Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom)
Now that nominations are done and sign-ups are just on the horizon, here's a post where you can advertise your fandoms to the rest of yuletide. Tell us about your fandom(s) and link to sources you think will help a new fan interested in checking it out or an old fan looking for canon refreshing. And if you're looking for new (or old but forgotten) fandoms
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Category: Movies
Comments: A strange and wonderful expressionist silent film about a young writer who takes a job writing stories about the wax figurines at a carnival. The short film (less than 90 minutes!) goes into the worlds of each of his three stories. It features gorgeous stylized sets and some of the best actors of the time, including Emil Jannings playing Harun al-Raschid and Conrad Veidt playing Ivan the Terrible.
Links: You can watch the whole thing here!
Fandom: Scarlet House - Angela Carter
Category: Books and Literature
Comments: An eerie and utterly haunting short story by Angela Carter, better known as the author of The Bloody Chamber and The Magic Toyshop among other works of gothic-tinted magical realism. "The Scarlet House" is told by an unnamed narrator fighting to save herself from a chaos obsessed count trying to remake the world according to the structure of a tarot set. Warning for sexual and physical violence, though that's sort of to be expected with Carter.
Links: Can be found in Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories or A Book of Contemporary Nightmares.
Fandom: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue - Dukas/Maeterlinck
Category: Theater
Comments: Impressionist opera based on Maeterlinck (famous for the libretto to Pelleas et Melisande)'s play of the same name. Really interesting Bluebeard variant, incorporating motifs from the story of Ariadne and dealing with Bluebeard's previous wives in a really unusual and fascinating way.
Links: You can sample some of the music here, and read a synopsis and other information here.
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