Rarewomen is starting up!

[raspberryhunter]

Just a heads up -- rarewomen is running again this year! Without the pesky large-fandom requirement they had last year -- which is good, because I don't think I could have done it again if they'd kept that requirement, since it turns out I don't actually want to write in any "large" fandom (or at least, not without knowing a specific prompt -- I got really really lucky last year with the prompt and I don't want to depend on that luck again). So -- just rare women, all the time! Nominations begin tomorrow!

Heh, I would totally have nominated Turandot but I already got the fic of my dreams for that, so I have to think of other stuff :)

I think I'm going to nominate
Robots - Isaac Asimov: Susan Calvin
Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt: Mina, Maybelle
The People - Zenna Henderson: Beth, Shadow

...not sure about the other two. Possibilities:
The Good Wife: Elsbeth Tascioni, Judge Kuhn (am kind of leaning towards this)
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Lydia Bennet (Lydia needs more love and more fic!)
SGU: Ginn, Amanda Perry (both of whom need more love and more fic! Although, um, it is just possible I might be working on that, so this is probably not what I'm going to nominate)
Vorkosigan Saga: Ekaterin! I really, really, really want more Ekaterin fic where Ekaterin gets to save the day. Uh. I guess I should have asked for that for Winterfair!
The Aeneid: Dido. I really want Dido fic, I just don't know exactly what I want from it...
The Dark is Rising: Jane Drew, The Lady. I just love Jane like whoa. And the Lady fascinates me. Who is she?
Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Janet, Millie. I read a lot of really amazing Chrestomanci fic from yuletide (one of these days I will make a rec post) and I kind of want more now :)
Dune: Irulan. Because Irulan is awesome!
Till We Have Faces: Orual, Psyche. Another one I would never have thought of except that I read some amazing yuletide fic and now I kind of want more. Or possibly to write more :)
Perilous Gard: Kate. Because I love Kate.

Things I think I will save for yuletide nominations:
Mabinogion: Arianrhod (possibly others?)... I dunno, this just seems like more of a yuletide-y fandom, now that I think about it more
The Book of Mormon (book): Akish, Queen Lamoni, Princess Lamoni (the rare women fandom-of-one of my heart, but let's face it, no one has heard of this except for me, and really the only hope I have of getting this is for yuletide)
Der Ring: Brunnhilde - I think I really want a story with her and Loge, which to me doesn't really fit with what I want rarewomen to do.
Die Zauberflote: Pamina, Queen - I do want women-centric fic for this, I think, but I also kind of want making-sense fic for this, which again, not really quite what I think of rarewomen's mission...

If any of you are doing rarewomen (and you all should!) feel free to nominate any of these :) Most of these I'd love to write as well (unless I request them, in which case I probably won't offer to write).

Comments

[ollipop]

Oh, this looks like fun! Maybe? Sure? I'm nervous about not knowing enough fandoms.

I've been trying to finish one of my fifty zillion rough drafts of something, and having no success. I'm wondering if having an assignment on a festival will spur some kind of procrastinating inspiration... that must be the least appropriate reason to sign up for a festival ever. But still!

[raspberryhunter]

Well then, nominate the fandoms you want! :) Nominations start today. You get five noms, which is amaaaazing to me after struggling with yuletide only letting me have three.

(I see that Vorkosigan and Hunger Games are very likely to be nominated already, so that's already two!)

(Speaking of which -- I don't know if I'm nominating these, but seirously thinking about it -- have you been following the Lizzie Bennet Diaries on youtube? I'm... a little obsessed, right now.)

[ollipop]

Well, this is one of the things I'm confused about. If my fandoms get nominated, do I have to find other things to nominate? Or do I just sit back and relax? I feel like I should know this from the FAQ, but I'm worried I'm missing something.

[raspberryhunter]

Then you just sit back and relax until signup time :) (Unless you want to nominate more characters!) The nomination is just to make a working set of fandoms to choose from :)

[ase]

Perilous Gard: Kate. Because I love Kate.

Kate is awesome! My copy of The Perilous Gard has survived three or four move-inspired bookcase culls so far. So I advocate for nominating Kate.

[raspberryhunter]

I think you are talking me into this :)

[ase]

I love enabling people to write good stories. :-)

BTW, would you have time later this week to look at an alpha-draft of the AMTDI fic? (Wow, that only took... almost six months.) It's about 2/3rds done at 1900 words, and if I can get the rest of it done, it's going to need a structure and feel look: are characters in character, does the pacing work, what got lost in the transition from my brain to the keyboard. It will probably come with significant meta/explanatory notes. Up for some beta reading?

[raspberryhunter]

Absolutely I would love to alpha-or-beta-read! :) Good timing, too, as you have missed the Small Person Party Madness ;)

[ase]

Yay! Look for something by Saturday.