RW2015 Nomination discussion

[aphrodite_mine]

Please use this space to:

• plan nominations
• offer open nomination spots
• ask if there is interest in a fandom or character(s)
• advertise a fandom or character(s)
• hash out numbers and potential eligiblity
• promote or request nominations for fandoms or character(s) you don't have room for in your nomination set

Reminder: You may nominate one to five fandoms and one to five characters in each.

Comments

[rubylily]

These the anime series I'm thinking of nominating. I still need to narrow down this list to just five.

Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Crunchyroll or Hulu):
Ai Astin
Dee Ensy Stratmitos
Scar
Ulla Eulesse Hecmatika
Tanya Swedgewood

Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? | Is the Order a Rabbit? (Crunchyroll or Hulu):
Hoto Cocoa
Kafuu Chino
Tedeza Rize
Ujimatsu Chiya
Kirima Syaro

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru | Yuki Yuna is a Hero (Crunchyroll):
Yuki Yuna
Togo Mimori
Inubozaki Fu
Inubozaki Itsuki
Miyoshi Karin

Chaika - The Coffin Princess (Crunchyroll or Hulu - first season only):
Chaika Trabant
Akari Acura
Fredrica
Vivi Holopainen
Chaika Bohdan

il sole penetra le illusioni | Day Break Illusion (Crunchyroll or Hulu):
Taiyou Akari
Tsukuyomi Luna
Hoshikawa Seira
Shirokane Ginka
Shinzaki Fuyuna

Ultra Maniac (Hulu):
Sakura Nina
Tateishi Ayu

Haibane Renmei (Hulu):
Rakka
Hikari
Kana
Nemu
Kuu

El Cazador de la Bruja (Hulu):
Nadie
Ellis
Jody Haywood | Blue-Eyes
Lirio

[sirvalkyrie]

Do you want me to do Yuki Yuna so you can get another of yours in?

[aphrodite_mine]

My only "for sure" nominations at this point are Orphan Black and Strange Empire, probably

Orphan Black (TV)
- Rachel Duncan
- Tony Sawicki
- Beth Childs
- Sarah Manning
- Delphine Cormier

and

Strange Empire (TV)
- Rebecca Blithely
- Morgan Finn
- Kat Loving
- Robin Loving
- Isabelle Slotter

(but open to suggestions for subbing out characters)

I'm also considering Degrassi, but don't know if anyone would read/write it. If you would, tell me which characters you'd like to see!

(other?? two????? nominations????)

[gehayi]

What's Strange Empire like? And where could I find it online? (I don't get the CBC channel.)

[mctabby]

Hands up for Jo March from Little Women.

And Pie 'oh' pah from Imajica by Clive Barker.

[toujours_nigel]

Will an eunuch qualify? Castrated pre-puberty, uses I/me/my by virtue of being the narrator, is described as 'boy' only by characters from a culture without eunuchs, and identifies as third-gender.

[aphrodite_mine]

From the information you've provided, yes, definitely.

[wwanda.livejournal.com]

Okay, trying to hash out some numbers. (I'm completely new to this, so in case I'm doing something inappropriate: Sorry! I'm not trying to game the system, I just don't quite know how exactly the system works yet!)

Fandom: MASH (TV), Character: Margaret Houlihan
92 fics on AO3, 283 on fanfiction.net
I understand that technically she's ineligible, but I noticed that in a previous FAQ, you said exceptions might be made for older fandoms that aren't really active anymore, or something along those lines?
MASH first aired in 1972, and there's hardly any fandom activity these days. Of those 283 fics, only 7 were posted in the past year. Is there any chance Margaret Houlihan could be eligible?

Fandom: Community, Character: Britta Perry
559 fics on AO3, 204 on fanfiction.net
Britta fairly often gets tagged in fics where she's only a minor side character. I went through the first five pages of results on AO3 and found only 65 (out of 100) fics that looked like there was any focus at all on her. Could that mean that she's eligible?

