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Yuletide 2010 Eligible Fandoms

Doers of darkness, the full list of Yuletide 2010 Eligible Fandoms has been published! Please remember to check your chromatic creator and chromatic character fandoms to make sure they are correctly listed; the Yuletide corrections post is here.

Some notes that may be useful:

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Also, we've started noting eligible fandoms in our masterlist of Chromatic Fandoms and Characters (html version) so feel free to use the list as a reference while you're checking fandoms.

Speaking of, we've created an official mailing list for all our spreadsheet wrangling. If you're interested in helping us wrangle our spreadsheets of DOOM or in keeping up-to-date with our spreadsheet news, please join the group and read our Welcome & Introduction post -- or you could just subscribe to the mailing list's feeds.

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Dia Reeves' Bleeding Violet can be in the intersectional column. She has a disability (bipolar disorder).

The spreadsheet asks, about the Louise Erdrich Birchbark House series, "Yes (Angeline, Bizheen, Deydey, Fishtail, Nokomis, Old Tallow, Omakayas, Pinch, Yellow Kettle) ? Can someone who's read the books check this list? I think all of these characters are Ojibwa but I'm not sure." This is correct. The characters are all Ojibwa. Technically, Deydey is biracial (Ojibwa/French) and several of the characters are his children, but he identifies firmly as Ojibwa.

The spreadsheet notes about Malinda Lo's Ash, "No (? Author notes characters are Asian in her head but little to no textual evidence)". This is correct. The author is Chinese-American and she has a couple of blog posts about how she left the characters open, how it's a fantasy world in which "Asia" per se would not be meaningful but she left physical description open, and there are a few cultural notes she says would only be visible to anthropologists.

Since you have that notes column there, it might be worth mentioning that A Great and Terrible Beauty has a terrible canonical presentation of race, and anyone who wants to read a new book in order to get a new chromatic character should be prepared for much rage.

I'm a little bit confused about The Book Thief. The book takes place in Nazi Germany. There is a secret Jew, and Death, but I'm not sure who is being seen as chromatic. I mean, in the context of Nazi Germany Jews certainly count as chromatic but I assume that the challenge doesn't want to open up to all "Jews in anti-Semitic countries/times" sources.

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should probably be intersectional for disability. Junior has a host of issues.

Thank you for all the info! I'm not sure why The Book Thief is included in the spreadsheet. Hopefully, someone will shed a light on the matter and have more info on whether there's a chromatic character, maybe a chromatic Jewish character, in the source? I'll make a note to check "Book Thief - Markus Zusak" at a later time to see if there's more info added or if we should delete the entry because the novel has no nominated chromatic character.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the special characters note!

You're welcome! I've been wanting to shake my computer so it the Yuletide txt would show the special characters and it was such a relief when we figured by changing Firefox's auto-detect encoding to universal would show them.

I added more characters to the Kate Shugak fandom. Also, I'd like to add Alaya Johnson's Moonshine and My Name Is Kim Sam Soon to the list, but I'm afraid to do so in case I break it. :/

And I'm pretty sure Roque in the Losers (comic) is white, though he is played by Idris Elba in the movie.

Don't worry about breaking it. Google Docs has some excellent undo features and well, as we have said before, it's designed so multiple people can simultaneously work on a document.

In any case, Moonshine - Alaya Johnson and My Name Is Kim Sam Soon to the list. For Moonshine, which characters are chromatic, do you know? And what characters would you like to add to Kate Shugak fandom?

For Moonshine, Amir and Kardal are chromatic.

I already added the characters to the Kate Shugak fandom.

Thanks!

Awesome! And thanks for the info!

Your spreadsheet is missing Outrageous Fortune, which is a NZ tv series. Chromatic characters are Falani, Jared "Munter" Mason, Kasey Mason and Wayne Judd. I've looked at your welcome and introduction post, so is it okay if I just go ahead and add it? If someone else is working on O then I can leave it.

Go ahead and add it! You can add individual fandoms even if someone had claim a letter -- which, in this case, I don't think anyone has claim O. (Claiming is just to let everyone knows that you're working through those fandoms so no one would accidentally check/work through them again.)

I would like to respectfully point out that one of the fandoms I nominated, The Manchurian Candidate (2004), has at least two characters of color, Bennett Marco and Eugenie Rose. Yes, I realize it's a little bit confusing since the characters were played by white actors in the original version. :)

Thank you for the info! We've added the fandom & characters.

I'm not sure where the line is for "chromatic" for fantasy settings but here's how I would mark the Final Fantasy games I know:

ff8: Kiros, Raijin; ff10: Wakka (not sure if he's just darkly tan or not as he is an islander), the Al Bhed are an ethnic minority in the game's world and there are various mentions of racism against them through the game (Rikku, Brother, Cid, and Gippal (x-2 only) are the main al bhed characters); ff12: Reddas, Al-Cid, possibly Fran and the other Viera.

