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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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sheenianni

Hobo: Tough life is a PC RPG survival game featuring, you guessed correctly, the player as a homeless man. You wake up in the middle of "Praslav" (heavily based on Prague) with no memory of how you got there or what happened... and then it's a hard struggle to get through the day before cold, hunger, illness or injury kills you. If you're looking for a feel-good game, this isn’t it.

But it's good.

See, the game was made by a person who was actually homeless for two years, and it shows. The survival mechanics, the visuals, the crafting etc. - all of that is good, but you can get that in other RPGs. What really makes this game stand out is the people. Every single named character (homeless or not) has a story. You might not learn it (and you won’t, in most cases, because it's none of your business), but you know they have it. And, yeah, a lot of these people aren’t very nice, but the game doesn't judge or decide what's "good" and "wrong" - in a way, it's like an interactive documentary. It's raw and realistic and it might be fictional but you know there are places, people with stories like this.

There are so many characters that one could write about. In the end, I picked the old lady who sometimes fixes your hobo's clothes if you're polite and friendly. She has maybe eight lines in the game, but you know there is more to her story. Just like everybody else.