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

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

One of my nominations has a major chromatic character:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell's Stephen Black. Stephen is AWESOME.

[mercredigirl]

Laurie R. King's otherwise utterly orientalist Mary Russell series nonetheless has several chromatic characters: Ali and Mahmoud Hazr, Yolanda Adler and Tom Long, among others.

[eruthros]

Oh god, yes, so orientalist. But aren't Ali and Mahmoud Hazr (spoilers!) (skip) actually white English lords pretending to be Bedouin? It was pretty much the last straw for me in terms of the series -- just, the main Bedouin characters are white dudes?

[seekingferret]

I nominated Samuel Delany's Dhalgren. It's a circular post-modern science fiction tour de force, a novel that seems to be writing itself and ends with its beginning. It stars The Kid, an amnesiac half-Native American with one shoe who wields a Wolverine-like string of blades called an orchid and spends most of the book trying to figure out what the hell he should be doing and whether he wants to be a poet or a fighter while weird shit happens all around him.

[miramira]

My nominations:

Dan Simmons' Hyperion: Fedmahn Kassad is - well, technically Martian, I suppose, but of Palestinian descent.

Fans: Rumiko "Rumy" Tanaka is Japanese. Also, I neglected to put them on the official list, but several of the "next-gen" characters - Jared (African-American), Hilda (Latina), and Rico (Latino) - qualify and are pretty darn awesome.

Connie Willis' Oxford time-travel series: Someone really ought to give technician Badri Chaudhuri his own fic.

[athenejen]

You are SO RIGHT about Badri!

[briar_pipe]

I nominated Chinua Achebe's Anthills on the Savannah again this year, in hopes that this time's the charm. It's not a super-quick read, but it's faster than watching a TV series. (Bonus more active female characters than previous stories of his!) ^_^

I also nominated To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, Dennou Coil, and Mokke. We need more stories that don't just pass the Bechdell Test but define it. We also need more complex female protagonists connecting with each other in a myriad of different ways.

All main characters and creators for all of these stories are chromatic.

Panda!

[jozpierce]

I have renominated "The Janissary Tree" by Jason Goodwin, which is a mystery novel set in 19th century Istanbul/Ottoman Empire. Many characters to choose from.


My second fandom is a THREE MINUTE FANDOM! Seriously. Learn this fandom in three minutes, flat... It's a series of commercials from Egypt. Just google Panda Cheese Commercial. Do it. You can't say no to Panda. Never say no to the Panda...

[teaotter.livejournal.com]

To add to the spreadsheet:

Karen Healey - Guardian of the Dead. The creator is not chromatic, but one of the characters (Kevin) is of Maori descent.

Purple Rain (movie). I'm not at all sure how you count the creators for a movie. But all the nominated characters are chromatic (Apollonia, Jerome Benton, Morris Day, The Kid).

[lastwingedthing]

Take Care of My Cat - it's a 2001 South Korean film, and it's brilliant. It's set in Incheon, focusing on five young women a year after they graduate high school. It has strong but realistic female friendships, drama, it's very femslashy - and there's a kitten! An extremely adorable kitten! It's also a really, really good movie.

Fairly obviously, all main characters are South Korean (two are of Chinese descent), and the director and other creators are also Korean. And sadly it's never been written for Yuletide before. :( In terms of intersectionality, there are no queer or disabled characters, but class and poverty are pretty major issues in the movie - Ji-young comes from a very disadvantaged background, and class is also a major issue for Hae-joo. (I'm not sure if that's what you're asking about? Ignore this if not.)

Take Care of My Cat at wikipedia
Movie website (Contains pictures, reviews, trailer, etc)

Sadly it can be kind of hard to track this movie down. It's available at Amazon, for US$27 (which is pretty pricey, I know). I think it's also available on DVD from Netflix, but that's not much good to everyone outside the US. Um, I'm not sure what the policy is on sharing source, but I'd be happy to make this available to anyone who wants it, just ask. :)

I... really need to make a proper pimping post for this movie. Girls! Femslash! Awesomeness! A cat!

[oyceter]

OMG that movie sounds awesome! Must go watch.

[ceares]

I nominated

RockNRolla which has Mumbles, Stella and in a smaller role, Mickey.

