Fandom Promos

[galerian_ash]

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!

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[27twinsister]

I’ve already chosen TWO fandoms, and wrote tiny drabbles for both of them. I like making drabbles :).

The first is an app called Chuzzle 2. You know the old computer game/app Chuzzle? Yeah Chuzzle 2 is basically the same gameplay-wise, but as you play you can get puzzle pieces, and as you complete puzzles you can get pet chuzzles who live in your chuzzarium, and you have to feed them and can buy toys for them and stuff. They all have different names (given by the game, you don’t get to name them) and the ones with the strongest personalities (and the ones I chose to write about) are Stinky, Kittyball, and Squeakers. Stinky canonically has feelings for Kittyball and literally canonically hates everyone else. If I knew how to write an actual shipfic for them I would but they’re basically sentient balls of fluff so I struggle. (Human AU/Animal AU/etc wouldn’t be as interesting imo.) I also had to narrow down characters because Stinky Just Bullies Everyone Until Kittyball Shows Up *could* be a fanfic but like it would be kinda not fun and would get repetitive, so limiting it in wordcount made me actually, like, focus on just writing one instance.

Squeakers is also basically canonically neurodivergent, they make noise (vocal stims) and is kind of jumpy (in a good way) (I don’t know the word for this but it seems like a stim?) when they’re happy. Squeakers is also smaller than the average-sized chuzzles which means they’re baby. (None of the chuzzles have canon ages as far as I know.)

The second tiny fandom is a toyline called Pixel Chix from the 2000s. I saw a YouTube video by Izzzyzzz about it and vaguely remember having some of the toys as a kid, (particularly the Road Trippin' Car) so I decided to write about it (especially about the Road Trippin’ Car.) Pixel Chix’s main character doesn’t really have a name (old marketing called her either Pixel or Gal, I went with Pixel) and I wrote what is hopefully a very nostalgic drabble. I did find exactly one fanfic involving Pixel Chix on FFN, but it’s from like 2012 and that fandom isn’t the focus, and I couldn’t find any other fanfic about it.

I’m on my phone and don’t know how to format things, but maybe later I’ll edit and add links at least to the Izzzyzzz video.