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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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.

[crantz]

Haha, I had a moment of thinking Persephone and Hades were part of the Ursula Vernon story and going 'oh no I can't find it on google!' but I found it and YES it is totally going to be accepted.

Robin Hood has been nominated, no word yet on the other two.

For those curious about Godmother reading this, it's here and a good tale.

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Thanks! Whoops, should have linked to Godmother too, but it slipped my mind for some reason.

[crantz]

Heya! Just a heads up - I found the source for the Hades and Persephone myth and renamed the tag to that story for you.

It's The Hymm to Demeter by Homer! If you need the link or anything, it's here and anyway just so you know what happened with your nomination.

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I actually wasn't meaning to refer to the Homer version -- I was intending to talk about previous versions of the myth related to Persephone's cult in my prompt. I'm not sure if referring to the Hymn to Demeter would restrict prompts to that specific version?

[crantz]

Do you have a specific tale for that one? I can (and would be happy to!) change it to that story if you do.

However, you are permitted (and encouraged) to suggest elements from other myths although I recommend that you give enough detail to help your author.

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Sadly, no, I was intending to give detail in the request because most of what I'm thinking about is speculation based on archaeological evidence. So what you've done sounds fine! I just wasn't clear I could ask for details from other versions.

[crantz]

Oh good! I'm glad it worked out!

And yes, feel free to ask for details from other versions!