Chromatic Yuletide 2010 Nominations!

[dark_administrator]

If you have nominated one or more fandoms that qualify for our challenge, please list them here! If you would like to brainstorm, urge other people to nominate something you might not have had a slot for, or discuss other aspects of nominations, this is the space to do it.

Do remember that the closer we get to 25th December 2010, the harder it will be for people to learn a new source canon - so this is the best time to try to woo a potential writer over into a TV series or epic 6 volume book canon.

How to Nominate
The nomination form

Nominations close Wednesday, 20th October at 8:59 pm US Eastern time.

Addendum:

With the help of dharmavati, eruthros, and thingswithwings, to whom we owe many thanks, we've been compiling nominated fandoms with chromatic creators and characters from your comments, the Yuletide Nominated Fandoms List, and the Yuletide Characters List in the Chromatic Yuletide 2010 Nominations List spreadsheet (html version).

We've been following titling and tagging conventions from yuletide and AO3 and will need help adding and verifying information, so if you have time and energy to spare, we would appreciate your assistance! The spreadsheet is set so anyone (no Google account needed) can edit, and Google Docs is designed so multiple editors can work on a document simultaneously and all their edits will update. We're currently working through the Yuletide Nominated Fandoms list, and you can check our status under Progress. We have also included a Color Key to explain the highlighted cells.

We're also maintaining a list of Chromatic Yuletide Fandom Promotion Posts here.

Comments

[mjules]

I have nominated Suzanne Brockmann - Troubleshooters, and specifically added Martell Griffin to the list, who is a POV character of color in Force of Nature. Am considering requesting him for fic. (There are two different Troubleshooters fics I want to request.) Would love more Martell awesomeness in the world, so anyone else who might think about requesting Martell... ETA: Also, Ric Alvaredo (who is Martell's best friend) is a POV character of color, in fact the main character of their book. I was so focused on Martell for my request, I almost forgot about Ric.

Have also nominated the Kinks' song "Lola," which implies that Lola is of color (I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said 'Lola').

Also have nominated the Eagles' song "Hotel California" and will be requesting it with an interpretation that is inclusive of the Latino and Native American populations of California, so not exactly a chromatic source in itself, but... room for it exists.

[naraht]

Have also nominated the Kinks' song "Lola," which implies that Lola is of color (I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said 'Lola').

I had never read that line that way (I thought it meant her voice was husky) but I do know that the woman who inspired the song was black. So, food for thought!

[mercredigirl]

I'm not participating, but I'd like to suggest the following:

Static or Static Shock by Dwayne McDuffie.

Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic, and bonus to people who fix her orientalist interpretations of coloured characters.

James Ng's Imperial Steamworks series. -- what? I am a terrible fan of them.

[florahart]

I nominated HawthoRNe, which is a medical drama on TNT starring a largely PoC cast (largely: more than half of what I think is the primary cast, although if you add recurring minor characters, it's more white). I don't know who all the creators are, but I do know that Jada Pinkett Smith is a producer as well as the star. There are at least five consistent female CoC.

I also nominated Royal Pains, which is not to my knowledge created by a PoC but has character Divya Katdare (and Raj, though he is a more minor character). I'm expecting to request fic involving Divya.

[dragonfly]

\o/ Brilliant!

ETA: To clarify, *g* I was squeeing about Royal Pains. I love that show.

[gorgeousnerd]

Here's what I nominated:

-Batman Beyond: Dana Tan and Max Gibson are CoC voiced by actresses of color, and I'll definitely going to request a story with Max as a perspective character.
-Dark Angel: Max is played by Latina actress Jessica Alba, and her friend Original Cindy is a lesbian of color.
-The Fall: Features several secondary CoC.
-The Giver: It's canon that society has been whitewashed in an attempt toward "sameness". While that means there aren't canon CoC (beyond some brief appearances in memories), I'll be requesting a story with a chromatic approach because the novel makes a very strong case for diversity.
-Friends: Two of Ross's exes, Julie and Charlie, are CoC.

[gorgeousnerd]

I also meant to say that on my list of possible fandoms to nominate was Undercovers, the spy show in which the two leads are CoC. For US residents, all four aired episodes are currently on Hulu, so now is a great time to give the show a try.

