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Are you nominating and planning to request fandoms based on videos, songs, commercials, or other five minute fandoms? Please point me toward them and tell me about them!!

Fandom/Canon Name: Dixit.

What's awesome about it: It's a card game where all the cards are beautiful and/or unnerving surrealist images, and one player "describes" their card with a snippet of story, a reference, or an explanation of what it makes them think of, and the other players try to match it with something from their own hand. (There's a scoring system that provides incentive for the "storyteller" to come up with a description that's neither too abstract nor too obvious and for the other players to try as hard as they can to match the concept.) I'm really drawn to the illustrations on the cards, any one of which could qualify as a five-minute fandom for some good fantasy/horror/science fiction imagery.

Where to find: Board game stores or online for the whole game; lots of sample cards on Google Image search.

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So you're basically planning to request with the intent of someone picking a card to write about? That seems pretty cool! And it's a board game I'm not familiar with (but I'm betting my son would have a blast with it, and thus, I may have to become more familiar anyway).

That's what I'm thinking! I'll probably pull out a couple as samples for prompts, but I'd love to see a story for any of them--whatever strikes the writer's fancy. They're like tiny Magrittes!

It's a fun game, and it's extremely easy to learn the rules. It works best with a group of people who all know each other at least a little, in my experience (mostly so you can occasionally use in-jokes as card descriptions), but I've always had a lot of fun with it.

Wow. This game deserves its own fic prompt community. Like a Dixit Bingo.

Or weekly Dixit flashfiction!

Both? No, I was thinking Dixit. There's a daily flashfic prompt community on LJ for which I sometimes manage to leave prompts (and never manage to write a fill.) A weekly dixit picture prompt community. I like it. It could be for original fic or fanfic. Minimum 100 words. Drabble length or longer.

Here's a (bad) icon for our imaginary community. (I'm a writer not an artist but I can shrink pictures with the best of 'em.)

icon for imaginary comm

I am totally offering this fandom.

I like this very much and it needs to happen.

Did it get approved? (crosses fingers)

It did! /fireworks

Oh my god this is such a good idea. I love Dixit. Have you played Mysterium? It's like Dixit but with a murder mystery.

I love Mysterium! (And my five year-old niece loves being the "ghost's assistant" carrying dream cards to people.) I need to remember to nominate it for Trick or Treat next year.

THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME! My daughter's babysitter had this game and I completely forgot and it is wonderful!

It's so much fun! I played it with a few people recently who immediately went out and bought a copy.

You want something Yu-Gi-Oh ot Jumanji style? They're playing with the cards and then suddenly what they describe or see comes to life?

You want something Jumanji or Yu-Gi-Oh style, where what they're describing or seeing on the card suddenly comes to life?

Embarrassingly, it got bumped off my list by a consumed-between-nominations-and-signups canon, but I will selfishly say that that sounds awesome, and that I hope whoever does request the game considers that as a prompt.

Wow, those are beautiful.

Fandom/Canon name: Spambots (Anthropomorfic)

What's awesome about it:

I've been getting spam recently for Financial Robot. Financial Robot is an unstoppable financial super-being with endearingly poor grammar. Robot never sleeps. It makes money for you 24/7. Still not a millionaire? The financial robot will make you him! Attention! Financial robot may bring you millions!

Most successful people already use Robot. Do you?

https://pastebin.com/M2hhtnKH for many more...

Fandom/Canon Name: moneysupermarket he-man commercial

What's awesome about it: He-Man and Skeletor were the antagonists from a cartoon in the 80's (and various things since). An ad agency re-interpreted the final dance number from Dirty Dancing as a 2-minute clip of He-Man and Skeletor dancing together. It's brilliant, and ever-so-slightly slashy.

I nominated this Finnair Panda commercial from 2005: https://vimeo.com/73296421

It features an adorable panda traveling around the world. It is basically the cutest, fluffiest commercial I have ever seen. It ran all the time on Eurosport during the 2005 Tour de France and I squeed so much every time it was on. I'm still in love 12 years later. All I want is more panda fluff.

Fandom/Canon Name: Space Cats - Bronwyn Schuster
What's awesome about it: Awesome art of cats in space! They're just so colorful and fun!
Where to find: http://www.bronwynschuster.com/space-cats

Fandom/Canon Name: Did You Like The Battle, Sir? - Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar.
What's awesome about it: It's a song written by a folk singer called Bev Pegg in the 1970s. Whether he knew it or not (I'm not sure), it's one of the most hurt/comforty slashy songs I could imagine. It's sung from the point of view of someone who's a civilian, comforting the officer of an army, who is both personally wounded and leading the remains of his troops away from a battle that it seems likely he has lost. There's a lovely ambiguity about which side the singer character is on.
Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar are one of the fastest rising acts on the UK folk scene, and Greg's delivery gives the song a contemporary edge and relevance.
It's not a song about a real, specific, battle... and so there's a whole range of possibilities for fic.
Where to find:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqz5nCLP_4c

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