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Monday 15 to Friday 26 September: Nominations (end 9pm UTC 26 September) | Evidence Post | RPF Coordination | Promo Post
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Sunday 26 October: Assignments out (may be earlier)
Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
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Inspired by the PH game.

You are forced - coerced!!!! - to consume a canon from the fandom promos post for your request or offer. Which do you choose?

This post would have been better with links eh..

Fandom promo DW post:
https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html

Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y1k529MXniWR5nM7Qr1iOf5WbRK7OGBJGcXANknaFrQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

The Emily Tesh book because I thought Some Desperate Glory was a lot of fun

Yesss! I didn’t write the promo but I did nominate it. It’s a really book (I think better than SDG actually) and I’m looking forward to fic.

I liked it a lot! Most of the DW book reviewers hated it, so I'm hoping for some more people to read it and be interested in fic and meta for it.

Sorry, coalie, this might be rude to ask, but could you link to a few people who hated it? I hated SDG and I'd like to see if the same issues popped up in this book.

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I never really loved her fic so I've been on the fence about trying her profic but if there are good, interesting requests, I would probably read this.

Is her fic name shareable? I disliked sdg but in a way that might work better for me in fic.

You can probably find her fic username without a lot of effort, but she deleted or orphaned all of her fic before going pro and, to my knowledge, has not admitted to the connection. In part because she left fandom after getting criticized for writing a racist joke into a fic.

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she was emilyenrose I think, but the profile has since been deleted. idk if her works are up on the internet archive tho

That You And Me On Repeat comic sounds cute!

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5523448#cmt5523448

A compelling case is made for Red Sonja: She has great chemistry with a bunch of supporting characters, including the emperor's tormented female assassin turned paramour, several fellow gladiators, the emperor, and her beloved horse.

I hadn't even heard of that movie before, but now I am very interested.

DC

Just a heads up, the Red Sona movie begins with the main character getting raped. As far as I remember it’s not very graphic but I still remember it even though it’s been a long time since I watched that film.

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The 100 Girlfriends person did a good job selling me on it (but I don't think I could get through that many manga volumes fast enough)

I keep meaning to check out The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, and maybe the masked Saw villain forcing me to choose in this cruel and sadistic game is finally the reason to do so.

I read the first few chapters of the The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All back when it was still readable for free online and it was pretty fun!

+1, It's adorable, I also recommend!

Seconding Red Sonja. I struggle to get into live action fandoms but I love S&S (especially w/ homoerotic potential... which is a lot of it, actually) so I think I'll give it a shot.

Conversely, Fairy Ranmaru looks bonkers and camp in a way that I love.

I feel confident that I could write some Isaac Chotiner RPF fics with relatively little prep.

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5713656#cmt5713656

This made me check out the interview with Bret Easton Ellis. The opening alone is hilarious.

“When did people start identifying so relentlessly with victims, and when did the victim’s world view become the lens through which we began to look at everything?” So begins Bret Easton Ellis’s take on, of all things, Barry Jenkins’s film “Moonlight”

The recent Cass Sunstein interview is already an all-timer.

Chotiner: But your wife [Samantha Power] is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about [Kissinger] being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book.

Sunstein: About Star Wars.

Chotiner: It is certainly a touching story. But that’s not totally an answer to the question.

Sunstein: Yeah. Well, I don’t know. What he would think of this book I’d love to know.

Chotiner: But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything?

Chotiner: Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.

Sunstein: Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn’t be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.

Chotiner: Professor, thank you so much for doing this.

Sunstein: Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn’t complain, because it could dwarf everything else.

oh my god

Sunstein is being led so easily. You kind of have to marvel at how stupid he makes himself sound.

The promo post for it is short and understated, but it inspired me to look up the horror film Hellbender, and it looks cool.

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5616632#cmt5616632

There's this claustrophobic codependency between the mother & daughter - at one point the mother flat out says to Izzy (paraphrasing), "if you break my heart, I'll devour you." It turns out they're the only two of their species - the mother is about two, three hundred years old - & the girl is just now coming in to her own.

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