Canon promo post.

[casemod]

Our tagset is looking devious with megafandoms and rare fandoms. 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:

<b>Title:</b> <B>Media:</b> <B>Approximate length:</b> <B>Where is it found?:</b> <b>Elevator pitch of what it's about:</b> <B>Content warnings:</b> <B>What do you love about it?:</b> <B>What kind of themes would you request for it?:</b>

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Watchmen (Comic)

[hekateras]

You've heard about it. You've seen the memes and the catchphrases. Yeah, yeah, you're not locked in with them, they're locked in with you, et cetera. Very edgy. Possibly so edgy that you've always dismissed it.

But did you know that Watchmen is also REALLY REALLY GOOD?

Title
Watchmen

Media
Comic

What is it, in summary
In an alternate history 1980s USA where one (1) genuinely super-powered superhero emerged and led to escalations in the Cold War, vigilantism is now illegal. Fortunately, the very angry and utterly sane vigilante Rorschach never quit, and when one of his old colleagues turns up dead, he starts digging.

What do you love about it?
It's a very tightly-written, compelling gritty superhero story (in some ways, it is the original "gritty" superhero story) that's a genuinely good mystery and a thoughtful examination of both the personal and social struggles of capes, compromise, morality and the greater good. The characters are delightfully flawed and messed up in very human ways, and with one extremely noteworthy exception, everyone on the cast is a Badass Normal with no supernatural abilities to speak of. But there's one reason it still stands head and shoulders above other "gritty" superhero media even today: It is incredibly hopeful in terms of what it says about humanity, and that feels so rare in the "darker" superhero stories. It also has one of my favourite depictions of a nihilistic character finding something to believe in. Oh, and the visuals are a treat.

Likely to request for Casefic Ex:
I would love more vigilante investigative stuff featuring Rorschach and Nite Owl, shippy or not, probably pre-canon. Solo Rorschach (or maybe focusing on their drifting apart) would also be great.

Content warnings
Violence ahoy. Murder, sexual assault, homophobia, child abuse (including death of children), mass deaths, heavy themes.

And one last thing...
There is a Zack Snyder movie adaptation. IMHO it's very faithful but misses the mark in some crucial ways and ultimately lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, but the five-minute intro sequence does a fantastic job of conveying the mood of the comic. You can watch it here!.