Fandom Promos

[galerian_ash]

Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing some pimping? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. So by doing a little promoting you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

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[tehexile]

I've written mine already. I went for Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories, an obscure game that I saw Let's Played and thought had a cool story. Its the only one of its series to be translated into English afaik.

[tildytwo]

I wrote mine on the old "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies. Hillbilly-type folk with an average of 15 children (it varies based on the movie). Ma is super-competent, and Pa is a slow-moving lazy bag of bones who is at least very polite.



Also featured prominently is oldest son Tom, with whom I probably identify a little too strongly. I wonder what it is about bookish firstborns who don't quite fit in with the rest of their family that hits so hard...?



Technically my story takes place during the canon of "The Egg and I," a semi-biographical movie that invented the Kettles for comic relief, and they only later got their spinoff movies. "The Egg and I" tends to be way easier to get hold of than the others, even if it doesn't have nearly enough Marjorie Main for my taste.

[sweetsorcery]

I'm hoping I'll manage to write for 2 fandoms. Both are British movies from the 1950s, as are an awful lot of my comfort movies, tbh. Everyone's always terribly noble and brave in the face of adversity back then. :)

The Trollenberg Terror (1958) (US Title: The Crawling Eye)

I stumbled on this one recently when reading about John Carpenter's The Fog from 1980. He cites this as one of his influences. It's a sci-fi/monster movie but, like most of those when made by the Brits in that era, has you doing double-takes when the "science" actually makes some kind of sense. :D
This one also has you doing double-takes at the unsubtle way an initially mysterious, nervous young Brit latches onto the slightly older hero type in authority. (He follows him to his room in their Alpine hotel immediately after his arrival and offers to help him unpack!) They're really quite adorable with each other.

Someone has been kind enough to upload this movie to YouTube: Watch The Trollenberg Terror here.

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Morning Departure (1950) (US title: Operation Disaster)
What is it with the bizarre renaming?

This is based on a real submarine sinking, so don't expect a happy ending. However, without wanting to be too spoilerish, the ending isn't the worst thing for the characters concerned and their various life on land situations, and I personally think it's all oddly snug and cosy. Plus, they face things with so much dignity and mutual support, I've found my favourite OT3 in the commander, his first officer, and a crewman who finds his courage. They're played by wonderful actors too (John Mills, Nigel Patrick, young Richard Attenborough), which helps a lot. :D

No full upload available, I'm afraid, but here's the trailer.

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[tellshannon815]

I've submitted mine already for the Russell T Davies miniseries It's A Sin. I have to be honest and admit I was surprised not to have found anything anyone else has written for that already considering it was really popular here in the UK.

Making Love (1982)

[eleosepistrophia]

Basics: This is a movie about a married doctor, Zach Elliot, (played by Michael Ontkean) discovering his homosexuality after his patient, Bart McGuire (played by Harry Hamlin) makes some moves. And then Zach makes some moves back. And things happen. Also, Kate Jackson plays Zach's wife, Claire.

Why Should I Check This Out?: Many reasons! First, Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean are smoking hot, and the movie was a lot more... show-y than I expected for the 80s. Second, I thought everyone did a great job in their roles. Third, this is a surprisingly sensitive and positive portrayal of gay men for the time period. Fourth, Roberta Flack does the movie's theme song, Making Love, which is played during the closing credits and it is gorgeous! Fifth, if you search for it on YouTube, it's online for free (although the uploader cut out Roberta's song at the end).

Fun Extras: Harry Hamlin said that the movie put his career on ice for several years. He also claims that during the kissing scene, Michael Ontkean stuck his tongue down Harry's throat. Michael Ontkean tried to prevent clips from the movie from being used for 1996's The Celluloid Closet, a documentary about male homosexuality in film. He was unsuccessful.

Sisyphus: The Myth

[undeadrobins]

This Korean drama is currently airing on Netflix, and I'm 110% hooked so far.

In short, it's the story of a woman from a post-apocalyptic future who travels back in time to the current time period, trying to stop the war that destroys the world. The way to save the world it to protect a genius engineer and stop him from building the very time travel device that allowed her to come back.

The woman, Seo-hae, is the fighter/bodyguard/kiss-ass in this situation. Tae-sul is a rich nerd who comes to fully appreciate her skills (seriously, in one scene when she's fought a bunch of people, he whispers "you're so cool" in complete awe ♥♥).

The show switches between the present and the future, and we learn more about what happened and who knew about it as the show goes on.

There are two new episodes every week - 10 have aired as of today (22 March), and the whole lot will have aired by 8 April).



In conclusion, I love this show very very much and everyone should watch it!

Re: Sisyphus: The Myth

[primeideal]

No promises that I'll follow up but this looks RTMI so thank you for the rec!

[primeideal]

Okay, so, due to technical glitches I am not as familiar with this canon as I had hoped to be, but I can give you the overview of what I am still planning to write for:

"Crying Suns" is a roguelike computer game where you play as the clones of a famous spaceship captain who needs to restart the robotic bureaucracy after a crisis disabled most of them. It was recommended to me as "like FTL but with more of a character-based story," which I think is accurate. Every level, you're jumping between planets and systems, trying to ration fuel, scrap, fighters, specialist officers, and other resources. Frequently other spaceships will want to fight you--these fights are a bit longer and more spatial than their counterparts in FTL, you're moving different units around on a (2D) map and trying to decide which kind of mini-spaceship will best handle your enemies' mini-spaceships.

By "roguelike," I mean that when you complete a level (or, more often, die), you don't save and reload, you start again from the beginning of the level--but, hopefully you've unlocked other classes of spaceships/specialists to use for the next time, so there's an incremental sense of progress.

Story-wise, the player character is Admiral Ellys Idaho, who's annoyed that he can't remember any of his strong emotional memories from his first life. There's a snarky robot sidekick named Kaliban who "refreshes your memory" about the backstory and gradually shares his opinions (mostly that humans are stupid and useless...I do love me some snarky robot sidekicks). What's fun is that they sort of "know" you're in a roguelike, and Kaliban will say things like "great, we added the quest to the map, you can reach it next sector if you don't die before then. Which considering your track record on this level, I'm not confident in." The clones give an in-character reason for the multiple restarts which kind of works.

Anyway, I'm hoping to write some Kaliban snark for this fest if I don't wind up procrastinating, wish me luck?