Comments | rachelmanija: Share your small fandoms before Yuletide

rachelmanija

Share your small fandoms before Yuletide

Sep 17, 2009 12:32

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

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author: martin george r r, author: duane diane, author: maxwell ann, author: mcintyre vonda, yuletide, author: duncan lois, director: woo john

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marzipan_pig September 17 2009, 21:01:10 UTC

I thought the first one said CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG at first glance and thought, wow.

mystickeeper September 17 2009, 23:01:20 UTC

I am familiar with Yuletide, but not intimately familiar with its rules.

How does one know whether or not a fandom is "eligible"?

rachelmanija September 18 2009, 00:10:20 UTC

Basically, it's for fandoms that have very little existing fanfic. "Very little" can change from year to year, and also be a point of contention. When fandom nominations open, people will start debating eligibility, and some nominations will be disallowed. So eventually, you have to check the master list of eligible fandoms.

For now, though, I'm going by my sense of what's "small." Of my nominees, I've seen exactly one piece of fic for Red Cliff, a few on Yuletide for the "Door" series, and none ever for the rest.

leiliaxf September 17 2009, 23:22:09 UTC

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 September 18 2009, 00:50:11 UTC

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

rachelmanija September 18 2009, 18:07:13 UTC

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

thomasyan September 18 2009, 18:55:09 UTC

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.

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lady_ganesh September 19 2009, 01:50:26 UTC

I have it and keep meaning to start it!

starlady38 September 18 2009, 05:04:18 UTC

Methinks your chances for Red Cliff fanfic are pretty good, what with the movie coming out soon and all. Who doesn't love Tony Leung + John Woo + his obsession with bromance?

Well maybe 'bromance' isn't quite the right word. HB, Clamp would call it.

rachelmanija September 18 2009, 18:07:35 UTC

HB?

starlady38 October 27 2009, 21:15:41 UTC

I meant to reply to this comment at the time and then lost it and now I have found it again. "HB" stands for "hard-boiled" and is used by CLAMP to describe how they see the m/m bonding in their works, heavily influenced by seinen manga and Japanese crime shows. They talk about this more coherently in this interview I translated here (the link goes to the cut for the proper section).