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Fandom Promo 2023!

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign-ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

EDIT: WE HAVE A SPREADSHEET! Thanks to Jaclynhyde we now have a spreadsheet you can access HERE.

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Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:

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Title: The Dionaea House - Eric Heisserer

Media: Website/Other Media (AO3 puts it under books & literature, presumably because we know the author because he was developing it as a possible screenplay at one point)

Approx length: It’s a simple webpage that links you through correspondence and than ancillary blogs and livejournals. The entirety of it can be consumed in less than hour all things considered.

Where to find it:
The main story or thread of correspondence went down around 2021 but the entirety of it is still available on the Wayback machine. The accompanying Blogspot and Live Journal are still up on their prospective platforms see below links.:

Main Story: https://web.archive.org/web/20061105142407/http://www.dionaea-house.com/default.htm

Danielle Stephens’ Blog: http://dionaeahouse.blogspot.com/

Loreen Mathers’ Live Journal: https://loreenmathers.livejournal.com/

What is it, in summary?: The Dionaea House is one of the initial and more well known examples of Creepypasta or a sort of viral internet based horror stories usually told through epistolary or images that don’t outwardly mark themselves as fiction. It ran and was updated via various blogs and sites from late 2004-2006. It was later to revealed to be the work of Hollywood producer and writer, Eric Heisserer (best known for writing the screenplay of Arrival), who had planned to develop a screenplay and movie based on it but has been caught in development hell and all signs point to any plans for it being a movie to being abandoned)

The story is of Mark Condey emailing an old friend, Eric from a game night group that they were both a part of regarding the fact that another member of the group had committed a murder-suicide in a diner in Boise Idaho. The website takes you through Mark’s correspondence with Eric about his own investigation of what went down with their friend which leads both of them some shocking and horrifying discoveries.

What do you love about it?: I love epistolary fiction generally and matching that with one of my other favorite genres, horror is a win for me. I love the lore and watching through one way correspondence (we only get quotes of Eric’s responses to Mark not his full emails) of Mark putting the pieces together and just the impending sense of dread that comes with each email. I love that so much of it is left to the reader’s imaginations and there are always questions and ambiguity. It is very well done story that is fit to the format. I think that if it had been developed into a movie or screenplay, that same would have paled to the original story experience.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Probably more world building or fleshing out of the implied scenes with regards to likes of Andrew and the Madson’s, or Loreen Mathers or Danielle Stephens and Cam. Just more extensions of the universe would be fun.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: It isn’t that much, but honestly at most you would have to go through the main storyline to be able do it.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) There is implied gore and character death, and the inciting incident does deal with suicide and mental health stuff but not in a out and out way.

Oh man, I'm so excited to see someone promo-ing this! This is still my favorite online horror story to this day. I don't know if I could write something for it, but I sure am contemplating the possibility now!

Title: Gungrave (Anime)

Media: Anime

Approx length: 26 episodes (24 min each)

Where to find it:
CrunchyRoll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY197VD9R/gungrave

Hulu - https://href.li/?https://www.hulu.com/series/gungrave-914322c7-df0a-4653-a010-7b2e9953e204

What is it, in summary?: Gungrave is an anime that follows two characters, Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowell, as they rise through a major crime syndicate called Millennion. Their close friendship is tested as their ambitions and loyalties come to odds.

What do you love about it?: My "why you should watch Gungrave" post - https://emetsulk.tumblr.com/post/718323977884467200/so-now-that-everyone-has-caught-up-on-the-various

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: brandon/harry and harry/bunji. complicated relationships and mafia-type scenarios. (here is bunji/brandon-heavy document i plan to use for fandom-blind writers that want to give it a try - https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRdCNsjmETFoqNH1pG3KherubXwhJfXCBEWyrWQXMAUoYqu8BhuG6G6Si0QzY7Mf5AHojgfz61NEOVY/pub)

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
for harry and brandon -
introduction (ep5, 7)
betrayal arc (ep11-15)
conclusion (ep24-26)

for bunji and brandon -
introduction of bunji (ep7)
bunji and brandon working together (ep10-11)
wind up to the harry/brandon betrayal & betrayal (ep12-14)
harry and brandon reunion/makeup (ep25-26)

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): violence

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Title: 棋魂 | Hikaru no Go (Live Action TV)
Despite the name Hikaru no Go, this is a c-drama. It's also known as 棋魂 Qihun.

Media: Web drama
Approx length: 36 eps * ~45 min (episode lengths vary) = 27 hours

(please note translucent Chu Ying in centre! Lots of wonderful details like that.)

Where to find it: Full series on YouTube

What is it, in summary?:
A c-drama adaptation of the classic shounen (mind)sports anime/manga, Hikaru no Go. For the unfamiliar, Hikaru no Go follows a boy who learns to play Go, his mentor (the spirit of an ancient Go player), his rival, and the friends he makes and the opponents he meets on the long road to becoming a professional player.

Qihun is a live-action adaptation of that story, localised to China circa the same time period. It similarly follows a boy and his spirit mentor on the long road to professional weiqi, but also considers other matters close to all our hearts: career crossroads and choices, adolescence's growing pains, family conflict, friendgroup tension, school, life, eternal rivalry, [hover for spoiler]. It is an incredibly warm, uplifting, and optimistic story: here is a community of people who love a game, and strive every day to improve and be recognised for their skills; they learn from each other, support each other, weather setbacks, and move forward together.

For Hikago fans (I'm one too): The characters, setting, and tone are all very different from the anime/manga. I like Qihun a lot, but opinions may differ, of course.

