Yuletide nominations!

[springgreen]

Eeeeeee! Yuletide nominations!

I am going to nominate Angel Sanctuary, Meljean Brook's Guardian series, and Jay Chou's music video of Qing Hua Ci, but I am coming up blank for other stuff! People! What should I nominate? What are you nominating? Trading and bargaining completely acceptable!

(OMG it is so good knowing that this year, I will not be desperately trying to write papers and finish final projects while also trying to write my Yuletide fic!)

Also the new fandom eligibility rules are kind of strange, especially for those of us who play more in the anime/manga sphere of things, which is definitely one of the less populated areas of AO3. So... will they whack down Fruits Basket or Vampire Knight, which have 40-70 stories in the archive? Inquiring minds would like to know!

Comments

[yhlee]

Yeah, it's only the innate goodness of my heart (PAUSE FOR LAUGHTER) that keeps me from nominating Battletech, which has 0 stories on AO3 because I really do not think the wargamer giant robot guy crowd tends to hang out there, but which has stories elsewhere, although sadly even the Pit of Voles is kind of failing me here.

I am nominating Jade Empire, which is a computer game based on China and inspired by wuxia; it seems to do better at the cultural representation front than Legend of the Five Rings but I am obviously not a great judge here.

I was tempted to nominate RPF - Imjin War, but am terrified that the system is going to give me a propaganda piece [1] on how glorious and awesome Hideyoshi is. Which, I am normally a little better at detaching from history, but this is my history. I am still thinking about it. But probably no one will offer it, and then I am afraid of there being a big hairy debate over what to call the war.

[1] Which is not to say the Korean side is propaganda-free! But it's my side.

[springgreen]

Imjin War! That would be awesome! Though I understand your concerns as well.

Bwahaha. Now I am thinking of genderbended Tang Dynasty poets RPF.

[lnhammer]

Have you met Peony Pavilion? It's not RPF, but it is T'ang (among other) Dynasty poetry fics. I've been meeting to finish writing up a post recommending it.

---L.

[springgreen]

I have not! And oooooo that is pretty!

[lnhammer]

Very, very pretty. And quite poetic.

(I finally posted my inadequate summary over on my LJ.)

---L.