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

Fic Recs!

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm kind of late to the game because I kept forgetting about this entry, even though I added it to my memories and everything! Now, though, to make up for it I'll start you off with some small fandom fic recs. :)

Dead Zone
Rather than post all of the links separately, I'm sending those interested parties here (http://community.livejournal.com/deadzonefic/2980.html), to a very handy Dead Zone Fiction Master List I ran across several years ago. I've probably read at least 70% of the stories listed there, and I've never been disappointed. Some of my personal favorites are Dirigo, The Big Picture, and A Vision in Scarlet

Two more favorites that aren't listed there as far as I can tell are:
* What It Seems (http://www.trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Seems.html), an AU in which *Sarah* is the one who went into the coma and left Johnny behind to be comforted by Walt
* Like Minds (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/angel_likeminds.html), an Angel/Dead Zone crossover where Cordelia runs into Johnny at a hotel bar. This one is probably my favorite Dead Zone story of all time, and it ranks in the Top Five for favorite fan fiction of all time... it is just that good.

Forever Knight
My Evil Twin is a Vampire! (http://www.fkfanfic.com/fanfic/m/myev1943.txt) And yes, it is pretty much just as much fun as it sounds, even if the original seems to have disappeared into catacombs of the World Wide Web and the above link goes to a kind of annoyingly formatted text copy. Still totally worth it, though.

Pretender
Chasing Cars (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/23/chasingcars.html)
Fedayee (http://elliottsilver.tripod.com/jarod45.htm)
Long Way Home (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/pretender_longway.html)
Little Girl Lost (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/lgl/)

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Garden in the Punjab (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/34858)
Silently Beloved (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3297685/1/Silently_Beloved%22)
Looking Onto Spring (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/28/lookingon.html)


Big Fandoms, Small Characters

Doctor Who/NCIS - Rebuilding a Life (http://settiai.livejournal.com/1114407.html). Okay, so neither of those particular fandoms are anywhere *near* small, but I figure I can sneak this rec in there as it is centered around a not so common character - Fitz, from the Doctor Who book verse, who gets dumped in DC while the Doctor goes off to fight the Time War.

Stargate Atlantis - Death and the Astrophysicist (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218958/1/). GRODIN FIC! ::hugs it and loves it:: Also, it is part of a series of one shots that can be all read together (all you miss are a few in jokes), though Grodin only features in this one. A few of them do focus on other minor characters, though.


These are just a few of my favorites. If you want more recs from any of the above or some of the bigger fandoms, you are more than welcome to here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?keyword=fan+fic+recs&user=rensong&sortby=des) and choose from the other 300 or so. I am a big of a fic whore. ;)