Also featuring:

Ji Li (The Untamed's Nie Huaisang), again as a smart guy with a knack for obfuscating deception
This adorable baby chick, acquired by Shi Guang and dormmates to fight a toilet ghost

Content notes:
- Some pro-China messaging on the subject of Hong Kong in the first couple of eps. It doesn't come up again after that.

Title: "nad and Dan adn Quaffy" - Diana Wynne Jones
Media: short story
Approx length: 20 pages of mass-market paperback print
Where to find it: first published in the anthology Digital Dreams (available on Internet Archive for 1-hour checkout here, and republished in Minor Arcana (available on Internet Archive for 1-hour checkout here), as well as Believing is Seeing, and Unexpected Magic. These are all out of print, I believe, but still in lots of libraries!
What is it, in summary?: a beleaguered single-mom scifi writer whose secret to overcoming writer's block is pretending her word processor is the control board of a spaceship gets contacted from the alternate universe where her multiverse double *is* a powerful captain in the space navy of the Matriarchy.
What do you love about it?: It's got all the classics Diana Wynne Jones pieces in a small perfect package: multiverse shenanigans, with a vastly intriguing alternate universe sketched in just a few offhand sentences! Sharp but loving (self-)mockery of SFF tropes (in this case: 80s space opera and the omnipresence of coffee-by-an-exotic-name are the main targets) that never takes itself too seriously! Very real family dynamics–somewhat unusually, from the POV of the parent, this time (in the background is the protagonist's affectionate but exasperated relationship with the teenage son she's parenting solo).
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'm definitely nominating "Worldbuilding" for this canon–the alternate universe and the of the novels that the protagonist has written both offer a ton of fun(ny) possibilities.

Title: The Protomen

Media: Two concept albums (and three songs for a future album that hasn't come out yet) with narration/notes in the lyrics, as well as an accompanying short film.

Approx length: 1h51m for all the songs. The short film runs for around 14 minutes (the remaining 2 minutes are credits.) So around 2 hours in total.

Where to find it: On most streaming platforms, as well as the band's bandcamp. The albums are The Protomen (2005) and Act II: The Father Of Death (2009.) The three bonus songs are This City Made Us, Hold Back The Night (2015) and The Fight (2022.) As for the lyrics narration/notes, they're all available on Genius. The short film/music video is available on Vimeo here.

What is it, in summary?: The Protomen (or Act I,) the first album, tells the story of Megaman, a robot created by Dr Thomas Light after the presumed death of his previous robot, Protoman, at the hands of Dr Albert Wily, the tyrannical leader of the dystopian world the story takes place in – or rather, at the hands of his robot army. When Dr Light tries to warn Megaman not to follow in his dead brother's footsteps, he ends up inadvertently fueling his desire to change the world for the better, which leads to nothing but misery for both of them.

The second album, Act II: The Father Of Death, is a prequel that tells the story of Dr Light and Dr Wily. In it, we learn that they worked together to create a robot workforce that would remove the need for humans to do dangerous work. It goes about as well as you'd expect, considering what happens after.

The short film depicts some of the later events of the second album. The more recent songs are additions from the same universe (presumably post-Act I) that don't yet have a full storyline attached to them; I'm including them for completion's sake.

What do you love about it?: Well, it's good rock, for a start! I stumbled upon it in early 2019, in an Ask Reddit thread of all things. I've never played any Megaman games, and in fact knew very little about it (and most of what I know about it now I gleaned because of The Protomen, heh.) Yet, the story of Megaman, reaching out to his presumed-dead-brother-turned-enemy, and failing to save him, really spoke to me... And then I listened to Act II, and the more I listened, the more I became drawn to Wily and Light, their history, the relationship they might have had... I love friends-to-lovers-to-enemies and this is just ripe for it. Also Wily's singer sure puts a Special Sort of Energy in his most... interesting lines. "We can bend and we can break," huh, Albert? I'm also a sucker for robots and dystopias, admittedly.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Anything about Wily and Light's relationship, anything that explores who they were, who they are, who they could be. It could be simply a story exploring their early relationship, before Emily's murder, or a story about them in-between Act I and Act II, or even a story set post-Act I. Though I wouldn't be opposed to worldbuilding either! There is a lot to explore.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Considering the total length, I think consuming the whole thing is worth it, but since I'm likely going to focus on Act II stuff, it's totally possible to just listen to that one album and maybe check out the short movie as bonus inspiration.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): The overall tone is pretty dreary, but there isn't much that warrants a warning, except the fact that Light's girlfriend Emily gets fridged to provide him with further manpain, which sucks. There's also another character death later in Act II when (spoilers!) Joe dies while attempting a terrorist attack against Wily.

Edited (got mixed up in the content warnings and clarified some more) 2023-09-17 16:45 (UTC)

OH MAN. i was obsessed with the Father of Death album for a few months in like 2018, and i didnt even realize at the time that it was about Megaman characters, XD. it took me until a year or so ago when a friend got really into the protomen for me to realize that... lol. also youre right! it is extremely good rock!

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Title: The Game Beyond, by Melissa Scott (1984)
Media: novel
Approx length: ~300 pages, mass-market paperback

Where to find it: out of print, but available for 1-hour checkout on Internet Archive here. Also available for purchase on Kindle, and in libraries, used bookstores, used booksellers.

What is it, in summary?: In a far-future Space Empire ruled by inbred aristocratic families who hone their precognitive Talents with obsessive gaming, the last scion of a disgraced and believed-extinct family finagles himself onto the Imperial throne as the former Empress's Favorite and then heir–but then he has to try to keep it. This may or may not be all because of a bet his distant ancestor made with the ambassador from the Terran Federation generations ago...

