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Fandom Promos
This post is a place for you to promote your chosen fandom. By pimping it you may be able to convince 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 a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? Anything goes!
Most importantly, please don't be shy. I'm really excited to see what everyone will be writing for, and — if at all possible — I'll do my best to check out your fandoms. And I'm sure I'm not the only one! So go for it :Db
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 a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? Anything goes!
Most importantly, please don't be shy. I'm really excited to see what everyone will be writing for, and — if at all possible — I'll do my best to check out your fandoms. And I'm sure I'm not the only one! So go for it :Db
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Promo post over here on my tumblr (http://yaichi.tumblr.com/post/139870279429/fandom-promo-beach-boys)! Please consider checking it out. c;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYWm4CHadY
This is someone's video of the preshow video and the ride. As a warning, it's kind of jittery and the ride portion depicts use of strobe lights. Or, if you don't want to watch the video, here's a summary.
The Dino Institute has invented time travel machines which they have embedded in Jeeps and intend to use to go view dinosaurs in person, and you're part of the first tour group to get to use them. Dr. Marsh, who runs the Institute, intends to send you to the early Cretaceous period, which is a lovely mostly-safe time where you can see some moderately famous species up close and personal. However, Dr. Seeker, who's handling the technical side of things, has fixated on a specific Iguanodon that lived at the end of the Cretaceous; he wants you to travel there so you can bring it back with you. Unfortunately, this means right at the end of the Cretaceous. You'll be arriving about five minutes before the asteroid impact, and you're going to be right where it's landing. Marsh, realizing the folly of this plan, intervenes, or at least tries to; after she leaves, Seeker manages to crack the password and resets the time/place targeting to his Iguanodon.
On the ride, you spend a while dodging around a jungle while the asteroid comes ever closer. In general, most of the wildlife you run into is relatively harmless, but there's a Carnotaurus (large and carnivorous) that thinks your tour group would be really tasty and keeps chasing you. Also, the Iguanodon absolutely will not stay still. Finally, with about thirty seconds to go, Seeker gives up on the Iguanodon and tries to pull you back to your own time, but the asteroid is messing with the targeting system; it takes him way longer than it should. Almost at the moment of impact, you manage to slip through time. You (and the Iguanodon, who's found his way over to you guys) reappear in the Dino Institute's basement. Seeker thanks you and heads off to go find his new dinosaur "before security does."
Now you may be asking, why would anyone want to write fanfic for this? It's not even one of the popular rides, like Haunted Mansion! And the answer is, the story caught my attention. It seems to be begging for a continuation. There's a dinosaur in the modern world! Dr. Seeker and the Dino Institute are going to be world-famous! At the same time, Seeker is also likely to be in massive trouble, because what he did nearly got you killed. There is a lot of story potential here, is what I'm saying. The humans are surprisingly well-characterized, given that Seeker appears for about five minutes and Marsh for maybe two - there's not much, but there's enough to build on. And it's incredibly easy to canon-review, because the entire thing is in that link up there.
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For fans of Japanese media, it has an extremely amusing cast. The two leads are the same actors who play lovers in the last four Takumi-kun movies and also acted together in the live-action Prince of Tennis musical. In addition, Watanabe Daisuke was also one of the heroes in Ultraman Mebius and Hamao Kyousuke was Gosei Black in Tensou Sentai Goseigers.
One of the supporting actors has been in, well, about half the Kamen Rider or Super Sentai series as a supporting actor or guest star. (Mr. Yokky from Abaranger! The cooking monster in Gaoranger! The ramen guy in Agito! A dad in Blade! Etc. and so on.)
Bokutachi No Kougen Hoteru is definitely not Kamen Rider or Super Sentai, but I found it almost unbearably adorable with just a hint of mystery. Why is Aizawa such a recluse? What happened to his grandfather? Why has Sawashiro come to the hotel and what is he hiding?
The best thing about the movie, though, is really the adorableness of the entire ensemble cast: the cranky chef, the caring woman who delivers flowers, the guys at the front desk, the new manager, the two cleaning staff...everyone has their own connection to the hotel and each other.
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Outernet was a very funny science fiction series, revolving around the adventures of three teenagers who have to protect a super-powerful alien computer. There's a war going on between the Friends and the FOEs (Forces of Evil), and Jack, Merle, and Loaf are the Friends' last hope to keep this computer and its sarcastic help program safe. Together with a talking dog and cat (who are actually aliens that got trapped shape-shifting), they bounce around the galaxy searching for a mysterious Weaver who can help them defeat The Tyrant.
For being so silly, I found it to be very well-plotted; there were lots of funny callbacks that got introduced early on and then referenced later, like the loan sharks Twista, Grifta, Sharpie, and Bent, or the planet Aaaaaargh! (it's the first word you say when you get there. also your last word). The time-travel mechanisms, when they showed up, were really elaborate, and the final reveals felt like the groundwork had been laid well (even though the authors admitted they were doing some of it on the fly).
Some of it didn't hold up as well for me, even the first time around; one book is set mostly on Earth, and consists of them using a rudimentary form of teleportation to visit ancient sites. The "ooh, ancient Earth monuments could be aliens!" rhetoric does have some tie-ins to themes elsewhere in the series (there really are other pyramids in the galaxy, Earth isn't special!) but it felt kind of boring...not even in a issue-fic way, just in a "I'd rather be in space!" way. YMMV. On the other hand, there are funny allusions to Earth literature, everything from an extended book riffing on The Odyssey to a Moby Dick parody.
In 2002 when the series was released, there was a website where you could explore along with the in-universe "Outernet." Sadly it is no more, but if you ever run across a copy of the books, I encourage you to give them a try!
Oh, and we didn't mention the "Trigger" warnings... ("Trigger" is the name of a spaceship.)
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While not quite as all-humor, all-the-time as Outernet, it's still very funny in places; the teacher, Mrs. Rappoport, tries to get students to talk about civics and no one is interested in answering her questions. The description of the awkward silence in the classroom is a very familiar moment; "The ticking of the big clock became so loud that President Washington and President Lincoln, who occupied the wall space to either side of it, exchanged a look of shared displeasure."
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Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry for the series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_series
Frenua Showm is a Ganymean administrator who first appears in book 3 of the series, Giant's Star. She displays a persistent distrust of Earth people even after her fellow administrators are convinced that Earth people are not a danger to Ganymeans, but gradually warms up to them due to developing a friendship with Karen Heller. This ficlet examines Frenua's thoughts leading up to the start of the friendship.
Karen Heller is an Earth diplomat, who also first appears in Giant's Star.
Garuth and Shilohin first appear in book 2 of the series, The Gentle Giants Of Ganymede. They are the Captain and Science Officer of the Shapeiron, a Ganymean research spaceship which, due to a mishap of the engines, arrived in the Solar System to find their home planet destroyed and a thriving civilization on Earth. As a result they have had extensive friendly experiences with Earth people and are quite upset that some Ganymeans, Frenua in particular are unwilling to take their word for the trustworthiness of Earth in general and their friends in the Earth delegation to the Giant's Star in particular.