Aha!

[selenak]

Yuletide Fandom Tags are there! As always, part of the fun is to discover what other people have nominated and I hadn't thought of asking for, but now want. :) So, preliminary results:



Can offer:

Schiller, Don Carlos

Class

The Americans

Ring of the Nibelung

Star Trek: Discovery

Julio-Claudian Dynasty RPF

The Last Kingdom


May do as a treat, depending on time, but won't offer:

Order of the Air Series

The Woman in White

Wuthering Heights

Borgen




May request:

Star Trek: Discovery

Class

Roma Sub Rosa Series

Starbridge Series

The Defenders

The Last Kingdom



Hope someone else does it, as would really enjoy reading but won't either write or request:

Flowers in the Attic
Gone with the Wind
James Asher Series and Benjamin January Series, both by Barbara Hambly
Count of Monte Christo (the book! Not any other version)
Place of Greater Safety
Robert Carey Mysteries
Watership Down (Always!)
Winnetou
Call me by your name
The Godfather
Dynasty (either version)
Copenhagen
American Gods
Better Call Saul
Call the Midwife
Dickensian
The Exorcist
The Hour
Jessica Jones
Lost in Space
The Marvelous Ms Maisel
Rev.
Sense8
A Very English Scandal

Comments

[vaznetti]

The nominations in Julio-Claudian RPF look interesting! Marcus and Quintus Cicero really shouldn't be there, but I'm not sure I care sufficiently to point that out to the mods. (I mean, they might just as easily go into the Roman Poets category, since we know they both wrote epic...)

Also, did you see that there is both A Place of Greater Safety and French Revolution RPF -- with the same characters!

[selenak]

Yes, I saw. Someone really wants their story about Camille D., Robespierre and Danton. (I empathize.) :)

re: Julian-Claudian RPF, at a guess, the nominator originally chose "Ancient Rome" or "Ancient History" and was told this was too broad, then came up with a label covering most of the characters they wanted. But if it results in awkward interaction between the Cicero Brothers, Caesar, Caesar's wives and Caesar's daughter, I'm all for it! (I mean, Julia when married to Pompey must have had her share of social encounters with Terentia and Cicero, surely? And while I always thought that Cicero & Caesar must have had some moments of understanding about dead beloved daughters even during the last year of Caesar's life, this would be a better story if someone took the trouble of fleshing out Julia and Tullia as people first.

[vaznetti]

Oh, Cicero and Caesar definitely had their moments -- you can see it in their letters to each other, and Caesar's determined wooing of Cicero on various occasions (which Cicero never gave in to, unfortunately for him). And yes, they did share the loss of a dearly-loved daughter after 46, but by then their relationship was pretty seriously broken.

Looking at the tag set again, there's no reason to think you couldn't substitute the consul of 30 for the consul of 63, too.

I do think that Hilary Mantel wanted a certain kind of story about Camille Desmoulins, and sometimes wish she'd written it more explicitly!

[selenak]

Broken, yes, but I always wanted someone to give that last visit Caesar paid to Cicero in the country - which Cicero later mentioned in his letter - the intense chamber play treatment, with things both said and unsaid.

I used to request a Camille/Lucille/Danton threesome for some Yuletides, and then someone sort of wrote it, though not fo rme. :) One of the reasons why I prefer A Place of Greater Safety to her Cromwell novels is that while you can tell Mantel loved Robespierre, Camille and Danton, she also clearly saw their flaws, and the novel doesn't pretend otherwise.

[cahn]

*bounce bounce* I nominated Schiller - Don Carlos, you will not be surprised to hear :D I didn't nominate Ring, but am very excited about it!

[selenak]

Not surprised, but delighted you did. :)

[sholio]

I'm the Robert Carey nominator and I'm delighted someone else has read those! (I'm not sure if I'd be able to write it either, though I do plan to request it.)

[selenak]

I read the first three (don't know if there are more? I somehow lost sight of them), and enjoyed them very much, supporting cast included. BTW, some years back I realised the author is the alias of Patricia Finney who wrote an excellent radio play about Elizabeth I., where Elizabeth is spoken by none other than the empress Livia herself, Sian Philipps!

[sholio]

There are actually eight of them now (with a ninth due out in December). Her historical detail is just fantastic. I discovered them this spring at the library and devoured all of them. I haven't talked about them on LJ/DW yet because I haven't quite figured out how to talk about them given that they are such an odd mix of things I'm completely loving (the historical detail, the characters) and things fandom hates (the virulently homophobic King James subplot in the third book, for one). I ought to try to do little mini-recs for each of the things I'm requesting for Yuletide - I really like it when other people do that - and that'd be a good opportunity, I guess.

[rachelmanija]

I am also requesting problematic canons for Yuletide, maybe I'll do the same! (Not necessarily politically problematic; I have one which contains every trigger and squick ever including multiple dog killings, and most of season one has a completely different tone and largely different characters from the next two seasons (and I mostly didn't like season one.)

[sholio]

*fistbump of solidarity* Yeah, with this series and Punisher and Iron Fist, it's going to be like the Problematic Canon Shuffle for me this year ...

I like the idea of doing rec posts, though. It might be a good idea to start those soon, actually, in order to get people thinking about them before signups open.

[rachelmanija]

I will start doing rec posts tomorrow!

I will nicely ask that people not comment to say that they hate the canons or haven't seen them because they know they'd hate them.

[sholio]

Haha. Excellent plan. I need to finalize what I'm asking for exactly (still figuring that part out - though I guess I can rec things even if I end up not asking for them!).

ETA: You do good rec/review posts, so I might just end up linking to yours for Punisher if you do one. I think most of what we liked about the show was the same anyway.

[saturnofthemoon]

Julio-Claudian Dynasty RPF? I seriously hope fic gets requested and written for that. Heard that Yuletide is smaller than it used to be, but that's an exciting category.