There are small fandoms and smaller fandoms, and then there are *those* fandoms.

[melannen]

Note to self: when you find yourself thinking "Oh hey, there's a Yuletide fandom called 'Hard Core Lego'? How didn't I know about that before?" it is probably time to go to bed. :P

There is not actually a yuletide fandom called Hard Core Lego, and there aren't even any relevant google results on the phrase! Internet, why not?

Presumably it's a faux-documentary about a group of women who were really big on the battlebots circuit in high school and college, famous for always using Lego pieces in their robots (and for making extremely vicious robots. And for being girls.) Since college they've grown apart, but Josie Box, their former leader, gets the group back together for tour to promote science education after hearing about how their old advisor is going to be fired because the Harper government is cutting school science programs across the country.

While they travel, stopping by an arena or hackerspace in every city, the group slowly falls apart. They visit their old school and discover that their old advisor isn't being fired because the robotics program was dismantled years ago and she's been working as a reading tutor for the past five years. Jane loses her anti-anxiety meds and won't come out of the van for three days. They stay up late having retro LAN parties and drinking caffeine until they experience hallucinations. Their old advisor admonishes Josie for cynically using the cuts to get the group back together instead of taking advantage of her resources to work for real change. Billie Talent is told that she has a high-paying job offer from Facebook and plans to quit the tour early. Josie finds out and later sets her newest robotic creation against Billie's sentimental favorite from the old days, destroying it beyond repair, and the group splits up for good. In the final scene Josie drinks with the documentary crew members and then steps on a Lego. Barefoot.

...I would watch that. (Casting suggestions?)

(Note that I haven't watched the one with Callum Keith Rennie. I just lack sufficient interest in depressing movies where nobody is very likeable and queer-ish people end tragically. I haven't seen many Canadian films at all, actually, for some reason.)


I'm working on my yuletide signup. I posted to thefourthvine's post with my signup strategy, and using basically that method I have it down to a mostly-final list of just under a hundred things that I would be delighted to write. (less than a hundred this year! I must be getting out of step with fandom.)

Have only vague ideas what I'm going to request. I may wait and see which fandoms don't have any, late in the process, to fill out my four. (Someone who wasn't me nominated Time Team RPF! \o/)

Comments

[fenellaevangela]

I'm Canadian and I haven't seen many Canadian films. It's really one of those things you have to do intentionally, I think. Whenever someone brings up Canadian cinema, I pretty much just pimp Mambo Italiano (a queer film with a cheerful ending!) and Bon Cop Bad Cop (bilingual buddy film!) and then my expertise is tapped out.

[melannen]

Heh. Well, I was *around* people during the height of C6D fandom (Six Degrees of Canadian Actors) so I know *of* a lot of Canadian films, hence my basic familiarity with the plot of Hard Core Logo, I just don't think I've actually *watched* any. :D

[fenellaevangela]

Ah, C6D fandom. That confused the heck out of me when I first heard of it, because of course it's actually about specific Canadian actors! Who I have mostly not heard of! I mean, I watched some Due South and some other Paul Gross stuff but I literally cannot tell Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie apart :-P

[melannen]

I spent awhile thinking CKR was the one who played Constable Fraser, so I get where you're coming from.

[petra]

Hard Core Lego sounds like much more fun than the CKR movie. (And a good number of the Canadian films I've hunted down. But the TV is great.)

[melannen]

I've liked pretty much all the Canadian TV I've tried! (Not that that's been much.)

[lannamichaels]

One of them needs to be played by Ellen Page.

[melannen]

Ooh, yes.

oh yuletide *g*

[jjhunter]

Heh. My strategy has always been to restrict myself to mythology, children's stories, and badass RP who are almost-myth. Given that I tend toward poetry, magical realism, and character studies, that generally ensures that I will get matched to prompts I can write for.

Re: oh yuletide *g*

[melannen]

See, I tend to avoid myth, because I feel like people can have radically different interpretations of myth (especially the ancient myth cycles) and there will be to much chance I'd end up with someone I disagree with about some interpretation I feel very strongly about. I'll sign up for ones that have a specific canon (like de Troyes or the Epic of Gilgamesh) but I am too scared to do a straight mythology fandom-- especially with the risk of running into religious or cultural identity feelings. I don't even sign up for fairy tales because the only ones I am passionate about are the ones where I have very well-loved, and idiosyncratic, headcanon already.

Everyone has their own limits. :D

[finch]

If there were still time to nominate, I would totally nominate this as a fandom.

[melannen]

I am almost tempted to try to write a script, except that I know I cannot write this script.

(and yeah I probably would nominate this too if there were still time!)

[verity]

I vote that next year this is a Yuletide fandom! Because I would totally write fic for Hard Core Lego.