Fandom: Yuletide

[escritoireazul]

ETA: Between 2005 and 2018, I've written 69 stories for Yuletide. Oh yeah.

Yuletide's revving up for 2019 (yuletide_admin), and I'm eager to hear if you'll be participating and, if so, what fandoms you're considering. I'm thinking:

Touchstone series by Andrea K. Höst: Portal sci-fi first person diary about an Australian teen who ends up walking through a portal onto a different planet which has been abandoned by its people due to monsters. When she's finally rescued from that planet, she ends up on a second planet crowded with people who fled the first planet and surrounded by fantastic technology and an ongoing war against the monsters. It's iddy and tropey and absolutely wonderful. Main trilogy, Gratuitous Epilogue all about romances and children (no, really, that's the title of the book), and a fourth novel from a different character's POV.

United States of Asgard series by Tessa Gratton: Norse gods are real and living among humanity. World building is interesting, though I have complaints about how indigenous peoples are treated, but the characters are my favorite part. Excellent human characters, and Fenris Wolf also appears as a teen girl named Glory. She is truly glorious.

Kisses & Curses: Mobile game about witches and romances and trying to save the world. Wonderful bisexual main character, great romance options, and one of the more satisfying stories I've experienced in a mobile game.

Confident - Demi Lovato: The music video, not the song itself, because I will never, ever, ever get enough of those women fighting each other and banding together and all the ways that world building can go.

Pushing Daisies: Adorable and charming murder mystery tv show ended far too soon with a protagonist who can bring things back to life and a cast of characters I adore. I'm really craving warm, sweet, chosen family case fic shenanigans, but if that's the only thing I want, period, I won't request it because that's not fair to a potential author. I want to give multiple prompts, any one of which I would be delighted to receive.

Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Specifically focuses on Corrie Swanson (a teen in one of my favorite books who grows up to become an FBI agent) and Nora Kelly (a smart, brash anthropologist). Conveniently, a book about those two specifically just came out, which delighted me and made me want more stories about them.

Hobbs & Shaw: This would need an evidence post to separate it from the main Fast and the Furious series, which is ineligible, and I'm not sure such an argument would be all that successful since Luke and Deckard both appear in multiple Fast and Furious movies, but I am dying for Hattie Shaw and Samantha Hobbs fic, among a ton of other ideas.

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[gloss]

69 stories
I mean. It has to be said. NICE.

[escritoireazul]

Heh heh heh.

[kore]

69 stories, yesssss!

I really want to sign up, but the most I'll do is sign up for one (1) pinch hit -- I love writing treats, it's so low-pressure and fun, altho it's also gotten so low-pressure I never do them, argle. But I definitely want to try this year. Someone actually nominated this long epic poem by William Morris I studied in school! I'd be too intimidated to even try to write something for it, but it's neat that it was nominated.

[escritoireazul]

I love seeing what rare things people nominate for Yuletide. That Morris poem sounds like an amazing nomination.

[gramarye1971]

I've been hooked on the Madoka Magica spinoff mobile game, and it has enough original characters and story to make it a separate canon from the original (ineligible) anime series, so I'm definitely nominating it. Not sure what else yet, though - I haven't been very fannish this year.

[escritoireazul]

I keep hearing good things about Madoka Magica but haven't given it a try yet.

[gramarye1971]

It's a visually impressive series and has some good moments, though it's definitely a Dark Magical Girl show, and to me the TV series has an unsatisfying ending -- I found the continuation movie (Madoka Magica: Rebellion) more enjoyable for its willingness to take a whack at some of the tropes of self-sacrifice that frustrated me in the series. The mobile game, though, has some very sweet moments -- not least because it seems to focus on overcoming the despair and isolation that make magical girls self-destruct -- and there's lots of room for fic.

[marginaliana]

69 stories, heh. :D

I am totally in for this year, but still pondering nominations. Definitely going with The Hidden Almanac and probably also Jeff Vandermeer's Area X series. I'm also feeling the Good Omens RPF, because of course I am. But will someone else nominate that? Fairly likely. Which means I could come up with something else. I was idly thinking about nominating the Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights painting. Characters: ear with a knife, pig nun, etc.

Oooh but wait, omg, I've just realized that I could nominate this one really terrible poem just to see what someone might do with it. Hmmm.

[escritoireazul]

The Bosch Garden nomination sounds delightful, really!

What terrible poem? I swear there was one nominated within the last couple years for a similar reason. About bridges, maybe?

[wendelah1]

Between 2005 and 2018, I've written 69 stories for Yuletide. Oh yeah.

That's impressive.

I might nominate to up the odds of someone requesting something I might conceivably write. I'm not going to participate except as a pinch hitter.

[escritoireazul]

Thanks!

Pinch hitting is a great way to participate, and I can see how nominating could help increase the odds.

[ozqueen]

Wow, that's an impressive tally!

I've been thinking about my nominations too -- I think it'll depend a lot on what I receive for Trick or Treat.

Ones I'm tossing around:
- The Baby-sitters Club, which I know you're familiar with ♥ YA/children's series about a group of pre-teen/teenage girls starting a baby-sitters club and their lives in Smalltown Connecticut
- Captain Planet, a '90s kids' cartoon series about 5 teenagers who are gifted magic rings, each with a different element, and when powers are combined they summon a superhero, the whole point of their mission is to reduce/reuse/recylcle and save the earth from pollution.
- Heartbeat (UK TV, almost but not quite "cosy mystery", about the police station/policemen from a tiny village in 1960s Yorkshire)
- Little Women ('94 movie or book? or both!), and most of my love is for the second book where Jo leaves home, goes to New York, falls slowly in love with Professor Bhaer, and is ripe for angst over Beth's death
- The Thorn Birds, a sweeping Australian romance novel featuring an illicit love affair with a priest and fucked up family dynamics
- Strike, the TV series based on the Cormoran Strike books, a private detective and his plucky assistant, Robin

I would be delighted to see Pushing Daisies in the tagset! I've only ever written it as part of a BSC crossover but maybe this is the year I finally fulfill my love of Found Family with those particular characters ♥

[escritoireazul]

Never enough BSC fic. Never.

I've been tossing around thoughts of Little Women myself! One of the things I want is a werewolf AU (since Little Women & Werewolves did not work for me), but I haven't decided which would be the best one to nominate or what other prompts I want. I'll probably hold off on it until next Trick or Treat.

Wait, a BSC/Pushing Daisies crossover? I have no memory of this at all, so I should track that down! Its sounds great.

[beerbad]

Not the same, I know, but I am counting down the days until the Hobbs & Shaw digital release so I can start making a Hattie vid XD

[escritoireazul]

Oh my god, the joy you have just brought me! I can't wait to see this.

[schneefink]

So many stories! Kudos!

I'll almost certainly ask for The Inheritance Trilogy, probably The Untamed, and not sure about the third fandom yet. Maybe Echoes of the Fall?, if I have time to reread it before nominations.