Fandom Promos
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bethefirstHave you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing some pimping? :D
We've all chosen tiny obscure fandoms, needless to say. So by doing a little promoting 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 TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!
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We've all chosen tiny obscure fandoms, needless to say. So by doing a little promoting 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 TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!
[Click here for the LJ version of this post.]
Dr. Christian (Radio)
Date: 2020-02-25 06:22 (UTC)Dr. Christian was a CBS radio drama that aired from 1937 to 1954. It starred Jean Hersholt in the titular role as a kindly country doctor who helped his patients with not only their medical problems but their family issues, moral quandaries, and brushes with the law. Always a defender of the vulnerable, Dr. Christian's humanist philosophy and general pluck regularly brought him up against both big city swindlers and small town hypocrisy.
The show was considered a little hokey even in its time compared to some of the wittier comedies and grittier detective shows it aired alongside. However, one very interesting thing set it apart from most of its contemporaries: by a couple of years into its run, most of its scripts were contributed by listeners.
The result?
On top of being a gentle, earnest series with historical value, the show has a distinctly fannish sensibility that's heavy on the tropes that people tend to like when they've gotten to know a cast of characters. There's casefic and kidfic, amnesia and cave-ins, WWI flashbacks, and no end of speculation on why a talented surgeon would leave the big city for a humble country practice. Background characters get their day in the sun, down to the dogs, and there's even anthropomor-fic involving a love story between two characters' cars.
175 episodes from across the series' run are available on Archive.org for anyone interested in giving them a listen. Out of the early episodes, I particularly recommend #007 (in which Dr. Christian trolls a court to defend a young man accused of theft) and #026 (which includes the tried and true trope of a baby left on the doctor's doorstep).
The franchise includes a TV spin-off and a series of movies, but none of them quite captured the charm of the radio show for me. There was also a 1944 tie-in novel by Ruth Adams Knight and Jean Hersholt called Doctor Christian's Office. It's a bit of a hot mess as a novel, but I'll be in part writing fic for it because it compiles the plots of several 1943 episodes that seem to be otherwise lost to the sands of time.