Yuletide Fandom Promo 2024!

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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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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

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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?)


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.



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Fear & Hunger (Video Games)

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Title: Fear & Hunger

Media: Video games

Approx length: Two games, Fear & Hunger + Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. The number of play hours can vary greatly, depending on if you’re heading directly for one of the game’s many endings or if you explore everything you can.

Where to find it: Both games are on Steam, but you can only find them if you're logged in due to their ratings. Here’s a link to the first game and here's a link to the second game. Also, here’s a link to the game franchise’s Wikipedia page.

What is it, in summary?: Two cosmic horror games that contain pretty much every horrific thing you can imagine. Steam describes them as “JRPG x Survival Horror”. You play as one of several characters as they try to outlast horrific circumstances. In the first game, you are one of four people trying to reach the depths of a cursed place called “The Dungeon of Fear and Hunger” while all manner of creatures try to get you. In the second game, which takes place 400 years later, you are one of several people who’re caught up in a strange Battle Royal game while stranded in a war torn city. Your objective in both games can be to merely survive, but it’s also possible to dig deeper into the magic and mystery around you, to try and figure out why things are as they are.

What do you love about it?: I’m a sucker for cosmic horror and game worlds that you only understand if you puzzle together in-game lore. I know these games, especially the first one, have several very obvious homages and/or pretty much copy-pasted characters from other media (*cough*BERSERK*cough*) but it has enough of its own style to be an interesting new things rather than a fan game with the serial numbers filed off.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Worldbuilding! As interesting as I find the characters, I’d most of all love to learn more about what people think this mess of a world is like outside of the two main plots. What’s it like living in this world? Are there any places we as the audience would consider ‘normal’ to live? And what’s up with the Crow Mauler, how did he come into existence and what’s his true purpose? What’s it like to live through a change of the new gods? What’s a normal day like in this world? What is it like to connect to one of the new gods? One of the old?

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?: If you don’t feel like playing the games, but you’re curious about the lore and characters, there are several lore videos and let’s plays up on Youtube. I’d recommend Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video about the first game as a good intro. Worm Girl has great story summary/lore videos for both the first game and the second one.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): ALL OF THE CONTENT WARNINGS. Seriously. Especially if you’re playing the uncensored versions of the games. There is rape, violence, gore, body horror, suicide, racism, slavery, torture, cannibalism, child death, child abuse, heavily implied pedophilia and so on and so forth. You name it, it’s probably in these games. They’re full of horrific content to the point of parody.