yuletide | 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.

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Title: "nad and Dan adn Quaffy" - Diana Wynne Jones
Media: short story
Approx length: 20 pages of mass-market paperback print
Where to find it: first published in the anthology Digital Dreams (available on Internet Archive for 1-hour checkout here, and republished in Minor Arcana (available on Internet Archive for 1-hour checkout here), as well as Believing is Seeing, and Unexpected Magic. These are all out of print, I believe, but still in lots of libraries!
What is it, in summary?: a beleaguered single-mom scifi writer whose secret to overcoming writer's block is pretending her word processor is the control board of a spaceship gets contacted from the alternate universe where her multiverse double *is* a powerful captain in the space navy of the Matriarchy.
What do you love about it?: It's got all the classics Diana Wynne Jones pieces in a small perfect package: multiverse shenanigans, with a vastly intriguing alternate universe sketched in just a few offhand sentences! Sharp but loving (self-)mockery of SFF tropes (in this case: 80s space opera and the omnipresence of coffee-by-an-exotic-name are the main targets) that never takes itself too seriously! Very real family dynamics–somewhat unusually, from the POV of the parent, this time (in the background is the protagonist's affectionate but exasperated relationship with the teenage son she's parenting solo).
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'm definitely nominating "Worldbuilding" for this canon–the alternate universe and the of the novels that the protagonist has written both offer a ton of fun(ny) possibilities.

Fandom Promo 2023!

nad and Dan adn Quaffy - Diana Wynne Jones