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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The Celebrant

[primeideal]

"The Celebrant," by Eric Rolfe Greenberg, is a historical fiction novel set in New York City in the early 20th century, but written in the 70s/80s. The narrator, Jackie Kapp|Yakov Kapinski, is a Jewish immigrant whose family assimilates and, over the course of decades, establishes a thriving jewelry business. Jackie is also a huge baseball fan; he loves the New York Giants and their star pitcher, Christy Mathewson. All the baseball in the book is real, and a lot of it I'd been familiar with from various secondary sources (there weren't as many secondary sources at the time the book was written, so Greenberg's research is more impressive in that context). So it's one of those "I know how the pennant race is going to turn out, but tell me more about Jackie and his relationships."

For whatever reason, this non-speculative historical fiction book is calling out to me for absurd, over-the-top fannish tropes. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do something for this event, but I'm hoping to write an AU with unreliable narrator Jackie dealing with plot devices that definitely weren't in canon. (Also, probably not for this event, but the Mathewsons and McGraws would be a great sedoretu foursome.)

A lot more thoughts here.

Re: The Celebrant

[beleghir]

This sounds like a great book, going to see if my library has it