in the time you took to make up your mind
Life's been a bit rough lately - post-big-event/project slump, I think, plus the mild continuing strain of a quasi-long-distance polyamorous relationship. But hey, fandom exchange season to the rescue! I'm pretty pumped about my 
femslashex assignment, and now
yuletide nominations are open. :D
Continuing the last few years' trend, I pretty much want to offer and request all the books. So naturally I'm going to haunt the nominations coordination post until the last minute, hoping that someone knocks a few of these off the list for me.
A Song For A New Day (Sarah Pinsker)
I just finished this book yesterday, and I definitely want "what happens next" fic! There's all this intersection of online/IRL community stuff and the potential beginnings of social/political transformation ... not to mention rock band/music scene dynamics, which is always catnip for me. But it's a really new book, and nobody I know has read it yet, so will Yuletide folks have?
In The Vanishers’ Palace (Aliette de Bodard)
Loved this short-but-sweet lesbian dragon/human indentured-servant-turned-romance novella to death, probably in part because it went relatively light on the romance plot and threw a bunch of family and cultural conflict stuff into the mix, among other things. But I want more of the main characters navigating their relationship! Surely I can't be the only one!
Provenance (Ann Leckie)
Writing for this book has been an appealing idea since I read it ... especially with the female main character and the whole conceit of social-status-via-historical-ephemera, though of course most people seem more interested in the m/m multicultural (almost sort of interspecies) romance. IDK.
The Arcadia Project series (Mishell Baker)
I've been wanting indulgent shippy fic for this series since the first book, dammit, and nobody else seems to have read it. One of the characters can't handle her own emotions and pours them all into a dragon-form energy construct (which turns out to be sentient and semi-consensually involved, so that adds even more interesting layers) which then sometimes gets out of control and all expressive and effusive towards the other one! It's complicated and problematic and pretty damn irresistible!
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
I read this classic novel earlier this year, was completely incensed by one of the characters' "happy endings," and immediately decided I wanted f/f fic to fix it. Grrr. At least other Yuletiders will definitely be familiar with it.
The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz)
Another brand-new book that left me craving fic, because there are so many characters and threads and time periods you could expand on! And I have no idea if anyone else in the YT community will have read this one, either. Also, there are totally more than four characters I'm interested in with this one. Alas.
The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes)
Someone nominated this beloved child favorite last year, and I immediately got all fired up about it - it hadn't occurred to me before, but I want all the fic. I want to read it, and I want to write it. Only, as far as I know, there was only one other person who was interested! So ... will I stubbornly nominate it anyway?
Thank goodness someone has already taken care of Gideon the Ninth (though there's at least one character I'd really like to see added), A Memory Called Empire, This Is How You Lose The Time War, and the Wayward Children series.
And while it looks like the Rivers of London and Wayfarers books aren't on there yet, surely someone else will get them nominated, right? They're gimmes ...
I'm ridiculous, don't mind me. Work is really boring right now.
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femslashex assignment, and now
yuletide nominations are open. :D
Continuing the last few years' trend, I pretty much want to offer and request all the books. So naturally I'm going to haunt the nominations coordination post until the last minute, hoping that someone knocks a few of these off the list for me.
A Song For A New Day (Sarah Pinsker)
I just finished this book yesterday, and I definitely want "what happens next" fic! There's all this intersection of online/IRL community stuff and the potential beginnings of social/political transformation ... not to mention rock band/music scene dynamics, which is always catnip for me. But it's a really new book, and nobody I know has read it yet, so will Yuletide folks have?
In The Vanishers’ Palace (Aliette de Bodard)
Loved this short-but-sweet lesbian dragon/human indentured-servant-turned-romance novella to death, probably in part because it went relatively light on the romance plot and threw a bunch of family and cultural conflict stuff into the mix, among other things. But I want more of the main characters navigating their relationship! Surely I can't be the only one!
Provenance (Ann Leckie)
Writing for this book has been an appealing idea since I read it ... especially with the female main character and the whole conceit of social-status-via-historical-ephemera, though of course most people seem more interested in the m/m multicultural (almost sort of interspecies) romance. IDK.
The Arcadia Project series (Mishell Baker)
I've been wanting indulgent shippy fic for this series since the first book, dammit, and nobody else seems to have read it. One of the characters can't handle her own emotions and pours them all into a dragon-form energy construct (which turns out to be sentient and semi-consensually involved, so that adds even more interesting layers) which then sometimes gets out of control and all expressive and effusive towards the other one! It's complicated and problematic and pretty damn irresistible!
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
I read this classic novel earlier this year, was completely incensed by one of the characters' "happy endings," and immediately decided I wanted f/f fic to fix it. Grrr. At least other Yuletiders will definitely be familiar with it.
The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz)
Another brand-new book that left me craving fic, because there are so many characters and threads and time periods you could expand on! And I have no idea if anyone else in the YT community will have read this one, either. Also, there are totally more than four characters I'm interested in with this one. Alas.
The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes)
Someone nominated this beloved child favorite last year, and I immediately got all fired up about it - it hadn't occurred to me before, but I want all the fic. I want to read it, and I want to write it. Only, as far as I know, there was only one other person who was interested! So ... will I stubbornly nominate it anyway?
Thank goodness someone has already taken care of Gideon the Ninth (though there's at least one character I'd really like to see added), A Memory Called Empire, This Is How You Lose The Time War, and the Wayward Children series.
And while it looks like the Rivers of London and Wayfarers books aren't on there yet, surely someone else will get them nominated, right? They're gimmes ...
I'm ridiculous, don't mind me. Work is really boring right now.
This entry was originally posted at my dreamwidth. (
comments)