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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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"The Lesson" (also available in PDF format including the original (perhaps somewhat anachronistic) illustrations here!) is a short story by Eleanor M. Ingram, originally published in Gunter's Magzine in 1909.

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...)!