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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Fandom Name: 少女大人 | Maiden Holmes (2020)

What is it?: A 32-episode single season Chinese Drama.

What makes it great: Despite the English title, this is not, in fact, yet another Sherlock Holmes adaptation. What it is is 1)a period drama 2)a procedural of sorts 3)political intrigue 4)a cross-dressing, secret-identity romance, all rolled-up in one, and it is rocking them!

What it's about: Su Ci, genius detective, rising through the ranks while discreetly investigating her parents' murder and stumbling into something much bigger in the process. The main appeal is that she immediately gathers an entire found family unit that just. Refuses to leave and let her be the badass stoic lone wolf investigator she's trying so hard to be? She will have unconditional ride-or-die support, whether she likes it or not! That + badass female characters + every romance subplot being 'badass female character/man who looks at her like she hung the stars in the sky' basically made the show for me. It also swings wildly between laugh-out-loud comedy and tear-your-heart-out drama, which is an entire mood for this year.

I cannot fully squee about my intended request without spoiling a late-series twist (there's a handful of these and they actually work great, don't read spoilers for this show), so instead I'm going to squee about 2/3 of it:

-Xie Beiming: nice but dim noble warrior son of high-ranking official and the poster child for 'a little bit confused, but he got the spirit'. Stole my heart by not treating the protag any different post cross-dressing reveal and being everyone's Most Supportive Friend and only got better from there on.

-Dong Rushuang: 'Damsel in distress' who immediately turns the tables on her perceived attacker, thus proving right from the start she is in fact the most dangerous of the main five. I didn't know before this show that 'cheerful poison-master' was one of my character types but it absolutely is.

-They're the b-couple so of course they're my favourites. They have a great dynamic -- see above re: badass female character/man who looks at her like she hung the stars in the sky, but also: they're both equally gung-ho about helping people in need while also having a collective common sense score of approximately none, which makes them the perfect fodder for either funny antics or whump, in and out of canon, and frankly I don't know what more you could possibly want :p

Content warnings: The cross-dressing is handled with the usual double-standard of women dressing as men = a tragic necessity in a sexist society; men dressing as women = either funny or disgusting. The first episode especially opens up on a classic 'attractive woman is revealed to be man in disguise; everyone makes a great show of being disgusted' scene. Sexism is present and openly discussed/criticized; there's one attempted sexual assault in an early ep; and then there's the assortment of Bad Things Happening To Good People you can expect from a court intrigue/procedural combo (mostly murder, sometimes suicide).

Where can I find it (optional): It's available for free on Youtube or Viki.

oh this looks SO GOOD. thanks for the rec (and the content warnings--i enjoy c-dramas and wuxia but the sexism and gender expectations often make them impossible to watch). definitely checking this out.

aaah I hope you enjoy it! the first episode made me really wary of how the show would deal with gender stuff, but thankfully the rest of the show handled things much more gracefully - i figured it was worth the warning so people could brace themselves for it and hopefully still give the rest of the series a chance ^^

Adding to my watchlist (though not for Yuletide purposes, sorry, I don't write)!

Honestly, if I made you want to give it a try that's a win in my book <3

I LOVE this show. It's so utterly charming and, as you say, the b-couple are every bit as great as the a-couple.

It has such fantastic found family vibes and the ending is so satisfyingly different from what you usually see tacked onto Cdramas.

2021 Yuletide Promo Post

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