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!
Son of a Critch (TV, 2022)
Date: 2022-09-16 16:20 (UTC)Son of a Critch is a coming-of-age sitcom set in Newfoundland in the mid-1980s. Loosely based on star Mark Critch's memoir, it's weird and sweet and just truly delightful. It has aired one season (13 episodes so far), with the second to start in January, 2023.
Young Mark is a strange kid who's never had friends his age; he's closest to his ornery grandfather, played by film legend Malcolm McDowell. (The comedic chemistry that McDowell and Ainsworth share is fantastic!) But now that he's started junior high, Mark makes one (1) friend, Ritche, a Filipino-Canadian, and gets sucked into the orbit of a bully from a family of bullies, all redheads, all named Fox. Mark's parents are awesome; his father is a radio newsman and his mother is a gossipy, strong-minded housewife.
I love this show. It's tender, occasionally even sappy, but it's also proudly part of the acid-tongued social-satiric tradition of Newfoundland comedy, where silliness turns on a knife's edge into something biting and true.
Son of a Critch is available in Canada on CBC and CBC's streaming service, Gem, and on Paramount+ in the UK and Ireland. YouTube is also showing me options to buy each episode, but I don't know if that is region-specific. I suspect it is.