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Promote Your Rare Characters, Relationships, and Fandoms! (2023)
The Fandom Growth Exchange is all about growing the rare fandoms, relationships, and characters of your heart. The longer-than-average creation period can also give participants the chance to explore additional canons.
Comment below to share your fandom/ship/character, where to find the canon, and what you love about it. Feel free to include images, links, and/or just gush.
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Comment below to share your fandom/ship/character, where to find the canon, and what you love about it. Feel free to include images, links, and/or just gush.
A form to help if you like:
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Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: The depth and creativity behind the main stories – and the author’s ability to put so much strong morality into the story without preaching. It’s got so much space and depth to explore and dig into.
Fandom Name: Chronicles of Narnia – Peter/Jill
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: It’s fun without being patronizing and it has parts that can appeal to both children and adults. The story and expectations for the children are within their abilities, but it doesn’t make the adults around them look like idiots.
Fandom Name: Dark is Rising – Will/Jane
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: Again, it is written for young adults and older kids, but it’s got some depth to it and bring adults along without feeling out of place. Unlike most stories based on myths, this one focuses on Wales and Cornwall, so it feels both familiar and completely new.
Fandom Name: Talents series – Kincaid & Laria
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: I love how the author brings psychic abilities out of the shadows and into the mainstream before making it another craft/ability that people use in day to day life. By the time it reaches the second series, it focuses on one family and their importance to this universe.
Fandom Name: Witch World – Simon/Jaelithe
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: Simon escapes from our world to another world that combines magic and science. He’s a man out of place and she’s a woman of Power. Then she chooses to give up her place in her sisterhood to join her life to his. It’s a great start to the exploration of a new world with all of its unique cultures.
Fandom Name: Wind River – Cory & Jane
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: This story really touched me, and I enjoyed the father & daughter vibes which built up here. Jane’s got all of the fire of a young agent, someone who wants to change the world, while Cory’s got an experienced, tired air. He’s seen the impossibility of changing the world . . . and forgotten that sometimes what you do can change the world for someone. I cannot recommend this movie enough!
Fandom Name: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Jefferson/Alice
Where to find the canon: Wiki
What I love about it: Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite stories – and I really liked this version of Alice and the Mad Hatter. Alice is so strong, without being depressed or depressing. Jefferson has the madness, but also this wonderful vulnerability.
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Where to find the canon: Paramount+, pirating site, maybe your local library.
What I love about it: Oh geez, where do I begin? The visuals are stunning, the characters are super interesting, and it's just all around a great experience. It's a pretty long movie (a little over three hours) but so worth it to watch. There's a variety of characters (ensemble cast), so there's probably one that almost everyone will like and emphasize with. I also think that the world lends itself pretty well to fan-content, so I'm surprised there's not more fics.
Fandom Name: Fool's Paradise
Where to find the canon: Either a pirating site or via buying the DVD somewhere.
What I love about it: It has a super creative world, very fleshed out feeling main characters, and a super sweet love story. (Also, I know I said this about the last first fandom I mentioned, but this one also has gorgeous visuals and aesthetics.)
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Who's the Murderer | 明星大侦探
Where to find the canon:
Youtube (Note: Only seasons 5-8 are available with subtitles on Youtube, however the rest can be found on the internet)
What I love about it: It is a show where each episode stands on its own, held together by the various casts, especially the main hosts for S1-6, He Jiong and Sa Beining. Each episode they solve a murder, and often uncover a secret plan that is both in earnest, kind of dumb, and often tropey. What really gives it life is the interactions between the cast, whether joking with each other or reckoning with the emotional parts of the case.
Some specific episodes I'd recommend are 2x3 as a good murder mystery, 2x5 to be an introduction to the recurring boyband NZND that leaves murders in its wake, 3x2 for being emblematic of the secret plots, and 6x11 for having one of the more serious and emotional episodes.
In general seasons 1-4 have standalone plots and mysteries, while seasons 5-8 lean much more into the complicated mystery plans being discovered.
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Where to find the canon: Archive.org, just search the title and you're set.
What I love about it: I said it before and I'll say it again: it's comfort food for the soul. The characters are fun and likeable and the plots, while simple, are action-packed and cute. The colour episodes are great just for the fact we get to see those gorgeous costumes in colour. Also, Sir Crustabread is the best episode and Lancelot/Lynette is now my OTP :D
Fandom Name: Return to Sender (1963)
Where to find the canon: You can get the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of movies on DVD. Or you can check Russian Facebook :P
What I love about it: I'm going to be honest, the plot makes no sense. I have no idea what is happening. The only reason to watch this is Mike (played by William Russell). He's an interesting and delightful guy who puts on silly voices and only drinks milk. Oh, and he says cheesy pickup lines in earnest. The cinematography is pretty cool too, even if you can tell the movie was made on a budget.
