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

[phi]

This has been a bookfandom year for me. I'm planning to nom:

King Maker by Maurice Broaddus (Black British author, mostly CoC)

King Arthur's court set in modern day urban chicago. The novel is uneven, as first novels sometimes are, and can't quite decide if it's horror or urban crime fiction or what, but still. King Arthur! In Chi-town! Merlin as a fucked white dope fiend and King Arthur as the scion of a gang leader.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (British Indian author; chromatic characters, race not specified but strongly implied to be middle eastern)

Utterly adorable fantasy about a boy who learns the secrets of Stories

Ragamuffin series by Tobias Buckell (Caribbean author; chromatic characters)
Dystopian steam-punky space opera. What's not to love?

African Immortals series by Tananarive Due (black American author; African and Black American characters)

Immortal from a secret gnostic cult falls in love with a mortal woman, and psychological horror ensues.


I was also going to nominate Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and Silver Phoenix, but both of those seem to be on the list already, so I've got slots open if anyone wants to suggest anything :)

[dhobikikutti]

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (British Indian author; chromatic characters, race not specified but strongly implied to be middle eastern desi/South Asian)

:D (Kahani as faux Mumbai, Mudra doing Kathakali, Goopy and Bagha from Satyajit Ray films, Dull Lake as Kashmir's Dal Lake... its a very very Indian book.)

[phi]

*sigh* my ABCD-ness is showing isn't it? :-P

[dhobikikutti]

::pets you::

[littlebutfierce]

I am really sick of Arthurian stories (after a childhood spent seeing them as the Myths to End All Myths: you know how it goes), but you have intrigued me re: King Maker!

(& also, I totally couldn't write fic about Buckell's books, but I would love to read it! I hope someone takes you up on that.)

[phi]

i have a love-hate relationship with Arthurian stories. Reading & loving them as a child is just about the only thing I have in common with my mom, but as you say, Myth to End All Myths, etc.