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.

[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. ;_;

[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!

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.