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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!
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WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: If you're a Doctor Who fan of any sort, please gather around as I introduce you to an astoundingly good podcast that I think you're going to love. Because the Game of Rassilon is a fan-made actual-play RPG podcast where a bunch of very funny and very creative people play the official Doctor Who roleplaying game. The adventures are well-thought-out, the roleplaying is choice, the goofs are hilarious and the emotional beats, when they come, hit hard. It feels quite a lot like listening to a canon series of TV Doctor Who, except it’s all improv and dice rolling and RPG.
The first two seasons are typical monster-of-the-week Doctor Who adventures with a gradually building plot revolving around the Doctor & co running from… someone (or perhaps something), and a Big Plan that even the Doctor isn’t sure of the details of; at least at first. The third season is currently in-progress, with new episodes being released bi-weekly.
I have done a LOT of art while listening to this podcast, so I will introduce you to the Player Characters (And One Sort-Of NPC) by means of this art. Might as well use it for something, right?
The Doctor - a bit prickly, a bit argumentative, a LOT 90s, but still every inch the brilliant dangerous Time Lord that you remember. Likes making dumb jokes, Very Married To Her TARDIS, gives the best Doctor Speeches (impressive when you consider that they're all improvised). Got stranded in the 90s for a while, which explains why the interior of her TARDIS currently resembles a 90s coffeeshop. Stubborn. curious. Also, canonically transgender! (In the sense that her player is also trans and said 'if you think she’s trans also I’m 100% behind you’ and I very much choose to think she’s trans.)
Travis Killian - originally a librarian from 1990s New Jersey, got swept up into TARDIS adventures by sheer chance, and would now die for the Doctor. A very sweet nerdy dude who ends up having some very unique identity issues as the story progresses. His character arc is legitimately one of my favorite things I've ever heard in a RPG podcast. He's kind of like a human capybara. Big Hugger. Friend.
Amelia Earhart - yes, that Amelia Earhart. It's a bit of a paradox. Don't worry about it! She's very fond of her new friends, very good at flying things (usually planes, but she can take a spaceship in a pinch), and I will just tell you up-front that this podcast does feature Historical Figure Amelia Earhart learning how to play Pokemon. Hopefully that manages to convince you to listen, if nothing else.
Roman - technically an NPC, functionally more like an honorary member of the party (it's complicated!), Roman is an old friend of the Doctor's whose timeline intersects with the timeline of the main characters in strange and interesting ways. He has many guns (all of which he is bad at using), he likes jazz, and he very much likes cats. He's a tiny bit of a bastard, but a very friendly one, and the sheer energy and enthusiasm his player brings to the table tends to cement him as a Firm Favorite character with basically everyone I know who's listened to the podcast.
Carrie Vu - a PA from more-or-less modern LA who starts out very stressed and very worried, and swiftly graduates into unionizing every alien civilization within arm's reach and/or wreaking havoc with her trusty softball bat. Carrie is a delightful force of chaos who shows up mid-s2. Never shows up to an adventure without a bum-bag full of snacks and spare batteries. Perpetually has no clue what's going on. I really think we should have more canonical DW companions that flatly refuse to learn the rules of time travel and just wander through adventures with Intent To Cause Chaos.
All of the players, as well as the two co-GMs (god bless Ben Paddon and Michael Nixon, really. I know I haven't mentioned them much here but they're both brilliant), are huge nerds and are unabashed in their love for what they're doing, which makes for really great vibes. It’s cosy and it’s fun and it’s Doctor Who and it’s unrestrained in its glorious nerdiness. I'm not very hopeful that many people will sign up to write for this strange little fandom, but at the very least I hope I can drag a few more people into listening to it, because it really is criminally underrated.
Also it's very funny.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT: The backlog of episodes can be found here at their website - https://thegameofrassilon.com/ - or on most podcast apps/catchers.
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