Pondering possible Yuletide fandoms

[selenak]

...along with everyone else, though mind you, I still owe three stories to three people and WILL write them, but my muse has deserted me this summer; Darth Real Life has frightened her off for a while.

Anyway: Yuletide, since one can nominate fandoms and characters on September 22nd. There are a few new canons I've been aquainted with since last year which could qualify: The Americans (has the advantage that there's no character I wouldn't want to read it or write about), Penny Dreadful (ditto, though of course I'll request Vanessa and Malcolm), Vikings (will ask for Siggy and Laguertha, must ponder whom to offer). (Though with the last I have the problem of not having watched the second season yet, which makes for spoiler-wariness. Maybe I can rectify this before Yuletide, though.) I will definitely nominate and offer Bates Motel again.

I also have two somewhat cracky historical RPF ideas which nonetheless I'd love someone to write if I shan't write them myself: Margaret Beaufort meets Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI is the older of the two. Could be the historical characters in the writer's interpretation, could be The Borgias version of Rodrigo meeting The White Queen's Margaret, that would be utterly up to the writer. (The White Queen was an - considering the source, expected - let down by and large, but Amanda Hale as Margaret Beaufort was fabulous.

The other cracky RPF idea is Saving Mrs. Fleming (concept and title obviously inspired by Saving Mr. Banks, this year's Disney take on P.L Travers and their very own Walt), wherein Mary Renault, mostly known these days for her Greek history novels plus the early WWII set The Charioteer, goes to Hollywood where MGM has optioned her early (just pre WWII set) novel Return of Night (MGM actually did give her some sort of prize for it, but the rest is fiction) and clashes with fellow Brit Alfred Hitchcock who, following his success with Rebecca, is asked to transform another novel into a hit movie. Alas, Hitch and his wife Alma are busy rewriting the Renaultian tale into a sly murder mystery/satire. Renault/Hitchcock clashes about everything ensue, until they discover their mutual mother issues give them at least one thing in common and bond. Haven't decided yet whether in this AU the film would actually get made, though.

...I don't think anyone would read up on Renault and Hitchcock for my sake, so it's probably a case of "offer to write" rather than "request", but it's one of those pesky silly ideas you can't get out of your head.

Back to Yuletide ideas: I would like to nominate Sansom's Shardlake novels as a fandom. Now they have a lot of readers, but would they volunteer to write? Book fandoms can be intimidating. There is, of course, huge crossover potential to 16th century RPF in general and Hilary Mantel's Cromwell novels in particular, especially if I were to ask for Matthew Shardlake's pre-Dissolution career and relationship with Cromwell, or the same for Barack pre-Dark Fire. Though I would also love to read a story about Tamasin between novels "Revelation" and "Heartstone", working in a queen's household again and having to decide whether or not to take Jack back...

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[lonelywalker]

I'd love to write for Penny Dreadful, and maybe request it, but I am vaguely concerned that perhaps Vanessa and (more likely) Malcolm won't be nominated, given that most fannish people seem more interested in Victor, Ethan, and Dorian (not that I have any problem writing/reading about them). So we'll see. It's entirely possible numerous people will nominate it.

[selenak]

Surely if you, I, and wee_warrior nominate Vanessa & Malcolm, they must be listed! Otherwise, what chicanery would Yuletide be!

[lonelywalker]

Well they only need one person to nominate them. I wasn't planning on nominating Penny Dreadful at all because I thought an army of other people would, but now I'm not so sure.

[d_generate_girl]

CHICANERY! THE DREADFUL-SIGNAL!

Don't worry, ladies and gentlepeople, I was planning on nominating Penny, Vanessa, Malcolm, and Mina. So they'll definitely be available for Yuletide.

[lonelywalker]

Chicanery is our Batsignal. And huzzah for nominations!

...I still need a Timothy Dalton icon.

[selenak]

Hooray! And yay to the Dreadful-Signal uniting us so reliably.

[d_generate_girl]

My list for this year is looking like Penny Dreadful (Vanessa, Malcolm, Mina, and Evelyn/Kali), Peaky Blinders (Tommy, Polly, Ada, and either John or Arthur, since Freddie and Grace will likely be nominated and whoever Tom Hardy is playing certainly will be), the Broadway version of Once (Guy, Girl, maybe the Girl's mother who is a sasspot), and something else I'll figure out by the time nominations open.

Also, I would SO read Irons!Rodrigo meeting Hale!Margaret, I AM JUST SAYING.

[selenak]

She would debate dogma with him while inwardly seething ("why is someone like this Pope and I'm not a saint already?") - and then her practical side would kick in and remind her he could be a useful ally for the endgoal of making Henry king (and of course her own beatification). He'd be simultanously appalled, fascinated and amused. And would at some point probably make a pass. But there might also be commiseration about a mutual lack of visions from god when certain people who shall remain Savonarola and Elizabeth Woodville get them all the time.