Promote your canon!

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With sign-ups underway, it's time to start talking about our canons! Check out our delicious tagset for this year's nominations!

If you nominated a rare/small canon you're interested in requesting and/or offering, please feel free to create a fandom promo post in the comments below to see if the canon's themes or story is something that may interest others.

Please include the canon and its medium in the subject line, i.e. "Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovich (Books)", "The Thin Man (Movie)", etc., for ease of organisation.

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Here are some things you can cover in your post, but you're more than welcome to pick and choose and add additional information:

Title: Please put the canon title in the post as well.

Media: Is it a book, game, comic, movie, television series, recursive work, etc.?

Approximate length: Reading Length is a great resource for books and How Long to Beat is a great resource for video games.

Where is it found?: Please only provide links to legal sources. Is it free or must it be purchased?

Elevator pitch of what it's about: If you have to describe it in the time it takes to travel in an elevator, how would you?

Content warnings: You won't be able to warn for everything that may trigger someone, so please consider what the main trigger warnings would be and know that you won't be able to warn for everything.

What do you love about it?:

What kind of themes would you request for it?: Are you looking for a murder mystery? Heist? Medical drama investigation? Spies? This question does not mean you will request it; it's meant to help others know how it fits in the theme and what kind of creative works it may inspire.

You can copy/paste from here:

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The Brokenwood Mysteries (TV)

[nomadicwriter]

Title: The Brokenwood Mysteries

Media: TV

Approximate length: 54 episodes (each 90 minutes long)

Where is it found?: The show originates in New Zealand but has been pretty widely exported, so you should be able to find it streaming in various places, plus there are DVD releases for regions 1, 2 and 4.

Elevator pitch of what it's about: Often compared tonally to a New Zealand-based Midsomer Murders, the show follows a trio of police detectives based in Brokenwood, a small, largely rural town with some quirky residents and an implausibly high murder rate. It's a relatively light-hearted show with a lot of humour, but still stays grounded enough for some engaging mysteries and occasional higher-stakes drama.

Content warnings: About what you'd expect for the less gritty variety of police procedural: lots of murder, some moderately gory deaths, and individual cases that touch on elements like suicide and sexual abuse but not usually graphically depicted.

What do you love about it?: Aside from the humour and endearing main characters, one thing that sets Brokenwood apart is the large cast of recurring characters who keep popping up across different cases. Given the small town setting, whenever a lawyer or doctor or the local business owners get involved it's the same set of faces, and even minor characters from past episodes can show up again years later. A former suspect from one case might turn up as a witness or family member of a victim in another, or wind up in a new job or relationship after their last one imploded from the fallout of a previous investigation. It gives what's otherwise an episodic show a sense of continuity and very lived-in feel, as well as a rich cast of established characters and relationships to draw on for fanworks.

What kind of themes would you request for it?: All sorts of things! The tone of the show encompasses anything from light-hearted comedy capers to darker, more dangerous cases, and while the canon investigations mainly focus on murders, Brokenwood's limited police resources mean there's plenty of scope for the main characters to get involved in other types of cases. The various recurring characters among the townsfolk also get mixed up in all kinds of shady shenanigans that could make for some fun possibilities for less police-focused mysteries.