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Yuletide Fandom Promo 2024!

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!

Cheju has started a spreadsheet for promo! Here's the link!

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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?:

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
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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!

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Title: South Beach (TV 1993)

Media: TV Show

Approx length: 8 episodes, 45 minutes each

Where to find it: Internet Archive, YouTube

What is it, in summary?: Kate (Yancy Butler) is a con-woman pulling small-time jobs stealing from rich people in Miami. When her brother tangles with the Russian mob, she winds up in the crosshairs of a government agent named Roberts (John Glover) who offers her a keep-out-of-jail card by making her work for him. Eagle-Eye Cherry and Patti D'Arbanville have supporting roles.

What do you love about it?: I watched this back in the day and always loved the Kate/Roberts dynamic, which is full of banter and snark and delightful tension and mutual attempts at always keeping one step ahead of the other. Kate's street-smart and quick-witted and Roberts is a brilliant strategist, and it's a delight to watch them they work together and sometimes against each other and occasionally both at once. I also enjoy the show's 1990's flair – the glossy Miami society, the lightheartedness of it despite the seriousness of some of the cases.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Kate/Roberts shipfic. Tropey, romance, UST-filled, porny – any flavor is welcome.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): It's a 1990s show, so expect some period-typical stereotypes and attitudes.

Title:
Kneecap

Media:
movie

Approx length:
1 hour 45 minutes

Where to find it:
In the US it's only streaming on AppleTV, and it is out on DVD!

What is it, in summary?:
It's the mythic, wild-night-out kind of tall tale of a story about the origin of a group of Irish language rappers, and the way that language as personal identity and language as political identity and language as story and story as meaning intersect. It's also just a good time.

Movie trailer here:
https://youtu.be/FFYfp-hKxZQ?si=6SW4OS3h65XMTuGV

What do you love about it?:
It's funny and fierce and a story about telling stories, and it's a political articulation I think is really needed at this moment.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Here's what I said in my letter - I'm obsessed with the way this movie is a myth, is a tall tale in a pub, is an emotional but not literal truth, and I'd love to see a story that wants to dig into that and plays with it a little. The movie is written like it's from Mo Chara's point of view, so maybe a story that looks at what it might look at if one of the others was telling it? JJ says he wanted to be a musician first, at that point when he tries to quit the band -- where does the story start if he's telling it, for example?

I'm also deeply into Georgia as a character, and her and Mo Chara's relationship based on mutual political kink -- if they try to figure out if there's more to it than that, what does that look like?

Really, I became deeply invested in this story very very fast, and if there's anything you've been feeling like writing about it, even if it has nothing to do with anything I've said, I'll probably be very into it just because it's more thoughts about this movie to chew on. I've also gone down a bit of a rabbit hole and listened to most of their interviews and seen the music videos, so if you want to pull any of that in for color/depth, it's all fair game. I had this bizarre vision the other day of the track "Harrow Road" off the new album getting adapted into a sequel movie to this one, so if you feel like getting epic-night-out about it, that's a thought.

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?:
Not really!

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Drug use, discussions of struggles with mental health, generational trauma

I'm also thinking about putting together a supplemental post of top interviews and music videos on my journal -- I'll link here if I do, and if you'd be interested in that, please hmu.

I had forgotten about this movie. I loved it so much. Such great chemistry!!

Title: Bucchigiri?! ぶっちぎり anime

Media: Anime

Approx length: It's one season, about 4.5h total runtime.

Where to find it: Crunchyroll is the distributor of the English sub and dub.

What is it, in summary?: Tomoshibi Arajin returns to his hometown and finds his new school is embroiled in a 3-way gang war. Arajin sees himself as more of a lover than a fighter, so he would rather not get involved in all that, but as it turns out, just about everyone else already is — including both his estranged childhood friend Matakara, the second-in-command of one of the three gangs, and the cutest girl in class, Mahoro, whose scary big brother Marito runs the second gang. After accidentally freeing a long-imprisoned genie named Senya, Arajin gains Senya's fighting abilities and quickly finds himself becoming very popular with the various gangs, but Senya has an agenda of his own, and a hidden past with another genie, Ichiya. The show is kind of like a fever dream you'd have after watching Aladdin too many times and bingeing three delinquent anime back-to-back.

Arajin and Senya; Arajin and Matakara

What do you love about it?: As a protagonist, Arajin ranges from a bit lame to downright grating, but if you're willing to laugh at his mishaps and maybe dig down under all that bravado, there's a lot to enjoy. His sole stated motivation is to lose his virginity (which, side note, if horny teenagers being horny grosses you out, then this may not be the show for you), so he latches onto Mahoro right away, but...

This is a show by Hiroko Utsumi, the director behind Banana Fish and Sk8 the Infinity, so you know it's gonna be full of guys being devoted to one another, and indeed, Bucchigiri does not disappoint in the shipping department. While Mahoro's only interested in manipulating him, just about every other guy in the show wants Arajin (carnally) because of the super-powered genie punch Senya's powers granted him. But Arajin doesn't want a bunch of guys drooling over him, or superpowers, or to be a "honki person" (approx. 'serious person', as far as any of us can tell) like he and Matakara swore to each other when they were little; he just wants to get laid. Along the way, though, he ends up accidentally finding out what's really important to him, and what it really means to get serious.

