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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Walt Disney Pictures Presents...A Film By David Lynch

[ageorwizardry]

And this is not a joke! These are the genuine opening titles to The Straight Story, arguably David Lynch's nicest movie.

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)