Nominations are OPEN

[benedict]

CLOSED


You get:

3 tale nominations
0-4 character nominations per tale.

The rest of the nomination guidelines found here!

Resources for finding stories!

Dates:

Nomination Period: January 22nd, Sunday to February 5th, Sunday 11:59pm - CLOSED! Tagset here!
Sign Ups: February 10th, Friday to February 19th, Sunday 11:59 pm
Assignments out: February 22nd, Wednesday
Deadline: May 14th, 11:59 pm, Sunday
Archive Goes Live: May 19th, Friday [no earlier than 8:59 am, may be later]
Anon Period Ends: May 24th, Wednesday [no earlier than 8:59 am, may be later]


EDIT: Quick reminder, you have to nominate specific stories! Broad things like 'Egyptian Mythology' instead of a specific myth or 'Murder Ballads' will have to be queried and then possibly rejected. It helps if you link me the source to the story you're using too for the spreadsheet I make of sources, but that's not a requirement!

Comments

[desertvixen]

A few questions before I get too wedded to any of my ideas.

1. What would you think of the Ocean-Born Mary story? It's a piratey ghost story legend, and is presented here: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/oceanborn_mary.html

2. What would you think of the Lord Dufferin ghost story/urban legend? Inspiration for Twilight Zone episode Twenty-Two, and presented here: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/62236-birth-of-an-urban-legend/
It's also on Snopes. I'm not interested in Dufferin specifically, but the whole "person sees the coach and guy, then later sees him on the elevator" idea.

Both of them also appear in C.B. Colby's Strangely Enough (1959) but I know they're supposed to be available online.

3. What if instead of a Phantom Passenger, we wanted the story of a Phantom Place (a la Return to Glennascaul)?

[benedict]

I'm going to say yes to the first two since you provided sources for them - if you can provide a source for the 3rd, I'll accept it too! Please present the source before nominating it though to make it easier on me.

I do love ghost stories.

[desertvixen]

So on my #3, I found a specific story here: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2009/05/phantom_diner.html

I'm not wedded to the location, but I love the whole "we went back and the place had been gone for 20 years" sort of story.

There's also Return to Glennascaul which has a Wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Glennascaul AND the movie itself is available on YouTube (about 22 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59yMEgjY-1w BUT I don't like it as much because it also drags in the "vanishing hitchhiker".

[benedict]

Of my options, I think I prefer the first one since it's concise and in one place.

[benedict]

Tag 'em with (Ghost Story) after their names?

[benedict]

You still planning to do this? Deadline is in a few days.

[desertvixen]

Yes, I was kind of waiting to see what else people put up (plus indecision!).

I went with the Ocean-Born Mary and Room for One More, and then the Lady Lovibond story I've put up the other 2 years. (I decided to give Ariadne and the Sacrificial Maidens a break this year and the Phantom Passenger as well.)

[benedict]

Excellent! I was hoping you'd nominate some ghost stories - I really enjoy them.

[desertvixen]

I LOVE this exchange, it always helps me stretch and do something I'm not used to.

And I love good ghost stories! These two also appear in a book together, but it's sadly not on google books.

(whispers) Can we pretty-please have another fandom next year? We promise we'll be good.

[benedict]

WELL you asked really nicely so sure. Next year 4 nominations.

[desertvixen]

Yay!

[gehayi]

I nominated three stories that weren't on AO3 previously. In case that's an issue, here are the sources:

1) The Samurai Maiden (I'm using the title from Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls, collected and told by Jane Yolen, rather than the considerably longer title from the linked webpage.)

2) The Death of Koschei the Deathless

3) King Lindorm

Are those okay? If not, I can find other stories to nominate.

[benedict]

Yep! They're totally okay and thank you so much for linking me! I'll be approving your nominations shortly and this is a nice way to start my sources sheet. :D

[pantsoffdanceoff]

I nominated two stories where the character tags don't seem to be associated with the story. Basically, I have no idea what I'm doing, and would appreciate help on how to format them?
The stories are:

- The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/835790-the-cowherd-and-the-weaver-girl/
(Nominated: Weaver Girl, Cowherd, their daughter, and the ox)
*Weaver Girl and Cowherd seem to be associated with the Chinese mythology tag. Should I change the fandom tag?

