Visions of sugar plums

[st_aurafina]

Oh, joy, someone had the brilliant idea of nominating Classical Ballet as a Yuletide fandom! Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Coppelia, and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. I think I could probably write something for all of those.

I'm whittling my Yuletide fandoms down. I've gotten it from 60+ down to 37. I'm not really sure why I whittle them down to as low a number as possible, but it makes me feel more comfortable if there's less than thirty options.

Things I'm glad I did before this year's Yuletide:
- reread Garth Nix's Abhorsen series
- Got myself a copy of Quantum of Solace
- Finished a few manga series, like Paradise Kiss and Tokyo Babylon

Things I have to do before next year's Yuletide:
- rewatch Millennium
- reread Julian May's Galactic Milieu
- catch up on Mushishi
- finish reading Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales. (I loved 'Valiant' so, so, so much. Erudite trolls for the win!)
- get around to reading the rest of Planetary
- find R McAvoy's Damiano series (it's in this house somewhere) and reread it, because her Raphael was lovely, and everything I want from the angels on Supernatural, but never seem to get, except for occasional glimpses from Castiel when he's not being a plot device.

Things I will never do for Yuletide but wish I could (and I hope someone does):
- offer Dinosaur comics
- write RPF, though massive kudos for the person who nominated RPF - Australian Radio, especially since your chosen characters are John Safran and Father Bob.
- write music video fic, like for Express Yourself, or Hungry Like the Wolf, or Papparazzi, or Never Gonna Give You Up, or Nikita or Thriller or Total Eclipse of the Heart, or any of the albums that were nominated.

Actually, I think I've talked myself into offering some music video fandoms. But then again, if say I offered 'Nikita', I'd want to write angsty 80's cold war slash fic, because, dude, it's Elton John, and he called the song Nikita, and it's so obviously about a rosy cheeked East German (or Russian) male soldier. While I fervently believe this, I can't really expect the person who requests fic to hold the same belief, and I certainly wouldn't want to write het for that particular song. *is confused* Maybe I'll stick to offering Total Eclipse of the Heart.

I'm offering three Enid Blyton fandoms this year - Faraway Tree, Malory Towers and The Naughtiest Girl in the School. This last series fascinates me - is it just me, or do other people find it very charged? I really need to re-read it to figure out what's going on in there. Also, somebody in this house must stop appending 'lizard' onto 'The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor'. (For the non-Commonwealth people, the monitor in this context is a kind of prefect, and not at all reptilian.)

Oh! The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor (Lizard) - it's Dinosaur Comics/Enid Blyton mashup I never knew I wanted to see!

Comments

[ex_pippin880]

According to Wikipedia, there's going to be a new Abhorsen book next year! I NEED A TIME MACHINE.

[st_aurafina]

Oh, wow! I didn't know. Can I hitch a ride on that time machine?

[ex_pippin880]

And also Lord Sunday is coming out next year! Wonderful year of Nix! :3

Oh I hope it's a satisfactory ending, I was way too disappointed with Superior Saturday.

[st_aurafina]

I was way too disappointed with Superior Saturday.

I bailed on Wednesday - I really liked the idea, but the tone was frustrating to me.

[andraste]

I keep looking at the Galactic Milieu listing each Yuletide and talking myself out of trying to review the canon. It took me almost the whole of the holidays between the end of Year Twelve and the start of my first year of university to get through it all the first time, and I didn't have the internet then :).

[st_aurafina]

But if you start now, you could maybe offer it for Yuletide 2015!

I can't even remember actually reading it - I know I have, but I can't remember when. High school? Uni? After I met lilacsigil? I've probably forgotten most of it now.

[senmut]

I offered 70 odd, which is way down from usual for me. I try to offer broadly, because I do have several smaller fandoms under my belt, but ones I consider large I knocked off, because I want to write for those small ones. I got Disney Princesses last year, one of the fandoms I think is a bit large (child wise) though rare for adults. Trying to avoid that this year.

[st_aurafina]

I don't know why I have this superstition about offering too many fandoms - it makes no sense. But I worry that I haven't thought it through enough if I haven't winnowed it down and down to the fandoms I know for sure that I can write. And then I'll have to write something obscure that seemed like a good idea at the time. This hasn't actually ever happened at Yuletide, but it preys on my mind. (Or maybe I just over-think these things.)