Fandom: Cabin Pressure, Character: Carolyn Knapp-Shappey
759 fics on AO3, no character tag on fanfiction.net
On fanfiction.net, there are only 364 Cabin Pressure fics in total, and on the first page of results, I found only 6 (out of 25) fics whose summaries indicated that Carolyn would play any kind of role in them.
On AO3, Carolyn gets tagged in a lot of fics where she only makes a brief appearance or has a minor part, because the actual focus of the fic is the men around her. I checked the first five pages here, too, and found only 47 (out of 100) fic in which Carolyn seems to be an actually important part of the story. Might that make her eligible?

[aphrodite_mine]

Margaret = yes.

Britta = probably, I'll do some number crunching!

Carolyn = very likely. I'll look at the numbers for her, too, and get back to you shortly.

[scribblemyname]

I'm definitely thinking

The Unusuals
- Casey Shraeger
- Allison Beaumont
- Bridget Demopolis
- Monica Crumb

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Jane Carter

Razor Sharp
- Veronica Sharpe
- Isis

The People - Zenna Henderson
- Twyla
- Dita Verist

I figure if I keep requesting Razor Sharp, eventually it will get fic.

[teaotter]

I'm not sure yet, but these are my ideas:

Imperial Radch series - Ann Leckie
- Justice of Toren One Esk 19 / Breq
- Seivarden Vendaai
- Mercy of Kalr
- Mercy of Kalr Five

Nicole Shea series - Chris Claremont
- Nicole Shea
- Judith Canfield

The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
- Sabine Parsifal

Defiance (tv)
- Amanda Rosewater
- Kenya Rosewater
- Jessica "Berlin" Rainier
- Christie McCawley

[kerithwyn]

Nicole Shea! Oh, wow, if my books weren't in storage on the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY, I would totally sign up for those. But I haven't read them since they came out.

[kerithwyn]

I've been playing with my nomination list, and at the moment it looks like this:

Fringe
- Astrid Farnsworth
- Sally Clark
- Miranda Greene
- Nancy Lewis
- Susan Pratt

(I'd also love to see alt-Astrid, alt-Olivia, Ella, Etta, Elizabeth Bishop, alt-Elizabeth, Nina Sharp, Carla Warren, Rachel Dunham, Marilyn Dunham, Amy Jessup, alt-Nina, etc.)


Indexing (Seanan McGuire)
- Sloane Winters
- Henrietta “Henry” Marchen
- Demi Santos
- Birdie Hubbard

Lazarus (comic series*)
- Forever Carlyle
- Bethany Carlyle
- Johanna Carlyle
- Marisol
- Sonja Bittner

* I mean to do a pimping post, which I will link here.

Lost Girl
- Kenzi
- Tamsin
- Ciara
- ?
- ?

(Potentials include Evony, Aife, the Norn, Nadia, Stella, Lauren)

Penny Dreadful
- Brona Croft
- Vanessa Ives
- Mina Harker
- Madame Kali
- Maud Gunneson

[aphrodite_mine]

I need to catch up on Lazarus and then YESSSSS all over this.

[sirvalkyrie]

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky
Escha Malier
Linca Number Eight
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN

Ever After High:
Apple White
Cerise Hood
Darling Charming
Duchess Swan
OPEN

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Momoe Nagisa
Shizuku Hitomi
Tomoe Mami

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru | Yuki Yuna is a Hero:
Yuki Yuna
Togo Mimori
Inubozaki Fu
Inubozaki Itsuki
Miyoshi Karin

[gehayi]

I don't remember anyone named Nagisa in the anime. Who was she?
(I do remember Hitomi and Mami.)

[yugimutos]

oh gosh i'm glad i found this now as opposed to next month or something. i've only got like one or two characters per fandom right now? but i can add more??

Yugioh - Mazaki Anzu, Kujaku Mai

Friends - Monica Gellar

Jurassic Park - Ellie Satler

Red vs Blue - Sister (Kaikaina Grif)

Sailor Moon Crystal - Queen Beryl

[raktajinos]

now I suddenly need a Ellie Satler & Beryl crossover BFF story.