RPF-American Idol-All seasons, which includes numerous POC including Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul

RPF-Fast and Furious which includes Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster, and Sung Kang also potentially(I put him on the character list)Tyrese Gibson.

Also, and I realize this may be nitpicking but Richard Pryor is one of the co-writers of Blazing Saddles so it's actually multi in creation.

Thanks for the reminder

[ceares]

This reminded me I'd intended to nom New Jack City-includes multiple CC(all except one primary)plus either CC creators or multi. Had to redo my form. Gave up RPF-AI all seasons as I figure someone else will nom that.

[lisan]

I nominated Big Eden, an LGBT film with a romantic lead character who is Native American.

[cinaed]

I nominated Baccano (anime), which includes Elean Duga, an awesome African-American reporter for the Daily Days, a very unusual newspaper.

[medie]

I'm nominating Robocop: The Series largely on the strength of Blu Mankuma being AWESOME (also the fact his character arc through the series dealt with his adoption/parenting of a young girl - white) and the Delta City/Old Detroit split itself has some great meaty potential for class/race issues to present in stories.

Also nominating Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun Li which had some problematic (also downright BAD) aspects, but Gen, Chun Li, and Detective Sunee were awesome and deserve more stories.

[yahtzee]

My qualifying nominations are:

Undercovers: The new spy series with African-American leads. Sexy and fun -- only a few episodes in and growing in quality fast. Well-worth checking out for spyfans.

Ugly Betty: The main character, Betty Suarez, is Latina, and there's very good representation of her family, other characters of color (Wilhelmina Slater), gay men (Marc St. James, Cliff St. Cloud, Betty's nephew Justin and his boyfriend Austin) and a transgendered character (Alexis Meade).

[yifu]

I'm not participating, but I nominate:
Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy.

[sarashina]

Okay, I'm an idiot - I almost forgot about Prince of Persia 2008! As the title would suggest, all of the characters are Persian. (This is the game, not the whitewashed movie.)

[luna]

Hi, I'm the one who nominated Haruki Murakami - After Dark, and all the nominated characters are Japanese.

[phi]

This has been a bookfandom year for me. I'm planning to nom:

King Maker by Maurice Broaddus (Black British author, mostly CoC)

King Arthur's court set in modern day urban chicago. The novel is uneven, as first novels sometimes are, and can't quite decide if it's horror or urban crime fiction or what, but still. King Arthur! In Chi-town! Merlin as a fucked white dope fiend and King Arthur as the scion of a gang leader.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (British Indian author; chromatic characters, race not specified but strongly implied to be middle eastern)

Utterly adorable fantasy about a boy who learns the secrets of Stories

Ragamuffin series by Tobias Buckell (Caribbean author; chromatic characters)
Dystopian steam-punky space opera. What's not to love?

African Immortals series by Tananarive Due (black American author; African and Black American characters)

Immortal from a secret gnostic cult falls in love with a mortal woman, and psychological horror ensues.


I was also going to nominate Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and Silver Phoenix, but both of those seem to be on the list already, so I've got slots open if anyone wants to suggest anything :)

[dhobikikutti]

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (British Indian author; chromatic characters, race not specified but strongly implied to be middle eastern desi/South Asian)

:D (Kahani as faux Mumbai, Mudra doing Kathakali, Goopy and Bagha from Satyajit Ray films, Dull Lake as Kashmir's Dal Lake... its a very very Indian book.)

[(Anonymous)]

Jekyll has Miranda, played by Meera Syal, and Benjamin, played by Patterson Joseph. Benjamin is one of the main bad guys, until he fulfills this particular trope (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackDudeDiesFirst). Miranda is a lesbian private detective helping out the show's protagonist, and if the world was a fair place she and her partner would have gotten their own spin-off series.

[lastwingedthing]

Almost forgot, omg. Hellcats - a new TV series about college cheerleaders. Creators are white, series is from the USA. It has a large cast; chromatic leads include Alice Verdura, a flyer, Lewis Flynn, a star footballer turned cheerleading base, and Vanessa Lodge, the team coach. Reoccuring characters include Vanessa's boyfriend Derek Altman, the team doctor. Alice is mixed-race, the others are black. It's hardly perfect, but it's lots of fun.

