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2022 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!
NEW: We've made a register! There is now a searchable Google spreadsheet index of the canons promoted on this post. Go ahead and add yours or any you see that are missing! We hope this helps connect people up with canons of interest to them.
Here are some areas you can cover:
<b>Title:</b>
Please put your fandom's title in the subject of your comment, too. This helps people find your promo again.
<b>Media:</b>
<b>Approx length:</b>
<b>Where to find it:</b>
(If giving links, please only link to legal sources. You may want to encourage people to contact you directly if they are having trouble finding a canon and you can give them tips)
<b>What is it, in summary?:</b>
<b>What do you love about it?:</b>
<b>What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:</b>
<b>Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:</b>
<b>Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):</b>
This is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive
(Bonus options: What are you thinking of requesting for this? If you're thinking of nominating worldbuilding, what sort of worldbuilding topics might people explore?)
Useful tip (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):
- 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.
Previous fandom promo posts can be found at this tag!
Thieves and TARDISes (Doctor Who-inspired actual play podcast)
Media: actual play podcast (transcripts also available)
Approx length: 26 episodes so far; each episode is something like an hour and a half, but to be honest I prefer to read the transcripts for audio processing reasons, so your mileage may vary anyway!
Where to find it: Official masterpost: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1Ig-GtArgjdN8oZi02xjEDglWWzAEO5wvZ8dk67b_j7s
What is it, in summary?: A podcast using the Doctor Who RPG system, made by people who love the fandom and love telling their own stories using its box of toys!
What do you love about it?: It has some of the most creative plots, the perfect mixture of fun and serious character stuff, and amazing characters that work so well together as a cast. Player characters include a hospitality robot gone rogue who wants to become top of the Most Wanted list (yes, this is one of the good guys and I love them), a psychic spider alien (yes, also one of the good guys), and a 19th century mill girl who, in her second story, rescues an enslaved TARDIS from a cultist Time Lord, and now she has a TARDIS. There's also Leela (recurring character from Classic Who and Gallifrey, but she's sufficiently explained for the story to stand on its own -- but if you know her, you know I don't need to explain how awesome she is) and an original regeneration of the Doctor, who has the most ridiculously unbalanced stats ever, and who must be loved and protected always. (Villains disagree.) And then there's Brax (original regeneration of a recurring character from the Extended Universe), the glamorous and mysterious NPC who ran off with all the fanart....
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Character studies and alternate POVs on canon events. Given that it's still ongoing and that the creators are fannish people (and I know at least one of them is a Yuletideish person), I'm trying to avoid requests that might tread on the toes of the stories they might still be planning to tell. (I did ask the creators and they confirmed they welcome fanworks based on their work -- I'll be linking to that in my evidence post!) I'll also be making exclusively gen requests.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: It definitely doesn't require knowledge of all of Doctor Who, although some of my requests may allow for references to parts of the Extended Universe. I think you'd know all the characters pretty well with just the first three storylines ("Depths," "Woven Ghost," and "Family Matters").
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): There's sci-fi violence and some body horror. More jokes about stabbing than actual stabbing, though. (The robot has knives.)
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