Share your small fandoms before Yuletide

[rachelmanija]

On liviapenn's suggestion, I am writing up a couple Yuletide-eligible fandoms which I recommend that people check out before Yuletide.

BATTLE OF RED CLIFF PART 1 & PART 2 ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 2 DVDS

Comments

[leiliaxf]

I second the rec for "Dreamsnake"...I read that when I was in high school back when it first came out (early 80s, I believe). Great book--intriguing concepts.

[thomasyan]

Was Meredith a gender-neutral name for you? Alas for me, it was and is strongly gendered.

[rachelmanija]

I knew a woman named Meredith, and did not learn that it was also a man's name till much later.

[thomasyan]

Yeah, in the abstract, I know that some names change gender (Beverly used to be a man's name), and some are ambiguous, but Meredith has always been a woman's name for me.

In RASFW (I think), someone said it was a big deal when this book (or maybe the short story?) came out, because McIntyre uses *no* gendered pronouns for Meredith, and it drove people crazy not knowing his/her gender. That was totally lost on me, since I just assumed female and failed to notice the pronoun thing.

P.S. This thread prompted me to look. Has McIntyre really published nothing (other than Trek novels) since The Moon and the Sun? That saddens me, because I do like her writing a lot, but found Moon mildly disappointing.

[leiliaxf]

no...I'd always heard it as a girl's name, to tell you the truth.

still kinda hard to think of it as a man's name.