yuletide | 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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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?:

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Title: Profiler (TV 1996)

Media: TV show

Approx length: 4 seasons, 83 eps in all

Where to find it: DVDs are available on Amazon. Contact me directly if you'd like.

What is it, in summary?: Samantha "Sam" Waters (played by Ally Walker) is the best profiler in the world, but has been hiding out on her friend's farm with her daughter Chloe after the death of her husband at the hands of the serial killer Jack of All Trades. But when her former mentor and good friend Bailey Malone (played by Robert Davi) needs her help on a tough case, it pulls her back into the FBI—and the sights of Jack. (Basically a serial killer-focused FBI show that was the groundbreaker for shows like CSI and Without a Trace.)

What do you love about it?: Sam and Bailey's deep friendship (which is actually love on his side - even the actor said so! - but she doesn't realize it). They care so much for each other (and touch each other a lot, lol). I also adore Sam's competence and intelligence - her femininity is part of what makes her so competent, and you don't always see a character that combines all of that.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Shippy fic! Or friendship fic! (I like both the canon dynamic and fics where she realizes she loves him too.) Really, anything that involves them being who they are, doing things together.

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?: Absolutely! S1/S2 are all I really care about - that's 42 eps max. And if that's too many, there aren't any major details introduced after S1 that would need to be incorporated, so you could watch just the first season (22 eps) and be able to write something set during that time without being worried about major issues (and I adore canon divergence anyway). S3 changed showrunners and introduced some major continuity errors, and one of the requested characters wasn't even on the show for most of S4. You could happily enjoy S1/S2 and never watch the rest of the show.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): It's a show about murder, so there's a fair bit of that, but it's not graphic.