[scribblemyname]

Has anyone seen Satisfaction? It's all about women, but it's a nonexistent fandom, not just rare.

[tree]

the 80s movie with justine bateman?

[gehayi]

Does anyone know the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin? The entire series only has 20 stories on AO3 and only 4 on FFnet (one in Polish). I'd really love to nominate at least five of the following ladies, but I don't know if anyone knows who they are.

Penny Ngwenya
Kelly Shiring
Sharon Li
Oda Ajaja (a.k.a Oda Ajaja-Brown, a.k.a. Oda)
Nabeela Hirj
Dr. Seah
Lady Neon
Vera of the White Clan

Still trying to think of who else to nominate.

[gehayi]

Discworld:

Eskarina Smith (1 complete fic in English on AO3, 0 on FFnet)[cisfemale, sexuality unknown]

Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax (61 complete fics in English on AO3, 5 on FFnet)[cisfemale, aromantic, possibly asexual]

Gytha "Nanny" Ogg (55 complete fics in English on AO3 [and I'm sure that she's not starring in all of them], 2 on FFnet) [cisfemale, stated in canon that her "voyages on the sea of intersexual dalliance had gone rather further than twice around the lighthouse," which is stated here to imply that "Nanny's experiences were not limited to the inshore waters of male/female relationships.")

Madam Sharn (2 complete fics in English on AO3, 0 on FFnet)[dwarf presenting as female, biology unknown, sexuality unknown, has physically male and biologically human lover who has adopted dwarfism as a culture]

Maladict (87 complete fics in English on AO3 [no idea how many are starring Maladict], and 24 on FFnet (though not under the name of Maladict--you have to look under "Polly P.", the only named character from Monstrous Regiment on FFnet]) [Could be interpreted as either a cross-dressing lesbian vampire or a transman vampire]

[hebethen]

A couple of gameverses I'm considering so far:

Transistor:

• Bailey Gilande, the brilliant but reclusive archivist/administrator (nonbinary person, she/her)


• Farrah Yon-Dale, eccentric and well-beloved skypainter (woman)


• Niola Chein, passionate social activist, lover of strange beauty, lover of certain eccentric creators of celestial beauty that I could name (woman)


• Amelia Garbur, courageous and dedicated associate editor of OVC news (woman)

And maybe or not Sybil Reisz, who -- albeit probably unintentionally -- was treated rather poorly by the narrative. "Maybe" is if I (or anyone else? Bueller?) feels fixit-y; "not" is if I (and everyone else) just do not want to deal with the double trope-whammy of Psycho Lesbian and Wimminz Feelz Ruin Everything.


Sunless Sea:

• The Brisk Campaigner, your ruthlessly efficient surgeon who has faced death down and lived to tell the tale (woman)


• The Presbyterate Adventuress, your daring, dashing gunnery officer with the sweet tooth and the price on her head (woman)


• The Austere Acolyte, who labors in the heart of Station III to extract the silvered hearts of strange corpses and, perhaps, longs to see her own thus enshrouded (woman)


• Isery, the King's Claw, enforcer for he who traffics in the products of human pain, deadly and beautiful (nonbinary person, they/them)

Still mulling over the Nacreous Outcast or the Alarming Scholar.

[teaotter]

Is anyone else watching Empire? I'm thinking of nominating Cookie Lyon and Rhonda Lyon, if there's any interest.

[scribblemyname]

I haven't seen it, but I did just eye it on Hulu curiously. Is it anything like Nashville?

[calatoria.livejournal.com]

Here's what I'm thinking of nominating right now!

Vorkosigan Saga:
Kareen Vorbarra
Ludmilla Droushnakovi
Harra Csurik
Ekaterin Vorsoisson
Alys Vorpatril

Silmarillion:
Rían
Morwen
Emeldir
Aerin
Indis

Knight and Rogue (this is a tiny fandom and pretty much everything on AO3 is slash so if there's any interest I really would like to give some of the ladies a chance at the spotlight):
Kathryn Sevenson
Judith Fisk
Anna Fisk Maxwell

Star Trek DS9:
Kira Meru
Tora Ziyal
Leeta

[nocowardsoul]

I like Knight and Rogue although I haven't read the most recent two books yet.

