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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!
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<b>Title</b>:
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<b>Media</b>:
<b>Approx length</b>:
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<b>What is it, in summary?</b>:
<b>What do you love about it?</b>:
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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!
Countless - Cai Guoqing & Chen Chusheng & Zhang Yuan & Yu Haoming (Call Me By Fire 2023 Performance)
Media: Video
Approx length: 6.5 minutes
Where to find it:
The performance with my own English subtitles added
Original with only Chinese subs
The whole episode of the show it's from
What is it, in summary?: A vocal performance on Chinese variety show Call Me By Fire, where the song is presented as a conversation between a psychiatrist and patient, with three singers representing three aspects of the patient's psyche.
What do you love about it?: The original song is one of my favorites, by one of my favorite singers, so when I saw they were doing it I was like oh, no way their version can hold a candle to Joker's. But turning it from just a simple song performance into practically a six-minute play was totally unexpected, and it blew me away!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I feel like there are tons of opportunities here for dark shippy stuff - whether dark, unhealthy doctor/patient, or self-cest between the different aspects of the patient's psyche. Or just something exploring the patient's experiences - this doesn't exactly seem like a nice psychiatric hospital, and there is a distinct contrast between the clean, stylish clothes of the psychiatrist and the dingy surroundings, so how did the patient wind up here, what has happened to him since he got here (I get possible unethical-experimentation vibes from the setup?), why is he losing his grip on reality? Is the psychiatrist actually looking out for his best interest and he just can't see it? Is "let me give you the world" sincere, or patronizing? I feel like there is just so much meaty and potentially disturbing possibility in this one little performance!
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?: It's only 6.5 minutes, so it can't get much shorter than that!
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): It's set in what appears to be a grungy psychiatric hospital and the lyrics of the song imply the patient is losing his grip on reality. But for as much as I see a lot of disturbing fic possibility, the actual performance is not particularly disturbing.