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Fandom Promo 2023!
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!
EDIT: WE HAVE A SPREADSHEET! Thanks to Jaclynhyde we now have a spreadsheet you can access HERE.
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>:
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<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>:
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(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?)
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- 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!
Püha ja õudne lõhn | Sacred and Terrible Air - Robert Kurvitz
Media: novel ("prologue to a cycle of novels" that were never written but it's a standalone story)
Approx length: 230 pages
Where to find it: here's a fan translation. The current IP troubles have put an official edition on hold.
What is it, in summary?: the first long story published in the world of Elysium, of later Disco Elysium fame, introducing it right as it disappears. It's a story of the end times, of loss and yearning. At the end of summer, four young sisters disappear mysteriously. Twenty years later, three of their schoolmates still haven't given up on finding them, an obsession which has molded their lives in different ways. All around them the world is ending, but as long as they still have one lead to make that one thing right, to go back to that perfect golden summer of their youth... also featuring: mind-reading drugs! A wild taxi ride at the end of the world! Fantasy communism with very real leftist infighting! Not one but two brands of nihilism! Dialectical materialism! More loss and defeat than you can shake a stick at!
Compared to Disco Elysium, the novel is set 20 years later in faraway Katla and Graad, doesn't share a cast, and makes the weirder events of the game look positively restrained.
What do you love about it?: the grandiose tragedy of it all - in the words of one of the editors, "the shadow of annihilation waiting in the wings next to the unshakeable belief in the greatness of humankind." And the sheer magic of many scenes, especially in the latter half of the book.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: my heart lies in Samara... much as I love the protagonists and actual main plot, my nominations will mostly focus on the turn-of-the-century revolution cast. I'll be asking for entroponetic adventures with the world's worst and most opinionated imaginary frenemy, the limits of future vision in the face of annihilation, communist hand-holding and communist kissing with tongue, exile, exile, exile.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): much like their latter work Disco Elysium, this is very much a world that has vast amounts of all -isms in it and the narration sticks closely to it. One major character has groomed a 19yo since she was 15. A pedophile is also mentioned to be gay in a way that I found off compared to the other descriptions of terrible people being terrible. Nuclear world war and a fantasy environmental catastrophe are central to the plot even if they are described in rather muted tones, all things considered.
Re: Püha ja õudne lõhn | Sacred and Terrible Air - Robert Kurvitz