Canon Promo Post 2020

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Please use this post to promote the fandoms you're interested in requesting, or ask for recommendations of canons that suit you!

Promoting your canons

Comment here with information about the canons you are thinking of requesting, or otherwise want to get people into!

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Where to find it (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.)

What is it, in summary?

What do you love about it?

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

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests?

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) - this is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive

Some examples: Yuletide, Fandom5k

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Asking for recs

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[noor_us_sabah]

Title: The Secret Circle (TV)

Media/Length: 22-episode single-season TV show. Cancellation lends itself to a mildly frustrating finale.

Accessibility: No longer on Netflix, but if you browse with an American IP address you can stream the whole series for free on the CW site.

What's it about?:
Cassie moves in with her grandmother after her mother dies in a definitely-not-accidental fire, quickly meets a lot of very pretty girls and a couple pretty guys who are weirdly invested in getting to know her, and learns that she, in common with the rest of them, is a witch. Their parents were members of a magical circle before a bunch of them also died in definitely-not-accidental circumstances, and the kids' determination to unravel the secrets their few still-living parents are keeping from them puts them on a collision course with several parties who'd like to see them dead for good.

Why I love it:
It's a typical CW program of its era. Everybody is so unreasonably attractive and over the top with their drama, the magic is fun (though some of them have to pretend it's not, for vague plot/conflict reasons), and fucked-up families abound! Fucked-up families are my thing. In Chance Harbor if your dad or aunt or granddad or whoever isn't currently risking their life to save you, they're probably trying to kill you. Sometimes they even do both! Just to mix it up.

There's also an impressive round robin of ship potential here, both canon and otherwise. I think it's fair to say Faye in particular has chemistry with ... almost everybody? Guys and girls alike. Faye/Diana was the fandom femslash juggernaut, and there's certainly shipbait for it, but I also like Faye/Cassie. I mean, she leans in over Cassie like she wants to lick the magic right off her, and I'm just here for that. Hats and panties off to Phoebe Tonkin.

What I plan to ask for:
Possibly Jake/Diana (they're not canon but they're such a played-straight set of bad boy and good girl that I can't resist) and possibly some assemblage of the kids. In addition to nominating the show itself I also nominated a crossover between TSC and Justified (specifically, two characters from TSC and two from Season 2 of Justified, so if you were not familiar with Justified but feeling kind of curious about making magic in Harlan County, you'd only have to watch that season to get the gist).

Melissa and her mother Sophie Ann were where I settled with the nomination, mostly because Melissa has the least detailed family backstory in the show and therefore the most potential for roots outside Chance Harbor. I am certainly planning to offer that crossover set, and I'm also thinking of throwing another crossover set in when nominations reopen, particularly for Diana & Jackie (characters from TSC and Justified played by the same actress) that I would request and/or offer.

For the crossover I'm very interested in playing with folklore and magic and family backstory. For the purely TSC requests I would be looking for more canon-style shenanigans and/or historic AU (Victorian witches and table turnings interest me, as does a magical Regency AU for Jake/Diana).

*Content note* for SO many dead parents. A ton. You see some of them die. One also ends up in something like a living coma. There are also a couple episodes where little snakelike demons embed themselves under people's skin and can be seen moving around, so a tiny bit of body horror there.