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

[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. ♥

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

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

[lady_ganesh]

I didn't even know there was Red Dwarf RPF!

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[minkhollow]

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

[effex]

<3 I'm going to do both - it's such a lovely series and deserves all the fic it can get.

[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).

[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.