It's Yuletide!

[rachelmanija]

Yuletide nominations are open now! Nominate your favorite obscure canons via yuletide_admin!

This year we get to nominate four fandoms with four characters each. FF.net no longer counts toward eligibility, so some older fandoms are now eligible again.

I have nominated Mary Stolz's Cat in the Mirror, Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Mary Dove, Mr. Rafiel, and Miss Marple), and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles.

What are you nominating for Yuletide?

Comments

[nestra]

Throughout the year, I have occasional thoughts about what to nominate, except for late September, when everything I've watched and read disappears.

[yhlee]

Oh gosh, I will be so curious as to any hypothetical Iron Dragon's Daughter fic.

[sovay]

Oh gosh, I will be so curious as to any hypothetical Iron Dragon's Daughter fic.

+1.

[rachelmanija]

I wrote one for Yuletide once!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21353716

[genarti]

Oooh, The Cat in the Mirror is a great call! That's a book that deeply cries out for some extra glimpses of epilogue, I think.

I think I'm planning to nominate Tale of the Nine-Tailed: 1938. Beyond that, not really sure. I need to stare at my books-I've-read lists and past nominations and ponder what's calling to my heart this year (and what I think is likely to be nominated by others, though of course that's always a bit of a gamble).

[rachelmanija]

I do indeed plan to ask for post-book fic.

[athenejen]

Yuletide! I'm so excited. I've nominated 3 Chinese dramas in 3 very different genres (Falling Into Your Smile is an e-sports drama, Tomb of the Sea is ambiguously weirdshit modern tomb exploration adventure, and Legend of Fei is classic wuxia shenanigams) and a Korean idol group competition show called Peak Time. And I'm crossing my fingers someone else will nominate Chihayafuru (sports anime about the 100 Poets card game).

[rachelmanija]

Yay!

[cahn]

AHHHH thank you for the reminder, I forgot I hadn't nominated yet!

Lucy Eyelesbarrow!! Mr. Rafiel! :DD

I feel like I read The Iron Dragon's Daughter as a teenager but I remember absolutely nothing about it... I should read it again!

[rachelmanija]

You should! I'd love to discuss it with you.

[greenwoodside]

Thanks for the reminder! Have put my nominations in.

[greenwoodside]

Chronicles of Prydain; Mabinogion; Neverwinter Nights 2; Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (book).

[rachelmanija]

Excellent choices.

[carbonel]

I am currently reading Cat in the Mirror! Just got to the point where it switches from modern time to the past.

I had read a bunch of Stoltz books when I was in high school, but this one was published in 1975, the year after I graduated, so that explains why it was new to me.

I'm planning on nominating the Calpurnia Tate series by Jacqueline Kelly, even though I've only read the first one so far. Also probably my recurring nominations of Nina Kiriki Hoffman's Chapel Hollow books and Zenna Henderson's People stories.

[rachelmanija]

Yay!

[ellen_fremedon]

Ooh, I'm very excited about potential Lucy Eyelesbarrow and/or Mary Dove fic!

I've nominated Les Enfants du Paradis (1945 film), Hernani (French Romantic play), Mademoiselle de Maupin (French Romantic novel), and Les Misérables: Owarinaki Tabiji (2017 J-drama).

[mildred_of_midgard]

I am nominating my usual: 18th century RPF, 3rd century CE RPF, and Cryptonomicon. Because we're allowed 4 fandoms, I've nominated 2 18th century RPF groups: Frederick the Great, and the Medici.

I am debating whether I want to sign up: December is the worst month for writing fanfic for me, since that's the lightest work at month, and therefore I keep trying to use it for fixing my back pain, which messes up my sleep (which is why I save it for my light month at work), which means I'm too sleep-deprived to write.

If only I didn't have back pain, December would be the best month to write, being the lightest month at work!

[larryhammer]

That extra 4th nom made my choice easier, as I was waffling between two. My final list is the Ballad of Mulan (because of course), Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Lyke-Wake Dirge, and Eliot's The Waste Land. So no Chinese ghost poems this year, but there's two I want to toss in the pot next time.