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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[primeideal (from livejournal.com)]

And my second fic will be for In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, a stand-alone middle-grade book by Bette Bao Lord. This is historical fiction (based somewhat on the author's own childhood), about a Chinese girl (Shirley Temple Wong--she picked her American name) who moves to Brooklyn, New York. It's hard for Shirley to make friends at first, but baseball eventually becomes a way for her to connect with her classmates. It's also a watershed year for the city as a whole, because Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers is also becoming the first black player in the modern major leagues.

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."