Fandom Brainstorming for Yuletide 2012!

[snowynight]

I know there's a fandom brainstorming post up on the yuletide com, but I figure that there's no harm to set up a post for people who prefer commenting on dreamwidth. So what are the three fandoms you're going to nominate for this year?

My list of nomination fandom candidate:
Sengoku Basara: a fighting game/anime franchize with a playful spin on Japan Sengoku period and runs on Rule of Cool. My introduction post here.
The Ultimates (comics): I'm very excited about the coming event, with Miles, the Hispanic Spiderman, Kitty Pryde and Steve Rogers as the coming Big Three of the universe. The comics has realistic characterization of flawed superheroes who still saves the world. It also has a female basass normal Secretary of Defence.
枯葉之蝶| Love story (music video, lyric and translation): It has Dragon! This 's a short music video which cries for more world building.
大唐红颜赋 | Tang Dynasty Girl Poem (music video, lyric and translation): Awesome women! A great chance to write women being awesome, in Space, perhaps?
Young Allies: A very well done 6-issues superhero comics with Nomad, a girl out of her time and Anya, the Spidergirl kickass while being adorable together.
Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr: A novel set in 1980's with lesbian girl basketball players. And a lot of pining.

Comments

[silverfox]

RPF-Napoleonic Wars or Georgette Heyer-An Infamous Army (I haven't decided where I have a better chance of getting something with John Colborne. Or is it high time I gave up on my fandom of one?)

Georgette Heyer-The Black Moth

Georgette Heyer-Regency Buck

Forgotten Realms-Songs and Swords series (If I dare. I'm almost sure Forgotten Realms isn't eligible and the series won't count.)

[jessalae]

Wow, I'm really glad you posted this -- I hadn't been paying attention to the LJ comm at all, and would have totally missed that things were getting started if you hadn't brought it up here!

Right now my tentative three are:

Discworld (Moist von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart)
Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio, Tybalt)
The Newsroom (Neal, Kaylee)

But I also might want St. Trinian's, or Vorkosigan Saga, or Bring It On, or or or... there are just too many awesome small fandoms to choose from! My issue with my current three is that I'm 99% sure someone else will nominate the fandoms (the first two especially), but not so sure that they'll include the particular characters that I want, so I'll probably end up nominating them myself just to be on the safe side.

[devilc]

Some sub-series of forgotten realms books aren't eligible.

But some are.

For instance, the books about Drizzt Do Urden are not, but the trilogy that Salvatore wrote about the marvelous (and epic) misadventures of Jarlaxle and his muse (it's canon!) Artemis Entreri, are.

[silverfox]

Oh good, then I'm probably safe! I've just definitely promised to nominate it over on LJ.

And ah, yes, Entreri and Jarlaxle. I used to be very fond of those two as well ... but for some reason it's Elaith and Danilo that still hang around in my head after all these years. Are you interested in those as well? If we still get to nominate four characters per fandom I still have one slot free.

[devilc]

Elaith and Danilo are great!

[silverfox]

Yep. :)

Definitely nominating them and have been asked to add Arilyn, but I don't want to waste the fourth slot. Thinking about just throwing in Kehelben or Tincheron, but I'm not planning to request either ...

[graycardinal]

The Songs & Swords cycle has always been my very favorite Realms saga; from what I've heard, there have been off-and-on prospects for years that Cunningham may do one more book that would supposedly tie things up, but the dates keep shifting.

If I were nominating characters, I'd look at Elaith and Danilo and Arilyn for sure; Khelben would make sense as a fourth (it strikes me that one could do a lot with Khelben and Danilo, and possibly Khelben and Elaith as well). I am more likely to write this than request it, but I would/will be delighted to see it nominated.

[silverfox]

one more book that would supposedly tie things up, but the dates keep shifting
That would have been Reclamation. She started writing it, but apparently hit a plot hole or something, started over and missed the deadline. And since they weren't going to publish any pre-Spellplague books anymore it got cancelled entirely even though EC has said a few times that she might like a chance to finish it. (So never say never, but it isn't scheduled at all now.)

The other dates are probably for The Serpent's Daughter which was a post-Spellplague story about Azariah and also missed its deadline. *sob* This one was supposed to have a lot of Tincheron as well, which is why I thought of him. (Also not scheduled last thing I heard.)

I'll take Khelben then, unless somebody else comes up with another character they definitely want to request.