Fandom Promos
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bethefirstHave 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!
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Date: 2022-03-21 22:24 (UTC)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.