Brightknightie's potential nominations in FK, HL, YB, BSG78 and D&DC

[brightknightie]

Here's a list of what and whom I'm pondering nominating this year. If you're curious about any of these, or would like to swap or chat, let me know!

Forever Knight (TV, 1992-1996)

• Janette Ducharme
• Urs
• Fleur de Brabant
• Tracy Vetter
• Lisa Cooper (or Erica? or Emily? or Serena? or Alexandra? I trust someone else will nominate Natalie Lambert.)

Highlander: The Series (TV, 1992-1998)

• Tessa Noel
• Anne Lindsay
• Randi McFarland
• Angie Burke
• Michelle Webster (or Alexa Bond, instead? I trust someone else will nominate Cierdwyn.)

Young Blades (TV, 2005)

• Jacqueline Roget aka Jacques Laponte
• Queen Anne (Anne of Austria)
• Liana the Sorceress
• Emanuelle (the Cafe Nouveau waitress)
• Pauline LaRue

Battlestar Galactica (the original) (TV, 1978-1979)

• Cassiopeia
• Serina
• Sheba
• Athena
• Siress Tinia (or Rigel, instead? and Bree, Dietra, Aurora and Ila are all eligible!)

Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon) (TV, 1983-1985)

• Diana, the Acrobat
• Sheila, the Thief
• Varla
• (Would someone want to read something starring Karena? Or is she really too completely about her brother and father to fit this event?)
• (No, I'm not going to nominate Tiamat or Uni. You can! ~grin~)

Re: Brightknightie's potential nominations in FK, HL, YB, BSG78 and D&DC

[argentum_ls]

Let's collaborate on the Highlander nominations. I can do Ceirdwyn and four others. Whom would you most like to see?

[illyriasacolyte]

Time for questions:

1) What about non-human characters with an eligible gender presentation? GLaDOS, Cortana, and EDI would be good examples of what I mean (though they probably would be ineligible due to numbers).

2) What about characters whose gender is dependent on the player character? Does this fall under the genderswap AU/Rule 63 thing? The character I have in mind is the clone of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, and his/her gender is determined by the gender of the player character, which is up to the player. Some determinant characters do have a canon gender (Darth Revan comes to mind), but Shepard is not one of them. Because Shepard does not have a canon gender, what is the eligibility of his/her clone?

3) Not a question, but a plug for Eon/The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman. I desperately want to nominate this, but I don't think anyone else would have read this.

not-a-mod; just trying to help :-)

[brightknightie]

>"1) What about non-human characters with an eligible gender presentation?"

I believe that neither humanity nor biology are required.

The Machine from Person of Interest was specifically listed as an example of an eligible character. The Machine is an AI (non-human).

[lilliburlero]

I'm considering nominating:

Antonia Forest, Marlows series: Nicola Marlow, Rowan Marlow, Tim Keith, Lawrie Marlow, Marie Dobson

E.F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia: 'Lucia' Lucas, Elizabeth Mapp, Diva Plaistow, Irene Coles, Foljambe

Antonia White, Frost in May: Nanda Grey, Léonie de Wesseldorf, Clare Rockingham, Mother Radcliffe

Antonia White, Clara Batchelor trilogy (The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, Beyond the Glass): Clara Batchelor, Nell Crayshaw, Isabel Batchelor, Maidie Spencer, Clive Heron. (Hoping this can be counted as a single fandom).

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo: Axiothea

[naraht]

Lovely slate! Two thumbs up.

You've covered all the Marlows characters I would have nominated, but I still have a slot set aside for the Marlows, so are there any others you would like me to add to the mix?

