Festival of Very Short Canons: April 1-30

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Welcome to the Festival of Very Short Canons! All of April I'll be posting two recs a day in the comment section of this post.

All recommended canons will take 45 minutes or less to consume—many of them much less! We have a mixture of music/music videos, short stories, fake articles, comics, and miscellaneous other things. (Music and music videos were so popular that we're going to have about one of those a day every day of April!)

Extra info:

• Have a longer canon you'd love to rec? Stop by the Canon Promo post!
• If you have a Dreamwidth account, you can subscribe to comments on this post to get email updates.
• The recommendation form asked reccers if they'd like to give any content warnings, but it was optional; recommended canons won't necessarily have comprehensive warnings.
• Please don't make top-level comments to this post, but you're welcome to discuss recc'd canons by replying to my comments! You can also join the AAT Event Discord.

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April 11 - Clock 0ut - SAD-ist, Wujiapo | Lady Precious Stream - Tu Honggang (Music Video)

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Clock 0ut

(Reccommended by .oceangirl!)

Media type: Animation

Approximate length: 0-10 minutes

Content Warnings flashing lights, blood, temporary character death

A man tries to escape a time loop using the power of parkour. But when he destroys the clock controlling the loop, the world starts to decay, causing even more problems. He and his enemy now have to work together in order to survive, and hopefully escape.

武家坡 - 屠洪刚 | Wujiapo | Lady Precious Stream - Tu Honggang (Music Video)

(Reccommended by Tavina/Leaf!)

Media type: Music video

Approximate length: 0-10 minutes

Content Warnings Major Character Death

This is a "modern" reimagining of the song Wujiapo from the traditional opera Lady Precious Stream which describes the reunion of Wang Baochuan and Xie Pinggui on the Mid-Autumn Festival. The original story is set in the Tang dynasty, but Tu Honggang's modern reimagining sets this story in the middle of the 20th century and follows two childhood friends who grew up in a Peking opera theater troupe who are separated by the Chinese Civil War.