yuletide | 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.

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Title: Hench

Media: Book

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Where to find it: your local library and/or favorite bookstore

What is it, in summary?: Hench is set in a world where superheroes and supervillains are common, and supervillains hire minions, or henches, through temp agencies. Anna Tromedlov is injured by a superhero while on a temp gig, and starts making spreadsheets about the damage superheroes do. It escalates from there.

What do you love about it?: I first picked up this book because the premise of "temp fights superheroes with spreadsheets" is like catnip to me, and it absolutely lives up to the hilarity of that premise. But it's also about the horrors of capitalism and patriarchy, and disability justice, and what you will and won't do for friendship, and what you will and won't do for what you think is right. I love the casually bi characters, and the relationships and community Anna forms through sheer willpower, and how no matter how many times I read it I can't decide whether Anna is a good guy or a bad guy.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I love the relationships between women in this book. Anna and June, Anna and Quantum Entanglement, in either & or / relationships. Or Anna and her band of data geeks and their intense loyalty to her. Or, for the monsterfuckers out there, Anna/Leviathan has a LOT of potential.

Content warnings: body horror, body modification (consensual and nonconsensual), gore, threatened harm to children

2022 Yuletide Promo Post

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots