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.

Comments

April 13 - Apothecia (Webcomic), Glitter & Honey - Del Water Gap

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Apothecia (Webcomic)

(Reccommended by Anonymous!)

Media type: Webcomic

Approximate length: 30-45 minutes

Content Warnings Body horror and some gore; sexual assault is alluded to but not foregrounded

One of Taz Muir's early efforts, this is a story about a girl (Jesse) who finds a trapped fungal alien supervillain in the woods. It's a coming of age story for her in a manner of speaking; the alien and girl have conversations about morality in which they needle each other and Jesse kicks off an apocalypse by feeding what's implied to be a serial rapist/predator to the alien. I like the evil-mentorship vibes, the way Jesse herself is a very questionable character, and the body horror bodysharing at the end.

Glitter & Honey - Del Water Gap

(Reccommended by lazyfish!)

Media type: Music (Song)

Approximate length: 0-10 minutes

Content Warnings Mentions of drug use (cigarettes, unspecified pills, alcohol)

Glitter & Honey is a song about falling for someone who's a little vain and a little mean - but you kind of think it's hot. It describes a whirlwind romance with someone who sticks, and it's a vibe.