Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom)

[deliaknows]

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

Comments

[the_con_cept]

Fandom: Road to Morocco
Category: Movies
Comments: IMDB Summary: Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys (Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess (Dorothy Lamour). Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean, are cast away on a desert shore and hop a convenient camel to an Arabian Nights city where Turkey soon finds himself sold as a slave...to luscious Princess Shalmar of Karameesh. Naturally, Jeff would like to rescue Turkey from this "dire" fate, even if it means taking his place! This is the third in "Road to . . ." movies, but I always liked it the best.
Link: Watch the whole thing on Youtube here

Fandom: Stanley Kids Series-by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Catagory: Books & Literature
Comments: A series of books including The Headless Cupid, The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case, Blair's Nightmare and Janie's Private Eyes. The Stanley series focuses on an eccentric family and the various mysteries they encounter. Told from David Stanley's point of view, the books encompass a new teenage stepsister, Amanda, and her adjustment to the family, younger sister Janie's zany antics, stubborn younger sister Esther, the neat twin, and younger brother Blair, the twin with an ability to see ghosts and talk to animals.
Links: TV tropes page. I can't find links to free versions of the actual books, though you can get Blair's Nightmare (my personal favorite) from abebooks.com for a dollar. I think that's even with shipping! Abebooks is an awesome place to find cheap used books, if you're ever in the market!

[infinimato]

Holy cow! I had no idea there was a 4th book in the series!

The Headless Cupid was one of my childhood favorite books. Just awesome!

[the_con_cept]

:D The fourth was really funny. I loved the series a lot as a kid, and I once wrote a fan letter to the author, who was really nice in return.

[rabidsamfan]

Check your local library for the Stanley kids. Some of these are still on the shelves, or you can try interlibrary loan.

[the_con_cept]

That's a good suggestion, thanks!

[hhertzof]

Stanley Kids - These have been on my short list on and off for years and never made it into my nominations. \o/

ETA: The first one is available for preorder on the Nook and Kindle, due out October 23. No sign if or when they'll be releasing the others.

[the_con_cept]

\o/ Yay, I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who likes them!

Thank you for the tip! Not only for Yuletide, but because my copy of Blair's Nightmare is literally falling to pieces. Time to get myself a Kindle copy!