The Small Fandom and Rare Pairing/Rarely-Written Character Promote-a-thon!

[icepixie]

Welcome to the Small Fandom and Rare Pairing/Rarely-Written Character Promote-a-thon!

You know the glow of, "I never knew I needed fic for that, but now I do and there it is and this is awesome!" you get from Yuletide? Or the sweet, sweet triumph of finally finding something for that insanely rare pairing on page fifty-four of the Google results for their names?

This meme aims to amplify that, and, for writers/vidders/artists, take away that sad, lonely feeling you get when you realize there's nowhere to post your creation for a tiny fandom besides your own journal.

Here's How This Is Gonna Work
Comment here with links to any rare fandoms/characters/pairings you've created stuff for and want to pimp! This is not just for fanfic; vids, art, even, I don't know, embroidery or cake decorating or things like that are welcome. If you made it and it's rare, link to it.

As a general guideline for "rare," I would say something is rare if there are fewer than 50ish works out on the intarwebs, but I don't want to be the police here, so use your best judgment. If it's something you've hunted for to the bitter end of a search engine's results, or you've read everything three times now, go for it. Long or short, old or new, G or NC-17, single fandom or crossover, all are welcome.

Though this meme emphasizes works that haven't been posted all over or received a lot of attention, if you want to promote a Yuletide fic you wrote or something similar, that's perfectly fine.

And if you find that fic or vid or art of your dreams, I also encourage you to give the creator some feedback!

Requests
Requests for rare things you'd like to see are welcome too! If you're dying for, say, The Phantom Tollbooth fic and don't know where to find it, comment with "Request: The Phantom Tollbooth" in your subject line.

Promotion!
Please link to this meme! I would love to see as many tiny fandoms and rarepairs/rarely-written characters on here as possible. And come on, you know you're hoping this reaches that one person who wrote fic for that Squonk Opera show you saw years ago.

Comments

Request: Dream Park?

[graycardinal]

I've just been rereading the series of Larry Niven/Steve Barnes novels that starts with Dream Park -- it turns out that after umpty-mumble years they're doing another book. So while I wait for The Moon Maze Game to come out, can anyone point me at fanfic set in the Dream Park universe?

Precis For the un-initiated:

In the final years of the 20th century, the Big Earthquake happened, dropping a large slice of the California coast into the Pacific. Amazingly, this did not cause the collapse of civilization as we know it; indeed, by the 2040s things look pretty good, and at least to a degree, the geeks appear to have inherited the Earth. Now southern California's premier entertainment destination is Dream Park, where players and Game Masters come together to participate in high-tech live-action role-playing adventures...and if they play well enough, they can make serious money on the media rights. But that's not all Cowles Industries, owner of Dream Park, is up to; they're also involved in business and political deals that may just reshape the real world, too.

Dream Park is the story of the South Seas Treasure Game, involving real-life murder, corporate espionage, and what might be the largest treasure ever included in a role-playing epic, real or fictional. [Those of you who've read the book may snicker now.] The Barsoom Project is the story of the second Fimbulwinter Game, where some Gamers are playing for their health, some are playing for their sanity, and some are playing for the opportunity to terraform Mars. And The California Voodoo Game is the story of what happens when really experienced Gamers start thinking outside the box (and the Game map), with varying degrees of good and evil intent.

This being a Niven series, both the tech and the gaming logistics are worked out in impressively logical depth. This being a Barnes series, the action/adventure quotient is impressively high. And this being a series about game-geeks, there's a cheerfully wicked sense of the absurd in play at all the right moments. (Dream Park was written before LARP campaigns were really popular...and got the idea right enough that readers created a real International Fantasy Gaming Society spun off from the books.)