[thingswithwings]

I nominated:

Dance Me Outside / The Rez (movie/tv show)
This is a movie and followup tv show based on a novel - the novel is one of those problematic "white guy writes about Native experience" books, and the movie is ALSO made by white guys, but tv show had Native as well as white producers and screenwriters. The characters I nominated were Silas Crow, Frank Fencepost, and Sadie Maracle, who are all First Nations characters.

Eden Robinson - Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson is a Haisla author, and the majority of the characters in the book are Haisla as well. I only nominated one character - Lisa, the protagonist - because she's who I want fic for. It's an amaaaaazing book, and not too long - it's a sort of Northern Gothic Magical Detective novel? Anyway I love it, and folks should check it out. Then they should write fic for it.

Hiromi Goto - The Kappa Child
I love this book so much! It is about Japanese-Canadian family living in the prairies, and one sister's encounter with a Kappa (a being out of Japanese folklore). I don't want to spoil anyone for the book, but suffice to say that it's fabulous fantasy-scifi-magical realism styles queer lit. It won the Tiptree award a few years back. It is also short, and totally something one could read before signups! I nominated The Narrator (she's unnamed), her sisters Slither, Pig Girl, and Mice, and of course The Kappa.

Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance (poem)
There aren't any specific characters in the poem, as opposed to the short film which I see is also nominated. (The short film can be listed as a fandom with a chromatic creator but with no chromatic characters). Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-Canadian author. I see that someone's also nominated one of his novels, The English Patient, so that can be listed for the challenge as well.

RPF - Canadian Actors
I nominated this in order to add some people to the list of characters. I nominated David Suzuki, and Sandra Oh is also on the list; both are chromatic characters (in that RPF way where real people become characters).

[littlebutfierce]

HEEEEEEE re: Hiromi Goto. I loved The Kappa Child but just nominated her Half World (as I wolfed it down, oh, yesterday? Day before?). Would love to see ANY fic for her stuff, really (Chorus of Mushrooms is ♥ ♥ ♥).

[bliumchik]

Oh man I remembered Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil, some time after nominating, and I've only read the portion of it that's online although I've been meaning to find the rest.

If anyone who hasn't nominated yet knows the series, IT HAS NOT BEEN NOMINATED YET !

It's billed Aboriginal SF and does what it says on the tin, so it's definitely a good fit here :D

[bliumchik]

damn, I wish I remembered what I nominated so i could figure out which one is safe and replace it...

[dhobikikutti]

I already entered all the relevent info in the spreadsheet for my noms -
Chanakya (tv) - awesome ancient Indian historical drama
Channel V promos - Vee Are Like This Only
Iqbal - Fuzzy Warm movie about deaf Muslim Indian boy who wants to be a cricketer
The Myth/神話 (2005) - cracktastic Jackie Chan time travel movie
R. K. Narayan - Malgudi - novels set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi
Rockford - pubescent boys discover friendship and crushes at an all-boys Indian boarding school

[raven]

Diana Wynne Jones - Chronicles of Chrestomanci. I just nominated these because it's heavily implied from her origin story that Millie, Chrestomanci's wife, is not white - possibly she's of Middle Eastern descent, or South Asian descent, only IT'S NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. And I wish someone would write me a fic fixing that.

[blueyeti]

Not to be all pimpy of my own stuff, especially since I wrote it years ago, but I started to explore Milie's origin a few times.

More relevantly, one of my requests is going to be Chrestomanci (Millie) and my no go will be Christopher/Millie romance, so I hope to add to the pool.

[deathbyshinies]

I nommed:

- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: The show is set in an alternate universe in which the American Revolution never happened and the British Empire took over the world: it's set in occupied Japan in the year 2010. Characters are split about 50/50 between being European and Japanese in ancestry (there's also a kickass female robotics engineer from India and a couple of Chinese characters), and there are sympathetic/heroic and villanous figures on both sides.

- The Order of the Stick: The leader of the group (it's an ensemble cast) and his family are Black, another group member is of an unspecified ethnicity that isn't white, and there are a large number of supporting characters who are Asian.

- Woman on the Edge of Time: Depicts a utopian future in which most of the characters are non-white: most sympathetic characters in the present-day scenes are Latin@ or Black.

- Pagan's Crusade, Catherine Jinks: Hero is a Christian Arab living in Jerusalem in the 1180s, sympathetic portrayal of Muslim fighters.