Promotion Fest: “Rec me!” Comment Meme

[dark_administrator]

Hello, doers of darkness!

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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Comments

[dharmavati]

I'd love any source that is a rom-com or has a comedic element to the romance of the story. I'm a particular sucker for:

- characters that are female and/or have other marginalized identities being respected by the narrative
- fake relationships/contracts
- crossdressing
- everyone else around the couple being a Shipper On Deck

[troisroyaumes]

For fake relationships/contracts, the K-drama Family's Honor! The main two characters, Dan-a and Gang-seok decide to pretend to go out in order to help Gang-seok's younger sister with her unrequited love for a male student who has a crush on Dan-a. (That sounds so incredibly contrived but the story manages to sell it, and I found it really entertaining.) Highlight is that the two protagonists are relatively honest about the chemistry they feel instead of being in denial about it. It's a really long series but one of the best I've watched recently. I have some episode reviews if you'd like to find out more.

I hope you get other recs because I like these rom-com tropes too. ^^

[dharmavati]

It sounds interesting! 54 episodes sounds intimidating but the combination of fake relationships and siblings is like kryptonite to me. I'm definitely adding it to my list!

[alias_sqbr]

Saving Face is a funny lesbian romance movie about (and by) a Chinese American woman. Only has the first of your four requests but it definitely respects it's female characters and is a lot of fun.

[dharmavati]

Saving Face has been on my to-watch list for some time but this might be the urge I need to actually watch it. Thanks for the rec! :)

[paxpinnae]

You may have already heard of it, but Coffee Prince (Hulu, Drama Fever, Various Houses of *Ahem*'d Media which I can PM you links to) hits every last one of these kinks. thefourthvine has really good summary/pimp post thingies for the first two episodes here and here. I Am Legend (Drama Fever) also features awesome female relationships; it's the story of a middle-aged high society wife who, upon learning pf her husband's affair, decides to leave him and pursue her high-school dream of becoming a rockstar.

[fangirlism]

I was about to rec Coffee Prince too! I'm only on episode 2 (I should get on that - I wanna request it for the exchange), but I loooooooove it.