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Promotion Fest: “Rec me!” Comment Meme
Hello, doers of darkness!
To kick off our fandom promotion fest, let’s have a recommendation meme:
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To kick off our fandom promotion fest, let’s have a recommendation meme:
- Comment with your favorite tropes, narrative kinks, character archetypes, and other qualities that you look for in a fandom.
- Reply to other people’s comments with recommendations for fandoms with chromatic creator(s) and character(s) that suit their preferences.
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I think you might already be familiar with this series as well, but Otomen (manga and J-drama) comes to mind as a good example of finding friends who accept you for who you are.
It doesn't strictly fall within this story type but Nabi's protagonists are a group of orphans on the run who have no ties of blood to each other but have very much become one another's family.
Hmm, I should really try not to make my recs all East Asian media...in Amitav Ghosh's The Sea of Poppies, the members of the Ibis who hail from all sorts of backgrounds come together and form a crew...the "chosen family" aspect doesn't really kick in until the latter half of the book but I think once it does, it's really compelling.
Naguib Mahfouz' The Harafish does focus on family-by-blood relationships but I think more importantly it tells the story of how a group of outcasts settle in an alleyway and form their own community. Granted, this community forms its own conflicts and tensions so the focus isn't entirely on acceptance, but I think it still works as a variation on the story type. (I'm actually not at all sure how one would go about making fanwork for The Harafish, but it's an excellent book.)
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Also those books sound worth checking out at some point (alas, my book reading has slowed to a crawl lately...).
Thanks!!
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