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

[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.)

[springgreen]

I know!! Someone mentioned it at a fan gathering on the weekend as a part of another discussion, and I was like, "YULETIDE! Why did I not think of that before?"

... although the cataloguer in me is now not sure if I need to specify the movie or not because apparently it is based on a wuxia novel which of course inspired several media properties.

[springgreen]

And now I have added Lonesome Eden! It is a single volume manhua from Taiwan which people can ahem. It is gorgeous loligoth art and is amazingly not cracktastic despite having living dolls and beings with supernatural powers and long flowing hair! Instead, it is bittersweet and melancholy. Also, bonus points for canonically genderless characters.

[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.

[phi]

*sigh* my ABCD-ness is showing isn't it? :-P

[dhobikikutti]

::pets you::

[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.

[littlebutfierce]

I am really sick of Arthurian stories (after a childhood spent seeing them as the Myths to End All Myths: you know how it goes), but you have intrigued me re: King Maker!

(& also, I totally couldn't write fic about Buckell's books, but I would love to read it! I hope someone takes you up on that.)

[phi]

i have a love-hate relationship with Arthurian stories. Reading & loving them as a child is just about the only thing I have in common with my mom, but as you say, Myth to End All Myths, etc.

[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).

[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...

[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 ♥ ♥ ♥).

[thingswithwings]

Yay Hiromi Goto! I saw that someone had nominated Half World, but I haven't read that one yet. I'll take your comment as a rec!

Chorus of Mushrooms was the first book of hers I read, in a CanLit class, and I fell so hard in love it's ridiculous. Now I always tell people about the scene where the 80 year old grandmother masturbates in the underground mushroom farm (in order to entice them into reading it). :D :D :D

[oyceter]

OMG that movie sounds awesome! Must go watch.

[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]

I love how I am skimming comments lazily and suddenly stop because HEY YOU DID THAT TO ME. :P

[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.

[thingswithwings]

no one can escape!

[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.

[athenejen]

Genji! ♥