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

[true_statement]

If anyone's got a spare nomination slot, I'd love to see A Frozen Flower make the list.

[sherlockian]

Of my nominations that fall under the challenge, I'd like to highlight two:

Hanna is Not a Boy's Name: Is a webcomic about a tiny dweeb who wants to be a paranormal investigator. His BFF, and the narrator of the series, is (implied to be) Japanese. I say "implied" because {...} doesn't remember anything about himself. However flashbacks include Japanese motifs, and when he's drawn as alive, it's clear that he is asian. Also, the werewolf introduced in the latest arc is a PoC woman.

Rick Riordan - The Kane Chronicles: A book series about bi-racial siblings who are the descendants of the pharaohs. They end up fighting against and working with the Egyptian pantheon, the House of Life (also known as Per-Ankh) and assorted other legendary beings.

[liviapenn]

Some more fandoms I'm nominating:

Campari Red Passion: The Secret (youtube link) There are several commercials in the "Red Passion" series; this is the one that most people nominate/request fic for. Other "Red Passion" commercials in the same "universe" feature Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba.

And two books with non-chromatic creators, but entirely chromatic casts:

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw -- Regency-style Ancient Egyptian YA shenanigans-- spying, revolution, double agents, and an awesome badass "spunky girl heroine" who is so much more than cliche. Unfortunate misogynist portrayal of female antagonist, though.

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is an alternate history that follows a small group of archetypal core characters as they are reincarnated in different lives & relationships to one another, over thousands of years-- in an alternate-history world where the Black Plague wiped out all of Western Europe, leaving China, Japan, the Middle East, India and Native Americans to become the new world powers. Each section of the book takes place in a different historical era, from medieval to near-modern, showing a period in the characters' lives.

On the one hand I can see this being a difficult fandom to get into really quickly for Yuletide, considering that it's a pretty long book and there would be lots of research involved in writing something in an alternate-history setting. But on the other hand, the "episodic" nature of the story means that each individual "era" usually covers a relatively brief period in the characters' lives (and doesn't always end with their death) meaning that there's lots of space for fanfic.

Here is my yuletide letter from last year where I go into detail about things I love about these two fandoms.

And two fandoms I am *not* personally nominating, but that probably will be nominated:

1 movie with a chromatic creator & cast: Kamizake Girls (also a book and, I believe, a manga, but most people have probably seen the movie)

1 comic series with mostly non-chromatic creators, but a mostly chromatic cast: Power Man & Iron Fist (this same core group of characters might also be nominated under other titles they appear in-- "Heroes for Hire," "Immortal Iron Fist," or "New Avengers")

I also hope someone nominates the manga "Paradise Kiss," but I don't have a hyping post for that one. *G*

[mercredigirl]

I agree with nominating Years of Rice and Salt! :D

[mercredigirl]

Is it inappropriate to nominate the steampunk_nusantara-verse, btw? :O

[dhobikikutti]

Dude, considering someone nominated Livejournal and Dreamwidth last year... no. :D

[aris_tgd]

I finalized my nominations! In addition to K-20, I also nominated The Good The Bad The Weird. I have a picspam, here!

[livrelibre]

I nominated the following:


The Book of Eli-a movie about Denzel Washington righteously kicking ass in postapocalyptic America (ETA: also has Jennifer Beals (biracial actress) as a character with a disability as well though the representation may be problematic)

Minister Faust-Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad--a fantasy book set in Edmonton with two black geeks and a kickass black woman as the main characters (one Muslim)

Ooku the Inner Chambers-a manga set in an alternate Edo Japan in which 3/4 of the men have been wiped out by a plague and the women take over

Angelica Gorodischer-Kalpa Imperial-a beautifully-written book of stories within stories set in an alternate fantasy empire by a Argentinean writer (and translated by Ursula LeGuin)

Ojos de Brujo's Silencio (song)-actually I meant the music video from this Spanish nuevo flamenco band (ETA: actually they call it ""jipjop flamenkillo" (hip-hop with a little flamenco)" according to Wikipedia, which is a kind of hallucinatory story of a little (Romany?) girl and a city and, well. . .watch it on YouTube.

Caramel (Sukkar banat)-a Lebanese film about the lives and loves (including a queer relationship) of five women in a beauty shop

There's violence, implied or otherwise, and rape, attempted or otherwise, in most of these.

[lilacsigil]

Yay, another Ooku nomination!

[magnetic_pole]

I'm not going to participate myself, but I'd love to see fic about Noah's Arc, a cheesy-but-fun tv series about a group of black gay men looking for love and living their everyday lives in LA. If anyone's interested? M.

[eruthros]

I'm (probably) nominating:

Avatar: Legend of Korra (characters are all chromatic, creators are mostly white) -- this is probably the only year that Legend of Korra will count as obscure, so I figured I'd nominate it even though it hasn't aired yet and there's only concept art and a premise. But Korra sounds awesome and should get to have many adventures.

Whale Rider (characters are all chromatic; the book is by a Maori writer, but the movie is directed by a non-Maori New Zealander) -- this is a film about a girl who is the only surviving child in the line of male chiefs. There needs to be fic about her grown-up adventures.

