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.

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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:

<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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The Red Strings Club (Video Game)

[hekateras]

Title:
The Red Strings Club

Media:
Video game

Where to find it:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/589780/The_Red_Strings_Club/
Full playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlnrT7omr0 (~3 hours)

What is it, in summary?:
Story-driven mixed-genre indie game about a bartender, his boyfriend, and an android in a cyberpunk city, and their quest to stop a megacorporation from potentially permanently compromising free will. Expect many dialogue trees on the nature of happiness, free will, ethics, and manipulation.

What do you love about it?:
It's just one very emotionally and intellectually satisfying gutpunchy whole. Everything from the art style to the questions it asks and the way it asks them, the way it plays with the interactive medium and... this is one of those stories that is both in the Videogames As High Art hall of fame for me and would have been less impactful if it had been told in any other form.

Likely to request for Casefic Ex:
The canon is all about investigating a mystery and I'd love for more of the same. But some pre-canon heistfic featuring Brandeis breaking into places with Donovan's assistance would be fantastic too!

Content warnings (for example: rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Several incidents of on-screen violence/death, suicide