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.



Previous fandom promo posts can be found at this tag!

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Hear Me Cry (CBS Schoolbreak Special) 1984

[rotten_wood]

Title:
Hear Me Cry (CBS Schoolbreak Special) (1984)

Media:
Short film / movie

Approx length:
30 minutes

Where to find it:
on youtube and the internet archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAmi8WB0o4w.

What is it, in summary?:
Two teenagers in the 80s find they have more in common than their preconceived notions of each other as the "jock" and the "nerd". They form a suicide pact, but only one dies.

What do you love about it?:
Angsty, edgy, and extremely 80s, but not dismissive or (entirely) tasteless. Probably one of the earlier sympathetic film depictions (made for adolescents) of what makes a suicide. I also love the nerd and jock dynamic, and how they become sort of secret friends, united by this one feeling they can't share with anyone else. At times it makes me cringe, but that's a part of the 80s charm. I think there's a lot of angsty fanfiction potential here, and even more angsty slash potential. Plus Siouxsie and TSOL being 80s sadboy music was pretty hilarious.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Slash, definitely. I would like to see an ending where the character who dies is talked out of it by the other (maybe for slashy reasons...?). Or some 80s typical homophobia followed by comfort, of course.

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?:
Ehh, not really. You could theoretically skip the scenes with their parents but that does take out a lot of context.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Suicide, obviously. There's also a confederate flag on one of the characters' walls (that is never mentioned, just extremely out of place).