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Sep. 21st, 2014 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckYuletide nominations open in just a few days, and I'm trying to decide what to nominate. The two things I'm definitely nominating, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman and Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson, are both long. Fetch! is four seasons long, and Alcatraz is four books long. I sort of think my third fandom should be something short, just in case I go to the pinch hitters. Drujienna's Harp is just one book, but it's about $25 to purchase it. Planet Ladder is a seven volume manga series, definitely not short. The there are two books in the Morrow series, and they're kind of hard to come by.
Something somebody said made me think about five minute fandoms. I wracked my brains, trying to think of songs or poems that interest me. I managed to come up with two songs from the 80s that might spark some fic ideas. The videos for both songs are on YouTube, but they're nowhere near as cool as I remembered them being. I guess thirty years makes a big difference in how I look at such things. The songs are "Don't Pay the Ferryman" by Chris de Bourgh and "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring. I suppose I could also request Kipling's "Helen All Alone" again.
It's just that I don't feel strongly about my third nomination (and thus my third request). The things I've come up with are all things that could produce interesting stories, but none of them are likely to produce stories that I desperately want to read.
I care more about what I write for Yuletide than about what I request, but it would be nice to be asking for things I really want. I need to go through my bookshelves and DVD shelves and see if that sparks any must-have ideas as opposed to I-suppose-that's-possible ideas.
Something somebody said made me think about five minute fandoms. I wracked my brains, trying to think of songs or poems that interest me. I managed to come up with two songs from the 80s that might spark some fic ideas. The videos for both songs are on YouTube, but they're nowhere near as cool as I remembered them being. I guess thirty years makes a big difference in how I look at such things. The songs are "Don't Pay the Ferryman" by Chris de Bourgh and "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring. I suppose I could also request Kipling's "Helen All Alone" again.
It's just that I don't feel strongly about my third nomination (and thus my third request). The things I've come up with are all things that could produce interesting stories, but none of them are likely to produce stories that I desperately want to read.
I care more about what I write for Yuletide than about what I request, but it would be nice to be asking for things I really want. I need to go through my bookshelves and DVD shelves and see if that sparks any must-have ideas as opposed to I-suppose-that's-possible ideas.
