10 August 2016 @ 07:55 am
2016 – Let's Discuss Nominations  
Hello again, everyone!

Now that we're officially back in business for the year, it's time to talk about nominations. As noted in the previous post, those will be open in five days, at 5 PM (PDT) on Monday, August 15, so there's time to start batting things around before then.

Feel free to talk about what you're thinking of nominating in the comments, discuss eligibility, negotiate free spaces in your nominations with other users, etc.

You're also more than welcome to pull from our collection of user-made banners from prior years, but don't let that stop you from making and posting (via comment here) your own if you feel inspired.
 
 
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 07:28 pm (UTC)
I am a total MCU girl, so predictable. HOWEVER, Suicide Squad reminded me of my early love for Harley/Poison Ivy, so I was thiiiiiiiinking about that, but I would have to review a bunch of the comics (OH WOE). But there's also Babylon 5, hmmm....

MCU
Pepper/Natasha
Maria/Natasha
Pepper/Maria
Maria/Sharon
Natasha/Sharon

AOS (see thing below about including it)
Melinda/Natasha
Melinda/early Skye (should we differentiate between Skye and Daisy? am I being a total pain? Probably)
Victoria/Izzy, maybe -- it'd have to be backstory or an AU, and probably nobody else would be offering it, so, probably not. BUT STILL. THEY KILLED OFF XENA. I WANT FIX-IT FIC. ahem.

Babylon 5
Delenn/Ivanova
Ivanova/Talia
Delenn/her poet friend (argh, what was her name?)

AC
Peggy/Dottie
Peggy/Whitney
Peggy/Angie
Peggy/Rose
Dottie/Whitney

Like I said, nnnnnot sure on offering Harley/Ivy, and I haven't read any of them post New-52....arrrrrrgh, comics, why you do this.

ETA Can't believe I forgot Buffy! Buffy/Faith, eternal OTP.

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nenya_kanadka[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 10th, 2016 10:41 pm (UTC)
Delenn's poet friend was named Shaal Mayan and I ship it a lot, so you've just freed up the slot I was going to use for Delenn/Mayan by doing that! :D

Do you want to add Delenn/Catherine Sakai and Delenn/Anna Sheridan to your B5 section? (I'm easy for Delenn, OK, we knew that. XD)

AOS: What do we ship for Bobbi Morse? I feel like Bobbi/Melinda could be epic, but I haven't seen the show in forever. Oh! Bobbi/Jemma seemed pretty canon from Simmons's side in that episode where Bobbi saved her from Hydra. :D
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 10:49 pm (UTC)
Delenn's poet friend was named Shaal Mayan and I ship it a lot, so you've just freed up the slot I was going to use for Delenn/Mayan by doing that! :D

\o/ IF THAT LIGHT OF TWO MOONS THING IS NOT FEMSLASH _WAITING_ TO HAPPEN I WILL EAT A HEADBONE

Do you want to add Delenn/Catherine Sakai and Delenn/Anna Sheridan to your B5 section? (I'm easy for Delenn, OK, we knew that. XD)

I love Catherine! But do we get real Anna? Is it Shadows Anna? Heck, collect all the Sherida -- okay that was going nowhere good. Why not!

AOS: What do we ship for Bobbi Morse? I feel like Bobbi/Melinda could be epic, but I haven't seen the show in forever. Oh! Bobbi/Jemma seemed pretty canon from Simmons's side in that episode where Bobbi saved her from Hydra. :D

THAT YES, and hmm I don't know about Bobbi/Melinda, but there's gotta be something there. (Have you been reading Mockingbird? SO GREAT)
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nenya_kanadka[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 10th, 2016 11:01 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah all that poetry was totally slashy as hell. <3<3

Real Anna, I assume, but I suppose someone could write it as Shadows Anna if they wanted. [livejournal.com profile] vjs2259 had a Delenn/John/Anna universe at one point, where they were able to de-Shadow-ize Anna. WIP I think. Made me want moar Delenn/Anna though.

(And yeah as much as I ship Delenn with Jeff and slightly with John, I really love Cathy and would not be opposed to collecting all the characters for Delenn's harem. Hee!)

