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Brainstorming 2016 -- pimp your fandoms!
According to the Yuletide Schedule, nominations begin in a little over two weeks. What are you thinking about nominating? What are you hoping to get other participants interested in?
Use this post to drum up interest in the Yuletide-sized fandoms of your heart. Tell us what you like about them, and where we can find canon sources or primers. You may get a new convert to your tiny fandom, or remind someone of that thing they used to love but thought nobody else cared about.
This post is meant for fandom promotion/discussion only. If you have problems/questions about how Yuletide is run, you should hop over to the yuletide-admin comm on Dreamwidth or Livejournal to ask a mod.
Use this post to drum up interest in the Yuletide-sized fandoms of your heart. Tell us what you like about them, and where we can find canon sources or primers. You may get a new convert to your tiny fandom, or remind someone of that thing they used to love but thought nobody else cared about.
This post is meant for fandom promotion/discussion only. If you have problems/questions about how Yuletide is run, you should hop over to the yuletide-admin comm on Dreamwidth or Livejournal to ask a mod.
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Fandom: Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God
Category: Anime (12 episodes + 1 bonus on the BD/DVD set)
Comments: Sunday Without God takes place in a world where people can no longer give birth or die naturally, and the only way someone can truly die is if a gravekeeper buries them. Twelve-year-old Ai is one such gravekeeper, and when her village is destroyed, she sets out on a journey to save the world and meets a number of interesting people along the way. It's very beautiful, and more hopeful than the initial premise might imply, being more more about the wishes people make and the consequences of those wishes coming true. Most of all the series is more focused on Ai helping everyone she meets, and the places she and her friends visit.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
Watch the opening here!
Crunchyroll used to have the episodes up, and may restore them soon, and The Anime Network requires a premium account. If you go for torrent/downloads, go for rips of the official subs, since the fansubs mangled a few plot-crucial lines.
Fandom: Stray Little Devil
Category: Manga (5 volumes)
Comments: Stray Little Devil is about a young girl named Pam Akumachi who gets sucked into a world were only devils and angels live, and she gets turned into a devil herself! As she tries to find a way back to her home world, she becomes friends with devils Raim and Vine and grows closer to the standoffish angel Linfa, who looks just like her best friend Rinka. Over the course of the series, she learns more about being a devil and the history of this new world. It's a lighthearted manga, and it even has canon yuri! Surprise canon f/f is the best f/f.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
A cute image of Pam and Linfa getting married!
The manga is five volumes and out-of-print, but scans are easy enough to find on most online readers.
Fandom: Venus Versus Virus
Category: Manga (8 volumes), anime (12 episodes)
Comments: Venus Versus Virus is about a middle-school girl named Sumire Takahana who gets attacked by a violent ghost but is saved by a mysterious young hunter named Lucia Nahashi. After Sumire develops strange powers of her own, she joins Lucia in hunting these ghostlike "Viruses." As Sumire grows stronger, she learns more of Lucia's past and the true nature of her powers, and there's plenty of yuri subtext too.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
Watch on Funimation's streaming site
Watch the opening here!
The manga is eight volumes and also out-of-print, but scans can be found on most online readers.
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What's the AO3 fic limit for Yuletide? Sakamoto desu ga? has 40 as of this writing...does that make it Yuletide-worthy? It's such a beautifully madcap bit of worldbuilding, I'd love to play in it.
I'm really hoping the excellent time travel visual novel/anime Steins;Gate gets nominated again. The official North America/Europe PS4/PS Vita release of Steins;Gate 0 is supposedly coming out before Yuletide, and I think I read at least one rumor that the original VN is coming to Steam next month...?? Something to think about!!
I really enjoyed the Nethack fanfic in Yuletide last year as well as the (non-Yuletide) Caves of Qud fanfic/Twine: would more roguelike fanfic interest people? I'd probably be willing to write for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood, and Dungeonmans. If we want to venture outside the mostly-pure roguelike world, how about Faster than Light or Crypt of the NecroDancer?
