yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

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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!

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Title: NOS4A2 (TV 2019)

Media: TV

Approx length: Two ten-episode seasons, episodes ranging from 44 minutes to an hour in length

Where to find it: Physically, both seasons are out on both blu-ray and DVD. Streaming-wise, both seasons can be found in the United States on Hulu, Shudder, and AMC+. (Shudder and AMC+ can be accessed through their apps or through their channels on Amazon or Apple, depending on where you subscribe.) They can also be streamed through AMC, Fubo, DirecTV, and SpectrumTV. They can be purchased digitally on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu. This information has been taken from its Just Watch page here. You can change it by region to see where and if it's available in your area.

What is it, in summary?: The characters are working class Americans and the series spends time in their environment; even the supernatural elements are grounded in ordinary things, and in how the characters are informed by their world. Characters with magic, called Creatives, can psychically create other dimensions and break the walls between those dimensions, but the way they look and how they can be accessed are specific to the personal histories of the Creatives. One of these Creatives feeds off the souls of children to sustain himself and his personal dimension; the series deals with the two female characters who have to stop him, first as teenagers and then as grown women.

What do you love about it?: Messy female characters dealing with trauma from both the ordinary and the extraordinary in a horror drama series. An aspiring artist trying to get out of what she fears is a dead-end life has her efforts derailed when a supernatural child abduction happens in her neighborhood. It primarily follows Vic, a young artist and biker whose dimension is a bridge to find lost things, but also in a major role is Maggie, a librarian whose dimension is a Scrabble bag from which she can divine information. There's an assortment of secondary female characters important to these two and to the story at large; I love how they all get layers and time to shine. I love the attention the series pays to its characters' pain and family trauma; there's an empathy and a sadness to the horrors in it. It can be heartbreaking, and it can be hopeful. The protagonist/antagonist foil dynamic really pleased me with its moments of parallel narrative. And the actors are really good! I love Ashleigh Cummings as Vic and Jahkara Smith as Maggie especially, and Zachary Quinto is doing his best villaining.

The horror leans towards the psychological in that there's more focus on stress the characters are under; there's violent, but it's not that graphic usually, and there's gore, but not much.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Vic! I'd love post-canon fic, or post-season one AUs.

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?: For this canon, you can watch the first season or both seasons; I'd be happy with works based on either time period!

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Attempted assault and offscreen rape, references to domestic violence, a partly successful murder/suicide one spouse commits of their spouse and child, references to homophobia in one character's backstory, PTSD, two openly misogynistic antagonists, the offscreen but heard death of a cat, some brief scenes of characters getting beaten/smashed into things that I felt on a visceral level, referenced child abuse, offscreen child sexual abuse, drugs used in abduction, serial killing, and one of the antagonists seems to have an obvious disability.