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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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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.