Challenge #8 - In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for a beloved character, relationship or fandom.

Ack, so this is kind of late (I was hoping to do one of these per day, and this took me three days to write!), but since I am a pinch hit in fffx, I thought it would be nice to write some canon promos for some of the more niche canons I'm requesting. For this exchange, the fandoms I was requesting were: Bravely Default (canon promo already written); Kingdom Hearts; Pinocchio (canon promo already written); Soulcalibur; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Star Trek: Discovery; and Trials of Mana. Of those, Kingdom Hearts and the Star Trek shows are already pretty popular fandoms and they're also huge/sprawling canons, so I don't think writing a promo to encourage people to pick them up for my pinch hit really makes sense. So that just left Soulcalibur and Trials of Mana. It took me a really long time, but these are now up over here: Soulcalibur promo (2613 words) and Trials of Mana promo (1776 words)

My pinch hit has apparently already been claimed, though, so once again I am too late with these Snowflake Challenges!! Ah well, I assume canon promos are those kinds of things that have long-term payoff rather than short-term payoff, so it's nice to have these up for the future.

Crossposting from Tumblr, but here is my Visions of Mana review:

( Non-spoilery thoughts )
( Spoilery thoughts )

And here's my fannish update post.

• The main exciting thing is that a new Mana series game has been announced -- Visions of Mana! *_* Here's the announce trailer:



I'm sososo excited about this. It's been so long since a mainline Mana game has been released, and HACCAN's character design is very fitting for the series. The producer for the series announced quite a while ago that a new Mana game was in development, but then we didn't hear anything for, like, two years? So I was starting to lose hope a bit lol. But I'm so glad about this! :D

( Exchange updates )
( Reading updates )
( hbomberguy video )

And here's another one, also about Encanto and also very disorganized but hey. I was having difficulty finishing up fic and art projects so writing essays and finishing them off is giving me a mood boost.

( The Encanto setup )

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You can suggest topics for future posts for this meme over here.

There's nothing like December to make one panic about deadlines and having things squared away for the holidays and making sure the things you said would get done this year actually got done this year. Anyway, I'll talk about that more in another post, but for now, I'm keeping this post simple.

Back in January, hamsterwoman issued a challenge for snowflake_challenge to make up and/or fill out a 30-day fandom meme for a favorite fandom. It took me a while but I made ones for the Mana fandom (one for the general Mana series and one for Trials of Mana specifically), and I've been answering them throughout December and have been having fun seeing people's answers on Discord/Twitter/Tumblr.

If anyone on my flist is familiar with these games, feel free to do these:

( Graphics and text list of questions under the cut )

I've been doing them on my Tumblr under #30 days of mana and #30 days of trials of mana. But I'll probably crosspost my answers here at the end of the month (I say, optimistically adding yet another thing that has to happen beginning of January to my to-do list).

My Press Start / press_start_comm recs (note: this is very much biased toward the particular set of games I'm familiar with and interested in):

( Dance Dance Revolution; Final Fantasy VI, X, and Tactics; Trials of Mana )