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bethefirst2022-03-06 01:22 pm
galerian_ash) wrote in bethefirst2022-03-06 01:22 pm
Fandom Promos
Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing a little promoting? :D
We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here 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 a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!
We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here 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 a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!
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(It's an interesting medieval take on gender, a nice fairytale-like story, and it should be better nown, regardless of ficcing ^^)
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This series deserves a wider audience, and I'd be delighted if this or my fic-in-progress encourages anyone to check it out!
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"Madison May" is IMO one of Barry's better books. It's a parallel-universe thriller: there are certain magical objects that people can touch at certain times to jump into a nearby parallel universe. But once you're there, there's no going back. So there's a villain who keeps jumping in the hopes of hunting down a woman who (in some universes) is an up-and-coming actress, and who (in every universe) he's creepily obsessed with. A journalist finds out about it and starts moving to follow him.
I like the book because the "rules" of universe travel are restrictive enough that you can't necessarily do everything you want, which means it doesn't break plausibility with "why don't they just do X." The characters felt more interesting than "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August," a book with a similar-sounding premise about time loops. And this one is definitely about feminism/misogyny without coming off as overly preachy, in my view.
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(Anonymous) 2022-03-07 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)Right now, my fic idea will likely pick up on some of the mentions of Mr Mozart’s disappointing trips to the Continent prior to the events of Dead, Mr Mozart. I’m thinking either something where he somehow gets attached to the British delegation to the Congress of Vienna and winds up in a kind of bickering composer-detective thing with Salieri involving French spies or a visit to Salzburg where Nannerl winds up solving the mystery.
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We Only Kill Each Other tells the story of two rival Jewish gangsters in 1930s New York—one a young up-and-comer and the other a veteran mob boss—who are forced to team up against a mutual threat when the American Nazi movement starts making moves in town.
For those familiar with the real-life inspiration for the story, a few adaptational changes may or may not land, but it's overall been an atmospheric and action-packed series so far about two enemies on opposite sides of a generational divide coming together as tense allies. (And if, like me, you're into shipping characters with age gaps and complicated shared backgrounds, this might deliver for you.)
The series started out as a Comixology original, but with the service now having been entirely absorbed by Amazon, individual issues are only available digitally for Kindle. A print TPB is due out in April, published by Dark Horse.
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To sum up briefly, it's a really cute and funny graphic novel about a group of Dungeons & Dragons style adventurers who are anthropomorphized animals. This trailer is a pretty good promo/intro to the book and characters. They fight evil plants! They go undercover at a fancy ball to spy on their leader's arch-nemesis! There is adventure, magic, mayhem, and botany! (Remember the evil plants?)
Easy (TV)
I had never heard of this show (it's on Netflix in the US) until I was looking up Gugu Mbatha-Raw, as you do, and found she'd done two episodes of this anthology show (1x07, "Chemistry Read" and 3x09, "She's Back"). She plays Sophie, a Chicago theater actress who's got a boyfriend, Drew, whom she loves but not to the point that she'll let him stand in the way of her dreams. When she's offered a role on a TV show shooting in LA, she goes, leaving her boyfriend the butcher behind. She comes back two years later for a benefit for her Chicago theater company and seeks out Drew and they have one of the most honest and incredible conversations I've ever seen two characters have; Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jake Johnson knock it out of the park.
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This is the plot: On a routine peacetime mission, the crew of HM Submarine Trojan runs afoul of an electrically operated mine, leftover from the war. An unavoidable explosion sends the ship plunging to the seabed.
It's a pretty dramatic, but oddly cosy, film with some lovely pairing possibilities.
Or I might actually try and write the first fic in a fandom I keep on requesting in exchanges: Count Dracula (TV 1977). This is my all-time favourite adaption of Dracula, and the casting of Mina and Van Helsing in particular is just wonderful. This is the ONLY het pairing I like, and I suppose I should just write it instead of requesting it. :)
Oh, and this adaption is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OIILetaho
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I haven't fully decided yet, but I'm strongly considering Kukelokuti (Rooster Wattle). It's a short novel (novella? novelette?) about a linguistics student in 1990s Estonia, dealing with her PTSD. I hated the ending from the moment I realised what the foreshadowing pointed at (she drowned herself), and immediately concocted a version in my head where she survived, kicked the heck out of her assaulter, and also fell in love with her girl best friend. So that's one way. But I'm also nut sure how well writing it in English would work. Since she's a linguistics student, a lot of the way she thinks, how she narrates, is embedded with Estonian language puns and cultural things, and, god, the Wiedemann! How does one translate the absolute obscurity of Wiedemann's words?
... do board games count? I've always imagined the princess and the countess in Love Letter are girlfriends. (Also the captain and the contessa in Coup, but Coup does have one fic, so that's out.)
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Incidentally, there're no fics for the book or movie version of The Caine Mutiny, but there were two non-English fics for the play version. I didn't even think to check for that--is that still okay?
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Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lost Words: Beyond the Page (Steam link) is a simple platformer game by Rhianna Pratchett. It alternates between two sections: the journal of Izzy, a girl whose grandmother is in the hospital after a stroke; and the fantasy story that Izzy is writing about brave adventurer not!Izzy whose powers were passed on to her by Elder Ava (not!Gran), and who is going in pursuit of revenge and/or answers after her village was destroyed. The journal sections are 2D while the fantasy world sections are 2.5D, and both have beautiful but completely different visuals. The game itself is very easy, as evinced by the fact that I was able to play through the entire thing when I'm very bad at platformers (and at most other types of video games...); it does feel like it was written to be accessible for kids but as an adult I didn't feel like it was too immature for me. (I'm the kind of person who still enjoys reading YA and kids' books though, so others' perspectives might differ.)
The last part of this review talks about some personal grief...feel free to skip!
I had lost my favorite grandmother (and last remaining grandparent) a few years back in Jan 2018, and at the time I just hadn't had the energy to deal with it so I'd kind of just balled everything up inside and just kept pressing on. I think that's part of why this game hit me so hard, because it was bringing up some of that grief that I'd never really properly dealt with. I knit a pair of socks for Grammy that Christmas but the nursing facility she was staying at didn't let her choose her own footwear so she never got to wear them. Izzy's plans to show her Gran her story reminded me a lot of this, with all the guilt I felt that I hadn't given her the socks sooner, even though I'd done nothing wrong and she was still very glad to have the socks even though she couldn't wear them.
I really recommend this game to anyone who's working through (or trying to ignore) grief like I was; it's a gentle way to face those feelings. I sobbed so much through the game, but it was the good sort of crying, where you feel better once you've done it.
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You can watch it on Youtube here.
I've loved this movie since I was 15, and I think it still holds up (for what it is) on a rewatch. If you want some kind of cheesy 80s space scif, please check it out!