Yuletide nominations!

[rachelmanija]

The list of currently nominated fandoms is up here. It closes at 9:00 PM, USA Eastern Standard Time.

If you are planning to participate, what are you thinking about requesting?

I am thinking about Marjorie Liu's "Dirk and Steele" series, Willo Davis Roberts The Girl with Silver Eyes (now there's a novel that begged for a sequel), George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" series, my perennial request for Diane Duane's "Door" series, my other perennial request for Modesty Blaise, and the Carter and Grammar song "The Mountain." Last year I wrote a story based on the Carter and Grammar song "The Disappearing Man," and I think that anyone who would even offer "The Mountain" could probably write something good. (Click the tags for more details on the stuff I mentioned here - I recommend it all.)

Note: I know that many of you hate fanfic, hate Yuletide, hate AO3, hate the (bizarre) new rules on determining what constitutes a rare fandom, etc. This is not the post to say so.

Comments

[thuviaptarth]

If anyone has an open spot, it would be nice if they offered Svetlana Chmakova's awesome Nightschool comics.

*blinks hopefully*

[cofax7]

I don't do Yuletide, but I would love to see the following requested:

Dorothy Dunnett -- the Johnson Johnson series

Kate Ross -- Julian Kestrel series

Any of Madeleine Brent's Gothic romance/mysteries, which I loved when I was younger.

[lferion]

Oh, 'Disappearing Man' is cool. I shall have to go look for that story! And I considered 'The Mountain' as a nomination myself. I would totally offer to write it.

[rachelmanija]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/32313

[ambyr]

If you like Disappearing Man, there's a fabulous LotR fanvid for it that I think thefourthvine linked to a while back.

I have not read The Girl with Silver Eyes in forever, but I do remember it being fairly awesome! And having a rather abrupt ending.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

My nominations:

1. Brick
2. Rome
3. Sevenwaters Trilogy
4. The Tudors
5. Perfect Creature
6. Twin Peaks

I also wanted to nominate Pillars of the Earth (the miniseries) but I ran out of nominations. I wish there was some way to cross-check your noms against other peoples' so that you could tell which ones needed to be nominated and which ones were covered by other people.

[thecityofdis.livejournal.com]

I am saddened by this post. There are people who... don't love... Yuletide? Idk what the world is coming to. ;_;

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Are you playing this year???

PS. I said hi to Holly for you! She sent you her love.

[thecityofdis.livejournal.com]

Probably not, but I always love reading the goodies that come out of it... I am still on the fence about competing in Nano. I'm committed to a couple of writing projects already and I'm going to be dealing with family crud in November that will probably make life exceedingly painful.

I really, really hope somebody writes for Lost Girl though. I am so into that show it should be a crime.

Also ♥ you're the greatest, and so is Holly. (I can too pluralize absolutes! Watch me!)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am now in my annual waffly stage of deciding whether to do it or not. One one hand, I'd really like to work on something original. On the other hand, I need the enforced deadline to produce actual work. Argh!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I guess the question is, do you think doing Yuletide will prevent you from doing original work that you otherwise would have done in the same time period?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

...that you otherwise would have done in the same time period

is the kicker here, I think. If, instead of Yuletide, I sign up for NaNoWriMo and stick to it, which isn't a given, yes. Otherwise, probably not, because I have serious problems with motivation unless I have an externally-imposed deadline.

OTOH, I also have craft and art projects and work for two conventions that I also have to do during this time period. ARGH.

At any rate, I shall not make my decision today, when I'm feeling jet-lagged.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'ma sign up for htis for the first time ever, I think :)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yesss! Welcome to Yuletide; you have been assimilated.

What did you nominate?

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet! I can't find the way to do it lol.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Follow the instructions here. http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/nominations/nominate_fandoms.cgi

You only have four hours!

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

Here are my recs

Aeon Flux (cartoon)
Amadeus BECAUSE WHY IS THERE NO MOZART/SALIERI SLASH OUT THERE NO MATTER HOW HARD I LOOK WTH woops was that my outside voice? ;)
Girly (comic)
Mai-Otome (anime)
Simoun (anime)
Trigun (anime or manga)

[larryhammer]

I currently plan to request Journey to the West, the Kokinshu, and a third-round draft pick to be announced later. But that's entirely subject to change. Especially if someone nominates The Pillow Book, as I neglected to on the assumption that surely it had been.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I believe you can go in and revise ...

[zdenka]

One thing I nominated (and am thinking about requesting) is Walter Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. I wish more people would read it, and I would love to read something more set in that universe.

