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

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Walking and Talking / Sally Lockhart / Round About Five

[innie_darling]

Walking and Talking: A Nicole Holofcener film about two women living in New York City who have been best friends from childhood and who, now that one has moved in with her boyfriend, still call each other ten times a day. Amelia (Catherine Keener) is the one who's still single and is good friends with the oddest of her exes, Andrew (Liev Schreiber); Laura (Anne Heche) just got engaged to Frank (Todd Field). That engagement shifts the dynamics of all of the relationships, particularly the bond between Amelia and Laura. It's adorable and the main friendship really rings true - it's complicated and a push-pull. Featuring Kevin Corrigan (Professor Professorson from Community) as the video-store clerk Amelia hooks up with.

Sally Lockhart series - Philip Pullman: Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart was a character featured in a Victorian trilogy, but what I nominated was the fourth book in the loose series, in which Sally appears for about five minutes - the main characters are two holdovers from the trilogy (Jim Taylor and Adelaide Bevan