YT18 Nominations Coordination

[morbane]

For Yuletide, you can nominate up to 3 fandoms and up to 4 characters in each fandom. See what you can nominate at the admin LJ or DW.

Nominations will run from the 12th to the 21st of September. Nominations will be approved after that, and the full tag set will be visible around 7 October.

Before tags are approved, you can only see your own nominations. So that you can make strategic use of your slots, we’ve set up a google form and spreadsheet for sharing information.

This form and spreadsheet allow you to

-enter what you’re planning to nominate
-edit your choices if you change your mind
-enter a wishlist of things you hope other people will nominate
-look at other people’s choices
-look at other people’s wishlists
-confirm your choices when you’ve submitted them on AO3

-and (NEW!) indicate whether your nominations are approved, rejected, or something else. This feature is now live. If you've submitted the form already, edit it and tick the new questions under Nominations. If you haven't, it will come up as part of a new form.

Click here to fill out the form.

You can fill out the form anonymously, or you can enter a name/code/identifier to mark which choices are yours. You can enter an email address, so that your response and a link to keep editing are automatically sent to you, or you can enter a fake email address and save the edit link at the end.

Consider also posting your nominations and confirmations in the comments - more people may be able to see them.

This is not your official nomination. It is optional. Your choices will only be included in this year’s Yuletide if you added them to the Yuletide 2018 tag set.

Nominations by fandom - separate lines for each person's choices
Nominations summary by fandom - all characters for a fandom summarised on one line

Wishlists by fandom - separate lines for each person's requests
Wishlists summary by fandom - all requested characters for a fandom summarised on one line

Feel free to use this post’s comments to brainstorm and discuss nominations.

You can promote your rare fandoms at the Promo Post.

This post is also on LJ.

Thanks to Moriann, and also Rosefox and N and various testers.

Comments

[rosehiptea]

I just want to ask if anyone else would be interested in Jordskott or The Kettering Incident. Those may be two of my nominations along with Interviews With Monster Girls.

[fiachairecht]

Jordskott! I was planning on nominating Bahar & Klara for sure, but I love everyone and haven't thought about what combination of Ylva/Ida/Eva/Esmeralda/Josefine I want to put in my last two character slots.

[trialia]

Shiny goodness! :)

Just finished filling in the wishlist & nomination spreadsheet forms to drop in my projected tags. I may have been keeping a notebook since last December with noms for 2018. *cough of slight embarrassment*

Anyway, I've yet to decide which my third-nominated fandom is going to be, so I put the three I'm trying to decide between into the wishlist, in case anybody else fancies picking one of them when reminded they exist (I have way too many fandoms, and too many of them qualify for Yuletide, and I know I am not the only one here in this situation *g*). I know Indexing has made it into the nomination list more than once before without any input from me, so I'm guessing that one may be quite likely to do so again.

Your Age of Adaline nom

[karios]

Would you consider adding Clarence James Prescott in your third character slot? So looking forward requesting/offering this film!

[scribe]

So I'm contemplating women's soccer! I've nominated a number of different subsets in the past and I'm not sure what I want this year. Anyone want to chime in? Thinking about possibly the CANWNT, maybe an NWSL team (probably the Spirit or Red Stars, maybe the Royals), maybe even NWSL teams anthropomorfic? With most of those I'd probably have some character spots open for other folks.

[iamtheenemy]

Christine Sinclair!

[blueinkedfrost]

This is amazing; thank you for this!

[morbane]

You're welcome! I notice something has gone weird with your Baldur's Gate character nominations on the second tab, but I've alerted the person who knows what the code is doing, to have a look at it when they can.

[emperor]

OMG Yuletide time again! *squee*

[moriann]

It's great seeing everyone's wishlists! Reminded me about some fandoms I forgot I was going to nominate.

Endeavour / Fever Pitch / Jeeves / Music Man

[innie_darling]

Thank you kindly for this post and spreadsheet!

I'm definitely nominating the 1997 film Fever Pitch and have two character slots still available, as I'm only nomming Paul and Steve.

There are a fair few fandoms that seem to crop up in Yuletide reliably year after year, but in case that doesn't happen, I've listed one in my wishlist, which right now stands at Endeavour, Jeeves, and The Music Man. Happy to discuss character slots for any of those as well.

Re: Endeavour / Fever Pitch / Jeeves / Music Man

[bakerloo]

I'm planning to nominate Jeeves , with Jeeves and Bertie for definite, but I'm happy to take suggestions for the other two characters. :3

Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman

[morbane]

Does anyone want to suggest characters for my 2 free slots?

