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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!
Asterix the Gaul (comics)
Media: Comic books
Approx length: Albums 1-24 are the "classics", written and drawn by René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo together. 25-33 were made by Uderzo alone, after Goscinny's death. Albums 35-39 (and counting) are being written and drawn by other authors and artists. I'm a bit of a purist in this regard, and don't really consider the albums from 35 onwards canon.(Considering how God-awful the last Uderzo-album is, I also prefer to pretend it doesn't exist! *g*)
New readers will have plenty of fun with albums 1-24. Every album is 48 pages, so they're a relative quick read.
Where to find it: Libraries and book stores
What is it, in summary?: A satirical, humorous take on life in France (Gaul) in first century BC (every story apparently takes place in 50 BC...)
"All of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans... Well, not entirely..."
We follow the eponymous Asterix, his friend Obelix and the rest of the Gauls in a little village in Brittany as they refuse to bow to the Romans, led by Julius Caesar. (The reason why they're able to withstand the Romans is that they have a magic potion that gives them superhuman powers. The Romans, of course, would like to get their hands on it. Hi-jinks ensue.)
The Wikipedia article is a good place to start.
What do you love about it?: The humour, the way current, 20th century events get poked fun of through a historical lens. The names (Roman or Gaulish) that are based on puns. The meta-level, where the characters sometimes seem aware of their own place in history. And the fact that despite all this, deep down, Goscinny & Uderzo did do their actual research, so we might see Asterix and Obelix running across a field with a historically correct plough in the foreground - right after they've visited an office, where the "intercom" consisted of Pygmies running from room to room.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Mostly fics about Asterix & Obelix' friendship and relationship in general and what might have happened during their adventures. I've tried, but I can't ship them. Whether it's because of their cartoonish proportions (which makes it rather difficult for me to see them as sexual/romantic beings) or because I just really like the way they're portrayed as brothers of different mothers (they're born in the exact same moment, on the exact same day), I don't know.
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?: The thing about this series is that you can more or less read the albums in whatever order you'd like (except for the first album). Every album is a finished story, and it's only the main cast (the Gauls of the village, Caesar and Cleopatra) that are recurring characters. Even the Roman troops in the garrisons surrounding the village change from album to album.
If I have to recommend just some titles, it should be album 10 through 21, as they're all incredibly solid, compelling stories. But also "Asterix and Cleopatra" and "Obelix and Co." are to be recommended.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): None, it's a very tame series in that regard. It's very much an all-ages canon. An adult reader might pick up on some darker implications that are written between the lines, and one could argue that the setting only appears so carefree because we see it from the POV of people with access to superhuman powers. Because in the stories where our friends leave the village (or outsiders come to the village) we get glimpses of a harsher, more "realistic" world where people are killed, punished or enslaved - but it's only ever mentioned.