Fandom Promos

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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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Metamorphose no Engawa | BL Metamorphosis

[(Anonymous)]

Title: Metamorphose no Engawa | BL Metamorphosis
Media: manga
Genre: slice of life
Length: 5 volumes (all available in English)

BL Metamorphosis is a series about the unlikely intergenerational friendship of a teenage girl and a 75-year-old widow who end up bonding over a certain BL manga said elderly lady reads by complete accident.

Things I really like in it
- the bond between the two MCs is heartwarming and adorable, they both support each other in different ways that realistically show their ages
- the manga features various aspects of fan culture, from conventions to making your first doujinshi (self-published works, here it means printed fan comics) and the author's love for fandom really shines through the work
- it addresses aging and how age and (and life expectancy and illness in general) affects hobbies, how liking slow updating series feels like a race against the time you have left or scouting out con venues and having to face the reality of crammed cons being impossible
- simple but pretty art style that really fits the series' mood
- the manga-in-the-manga they're reading are incorporated as snippets
- the platonic bonds between various characters (friendship of the elderly characters, the neighbors, the elderly MC and her calligraphy students)
- the author of the series the MCs are fans of is an actual recurring character (along with her assistant and editor)
- it explores the joys and hardships of creation and storytelling, both the teenage MC's first work and the professional artist's

Unfortunately the pacing falls apart in the last parts and it skips over some things that I (and other readers, from what I've seen) felt that should have happened on screen or expanded upon. (And there are quite a few post-canon fanwork possibilities.) This is what I was planning on writing, but life happened and I ended up writing f/f shipfic for the manga artist x her editor instead.