Fandom Promos

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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

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[raininshadows]

Dinosaur is a ride kind of loosely connected to the movie of the same name at Disney's Animal Kingdom. (The main connection is that they are both about dinosaurs.) It's obviously a bit hard to get the full experience without actually going to Florida and riding, but fortunately you can get basically all of the story through the magic of YouTube videos.

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.