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.

Please try to avoid linking images. Feel free to chat about the canons if something catches your eye and you'd like to know more! (Please try to stay anonymous regarding what you may be trying to match to in our sign-ups.)

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.

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ROUNDERS (Movie)

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Title: Rounders (1998)

Media: Film

Approximate length: 121min

Where is it found?: It's free on both Kanopy and Hoopla if your library offers those services!

Elevator pitch of what it's about: Mike loses $30k on poker and decides to go straight. Then his childhood friend Worm gets out of jail. Mike tries to help Worm get back on his feet, only to remember just how good — and how bad — it feels to run schemes with him. Things get messy when Mike finds out just how deep in the hole Worm is. Famously the movie thay popularized poker as more than a niche interest!

Content warnings: Everyone gets beat up a lot, gambling is central to the film, there's hookers and drugs but no explicit nudity, I'm certain someone says fag at some point

What do you love about it?: Oh that toxic friendship!! Worm is a black hole and Mike is pissed about it but Worm would literally die for him, and how do you put that kind of bond behind you? It's also a fun movie in general and John Malkovich hams it up, but to me the most compelling thing abt the movie is that push-pull, tar-sticky, fucked up relationship between Mike and Worm.

What kind of themes would you request for it?: It's a gambling movie, and the characters move between illegal gambling dens, so any crime-adjacent type casefic would work. Personally, since [spoilers] the boys split at the end of the film, I'm interested in "missing" persons type fic where they try to find each other again, or at least find out what happened to each other.