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?)

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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FANDOM NAME: The Girls I’ve Been - Tess Sharpe

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Nora O’Malley is, to all appearances, a relatively normal teenage girl. She lives in a small California town with her much older sister Lee Ann, has recently started dating a cute girl named Iris who loves vintage fashion and true crime, and is struggling with some friction with her best friend and ex-boyfriend, Wes, who wishes she wouldn’t keep things from him. However. When the three of them get caught up in a bank robbery/hostage situation gone wrong … let’s just say that things might have gone a bit differently for a normal teenage girl.

Nora O’Malley has only existed, technically, for about five years. Before that … there was a grifter and her daughter, the perfect accessory who changed identities to suit each con they pulled on the criminal men her mother targeted. That is, until she fell for one of them.

Fortunately, her older sister, a private eye and prior survivor of her mother’s lifestyle, had been working for years to get her out - and once she succeeded, with a little help from (and manipulation of) the FBI, the pair went into hiding and became Nora and Lee Ann O’Malley. It might be a little late to be quite normal, but they could at least be family in a way they’d never been with their mom. (And if Lee Ann had to use, betray, and abandon Marjorie North, the FBI agent she fell in love with mid-con, well, it was a price she’d been willing to pay.)

Now, Nora just has to get herself, her girlfriend, and her best friend out of a volatile situation alive … fortunately, she has a few unusual tricks up her sleeve.

It’s a tense, enjoyable YA thriller themes around identity, relative morality, surviving abuse, and found family/building a life for yourself out of the ashes of the one you've left. And of course, canon wlw. Content warnings for child abuse, gaslighting, and grooming - including mentions of CSA.

And if you’d like to see my requests for the tragic love story of “Lee Ann” and Marjorie, and/or an expansion on the intense, complicated bond between the sisters and the way they make a life together after their respective traumatic histories, not to mention barely knowing each other … well, you can see those here! ;)

WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): Bookstores, libraries and e-book sellers of all kinds! The book came out this year, so it’s pretty easy to find.

2021 Yuletide Promo Post

The Girls I've Been - Tess Sharpe