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

[jetamors]

Let's see...

Glass Mask is a manga (with several anime adaptations) about Kitajima Maya, a high school student who wants to be an actress. Her mentor pretty much plucks her off the street, because she realizes that Maya may someday be able to play the Crimson Goddess, a legendary character from a legendary stage play. This is a lovely series full of Bechdel passes and complex women with agency; it isn't officially available in English (and probably never will be), but most of it has been scanlated.

Hidden Fortress: Kurosawa fans should know this one :) One of the great chase movies, IMHO, with General Rokurota and Princess Yuki trying to reach safety, along with a few peasants along for the ride. It's a pretty famous movie, so it should be fairly available.

I nominated Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (album), but really I want fiction about the concept (which also includes her previous album): the android Cindi Mayweather, who breaks the law by falling in love with a human. While dodging cyborg bounty hunters, she learns that she may be The One. Monae herself is black, and based on the Many Moons video (and Tightrope, though that's less obviously connected to the mythology), many/most of the characters are of color as well.

Machete is made in the style of a classic grindhouse movie, full of splatter, gore, and cheap fanservice. Unlike its predecessors, though our hero is an undocumented immigrant, fighting against drug lords and hypocritical politicians. This movie has Latino creators (Robert and Álvaro Rodríguez; not sure about Ethan Maniquis), and most of the movie characters are Latin@ as well. It does have a lot of problematic stuff WRT women, but despite that manages to pass a Bechdel test and include female characters with agency and their own motivations.

Samuel R Delany - Triton is a book set several centuries in the future, when humanity has been living all over our solar system for a few generations. Delany is African-American; the main character of the book is white, but many of the other characters are not. I don't know if this book is for everyone (I liked it the same way I like Le Guin's dry worldbuilding novels), but if it's to your taste it has some pretty interesting stuff about race, gender, self-identity, and the impact of culture and history on human nature.

[troisroyaumes]

Oh my gosh, Glass Mask! Yay!