Yuletide 2010: What I Did Nominate

[starlady]

For those of you who don't know it, I wholeheartedly recommend the Chromatic Yuletide 2010 challenge hosted by dark_agenda in honor of the late skywardprodigal, who is already much missed.

So I nominated:

Disney Princess Superheroes - chromatic characters are Jasmine, Mulan, and Tinker Bell  Tiana

Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore (white creator) - chromatic character is Nimira (pimp post/review here)

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi - chromatic creator, chromatic characters are Ore and Sade (pimp post/review here)

the Clockwork Century by Cherie Priest (white creator) - multiple chromatic characters including Croggon Hainey

and NPR RPF and Paradise Kiss, which were already nominated.

Comments

[seekingferret]

Yeah, I've been trying to think about how I could up the chromatic character count in my nominations. It's sort of difficult to do with opera fandoms, unless we want to get into the really faily orientalist ones. And of course with modern color-blind casting we see a lot of these classic roles sung by non-white singers, but that never quite fixes the problem.

I do have plenty of chromatic sources that I'd love to see fic for, but I'm sort of skeptical that even Yuletide could produce Dhalgren fic. Hmm... I could probably swap out Six Characters in Search of an Author for Haroun and the Sea of Stories and still expect the same sort of meta-story I'm hoping for.

[starlady]

Oo, that's an awesome idea. I love Haroun so much.

I know someone at least nominated Triton…on the other hand I think Yuletide might be the only possible place for Dhalgren fic.

[seekingferret]

Well, I just went ahead and changed my nominations to include Dhalgren. We'll see...