded or villainized by a lot of stories--moves to town and winds up becoming an incredibly competent, adored teacher who's best friends with another teacher, the adorable Janice Faulk. Unbeknownst to either Miss Mack or Janice, the school's principal, Mr. Hill, has been planning to basically subtly guilt Janice into marrying him, and he's quite perturbed that she's now way more interested in Miss Mack. ("Miss Mack, in short, knew how to show a girl a good time.") Mr. Hill doesn't like this at all, so he consults his elderly mother, who practices a kind of sinister, subtle witchcraft, to get Miss Mack out of the way.
The story is dark--it's a really effective, well-crafted horror story that hits a lot of creepy tropes about stopped time, being stuck somewhere, hopelessness, etc., so it's not really the Fun Adventures of Janice and Miss Mack. (Rot13 spoiler: Abg n unccl raqvat.) But the combination of sinister horror and offbeat f/f subtext is just great.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): It's collected in The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume One, and as of three hours ago--how's that for timing?--there's a podcast reading of it up for free on Pseudopod with the story text just below it.
I'LL BE ASKING FOR...: More unnerving Southern Gothic horror, alternate endings/canon-divergences, and all the Miss Mack/Janice.
Re: Miss Mack - Michael McDowell
Re: Miss Mack - Michael McDowell