What do you love about it?: it's just a really fun romp. If you like: space battles (virtual and real), decadent space empires with complicated social hierarchies, social codes, and intrigues (duels are fought via VR games and "assassination" attempts use foam darts per aristocratic Convention), high-middle-ages-in-space aesthetics (the Church regulates precognitive Talent, and the most sensitive psychics live in isolation on monastery planets or even as "stylites" in individual astroids), loyalty-relationships and space!feudalism, highly competent and determined protagonists who plan for the long term, unconventional/non-romantic marriages (there's almost no explicit queerness, but there's also little to no heterosexual romance; both of the marriage-like arrangements between opposite-sex partners that have come into existence at the end of the book are explicitly non-romantic and non-sexual).

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: One thing I love about this novel is that it's a standalone, but both the universe and the characters have very rich backstories: all of the main characters are experienced adults who have been in and around the intrigues of the imperial court for quite a while, and have made pretty serious choices and sacrifices to get to or stay at the place they have reached when the novel begins, and I'm particularly curious about the reign of the empress who has just died when the novel opens. There's also a ton of scope for exploring all of the little details of the universe, from the Gaming Clubs (and the commoners who can match the precognitively-gifted nobility in them with sheer game-theory and data-crunch smarts) to the hierarchies within noble houses and life on the planets that they rule, to the Church and aforementioned psychic monastics, to the coups and battles that are "ancient history" and that shaped the "Convention" that imperial society abides by now.

Title: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Media: Book

Approx length: About 250 pages or 80,000 words

Where to find it: It's in the public domain, and free ebooks are available on Project Gutenberg and Wikisource; paper copies are widely available in libraries and bookshops.

What is it, in summary?: Published in 1886, Kidnapped is a classic historical adventure novel set in 1750s Scotland, dramatising the divides in Scottish culture in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Our narrator David Balfour is a seventeen-year-old lad from the Lowlands who sets out to seek his fortune and finds himself kidnapped on board a ship, where he meets Alan Breck Stewart, Stevenson's fictionalisation of a historical Highland Jacobite. Having escaped the kidnapping sailors, Alan and Davie meet up again in the Highlands, where they witness a political murder; suspected of the murder, they flee across the Highlands together, and the rest of the book consists of the drama of both their journey and their developing friendship.

What do you love about it?: In brief: Exciting adventure-novel drama combined with a great deal of joy and fun, historical detail, and most of all a beautiful—and somewhat slashy—odd-couple friendship.

At more length... This is a seriously good adventure novel, fast-moving and full of swashbuckling excitement. There are loads of memorably idiosyncratic minor characters; the details of the setting are all vivid and interesting, and the writing really conveys the immediate experience and physical hardship of adventure at sea and among the Highland heather. But the real heart of the book, and the primary object of my fannish love, is the relationship between Davie and Alan. They're a perfect mismatched match: Alan is flamboyant and dramatic, a gambler and an excellent swordsman, with flexible and yet steadfast notions of morality and honour, and a staunch Jacobite; while David is a good Lowland Whig, stubborn and a little priggish, good-hearted, sincerely religious, and terribly out of his depth in the Highlands and in an adventure novel. They complement each other perfectly and adorably. Within hours of first meeting they're risking their lives for each other, then declaring their love and loyalty. Later they banter back and forth, argue about politics, stick loyally to each other all through the book, deliberately annoy each other with folk songs, take their gentlemanly honour extremely seriously, and ultimately care about each other very deeply. There is one particularly good scene of hurt/comfort between them, of which the details are spoilery but very lovely and memorable.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Slash or friendship fic about Alan and David! More hurt/comfort, the drama of conflicting loyalties, happy future fic...

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: No, it's a single novel. I should mention that it has a sequel, and the two books are combined under a single canonical tag on AO3; but Kidnapped can stand alone, and I intend to nominate and request it on its own.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Violence (not terribly graphic, but treated with emotional weight at points), including murder of a child.

One further note: I'm also planning to nominate Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson, the brilliant recent National Theatre of Scotland stage adaptation of the book.

Edited 2023-09-17 18:50 (UTC)

(btw I noticed on the nominations spreadsheet that Garonne nominated this under the series name. You might want to coordinate between you how best to nominate?)

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Title: The Department of Truth

Media: Comics

Approx length: 22 issues (collected in 4 trade paperbacks)

Where to find it: The page for the series the Image Comics website, including the free first issue, is here. It's also available on Comixology. Message me if you need alt methods.

What is it, in summary?: Cole Turner, an FBI expert on conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs, stumbles into being recruited for the Department of Truth. The world isn't divided into true and false - if public belief reaches a critical mass, conspiracy theories can become reality, and the Department of Truth is charged with ensuring that these dangerous fringe beliefs stay just beliefs. Cue things getting very murky and morally complicated very quickly.

What do you love about it?: Department of Truth deals with a wide range of conspiracy/fringe culture, from Bigfoot to the JFK assassination to Alex Jones, and it manages to do so respectfully while maintaining an amazing degree of tension and almost Lovecraftian horror. While having that concept and doing it well is in and of itself impressive, the plot is amazing, with layers slowly peeling back to reveal rival groups with different philosophies and even deeper, more dangerous things fueling the perception-based reality. Grey-on-grey morality at its finest.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: More conspiracies that the series hasn't gotten to yet. Maybe something based in the 60s/70s, a time period touched on in flashback but not the main storyline for the comics.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: I'd say that the first 2 TPBs (Issues #1-#13) give you a good introduction the the major characters, competing philosophies/strategies, and underlying plotlines. You'll still have more questions than answers, though.

Content warnings: There is a lot of death and horror imagery, much of it semi-graphic, though I wouldn't call it gratuitous/gory. Discussion and imagery of conspiracy theories that might be triggering/distressing by nature, including school shooting "false flag" conspiracies, the Satanic Panic (esp as related to irl child sexual abuse allegations that were later proven false), and various antisemitic conspiracy theories. Multiple recurring characters are not PC and will say homophobic/racist/sexist shit - again, often related to conspiracy theories, but sometimes just because they're assholes. Wow this is a lot.

