Huh. I wasn't actually angling for all of my nominations to qualify (though I was certainly planning on some), but it turns out they do!
RPF - Chinese history and literature: All PoC, all the time! And given that all four of the characters currently nominated are Tang dynasty poets, the source material is essentially all in their own words! My favorite is Yu Xuanji, a female poet who wrote blunt, autobiographical poems and led a very controversial life.
RPF - Figure Skating: Tons of PoC potential here -- just skimming the list I see: Ben Agosto (Puerto Rican-Jewish), Caroline Zhang (Chinese American), Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese), Denis Ten (Korean Kazahkstani), Emanuel Sandhu (Italian-Sikh Canadian), Felicia Zhang (Chinese American), Florent Amodio (Brazilian by birth), Mao Asada (Japanese), Michelle Kwan (Chinese American), Miki Ando (Japanese), Mirai Nagasu (Japanese American), Patrick Chan (Chinese Canadian), Shizuka Arakawa (Japanese), Takahiko Kozuka (Japanese), Yuna Kim (Korean), and Yuzuru Hanyu (Japanese).
Kitchen Confidential: This television show based on Anthony Bourdain's book had a sadly truncated run (only 13 episodes -- I think they're all available on Hulu) and was filled with white people. But! My very favorite character was Teddy Wong, played by John Cho. Which I think makes him a Korean-American actor playing a character of Chinese descent (my best guess for someone with the last name Wong), and I wouldn't say the show is perfect on racial politics. But Cho is fantastic and Teddy had some hilarious, snarky, smart lines and is so much more than a stereotype, and one of my requests is likely to center on him. There are also some Latinos in the cast, though they are generally dishwashers. Ramon is the most prominent of these, and I kind of love him, and I've added him to the character list. I think the show falls into stereotypes more when dealing with its Latino characters, but I still think some interesting stuff could be done with them.
Poppy Z Brite - Drawing Blood: If I request fic for this, it will be about Eddy Sung, the best friend of one of the two male protagonists (it's been years since I actually re-read the book, and I was less aware of chromatic issues and politics then; iirc one of them is white and the other is either white or something more complicated; the author is, I believe, non-chromatic), an Asian girl (probably Chinese or Korean, based on her last name) who is complex and strong and vulnerable and smart and flawed and awesome.
Stephen Manes - The Obnoxious Jerks: I believe the creator is a white male, and the protagonist is white, but some of the supporting cast is chromatic (though race doesn't play a significant role in the story): Perry Wu, Roberto Garcia, and if I'm remembering correctly, Wilver Sims. I have a feeling that if I went back and read the source with racial politics in mind I wouldn't be able to call it completely unproblematic, but I do think the book is a lot of fun and smart writing could be done with these chromatic characters.
Athena (comic): A nifty manga-style two-volume comic book by Dean Hsieh, an Asian-American comic book writer (Hsieh suggests Chinese to me, but I couldn't find confirmation in my quick google search). The Greek gods have been retired and Athena ends up playing in a punk rock band and eventually she and her friends and some members of her family save the world. The characters are basically white (or in some cases, possibly indeterminate and generally unspecified), but the creator is chromatic.
Things I almost nominated (and that others did in fact nominate) that qualify:
American Idiot (musical): It is never mentioned at all in the text, but both Whatsername and Extraordinary Girl are played by chromatic actresses, at least for the show's initial Broadway run. Yes, it bothers me that neither of them are given actual names, and because our pov characters are twenty-something white males the women tend to be either demanding or put on a pedestal within the source material. However, the women also make the most consistently sensible decisions throughout the musical, and they're all pretty darn awesome, and stories featuring them, including ones where their chromaticism is written in, could be incredible.
Justified: I'm pretty sure someone has already mentioned that Marshal Rachel Brooks is a CoC. She didn't get as much to do in the first season as I'd like, but she is awesome.
Love Actually: Peter (of the Mark/Peter/Juliet love triangle plot) is a CoC. In the story we get more of Mark and Juliet interacting than we do of Peter (and race is pretty much never mentioned, iirc); I would love to see more of him and his perspective.
RPF - So You Think You Can Dance: Some excellent PoC potential here -- even just from the contestants and all-stars who appeared on this past season, we have Alex Wong, Mark Kanemura, Jose Ruiz, Stephen Boss aka Twitch, Adechike Torbert, and Ade Obayomi, and there are clearly lots from prior seasons, too.
RPF - Mythbusters: Grant Imahara is a fourth-generation Japanese-American and is wonderful and smart and creative and geeky and I kind of want all the fic in the world about him.
Hawaii Five-0: Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua are Hawaiian (possibly mixed with Korean and/or Japanese and/or Chinese?) characters played by Korean actors, and are awesome and kickass and I wish they got more screentime.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr: Most of the characters are white in this quirky television series (that sadly only lasted one season, but at least it was a fairly long season), but Lord Bowler aka James Lonefeather is one of my favorite characters, and is very much chromatic.
Mysterious Skin: Eric (played by Jeffrey Licon) is, if based on the actor playing him, chromatic, though his background isn't covered in the movie. He's pretty great! WARNING: the movie deals with some extremely difficult subjects; please contact me via pm if you need more explicit warnings.
