Yuletide 2010 Eligible Fandoms

[dark_administrator]

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:

• If the Yuletide Eligible Fandoms list opens without line breaks, try saving the document and opening it in WordPad.
  
• If you're having trouble viewing the special characters and you're using Firefox, go to View > Character Encoding > Auto-detect > Universal.

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.

Comments

spreadsheet comments

[jadelennox]

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.

Re: spreadsheet comments

[dark_administrator]

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!