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!

Suggested form to use:

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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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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FANDOM NAME:The First Law (Joe Abercrombie books)

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A grimdark fantasy book series, most recently completed with the publication of final book in the Age of Madness trilogy, The Wisdom of Crowds, last week. The first series of books, The First Law, is about a wizard, the crippled torturer Glokta, a vain, self important young fencing champion Jezal dan Luthar, and the most feared man in the North, the berserker Logen Ninefingers (also called The Bloody Nine), as some of them navigate their way through a series of wars, and the others embark on a journey with the wizard, Bayaz. After this series, there are a bunch of standalones about various other characters (including Best Served Cold, about a woman on a single-minded vengeance mission; The Heroes, about a three day battle in the North; and Red Country, about a young woman trying to get her family back). The Age of Madness is the most recent series, set in the industrial revolution of the Union and how people deal with it.

The characters encompass many, many shades of grey; the stories are intense, bloody and realistic; the writing is hilarious and the characters are just brilliant, especially the women after The First Law series, who range from a ruthless, incestuous general set on the single goal of revenge to a highborn, cutthroat socialite business woman, intent on climbing to the top and not afraid to manipulate people to get there. There's gay rep in the later books, and a whole lot of really complicated relationships, found families, old grizzled warriors, betrayals, loves and hatreds to get your teeth into. Also, they're really fucking funny. I finished Wisdom of Crowds the other day and it was the best book I've read all year, and I would kill a man for some fic about Rikke and Shivers, who have one of my favourite dynamics in the whole series - think young girl plagued with fits, absolutely un-terrified of the most feared man in the North, hanging around and being the only one to make him laugh. He's her rock, super trusted advisor, and there's just something about this huge, old grizzled and scarred one-eyed man with a shitty, bloody past being gentle with this younger girl that really makes me wibble.

They're definitely not books for people who like a straightforward good or evil outlook, or a perfect happy ending - sometimes you don't know who to root for, and your faves do really dumb shit that makes you want to reach into the book and strangle them, but if you like nuanced characters just trying to get through their shitty lives as best they can, struggling against their circumstances and even themselves, then these books are for you!

WHERE CAN I FIND IT: All the books are currently in print and available in most libraries I would expect, and you can get them on kindle or audiobook (which I hear are excellently narrated!) too.

What are you thinking of requesting for this?: I have nominated Rikke, Shivers, Monza and Orso, and I've left a request for Savine, Ardee, Glokta and Logen just in case anyone else feels like nominating for them! I will be requesting Rikke/Shivers, Monza/Shivers, and potentially Orso/Rikke in signups, and if the extras get added, I would also want to add in Savine/Orso, Ardee/Glokta and just generally anything Logen lol.