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 9 - Badlands 2005, 琴師 - 音頻怪物 | A Stringed Instrument Player - Yīnpín Guàiwu (Mu

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Badlands 2005

(Reccommended by NervousAsexual!)

Media type: TV show pilot (never got picked up. AO3 appears to consider it a TV movie)

Approximate length: 30-45 minutes

Content Warnings TV-PG level violence, the most graphic of which is directed at Rex

In the faraway futuristic year 2005, humans are only now getting back to living in the deserts following massive drought. The land is plagued by water bandits and worse, and the only people who can protect the innocent are the US marshals. This includes Garson McBeth and his cyborg partner, RX-107 (McBeth just calls him Rex). On the surface this single episode/pilot/TV movie is about the two marshals escorting two mail-order brides to their new husbands, but there are a lot of interesting things implied by some of the worldbuilding, not the least of which is the relationship between McBeth and Rex.

琴師 - 音頻怪物 | A Stringed Instrument Player - Yīnpín Guàiwu (Music Video)

(Reccommended by snowynight!)

Media type: Music video

Approximate length: 0-10 minutes

The music video tells a M/M romance with rich angst, hurt/comfort and future fix-it potential. A stringed instrument player is captured as a spoil of war and brought to the enemy court. Gradually, he falls in love with a kind palace guard. However, the enemy liege lord releases him to his homeland, so they are separated at the end.