[yasaman]

I nominated the sitcom Community, which features characters of color Abed (played by Danny Pudi), Troy (played by Don Glover), Shirley (played by Yvette Nicole Brown), and Senor Chang (played by Ken Jeong). The show follows the hilarious adventures of a community college study group, covering everything from class projects to Halloween parties to paintball wars for priority registration. Unlike most sitcoms, it doesn't rely on embarrassment squicky humor, and extra bonus, no laugh track!

Abed is Middle Eastern (of Arabic descent I believe), and he is basically the character who seems to understand that he is in a sitcom, and acts accordingly. Everyone else in the study group thinks he's strange or has Asperger's, but really, he just seems to be living by TV rules. He has a penchant for movie-making, being Batman, running a chicken finger operation, and paintball warfare. I can't hope to encapsulate Abed's awesome in a short comment, but rest assured, he is one of the most hilarious characters on the show.

Troy is African American, and a former high school football star. He strikes up a somewhat unexpected friendship with Abed, and they become BFF over the course of the first season. Troy is a little dim and naive, but he gets into all kinds of hilarious shenanigans with Abed.

Shirley is also African American, and a mom who's returned to school to get a degree after she divorced her husband. She has two kids, is a devoted Christian, and is basically the nicest person in the study group. In fact, her catchphrase is "That's nice!" She doesn't get as many storylines as she perhaps should, though she's certainly never forgotten.

And finally, Senor Chang is the study group's Spanish professor in the first season. He's pretty inept as a Spanish teacher, but he makes up for it by being the most hilarious professor. He's over the top, slightly villainous, and always entertaining.

I plan on making a more thorough and entertaining primer sometime in the next few days, but this is just the bare bones! I'm planning to request fic with Troy/Abed shenanigans because they are endlessly adorable and ridiculous (see just about every episode tag).

[kristin]

Yay community! I love all those characters so much.

[aris_tgd]

I'm definitely going to be nominating the movie K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces, a Japanese steampunk-y movie set in an alternate-universe 1949 Japan.

[eruthros]

Ooh, that sounds awesome! *follows link*

[redsnake05]

I have nominated The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin, which I would love to see done well (as in, better than the translation I have). Also Isabelle Allende's Daughter of Fortune and Polynesian Mythology. I am likely to request at least two of these, though I also nominated Outrageous Fortune (not, so far as I know, written or produced by Maori, but with central, strong Maori characters), and that is pretty tempting.

[scaramouche]

I nominated:

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I just bought the first four seasons on DVD and have fallen in love with the Banks family all over again, but there's no fic despite how well-known the show is.

So Close. This one's a Hong Kong espionage/martials arts film starring Shu Qi, Zhao Wei and Karen Mok as two sisters who work together as professional assassins (Shu Qi and Zhao Wei) who get into a cat-and-mouse game with Karen Mok, a police officer. There's so much backstory to explore between the sisters, how they grew up and decided to do what they do. Other than that there's also delicious chemistry between Zhao Wei and Karen Mok, the later of which who's determined to hunt the sisters down, only things aren't quite as black and white as she thinks they are.

I was going to nominate Big Trouble in Little China, but I saw someone else has done it already. It's an action-adventure/fantasy/comedy film directed by John Carpenter and set in San Francisco Chinatown. Two of the main characters are white, but just about everyone else in the cast is either Asian-American or mainland-China Chinese -- and their stories are begging to be explored.

[hokuton_punch]

I nominated Ninja Assassin (which has CoC for the two main leads, as well as most of the supporting cast), the 2010 Wolfman remake (particularly for Singh and Solana Talbot, but Lawrence and Ben are both biracial), and the Trinity Blood anime (from Japan - has a semi-European setting).

[plazmah]

Thank you for nominating Ninja Assassin! I was going to if no one else had.

[amathela]

I nominated:

Wizards of Waverly Place. Centres around a family of Mexican American and Italian descent; in particular, Alex, Max, and Theresa are all played by chromatic actors.

RPF - The Office. Particularly Mindy Kaling, who is of Indian descent.

Diplomatic Immunity. Features a heavily chromatic cast; notably, Leilani, Jonah, Malepe, and Suga.

[(Anonymous)]

I've nominated these fandoms:

Pasta (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Pasta): A Korean drama about a young woman with chef aspirations and the restaurant she work at.

Remote (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Remote): A Japanese drama about an unlikely duo solving cases.

Good Luck!! (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Good_Luck!!): A Japanese drama about a junior pilot as he faces love, a hard-assed supervisor, hazardous flights and much more.

