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*
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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*