- The Ballad of Mulan
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Ballad_of_Mulan
(Nominated: Mulan, Mulan's older sister, Mulan's younger brother, one of Mulan's comrades in arms)
*There are different tags in the archive for Mulan, Hua Mulan and Fa Mulan. The second name comes from a later 16th century play that also marries off Mulan without her consent, and the third name is Disney's transliteration of the Cantonese pronunciation of the second name. I'd prefer using the tag for Mulan, if that's possible?

[benedict]

Thank you for the sources!

For the first one, I will approve it and modify their tags to have their story in brackets behind the names to disambiguate them properly.

For the second, when you say 'the tag' do you mean the Shi part? I can do the same thing as I'm doing with the cowherd story if that would please you. So the tag would be: Mulan (Mùlán Shī | Ballad of Mulan) and so forth.

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Thank you! That makes a lot more sense.

For the second part, ignore me. I thought I had to use one of the existing tags to disambiguate them /o\

[benedict]

*salute* glad to do my duty. Approving them now.

(and it's an easy mistake to make. I'VE made the mistake.)

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Thank you! :D

[hotutilitarian]

I've nominated:

The Bold Thady Quill (source) and (source)
The Unfortunate Rake (source) and source) -- this exists in lots of different versions
The Judgement of Tiresias from Ovid's Metamorphoses (source)

Hope those are OK!

[benedict]

They are!

Thank you very much for the sources!

[goosecathedral]

Three Child Ballads:

Sir Patrick Spens -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch058.htm

Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch081.htm

Willie O'Winsbury -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch100.htm

And the whole of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/englishscottishp1904chil

[benedict]

Thank you very much for the sources!

And thanks for nominating Willie O'Winsbury, that's a favourite of mine.

[lalalalalawhy.livejournal.com]

Question!

I believe last year I nominated American Tall Tales as a single fairytale/fandom with the four characters Pecos Bill, Slue-foot Sue, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan. They were segmented into separate fandoms in the tagset. This year, should I submit them separately?

[benedict]

Aye, please. And if you have source stories, that would be excellent! I found them last time but if you want to choose your own source, this is when/how.

[lalalalalawhy.livejournal.com]

I nominated the following:

John Henry (American Tall Tale): http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/john_henry.html

Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue (American Tall Tale): http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/08/pecos_bill_and_sluefoot_sue.html

Paul Bunyan: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/paul-bunyan/

Thank you!

[benedict]

Thank YOU for the sources. I apologize for forgetting to thank you sooner.

[damzel]

A quick question - I nominated Yeats's poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and I wondered if the tag needed to be somehow disambiguated so as to show that I am requesting that particular poem, rather than the larger volume of poems of the same name? Apologies if this is not an issue at all - I am new to this exchange!

[benedict]

Here's how it is in the tagset right now, tell me if there's a more specific version you want me to be using:

The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats (2) ↑
Niamh (The Wanderings of Oisin) Oisin (The Wanderings of Oisin)

I wondered why there was (poem) in it and misunderstood, I think. But it won't be any trouble for me to change it if that's what you want.

[benedict]

Upon rereading your comment, I think that yes, you'll want me to put (poem) back in. Sorry for circumventing your initial intention!

[damzel]

Thanks! I actually couldn't remember exactly how I had done it.
Here's the wikisource link to the poem: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wanderings_of_Oisin

Very excited for this exchange!

[alexseanchai]

Hymn to Aphrodite - Sappho

The Fairest Thing - Sappho

The Wonderful Weaver - James Baldwin

I predict some tag-editing in my nominations' future...

[benedict]

I found your tags very serviceable and love your choices. Thank you for the sources!

[alexseanchai]

Oh, good. Sappho doesn't have proper titles or consistent fragment numbering, you know.

I do prefer the Anne Carson translations in If Not, Winter, but the rules. :p

[benedict]

alas alack.

I feel the same way about 1001 nights. I own a beautifully translated version... that came out this decade.

[robberbaroness]

I am a complete idiot and messed up what the deadline was- my fic is not posted. What's the best thing for me to do now? Label it as a treat?

[benedict]

Yep, go ahead and post as a treat! Archive is still open for treats until the 19th.