Norah McClintock's Chloe and Levesque series (http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/norahmcclintock/chloeandlevesque/): A Canadian YA book series about Chloe Yan and her stepfather, who works as a police. Chloe has a Chinese father she's never known and battles through the series with preconceptions about her because of her looks.

Patricia Briggs' Mercy series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercedes_Thompson_Series): Mercy's part Native American.

Ghost Hunt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunt_(light_novel)): A Japanese anime taking place in Japan in which a school girl starts working part time at a firm investigating paranormal activity.

[such_heights]

My nominations include Undercovers, Red Cliff and Transamerica.

Undercovers is a new show (four episodes so far) about hot chromatic married spies Steven and Samantha Bloom. I also really want fic about Samantha's sister Lizzy.

Red Cliff is a Chinese John Woo-directed epic based on the Battle of Red Cliffs in Three Kingdoms-era China. It features a host of fabulous characters who need a lot more fic about them.

In Transamerica, a love of interest of Bree's is Native American, and he's entirely great.

[aldanise]

Red Cliff! I was so happy to see that on the list.

[prettiestwhistles]

I nominated Being Human (tv), in which one of the three main characters is a woman of color. (There are also occasionally non-white minor characters, though not a ton.)

Also, though the books are set in a fantasy realm and human racism is superceded by race relations between humans and giant wolves (yeah), Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series features at least one main CoC (Amara, Countess Calderon), and depending on how you wanted to write it, Kitai the "our elves are different" elf may also qualify. I believe the minor characters Gaelle and Serai are also described as a CoCs, though I haven't reread the source material recently enough to be 100% sure of that.

[aldanise]

Huh. It would be absolutely fascinating to see someone deal with Amara as CoC, since the narrative puts such an emphasis on her appearance being distinctly Parcian in the middle books, and Parcia basically plays no role except when it's being lumped in with the southern regions (Kalare, Forcia), with their serf economies.

[beatrice_otter]

I nominated Donovan's Reef, which is a morality play in the guise of a John Wayne action/romantic comedy. It deals harshly with issues of racial bigotry, corporate connivance and greed, and American beliefs of societal "superiority" and hypocrisy. It was made in the early sixties, so there's still a lot of fail (particularly misogyny), but for its era it was remarkable. Chromatic characters include Leilani, Sally, and Luke Dedham, and most of the background characters. Leilani, Sally, and Luke play Polynesian-American children turned out of their home while their father is gone to live with their "uncle" (John Wayne) so as not to shock their American half-sister visiting from Boston by letting her know of their existence.

[beatrice_otter]

More detailed overview (with pictures!) here.

[bessemerprocess]

I nominated N.K. Jemison - The Effluent Engine which is steampunk, written for Help Haiti, where in the main characters are both women of color who are brilliant, there is awesome use of steampunk-y science and technology, and both New Orelans and Haiti are treated almost as characters themselves.

It's a short story, so you can pick on the canon in about twenty minutes. The Effluent Engine.

[mercredigirl]

I just read this yesterday -- it's a fantastic story, plus its heroines are queer women at that! ^^

[anenko]

I nominated:

Full House, the Korean drama about a famous actor and a struggling writer who end up in a contract marriage after she's swindled out of her house and home by her "best friends." [picspam]

Goth, a Japanese movie about two very disturbed teens who investigate a series of gruesome murders. [picspam]

Hua Mulan, the live action movie. [picspam]

Long Love Letter, a Japanese drama about a small group of students and teachers who are transported to a POST APOCALYPTIC WASTELAND. Most adorable OTP ever. [picspam]

I'm thinking out trading out one of my other nominations in favour of Lady Daddy, a Korean movie about a transwoman who is forced to face her past when the son she never knew she had ends up on her doorstep. [picspam]

I don't have room for it this year, but Sleep Dealer is an awesome Mexican science fiction movie.

The fake movie trailer Jane Austen's Fight Club has a couple of chromatic characters: and

[redsnake05]

I would write for Jane Austen's Fight Club. In an instant.

[lilacsigil]

I nominated:

Undercovers, and I see I'm not alone in that! The two main characters are African-American, though most of the supporting cast is white.

Scott Pilgrim (comic): creator of colour, one major chromatic character, Knives Chau.

Gotham Central: DC universe comic, many chromatic characters. In particular, Renee Montoya, tough detective, semi-out lesbian, alcoholic with anger problems; and Crispus Allen, smart, cool-headed detective investigating corruption both in and out of the police force.

