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Last Day of Nominations 2019

Nominations close today! See when.

Tell your friends! (Promo images)
Tell us what you want to be able to request and offer this year! (Tag set)
If the thing you want to nominate is impossible to google or looks too big to approve, tell us with an evidence post.

Here is an incomplete list of fandoms you have nominated that are too big, and will be rejected:

Actor RPF
Alias (TV)
Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Animorphs
Blake's 7
Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
Call the Midwife
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Criminal Minds (US TV)
Days of Our Lives
Downton Abbey
Eureka
Figure Skating RPF
Final Fantasy XIV
Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Generation Kill
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Law & Order: SVU
Lewis (TV)
Leverage
Librarians (TV)
The Losers (2010)
Lost Girl (TV)
Marvel 616)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
NCIS
Political RPF
SHAKESPEARE William - Works
Star Trek: Discovery
Suicide Squad (2016)
Tron - All Media Types

(This list is incomplete because: we have no way of knowing everything that's nominated until we approve it. There may be nominated fandoms that are not on this list, but that are too big.)

You can edit your nominations until nominations close. We wish you joy of your choices!

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Europe Tour 2019: Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Delft

The second half of the visit to Stuttgart included a visit to the Maulbronn Cloister, formerly of the Cistercians and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With parts 850 years old, the monastery complex is in astoundingly good condition, effectively a preserved medieval village. It is unsurprising the local council now uses one of the buildings as council offices. Naturally enough the pun "from Melbourne to Maulbronn" had to be made as well. Apart from the stunning buildings, three stories of the cloister were charming; firstly, the determination of where the cloister would stand (a thirsty mule, laden with treasure, establishing "Maulbronn" aka Mule Fountain), secondly, the use of Maultasche, a ravioli-like pasta to hide the consumption of meat from God, and thirdly, that Johannes Kepler was a student at the cloister. Felix, our host, mentioned that he was a descendent of Kepler and later showed us his family history book and family crest which affirmed the claim. That night had a dinner at Tina's Trollingerstub of traditional Swabian fare.

The following morning we bid our farewells for another year and journeyed to Darmstadt, which is primarily a university and technical city close to Frankfurt. It also just happens to be the home of the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre. With an invitation from the director of ground facilities, a magnificent tour was provided, including a visit to the control room and a plentiful discussion of past and present operations of the Agency, along with connection with New Norcia in Western Australia. I was particularly taken by the ESA's involvement in on the landing on Saturn's moon, Titan, along with their landing on a comet. Also of particular note was the small box of remains of Ariane EDIT, a rocket which exploded shortly after launch (a programming error caused a 64-bit float to be shoved into a 16-bit integer), which I have used in a few presentations in the past. Whilst the sheer enormity of relatively deep space (and time) explorations touches deeply into my pantheistic orientations, on a more practical and immediate sense the Copernicus Earth Observation programme has many varied and obvious applications.

From Darmstadt, a fairly long trip was planned by train along the Rhine with quite a few changes. This was quite interrupted by the cancellation of a service at Mainz. Whilst Mainz is a fairly charming city, staying there for an extended period was not planned on this trip and, following some juggling, the timetable was re-arranged with an eventual arrival in Delft at 2100 hours (with short changes in Dusseldorf, Venlo, and Eindhoven). Arriving in Delft, Jett D., was already present to take us from the station to our lodgings on the outskirts of town (relatively so in a country like The Netherlands). The next few hours were spent over drinks discussing where various people of our mutual rock-and-roll youth have ended up and swapping listening tips on older and more contemporary bands. It is true that a few of the visits of the Europe 2019 trip are short, but one can hardly travel from literally the other side of the world without making a detour to see friends old and good.

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Detective L pics & question

Detective L promo - Luo Fei Detective L promo - Qin Xiaoman Detective L promo - Benjamin


Aren't these gorgeous? I just found these Detective L promo images I hadn't seen before, and now they're my favourites. Damn, I wish they'd done the other characters in the same style! (Or if they have, I haven't found them.)

So now I finally have a Detective L icon! I'm not good at icon-making, but still. It's something?

(More promo pics and stills here and here.)

Also, I've mentioned it before, but I'm planning a Detective L rewatch this month in preparation for writing my Yuletide request. I'll probably watch about two cases a week (six episodes) so I can get through it all in time, and I thought I'd make a post about each case with whatever occurs to me while I watch. Anyone interested in watching along?

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Baen eBooks Free Month Credit - January 2020 (includes Penric's Progress)

Baen Books has this nifty 'buy one, give some to a new customer' policy. If anyone has not gotten anything from Baen eBooks before, and wants free credit, let me know! Your e-mail address has to not be in their database to get a free month. I'll take requests in the order they appear in my home inbox - sraun@fireopal.org.

The one-time use coupon is worth $9.99 off anything sold on Baen Ebooks, and is good for one year. If you'd like, you can use it as partial payment to buy a monthly bundle. If there's one specific e-book you'd like, you can wait until it is released and use the credit to buy it.

First request gets it. If you don't get it this time, I put you on my request list, and you get first shot as the new months come out.

