Brainstorming 2015

[crantz]

Brainstorming time!

What stories are you planning to nominate? What stories are you hoping someone will nominate? What are you on the fence about? What are you not sure is eligible?

Remember, you get 3 nominations, with 0-4 characters each!


NOMINATIONS OPEN ON THE 25TH


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[foxinthestars]

I've got my nominations planned:

Willie of Winsbury (ballad)
Willie of Winsbury
The King's Daughter
The King
Source: text, performed

The Forest Bride (Finnish Fairy Tale)
Veikko
The Mouse Princess
Source: Collected in "Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales" by Parker Fillmore, available at Archive.org, at Project Gutenberg

The Frog Prince
The Frog Prince
The Princess
Iron Henry
The Golden Ball
Source: Intending to request the Brothers Grimm version, as here. (Crucial point, I want a version where the frog gets flung, not kissed.)

[moetushie]

Bluebeard, definitely. I've always loved East of the Sun and West of the Moon...

[redsnake05]

I would love to read something about Hodja Nasreddin (or Nasreddin Hodja, according to tradition). I was first introduced to him through Adventures in Bukhara, by Leonid Solovyev, a version of which you can find http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/2014/05/adventures-in-bukhara-tales-of-khoja-nasreddin-by-leonid-solovyev-part1/. Solovyev's novel is problematic in many ways, but fascinating, so people might prefer the original proverbs and tales (many of which can be found here: http://www.readliterature.com/hodjastories.htm). I am equally enchanted by both.

Nasreddin is a great folk hero and trickster of Central Asia, and I love how he stands for freedom in a mess of shahs, emirs, and sultans and their wicked, grasping policies. He is clever, slippery and articulate. Solovyev's version comes out of the Soviet occupation, and is definitely set up as a novel, while the others have much more variable characterisation and are more like fables than anything else. Anyway, I would love to read or write fic from either source, or even other ones that I've not mentioned. Nasreddin would be heaps of fun.

This is the only nomination I've really settled on, but I'm kicking round a few others. I've been wondering about whether types of characters can be named. I don't know any specific stories involving, say, selkies, but I'd love to read some fanfic about selkies. Would it be possible to nominate 'selkie' as a fandom?

[morbane]

I am definitely nominating a version of Rapunzel. I will probably nominate a version of The Firebird once scribblemyname and I agree on a version.

I am also toying with the idea of nominating The Emperor's New Clothes.

[gehayi]

This is a tough one, because my favorite fairy tale is one no one has ever heard of.

It's this one:

The Prince and His Three Fates (Ancient Egypt)

I'm not sure what other ones to pick. I'm tempted to go with a Swahili story and a Japanese story, though. Would these be okay? I know that nothing I'm picking is traditional. And I'm not certain if the Japanese story was written by Lafcadio Hearn or recorded by him.

[makiyakinabe]

Here's what I'm planning to nominate:

The Boy Who Drew Cats (a Japanese fairy tale)
The Broken Pitcher (an English variation of Cinderella)
The Three Languages (a Grimms' fairy tale)

[xenomantid]

If I want a story about Atlantis, do I have to phrase the request as "The Fall of Atlantis" or something similar?

[slashmarks]

Nominated Persephone and Hades, Godmother by Ursula Vernon (...you did say it was allowed in the comments), and The Cat Who Became a Queen.

I'm hoping for some combination of Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, and Robin Hood to be nominated by other people -- I love reading and writing retelling of all of those, but they're also all things it's rather easy to find, so I figured I'd pick obscure options for my last two.

[alexseanchai]

So The Girl Who Pretended To Be A Boy from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books collection. Title character, title character's two elder sisters, and title character's eventual wife.

And ctrl-f to '886-900' of Hesiod's Theogony but I have a question about that. I want to nominate Metis, Zeus, Athena, and the hypothetical son of Metis and Zeus. I figure the first three are okay, but I'm not sure a hypothetical character counts, even though the fact of his prophesied existence is a key bit of the myth.

And...question about the flying Africans. I get the impression it's an oral myth, not one written down until comparatively recently—that document is the best description of it I've found. Eligibility check? (And it doesn't have characters per se, either...) If this one doesn't fly—ehe—I'll do East of the Sun and West of the Moon to make morbane happy.