[calliopes_pen]

For my third fandom slot, I'm torn between these:
House of Dark Shadows (1970) or Dark Shadows (1966)
Rebecca (1940)
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV 1966; with Denholm Elliott)
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
Universal Monster Movies
Dracula The Undead- Freda Warrington

If anyone is particularly interested in one of them, let me know and I'll edit it into the Google document.

[wiccanslyr]

Always a fan of the Universal Monsters

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be possible to make a traditional nomination post to encourage more actual discussion?

[morbane]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not interested in organising a parallel means of collecting people's nominations this year. I recommend that if you like discussion, you start a conversation by posting a comment about the nominations you're considering, or nominations you're pleased to see mentioned by others.

[wiccanslyr]

I have two of my three locked in, but I'm torn between

Anthropomorphic Ocean with Sharks, turtles, octopus and pufferfish as characters and Critical Role RPF (Liam O'brien, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, Matthew Mercer) as my final nod.

Do either of those hold more interest than the other for anyone?

[laurenthemself]

I'm open to the latter, and I can nominate other cast members as well if you have next preferences.

(Also criticalkink may be relevant to your interests if you are not already aware of it.)

[hiddencait]

Oh the struggle to keep my nomination list down to only 3 fandoms, but I decided on:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Book version since I do like it a bit more than the movie - just hoping the movie gets the fandom more attention!)
Juliet Ashton
Dawsey Adams
Kit McKenna
Sidney Stark

Innkeeper - Ilona Andrews
Dina Demille
Sean Evans
Gertrude Hunt
Orro

Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014)
Asbjorn (Northmen - A Viking Saga)
Inghean (Northmen - A Viking Saga)
Conall (Northmen - A Viking Saga)

If anyone desperately wants me to change out characters, give me a heads up, but I think I'm pretty set!

[katemacetak]

I'm thinking of nominating characters from the movie! I'll have to try to re-read the book too. I don't remember all of the differences.

[moriann]

I'll probably nom the following, but not 100% set yet, since I keep remembering fandoms I want to see - forgot to keep a lost this year!

Pitch (TV 2016)
Ginny Baker
Mike Lawson
Blip Sanders
Evelyn Sanders

Mission: Impossible (Movies)
Ilsa Faust
Ethan Hunt
Benji Dunn

Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon
Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia

A bit torn between games and the books on the last one, but I'm not sure how familiar people would be with books?

[kultiras]

Any chance you'd be willing to nominate William Brandt for Mission: Impossible (Movies)? That's the only other character I was planning on nominating besides the three you've already listed.

[vel]

Nominating:

Dark Tower - Stephen King
Roland Deschain
The Man in Black

The Stand - Stephen King
Randall Flagg
Nadine Cross
Lloyd Henreid

Wishmaster (1997)
The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest

All unused slots are open.

[rachelmanija]

You have good taste. ;)

Could you add Susannah Dean and Eddie Dean for Dark Tower, please? I'll hold off on the Stand for now in case someone else has an opinion.

[rachelmanija]

Is anyone planning on nominating True Detective and/or The Punisher (2017 TV)? I edited the google doc to take off the former, because I'm hoping to coordinate on one of these two. (My other two nominations are tiny fandoms and I'm likely to be the only person who requests them.

[schneefink]

Nominating:

Elemental Logic series - Laurie J. Marks
Emil Paladin
Medric
Zanja na'Tarwein
Karis

Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn
Muto Taku
?

I'm undecided on who else to nominate between any of Takeo's children, Yuki, Hiroshi, Sada... If anyone else is interested in this fandom (fingers crossed!) suggestions are welcome.

(I'm still deciding on a third fandom: I'm considering "Bloodrights" by N. Lee Wood, or "Spiderlight" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, or "Musketeer Space" by Tansy Rayner Roberts, or...)

Nominations

[(Anonymous)]

What have you nominated/are nominating?

My choices

GLOW (TV 2017)

Sebastian "Bash" Howard
Florian (GLOW)
Carmen Wade
Sam Sylvia

Will & Grace

Grace Adler
Karen Walker
Jack McFarland
Will Truman

Take Two (TV 2018)

Sam Swift (Take Two)
Eddie Valetik
Monica (Take Two)
Roberto "Berto" Vasquez

[valmora]

Nominations:

City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty
Nahri
Dara | Darayavahoush
Ali | Alizayd al Qahtani
Muntadhir al Qahtani

(I would've liked to nominate Jamshid, but there wasn't space. Also, I listened to the audiobook, so if I've spelled someone's name wrong please let me know!)


Gallow & Ragged series - Lilith Saintcrow
Jeremiah Gallow
Robin Ragged
Alastair Crenn

(if you want me to add a fourth character to this, let me know.)

