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Brainstorming 2015
By request, a Dreamwidth version of the LJ post.
We've had the Yuletide schedule, so that must mean it's time to start brainstorming!
What are you excited about nominating? What are you still on the fence about? What are you hoping to persuade someone else to nominate? Or do you just feel like sharing some squee?
Like last year, we get we get three fandom nominations each with up to four characters per fandom.
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yuletide_admin, rather than commenting here.
We've had the Yuletide schedule, so that must mean it's time to start brainstorming!
What are you excited about nominating? What are you still on the fence about? What are you hoping to persuade someone else to nominate? Or do you just feel like sharing some squee?
Like last year, we get we get three fandom nominations each with up to four characters per fandom.
If you have any questions about Yuletide and how it runs, it's best to email yuletideadmin@gmail.com or comment on a post at
yuletide_admin, rather than commenting here.
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I have a long list of possibilities and no real preferences. (I'm fairly heavily medicated right now and simply don't care about much of anything. I'm really looking forward to not needing this medication any more.)
Let's see. I've gotten fics for the following in the past, but they still appeal to me.
The Witch Family - Eleanor Estes
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians - Brandon Sanderson
Planet Ladder
But then there are all of these things that could be fun and that I've not gotten fic for before. Some of them, I'm not entirely sure there's any fic for at all.
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (TV) - But only for fic about the fictional characters. I'm uncomfortable with RPF generally, and RPF about kids... I'm definitely not on board with that. The only fic I've seen for this is on FFnet and appears to be self insert RPF.
Mother of Demons - Eric Flint
Sky High
Drujienna's Harp - Ellen Kindt McKenzie
The Princes of Earth - Michael Kurland
Morrow Series - H.M. Hoover
Mother of Demons - Eric Flint
Hellspark - Janet Kagan
Nuala series - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Alfreda books - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Athanarel books - Jane Lindskold
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls - Jane Lindskold
Ravirn books - Kelly McCullough
The Silver Crown - Robert C. O'Brien
Bureau 13 - Nick Pollatta - The novels based on the game rather than the game itself. I liked the books, but I've never played the game.
Ukiah Oregon series - Wen Spencer
Sector General series - James White
Judge Dee series - Robert van Gulik
Would anybody else be interested in any of these?
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Do you mean Sherwood Smith's Athanarel books?
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It's a duology. Changer is the first book. The second book was originally published as Legends Walking but has been rereleased by Obisidian Tiger (which I've never heard of before looking at Lindskold's website, so I'm assuming it's a small press) as Changer's Daughter.
The Athanor are magical beings of various sorts who live, hidden, in the real world. Many of them are human, at least in appearance, but some are animals. If I recall correctly, they're all unaging once they reach maturity. Some of them have magical powers; some don't.
The titular character, the Changer, is one of the two oldest of the Athanor and is a shapeshifter of incredible versatility. If I recall correctly, he's old enough to remember a time before humans. There's a large cast of characters with complicated histories-- If I'm recalling correctly, the same person was both Gilgamesh and King Arthur. Athena is a character, and so is Loki. The book does start with someone murdering the Changer's current family, all coyotes (or wolves?) as a way of getting his attention. There's not so much death after that. The daughter in the title of the other book is the Changer's only surviving coyote pup.
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I liked The Silver Crown better than Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (which, naturally, I read first because it was so widely available and recommended). I never quite clicked with Z for Zachariah, and Report from Group 17 was off putting for some reason (I don't remember a thing about it now, so I have no idea why I didn't care for it. I think I still have a copy, so I suppose I could reread).
Unfortunately, for health reasons, I'm not going to be able to do Yuletide this year. I was really hoping I could, but I'm going to be doing radiation therapy through the entirety of the writing period, and the odds of having to default if I did sign up are high enough that I don't want to risk it.
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