Pre-Yuletide Activities

Poll #30376

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Yuletide opens in 13 hours! I am...

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Madly writing treats.
7 (18.4%)

Shaking my gift.
8 (21.1%)

Prowling the collection and mentally marking the stories I want to read.
11 (28.9%)

Making popcorn in anticipation of this year's inevitable Yuletide wank.
12 (31.6%)

I'm a mod, so I'm frantically trying to ensure there is no wank, or at least none I can pre-empt.
1 (2.6%)

I do not participate in Yuletide, not even to the extent of reading stories.
5 (13.2%)

Something else which I will describe in comments.
5 (13.2%)

Poll #30377

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I am betting this year's Yuletide wank will be...

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A post-deadline pinch hit due to a DNW the mods didn't catch.
22 (25.6%)

Unwanted politics in a story, like unwanted current political figures.
38 (44.2%)

A story set in a current real-life war zone.
41 (47.7%)

Nazis.
23 (26.7%)

Dewclaws.
4 (4.7%)

Rude replies to comments.
12 (14.0%)

Comments correcting arguable departures from canon at great length.
10 (11.6%)

Comments objecting to the presence of sex in a story.
10 (11.6%)

Someone complaining about their gift.
23 (26.7%)

Something else which I will describe in comments.
4 (4.7%)

Here's the Yuletide collection.

If you're the sort of person who shakes presents, it's possible to shake Yuletide stories before they open. Here's how you do it.

First, click on the fandom tag. I'll use Dragonriders of Pern as an example. Then go to the sidebar on the left and click on the tags.

By clicking on "characters," I can see that Lessa, F'lar, and Menolly are featured in two stories (but I can't tell if it's the same two stories or different ones), and that Mirrim is in one story. You can click on relationships, which shows me that I can happily anticipate one story featuring Kylara/Lessa and one featuring Menolly & Mirrim (probably not the same story). And "Additional Tags" shows me that two stories feature canon divergence AUs, plus one tag each for hurt/comfort, future fic, and worldbuilding.

Have you shaken any stories? What are you happily anticipating in the collection? What wank do you anticipate will occur?

In addition to my gifts which look AMAZING, I am excited to see those seven Pern stories, Mr. Burns: an Electric Play, and stories for "Eleanor Rigby," Equus, Earthsea, Emelan, the Expanse, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Jean Auel's Earth's Children - and that's in E alone!