Sleep Dealer (characters are all chromatic; it's a Mexican film with mostly chromatic creators) -- this is one of the best scifi films I've seen in a long time; it's got a great concept, brilliant worldbuilding, and interesting character interactions.

And in the complicated category, I'm also nominating:

Super Mario Galaxy I and II (chromatic creators; the main characters of the series are white, but I'm only nominating non-human characters like cosmic clones and toads) -- so much fun!

and RPF - NBA (many NBA players are chromatic, but I only nominated Amar'e Stoudemire, an African-American forward previously with the Phoenix Suns and currently with the NY Knicks; no creators) -- Amar'e Stoudemire is one half of my mid-aughts basketball OTP, which was Steve Nash/Amar'e Stoudemire, one of the best point guard/forward combinations in the NBA. If you're interested in NBA RPF, here's a vid about their amazing plays [song contains gunfire].

[lady_ganesh]

Sleep Dealer is on Netflix, too, so it's pretty easy to get to.

[lady_ganesh]

A friend nominated Samurai Jack, which stars a Japanese samurai misplaced into the future, both leads are voiced by POC.

I nominated:

Jim Hines' Princess books, where one of the three titular heroes is a POC.
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan, filmed in Kazakhstan in Mongolian. Huge epic with a giant cast and a brothers-turned-enemies plot.
Red Dwarf, which has two POC leads (one human, one...not).
Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, an excellent YA novel. Alexie is Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, and "Junior" lives on the Spokane reservation.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

I've also nominated Red Dwarf and will be offering it should it be accepted. I've also nominated Red Dwarf RPF. Just wanted to mention the pimping post (http://kahvi.livejournal.com/808141.html) I made about the fandom last year. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Holly Black - Curse Breakers series: Only the first book (White Cat) is out, but the narrator and his family are ambiguously brown. (Read all about it here (http://thebooksmugglers.com/2010/03/whitewashing-strikes-again-the-case-of-white-cat-by-holly-black.html).)

[ranalore]

I've nominated the following:

Cheon Sang Ji Hee (listed on the nominations form as RPF - CSJH the Grace), a Korean girl band.

Anyband, which I talked about extensively last year.

Bride of the Water God, a gorgeous manhwa rooted in Korean mythology. The first six volumes are available in English via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and probably your local manga/manhwa/manhua store, if you're fortunate enough to have one.

The music video for Vienna Teng's song, "Gravity," starring Vienna herself.

[jadelennox]

I nominated:

Louise Erdrich - Birchbark House series: Native author (Ojibwe), Native protagonist.
Adam Rex - The True Meaning of Smekday: Female protagonist of color (Gratuity "Tip" Tucci), white male author.
Dia Reeves - Bleeding Violet: Black author, mixed-race (black and Finnish) protagonist.
Nnedi Okorafor - Ginen books: Nigerian-American (Igbo) author, protagonists mix of Nigerian (usually Muslim), alternate-dimensional African analogues, and other.

[springgreen]

Yay! I nominated:

Honey and Clover (anime and manga), a lovely slice-of-life work about six students at an art college in Tokyo. I particularly love that the main artistic genius in here is female, and the bittersweet and delicate way it looks at all the students' love lives and friendships.

Angel Sanctuary (manga), a cracktastic Yuki Kaori manga with angels and demons and reincarnations and Lucifer and demon swords. The hero is a Japanese school boy in love with his younger sister. Except he is actually the latest tragic reincarnation of the super powerful (female) angel Alexiel!

Bride with White Hair (movie), a cracktastic HK wuxia movie with Leslie Cheung and Birgitte Lin (!!!). Alas, it has evil conjoined twins (BOO), but Birgitte Lin's character is literally raised by wolves! The two main characters are wonderfully in love until he betrays her, which makes her hair go completely white and kill people! Hair! The ultimate wuxia weapon, Y/Y?

Jay Chou's music video for Qing Hua Ci, which has gorgeous classical-Chinese inspired lyrics. Also, reincarnation! Also also, lots of wind machines, dramatic clothing, and over the top grief. Also x 3, only four minutes long, so very easy to familiarize yourself with the source! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMHuRzqfmgg

[rachelmanija]

Bride with White Hair!!! I will totally offer that.

I have lost track of what I actually nominated versus what I saw that others already had, but possibly...

Silver Phoenix, by Cindy Pon. Charming folkloric alt-China YA fantasy, all the characters are Chinese. (The hero is biracial: Chinese and possibly white? I forget.)

Dirk & Steele series, by Marjorie Liu. Marketed as romance, a series of stand-alones about a psychic detective agency. Sort of X-Men meets genre romance, lots of action and cracktasticness, playful and fun. Many of the main characters are people of color.

[mercredigirl]

Any Singaporeans out there, 《小娘惹》 without the horrifying misogyny would be nice. ^^

[glass_icarus]

Copy/pasting from my nomination-flail post; my noms are:

glockgal's Supernatural [Winchestgopals ftw!]