Oh, I just started reading this! And man this is some of the most effective horror I've seen. Such a cool comic.

Title: Yume Nikki

Media: Video game

Approx length: HowLongToBeat gives around 5 hours for the "main story" of the game, though I'd argue this is a game where you can't really give an average playtime, as it doesn't really have a "main story" to speak of and mostly consists of exploring, something that most people will do at a different pace. It's perfectly possible to reach "the end" in a few hours by using a guide in my experience, but you'll definitely miss out on a lot of the game.

Where to find it: It's free to play on Steam, and you can also play it online (which works on mobile as well.) There are a bunch of guides on Steam, and you can find full-length walkthroughs (like this one) as well as events showcases (like this one) on YouTube.

What is it, in summary?: A pixelated adventure game where you play a girl of indeterminate age (though usually theorized to be a child or teen) named Madotsuki who refuses to leave her room and prefers to stay in and sleep so she can experience very intricate and surreal dreams. Madotsuki explicitly refuses to leave her room, leaving you no choice but to sleep in her bed and explore her dreams. In them, you'll meet strange characters (some hostile, some friendly, some somewhere in-between) and gather "Effects," abilities that let Madotsuki use certain objects, change her appearance, affect the environment, trigger events... The "goal" of the game is to gather all of these effects and drop them in the main area of Madotsuki's dreamscape (referred to as "The Nexus") where they turn into eggs. Once you've found and dropped all the effects, you can trigger the ending.

What do you love about it?: This game was really meaningful to me as a teenager, and I've drawn a lot of art for it. It's ripe for all kinds of interpretations, and I love that none of them have been debunked. Exploration is the heart of it all, and everything you bring in from your own experiences and feelings will influence how you react and appreciate what's shown to you. I also love the colorful yet often oppressive aesthetics, and the music is truly gorgeous.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd love to see the game through someone else's perspective, whether it's a more straightforward depiction of Madotsuki's shenanigans or something that tries to theorize about what it could mean, what Madotsuki's life is/was like, why she's staying in her room dreaming, who the denizens of her dreams might represent, etc.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: A lot of the events of the game are optional. You could go through it with a guide in one hour or so and experience the minimal amount of it that you need in order to gather the effects and get to the ending. Because I'm likely to request Poniko as well, you could also do her event or watch it on YouTube (it's pretty iconic, so not very hard to find.)

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): This is widely considered to be a psychological/surreal horror game, and as such does have some unsettling and frightening elements. There are a lot of grotesque depictions, both through drawings or pixelated characters, and some blood. There are a few jumpscares. I'm putting a special note about the ending under a cut, so as not to spoil those who might not have played it and would like to experience it blind.

Content warning for the ending.

The ending of the game (that triggers the credits) has Madotsuki going to her balcony and (by all appearances) committing suicide by throwing herself off of it. Nothing is shown beyond her jumping off but you do have to manually make her walk up to the edge and jump.

I love this game so much, it's nice that its legacy continues to impact people to this day. :)

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Title: Bionicle

Media: Multimedia

In order of "amount of story conveyed": Books, comics, movies, Flash animations, Flash games.

While it was a toyline, the toys... did not really contain the story.

Approx length: Oh, god, how do I count this?

- 29 Scholastic chapter books
- 4 Young Readers books
- 17 online serials
- 8 online short stories
- 49 comics, approx. 15 pages each
- 4 animated movies, approx. 60 minutes each (72 with credits); come with novelizations, although those do differ in slight details
- 22 Flash animations, 2-5? minutes each, have been converted to videos
- 2 relevant Flash games, [wobbly hand gesture] each, come with novelizations/walkthroughs

Where to find it:

Almost everything can be found on https://wallofhistory.com/ or https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/, and there's a fan wiki at https://biosector01.com/wiki/Main_Page. The things that weren't first posted online for free are out of print and have been for at least 12 years, so I'm assuming these are legal sources because Lego hasn't taken them down and Lego has explictly approved a free fan game that will be available on Steam. The Legend Reborn, the fourth movie, can be bought on Youtube.

What is it, in summary?:

In the time before time, the Great Spirit descended from the heavens, carrying we, the ones called the Matoran, to this paradise. We were separate, and without purpose, so the Great Spirit illuminated us with the Three Virtues: Unity, Duty, and Destiny. We embraced these gifts, and in gratitude, we named our island home Mata Nui, after the Great Spirit himself.

But our happiness was not to last. For Mata Nui's brother, the Makuta, was jealous of these honors and betrayed him, casting a spell over Mata Nui, who fell into a deep slumber. The Makuta was free to unleash his shadows... and unleash them, he did...

Magic robots, the hobbit-sized Matoran and their wise elders the Turaga, live on an island terrorized by a shadowy evil, the Makuta. The Toa, prophesized heroes with elemental powers, appear to defeat the evil and awaken the Matoran's god, Mata Nui or the Great Spirit. This seemingly simple task becomes much more complicated, and a world that began as "magic robots on an island in the middle of the ocean" unfolds into a world of massive underground domes, Matoran asked to become Toa, Matoran setting out to become heroes even without being Toa, and the eventual discovery that their world, and their god, are not as they thought they were.

What do you love about it?:

The characters, the broad strokes of the story and most of the details, and the worldbuilding, although often more its potential than its execution. Also, I was introduced to Bionicle when I was 7, and it had a formative and lasting impact on me.

