Yuletide Noms!

Yuletide Noms are open!  Here's the instructions.  They close on October 3rd.  You get three fandoms and four characters per fandom.  (Eligibility rules)(Evidence post for borderline fandoms)  You'll get to request fic in four fandoms, though, so you might want to do some horse trading with people so that you get everything you want nominated.  Here's the post to let people know what you've already nominated, and here's the spreadsheet based on it to help people keep track.  Here's the Fandom Promotion Post to get other people excited about your fandom.  (Here's the DW version)

I am nominating Donovan's Reef, ( A 1963 action-romcom about the evils of racism )

Metropolis: The Chase Suite--Janelle Monae
Look, I have NO IDEA why this isn't bigger.  ( A richly SFnal and gorgeously lyrical exploration of race and resistence )

Caprica
( Are you alive? )

Autistic Exchange 2015 is open!

One fic was written for me:

Both Alike (4338 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Relationships: Mr. Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy
Characters: Mr. Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet
Additional Tags: Autistic Character, Autistic Exchange 2015
Summary: Mr Bennet had long ago acknowledged – at the very least to himself – that he was what his stablemaster would call an ‘odd duck’.

Interesting look at what it would be like to be autistic long before modern psychology, looking for someone like yourself and not quite understanding why you were so out of step with the world.

Here are my favorites of the other fics written for the exchange:

Artificial (1240 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters: Tony Stark, Howard Stark
Additional Tags: Autistic Character
Summary:  People say a lot of things about Tony Stark; not all of them are true. The people who say he's weirdly intimate with his bots may have a point, though.

Really interesting look at Tony, and though I’m less convinced about Howard, I like the way the author brought in Tony’s little behavioral quirks.


Whatever Spins Your Engines (1152 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Firefly
Relationships: Kaylee Frye & River Tam
Characters: Kaylee Frye, River Tam
Additional Tags: Autistic Character, Friendship, chosen family, Coping, Female Friendships
Summary:  Kaylee understands when River has her own ways of liking things, odd routines that keep her going in the middle of the mild chaos that is the 'verse on a good day. She understands because she has her own, and that's always been enough. Well... Almost enough.