Many of us are already planning which fandoms to offer and request! Nominations open in a few weeks, which may be enough time to pick up a new fandom or two.
Use this post to promote your canon (and/or to coordinate nominations with other fans).
Use this post to promote your canon (and/or to coordinate nominations with other fans).
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MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe
Re: MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe
- almost any combo of Heimdall/Valkyrie/Thor/Loki/Gamora/Nebula
- Thor/T'Challa
- Bucky/Shuri
- maaaybe some Earth-based femslash? I'm considering Pepper/Natasha
Re: MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe
Re: MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe
but I also am not super sure about signing up
Star Wars rarepairs anyone?
Re: Star Wars rarepairs anyone?
Miraculous Ladybug!
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The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)
It starts off with biologist Violet Liu thinking she's about to die alone on her ship, only to get unexpectedly rescued - and even more unexpectedly meshed in government conspiracies that might explain why everyone else on Violet's ship died.
Selling points:
- Found family in the form of a crew of a small spaceship
- The main f/f ship has great banter and tropey moments
- The unfolding of the first season's mystery both makes sense and is fun to follow
- lovely secondary relationship between a trans man and an alien
- Great f&f or f/f loyalty kink potential with the first mate and the captain
- sci-fi setting and the close relationships give a lot of good jumping off points for fic
The Bright Sessions Podcast
The podcast for all those people who looked at X-Men still have powers mundane AU’s and wanted more.
- Unrepentantly queer. With various levels of representation
- Huge found family feelings with characters who are utter disasters
- Has one of the best villains I’ve ever seen in a podcast
BEASTARS
Well, you don't have to now, because BEASTARS is a comic that answers all those questions. Showing a world inhabited by animals that live their lives just as humans do (akin to Disney movies), we follow our protagonist, Legosi on his rocky road into adulthood. He's a sensitive gray wolf, who is a part of theater club, but appears intimidating due to his huge stature. However, as his predatory instincts activate for the first time, he finds out that sometimes adolescence is about figuring out if your feelings for a cute bunny girl are love... or craving for meat.
The main plot of this story is not only interesting on individual level, as it introduces a colourful cast of very distinct characters, it also raises many interesting questions most stories skip. How would tensions between herbivores and carnivores manifest in a world where they live side by side? Would carnivores be able to suppress their instincts? Would herbivores live in constant fear that at one point their classmate will snap and eat them? How would a giant wolf go about having sex with a small rabbit? Come on, tell us, Legosi. We need to know that last one for science.
Food Fantasy
* Free things?
* Chill mobile games that can be played on your commutes/breaks?
* Collecting and/or marrying an army of cute anime waifus and husbandos, who happen to be anthropomorphic representations of cuisines from around the world?
Food Fantasy is a (translated) Taiwanese F2P game for Android and iPhone. The gameplay is a hybrid of RPG and restaurant management sim. You play the role of a chef who goes from just wanting to run a restaurant to trying to save the world, in the process meeting and bonding with dozens of "food souls" - the aforementioned cute anime people, who are humanoid monsters that apparently embody the spiritual essences of specific foods. Sure, it sounds ridiculous and shallow, but every food soul has a unique and complex backstory, with all of them being fleshed out characters in their own right and coming together to create a genuinely fascinating (and often tragic) web of lore.
Some other selling points:
* There are tons of characters, all with diverse personalities and countries of origin. You can have a team consisting of a violent Malaysian yandere, a bisexual French vampire, a hedonistic Japanese monk, a cheerful American jock, and a kinky Chinese sadist. With the huge and diverse cast, it's easy to find one or two food souls who worm their way into your heart.
* You can romance and marry any of your food souls, regardless of their gender. You can also marry as many food souls as you want. So you can live your dream of a polygamous bisexual gijinka harem.
* There's tons of ship potential, both teased by the devs and straight-up canon, between the various food souls. F/F, F/M, M/M, poly...it's all here. And those ships range from happy and healthy partnerships, to frenemies, to stalker and victim. So whether you like fluff, angst, or both, there's something here for you.
* The music. Is. Rad.
The game can be downloaded here for Android, and here for iPhone.
Re: Food Fantasy
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Golden Kamuy
Do you like...
- Well-researched and lovingly detailed historical settings?
- Adventure stories with interesting characters?
- Found families, double-crossings, loyalty kink, and other iddy interpersonal dynamics?
- Stories that vacillate between heartwarming and brutally violent?
- Muscle manservice out the wazoo?
Then you should give it a shot! The manga chapters are quite short and it's very bingeable. There's also an anime series that covers the first 130-odd chapters of manga content, with some omissions.
Pokémon
At the moment, I'm thinking of requesting a story that uses the characters and settings from the first two sets of games particularly (Red, Blue, Gold, Silver).
I was thinking of nominating something like "Original Trainer - Pokémon Red Blue Gold or Silver" or "Original Trainer - 1st and/or 2nd Gen games". I'm not 100% sure that that kind of nomination is allowed, but if it is, does anyone have any suggestions for improving the wording of this nomination?
Happy to nominate other characters or relationships from the games if there's anything anyone wants.
Re: Pokémon
You could also use 'Original Kanto Trainer' and 'Original Johto Trainer' if you didn't mind references to the remakes like Heart Gold and Leaf Green. It's neater and Pokemon fans would know what games are being requested. I'm not sure if that includes Hey You Pikachu and Eevee because I haven't paid that much attention to those games.
I would be happy to see the main game series nominated. I'd suggest adding in the other regions to the OT list to include fans of other generations, and wouldn't mind using nomination slots to help you cover them. And I'd probably request 'Original Hoenn Trainer' myself because Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald are my favorites. Maybe the Magikarp Salesman as well just because that'd be a funny character nomination that could make for a good story.
Re: Pokémon
I'm a little worried that asking for 'Original Kanto Trainer' etc doesn't convey the same sense of sticking to the worldbuilding in the early games - after all, a Kanto trainer can always travel to Unova. But maybe I'm worrying too much - it's not like there'll be dozens of conflicting requests/offers.
We get 4 chars/rels, hm, so that would break down as:
Original Hoenn Trainer
Original Kanto Trainer
Original Johto Trainer
Magikarp Salesman
I might reserve the Magikarp Salesman slot in case anyone wants me to nominate a relationship instead.
Hive Mind - Janet Edwards
Unfortunately for Amber, Lottery has a very different path for her. Amber's rare telepathic gifts mean there's only one job her Hive can give her: hunt down criminals before they can harm others -- and before they can shatter the carefully-protected illusion that the Hive is perfectly safe.
The Hive Mind series currently has three books and a prequel novella. The series may appeal to people who've enjoyed Anne McCaffrey's Talents series, and are interested in an updated take on telepathy; people who like J. D. Robb's In Death series, but want more telepaths; and anyone who likes telepaths, complicated worldbuilding, and mystery. The series is ongoing, and the most recent book in particular added some fascinating new worldbuilding to the setting.
The first part of the first novel is available to read here.
Re: Hive Mind - Janet Edwards
Re: Hive Mind - Janet Edwards
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