Nana (manga) - intense friendship between two 20-year-olds women, both named Nana, who move to Tokyo.

Ooku (manga) - alternate Edo Period Japan where most men have died from a plague and the women have to cast off their old roles to do everything from working the fields to ruling the nation.

And my write-in nomination, glockgal's "Supernatural", from the Racebending Revenge challenge. I hope it's eligible! It's also just two all-too-short webcomics, so easy to read up on the canon!

[softestbullet]

And my write-in nomination, [personal profile] glockgal * 's "Supernatural"

YES!

[sarashina]

I have nominated the anime series Mushishi and Natsume Yuujinchou, which are made up of entirely Japanese casts of characters.

I've also nominated the FX show Justified, and the character of Rachel Brooks is a CoC.

♥

[sophinisba]

I'm planning to nominate three movies:

-Leonera, an Argentine drama about mothers in prison, includes a relationship between the lead, a light-skinned woman from a middle-class background, and a darker-skinned poor woman.

-Antônia, a Brazilian movie about four young black women who dream of making it big as a hip hop group. This trailer doesn't have subtitles but gives a good idea of what the movie is like.

-Caramel, a Lebanese movie about a group of women who work or hangout at the same beauty salon. One of the supporting characters is probably a lesbian.

All three of these movies were made in their respective countries and the casts are predominantly women of color. The last two are directed by women. All three are available for instant viewing on Netflix, so they should be easy canons for a lot of people to acquire.

Someone has already nominated Treme, David Simon's HBO drama about post-Katrina New Orleans, which I'm planning to request. Simon is white and the cast is mostly pretty evenly split (not just by numbers but by protagonism) between white and African American characters. So far there's just been one season, 13 episodes.

Most of the other fandoms I've had in mind have been nominated already, so I should have two or three extra spaces. Let me know if there's something you want to nom but don't have room for. :)

[misura]

My nominations this year were:

Hustle (TV), a series about a group of con men - think Leverage, except that these guys (and girls) are not for hire and that the series is British. The leader of the group is a character of color, but um there are five (awesome!) seasons with about six (awesome!) episodes each season each of which is about an hour long, so this isn't really a gimme fandom.

Material Girl (TV), another British TV series, about a young fashion designer and character of color setting out by herself. There's only one season right now, and it's been released on DVD, so you can get a hold of the eight episodes in existence relatively easily. In addition to the main character, there's also the Wicked Fashion Queen's (perhaps not so evil) assistant, who seems to be developing an ahem special bond with the main character's best (gay) friend.

Dan Crawford's Cat and Mouse series seems dubious - three books, all starring a character of color, but in a fantasy setting. While her coloring is occasionally commented upon, she's as much of an outsider at the royal court because she's the king's bodyguard as because she's a character of color.

[kristin]

I nominated:

The Wire: Large cast, the majority of which are PoC, not mention smoking hot. Also include queer character of color.

RPF - Hip hop: Janelle Monae, Kanye West etc.

Better Off Ted: This is a zany ensemble comedy about scientists at an (evil) corporation that include a couple PoC (though not nearly enough) scientists in major roles.

Treme: This David Simon show about the aftermath of Katrina is an amazing show. The large cast is diverse, including Khandi Alexander as LaDonna, Wendall Pierce and many others.

[snowynight]

I nominated:
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
an Asian American superhero comics anthology created by Asian Americans of Asian Americans. It deals with the diversified account of Asian American history and life.

Trese (comic): the creator and characters are all Filipino. Awaesome supernatural detective mystery with a strong female protagonist.

[lady_ganesh]

Hooray for Secret Identities!

[jetamors]

Let's see...

Glass Mask is a manga (with several anime adaptations) about Kitajima Maya, a high school student who wants to be an actress. Her mentor pretty much plucks her off the street, because she realizes that Maya may someday be able to play the Crimson Goddess, a legendary character from a legendary stage play. This is a lovely series full of Bechdel passes and complex women with agency; it isn't officially available in English (and probably never will be), but most of it has been scanlated.

Hidden Fortress: Kurosawa fans should know this one :) One of the great chase movies, IMHO, with General Rokurota and Princess Yuki trying to reach safety, along with a few peasants along for the ride. It's a pretty famous movie, so it should be fairly available.

I nominated Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (album), but really I want fiction about the concept (which also includes her previous album): the android Cindi Mayweather, who breaks the law by falling in love with a human. While dodging cyborg bounty hunters, she learns that she may be The One. Monae herself is black, and based on the Many Moons video (and Tightrope, though that's less obviously connected to the mythology), many/most of the characters are of color as well.

