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Canon Promo Post 2023
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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! FFFX is a long-haul exchange - someone might not have time to get into your canon before sign-ups close, but they definitely have time to check it out over the course of the exchange overall.
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, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?
Content notes (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) - this is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive
Some examples: Yuletide, Fandom5k, previous fffx posts.
Please keep an eye on comments, as people may have follow-up questions about your canons.
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 interactive fiction."
If asking for recs, consider letting people know if you're interested in specific media only, or have other restrictions.
Please use this post to promote the fandoms you're interested in requesting, or ask for recommendations of canons that suit you! FFFX is a long-haul exchange - someone might not have time to get into your canon before sign-ups close, but they definitely have time to check it out over the course of the exchange overall.
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, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?
Content notes (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) - this is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive
Some examples: Yuletide, Fandom5k, previous fffx posts.
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 interactive fiction."
If asking for recs, consider letting people know if you're interested in specific media only, or have other restrictions.
Vikings (TV)
Media: TV show
Approx length: 6 seasons, 89 episodes around 40min each
Where to find it: Streaming (I use Prime, but please feel free to contact me if you need other options)
What is it, in summary?
It's a show about vikings, beginning with the mythic figure of Ragnar Lothbrok. It chronicles his adventures and dramas and eventually introduces those of his sons.
It's also about family drama, legacy, faith, and the consequences of violence.
What do you love about it?
It's just so juicy. I love insane, unhealthy family dynamics and Vikings has it in spades, from top to fucking bottom, the worst of the worst. You have a toxic, heroically-decaying patriarch who's a myth in his own time and an expansive immediate family that's trying to make sense of that. There's a lot of action violence (which I love) and the occasional relatively accurate historical detail and some mysterious sort-of-magic stuff going on with pagan gods and prophecies.
Also, I love Ivar. He's the youngest son of the original main character and one of the protagonists of the latter half of the series. He's messy and complicated and cruel and vulnerable and just a bundle of contradictions that I can't tear my eyes away from. His story is often handled clumsily and problematically, but his actor's performance shines through that with incredible clarity and love for the character.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?
I'm requesting Ivar-centric fic and/or fic with him and one of his brothers (Hvitserk). Ivar is one of the vikings we have strong accounts of in the historical record, and I'd like to see more of show!Ivar doing what history!Ivar got up to, with artistic license.
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?
My primary interest is in the latter half of the series, starting with s4e10, as Ragnar's story comes to a close and the stories of his sons take center stage. Seasons 4b, 5a, and 6a-b have my favorite Ivar content.
Content notes: A LOT of gore and violence, a lot of child death (on and off screen), a few instances of rape (on and off screen), some drug use and addiction, problematic tropes around disability, emotional incest, and one very brief instance of explicit incest.