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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!
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!
There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
Media: Book/Web serial novel
Approx length: 70k words
Where to find it: Available for free online here. (Start at "Critical Background Reading" and keep going down the list of links until you get to "Epilogue: Champions of Nothing". For the chapter with an interactive keypad: the code is 55555.) You can also buy it in ebook/paperback/hardcover form on Amazon/Gumroad/Google Play. The author's website has some neat bonus content/deleted scenes.
(That first link goes to the SCP wiki — it’s set in the SCP extended universe, but you don’t need to know anything about SCP going in, beyond “the main characters work for a subsidiary of an organization called the SCP Foundation that’s essentially the Men in Black.”)
What is it, in summary?: Sci-fi cosmic horror. Follows Marion Wheeler, director of the titular Antimemetics Division, a secret organization that researches supernatural phenomena that mess with people’s memories — and finds itself fighting a war against an existential threat that’s impossible for humans to think about, perceive, or remember. To quote someone else’s anonymous comment: “It's a combination of twisty espionage story, cosmic horror, slam-bang pulp action, and the tragedy of brilliant people losing their minds and lives and not even being able to remember who they've lost, or be remembered when they die.” Vibes-wise, it’s something like the lovechild of Severance and The Magnus Archives.
What do you love about it?: It’s a weird nonlinear puzzle-box that’s got some fascinating worldbuilding/speculative biology taken to truly mindbending fucked-up extremes. I love its cast of unreliable narrators who can’t trust their own minds or memories and have to deduce things from first principles. I love that its protagonist is a blunt, hypercompetent, vaguely traumatized middle-aged woman in a position of power forced to make increasingly morally fraught decisions, and I love the dynamic between her and her (ex?)-husband. (Love it when two characters are brilliant and renowned and kind of terrifying in their separate professional lives, and nerdy and goofy and low-key with each other in their private personal lives, and when everything goes to hell they can’t stop destroying themselves and each other in a desperate effort to keep each other safe — even after they’re no longer able to remember each other.) Also it's just really fun, effective bureaucratic horror.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: More worldbuilding and more Marion. She’s living in the ashes of a world she and her coworkers have mostly forgotten, and a life she’s mostly forgotten — I want to know more about that world, and about that life, and how she copes with the general insanity of it. (And about her marriage. OMG I am actually so insane about her marriage.) I’m also a huge sucker for whump, hurt/comfort, etc., and this is an excellent canon for that sort of thing. (I’m opting into the Interactive Fiction challenge and Crueltide as well!)
Are there sections of canon that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests?: Not really (it’s a decently short book), but as a note: the first page I’ve linked also has links to a bunch of side stories/spinoffs written by other authors. Everything listed under “What The Dead Know”, “Precursor Work”, and “Further Reading” isn’t part of the book and isn’t necessary to read.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Amnesia/memory loss. Lots of major character death. Graphic violence. Gore/body horror, particularly eye/hand trauma. Several scenes involving (sci-fi) drug overdose. Spiders and other various creepy-crawlies in places where they should not be.
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(This is because Penguin Random House is now traditionally publishing this book & it will be in stores next year - yay!)
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