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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!
What Is It? Margaret Hillert, Kinuko Craft
Media: Book
Approx length: 29 very short pages!
Where to find it:Anywhere out of print books can be bought. I previously hadn't been able to find much of anything about it online, so I uploaded scans of my copy here. (If tumblr is weird about letting you click the images, right-click to open in another window or zoom in.)
What is it, in summary?: A very simple early grade learning-to-read book. There isn't much story as far as words are concerned (very very short and simple sentences) but the illustrations are incredible. I've remembered them ever since I first encountered the book when I was in either kindergarten or first grade.
What do you love about it?:The illustrations. They're surreal and have a wonderful dreamlike quality, part sci-fi, part fantasy. There's a floating manmade island with domed cities in the sky, the main characters are... elf? children?, the children's mother is a medieval lady, there are robots. It's just so delightful to look at. I was inspired to nominate it after seeing the other interesting stuff people have promo'd and then remembering it, and finally going out and getting myself a copy as I'd been meaning to do for ages (It was very hard to figure out which book I was looking for. Do you know how many books there are with titles that encompass the words "what is it"? A lot apparently! This site helped me find it finally, on WorldCat.org after other fruitless searches. ..Haha, worldcat, there's a cat in the book!)
I'm not entirely sure what I'd be looking for in requesting this, honestly--I just think it's really neat and I want people to know about it!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:Worldbuilding! Maybe a retelling with less stilted language! What's going on?? What does it smell like there?
Content warnings:None, unless you're easily unsettled by surreal stuff; it's a children's book about some curious elves(?).
Re: What Is It? Margaret Hillert, Kinuko Craft