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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.

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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.

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Ludwig (TV)

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Title: Ludwig

Media: TV

Approximate length: 6 hour-long episodes

Where is it found?: It's a UK TV series from 2024, currently available on BBC iPlayer and BritBox.

Elevator pitch of what it's about: It's a comedy drama where David Mitchell plays John Taylor, a reclusive puzzle and crossword creator who publishes his work under the pseudonym 'Ludwig'. His twin brother James, a police detective, has gone missing, and sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin) asks John to briefly impersonate him to fetch some notes about what he was working on from the police station. Of course, that's swiftly complicated by the fact that James's colleagues expect him to help solve crimes, and that the notes about James's investigations are in code...

Content warnings: This is mostly on the lighter side as detective dramas go, but it does concern murder investigations, so a certain amount of on-screen blood and the like.

What do you love about it?: It's a delightful series! The cast are all charming and it's funny and lighter in tone compared to some more serious detective dramas, but at the same time the low-key police corruption thriller and mystery of James's disappearance going on in the background adds a bit of complexity to the character dynamics and the potential for some darker undercurrents than in a typical cosy crime series. John makes a very likeable lead, awkward with people and always feeling like he's in the shadow of his more capable twin, but fundamentally very sweet and willing to do anything for his more recklessly impulsive sister-in-law. The series draws a lot of comparisons to Jonathan Creek, both tonally and because the mysteries are often more about John using his puzzle-solving skills to figure out how something could have been done than necessarily just whodunnit.

What kind of themes would you request for it?: While the police work John gets caught up in generally involves murder investigations, the tone of the show gives a lot of flexibility for stories ranging from lighthearted comedy drama to darker and more serious cases. There's also the side investigation John is pursuing with his sister-in-law about what James was looking into and why he's gone on the run. On top of that, the setup gives plenty of potential for interesting character dynamics between John's complex relationship with Lucy, who was his childhood best friend before ultimately marrying his twin, his navigating getting to know his police colleagues when he's socially awkward, pretending to be someone he's not and doesn't know who he can trust, and the shadow of James and his disappearance hanging over everything.