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 19 - Fandom for Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)

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Fandom for Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

(Reccommended by edible_chemistry!)

Media type: Short story

Approximate length: 11-30 minutes

It's a short story about a robot discovering what it means to be in fandom. The robot Computron, who isn't lonely because he doesn't have the circuits for it, discovers a show with a robot who looks like him and slowly joins the fandom community and finds connection. Cited by Martha Wells (author of Murderbot) as a favorite story.

Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)

(Reccommended by bonus_content!)

Media type: Music video

Approximate length: 0-10 minutes

Content Warnings Moresomes & group sex implied, smoking shown, high heel worship

Black women loving women, lipstick, pool parties and possibly an orgy (hard to say)