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I am so tired, I feel like my eyeballs are actually melting inside my head. HOWEVER, there is a seminar on the history of museums and galleries in Ireland from 1773-present that I want to go to (shut up) at 4:15, so I will bravely soldier on.

I am frantically trying to come up with fandoms I want to nominate for Yuletide, and am blanking pretty horrifically. Sadly, I am also fairly sure that this will only get worse when it comes to actual sign-ups, ohgod. At the moment, my list of possible fandom nominees is as followed:

Aubreyad	(obviously)
Rome	(also obvious)
Bones	(if it still qualifies as small enough; idk, I'm not involved with the fandom at all)
Watchmen	(I am pretty unsure about this - how the hell do you fic WATCHMEN; it almost seems sacrilegious - but I just want something to cherish before the movie unleashes a tide of fangirls intent on redeeming the Comedian because he is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan or pretending that Nite Owl isn't kind of gone to seed or woobiefying Rorschach I COULD GO ON D: D: D:)
World War Z	(zombies = awesome; alternate history = awesome; alternate zombie history = double-plus awesome)
To Say Nothing of the Dog	(/general Connie Willis timetravelverse)

And... that is all I can think of at the moment, though I know there must be more small fandoms that I love. I mean, at present this list means I don't have to narrow anything down, but... you know. D:

ANYWAY, DUDES - are you taking part? And if so, what are you nominating?

(Don't judge me, but I am also kind of tempted to ask for platonic! RPF of... certain people. I won't lie, I totally want them to be BFF.)

...Oh, maybe Deadwood. Or Cinderella Man. Or The Iron Giant...

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I have! There is no way I am changing that nomination. :D :D And I think there are all the characters in there that I would wish to nominate; at least I saw Joseph and Lewis and Latif and Victor and Van Drouten and that is more than enough to choose from right there!

Ooh, I really should read Lost Prince. It is one of the few FHBs I never did when I was small!

Its plot barely holds together, and the surprise ending is the kind of surprise ending that is only a surprise if you haven't noticed the enormous falling anvil that landed on you twelve chapters before the end. (I did not notice the surprise ending when I first read the book, but I was eight.) That said, LP has the same kind of Awww, such a cute little attempt Gothic plot, I want to pet it thing going as the Robert Lewis Stevenson you just blogged about. Also, post-canon slash just writes itself.

Falling anvils entertain me also! I like to sidestep them and watch the carnage. :D And I love adorable little attempts at Gothic plots! This may be a book for me.

Then go and read so I can snark with you! See if you can find an unabridged version. The one in print when I was a kid was abridged, which meant the editors left in all the adventure but skipped a number of weirdly hilarious Theosophical and pseudo-Buddhist interludes.

(Sorry for epic comment thread, Sophie!)

It is hilarious! And adorable! See my comment to Rym.

You will see the flaws in it all over the place, but you should totally read it anyway. If you can't find an unabridged version from the library, I can grab my copy when I'm home for Thanksgiving. It's one of the books I keep pondering bringing back anyway. I'm sure it's unabriged, because it's fairly old and it's full of the hilarious Theosophical and pseudo-Buddhist interludes. (My Orientalisms, let me show you them.)

I am pretty sure the NY/Brooklyn library systems will not fail me . . . but if they do I will totally ask you to hook me up!

Ohhh, that book. It is anvillicious in SO MANY WAYS and ridiculously Orientalist and the entire thing is starry-eyed and I kind of love it a lot.

And you are 100% right about the slash, and IMO about canon-timeline slash in the older generation as well.

...yes, of course, canon-timeline slash in the older generation. Lazarus as much as says outright that he's passionately in love with Stefan Loristan.

Uh huh. The Rat is only following in his illustrious and utterly devoted footsteps!

...Which is also pretty much canon, so hey.

This is a book that I found slashy way, way before I developed actual slash goggles.