Yuletide nominations

[luzula]

Ack, it's that time of year already. Last year I resolved to make a clean slate for this year's Yuletide, and only request things I'd never requested before. Well, maybe I'll recycle one request that I made for the first time last year.

So I looked through my reading list for the last year, and came up with these ideas for nominations:

Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Character: Diana Maturin
This is the one from last year that I want to recycle. But surely someone else will nominate it? Must check this.

Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Elizabeth Arnason. Characters: none/worldbuilding
Would gladly read more in this world. Not sure how to nominate it, though--there's another book, the novel Ring of Swords, in the same world, and I guess I'd want both books to be nominated as one canon. If I have to choose I'd choose the short story collection, though.

Hmm, what else? I love the Steerswoman books, but I don't know that I'm especially longing for fic from them. I see that I wanted Philylla/Erif fic when I read Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen, but now it's been months since I read the book and I don't have it clearly in my mind anymore. Then there are the classics that I always check out in Yuletide: the Earthsea books, the Hainish books (but I've requested those before), Watership Down, etc. Hmmm. And I do actually still want that Paksenarrion request that I've made every year, but I've given up on ever getting it.

Remind me of something I should nominate, O internet? I don't seem to be passionately longing for anything.

Comments

[seascribble]

oh gosh. This is the first year I might participate in nominations. Canadian Olympic swimmer Penny Oleksiak has an older brother who plays for the Dallas Stars, and apparently that's exactly the kind of gross stuff I'm here for now...

Should also figure out the rules for hockey, so I can see if any of my tiny niche loves are eligible.

Have you given up on Papillon?

[isis]

Did you ever read Memory of Water? I am considering nominating it.

I've been looking through my old letters for fests and seeing the ones that I never got that I would really like!

[feroxargentea]

ylla said over on LJ that she was planning to nominate Diana (http://perfect-duet.livejournal.com/567875.html)

[luzula]

They seem to change the rules slightly every year, so probably worth checking out what would be eligible, yeah.

Papillon, hmm. It feels a bit distant since I haven't thought of the movie for some time? I will ponder it.

[luzula]

No, I didn't. You recced it, but then someone else anti-recced it and it slid down the list...

Yeah, I guess that's one way. But often when I read/watched something years ago, it feels distant to me, and I'd have to re-read/watch to appreciate fic for it. Hmm, I will ponder further.

[luzula]

Thanks! Garonne over on the LJ-version of this post said that they will too.

[garonne.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to nominate Aubrey/Maturin, with Jack and Stephen as characters, and I was thinking I'd probably fill the other two slots with Diana and Sophie. Will definitely do that now!

[luzula]

Oh good! Thanks. : )

[nonesane.livejournal.com]

I feel you - picking what to nominate is so tricky :/ Each Yuletide my mind goes blank when nominations open and I can't recall a single thing I want fanfic about, until nominations close.

Glad to see the Aubrey/Maturin Yuletide tradition is going strong though :) Best of luck figuring out your nominations! And I really hope you one day get that Paksenarrion fic!

[luzula]

Thanks! And good luck with your own nominations too.