Fandom Name: Arthurian Mythology
Where to find the canon: Canon? What canon? It can be whatever you want! Oh, fine. Here's a list of old Arthurian texts.
What I love about it: Well, it can be whatever you want, basically!
Fandom Name: Phantasy Star
Where to find the canon: It's a Master System video game, you can play it here, on Archive.org.
What I love about it: Science fiction! Loveable characters! Beautiful graphics! A story that hooked me! Have you seen the dungeons? Hard af though.
Sex Therapy (Webcomic)
Where to find the canon: https://www.cathexis.world/sextherapy
What I love about it: Porn with feelings. So much chemistry. Gorgeous artwork.
The (free-to-read, uncensored BL) webcomic focuses on sex therapist Dr. Elliot Graham and two of his lovers, Andreas Hughes and Haruto Nakamura (pictured above). Elliot is very sexually adventurous and has many lovers, who he is transparent about. Andreas and Haruto are each starting to develop feelings, though, and things are getting interested as the two of them have recently started interacting in canon...
BIG OT3 potential along with lots of lovely/sexy M/M(/M) tropes throughout the comic!
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Where to find the canon: archive.org (just search the title in your favorite search engine) or on CD
What I love about it: Delightful sci-fi radio comedy about an English village that's invaded by aliens (they're practicing for invading the rest of the Earth). It's got a wonderful cast of characters (including two awesome female leads) and a light touch, and the premise is just begging for all kinds of fun fandom tropes!
Fandom Name: The Windrose Chronicles, by Barbara Hambly
Where to find the canon: Any source for books or ebooks
What I love about it: Here is the long promo post I made about it in 2021.
Here is the TL;DR version: Portal fantasy trilogy featuring a young woman who works as a programmer in the 1980s--and her expertise is plot-relevant!--who is kidnapped into another world where magic works. Together with a member of an order of warriors who are taught to see themselves as living weapons and a renegade wizard who may or may not be evil (and who she may or may not be falling in love with), she must journey to save all the worlds from a magical effect that is slowly draining the life and joy from everyone. (Yes, it is partly about depression. But it's not a sad book at all.)
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Where to find the canon: The whole thing is free on Youtube
What I love about it: It's the futuristic year 2005, and humans are beginning to come back to the drought-ravaged badlands. Water tankers are being pursued by Mad Max-style raiders, and the only ones who can help are the US marshals--in this case, Garson McBeth and his cyborg partner RX-107, whom he dubs "Rex." The two are tasked with transporting two mail-order brides to a distant water camp and run into trouble when one of the brides isn't quite who she claims to be.
I love the setting--very western, but very Mad Max, too. Most of all I love the banter between Garson and Rex. They're a little bit stock (Garson is every hot shot buddy cop ever, and Rex is his more straight-laced, acerbic partner) but there's enough there with the setting and the fact that Rex is a cyborg that you can latch on easy enough.
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Where to find the canon: Available to buy/rent on Amazon + Pirating websites
What I love about it: It’s a fun comedy film about the worst little league baseball team! The characters are all hilarious, and although some scenes are very dated (children piled into a very small car as the driver drinks beer), it’s got so much heart, and never takes itself too seriously.
Fandom Name: Breaking Away
Where to find the canon: Pirating websites
What I love about it: It’s a film about trying to literally break away from your small town, and also being obsessed with Italian cycling. It’s very funny, and can certainly be viewed with a queer lens (especially the character of Cyril). It also has several big-name actors before they were famous, and stuck in awkward teenage bodies!
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Where to find the canon: You can easily find the original spanish text on libgen. I don't think an english translation exists, but there's an italian and a catalan one.
What I love about it: Set in Padua at the end of the 18th century, the protagonist is an university student, new to the city, who gets fascinated by the mystery of the "woman that never died" in the abandoned building next to his. I'm fascinated by her story just like him, but even more by the mystery of how the old venetian mirrors are supposed to work and by the oneiric themes.
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Where to find the canon: I was lucky enough to watch it as part of a noir series in a theater, but aside from that, I was able to buy the DVD with English subtitles: https://www.moviedetective.net/product_p/lfdd.htm
At the time, that was the only place I could find it to buy, but I recently found it also available for sale here (I have no personal experience with ordering from this site): https://www.rarefilmsandmore.com/la-fille-du-diable-the-devils-daughter-1946-with-switchable-english-subtitles
I found it streaming on archive.org but only in the original French, without English subtitles.
