Heart Attack 2021 Canon Promo!
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highadrenalineexchangeTagset nominations will open on November 1, and in the meantime, there's this post! Promote your fandoms in the comments. Talk about where to find them, how long they take to consume, what you like about them, what ships you think are great, etc. etc.
As a little incentive (and to make my own life easier), I'll check the length of every canon promoted. If it is a safety fandom, I'll reply to your comment, so you know. Hopefully this will make your signup planning easier :)
What's a safety fandom, you ask? A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. Every signup must contain at least one safety fandom. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20 hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
The following qualify as safety fandoms:
If you are a fan of a series, you may nominate both the first item in the series (if you're willing to get fanfiction based only off of that one item!) and the entire series. For example, you can nominate both "The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett [SAFETY]" and "Discworld - Pratchett". However, if you use this in order to craft a signup that's three requests of only the same pairing, rendering your whole signup a one-pairing signup, I will transform into a Canada goose and fly to your location to fight you physically.
As a little incentive (and to make my own life easier), I'll check the length of every canon promoted. If it is a safety fandom, I'll reply to your comment, so you know. Hopefully this will make your signup planning easier :)
What's a safety fandom, you ask? A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. Every signup must contain at least one safety fandom. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20 hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
More information about safety fandoms
The following qualify as safety fandoms:
- Any standalone movie, TV episode, TV season, youtube video, music video, letsplay, miniseries, etc, which is under 5 hours (300 minutes). For example, Fleabag season 1 is eligible as a safety fandom because it is less than 300 minutes total and it can be viewed, understood, and written about on its own. Iron Man 3 would not be eligible as a safety fandom because it requires you to also watch Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 2 to understand. But Iron Man 1 would be eligible as a safety fandom.
- Any video game whose main story takes less than 5 hours to play. You can check it at howlongtobeat.com.
- Any comic book run with 30 comics or less.
- Any manga with 30 chapters or less at the time of nominations.
- Any book that is 100k words or less. You can get a wordcount estimate at readinglength.com.
- Any painting, photograph, map, etc (which is publicly available for viewing online)
- Original Work
- Any album of music under 300 minutes total.
- Please comment if you think one of your fandoms should be a safety, but it is not in one of the mediums listed above.
If you are a fan of a series, you may nominate both the first item in the series (if you're willing to get fanfiction based only off of that one item!) and the entire series. For example, you can nominate both "The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett [SAFETY]" and "Discworld - Pratchett". However, if you use this in order to craft a signup that's three requests of only the same pairing, rendering your whole signup a one-pairing signup, I will transform into a Canada goose and fly to your location to fight you physically.
Raffles - EW Hornung
Date: 2021-08-27 05:21 pm (UTC)Media Type: Literature
Length: 3 short story collections, 1 novel
Time Period: 1890s, England
Shipping Potential: m/m potential.
What Do I Ship? Raffles/Bunny! Raffles is the mastermind of the situation, charming and urbane and generally completely immoral. Bunny is his loyal sidekick, slightly bumbling and extremely prone to making bad decisions but also basically the sweetest man alive (and canonically prone to a spot of cross-dressing). I absolutely adore these two, and the incredibly intense relationship they have. I love how Bunny hero worships Raffles, how he's so loyal and innocent and utterly adoring of everything Raffles does. I love how Raffles is obviously fond of him in return, and takes pleasure in his company and wants him around constantly and obviously cares for him more than anybody else. and I love their relationship, the teasing and the intensity and just how much they need each other.
Summary: Bunny Manders, human disaster, gets into huge trouble while gambling and ends up visiting his old school friend Raffles in a last ditch attempt to stave off disaster. What he’s not expecting is that his old school friend Raffles has since become a gentleman thief, who quite cheerfully proceeds to drag him into a life of crime.
Why Do I love It?: They're so much fun. A loving take off of Sherlock Holmes, but also very much their own thing. I love how funny they are, I love what a loose view of morality they take and I love how they never seem to take themselves too seriously. They're just gloriously enjoyable, and such a good comfort read.
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The overall canon is too long for a safety fandom, but I'm planning to nominate just the first set of short stories as a safety canon. They can definitely stand on their own without anything else!
Re: Raffles - EW Hornung
Date: 2021-08-28 11:30 am (UTC)Re: Raffles - EW Hornung
Date: 2021-08-30 11:57 am (UTC)