What should I offer for Yuletide?

[dbskyler]

Flist, I am once again having trouble finding 4 fandoms to offer for Yuletide. So, I'm looking for suggestions! What should I consider offering?

My favorite thing to do for Yuletide is write humor, so I am particularly looking for humorous fandoms, or fandoms with a cracky premise, where recipients are pretty likely to be requesting something in that tone. I realize you won't know if I'm familiar with a particular fandom or not, but if you think of something, suggest it, because maybe I know it!

Basically, I'm asking: anything I might be overlooking in the tag set? Or any 5-minute fandoms out there that I should check out?

FYI, you can find the tag set here.

Comments

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

This humorous fandoms, or fandoms with a cracky premise, and this any 5-minute fandoms out there that I should check out? both fits "Galavant" very well. I only found out about it when John Barrowman replied to a tweet, saying that he had auditioned for it but they didn't want him.

Two seasons, 18 episodes altogether, just 30 minutes per episode (20 minutes if you don't count commercials). Once you start watching, you can't stop. At least I couldn't. And I was very hesitant at first, as it was pitched to me as being similar to Monty Python, and I absolutely don't get Monty Python humor. But this I loved.

It's set in medieval times, and it is a musical. There is a lot of singing and dancing and overall crackyness. The music was done by Alan Menken of Disney fame which alone is a recommendation. You can also find the songs on youtube if you want to have a quick look. Very humorous lyrics (sometimes of the kind where you wonder how they got away with it, but I guess if you have your critique of American politics in a medieval setting anything is possible - isn't ABC also the channel that is doing the Simpsons? That would explain a lot), great actors, I really loved it.

It's an American (ABC) show but filmed in the UK with lots of British actors I recognized, two from "Downton Abbey" for example. Worth alone for the British accents and awesome locations. 2 minutes in I recognized a cathedral I have visited many years ago. I love such things.

Well worth checking out! Sadly it was cancelled but for a while it was my new favorite fandom. I have no idea if there is fic about it. Maybe I should check!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Galavant! I haven't seen it, but I have RL friends who love it. I'll try to check it out, thanks!

Looks like AO3 does indeed have Galavant fic: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Galavant%20(TV)/works

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

One and a half year later I think I can ask whether you have found time to check it out?

While I have not checked out the fic. Other stuff got more important but I also seriously wonder how a story without singing and dancing would work. It's a big part of the show.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I've seen bits of it now, but I haven't sat down and watched a full episode. Nothing I've seen so far has really grabbed me, but I also recognize that I haven't given it a fair chance. Is there a particularly good episode for newbies that you would recommend I watch?

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Uh, I don't think it works that way. You have to start right at the beginning, to understand the journey of the characters. There's nice development for everyone. I only wanted to check it out and ended up watching six episodes at once (since they are only 20 minutes long). It grabbed me right in the first episode, when Galavant, big hero, strode into the church to rescue the poor damsel in distress who was about to marry the much older king, and she hesitated and said "Well, actually..."

That was when I realized that all the usual clichés would be turned upside down and you go in having no idea what to expect which makes it very refreshing. And everyone's so likeable.

And the lyrics to the songs are quite unusual as well. I think it was in episode 3 where Galavant and Isabella sing a very different love duet.

Really, just start right at minute 1 at episode 1. If you don't have a catchy tune three minutes in, then you must be dead ;)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Interesting! That explains why the scenes I saw didn't really do anything for me. Okay, I'll try to go find the first episode then.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

...well?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Nope, haven't seen it yet. I did have a very busy summer, though.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh dear! I haven't seen anything that caught my eye like last year with the Time Travelling Saxophone Haters, but if you had a particularly small/weird fandom like that, you had to explain it on the evidence post, so it might be worth checking out that as well as the fandom pimping post.

Looking at the Other Media section, I see that the Antler Guy tumblr post has made it in and that is fairly random and cracky, although I don't know whether it's your sort of thing.

I am intrigued as to what on earth Expert Judgment on Means to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion could possibly be, though - you should find out.

If not, you could follow up some of the adverts and music videos. Plenty of music videos are seriously cracky and one of the adverts seems to feature "Abdominal Pain" and "Woman with Abdominal Pain" as the two characters, which does make the mind boggle as to what was going on in the advert. (Presumably one of those with an anthropomorphised illness/germs/whatever). Also Tea is a category, with various types as characters. It would be beyond me as a non tea-drinker, despite all these years of DW watching, but you could maybe handle it? I don't know.

And Clue or Cluedo is back again - I think that could be pretty fab to write for, but I don't even own the game any more and the US version seems slightly different to the UK one, so I wouldn't dare.

Personally, obviously, I think you should just watch The Lady Vanishes, which is only an hour and a half and great and full of humour. This has nothing to do with me wanting fic for it! *nose grows substantially*

Good luck in finding something anyway!

ETA: Of course, there's always the option of looking through the neediest fandoms on the sign-up summary and seeing if there's something you could maybe offer or try to pick up there?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the ideas. I don't know, nothing's really grabbing me, but then, Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters didn't grab me at first last year, either.