Awww yus, Mockingbird, Bobbi vs SHIELD Medical, Bobbi vs the femdom club, etc etc...SO GREAT.
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:06 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah all that poetry was totally slashy as hell. <3<3

TWO MOONS, I am just saying. REMEMBER YOU WORKING ON IT WHEN WE WERE STUDENTS TOGETHER, just saying.

Real Anna, I assume, but I suppose someone could write it as Shadows Anna if they wanted.

LOL, if I wrote it, it would probably be tragic Anna-struggling-to-be-free-of-Shadows-Anna. Oh dear. (Probably influenced by the book JMS's wife wrote, I liked that one.)

really love Cathy and would not be opposed to collecting all the characters for Delenn's harem

HOW AWESOME IS CATHY? HOW. AWESOME. And she got written out, SIGH. Not if we have anything to do with it. (And then apparently she gets to go back in time and catch a lot of shit as Valen's human wife? :-/)

Awww yus, Mockingbird, Bobbi vs SHIELD Medical, Bobbi vs the femdom club, etc etc...SO GREAT.

I was lukewarm on Bobbi in AoS and Chelsea Cain has made me want her own fucking TV show, I am just saying. I love how the feminism is front and center, and so is the siene, and so is the ass-kicking. I really want Cain-Bobbi to meet Nat! since Nat in her current book is kind of mopey (WTF) and in her Civil War crossover (ARRRRRRRGH) she'll be doing battle with Tony over her Greatest Secret or something. (Maybe she killed Tony's parents. Maybe she helped Bucky kill Tony's parents. Maybe she killed Tony's real parents, isn't he adopted now? OH, MARVEL.)
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nenya_kanadka: B5 Delenn b&w Minbari[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 10th, 2016 11:20 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah there is TOTALLY backstory there, I mean, Minbari college girlfriends or what??

Cathy is the best. I am OK with her going back to be with Valen, 'coz at least they can be together, but in my head they end up in some kind of Minbari triad thing with some hot Minbari lady who may or may not be a previous incarnation of Delenn. /has theories

Nat and Bobbi should have so much more screentime/pagetime together. I feel like there was one comic where Natasha kissed her for reasons (something something nanites something) but Mucca would know more about that. Needs moar! (Also, nothing against Tony Stark, but come on guys. I want more Natasha adventures that don't revolve around her origin story.)
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Kore Soteira: Black Widow - Red Room movie poster[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:39 pm (UTC)
Minbari college girlfriends or what??

YOU KNOW IT
LATE NIGHT STUDY SESSIONS
DELENN ASKING ABOUT POETRY
TRADING STORIES ABOUT FAVOURITE MINBARI HEROINES

in my head they end up in some kind of Minbari triad thing with some hot Minbari lady who may or may not be a previous incarnation of Delenn. /has theories

see, this is why we're friends (I forgot reincarnation is canon in B5! YES)

I feel like there was one comic where Natasha kissed her for reasons (something something nanites something) but Mucca would know more about that. Needs moar!

AHA I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS. IT IS IN DEADLY ORIGINS AND ALL OF NAT'S PREVIOUS SOs HAVE BEEN POISONED BY NANITE THINGS (ya rly) AND SO HAVE ALL OF THEIR SOs (ya rrrrrrrrrly) AND SHE HAS TO KISS BOBBI and it's done in this non-consensual male-gazey way, SIGH. Also LOL at me getting allcapsy over it, I was just so pleased I actually REMEMBERED something from comics canon, ever. http://fybw.org/post/90012719612/did-i-miss-something-why-i-see-people-saying http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveluniversemap/images/c/c7/Black_Widow_Deadly_Origins_03_p04.jpg

BUT WE CAN FIX THAT. WE ARE HERE TO FIX THAT. Also in Mockingbird, in one of the waiting-room scenes Nat is reading Guns and Ammo and says to Bobbi "Nice boots" (the BDSM ones). IT'S PRACTICALLY CANON.

