Yuletide nominations!

[bagheera_san]

I fully intend to take part in Yuletide again, and just nominated some stuff - I didn't really take a long time to think about it, which I'll probably regret, but whatever.

1) Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Probably other people will nominate this, but just to be sure...

2) Bernice Summerfield (Big Finish Audios)
Benny doesn't even exist as a fandom on AO3!!! How horrible is that? So now I've nominated it. But it sucks that you can only nominate 4 characters.

3) Krabat - Otfried Preußler
Now this needs an explanation. It's German young adult fiction (there are a couple of movies, too) about a boy who goes to a satanic mill/black witchcraft school, works his way up to favourite student and then defeats his master. It's like Harry Potter if Harry Potter were a really dark fairy-tale set in 17th cent. Eastern Europe and Dumbledore was Voldemort. Amusingly, the main evil wizard, who is also the miller, is only called the Master. Probably no one else will want to write/request this... and if they do request it, they probably won't ask for Krabat/Juro or Master/dead best friend.

Comments

[margueritem.livejournal.com]

I tried reading Krabat (I have other books by the author), but I wasn't able to concentrate and the language was a bit above my comprehension level (in German, that is). I'll probably try again some other time.

I nominated the Tiger und Bär stories, myself. :D

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Krabat must be difficult to read because it has many words that are either archaic or local idiom or plain rare, but it's well worth a read. I haven't seen either of the movies even though I'm tempted because this is one book where I couldn't bear it if the movie was bad (much like the Neverending Story, which people who haven't read the book tend to like.)