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.
Gravity Falls
Date: 2021-08-27 08:41 pm (UTC)Where to consume: It's currently streaming on Disney+ and Hulu in the USA, I believe, but you can also find it, you know...around.
Content warnings: It's a Disney cartoon, so not much! A couple episodes have mind control or body horror, though.
Summary: Dipper and Mabel Pines — 12-year-old twins — are sent to Gravity Falls, Oregon for the summer to stay with their weird great-uncle, Stan. Grunkle Stan runs a shitty tourist trap called the Mystery Shack, which is also his house, and has a lot of secrets. The woods around town are full of their own mysteries. The Pines twins make friends and and enemies, get into and out of trouble, learn more about their family history, etc.
Why I Like It: The family feels are SO good and the series mixes humor and horror in a really satisfying way! All of the main characters and many of the reoccurring characters are interesting, engaging, and allowed to have serious emotional depth. The show manages to be pretty episodic without sacrificing character development at all, too.I also think the worldbuilding is super fascinating and the setting itself really engaging.
Gen horror and/or worldbuilding and/or adventure is my preference in this fandom as I don't find most of the characters very shippable, but ymmv! If anyone else who stops by this post would like to reply to promo their ships specifically, please feel free.