[dolorosa_12]

Oh, I'm so happy someone has nominated City of Brass! I didn't have any nomination slots left, so I'm glad it will be in the tagset.

[karanguni]

With open slots:

The Culture
Cheradinine Zakalwe
Diziet Sma
GOU Falling outside The Normal Moral Constraints
OPEN SLOT

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
Keita Mori
Thaniel Steepleton
OPEN SLOT
OPEN SLOT

The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Emilio Sandoz
Anne Edwards
D.W. Yarbrough
Sofia Mendes

Happy to fill any open slots!

[karanguni]

This one's a long shot, because it's evidence-required-land, but if someone has a spare slot, I'd totally do the legwork to try for the inclusion of Small Gods - Terry Pratchett as sufficiently detached from the ---

I give up, I'll type evidence here, and if you Feel Like It, I'll happily copy pasta to the Evidence Post!

--

Fandom: Small Gods - Terry Pratchett

Possible issue with the fandom: This is a book within the larger Discworld universe, which is too big for yuletide. (Taken directly from the approved 2017 request for Monstrous Regiment - https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/29373.html?thread=167613#cmt167613)

Evidence for why this fandom should be considered eligible: Discworld is a large universe containing many distinct sets of storylines and characters. While there are broad sub-series, like the Watch and Wizards and Witches and Moist arcs, Small Gods is very much a standalone book. It can be read entirely independent of the rest of Discworld with no loss of reader comprehension.

It is set in a physical location that is not Ankh Morpork, the primary location of the majority of the series. It does not contain any of the major characters in AO3's broader, ineligible Discworld tag: Sam Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Death, Sybil Ramkin &c. Cameos by series-recurring characters are limited, short, and mostly exist to provide colour to the main story.

Would you like to nominate this for me? This is totally a good evidence post that I'm writin', and that's cuttin' me own throat.


Counts:
AO3 fics for Discworld that are over 1000 words, complete, and in English: 1027
FFN fics, same filters: 542

Eligible AO3 fics with the main character Brutha (6); other major characters - Vorbis, Om, etc - all have similar or lower counts.

[toujours_nigel]

I've nominated

Mahabharata - Vyasa
Draupadi
Krishna
Dhrishtadyumna
Amba | Shikhandi

The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Sandy Reid
Bunny
Lucy Odell Straike
Reg Barker

Hadestown - Mitchell
Persephone
Hades
Eurydice
Hermes

[greerwatson]

I've also nominated for The Charioteer:

Laurie Odell
Ralph Lanyon
Andrew Raynes
Alec Deacon

[erinptah]

Filled up my Daily/Colbert and Wizard of Oz nominations, so if anyone else is doing those, here's what not to overlap with:

Fake News FPF

?! Jon Stewart
?! "Stephen Colbert"
?! Charlene (TCR)
?! Tad the Building Manager


Oz - L. Frank Baum

?! Princess Ozma
?! Dorothy Gale
?! Patchwork Girl
?! Toto (Oz)

[levoi]

Thunderheart (1992)

      
• Ray Levoi
      
• Walter Crow Horse
      
• Maggie Eagle Bear
      
• Sam Reaches

Hotel Beau Séjour (TV Show)

      
• Kato Hoeven
      
• Sofia Otten
      
• Luc Hoeven
      
• Leon Vinken

Thelma (2017)

      
• Thelma Eva Brenne
      
• Anja Adams Lie
      
• * I'd love to nominate Thelma's grandmother, but I'm not entirely sure on how to go about that.

[rosehiptea]

I think you could just nominate her as "Thelma's grandmother" but you should double-check with the mods. And I'm thrilled to see someone nominate Thelma.

[silverr]

Monstress (comics)
Atena
Sophia
Maika Halfwolf
-- OPEN SLOT --

Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle) - C.L. Polk
Miles Singer
Grace Hensley
Tristan Hunter
Robin Thorpe

聖闘士星矢: 冥王神話 | Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
Aries Shion
Libra Dohko
Crane Yuzuriha
Altar Hakurei

Rock music RPF noms

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom: Nirvana (band)
Kurt Cobain
Krist Novoselic
Dave Grohl
Chad Channing

Fandom: The Verve
Richard Ashcroft
Nick McCabe

Fandom: Oasis (band)
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher

[trobadora]

I nominated:

Starfire series - Various Authors
- Zhaarnak'diaano | Zhaarnak'telmasa
- Raymond Prescott
- Uaaria'salath-ahn

Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason
- Ettin Gwarha
- Sanders Nicholas

Nantucket trilogy - S.M. Stirling
- Kashtiliash
- Raupasha

And a friend is nominating this for me:

1632 series - Various Authors
- John Chandler Simpson

If anyone wants any of the remaining slots, let me know!