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kindkitYuletide will be starting soon! Yuletide! Yuletide!
Ahem. *gathers dignity*
I wasn't expecting to have to decide my nominations quite this early (though I am fairly certain that the mods' plan to require 2 nominations for a fandom to be approved will be changed, given the overwhelmingly negative response). So this is a sort of thinking-out-loud post. Do feel free to comment if you have thoughts, and anonymous commenting is enabled for this post on DreamWidth in case you have a comment along the lines of "I would offer to write that!"
My main fannish interest right now is still the world wars, and the problem is that there are so many fandoms I'd love fic in.
Colditz: POW television drama about life inside, and escape attempts from, the infamous high-security Oflag IVC, Colditz Castle. I didn't nominate or request Colditz last year because I got wonderful Colditz fic the year before, but it's a fandom I'm still deeply in love with. It's tiny, but not as tiny as many of my other world wars fandoms. Another advantage is that there are many many characters I'd be thrilled to get fic about.
King Rat (bookverse): dark POW novel set in Changi, a camp in Singapore. This fandom has canonical queer characters! One of whom is a trans* woman! And it's all handled pretty well considering the novel was written in the 1960s! (Obviously this is relative--the book is not at all fail-free.) It would be so cool to get fic that could have queer solidarity between canonically queer characters.
Manhunt: TV drama about a woman French resistance member in possession of valuable information, and the two men (a Franco-British SOE operative and a downed RAF pilot) who have to get her to Britain or, if they can't, kill her; it's also about the Germans who are trying to catch them. At its best, this is fantastic drama in the classic 1960s/1970s British TV vein--intelligent, witty, thoughtful, morally complex. At its worst, it's a hot mess of misogyny, and it's never what I'd call good on gender issues. But there are tons of fic possibilities.
Wings: TV drama about the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, which also addresses the home front and things like class. Fanfic-wise, this one is a bit tricky for me in that I don't much care for the main character, but it does have a great secondary character (known affectionately to the two people in the fandom as Captain Awesome). I could always request him and ask that Main Character be kept to a minimum.
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Amazing 1943 movie about the life of a British career officer, his long friendship with a German officer, and the three women who've most affected his life (all three played by Deborah Kerr). I requested this last year and I might try again this year. (I absolutely loved the story I got last year in a different fandom, so it's not a matter of disappointment. Just a matter of my wanting fic in all my beloved little tiny fandoms.)
Outside of the "world wars megafandom," there are some other fandoms I'm also thinking of nominating.
Round the Horne: Late 1960s BBC radio comedy show featuring the gorgeously camp, hilarious, polari-speaking Julian and Sandy, played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, respectively. Another request from last year that I may recycle. The drawback to this one is that the source material is difficult (read: expensive as hell) to get hold of, although it's sketch comedy and not arc-y drama, so you don't have to know the whole canon to write it.
Endeavour: This is the Inspector Morse spinoff that aired earlier this year. I fell in love with Morse's boss, Inspector Thursday, and would love fic about him. (And as a bonus, it's canonical that he served in the really brutal Italian campaign that started in 1943, so there could be a war story too!)
Callan: Late 1960s/early 1970s spy drama of the grim and ironic variety. With Edward Woodward and Anthony Valentine having foe-yay all over the place.
Performance: 1970 film about a gangster on the run (James Fox) who takes refuge in the house of a retired pop star (Mick Jagger). Things get weird, and also very homoerotic. I just watched this film a few days ago and it's quite something.
And there are a couple of fandoms I probably won't nominate myself, because other people will surely do so, but that I might request.
The Charioteer: For some reason, a couple of months ago I got a sharp craving to request Yuletide fic about Bim Taylor, who is in the book for maybe two pages (he's the camp man with the unrequited crush on Ralph, who turns out to be a war hero fighter pilot). I like the way Bim subverts the "camp and effeminacy and obviousness are BAD BAD BAD" ethos that's so strong in most of the book. Plus, fighter pilot.
Sherlock Holmes: My re-read has made me crave some good Holmes fic, particularly though not exclusively fic where they really do go on an arctic expedition after the events of "Black Peter." Drawback here is that, while I slash them like crazy, I'm a bit tired of the standard Holmes-slash narrative, which is "how, despite many obstacles both concrete and emotional, Holmes and Watson finally realized their TRUE LOVE for each other, probably while solving a case." I'd love to see someone do something different with them, preferably keeping the slash but not in such an absolutely predictable-down-to-the-last-trope way. ETA: Not eligible. There's a lot more bookverse fanfic than I thought, and even if there wasn't, I guess under the new rules the existence of Sherlock fic would make the characters of Holmes and Watson ineligible anyway. *sigh*
Okay, that was long and I think I haven't so much narrowed my choices down as realized how much I want more fic for every single one of these fandoms. (WRITE FIC FOR ME! WRITE IT NOW! OBEY THE GLOW CLOUD!)