Marito; Ichiya and Senya

If you enjoy self-contained stories full of wacky characters, ride-or-die friendships, dramatic showdowns, gratuitously well-animated fight choreography, and an impressively hard-hitting tone shift from zany comedy into heartfelt emotional resolutions, Bucchigiri will not disappoint. (Also, the OP (watch on YouTube) and ED are both absolute bangers.)

Arajin and Mahoro; Matakara's friends Zabu and Komao

Content warnings: Cartoon violence ranging from slapstick to serious.

(ty to NothingSoDivine for pitching in to write this summary 😊)

Edited 2024-10-21 15:05 (UTC)

Oooh, downloading this! Almost every school girl novel I recall reading when I found them in secondhand shops had *some* level of lesbian yearning but this sounds particularly fine

Title: The Great Cleric - broccoli lion

Media: Light novel but also manga and anime (the manga is good and close to the light novels, I can't watch the anime but I imagine it is, too)

Approx length: 20 volumes (but see below on this)

Where to find it: Light novel but basically anywhere you get ebooks for the ln and manga, I think the anime might be on crunchy?

What is it, in summary?: Isekai of an overworked salary man into a western style fantasy land where he has (theoretically) One Goal: don't die. He picks healing skills in his reincarnation process and gets started on this path! Theoretically he has a harem but it's the most G rated harem in the world. He collects more middle aged men. He's a straightforward, earnest type who isn't afraid of hard work. This naturally means he gets landed with world saving quests, to his great dismay.

What do you love about it?: it's funny and earnest. Slow paced light novels scratch a particular itch in my brain and oh boy does this hit that spot. Also I have brain worms for the teacher/mc ship.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: the teacher/student ship! But I do also like them non-romo if that suits you better

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?: you very very much get enough for the teacher/mc from the first volume of the light novel, which takes about 2 hours to read.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): the setting has slavery and there is fantasy discrimination against beastfolk, there's a small amount of homophobia regarding an effeminate tailor character but given the author jokes about having created a harem of middle aged men for Luciel... It doesn't sting too much.

Edited 2024-11-09 07:36 (UTC)

Title: Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers | 信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略 - 大崎アイル | Clearing an Isekai with the Zero-Believers Goddess - Osaki Isle

Media: Light novel and manga

Approx length: 12 volumes

Where to find it: light novel

What is it, in summary?: isekai, weak to strong with harem but the best girl for the mc is his goddess to whom he is very devoted (see the title).

What do you love about it?: I really love the interactions between the members of the harem, and everyone who is kind of completely insane and overpowered interacting with the mc who (as is typical in these stories) is completely convinced he is Extremely Normal and not doing anything special. (He is completely insane and not remotely normal.)

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I've requested the rival character and the mc. I love their relationship and it genuinely almost seems like the rival has a romantic thing for the mc and I desperately want to see that explored given the setting means they both have multiple female romantic interests.

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?: probably volumes 1 and 2 and then 8 and 9 I think have flashbacks that involve sakurai, if poked I can probably come up with more certainty.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): nothing big off the top of my head

Title: 青春×機関銃 | Aoharu x Kikanjuu | Aoharu x Machinegun

Media: manga

Approx length: 18 volumes

Where to find it: wherever you get your ebooks

What is it, in summary?: sports manga where the sport is "war games" played with bb guns. Main character is mistaken for a guy and roped into playing on a team with two people who just so happen to live in her apartment complex, said team has a rule against having girls on the team so she's "stuck" crossdressing. The cast is insane. Just truly wild personalities.
A rundown of some faves:

previously mentioned main character who accidentally lets everyone think she's a guy for 90% of the series (my personal interpretation is she's non-binary)
a guy who can give another character a panic attack by starting a conversation (he is a pediatric doctor in his day job)
His masochist lackey nurse (I think he's a nurse anyway, I'd have to reread to check) who is into taking care of the doctor and being ignored
A bombshell nurse coworker who doesn't do feelings who devotes herself to him as well
Identical twins named haruki and haruka who have Issues
A gloomy introvert who is actually the successful manga-ka of a BDSM manga
His bff host boyfriend who has Trauma and is more likely to have a relationship with his toy gun than a human person

What do you love about it?: it's silly action packed fun with wild characters.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I've requested the host with his ~~abuser~~ rival/antagonist.

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?: volumes 1 and 2 then 8 and 9. 8 and 9 have the important backstory.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): anime typical sibling incest vibes, a character getting clocked as not the gender they're presenting as, (toy) guns, severe mental health issues and panic attacks

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Yuletide Fandom Promo 2024!

South Beach (TV 1993)

Kneecap (2024), movie

Re: Entrapment (1999)

Bucchigiri?! ぶっちぎり anime

Re: The School On the Moor - Dorita Fairlie Bruce

The Great Cleric - broccoli lion

信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略 - 大崎アイル | Clearing an Isekai with t

Aoharu x machinegun