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the_rckI'm considering what to nominate for Yuletide and trying to decide if I should nominate at all. I'm not absolutely sure that I'm doing Yuletide, after all. I meant to spend this year working on Rheotaxis and have managed just a handful of paragraphs. Yuletide might be something I can do quickly while still working on Rheotaxis, but it also might not. I don't have a great history for working on two projects at once.
If I do nominate, though, I will definitely nominated the Alcatraz Smedry books by Brandon Sanderson and Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman. I nominated them last year. I don't think anybody offered the Alcatraz books, but I seem to recall a couple of offers for Fetch! I don't know if I could interest Cordelia in reading a Fetch! fic. Last year, she said she would if I got one, but she hasn't been rewatching Fetch! recently. Fetch! does carry some risk of getting RPF (it was a PBS Kids reality gameshow with a cartoon host and supporting cast of cartoon characters). I suspect, though, that if I ask for no RPF, it's a reasonable request and won't leave an author floundering.
We're allowed three nominations, so I'd have to decide on my third. I've nominated Planet Ladder every year for forever (I've received a couple of very short treats in the fandom, so I can't complain too much). At this point, I'm not sure I should keep putting it forward. I haven't reread the series in about a decade, and I'm not sure I remember most of it. I could, of course, solve that by rereading the dratted thing. It's a seven volume manga series; it wouldn't take long.
Other possible thirds are Drujienna's Harp by Ellen Kindt McKenzie and H.M. Hoover's Morrow books. Drujienna's Harp, however, I haven't reread in many, many years, and I'm not sure I remember much of it. I'm also afraid of discovering that the Suck Fairy has visited. I read that book over and over when I was in elementary school, until I could tell my sister the story, scene by scene, without the book in hand. The Morrow books were also kind of formative. My elementary school library only had the second one, and, as it wasn't marked as a sequel in any way, I read that. Suspecting that there was another book that came before it, I went to the public library and got lucky. That introduced me to science fiction. Of course, I also haven't reread the Morrow books in many, many years.
I'm not sure there's anything I've read or watched recently that I would want to request. Maybe I need to look back through my book and DVD logs and go over my shelves.
Of course, for me, there's more fun in writing for Yuletide than in receiving a story myself. I like the stretch of trying a new fandom, particularly one without much fic. It's fun trying my hand at something I wouldn't have thought to make a go of without matching on the request. I can't seem to get myself to focus enough to do New Year's Resolution fics, though, which is a pity because it would be the same sort of challenge.
If I do nominate, though, I will definitely nominated the Alcatraz Smedry books by Brandon Sanderson and Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman. I nominated them last year. I don't think anybody offered the Alcatraz books, but I seem to recall a couple of offers for Fetch! I don't know if I could interest Cordelia in reading a Fetch! fic. Last year, she said she would if I got one, but she hasn't been rewatching Fetch! recently. Fetch! does carry some risk of getting RPF (it was a PBS Kids reality gameshow with a cartoon host and supporting cast of cartoon characters). I suspect, though, that if I ask for no RPF, it's a reasonable request and won't leave an author floundering.
We're allowed three nominations, so I'd have to decide on my third. I've nominated Planet Ladder every year for forever (I've received a couple of very short treats in the fandom, so I can't complain too much). At this point, I'm not sure I should keep putting it forward. I haven't reread the series in about a decade, and I'm not sure I remember most of it. I could, of course, solve that by rereading the dratted thing. It's a seven volume manga series; it wouldn't take long.
Other possible thirds are Drujienna's Harp by Ellen Kindt McKenzie and H.M. Hoover's Morrow books. Drujienna's Harp, however, I haven't reread in many, many years, and I'm not sure I remember much of it. I'm also afraid of discovering that the Suck Fairy has visited. I read that book over and over when I was in elementary school, until I could tell my sister the story, scene by scene, without the book in hand. The Morrow books were also kind of formative. My elementary school library only had the second one, and, as it wasn't marked as a sequel in any way, I read that. Suspecting that there was another book that came before it, I went to the public library and got lucky. That introduced me to science fiction. Of course, I also haven't reread the Morrow books in many, many years.
I'm not sure there's anything I've read or watched recently that I would want to request. Maybe I need to look back through my book and DVD logs and go over my shelves.
Of course, for me, there's more fun in writing for Yuletide than in receiving a story myself. I like the stretch of trying a new fandom, particularly one without much fic. It's fun trying my hand at something I wouldn't have thought to make a go of without matching on the request. I can't seem to get myself to focus enough to do New Year's Resolution fics, though, which is a pity because it would be the same sort of challenge.
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