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: Books & Literature
Comments: Scrawny, naive Henry has transcendent talent as a baseball player, but can't quite fit in at college. Then on one fateful evening he makes a bad throw and puts one of his teammates in the hospital. The fallout from that one throw sends him into a tailspin and changes the lives of his friends forever.
Even though three of the five main characters are on the college baseball team, this is far from being "a baseball novel" (I was 3/4 of the way through before I figured out what a shortstop was) and has as much literature geekery as sports (the entire campus is a little obsessed with Moby-Dick, possibly just so they can wear t-shirts saying "Westish College - Our dick is bigger than yours"). It also has a canonical interracial agegap gay relationship, which is both endearing and a clear attempt to win at shipping bingo ( ... )
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