What I love about it: Isabelle is so angry and has so much good reason to be. There's so much frustrated potential in her that I'd love to see get unleashed. I also love the complex network of relationships between the characters and the different ways they could have played out.
Fandom Name: Adam's Rib (1949)
Where to find the canon: DVD; streaming rental or purchase
What I love about it: I love the actors Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and I love how much the characters Adam and Amanda Bonner love each other. It's such a pleasure to see a movie where a married couple act like they actually enjoy being married to each other (which these two clearly do, apart from, uh, certain disrupting plot events!).
Fandom Name: If I Had a Million (1932)
Where to find the canon: Mostly seems to be available on DVD in collections with other things
What I love about it: A rich man decides to give his fortune away a million at a time, selecting the recipients randomly from a phone book! It's all the fun of "what would I do if I won the lottery" only played out eight times with eight different characters, and it's so satisfying getting to see (most of) their wishes come true.
Fandom Name: Vivacious Lady (1938)
Where to find the canon: DVD
What I love about it: Ginger Rogers (in not-a-musical!) and James Stewart! After spending all night out in the city on a date, a couple impulsively decides to marry—but trying to introduce the bride to the man's parents doesn't go well. At one point the new wife and her mother-in-law are on a train back to the city, both fed up with their husbands, and planning to enjoy the city together! Although this does not come to fruition, it was a delightful enough idea that the movie has stuck with me (and provides an excellent possible jumping-off point for fanfic...)
Fandom Name: Together Again (1944)
Where to find the canon: DVD
What I love about it: Irene Dunne is a joy—but the unexpected fun when I watched this with friends were the indications we saw that perhaps this beautiful small-town lady mayor who's getting encouraged to find love again after the death of her husband? might be into ladies! Maybe she doesn't realize she's into ladies yet? But she kept being interested in other ladies taking their clothes off (an artist's model, a striptease dancer in a nightclub), and the nightclub bathroom attendant got her dress off really fast ("to fix a stain," uh-huh), so it really seemed like she might be into ladies.
I mean, to be clear, this is a 40s movie and this is all subtext and fun interpretation. But it was a fun interpretation to think we might be seeing the bisexual awakening of Anne Crandall :-)
Fandom Name: Gerald Poole and the Pirates - Johannes T. Evans
Where to find the canon: This originated as a twitter thread, then was later expanded; the full story is about 40k words and can be read online (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4) or purchased as an ebook. (If you hit the article limit on Medium you can just use a private mode/incognito browser window to read the rest.)
There's a sequel short also available online called Sensory Deprivation (about 3k words).
What I love about it: The writing is so funny! And it's so hot (though poor Gerald is awfully deprived, at least through the main story—not so much in the sequel ;-)). Johannes T. Evans always does such a great job with characterization even in a very short space, and here you really get to see all the character work play out at greater length. And I love stories about people who don't fit right anywhere else finding the place and the people they belong with.
Fandom Name: The Henchmen of Zenda - K. J. Charles
Where to find the canon: Where ebook or print romance novels are sold!
What I love about it: As background, this is a retelling of The Prisoner of Zenda from the point of view of one of the villains. You don't have to read The Prisoner of Zenda first to enjoy or understand it, but if you do you will have a real appreciation for how much better all of the female characters are in K.J. Charles' version! My request features one of them: Rupert of Hentzau's mother, who exists only in one glorious paragraph (which I transcribed in a previous exchange letter here https://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4201.html) and deserves so much more. "She lived for tales of the life she had never been permitted to have." I love how much she loves life and how fiercely she pursues joy in the much-too-brief period of freedom she gets, and how important it was to her to pass all that on to her son as well.
Fandom Name: The Brothers Sinister Series - Courtney Milan
Where to find the canon: Where ebook or print romance novels are sold! As a note, the character I am requesting, Frederica "Freddy" Barton, is a secondary character in this series; she appears in the novella The Governess Affair and the novel The Heiress Effect, and is no longer alive but is still discussed in important ways in The Suffragette Scandal.
What I love about it: Frederica "Freddy" Barton: recluse and secret adventure novelist! I love the way Freddy finds to expand her world to the entire globe through her novels, even while she struggles with not being able to step outside her home in her physical life.
Fandom Name: Babette's Feast (1987)
Where to find the canon: DVD; streaming rental or purchase
What I love about it: In addition to being the most magnificent food porn you ever saw, it's a beautiful movie that always makes me cry with joy by the end.
