2021 Yuletide Promo Post

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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!

Comments

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FANDOM NAME: Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
WHAT IS IT: 3 300-400 ish page books. (There's also a prequel and sequel to the trilogy, but my requests will be focusing on Mysterious Benedict Society, Perilous Journey, and Prisoner's Dilemma
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Four smart kids must work together to save the world!
The main four are all different types of smart, and they have realistic flaws, interpersonal skills, and risk assesment abilities for kids their age. It's also well established why the only choice for stopping Curtain is the kids. The main four protagonists are Reynie, an orphan who is good with puzzles and languages; Sticky, a runaway with an eidetic memory; Constance, the most stubborn of the four; and Kate, who ran away from an orphanage to join the circus. She's the most physically adept of the four, carrying a number of useful objects in a bright red bucket attached to her belt, and also has some deeply buried abandonment issues.
The main adult characters are also a lot of fun. You have Mr Benedict (which the titular society is named for), who recruits the main four; he's narcoleptic and occasionally falls asleep laughing at his own jokes. There's also his two adoptive daugters who he met during previous attempts to recruit a team, Number Two (who rarely sleeps and looks a bit like a pencil) and Rhonda (who looks young enough to pass as a teenager), and his ally Milligan (a master of disguise who, in the first book, suffers from amnesia).
There's some really nice puzzles and plays on words in the book, and the books have a nice sense of peril to them.
Found family! The four start off the book alone, but they don't end that way.