I love how the characters we're supposed to root for are good, and yes it was a kid's toyline so it's not exactly going to have grey-and-grey or grey-and-black morality, but it does address nuanced and dark topics sometimes. Cowardice and courage and heroism and trying your best to be what's needed to save the world even when you don't think you're worthy, and failing and trying again and succeeding. Bionicle doesn't shy away from death, either; it's not gruesomely detailed, but people die, and people sacrifice themselves, and it's tragic and heroic or sometimes just tragic.

Is Bionicle ""good"" ""writing""? Not on an overall level, no. One could argue that it mostly had early installment weirdness, but I love the early installments so I don't know, really. Most individual segments are good, even great, and there are powerful scenes. Some of the worldbuilding makes me scream (if you know astrophysics, you might want to tear your hair out), but really, isn't "I can fix this" the perfect breeding ground for fanfic?

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:

Gen friendship and/or worldbuilding, most likely! I love almost everybody in this bar and it's so hard to have to pick just a few characters to nominate. But it's a very complicated moon-sized bar, so I will eventually narrow things down.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:

Haha oh god. Honestly, if you read the 2001-2003 arcs, and brush up on the wiki for relevant background information that is revealed later in publication order but are true for the '01-'03 arcs, that's enough. I love these magic robots on their island paradise. Hell, if you consume '01-'03 and don't brush up on the wiki, I don't mind if you write something contradicted by later canon.

Content warnings:

Major character death. Also a really annoying 5:1 male:female ratio in the characters, if "token girl is practically a codified feature of teams" is a hard nope for you.

BraveStarr

Media: Cartoon

Approx length: 65 episode cartoon, plus a movie

Where to find it: On the official youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHpsEFbbXOSovRKp5Wvg5aA

What is it, in summary?: A space western cartoon from 1988 about the planet of New Texas, where the rush on a valuable mineral called kerium has brought miners and the criminals who prey on them. Fighting to protect the innocent are Marshall BraveStar, a Native American lawman with magic powers he got from space radiation, Thirty-Thirty, a ridiculously violent robot horse, and Judge J.B., an all-purpose mediator who dresses like Marlene Dietrich. On the bad side, there's Tex Hex, an undead gunslinger, and Stampede, a Lovecraftian skeleton bone dragon evil god. Prepare for laser fights and moral lessons!

What do you love about it?: Watching a bunch of old cartoons on a lark, BraveStarr took me completely by surprise with its genuine creativity and good writing! I love the heroes (even Fuzz, the comic relief with the weird speech pattern), the bad guys alternate between hilariously ineffectual and absolutely terrifying, and victories come about through real cleverness. Even the anti-drug episode was unusually honest and moving!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Worldbuilding, cute character interactions and other western AUs (spaghetti western, etc.)

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: The episodes are only twenty or so minutes long, so it's an easy show to dip your toes into! A couple episodes that might be fun places to start are Fallen Idol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db0IlxBkU-8) and The Taking of Thistledown 123 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuY-Nq9wev4)

Content warnings: A very late 80s/early 90s approach to ethnicity (they could have at least stated what BraveStarr's tribe was!) and child death in the episode The Price.

Edited 2023-09-17 20:30 (UTC)

This is a cool nomination!

Title: The Strange Case Of Starship Iris

Media: Podcast audio drama

Approx length: ~13 hours

Where to find it: Any podcasting app should work. Here's a Spreaker link, and if you dislike the audio format, transcripts can be found here.

What is it, in summary?:

Basically, the crew of a small spaceship gets entangled in a government conspiracy.

What do you love about it?:

Tropey sci-fi, canon f/f, and found family feels galore! Everyone on the crew is great. There's delicious loyalty kink, funny banter, sweet romance, and a good group of friends struggling in very unfair circumstances. Sci-fi and great character dynamics means there's great jumping off potential for all kinds of fic. Did I mention there are purple aliens?

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:

I'm likely to request f/f shipfic, casefic, or about characters adjusting from life under the terrible government to spaceship life that is much freer, albeit on-the-run

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:

The first season is self-contained, only ~7 hours, and showcases well the characters I'm interested in.

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Title: Red Eye

Media: Film

Approx length: 85 minutes

Where to find it: Amazon Prime and Apple TV

What is it, in summary?: A thriller about a highly competent but solitary hotel manager named Lisa who meets a handsome, charming man calling himself Jackson Rippner at the airport. It seems like the setup for a romance...and then he reveals himself to be an assassin and criminal fixer, and he tells her he'll kill her father unless she helps him set up the murder of a politician at her hotel. Lisa has to save her dad, save her hotel guests, and outwit a monster who has an unspoken romantic and sexual obsession with her, all while trapped on a plane.

What do you love about it?: It's scary, it's darkly sexy, it's Cillian Murphy in the Hot Peter Lorre phase of his career, it's Rachel McAddams in high heroic mode!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Jackson/Lisa in all possible horrible permutations.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Here's a clip of the iconic scene where Jackson threatens Lisa in a cramped airplane bathroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvlWuqqv48

Content warnings: A whole lot of violence, rape in a character's backstory, misogyny expressed by a character, and a running dynamic with the unspoken but clear threat of sexual assault.

Title: Debrief

Media: one-shot RPG

Approx length: one hour to play through (this is a hard limit), less than that to read up on your character sheet in advance.

Where to find it: Available for free from Paracelsus games!

What is it, in summary?: Two-player RPG designed to be carried out as a conversation over video chat. George Russell is a Cold War MI6 agent with the rare ability to see ghosts. Robert Alderidge is his best friend, who has just been killed and unmasked as a Soviet spy. So Russell gets to/has to summon Alderidge's ghost for one last conversation.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: There's so much potential. Every game is different, so a straightforward retelling of what happened in one particular playthrough could easily be fic. Backstory about different moments in the characters' friendship. Fix-its? Fix-it that actually makes it worse? Worldbuilding about the OUC's research into ghost technology, the Soviet efforts to duplicate it, spirit mediums in other parts of the world...

