lirazel: Pooh and Piglet in a snowy field, the text reads, '"Is it Yuletide yet?' asked Piglet hopefully."" ([misc] yuletide)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2023-09-19 12:26 pm

Yuletide Brainstorming

THE TIME APPROACHES.

Literally every year since 2009, I have said, “I can’t believe it’s already time for Yuletide nominations.”

But, at the risk of being annoying, for the fourteenth year in a row:

I can’t believe it’s already time for yuletide nominations!

Yes, nominations are open and I haven't even thought about what I'm going to nominate yet! Help me think?

The Queen's Thief isn't even eligible anymore! We finally did it! Yuletide is what made me read those books in the first place, and I think of them as the Classic Yuletide Fandom and now: nope! This feels like an accomplishment!

This year, I'm not feeling a lot of "omg, I need _____ fic!" feelings the way I do some years. So I'll probably lean towards worldbuilding requests, where I won't ask for specific character but would instead just like to revisit the worlds from those stories again. Some ideas:

+ Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
+ This Is New Gehesran Calling
+ The Mimicking of Known Successes
+ Chalice
+ Hainish cycle?


But maybe I'll also do a deep dive and request M.M. Kaye's Shadow of the Moon again, I haven't done that in a while. Or perhaps one of my old favorite kdramas--SUFBB or White Christmas, perhaps.


Even if you don't intend to participate in Yuletide this year, please feel free to talk about what tiny fandoms you'd like to see more fic for!
thisbluespirit: (yuletide)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2023-09-19 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It's always so hard to narrow it down, isn't it? I don't even know most of those, but JS&MN is always particularly good for world-building, it's true.
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[personal profile] greenwoodside 2023-09-19 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Also umming and ah-ing. A Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell fanfic sounds like it would be a public service.

I'm thinking of offering canons that I haven't read/seen but want to. When I'm under pressure from work, I just revert to comfort reading or losing myself rather mindlessly in big games like Witcher 3. Think Yuletide could be a good way of giving myself a kick up the arse, because I do appreciate new stuff when I get around to it.
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[personal profile] evewithanapple 2023-09-20 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I am for sure nominating this video about fixing the third Mummy movie. Probably also going to nominate Anastasia (1997) and A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger - but I still don't know what my fourth nom will be!
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[personal profile] chestnut_pod 2023-09-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*sending frantic Chalice urges to the Yuletide gods*

There's just so much space in that lovely, lightly sketched book for more stories! As you well know, of course. I could read a hundred tales of Chalices and their demesnes and still want more.
une_jonquille: (fallen angels)

[personal profile] une_jonquille 2023-09-21 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I have the energy to participate, but I just checked and Valkyria Chronicles is eligible. Someday I will get my Rosie-centric fic. Someday!
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[personal profile] elperian 2023-09-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Based on my comment for the last post, har har: The Witch of Blackbird Pond! I do love the one fic you wrote for that, so \o/