Canon Promo

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We had a lot of recs for the Festival of Very Short Canons, but of course lots of us have canons longer than 45 minutes that we'd like to recomment! This is a post for doing that—you can promote any canon that you'd like to request or offer for AAT and let us know why it's great and why we should consider consuming it and requesting or creating for it!

What to put in your promo

• Fandom name: Also make this the title of your comment below. If you're promoing a certain ship or section of your fandom, include it after your fandom name.
• Media type: What kind of thing is it?
• Length: How long does it take to consume the canon?
• Where can it be found? (Only legal links for this, please.)
• What is it/what is it about?
• What do you love about it? Also, what are you planning to request for it?/What do you want to create for it?
• If it's a big/complex/long/scattered fandom, where should people start? Also, are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?
• Do you have any content warnings? These are at your discretion and don't need to be comprehensive. Some content "warnings" might also help attract people who deliberately look for that kind of thing!

How to post your promo

Comment on this post by clicking "reply" in the bottom right corner. You do not need a Dreamwidth account to post.

Put your fandom's name as the comment's title.

Copy the code in the text box below and fill it out. Fields can be removed if you don't need them/aren't interested in filling them out.

<b>Fandom name:</b> <b>Media type:</b> <b>Length:</b> <b>Where can it be found? (Only legal links for this, please.) <b>What is it/what is it about?</b> <b>What do you love about it?</b> <b>Where should people start?</b> <b>Do you have any content warnings?</b>

Comments

The Cemeteries of Amalo

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Fandom name: The Cemeteries of Amalo - Katherine Addison

Media type: Books

Length: 3 short novels (200-300 pages); set in the same universe as The Goblin Emperor, which is a somewhat longer standalone novel (450 pages), but you don't have to read it to understand what's going on in the Amalo trilogy if you don't want to!

Where can it be found? (Only legal links for this, please.) Anywhere books are sold! Or your local library! Probably in EPUB or MOBI format through your library's website, too!

What is it/what is it about? A gay necromancer detective drinks tea, grieves his dead lover, visits the opera, and battles the undead.

What do you love about it? Gorgeous worldbuilding and a slow burn fan-favorite but noncanon ship that provides a great jumping off point for fix-it or canon divergence fic. There's a formal/informal pronoun distinction, and you will get excited when someone gets 'thee'd for the first time!

Where should people start? It's a spinoff/sequel to The Goblin Emperor, so you could start there if you want (the protagonist of the Amalo trilogy is a minor character in TGE), or else start with The Witness for the Dead

Do you have any content warnings? Death of a loved one; fantasy racism; homophobia; misogyny; spousal and child abuse, including references to CSEM; minor character death, including child death; some light zombie-typical body horror