Here's what's coming up:

January 2020

Gunpowder & Embers, by John Ringo, Kacey Ezell, and Christopher L. Smith
Penric's Progress, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Frozen Orbit, by Patrick Chiles
All the Plagues of Hell, by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
Arkad's World, by James L. Cambias
Black Triumph, by Brendan DuBois
Infoquake - Jump 225 Trilogy, by David Louis Edelman

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Nominators Beware + Pinch Hit Group

Nominations
Nominations end on October 10 or 11 depending on your time zone. Please submit any evidence posts for your fandom by that time. See also: coordinations post.


Check the nominations guidelines before nominating. In particular:

Please don't use fandom tags that include the words All Media Types or & Related Fandoms, unless you explain why on an evidence post. We will not approve them.

Please follow RPF guidelines. ?th Century RPF is generally too broad.

The following fandoms are too big:
Animorphs
Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
Call the Midwife
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Criminal Minds (US TV)
Downton Abbey
Eureka
Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Law & Order: SVU
Leverage
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
NCIS
Star Trek: Discovery.

All of these fandoms have been nominated. To the nominators: please choose something else. To everyone: if some of those fandoms seem under the limits to you, please check your search terms or filter settings. Your own nominations may be for fandoms that are too big! The list above is not complete - tagmods only see a random assortment of nominations.


Pinch Hitters, Arise!
We have sent a wake-up email to the pinch hit group. This is a Google group and mailing list where we advertise requests in need of writers. Pinch hitters are the writers who take on these extra assignments. Please check that you got the email if you're already signed up. If you aren't, consider signing up for an extra boost of adrenaline (as the deadlines are usually shorter) and glory. Pinch hitters are amazing.

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Yuletide!

Yuletide exchange promotional image using a seaside postcard. Text says Yuletide - A rare fandoms gift exchange. Nominations 2-11 Oct. Sign-ups 27 Oct - 4 Nov. Works due 18 Dec.


Nominations are still open until the 11th, but I got mine in already. Wow, something I'm not doing at the last minute; with the way this year's been going, I barely recognise myself. :p

It's going to be the first year I'm using all allowed request slots - six fandoms. Actually, looking through past requests, looks like I've almost always had four requests, except for 2014, when I added Grimm (which I'd just discovered in its final year of Yuletide eligibilty) to my by-then usual slate of four very-rare fandoms, and 2018, when I added Guardian.

This year's requests are going to be:
  • 1632 series - Various Authors: John Chandler Simpson
  • Nantucket trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash (and possibly Raupasha?)
  • Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason: Sanders Nicholas, Ettin Gwarha
  • Starfire series - Various Authors: Zhaarnak'telmasa, Raymond Prescott
  • 镇魂 | Guardian (TV) - Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan
  • 绅探 | Detective L (TV) - Luo Fei, Huo Wensi

I nominated three myself (of course); two were taken care of by lovely [community profile] sid_guardian folks here, and I badgered bribed convinced a friend to nominate the last one for me.

There are a lot of other fandoms I hope to see in Yuletide; looking forward to finding out what's been nominated this year.

Anyway, all set for Yuletide now! *g* Who else is playing this year?

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  • Sat, 10:30: The Gentlemen Trailer | In Theaters January 2020 | The Two Gay Geeks https://t.co/gVKvOZZcLl
  • Sat, 10:36: Duncan's Books and More is in Mesa at the DT Festival of the Arts selling our books, bookmarks and Duncan's paintings! Come check us out!
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Europe Tour 2019: Stuttgart and Heilbronn

A journey to the other side of the world involves some time which, despite the best efforts of carriers (Etihad in this instance), is always a little hard on the body, even with a short stop-over in Abu Dhabi. Of course, it's a first-world problem at worst. At least one has the opportunity to catch up on movies and readings, and this trip was no exception in that regard. Having found a couple of Norman Spinrad books I re-read my rather battered second copy of Bug Jack Barron, which I thoroughly enjoyed, again. I then watched a few disappointing episodes of Family Guy, a show I normally enjoy for being a bit edgy and dank, followed by the decidely average horror film, The Curse of La Llorona, before concluding on a few excellent episodes of season 2 of Westworld, which continues its conflict-laden exploration of complex androids turning on their creators who have abused them for years.

Arriving in Frankfurt we were waved through customs and passport in a matter of minutes and was lucky enough to have trains waiting for us at both the airport and at Frankfurt HBh to take us to Stuttgart. Due to pure luck we had arrived on German Unity Day, which was utterly devoid of nationalistic nonsense, at least where we were. It was a public holiday and long-weekend, which primarily means family activities and staying with die familie in Stuttgart, we provided our usual bag of gifts which the growing Kinder always enjoy, along with some wines and a bottle of Vantage, an interesting lemon myrtle liquor for the adults. The agenda has been quite busy already; on the first day we went to the Heilbronn Bundesgartenschau, which is basically an open-air botanical museum and festival along the banks of the Necker, which also paraded various environmental and urban renewal of former industrial sites. The following day we returned to Heilbronn for Experimenta, a multi-story interactive workshop and science show, again aimed for kids, but also highly educational as well.

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