What do you love about it?:The Paracelsus game page describes it as "centered on themes of loyalty, ideology, memory, obligation, and the difficulty of interpersonal knowledge," which I think is an excellent encapsulation!

More recs here and here, but do not read spoilers if you have any interest in playing the game.

No specifics, but potentially spoilery for character dynamics

There are characters who can pass the broccoli test. There are characters who fail the broccoli test. And then there are characters who would be extremely confident in their capacity to pass the broccoli test, but actually, would fail it spectacularly. At least in my playthrough, I firmly believe these characters are of the third type. They have so many shared experiences and memories to use as touchpoints for comparison, and yet the more they talk, the worse it gets.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: No, it's short.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Not comprehensive, but the blurb page notes "a setting of Cold War espionage and mid-twentieth-century British social norms," "Contains some mature content." There are depictions of violence and warfare, so yeah.

Title: The Invitation (2022)

Media: Film

Approx length: 105 minutes

Where to find it: Pretty much anywhere you can legally stream movies.

What is it, in summary?: A modern gothic horror story! Evie, a black American woman, is surprised to find out she is related to an upper class English family- and that they want to meet her at a fancy family wedding. She is romanced by dashing aristocrat and friend of the family Walter de Ville, befriends a lonely woman named Lucy, and experiences all the extreme luxury her heart desires- but why do the maids seem to be disappearing one by one? Why does the family have so many traditions that can't possibly be broken? And who's getting married at this wedding, anyway?

What do you love about it?: Nobody needs to make a sexy vampire movie ever again, they won't top this! Not only is it visually gorgeous (I want those dresses!), not only does it lean into all the appealing and horrible aspects of the vampire bride trope, it's a clever and empathetic examination of the vampire as oppressor. All that and it has one of the best gothic heroines I've ever seen!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Walter/Evie darkfic, happy things for Lucy, and as much connection to the original Dracula novel as possible.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: The trailer is over here if you want to get an idea for the vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bL1ftuxgOE

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): LOTS of blood, racism and classism from the bad guys, claustrophobia in coffins, and vampire brides as basically prisoners of their husband.

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Title: From All False Doctrine / Neither Have I Wings

Media: Books

Approx length: 526 and 334 pages, respectively

Where to find it: "Anywhere books are sold" (I got Kobo editions from my go-to ebook store, which is not the Big A)

What is it, in summary? Fantasy of an Anglo-Catholic flavour set in the 1920s in Toronto / the 1940s in England.

What do you love about it?: People are friends! People are being good people! People do good things to each other! The books are unashamedly Christian without being in any way proselytising or sappy. The pace is leisurely, even slow, without dragging. In the first book, there's a wonderful slow-burn romance. In the second book a trope I dislike (friends to lovers) is avoided very elegantly (one of the friends has a different lover, who is incidentally an actual angel).

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Missing-scene stories, friendship banter.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships? Each book can be read separately. Some characters in False Doctrine appear in Wings, mostly in the background, but you don't need to know them yet.

Content warnings: Rampant Anglo-Catholicism (and in the second book also Orthodoxy). Angels and demons; suspense but no overt horror. Some story-appropriate violence.

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Title: The Wrong Earth

Media: Graphic novels

Approx length: Two slim collected volumes out so far, plus another of oneshots.

Where to find it: At the source from Ahoy Comics, or Barnes & Nobel or Amazon.

What is it, in summary?: Dragonflyman is a goofy Silver Age superhero, while The Dragonfly is his Dark Age counterpart. When they switch worlds, all hell breaks loose! Dragonflyman is horrified to find himself in a dark and gritty world of murder and corruption, but he's going to soldier on optimistically and try to make things better. The Dragonfly is disgusted by a frivolous world of themed crime and ineffectual law, but since his sidekick is still alive here, he'll have to do his best. Meanwhile, a Silver Age cute henchwoman called Deuce is horrified when the Dark Age version of her boyfriend/boss tries to murder a child and furious when he tries to slap her around, and might be on her own path towards superherodom.

What do you love about it?: If you've ever contemplated the vast difference in character between Adam West's Batman and Frank Miller's, you'll be delighted to see them try to adjust to the differences themselves! There's surprising strength in the upbeat Dragonflyman and surprising depth to the growly Dragonfly, and Deuce is one of my new favorite characters in anything ever. It's a parody, yes, but it's also a genuine adventure and drama.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Stuff with Deuce, shippy and non-shippy, and examinations of further eras and iterations of superheroes.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: YNot really, but you can take a look at all the titles available here: https://comicsahoy.com/series/wrong-earth

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Standard comic book level violence.

My library hold for Book 1 just came in, and I’m loving the series! Deuce really is the best.

Title: Cold Sandwiches and All and its prequel The Deniability of Danishes

Media: Books

Approx length: Novel length, Danishes a bit shorter than Sandwiches

Where to find it: On the author's website. Or back Emma on Patreon with $2 or more and you get ALL of her books.

What is it, in summary? Light-hearted romance with magic, set in alternate America.

What do you love about it? The people! The magic! The setting! The writing! Everything!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Missing-scene stories, shenanigans, character study.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships? Either book can be read without the other, and if you read both you can do it in any order. There's more religion in Danishes and more politics in Sandwiches.

No content warnings apply; E.M. Epps purposely writes fantasy without explicit sex, gore and violence.