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RPF - Chinese history and literature: All PoC, all the time! And given that all four of the characters currently nominated are Tang dynasty poets, the source material is essentially all in their own words! My favorite is Yu Xuanji, a female poet who wrote blunt, autobiographical poems and led a very controversial life.
RPF - Figure Skating: Tons of PoC potential here -- just skimming the list I see: Ben Agosto (Puerto Rican-Jewish), Caroline Zhang (Chinese American), Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese), Denis Ten (Korean Kazahkstani), Emanuel Sandhu (Italian-Sikh Canadian), Felicia Zhang (Chinese American), Florent Amodio (Brazilian by birth), Mao Asada (Japanese), Michelle Kwan (Chinese American), Miki Ando (Japanese), Mirai Nagasu (Japanese American), Patrick Chan (Chinese Canadian), Shizuka Arakawa (Japanese), Takahiko Kozuka (Japanese), Yuna Kim (Korean), and Yuzuru Hanyu (Japanese).
Kitchen Confidential: This television show based on Anthony Bourdain's book had a sadly truncated run (only 13 episodes -- I think they're all available on Hulu) and was filled with white people. But! My very favorite character was Teddy Wong, played by John Cho. Which I think makes him a Korean-American actor playing a character of Chinese descent (my best guess for someone with the last name Wong), and I wouldn't say the show is perfect on racial politics. But Cho is fantastic and Teddy had some hilarious, snarky, smart lines and is so much more than a stereotype, and one of my requests is likely to center on him. There are also some Latinos in the cast, though they are generally dishwashers. Ramon is the most prominent of these, and I kind of love him, and I've added him to the character list. I think the show falls into stereotypes more when dealing with its Latino characters, but I still think some interesting stuff could be done with them.
Poppy Z Brite - Drawing Blood: If I request fic for this, it will be about Eddy Sung, the best friend of one of the two male protagonists (it's been years since I actually re-read the book, and I was less aware of chromatic issues and politics then; iirc one of them is white and the other is either white or something more complicated; the author is, I believe, non-chromatic), an Asian girl (probably Chinese or Korean, based on her last name) who is complex and strong and vulnerable and smart and flawed and awesome.
Stephen Manes - The Obnoxious Jerks: I believe the creator is a white male, and the protagonist is white, but some of the supporting cast is chromatic (though race doesn't play a significant role in the story): Perry Wu, Roberto Garcia, and if I'm remembering correctly, Wilver Sims. I have a feeling that if I went back and read the source with racial politics in mind I wouldn't be able to call it completely unproblematic, but I do think the book is a lot of fun and smart writing could be done with these chromatic characters.
Athena (comic): A nifty manga-style two-volume comic book by Dean Hsieh, an Asian-American comic book writer (Hsieh suggests Chinese to me, but I couldn't find confirmation in my quick google search). The Greek gods have been retired and Athena ends up playing in a punk rock band and eventually she and her friends and some members of her family save the world. The characters are basically white (or in some cases, possibly indeterminate and generally unspecified), but the creator is chromatic.
Things I almost nominated (and that others did in fact nominate) that qualify:
American Idiot (musical): It is never mentioned at all in the text, but both Whatsername and Extraordinary Girl are played by chromatic actresses, at least for the show's initial Broadway run. Yes, it bothers me that neither of them are given actual names, and because our pov characters are twenty-something white males the women tend to be either demanding or put on a pedestal within the source material. However, the women also make the most consistently sensible decisions throughout the musical, and they're all pretty darn awesome, and stories featuring them, including ones where their chromaticism is written in, could be incredible.
Justified: I'm pretty sure someone has already mentioned that Marshal Rachel Brooks is a CoC. She didn't get as much to do in the first season as I'd like, but she is awesome.
Love Actually: Peter (of the Mark/Peter/Juliet love triangle plot) is a CoC. In the story we get more of Mark and Juliet interacting than we do of Peter (and race is pretty much never mentioned, iirc); I would love to see more of him and his perspective.
RPF - So You Think You Can Dance: Some excellent PoC potential here -- even just from the contestants and all-stars who appeared on this past season, we have Alex Wong, Mark Kanemura, Jose Ruiz, Stephen Boss aka Twitch, Adechike Torbert, and Ade Obayomi, and there are clearly lots from prior seasons, too.
RPF - Mythbusters: Grant Imahara is a fourth-generation Japanese-American and is wonderful and smart and creative and geeky and I kind of want all the fic in the world about him.
Hawaii Five-0: Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua are Hawaiian (possibly mixed with Korean and/or Japanese and/or Chinese?) characters played by Korean actors, and are awesome and kickass and I wish they got more screentime.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr: Most of the characters are white in this quirky television series (that sadly only lasted one season, but at least it was a fairly long season), but Lord Bowler aka James Lonefeather is one of my favorite characters, and is very much chromatic.
Mysterious Skin: Eric (played by Jeffrey Licon) is, if based on the actor playing him, chromatic, though his background isn't covered in the movie. He's pretty great! WARNING: the movie deals with some extremely difficult subjects; please contact me via pm if you need more explicit warnings.