Ahem. *gathers dignity*
I wasn't expecting to have to decide my nominations quite this early (though I am fairly certain that the mods' plan to require 2 nominations for a fandom to be approved will be changed, given the overwhelmingly negative response). So this is a sort of thinking-out-loud post. Do feel free to comment if you have thoughts, and anonymous commenting is enabled for this post on DreamWidth in case you have a comment along the lines of "I would offer to write that!"
My main fannish interest right now is still the world wars, and the problem is that there are so many fandoms I'd love fic in.
Colditz: POW television drama about life inside, and escape attempts from, the infamous high-security Oflag IVC, Colditz Castle. I didn't nominate or request Colditz last year because I got wonderful Colditz fic the year before, but it's a fandom I'm still deeply in love with. It's tiny, but not as tiny as many of my other world wars fandoms. Another advantage is that there are many many characters I'd be thrilled to get fic about.
King Rat (bookverse): dark POW novel set in Changi, a camp in Singapore. This fandom has canonical queer characters! One of whom is a trans* woman! And it's all handled pretty well considering the novel was written in the 1960s! (Obviously this is relative--the book is not at all fail-free.) It would be so cool to get fic that could have queer solidarity between canonically queer characters.
Manhunt: TV drama about a woman French resistance member in possession of valuable information, and the two men (a Franco-British SOE operative and a downed RAF pilot) who have to get her to Britain or, if they can't, kill her; it's also about the Germans who are trying to catch them. At its best, this is fantastic drama in the classic 1960s/1970s British TV vein--intelligent, witty, thoughtful, morally complex. At its worst, it's a hot mess of misogyny, and it's never what I'd call good on gender issues. But there are tons of fic possibilities.
Wings: TV drama about the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, which also addresses the home front and things like class. Fanfic-wise, this one is a bit tricky for me in that I don't much care for the main character, but it does have a great secondary character (known affectionately to the two people in the fandom as Captain Awesome). I could always request him and ask that Main Character be kept to a minimum.
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Amazing 1943 movie about the life of a British career officer, his long friendship with a German officer, and the three women who've most affected his life (all three played by Deborah Kerr). I requested this last year and I might try again this year. (I absolutely loved the story I got last year in a different fandom, so it's not a matter of disappointment. Just a matter of my wanting fic in all my beloved little tiny fandoms.)
Outside of the "world wars megafandom," there are some other fandoms I'm also thinking of nominating.
Round the Horne: Late 1960s BBC radio comedy show featuring the gorgeously camp, hilarious, polari-speaking Julian and Sandy, played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, respectively. Another request from last year that I may recycle. The drawback to this one is that the source material is difficult (read: expensive as hell) to get hold of, although it's sketch comedy and not arc-y drama, so you don't have to know the whole canon to write it.
Endeavour: This is the Inspector Morse spinoff that aired earlier this year. I fell in love with Morse's boss, Inspector Thursday, and would love fic about him. (And as a bonus, it's canonical that he served in the really brutal Italian campaign that started in 1943, so there could be a war story too!)
Callan: Late 1960s/early 1970s spy drama of the grim and ironic variety. With Edward Woodward and Anthony Valentine having foe-yay all over the place.
Performance: 1970 film about a gangster on the run (James Fox) who takes refuge in the house of a retired pop star (Mick Jagger). Things get weird, and also very homoerotic. I just watched this film a few days ago and it's quite something.
And there are a couple of fandoms I probably won't nominate myself, because other people will surely do so, but that I might request.
The Charioteer: For some reason, a couple of months ago I got a sharp craving to request Yuletide fic about Bim Taylor, who is in the book for maybe two pages (he's the camp man with the unrequited crush on Ralph, who turns out to be a war hero fighter pilot). I like the way Bim subverts the "camp and effeminacy and obviousness are BAD BAD BAD" ethos that's so strong in most of the book. Plus, fighter pilot.
Okay, that was long and I think I haven't so much narrowed my choices down as realized how much I want more fic for every single one of these fandoms. (WRITE FIC FOR ME! WRITE IT NOW! OBEY THE GLOW CLOUD!)
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Date: 2013-09-02 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 02:07 am (UTC)I have seen a lot of nominations in past years that make me think some folks just want to be as obscure as possible. Then again, someone could easily think that about my nominations/requests, which are all things I'm genuinely craving.
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Date: 2013-09-02 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 04:18 pm (UTC)