If I notice any others I can help with as I go through the list, I will comment again!

Thank you for the info -- and please do!

It's difficult to draw for the line for chromatic characters for fantasy settings, but if a character's race, ethnicity or culture is analogous to the one in real life and that race/ethnicity/culture is chromatic, I think it would be safe to add them.

Personally I got a Pacific Islander vibe from Wakka, so I'd definitely vote for him being counted as chromatic!

Okay, good, I'm glad that wasn't just me! (And in that case, the Besaid Aurochs would all also count.) Some of my hesitation was based on the way racism works in the game and how racist Wakka is at points.

Erm, newbie here. What should we do on that spreadsheet if a fandom has chromatic characters who are not on the Yuletide master list? (I'm thinking specifically of 'Princess' Angeline in Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century.)

We've been using a shorthand "listed" and "unlisted" to note if a fandom has chromatic characters not nominated for Yuletide. For example, for Lost, Jin Kwon, Michael, Sayid Jarrah, Sun Kwon and Walt have been nominated for Yuletide and Ana Lucia Cortez, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes and Pierre Chang have not. So one way you could note the chromatic characters column is: "Yes (listed - Jin Kwon, Michael, Sayid Jarrah, Sun Kwon, Walt, unlisted - Ana Lucia Cortez, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Pierre Chang, ???)". Does that make sense?

Yes, thank you!

And fandoms with chromatic characters who aren't on the spreadsheet? Just add them the best we can figure out how, or leave that to the professional wranglers? (Zamira Drakasha, Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard sequence).

Anyone who worked on the spreadsheet is considered a wrangler and on equal footing so don't worry about experience -- go ahead and add any Yuletide fandoms not listed in the spreadsheet as best as you can. =)

I don't have a dreamwidth account, but I was directed here by a discussion in #yuletide on IRC and I have two discrepancies to report in the masterlist linked above.

1. The fandom 'Legion' has two qualifying chromatic characters, not one - and the one overlooked is also one-handed. Percy Walker is the name of the character in question.

2. The fandom 'Predators' wasn't on the sheet at all and has several qualifying characters.

Thanks!

Thank you for the info! For Predators, I listed Hanzo, Mombasa and Ronald Noland. Are they any more I should know about?

I'd think that Cuchillo would also qualify for Predators. Sorry, I'm half-asleep and not as coherent as I might be.

No worries - I think it's a mistake on my part. I meant Hanzo, Mombasa and Cuchillo, but for some reason I put Ronald Noland instead of Cuchillo. /o\

Thanks for confirming the qualifying characters list!

Or I'm half-asleep myself: Cuchillo, Hanzo, Mombasa *and* Ronald Noland.

Power Rangers Zeo - Adam Park, Tanya Sloan, Rocky Desantos, Tommy Oliver. I know I requested Adam/Tanya.

Power Rangers Turbo - Adam Park, Tanya Sloan, Tommy Oliver, TJ Johnson, Cassie Chan, Carlos Vallerte.

Power Rangers in Space - Cassie, Carlos and TJ all carry over

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Damon Henderson and Kai Chen

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue - Chad Lee and Joel Rawlings

Power Rangers Time Force - Katie Walker and Eric Meyers

Power Rangers Wild Force - Max Cooper, Danny Delgado and Alyssa Enrilé

Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Shane Clarke, Blake Bradley and Cam Watanabe

Power Rangers Dino Thunder - Tommy Oliver, Ethan James and Trent Fernandez

Power Rangers SPD - Jack Landors and Z Delgado (Also, Bridge Carson is Jewish, if someone is looking for Jewish characters.) At least one person has requested Bridge/Z.

Power Rangers Mystic Force - Nick Russell, Madison Rocca, Vida Rocca, Daggeron

Power Rangers Operation Overdrive - Will Aston, Dax, Rose Ortiz (Adam Park also shows up in this season)

Power Rangers Jungle Fury - Theo Martin

Power Rangers RPM - Scott Truman, Gem and Gemma

Thank you for all the information! We wouldn't have been able to gather as much of a comprehensive list of chromatic characters for the Power Rangers universe as this list you've compiled. They are all added to the Chromatic Yuletide 2010 Fandoms and Characters list -- thank you again!

Glad to help! I love this challenge. :)

Odd case - "Ben 10" refers to 3 US cartoons, Ben 10 and its sequel series Ben 10 Alien Force and Ultimate Alien. The latter two shows, which are what most of the fandom is based on, have two definitely chromatic chars (Julie Yamamoto and Alan Albright) and a few others who are indeterminate. Question is whether it counts as having a chromatic creator - while the creators of the original show were white, the head writer & show runner for Alien Force/Ultimate Alien is the awesome Dwayne McDuffie.

Hm, that's a tough call. We generally go by who's credited as creators and Dwayne McDuffie is definitely credited as being one of the creators for Ben 10 Alien Force & Ultimate Alien as well as Glen Murakami so I think yes to your question.

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