Edited 2023-09-17 20:27 (UTC)

Title: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Media: Musical

Approx length: 1 hour 41 minutes (whole musical), cast album is 54 minutes

Where to find it: The 2017 cast album is legally available on Youtube, Spotify, etc. A bootleg of the encores performance is available, just message me if you want a link to that. Some highlights from the Encores performance can be found here.

What is it, in summary?: Eliot Rosewater, the millionaire heir of a conservative factory magnate/Senator, comes back from World War II with a social conscience and decides to dedicate his father's tax-dodging "charity" to improving the lives of people. Then shit goes down because of an unscrupulous lawyer and his depressed insurance salesman cousin. AND the musical's the first collab between Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

What do you love about it?: It's a ridiculously funny satire that talks about economic disparity, power, the guilt of figuring out that your entire lifestyle is because the last three generations of men in your family were dicks, PTSD, corporate advertising as Americana, and the Volunteer Fire Brigade. It's absolutely wild. Plus with the Menken/Ashman duo doing music and lyrics you KNOW it's going to be good.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: The ending is satisfying but leaves a lot of unanswered questions about what happens next, so probably a canon continuation.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: You'll probably be able to get by on the cast album and a good summary of the plot, but watching the whole bootleg is probably best because there's quite a bit of detail to the book.

Content warnings: Eliot Rosewater has PTSD from WWII. Civilian casualties of war. 50s-accurate ableism (though brief and pretty goofily satirical).

Edited 2023-09-17 21:32 (UTC)

Ooh, I've read the book, I'd love to check out the musical!

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Title:Twist (2003)
Media: Film/Movie

Approx length: 1h 37m

Where to find it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0R1A5FFB7ACMDHV2VTQLGD17RB/ref=atv_dl_rdr

What is it, in summary?: A dark, edgy, gay retelling of Oliver Twist, where the boys are sex workers.

What do you love about it?: I love the strange, and sometimes sweet relationship between the characters of Oliver and their version of the Artful Dodger, or Dodge. In this version of "Oliver Twist" Oliver has a crush on Dodge.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Anything exploring the two's relationship, whether it be fluff, smut, etc.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: There's a video by Infamous Sphere that gives a humorous, general gist of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaMsm1REnH0

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Rape, Incest, Abuse, Violence. It's a pretty heavy movie.

Edited 2023-09-17 23:52 (UTC)

Title: Petscop

Media: Web series

Approx length: 4h26min without counting the soundtrack video, which does include around 3min of a post-ending scene at the very end, starting 42min in.

Where to find it: On YouTube. There's also a very extensive document that goes over everything, including things you might not catch on a casual viewing, and keeps a list of every character and most theories.

What is it, in summary?: An analog horror story in the form of a Let's Play for a lost Playstation game. The protagonist and narrator, Paul, explains in the first episode that he's showing off "this game (he) found." While the game's setting starts off as cheerful and upbeat, promising a gameplay experience involving solving puzzles to capture "pets", it becomes clear once Paul uses a cheat code that came with the game that something a lot more sinister is afoot, and that it's very strongly tied to Paul himself and his family.

What do you love about it?: It's an absolutely brilliant use of the Let's Play medium to tell a story, and it's (in my opinion) the best rendition of an old school video game creepypasta involving a brand new game. There's something about the writing that's haunting while also oftentimes managing to be darkly funny. The visuals capture the Playstation era perfectly and the music is genuinely great. Going in, I didn't expect to be so moved by the story, but it truly knows how to draw you in. I think my favorite thing about Petscop, at the end of the day, is that it never gave us all of the answers, yet still provided enough to be compelling.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Rainer is my favorite character, so I'll likely aim for a character study of him, especially through his relationship with other characters. There's also a strong possibility I might ask for works exploring the relationship between Care and Paul.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Due to the nature of the medium, the underlying story (or what little of it we get to pierce together) is given in bits and pieces along the way. As a result, I don't think you could get a read on any of the characters I plan to request without watching all of it.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): The series is largely about child abuse, some of which is heavily implied to be sexual. It goes over some of the trauma associated with adoption and how it can be misused. It references real life events that are extremely upsetting. There are also mentions of (implied) suicide, child death, and dog death. The horror is more insidious than it is in your face, so there are no jumpscares or graphic depictions.

Title: Top Villain: Total Domination

Media: Game (Interactive Fiction)

Approx length: 228,000-word. Less than 1 hour of play time

Where to find it:
Link to the official site: https://www.choiceofgames.com/top-villain-total-domination/

What is it, in summary?: It's a Saturday morning cartoon style supervillain adventure. You play a supervillain with loads of parents' issues heck-bent on conquering the world. The cast of characters includes: the PC's superhero nemesis Matchless Man, intrepid brilliant reporter whose hobby's watching paint dry (they need a boring hobby after interviewing so many superpowered people), the PC's pragmatic top henchwoman with a dark secret, and the PC's no. 1 fan.

What do you love about it?: It's funny, entertaining and doesn't take itself so seriously. The characters have surprising depth. I really like how tropey and iddy it is.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: supervillain mishaps, more of the wacky adventures and romance.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: The first 3 chapters are freely available as demo, so you can get a taste of the tone.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): None

