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 Lad London
Date: 2024-03-07 06:14 (UTC)Lost Lad London vol. 1, vol.2, and vol.3 is a completed 2021/22 manga series by Shima Shinya with an English translation by Eleanor Ruth Summers and English lettering by Abigail Blackman.
It starts with a murder. The Mayor of London is stabbed on the Underground at the same time that university student Al Adley is heading home from his part-time job. Two days later and moments before DI Lenny Ellis arrives at Al's flat to question him as a witness, Al discovers a bloodstained knife in his jacket pocket.
Things look bad for Al, but luckily, Detective Ellis believes him that the evidence was planted. Ellis's investigation then diverges from his official orders as he seeks to find out why someone would want to frame a mild-mannered psychology student for a political assassination.
What follows is a mystery but also a quiet drama that touches on themes of identity, discrimination, and what people owe to themselves and to others. Ellis takes Al into unofficial protective custody at his flat, and a lot of the story is about two otherwise solitary and resolutely independent people living together and putting their futures in each other's hands.
(I ship Al/Ellis for their general vibe and little moments of unexpected domestic intimacy when they're living together, and while I won't spoil things, I'll also say there's a lot of great darkfic potental involving the killer.)