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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Turning a Sphere Outside In (Huggbees)

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Title: Turning a Sphere Outside In

Media: Youtube video

Approx length: 24 minutes

Where to find it: Right here at the link!

What is it, in summary?:

Thirteen years ago, the educational video 'Outside In' was uploaded to Youtube. Made in 1994, its intent was to teach viewers about the famously counter-intuitive and complicated mathematical subject of topology, through the means of a female narrator explaining this 'new discovery' about spheres to a male narrator. The video's surreal visuals and overall dreamy vibe turned it into to a cult-classic internet hit, with as of typing 8.1 million views.

Enter Huggbees, a Youtuber known for his gag dubs. Using the visuals of the original video, he crafted his own script in which he and a female narrator take the place of the original man and woman, following closely to the original... at first. And then things go wildly, dramatically off the rails.

Naturally, this sort of thing is best experienced blind, so please go take a look if the above interests you at all! However, the video's big trigger warnings and this fandom's greatest appeal are both major spoilers, so read on if you just have to know! The male and female narrators are slowly revealed to have shared multiple nights of passion in the past, and an attraction still lingers. They are then revealed to also be brother and sister. And to boot, at the end it's implied that their parents were also related! Also, the woman is married and has a kid, so there is infidelity, though apparently her husband is 'not that great of a guy' and was probably 'seeing women on the side.'.

What do you love about it?:

Oh god, the fanfic possibilities are just countless, from pre-canon fics filling in those spicy details referred to in the video, to post-canon stuff exploring how the characters move forward after the events at the end of the video - and what about the parents?! Plus, due to the nature of the subject, there's sooo much potential for rampant maths nerdery in fic, but also an equal potential to completely ignore all that if that's not your deal! :D

And yet, despite the potential, there is not even one single fic for this video on Ao3. It's wild!!! The thing has a goddamn TV Tropes page but no fanfiction?! This cannot stand. I plan on writing a piece for it at some point regardless, but in the meantime, Yuletide offers the perfect opportunity to christen that shiny new fandom tag. :)

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Any and all of the above! (I'd especially love anything leaning on all the mathsy stuff, but I'm not picky~)

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?: You can just watch the whole thing on Youtube at any time! :)

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): See above spoiler tag for more details. In short: Brother/sister incest; possibly multiple generations of it. Infidelity. Explicit language.