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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.
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!