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

[yasaman]

I nominated the sitcom Community, which features characters of color Abed (played by Danny Pudi), Troy (played by Don Glover), Shirley (played by Yvette Nicole Brown), and Senor Chang (played by Ken Jeong). The show follows the hilarious adventures of a community college study group, covering everything from class projects to Halloween parties to paintball wars for priority registration. Unlike most sitcoms, it doesn't rely on embarrassment squicky humor, and extra bonus, no laugh track!

Abed is Middle Eastern (of Arabic descent I believe), and he is basically the character who seems to understand that he is in a sitcom, and acts accordingly. Everyone else in the study group thinks he's strange or has Asperger's, but really, he just seems to be living by TV rules. He has a penchant for movie-making, being Batman, running a chicken finger operation, and paintball warfare. I can't hope to encapsulate Abed's awesome in a short comment, but rest assured, he is one of the most hilarious characters on the show.

Troy is African American, and a former high school football star. He strikes up a somewhat unexpected friendship with Abed, and they become BFF over the course of the first season. Troy is a little dim and naive, but he gets into all kinds of hilarious shenanigans with Abed.

Shirley is also African American, and a mom who's returned to school to get a degree after she divorced her husband. She has two kids, is a devoted Christian, and is basically the nicest person in the study group. In fact, her catchphrase is "That's nice!" She doesn't get as many storylines as she perhaps should, though she's certainly never forgotten.

And finally, Senor Chang is the study group's Spanish professor in the first season. He's pretty inept as a Spanish teacher, but he makes up for it by being the most hilarious professor. He's over the top, slightly villainous, and always entertaining.

I plan on making a more thorough and entertaining primer sometime in the next few days, but this is just the bare bones! I'm planning to request fic with Troy/Abed shenanigans because they are endlessly adorable and ridiculous (see just about every episode tag).

[kristin]

Yay community! I love all those characters so much.

A Better Introduction to Community

[yasaman]

I've made a basic Community primer, with pictures and links to clips at my DW here.