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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.
Here are some areas you can cover:
<b>Title</b>:
Please put your fandom's title in the subject of your comment, too. This helps people find your promo again.
<b>Media</b>:
<b>Approx length</b>:
<b>Where to find it</b>:
(If giving links, please only link to legal sources. You may want to encourage people to contact you directly if they are having trouble finding a canon and you can give them tips)
<b>What is it, in summary?</b>:
<b>What do you love about it?</b>:
<b>What sort of things are you likely to request for it?</b>:
<b>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?</b>:
<b>Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence)</b>:
This is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive
(Bonus options: What are you thinking of requesting for this? If you're thinking of nominating worldbuilding, what sort of worldbuilding topics might people explore?)
Useful tip (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):
- It's best to make each fandom its own entry with its own title in the subject line! That makes it easier for people to find/see what you're promoting! Don't worry about 'spam', that is the entire point of this entry and you're using it exactly as intended.
Previous fandom promo posts can be found at this tag!
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)
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).
Re: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)
Re: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)
Re: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)
Re: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the musical version, not the book lmao)