Canon Promo Post 2021

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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!


Information you might include

Title
Please put your fandom's title in the subject of your comment. This helps people find your promo again.

Media

Approx length

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, last year's fffx post.


Please keep an eye on comments, as people may have follow-up questions about your canons.

Asking for recs

You're also welcome to leave comments (anon or not) asking people to rec you canons that they are likely to request.

For example: "Please tell me about canons for which you'd be excited to receive a Choose Your Own Adventure story."

Consider letting people know if you're interested in specific media only, or have other restrictions.

Comments

The Pacific (TV 2010)

[muccamukk]

The Pacific is a 10-episode mini series based on the lives of three US Marines who served in WWII. It can be found on HBO Max, or whatever service in your country carries HBO shows. There's also a DVD.

As the title suggests, this show covers a more sprawling picture of the war, following different characters who only tangentially run into each other. There's less focus on the group as a team, and a more in depth look at how the trauma of combat effected individuals, starting before and ending after the actual combat. The teamwork and bond of combat aspect isn't as strongly emphasised as in Band of Brothers, but it's still there, and we get a lot of h/c and a wider picture of these men's lives. It's a lot more emotionally nuanced. There's a lot of really interesting period detail, and as with BoB, there's a lot of room to build your own story, and put new emphasis on the narrative.

Caveats: Because it's a show based on a book based on real people, it's something of an RPF lite thing (especially as many people supplement canon with details from history). There is a fair amount of war movie violence and gore, and quite a few characters die. There are more female characters than BoB, but they are not the main characters, and there are no Black characters. There is a fair bit of anti-Japanese racism expressed by the characters, which isn't explicitly endorsed by the narrative, but it isn't contradicted much either.

I'm requesting one m/m pairing, about two characters who super ping my loyalty kink, as well as my immense fondness for characters from different backgrounds thrown together under trying circumstances, and are probably the closest we get to competence porn. They're only in episodes 5-7, if you just wanted the starter pack on the show, they can probably be watched on their own.