Monga (film) [wikipedia, movie website]

N. K. Jemisin's The Effluent Engine

Red Cliff [crossedwires has a picspam and an icon set for Part I]

Saving Face [my tag is a good place to start!]

Minekura Kazuya's Stigma [haven't seen any rec posts for this, but last year I made an icon set that includes some of the art?]

[akamarykate]

I nominated (I always nominate!) Early Edition (television, 1996-200), which had a chromatic main character (Marissa Clark) and several recurring chromatic characters (Detective Antiona Brigatti, Detective Paul Armstrong, and Miguel Diaz--"Photo. Journalist."). I double checked to make sure they're all on the list of characters--because they are all awesome and fun to write about.

[minkhollow]

As far as I know, I didn't nominate any fandoms with non-white creators. But I don't know much about the writing staff for any of them, so. I can, however, offer a few chromatic characters:

Sneakers - Donald Crease, Bernard Abbott

Warehouse 13 - Mrs. Frederick, Leena, Kelly Hernandez if she's been added to the character list

St. Trinian's (2007) - Peaches, Taylor

Bernard and the Genie - Josephus

First two of those are American (film and TV show, respectively); second two are British (both films).

[minkhollow]

And for intersectionality: Sneakers has a blind character (Whistler), and Warehouse 13 has a bisexual character (H.G. Wells).

[starlady]

I nominated:

Disney Princess Superheroines - chromatic characters are Jasmine, Mulan, and Tinker Bell

Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore (white creator) - chromatic character is Nimira (pimp post/review here)

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi - chromatic creator, chromatic characters are Ore and Sade (pimp post/review here)

the Clockwork Century by Cherie Priest (white creator) - multiple chromatic characters including Croggon Hainey

[ambyr]

I nominated a few things that qualify:

The Twilight Samurai (2002), a Japanese movie about a low-ranking samurai in the years just before the Meiji Restoration that focuses more on his home life--he's a single father struggling to make ends meet--than battle scenes. Creator and all characters are, of course, Japanese. It's an amazing movie in and of itself, and also a great antidote for The Last Samurai (2003).

Michelle West -- The Sun Sword is a secondary world epic fantasy series. It's long and twisty and full of complicated politics and cultural clashes. The author is Japanese-Canadian, and one of the major cultures in the novel seems to draw heavy inspiration from both Japan and the Middle East.

RPF - 20th Century Arts & Sciences, specifically Joseph Needham, Dorothy Needham, and Lu Gwei-djen, a triad of scientists who worked at Cambridge in the mid-20th century. Yes, I mean triad in that way. Most biographical material focuses on Joseph, as the "Great Man," with the women mentioned only as his sources of inspiration/support, but I would love to see something from the view of Gwei-djen.

[sugargroupie]

My noms:

The Princess and the Frog: Disney's first fairytale about a black princess! (Tiana, Naveen, Eudora, Mama Odie, Dr. Facilier, among others). Downside - Tiana and Naveen spend a good chunk of the film as frogs.

HawthoRNe: Christina Hawthorne (and her daughter Camille), Bobbi Jackson, Kelly Epson, Marcus Leeds, Gail Strummer, Isabel Walsh

RPF - Hip hop: self-explanatory, I think. Most of last year's requests were about Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Ciara and Alicia Keys.

Southland: the main cast is pretty white tbh, but Lydia Adams (played by Regina King) is part of the trifecta of characters who receives the most screen time. AND SHE IS AWESOME.

Undercovers: Samantha and Steven Bloom are former CIA agents who run a catering business. They are recruited back into the agency and have to maintain their cover and ensure Sam's sister Lizzy is none the wiser. Think "sexspionage" and slap-stick comedy.

[bossymarmalade]

I nominated:

Glockgal - Supernatural
Dragon Tiger Gate
Idlewild

[nextian]

I nominated for the challenge

Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Road
RPF - Heian Japan (in the hopes someone will write me Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon fightin' crime)

both of which I added to the spreadsheet. :)

[amaliedageek]

I nominated:

Bones -- Angela Montenegro, Camille Saroyan, Caroline Julian, David Barron, Daniel Goodman, Arastoo Vaziri, Clark Edison, Michelle Welton, Grayson Barasa

[effex]

I nominated Blue Beetle (comic), Hayate x Blade, Natsume Yujinchou, The Middleman (tv show), The Losers (movie), and Undercovers (which isn't lacking in nominations, might go back and swap it out for something else).

I'd like to highlight Hayate x Blade in particular - it's an action/comedy manga with an all PoC (everyone's Japanese except for one Korean girl, if I remember right), all female cast. Includes sword fights, queer characters, ridiculous gags, strong friendships, and wacky hijinks. Does not include panty shots.

[littlebutfierce]

I'm so glad to see that people have nominated Natsume Yuujinchou again -- I ran out of slots but I love that series (& am considering either requesting it or offering to write it).

[littlebutfierce]

I just read Hiromi Goto's Half World tonight & had to re-do my nominations to make space for it. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

... I don't know if I'll have the energy for a promo post, but hopefully? Because IT IS SO AWESOME AND I WANT SOMEONE TO WRITE FIC FOR IT. ♥