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Where to find the canon: You can look up the anime on YouTube! There's also a manga
What I love about it: kitty cats <3 and shippable girls <3 Azumi x Yuuko (and for the manga, Shii x Nana) 4ever <3
Fandom Name: Wildfrost
Where to find the canon: On Steam or the Nintendo eshop! Costs 20$, but there's a demo.
What I love about it: It's a really fun roguelike! No character interactions tho, but that means there's space to come up with your own stuff!
Fandom Name: Bonnie's Bakery
Where to find the canon:You can play the base game for free here (no piracy needed)! it's also on steam!
What I love about it: bonne <3 she is so cute
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Where to find the canon: the first 4 volumes are available in English in both print and digital through most bookstores and by the chapter on INKR; the original Japanese serialization (still ongoing) is available here
What I love about it: Stories about performers are such fun, but when those performers are a pair of smalltime stage actors with a complicated codependent relationship who find their lives diverging after one is discovered by an agent eager to take him to stardom, it's even more fun. The story really dives into their relationship and how separation and fame change it, but there's so much room to play around with it even further.
Fandom Name: Tales of the Kingdom/Oukoku Monogatari (by Asumiko Nakamura)
Where to find the canon: the first 3 volumes are available in English in both print and digital
What I love about it: This is a series of interconnected short stories about a fictional kingdom, jumping between time periods and people to slowly build this whole fantasy world with stunning art. It's especially tantalizing for fanfic because there's so many areas left just hinted at as the stories shift to a different perspective or a different time.
Fandom Name: Don't Call It Mystery/Mystery to Iunakare (by Yumi Tamura)
Where to find the canon: the first 2 volumes are available in English in a 2-in-1 omnibus release, with vols 3 & 4 set to come out later this month; a live-action drama adaptation is streaming with English subtitles on Viki in some countries
What I love about it: The lead of this series is just a really observant college student who doesn't quite know when it would be in his best interest to shut up for a bit about what he's thinking, a habit that gets him into a surprising amount of trouble. So when he finds someone who actually is curious about his thoughts, it's no wonder he's intrigued. The possibilities of that relationship are so exciting to contemplate, as well as just the possibilities of the kind of trouble Totonou could get into all on his own.
Fandom Name: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (by Kazuki Irodori & Yatsuki Wakatsu)
Where to find the canon: the first three volumes are available in English in both print and digital
What I love about it: The entire premise of this is a bit silly - an overworked accountant in Tokyo gets pulled into another world as an accidental bystander to a magical summoning of that other world's fated savior and now he's just gonna keep doing what he knows best (balancing the kingdom's books) - and it's chockful of romance tropes including "we have to have sex to save your life", but the execution is just delightful with a lot of humor. It's a story that knows what it's about and offers it up confidently and it just makes me want to have even more of it right now.
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Where to find the canon: The show can be watched legally on Youtube! There are a few different uploads but the one I recommend is this official compilation that has English subs and turns 40 mini episodes into one 2.5 hour video. Way less ads that way! The show can also be watched on Tencent/WeTV but YouTube is generally easier/not paywalled.
What I love about it: It's a fun transmigration mini drama that doesn't take itself too seriously! The male lead is played by Wang Haoxuan, who I enjoyed as Xue Yang in The Untamed. I enjoyed the whole show but the ending is what has driven me to AO3, so don't watch if you need resolution in a show ending lol
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-13 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)Where to find the canon: Steam: (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385260/If_It_Please_the_Court), Hearts Choice
What I love about it: The characters are really engaging and definetly the setting pre-revolution Frances was a really interesting time with a unique outlook and policies and I think this game captures that perfectly.
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-13 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)Where to find the canon: Steam: (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385260/If_It_Please_the_Court), Hearts Choice (https://www.choiceofgames.com/hearts-choice/if-it-please-the-court/)
What I love about it: The characters are really engaging and definitely the setting pre-revolution Frances was a really interesting time with a unique outlook and policies and I think this game captures that perfectly.
Fandom Name: Heart of Battle
Where to find the canon: Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951560/Heart_of_Battle/), Hearts Choice (https://www.choiceofgames.com/hearts-choice/heart-of-battle/)
What I love about it: The character interactions in this game are some of My favourite in the IF genre.
Fandom Name: Triaina Academy
Where to find the canon: Dashingdon (https://dashingdon.com/play/leoxii/triaina-academy---wip/mygame/)
What I love about it: The setting is really what drew me in. It's a cool sort of sci-fi spin on low fantasy with ever fun task of trying to navigate what is essentially this worlds version of college.