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caseficexchangeWith 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:
You can copy/paste from here:
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.
You can copy/paste from here:
The Brokenwood Mysteries (TV)
Date: 2026-01-28 10:48 pm (UTC)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.
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - John Le Carré (Novel)
Date: 2026-01-29 02:19 am (UTC)Media: Novel
Approximate length: 165k/11hrs reading time; abridged audiobooks run about 3hrs
Where is it found?: Your local library will absolutely have a copy. Several free audiobook versions are on youtube, along with the The BBC mini-series, which is a fair and faithful adaptation & about 300mins long.
Elevator pitch of what it's about: George Smiley is booted from the Circus (MI5, basically), following a botched operation and international scandal. When there's a mole suspected within the Circus, he's the only one above suspicion enough to investigate. It's a British Cold War era spy drama with canonical queers!
Content warnings: Mentions of torture, but not graphic as I recall. Mentions of gun violence and executions, but the book is more about investigations and most action is being recounted to Smiley.
What do you love about it?: I could write an essay, but I think for most people the appeal is Jim Prideaux, who's not really a main character, but sits at the crux of the entire plot. He's so damn compelling! If you've seen the 2011 film, the novel is gayer and more explicit about Jim's homosexual dalliance, though they use the language of the era. The relationship that makes Jim so central to the plot is incredibly romantic, and the plot gets so, so tragic about it. Also the line "We're all entitled to being a little pink at that age."
What kind of themes would you request for it?: All the spy tropes! All the Cold War tropes! There's a blatant through line of betrayal in the story, cover identites and networks of agents, and I think these themes would make for a great fic!
ROUNDERS (Movie)
Date: 2026-01-29 02:24 am (UTC)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.
ファミコン探偵倶楽部 | Famicom Tantei Club | Famicom Detective Club (Visual Novels)
Date: 2026-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)Media: Video Game
Approximate length: 29½ hours for full playthroughs of all 3 games (13 hours for Smio the asmiling man, which is standalone and arguably the best)
Where is it found?: Nintendo e shop/ wherever you get your games!
Elevator pitch of what it's about: It's a (so far) 3 game series consisting of investigations. Casefic the game, basically!
Content warnings: murder, blood, light violence
What do you love about it?: I love the mysteries, but I also just adore the characters. Especially shunsuke utsugi!
What kind of themes would you request for it?: honestly, whatever my person would want to do! My favourite is kidnapping/ trying to save utusgi, but again, everything is so good!
City Hunter (Anime)
Date: 2026-01-29 04:09 am (UTC)Media:
Approximate length: 21.5 hours for a full watch of season 1, just over 2 hours for episodes 1-5
Where is it found?: crunchy roll (USA only I think, but vpns work!)
Elevator pitch of what it's about: Ryo Saeba is a Sweeper, someone who solves problems for money. His partner at first is Hideyuki Makimura, but after he dies in episode 5, his partner becomes Hideyuki's sister, Kaori
Content warnings: sexual humour, violence
What do you love about it?: I love the whole 80s vibe, and how it can switch from silly tonserioud at the drop of s hat. And it works so well for any kind of heist, investigation etc!
What kind of themes would you request for it?: Anything dkth Hideyuki, really. For someone who was in the show for so short. I just latched onto him. No matter if it's solving his murderer, or an AU where he survives, I'd love more content with him!