Chromatic Yuletide 2020!

[ashling]

(language used from Chromatic Yuletide 2018 and Femslash Festivus 2020)

Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of color. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.

Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of color.

(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of color" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of color; please just use your best judgment.)

What you must include:
Your AO3 name
Whatever fandoms & characters of color you're requesting

What you should probably include:
Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
A brief description of your canon or a link to a canon promo, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people & you want to boost interest in it

If you write for one of these requests, you can tag your fic with 'Chromatic Yuletide' to help readers find your fic :)

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[beatrice_otter]

AO3 Name: Beatrice Otter

Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Letter: https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/411137.html#cutid2
My characters: Jane, Zen, Che
(tw: for brainwashing)
Dirty Computer is an album-length music video ("Emotion Picture") by Janelle Monae. It is queer, afrofuturist, dystopian hope-punk. The songs are gorgeous, the videos are lush and amazing (and NSFW). It takes place in a near-future world where people who don't fit into society are considered "dirty computers" in need of "cleaning," by which they mean wiping your memories. Janelle Monae's character gets caught, and the cleaning begins. (tw: for brainwashing) Most of the music video is her memories of her life, and she (and her boyfriend and girlfriend) escape at the end.


将军在上 | Oh My General (Web Series)
Letter: https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/411137.html#cutid
My characters: Ye Zhao, Zhao Yujin, Concubine Yang, Xuan'er
Oh My General is a Chinese webseries (60 45-minute episodes) set in historical China. It is about a woman who disguises herself as a man and becomes an incredibly successful general. Then after the war is over, she reveals herself and the Emperor orders her to marry his useless nephew, who isn't happy about it to begin with. I won't lie, there are some bits about gender that make me cringe, and also at one or two points the general sexually harasses her new husband and it's played for laughs because she's a woman and he's a man, but overall it wasn't enough to stop me from enjoying the show. Besides doing a lot of stuff playing around with gender, it's also very bisexual and polyamorous. The prince she marries already has three concubines, and they all live together in a large household, and the concubines regularly sigh over how much they adore the general, and the general definitely flirts with them a bit at times.

One Day at a Time (2016-present) (first three seasons are on Netflix, season four is currently airing on CBS)
Letter: https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/411137.html#cutid6
My characters: Penelope Alvarez, Elena Alvarez
ODaaT is a sitcom about a divorced Latino nurse, her two children, her mother (who lives with them), and their landlord. It is funny, heartfelt, socially conscious without being preachy, and just an all-around good time.



The Martian (2015) available on Amazon Prime
Letter: https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/411137.html#cutid7
My characters: Vincent Kapoor
The Martian is the story of a NASA astronaut who accidentally gets stuck on Mars. Vincent Kapoor is the director of the mission back on earth who is coordinating everything and putting together all the pieces needed to save the astronaut. And he does an awesome job of it, and I would LOVE to know more about him. In the book, Venkat Kapoor is an Indian-American (as in the subcontinent). In the movie, Vincent Kapoor is an African-American who had one parent who was a Baptist and one who was a Hindu, so might be biracial.