(Also, nothing against Tony Stark, but come on guys. I want more Natasha adventures that don't revolve around her origin story.)

YEAH, this Nat book has had beautiful art, but it's been all about the Red Room. More specifically, it's about one guy sending her places because he knows her Awfullest Secret (what can it possibly be, BY NOW) and then another guy takes care of her later and there's the Red Room but there's also something called the Dark Room (yuk, yuk, yuk. Jesus, Marvel, _my cat_ could come up with something better than that) and just....sigh. The first issue was beautiful, with Nat breaking stuff out of SHIELD and Maria going hell bent for leather after her and it was like a Bond pre-credits movie right on the page. And I love Red Room Nat and sad doomed BuckyNat but....come on! Nat did other things!

Also, the Awfullest Secret better not be that goddamn sex tape of Nat and Tony from Ults.
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nenya_kanadka: B5 Catherine Sakai[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 11th, 2016 01:17 am (UTC)
Not to spam all over the fest page but yesss I agree with all these things. (Also previous!Delenn is like, probably a Warrior starship captain or something, because I need more badass proto-Delenn in my life. XD)
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 11th, 2016 01:20 am (UTC)
OMFG yes, "if you value your lives, BE SOMEWHERE ELSE." She could be a Minbari flight captain who sees value in Sakai's awesome pilot skills!
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nenya_kanadka: @ homoerotic bias[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 11th, 2016 01:21 am (UTC)
her Awfullest Secret (what can it possibly be, BY NOW)

EXACTLY, for fuck's sake, I mean, haven't we already had this one (The Name of the Rose and all that which was great) like three times already?

But I did love the jumping out of the helicarrier. I think I'm a couple issues behind you on that one, but man, the art was fab for sure. Oh hey do we have a Nat/Maria ship nominated yet?
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 11th, 2016 01:29 am (UTC)
There was Name of the Rose, which I actually enjoyed and I wish Liu had gotten to write MORE, and then the 2014 book ("a new ongoing series as gorgeous and mysterious as Nastasha Romanov herself!" the Marvel page says, sigh) which....was OK? I really wanted to like it? But it felt the same as the recent book, like it started off well and then went ffffzzzzzz, which is weird because Nat is such a great character. There was no there there. The individual cases they started out with were good, but the overarching plot didn't get concluded and then surprise!Last Days WTF. (I thought I hated Civil War Interruptus 1 and 2 most of all but as I get more into the comics I am LOATHING how many books got cut off by Last Days and then had to restart.)

But I did love the jumping out of the helicarrier. I think I'm a couple issues behind you on that one, but man, the art was fab for sure.

It was BEAUTIFUL, I mean, I honestly think you could take that in to some MCU executive office and go "Imagine a movie with this kind of opening." And then, Nat is pitted against Some Evil Enigmatic Dude we have never seen before and gets manipulated. OMG how many times can we see that plotline.
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:07 pm (UTC)
Ahhh fuckedy, I forgot MMFR, altho I think probably because to me it's Just Perfect and I don't really want to write much for it. Ex Machina, tho! I've been thinking of an Ex Machina "Ava returns" story.
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:16 pm (UTC)
AND I FORGOT PEGGY/ANA! Argh, I fucking fail at noms.
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nenya_kanadka: MCU Agent Carter Peggy/Jarvis[personal profile] nenya_kanadka on August 10th, 2016 11:21 pm (UTC)
Peggy/Ana hell yeah!
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:41 pm (UTC)
REMEMBER WHEN ANA WAS MAKING HER SPECIAL SPY CLOTHES AND I AM JUST SO HERE FOR PEGGY/ANA. And omfg it just fizzled on the show, even before Ana got her Womb Wound. And why did all the female interaction on that show just tank in S2? Weren't there more women? I was SO hoping for a Peggy/Dottie teamup, or a Peggy/Dottie/Whitney teamup of necessity against the proto-HYDRA white dudes.
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Kore Soteira[personal profile] kore on August 10th, 2016 11:45 pm (UTC)
(I am also probably filling Mucca's inbox with all my OT babbling, sorry /o\)
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