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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>:
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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!
The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher (aka Ursula Vernon)
Media: Book series
Approx length: This is a series consisting of four books (Paladin's Grace, Paladin's Strength, Paladin's Hope, and Paladin's Faith); the publisher's website lists the longest one at 436 pages. My rough math puts this at roughly 140k words for this particular book? The shortest is at 270 pages.
Where to find it:
The publisher sells it directly in ebook and hardcopy formats (and as of this writing, seems to be on sale!): Ursula Vernon (Writing as T. Kingfisher) at Argyll Productions
What is it, in summary?:
This is a series of books where a small group of berserker paladins are struggling to heal and continue living in the wake of the their god dying. In each book, they take it in turns to go adventuring and solve some kind of dangerous and gruesome problem and fall in love with a very interesting love interest character who's usually in some kind of awful danger or on a quest of their own. Or both: both is good.
What do you love about it?:
The worldbuilding is great, the characters are excellent, and it's also just great to read adventure fiction where the characters are all above the age of like twenty. Lots of main characters in their forties or so. We have the berserker paladins as a through-line, but we also have a perfumer, a spy, a coroner, and a bunch of priests of the White Rat, who take holy vows to go out and solve problems and be public defenders (among other things) in a medieval/fantasy world. It's some cool jars we're shaking these characters up in.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Oh, damn. God, I'd love some adventure? I'd especially love some expansion on scenes that get briefly remarked on in the books but not like, explicitly told? I like competence and the product of weird rabbit-holes on Wikipedia for weird little facts. I would also like the honeymoon period/domestic life after the various couples are out of danger. And also the gnoles are great and I'd love to see Brindle or Earstripe. And the weird gruesome magic that features is also very interesting.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
Yes! Each book centers on one relationship.
Minor spoilers ahead in the next section but not anything more than you'd get from reading the backs of the books:
Content warnings: Some weirdly gruesome magical violence. And the first book in particular has a main character who left an absolutely awful relationship and is recovering from that. We see some slavery in book #2.