Machete is made in the style of a classic grindhouse movie, full of splatter, gore, and cheap fanservice. Unlike its predecessors, though our hero is an undocumented immigrant, fighting against drug lords and hypocritical politicians. This movie has Latino creators (Robert and Álvaro Rodríguez; not sure about Ethan Maniquis), and most of the movie characters are Latin@ as well. It does have a lot of problematic stuff WRT women, but despite that manages to pass a Bechdel test and include female characters with agency and their own motivations.

Samuel R Delany - Triton is a book set several centuries in the future, when humanity has been living all over our solar system for a few generations. Delany is African-American; the main character of the book is white, but many of the other characters are not. I don't know if this book is for everyone (I liked it the same way I like Le Guin's dry worldbuilding novels), but if it's to your taste it has some pretty interesting stuff about race, gender, self-identity, and the impact of culture and history on human nature.

[troisroyaumes]

Oh my gosh, Glass Mask! Yay!

[cinaed]

I nominated several fandoms with awesome PoC:

A Chorus Line is a musical revolving around an ensemble cast that includes: Richie Walters, a gay black man; Connie Wong, an Asian-American woman; Diana Morales, a Puerto Rican dancer; and Paul San Marco, a gay Puerto Rican dancer. There are also PoC friendship-- Paul and Diana are close friends.

Laurence Yep - Chinatown Mysteries series is a YA series set in San Francisco, from the POV of Lily Lew. Her aunt, Tiger Lil, who is famous for being one of the first Chinese-Americans to make it in Hollywood and has a string of classic movies to her name, comes to visit, and they end up embroiled in various mysteries. Pretty much the entire cast are PoC-- the majority are Chinese-American, but there is also a biracial character as well as an Arabic-American. (Warning: reading this series will make you wish the Tiger Lil movie series actually existed.)

Nurse Jackie (tv) is a dark comedy show from the POV of a nurse, Nurse Jackie, working at an ER. While she's white, the main cast includes Mohammed "Mo-Mo" de la Cruz, an awesome gay Arabic-American nurse, and Ms. Gloria Akalitus, the resident nurse in charge of the ER.

[dharmavati]

My noms:

+ China Mieville - Un Lun Dun: YA novel by a white author that feels like a mixture of an updated Phantom Tollbooth (incredibly fun word play and exploration of quirky lands) and Miyazaki's storytelling (awesome female characters, amazing worldbuilding, nightmare fuel, and environmental themes). As TV Tropes puts it: "This book inverts, subverts and plays straight every prophecy trope in existence." One of the two main female protagonists is a South Asian Brit.

Google Books has a preview.

+ Chak De! India: Bollywood sports movie (minus much of the stereotypical romance and dance sequences one might expect) about the Indian women's field hockey and the struggles the teammates must face, both personally and as a team, to be seen as competent athletes.

Hindi Trailer

+ The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: Japanese anime movie about a girl who gains the ability to go back in time. She uses it to have mundane, slice-of-life adventures! I'd highly recommend this to fans of Studio Ghibli's work as it has much of the same feel. :D

Japanese Trailer w/ English subs

+ Seirei no Moribito: It starts off with an incredibly badass lady spear-wielding warrior, Balsa, who's hired by the empress to protect her son while he is at the center of a prophecy involving the spiritual world. Balsa has to carry the prince out of the country while fending off the highly-trained assassins of the emperor. There are multiple awesome female characters being incredibly strong and interesting and the story also deals with imperialism in a fictional landscape. The franchise began with a series of novels by Uehashi Nahoko, only the first two of which have been translated to English, but I think the anime (which covers the events of the first book) is better known. :D

Check out Balsa's amazingness in action!. :D

If I could add nominations that aren't up yet, I'd probably add PlanetES. This anime is hard sci-fi with a squishy, emotional human core. It's a very realistic portrayal of space exploration and space travel in the future but that means it also deals with the philosophical and psychological aspects of being in space. It has an incredibly diverse set of characters with 3 of the four main characters as POC and a good chunk of the show actually deals with how space travel can impact international relations as third-world countries and their citizens fail to reap the benefits of space travel and research that their first-world counterparts enjoy.

Chech out this very compelling compelling rec post By meredyd. :D

[gloss]

I want Chak De! fic so badly.