[scribblemyname]

Added a promo post for Razor Sharp (2 females) at my LJ: http://scribble-myname.livejournal.com/298975.html

[naraht]

My potential nominations:

Return to Night - Mary Renault: Hilary Mansell, Lisa Clare, Elaine Fleming
Purposes of Love - Mary Renault: Colonna Kimball, Valentine
Hilda Tablet and Others - Henry Reed: Hilda Tablet, Elsa Strauss

[argentum_ls]

My potentials:

Highlander: the Series

Ceirdwyn

Alexa Bond

Grace Chandel

Rebecca Horne

Alex Raven

The Tomorrow People (2013)

Cara Coburn

Sophie Coburn

Astrid Finch

Irene Quinn

Marla Jameson

Wolfblood

Jana Vilkas

Meineir

Maddy Smith

Shannon Kelly

Ceri Morris

Two potential slots remain open. Barring other ideas jumping out, I'll probably fill them with the other Tomorrow People canons.

Edited: Swapped Astrid for Charlotte in the TP '13 noms.

[lorata]

Hunger Games, anyone? Lyme, Cashmere, Wiress, Cecelia, Seeder ... 80% of the Lyme fic on AO3 is by me, so this is kind of a pipe dream, but you never know ...

Ditto for Steerswoman (Bel, Rowan). (There are only 2 fic on AO3 with Bel in them whatsoever, gahhhh)

The Rook -- Myfanwy, Shantay, Ingrid, Bronwyn. I am literally the only person on AO3 with fic for this, though. T__T

Kamikaze Girls/Shimotsuma no Monogatari (Ichiko, Momoko)?

[aiffe]

Possible noms!

Avatar: Legend of Korra
Opal Beifong (tagged in 109 works on AO3)
Jinora (214 works)
Kuvira (128)
Ming-Hua (18)
P'li (12)

Adventure Time:
Princess Bubblegum (292)
Marceline (331)
Flame Princess (45)
Fionna the Human (82, but this is a canon Always A Girl Rule 63 of the male lead and if people are uncomfortable with that I won't nom her)
Shoko (I can only find two fics on AO3, no canonical tag.)

[aphrodite_mine]

Not sure if you were asking technicality, but Fionna is eligible, per the rules.

[melsheartsthings]

Would Thalia Grace from Percy Jackson & the Olympians be eligible? Using the guidelines as laid out in the FAQ, she is tagged in exactly 261 completed fics on the AO3 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians fandom, but over at Fan fiction.net, she is tagged in 1.4 k completed fics, of which I believe at least three quartets of these,fics are not actually focused specifically on Thalia...

[aphrodite_mine]

Even if she is only featured in 1/4 of those, that is 150 over the cutoff for FF.N numbers. She is not eligible.

Possible Nominations

[illyriasacolyte]

Ooo, and I even unconsciously ordered the characters in the order I'd want fics from.

A Song of Ice and Fire
• Donella Hornwood: 4 on A03, 0 on FF
• Mya Stone: 130 on A03, 2 on FF
• Jeyne Poole: 276 on A03, 9 on FF

Eon/Eona 0 for A03, 45 on FF for entire fandom
• Lady Dela
• Lady Jila

The Lunar Chronicles
• Fateen: 0 on A03 and FF
• Tashmi Priya: 1 on A03, 0 on FF
• Lynn Adri: 0 on A03 and FF

Mass Effect
• Matriach Aethyta: 52 on A03 and 36 on FF
• Samantha Traynor: 276 on A03 and 93 on FF
• Female Clone Shep: 1 on A03 and 2 on FF
• Maya Brooks: 21 on A03 and 6 on FF

Final Fantasy Tactics
• Alicia: 2 on A03 and 0 on FF
• Lavian: 2 on A03 and 3 on FF
• Louveria/Ruvelia Atkascha: 0 results on both A03 and FF
• Miluda/Milleuda Folles: 3 on A03 and 2 on FF

Re: Possible Nominations

[raktajinos]

omg yes for Fateen in TLC.

Since you're nom-ing for that fandom already, would you mind adding in Michelle Benoit and Cinder?