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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!
Yes ...
Date: 2025-09-05 00:31 (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2025-09-05 21:08 (UTC)Tales of Alderwood
Date: 2025-09-05 19:43 (UTC)https://alderwood.the-comic.org/comics/1/
This has been around for five years, publishing up to two pages per week (!). If you do the maths, that means it has somewhere around four hundred pages already. Thus, I am surprised to have found no trace of fanfic on the usual sites, plain old search engines, and even the artists' discord server.
I don't feel qualified to write a fanifesto, but to paraphrase the creators: The first iteration was a comic they made in high school. Around 15% of that made it to a D&D campaign. Around 40% of that made it to the comic we get today.
(As a consequence, they have MUCH worldbuilding lore and character development and are not afraid to use it.)
Each page has alt-text for accessibility, and hover-text for jokes and non-canon punchlines. (The comic itself is also pretty funny at times, but mostly serious.)
One cool style choice is to keep the comic grayscale, except for magic (and chapter titles).
Re: Tales of Alderwood
Date: 2025-09-09 18:56 (UTC)Newt's Emerald
Date: 2025-09-05 20:23 (UTC)On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed “Newt,” will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers.
When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover it. Her plan entails dressing up as a man, mustache included, as no well-bred young lady should be seen out and about on her own. While in disguise, Newt encounters the handsome but shrewd Major Harnett, who volunteers to help find the missing Emerald under the assumption that she is a man. Once she and her unsuspecting ally are caught up in a dangerous adventure that includes an evil sorceress, Newt realizes that something else is afoot: the beating of her heart.
In Newt’s Emerald, the bestselling author of Sabriel, Garth Nix, takes a waggish approach to the forever popular Regency romance and presents a charmed world where everyone has something to hide.
This is a quick, fun read that's much more lighthearted than much of Garth Nix's other works (Old Kingdom, Rag Witch, Shade's Children, etc.). I'm not particularly a Regency romance person myself, so I can't say much in that regard, but I really enjoyed how that aspect meshed with a more modern YA fantasy mood. Fun characters, interesting (if not particularly in depth) magic, crossdressing, mistaken identities, masquerade balls... this book's got it all!
Re: Newt's Emerald
Date: 2025-09-05 23:05 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-05 22:42 (UTC)Light spoilers: Lavrans and Anders set up an arranged marriage for their children, Kristin and Simon. But Kristin loves Erlend (and is also having sex with him), so she gets out of it. Simon's attitude is like "ugh, fine, but at least you have to tell your father that it's your fault the wedding is off, because the One Thing I can't handle is having Lavrans think I'm a flake." Later he marries Lavrans' younger daughter, Ramborg. Now I'm not saying everything is about sublimated sexual repression and religious guilt, that would be boring, sometimes characters can just be conventionally religious without it being a whole thing. BUT if you are inclined to read through slashy goggles, Simon's hero-worship of his father-in-law is definitely...A Thing. Anyway, time permitting, that's what I'll be writing about. >.>
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Date: 2025-09-05 23:07 (UTC)Ooh. I am someone who can usually be counted on read through those kinds of goggles.
Let This One Be a Devil
Date: 2025-09-05 22:50 (UTC)Let This One Be a Devil is a 4-issue dark fantasy comic book miniseries written by James Tynion IV and Steve Foxe, illustrated by Piotr Kowalski, with colours by Brad Simpson and lettering by Tom Napolitano.
The series contains multiple stories about the purported origins of the Leeds Devil (also known as the Jersey Devil), a cryptid from the Pine Barrens region of the United States. The main story is set in the early 1900s, when college student Henry Naughton returns to his family farm after his father's death, only to find out that you can't go home again and that something very strange may have been living in the woods around his community for some time.
While others in town, including Henry's younger brother, set out to hunt the creature that's been stealing livestock or else profit off the uproar, Henry is interested in finding out the truth and protecting the family he's grown apart from. His story is seasoned with subtext where it overlaps with the Leeds Devils, with shared elements of 'soft' or 'monstrous' boys facing rejection by families or communities that can't or won't understand or accommodate them, liminal spaces and identities, and both the eroticism of frightening things and fear of the erotic.
Which is all to say: I'm aiming to write some Henry/Leeds Devil. I mean, look at them.
