all the promises we make, from the cradle to the grave
Well! That was highly entertaining, and a nice way to celebrate it not being last week any more. I just unearthed the Fandom Brainstorming post for Yuletide 2008 and gave some thought to what I'll likely be nominating.
Stuff I didn't see on the list last year:
Daniel Keys Moran -- The Tales of Continuing Time series
Diana Wynne Jones -- Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones -- Archer's Goon
Emma Bull -- War for the Oaks
Emma Bull -- Finder [or The Borderlands shared world in general]
Julian F. Thompson -- any of his novels
Kim Harrison -- Dead Witch Walking series
LM Montgomery -- A Tangled Web
Maud Hart Lovelace -- Emily of Deep Valley
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries series
Meg Cabot -- All-American Girl series
Robert Aspirin -- Phule series
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare -- The Tempest
Sharon Shinn -- Wrapt in Crystal
Stephen Manes -- The Obnoxious Jerks
Tanith Lee -- Silver Metal Lover
Tanith Lee -- Biting the Sun
2046
Beautiful Girls
The Big Hit
Clueless
Hackers
Hero
Hudson Hawk
Initial-D (the 2005 movie, not the manga/anime)
Guys and Dolls
Men in Black
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Real Genius
Scooby Doo (2002) (Don't even ask. For some of these it's not so much love of the source material as interest in one particular pairing for whatever reason.)
State and Main
West Side Story
Head of the Class
Muppet Babies (is this sufficiently different from Muppets?)
Curse of Monkey Island (the video game series)
Probably War for the Oaks, Real Genius, Tale of Time City, and Initial-D (the movie) are the top of the list.
Stuff that I think was on the list last year I'm seriously considering:
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Brick
Closer
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Runaways
Pamela Dean -- Tam Lin
Terry Moore -- Strangers in Paradise
Fandoms I'd love to see and that are on the Master List, but are perhaps not small enough? I'm not really sure how that gets calculated:
Saiyuki
Good Omens
Newsies
And I'm half-considering various kinda trashy 80s/90s teen girls' series, lie the Girl Talk series by L.E. Blair or the Girls of Canby Hall series by Emily Chase, but I think those aren't toooo likely. Though there are a couple of them I really wish I could remember the names of, because now it's bugging me.
If I had to do it tomorrow, I think my 6 nominations would be:
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Brick
Closer
Diana Wynne Jones -- Tale of Time City
Emma Bull -- War for the Oaks
Real Genius
With current runners-up (in rough order):
Runaways
Pamela Dean -- Tam Lin
Terry Moore -- Strangers in Paradise
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Initial-D (movie)
Cruel Intentions
Stuff I didn't see on the list last year:
Daniel Keys Moran -- The Tales of Continuing Time series
Diana Wynne Jones -- Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones -- Archer's Goon
Emma Bull -- War for the Oaks
Emma Bull -- Finder [or The Borderlands shared world in general]
Julian F. Thompson -- any of his novels
Kim Harrison -- Dead Witch Walking series
LM Montgomery -- A Tangled Web
Maud Hart Lovelace -- Emily of Deep Valley
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries series
Meg Cabot -- All-American Girl series
Robert Aspirin -- Phule series
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare -- The Tempest
Sharon Shinn -- Wrapt in Crystal
Stephen Manes -- The Obnoxious Jerks
Tanith Lee -- Silver Metal Lover
Tanith Lee -- Biting the Sun
2046
Beautiful Girls
The Big Hit
Clueless
Hackers
Hero
Hudson Hawk
Initial-D (the 2005 movie, not the manga/anime)
Guys and Dolls
Men in Black
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Real Genius
Scooby Doo (2002) (Don't even ask. For some of these it's not so much love of the source material as interest in one particular pairing for whatever reason.)
State and Main
West Side Story
Head of the Class
Muppet Babies (is this sufficiently different from Muppets?)
Curse of Monkey Island (the video game series)
Probably War for the Oaks, Real Genius, Tale of Time City, and Initial-D (the movie) are the top of the list.
Stuff that I think was on the list last year I'm seriously considering:
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Brick
Closer
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Runaways
Pamela Dean -- Tam Lin
Terry Moore -- Strangers in Paradise
Fandoms I'd love to see and that are on the Master List, but are perhaps not small enough? I'm not really sure how that gets calculated:
Saiyuki
Good Omens
Newsies
And I'm half-considering various kinda trashy 80s/90s teen girls' series, lie the Girl Talk series by L.E. Blair or the Girls of Canby Hall series by Emily Chase, but I think those aren't toooo likely. Though there are a couple of them I really wish I could remember the names of, because now it's bugging me.
If I had to do it tomorrow, I think my 6 nominations would be:
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Brick
Closer
Diana Wynne Jones -- Tale of Time City
Emma Bull -- War for the Oaks
Real Genius
With current runners-up (in rough order):
Runaways
Pamela Dean -- Tam Lin
Terry Moore -- Strangers in Paradise
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Initial-D (movie)
Cruel Intentions