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

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

[lakeeffectgirl]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (stylized in the on-screen titles as Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)

Media: English-language movie, rated R.

Approximate length: A little over two and a half hours.

Where to find it: DVD & Blu-ray, Amazon streaming (at cost), and currently w/ a STARZ subscription.

What is it, in summary? It’s basically a fairytale (hence the OUaT) set in 1969, in which the Manson followers attack the house next door to the Polanskis instead. But before that happens (entirely in the third act): Leonardo DiCaprio plays a fading TV star who is struggling with his career options, and Brad Pitt plays his stuntman/driver/handyman/all-around guy. For two days, Rick and Cliff do their jobs and hang out, then Rick decides to take Al Pacino up on the offer he makes in the beginning and go to Italy to do spaghetti Westerns, where he marries a co-star (the Italy part occurs entirely in a bit narrated by Kurt Russell, who also has a small part in the flashback that includes Bruce Lee). The same night they return from overseas, the Manson followers break into Rick’s house, and Cliff and Rick defend the house/themselves/Francesca. (I have a longer summary here.)

What do you love about it? Clearly, Rick and Cliff should make out. But I also enjoy that there’s not much of a plot. There’s an entire scene where Brad Pitt makes Kraft mac’n’cheese (and poorly, I might add).

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? I enjoy Cliff/Rick of all sorts (and don’t mind the addition of Rick’s only-there-in-the-third-act Italian starlet wife).

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests? Yes! You can watch the movie either up to or through the voice-over interlude where Rick and Cliff go to Italy, and stop there if you want to skip the violence noted below. (If you don’t want to miss the part where Leonardo DiCaprio is basically a Margarita Mom in a silk robe – it’s great!!, you can stop when the Hawke daughter from Stranger Things ditches the rest of the Manson group.)

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): The third act is almost entirely heavy Tarantino-style violence, a large portion of it violence against women (two of the Manson girls).

Additional note: There is also a tie-in novel that came out a few weeks ago, written by Tarantino, which covers some of the movie but is structurally all over the place and includes long tangents about various movies/television shows. It does give more information about both Cliff and Rick, but depending on your feelings about violence, it may not be information a more casual fan/viewer wants to know. If you want to know the relevant spoilers, I have a tumblr post here.

Re: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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If one is in Canada, it is also on Canadian Netflix as of this week!