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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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The premise is that Zofia Turbotyńska is the wife of a university professor in 1890s Krakow: she's ambitious and restless and frustrated that she has pretty much risen as high as she's likely to be able to get (until she can finagle a promotion to for her rather unambitious husband) in the ultra competitive world of society-lady charity work; so when a resident of the elder hostel whose nuns she is trying to rope into a charitable scheme is found murdered, she finds it much more interesting to investigate (and of course, if she can solve the murder, the Mother Superior will *have* to donate some handicrafts to her charity auction!)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: 1. Zofia. She's absolutely appallingly bourgeoise and appallingly judgmental, but there's something really compelling about her enthusiasm and pragmatic cleverness and feeling of unfulfilled housewifery, even before she starts to have her horizons opened (and her conservative assumptions somewhat challenged) as her investigations take her into the less savory corners of her world.
2. The setting/tone. The authors (Maryla Szymiczkowa is pen-name for a husband-and-husband couple of literary critics from Krakow) love Krakow and its history, and they give the setting an incredible sense of place, with all the conflict between pride in being part of the "modern" Austro-Hungarian empire vs. Polish nationalism, the debates about art and style simmering beneath the surface. They also have a lot of affection for their characters, while being quite arch and ironic about their foibles. Also, they fully get that the late 19th century was actually incredibly full of kitsch: there are amazing descriptions of OTT funeral cortèges, sappy religious paintings, ridiculous neo-Gothic interior design, and the entirely unironic love that everyone has for the same.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): the first two books have been translated into English, and are available on as ebooks and as audiobooks read (brilliantly) by Moira Quirk
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