Re: Let This One Be a Devil
Date: 2025-09-06 05:13 (UTC)Re: Let This One Be a Devil
Date: 2025-09-06 15:57 (UTC)The Lesson - Eleanor M. Ingram
Date: 2025-09-06 16:45 (UTC)It's a historical romance set in 1760s France about a trio of cousins who are the latest players in a multigenerational feud over the ancient family title, over which their twin-brother grandfathers played a fateful card game that broke the family apart with accusations of cheating and treachery. Noel de Chartrès, Duc de St. Allien, is wealthy and powerful beyond measure and a favorite of the King, but he's spent his whole life in a battle with his cousin Armand de Chartrès, Seigneur de Chartrès, a poor country nobleman who has nothing but his title and the rundown old château to his name. When St. Allien, on the brink of final victory, is shamed by his family's priest for his obsession with this feud, he decides to go to the old family château to meet his cousin for the first time -- and is startled to discover that he has a beautiful female cousin he never knew about, and for the first time in his life he feels an emotion other than hate and ambition! Identity porn, humbled pride, and passionate emotions of all sorts ensue, culminating in a second fateful card game, this time for the ultimate stakes... DEATH!!!
Anyway, in classic Eleanor M. Ingram fashion, it's incredibly slashy despite being ostensibly a het romance. There's an emotional reveal and appeal at the very end that has me wild about shipping Noel/Armand, and I want to write that (with an added, also classic-Ingram twist...)!
Re: The Lesson - Eleanor M. Ingram
Date: 2025-09-23 12:39 (UTC)Re: The Lesson - Eleanor M. Ingram
Date: 2025-09-26 20:49 (UTC)Marco
Date: 2025-09-07 19:28 (UTC)absolutely hilariously, it's also incest- and dark-romance central imho
not sure if the film makers intended that, but if they didn't than why make one of the father's a guy that explicitly says "I'm a bisexual and these hands can seduce anyone"?
Re: Marco
Date: 2025-09-08 20:13 (UTC)You have my attention. :D
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Date: 2025-09-11 01:51 (UTC)“Don't touch me, I'll get arrested.”
Mad City (1997) was much better than I expected it to be, but it was not the film per se that piqued my interest so much as the dynamic between these two characters, reporter Max Brackett and his admiring intern Laurie Callahan. I have a weakness for May-December ships in general, but was especially taken with this one because their brief but charged interactions were so potent. They just screamed "put these two people in a room alone together and see what happens." So I did!
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Date: 2025-09-13 21:13 (UTC)The stories can be found here (scroll down to “The Guido del’Isoletto Stories”).
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Date: 2025-09-13 21:46 (UTC)Shuko begins taking joy in cooking and life in general again, and Shohei, who is struggling a bit after joining the baseball team, finds motivation in her encouragement. They gradually form a friendship and find comfort and support in each other's company as they eat together.
Although Shohei develops a crush on Shuko, she's still grieving for her husband, and both are aware that a romantic relationship would be inappropriate, and that line is never crossed. Shuko also makes sure to get permission from Shohei's parents to have him over, so there's nothing hinky going on. So it's all platonic friendship, although it's hinted at the end after Shohei is an adult, that something more might be possible.
I love the friendship between the two (and I do ship the two, though only after Shohei grows up), and I love the mouthwatering descriptions and drawings of the food that Shuko makes! I highly recommend the manga, but it's definitely not something you should read while hungry unless you have some delicious food on hand.
Walt Disney Pictures Presents...A Film By David Lynch
Date: 2025-09-18 08:53 (UTC)It's about a man named Alvin Straight who decides to go visit his long-estranged brother to mend fences with him at last...traveling by riding lawnmower at 5 miles per hour to get there. (Yes, it takes weeks.) He meets a number of characters on his trip.
One of them is a teenage runaway named Crystal, who's pregnant. Alvin advises her to go back to her family, even though she's sure they hate her, talking to her about how a single stick is easily broken, but a bundle of sticks together can't be, and that bundle is family. In the morning he finds her gone, with a bundle of sticks tied together left before the campfire for him to find. The clear implication is that she took his advice to go back home.
I hate this, because sometimes the idea that you're stronger and better off with your family is really not true, and the idea that it must be true can do a lot of damage.
So I wrote a different interpretation!
(I didn't want to post promo until I was sure I was going to post a story this time, since I didn't make it last round. Thanks to the "surprise" extension—which really did surprise me, as I'd forgotten about it—I made it! :-D)