Fandom Promotion Post!

[crantz]

The great part about Yuletide is how your tiny fandom finally gets its time in the sun!

But sometimes it needs a little help for other people to know about your fandom in the first place.

This is what this post is for! Tell everyone about your fandom! Tell them what's great! Why they should fic it! What makes it special!

EDIT: I found a much better posting guideline while searching for an old post!

Completely optional format that you don't have to use:
<b>Fandom:</b> (name of fandom)
<b>Category:</b> (the category it will be in)
<b>Comments:</b> (any comments you have about why people should get into the fandom)
<b>Links:</b>
1. (links to any sources you think will help a potential writer get into the fandom, such as wikipedia pages, legal sources for download/viewing, primers, etc.)
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Note: I won't be making a spreadsheet for this since I feel this post is best for browsing through to find shinies, but if anyone else makes one I'll happily link it!

Useful links: Evidence Post, Nominations Trading Post and Nominations Tutorial!


LJ post!

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

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Fandom: The Feed (Australian TV)
Category: TV series
Comments: There is only one main character in this fandom, and that is Lee Lin Chin. Lee Lin Chin is a real person, but in this context she is a character, who happens to be played by the real Lee Lin Chin.
Background/Context: Lee Lin Chin is a respected veteran newsreader and fashionista in Australia, in the last few years has switched to only reading the weekend news after SBS changed the format of the weekday news. Since then, she has started appearing in sketches on The Feed, which combines news and in depth feature reporting with comedy, and tends to be pitched at a younger audience.

In these sketches, Lee Lin Chin is essentially playing a exaggerated or parody version of herself (which is written by The Feed's comedy team). This version of Lee Lin Chin is sarcastic, obsessed with high fashion and boutique beer, and considers most people to be beneath her. In the first few episodes they have her hosting a celebrity gossip show, then a cooking show. After that it's fairly random. In one of the most popular episodes, she gets into a knife fight with news readers from other tv stations. Some of the references will be more relevant to Australians, but many are generally accessible.

There is also an hilarious and acerbic twitter account, which is written in character, and which responds to current affairs. During the last leadership spill which resulted in a change of Prime Minister, #LeeLinforPM and #PrimeChinister were both trending.

I really hope people will feel inspired to offer and request this fandom

Links:
1. Full playlist of Lee Lin Chin sketches, listed in reverse chronological order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTN4Afxv_hgMhMm5FvLBiwEBJYPPqfL4H
2. About The Feed: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/about
3. Twitter account: https://twitter.com/LeeLinChinSBS

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Fandom: A Sparkle on the Wrist (Portofino Comercial)
Category: Other
Comments: This is a black and white advertisement set to the song "Amore Fermati" by Fred Bongusto (1969). The whole thing is designed to have a very 1960s Italian film feeling, along the lines of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. In this advert for very expensive watches, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Zhou Xun (nominated characters), Ewan McGregor, and Christoph Waltz (not nominated due to limits) meet in a seaside villa in Italy, before driving in vintage cars, and riding in speedboats. All the women are wearing tailored suits, and travelling together. They see the men, and eventually meet up with them. There is no spoken dialogue, but we see them talking and laughing and exchanging glances.

The fact that we don't get dialogue makes it very open to interpretation, and the first thing I thought upon seeing it was that I wanted to know who these people were, particularly the women, and what was their backstory.

Links:
1. Full advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NpJ8wQ1KM
2. Making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKjzle2ACY