I did Yuletide for the first time last year. It was both wonderful and terrifying, but with the good predominating.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

That's a really neat title. I'm gonna look it up :)

[zdenka]

Yay!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I plan to request:
Mercedes Lackey, Last Heralds.
Mercedes Lackey, Elemental Mages verse
LJ Smith Night World
Weiss, if it comes in (it's dead imo)
and some other ones wot I have forgotten.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I have been doing a Lackey reread and would loooooove to see some good Heralds fic.

(It's interesting reading the Vanyel books as an adult who ate them up like ice cream as a teenager. I found myself laughing my ass off at a particular bit where Stephen was being gently rejected by Vanyel and he literally had a single tear tracking down his face, turned silver by the flickering candlelight!!!!... and at the same time I was remembering with great fondness being thirteen and hoping to hell that the two would get together and be, y'know, happy and stuff.)

[skygiants]

I am probably requesting Twelve Kingdoms, Pumpkin Scissors, and Laurence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea books. I'm currently waffling on whether to save my last request for one of many many Diana Wynne Jones fics I would still like to see written, or, having received excellent DWJ fic the past three years, using it for something else and requesting no Diana Wynne Jones at all (a very strange concept for me.)

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Did they complicate the rules even more, beyond the 'AO3 defines fandom' bit?

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

YUUUUUUUUUULETIDE.

I nominated A WHOLE BUNCH OF SHAKESPEARE (All's Well that Ends Well, the perennial Richard II nomination) AND MEDIEVAL LIT. Because that is what I do. Also 16th/17th-c RPF, because I want someone to write me fic where Ben Jonson and John Donne drink beer and talk about poetry and religion (PLAUSIBLE OR NOT.)

Also, Chaucer Hath a Blog. Because WHY THE HELL NOT, IT WOULD BE AWESOME.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

The search: martin "thousand worlds" turns up nothing in Amazon—have any titles?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

These are collected in various editions: try Dreamsongs (two volumes), A Song for Lya, Sandkings, Portraits of My Children, Nightflyers, etc.

My favorite stories are “The Stone City,” the ultimate “romance of space” story with its perfect last line, “A Song for Lya” for its doomed romance and emotional intensity and weird yet plausible culture, “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr” for more doomed romance and fairytale imagery, “The Glass Flower” for a plausible happy ending for once, and “Sandkings” for worldbuilding, structure, and (creepy) intensity.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! As it turns out, I have "Dreamsongs" on my Kindle.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really hope someone does write some fic for "The Mountain"! (I as usual am trying just to keep up on my thesis work while not dying, and can't face writing fiction as well.)

[janni.livejournal.com]

I'm debating. There are (mostly pd) things I want to request, but I'm not feeling at all confident I'm going to decide I have the time to follow through, though what deadlines my life will have in it is something that's still up in the air right now.

Icelandic sagas (there's a surprise!), various Shakespeare plays, and the Iliad all come to mind.

[chomiji]

I had brunch just the other day with someone who was into Icelandic sagas. I think she may be participating in Yuletide too ... .

[janni.livejournal.com]

There's ... a lot of room for fanfic there!

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

Well, I LOVE fanfic, I LOVE Yuletide, adore AO3...and keep looking quizzically at the new rules about rarity, like a dog with her ears stuck out, tilting her head to the side.

But anyway.

I have NO IDEA what to request. I want to request Tiffany Aching-related fic, as usual, but most of the Discworld fanfic veers toward the characters in the adult novels, and I fear I'd be wasting a request. I'll probably tilt at the windmill anyhow.

Maybe The Tempest. Probably some Child Ballads. Maybe a really obscure fairy tale or two.

Definitely Early Edition, because I think most people who know me well would pass out from shock if I didn't. Also because the love never dies, and if I can get a dose of Marissa Clark being awesome, my year will be made. :)

I'm a little worried that this may be my last Yuletide for a couple of years, depends on how my MFA program goes.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I just put in the Tempest and the Child ballads. Along with some sagas, the Mabinogion, and, just for fun, Beowulf.

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

We had this long discussion last year about how to put in the Child Ballads, and I'm glad they're back this year. Love and murder and magic and tragedy--what's not to like? :)

I haven't read the Maginogion since college, but oh, that would be AWESOME. And my sister's dissertation is all about The Tempest and adaptation, so I kind of have Miranda and Sycorax on the brain. :)

I hope you have time to do it this year--and if not, I'm sure there will be plenty to read!

[janni.livejournal.com]

Love and murder and magic and tragedy--what's not to like? :)

Besides which, there can never be too many takes on Tam Lin. :-)

I've been wanting to do a Miranda novel for years, though nothing has quite fully taken hold yet.

[sovay]

and the Carter and Grammar song "The Mountain."

I approve of that very much. "The Mountain" is the song from that album that stole up on me.