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Chromatic Yuletide 2010 Nominations!
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 ofdharmavati, 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.
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Yes, this comic is written by Greg Pak who, like Amadeus Cho, is Korean American, so you won't be getting well-meaning stereotypeville here. He is not neutered (he has an AWESOME smart, hot, ruthless supernatural girlfriend Delphyne Gorgon), he does not know kung-fu (he uses his powers to out think people and to hit stuff with other stuff), and is not a good little boy.
Eric Flint - The Trail of Glory series So much potential for fic. This two book series in which the first book and a half are free online is a What If alternate universe in which the Cherokee figure out the Trail of Tears is on the horizon before it happens, start their own actual country in Arkansas, end slavery in their own territory, and end up with a surprisingly prosperous society that's half Native American, half former slave, and willing to tell slaveowners and the USA to go screw themselves.
Sadly, the actual books waste approximately half their page count and "screentime" on white people, but whatever. The cool AU exploration possibilities are super cool and the major characters of color (there are many) are uniformly amazing. I so want fic for this and not for the white dudes.
Showdown in Little Tokyo manages to be both a hilariously dumb and slashy 90's movie and say some surprisingly smart and funny things about Asian stereotypes and well-meaning American Asian-fetishism. Mostly through BRANDON LEE! (Um. And his character, obviously.)
The heroes of the movie are Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee) and Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren), two cops assigned to the Little Tokyo neighborhood because their bosses think they're well suited to it. Murata is a mixed-race Japanese American guy from The Valley who speaks almost zero Japanese, does not blend at all, and is completely un-thrilled that he got tossed in this unit just because he looks Asian. He's also smart, snarky, self-aware and a good cop. Kenner is a hilariously white well-meaning Asian fetishist who grew up in Japan, speaks the language, and whose fanboy-heaven fake samurai cliche wardrobe and house make for hilarious sight gags, and deeply amuses Murata.
Are the villains sort of problematic Asian gangster stereotypes? Well, yes, but this is a dumb early 90's action movie that doesn't take itself seriously. The civilians, the love interest and one of the heroes are also of Asian descent and not, so make of that what you will. Your mileage may vary, but the fact that Murata is so awesome and the fact that the movie was self-aware on this front, thinking about it in depth, and cracking jokes about it makes it actually rare even today, and a lot of fun.