Also, apparently while there is fanfic of some Jorge Luis Borges stories on AO3, there isn't any based on "Garden of Forking Paths" or "Library of Babel", which seems like a crime.
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Edit: I'm not sure if I'll have room, but the Borges stuff sounds amazing as well. :)
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The film is not available on DVD in the U.S., but is in the U.K. in Region 2 format. https://www.amazon.com/Suite-Fran%C3%A7aise-NON-USA-FORMAT-Reg-2/dp/B00UNPX4XM
You may be able to find it online (this YouTube link works at the time of this post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXJ851k_RVI)
The novel is on Amazon Kindle and paperback here: https://www.amazon.com/Suite-Fran-aise-Ir-ne-N-mirovsky/dp/1400096278/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Historical (Early Envoronmentalist) RPF: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir
The year was 1903. President Teddy Roosevelt was out surveying the country, taking in its natural beauty, making stump speeches, and being generally annoyed that he had to "hang out with the public" and not just go and run and hike and shoot things on his own.
One of the stops along the way was Yosemite, the favorite of early naturalist John Muir. TR met John Muir, and within hours was planning to ditch the entourage and go on a three-day solo camping trip with his new naturalist friend. Muir agreed to show him around, and began the trip at the Mariposa Grove. On the way they saw Sentinel Dome, Glacier Point, and Yosemite Valley. Muir tried to "do some forest good in talking freely around the campfire." TR, when asked about Muir, is quoted as saying "Of course of all the people in the world, he was the one with whom it was best worth while thus to see the Yosemite."
There was a snow storm the second night of their trip, they argued about birds (TR knew WAY MORE about birds than Muir did, and it frustrated him), they "talked for hours around a camp fire." There's so much there: two men who love the wilderness alone together for days.
Check it out: all the historians ship it: http://www.pbs.org/video/1633380446 (11 min video)
What did they get up to during their time there? Maybe it was just sniping about birds at each other, Muir waxing poetic about the majesty and entreating the president to protect these lands. Maybe something more? Who knows!
Just some ideas
Simoun, 1-season anime with mystical flying machines, some interesting gender issues, and working together!
Sucker Punch (2011), which I don't precisely RECOMMEND to all, but is a verse I would love more stories in.
Robin McKinley books
Songs and music videos generally
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman - fun superhero novel about a wannabe supervillain and a newbie to the superhero business. I really like the atmosphere.
More to come, I guess!
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Anyone nominating Dunk and Egg or The Rogue Prince/Princess and the Queen novellas? These produced some fantastic fic last year. If pushed to nominate one, I'd go for the TRP/TPATQ pair rather than the series.
The upside: It's basically spot-the-English-history but with dragons. Political intrigue, battles, romance, complicated characters, grey-on-grey morality lots of room for filling in the gaps in canon. IIRC the novellas only have 80,000 words so they're quick to read.
The downside: A dozen main players makes nominating four characters difficult. Faux-historical-text might not appeal to everyone.
Julian May's Galactic Milieu/Exiles Saga books are a YT regular. Hard sci-fi dressed up as fantasy in the first four, murder mystery sci-fi with aliens and mind powers in the last four. Sadly, Yuletide seems to be the only time these books ever get fic.
The upside: It's basically Wagner's Ring in space, crossed with X-men, Anglo-Saxon mythology and more than a dash of Star Wars. There's a character to suit everyone's taste and some of them have truly astonishing character arcs. Pokes fun at plenty of sci-fi tropes and mythology.
The downside: There are nine books, so probably not the thing for picking up a new fandom before October. Cast of thousands again.
Definitely nominating The Sinking of the Laconia, a BBC miniseries about the 1942 sinking of a Royal Navy troop ship carrying civilians and POWs. It runs for about two hours and is readily available on Youtube in German and English with subtitles.
The upsides: The aftermath, the response from the various Powers That Be, and especially the shifting relationships between the rescued passengers and the U-boat crew, avoid a lot of the war film cliches. It sticks to historical accuracy where data is available instead of dishing out the Hollywood treatment. Lindsay Duncan from Rome is in it.
The downsides: Occasionally feels like Das Boot crossed with Titanic.