Title: หอมกลิ่นความรัก | I Feel You Linger in the Air
Media: Thai BL drama
Approx. Length: Fun story, there are 2 versions of this show, referred to as the TV version and the Uncut version. The TV version is shorter, about 45-50 mins/episode. The uncut version is longer, over 1 hour per episode (longest is 1 hour 12 mins as of this comment) and there are 12 episodes total (5 episodes are out as of this comment, 10 should be out when assignments go out.) There’s more worldbuilding and interactions in the full/uncut version, but if you don’t have time for that then shorter TV episodes covers the plot well.
Where to find: Officially on YouTube here, with English subtitles (though sometimes characters speak in English and they don’t include English subs…vast majority is in Thai and subbed in English). May be region-locked so I’ll add that it’s also officially on Gagaoolala and Youku.
Summary: In 2023, Jom is renovating an old house and all is well. Until his boyfriend Ohm breaks up with him (after cheating on him) and Jom doesn’t take it well. After a bad night, he drunk-drives off a bridge and drowns. But he wakes up in the 1920s, and has to figure out how to get back to the present. In the meantime, he becomes a servant to a wealthy family, and slowly falls in love with Yai, a young man from the 1920s, who lives in the house where he’s working.
Why do you love it: It’s a slow burn with really good worldbuilding, character interactions, and drama! Jom has never done anything wrong in his life except break every unspoken social rule of 1920s Chiang Mai. Khun Yai is clearly in love and trying to find ways to express that, but both characters know that they can’t really be open about it due to the setting. There’s also time shenanigans and it’s intriguing to see how the past and future interact. Some actors play multiple characters (someone in present day and someone in the past) and Jon recognizes them and forms biases despite them not being the same person.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it: I’ve nominated Khun Yai and Jom, and plan to focus on their relationship. I also nominated Khun Yai’s little brother Lek, he’s an elementary-school-age kid and sibling fluff is always good. I’ll probably state that focusing on one or the other is okay (ie you can focus on Jom/Khun Yai or on sibling fluff.) Lek also has some good interactions with Jom, though nothing super intriguing yet imo.
Specific sections of canon: I’ll skim through episodes later for specific scenes, particularly ones involving Lek, but Yai and Jom are the main characters and their relationship is developing slowly. Though most of episode 1 is set in present-day and while that episode is obviously important to the plot, Khun Yai doesn’t appear in it. There are also clips on YouTube of specific scenes. If I don’t edit this I’ll include them in my letter.
Content warnings: I’m actually working on a longer post about this, to give content warnings for specific episodes and timestamps, but general/recurring/unavoidable things are:
-Drowning/death by drowning
-There are a few scenes of noncon/SA. Sometimes they’re cut, but sometimes they’re in the shorter TV version as well
-Same with drinking. Sometimes it’s cut or sometimes we only see the aftermath with someone drunk, but it’s still a recurring thing
-It’s implied that servants will be beaten/whipped. So far it’s only happened once onscreen in episode 5’s uncut version
-Robert is an abuser. I’m not nominating or requesting him but if you’re going to watch the show just a heads up. He sucks
-Cheating/infidelity has been focused on a couple times, but hasn’t been between the main couple
-General 1920s behaviour regarding things like sexuality, marriage, sex, gender, race, ability, etc.
-Follow-up to above point: Jom being called crazy/insane/a lunatic/mad/etc. by everyone in the past

Seconded! It’s a very beautiful drama so far, quiet and poetic and wonderful.

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Title: ジャックフロスト | Jack o' Frost

Media: Japanese BL

Approx. length: 3 hours- 6 half-hour episodes

Where to find it: Viki, it’s free but you need the app. (Or like, y’know. Ask me)

What is it, in summary: Main characters Ritsu and Fumiya are in not the best relationship (seems they argue a lot). On Ritsu’s birthday, Fumiya suggests they break up. Ritsu storms out, and gets hit by a bike (entirely offscreen). He’s unharmed besides a concussion, but it turns out he also lost all his memories related to Fumiya. Fumiya tells him they’re roommates and decides to keep the fact that they were ever dating a secret.

What do you love about it: Ritsu is the cutest ever. He likes drawing and is very easygoing. He’s just a little guy and he’s very oblivious to the fact that they were dating/more than just roommates. (There is literally only one bed. Ritsu I know you have a head injury but why do you think there is only one bed.)

What sort of things are you likely to request for it: Pre-canon or during canon for episodes 2-5 (episode 6 confuses me. People say it’s a happy ending but I think I’m too aromantic to understand it.)

Specific sections of canon: I mean, aside from what I said about I’ll probably request something set during canon, not really. But it’s not a long show.

Content warnings: This whole series is built on amnesia and lies. Also episode 3 has a flashback to a (consensual) smutty scene. And like I said, they aren’t outright abusive but it’s implied they didn’t have the best relationship before the amnesia.

Title: Midnight Radio

Media: Audio Drama Podcast

Approx length: ~3 hours (10 episodes, 15-20 minutes each)

Where to find it: Can be found on your preferred podcast platform. Link to audio on the podcast website is here and transcripts here.

What is it, in summary?: Sybil McIntyre is the host of a local radio show in 1952. She begins getting strange correspondence from someone who, at first, refuses to tell her their name. Anything else is kind of a spoiler.

What do you love about it?: It's a queer epistolary radio show! It's spooky supernatural horror! It's,,, really hard to describe what I love about it without giving away multiple plot twists!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Post-series fic or exploration of some of the more vague supernatural elements.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Not really, but hey, it's only 10 bite-sized episodes.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Murder, suicide, abuse, and homophobia are key elements of various parts of the plot.

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The Dionaea House - Eric Heisserer

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Gungrave (Anime)

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棋魂 | Hikaru no Go (Live Action TV)

nad and Dan adn Quaffy - Diana Wynne Jones

The Protomen

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The Game Beyond - Melissa Scott

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Department of Truth

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Yume Nikki

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Bionicle (Generation 1)

BraveStarr

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The Strange Case Of Starship Iris

Red Eye

Debrief RPG

The Invitation (2022)

False Doctrine series - Alice Degan

The Wrong Earth

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Atlantide - E.M. Epps

Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)

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Twist (2003)

Petscop

Top Villain: Total Domination

หอมกลิ่นความรัก | I Feel You Linger in the Air

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ジャックフロスト | Jack o' Frost

Midnight Radio