Yuletide! Whee!

[rachelmanija]

For those of you who don't know what Yuletide is, you can spare yourself a lot of incomprehensible posts by reading this right now. For those of you who despise, deplore, or defenestrate fanfic, I suggest that you skip all posts tagged "Yuletide."

Whee! Yuletide! Sign-ups are now open!

After deep and prolonged thought, I decided to repeat three previous unfulfilled requests and add a new one.

In a fit of madness, I offered thirty fandoms: some because I wanted to write them, some because I wanted to refresh my acquaintance with the source, and a few because I am a lunatic and I wished to be driven further into the depths of gibbering insanity in the name of Yuletide they would be a challenge.

A handy list of available fandoms is here. Any given fandom may or may not get any stories written for it, but the thrilling possibilities include Maggie Helwig's Between Mountains, The Mahabharata, The Tale of Genji, Biggles, Enid Blyton, Anne McCaffrey (available for the first time, as far as I know), Heian Japan RPS (Real People Fic), the now-terrifying Care Bears, most Shakespeare plays, two songs ("The Queen and the Soldier" and "Whiskey In The Jar"), and nearly the entire oevre of L. J. Smith.

I am so excited! Tell me of your own excitement!

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I have never had the opportunity to defenestrate fanfic. It sounds fun, especially for certain fics.

I am afraid of how terrifying Care Bears might be.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot.

What makes this story so uniquely and memorably hilariously disturbing is that a) it's very well-written, b) the author is extremely familiar with the Care Bear canon, d) "Slave Bear is tied to the rape rack," said another.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Alas, I will be skipping Yuletide this year, since I never got around to writing my assigned punishment for my (technical) default last year. But I'm cool with that -- I really don't need the stress this year. (Plus I don't know how any gift could possibly top the amazing story I got last time!)

Who nominated Maggie's book, do you know?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know.

Which was your story last time?

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Someone I didn't even know wrote me the most fabulous Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars femslash -- a long, action-packed piece with gloriously purple prose and some very nice feminist critique. And come to think of it, she added another gen Mars piece a week later, and I didn't have time to read it due to travel, and I forgot all about it until just now!

I have an unopened present sitting around!

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I've just signed up for my first Yuletide. *quivers*

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I offered so many fandoms. So many. And I need to write a letter to Santa, and, and--

::runs around with arms flailing::

I LOVE YULETIDE.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Heian Japan RPS

Why am I thinking Murasaki Shikibu/Sei Shonagon slash right now?

No. RPS is the way of evil...

[john-h-holliday.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaahhhhh
EEEEEEEEeeeeee
It's Yuletide sign-ups!
*throws a party during which time I run about waving my hands excitedly in the air*
I'm still doing my lists.
zomg! 30fandoms! wows 3 unfulfilled requests!

!!!

[seajules]

I'm offering fewer fandoms this year than last, but that's only because there's less time to mainline something. As usual, the hard part was coming up with requests, and I have a tradition of changing my mind at least once....

And then adding more fandoms when I change my requests. Yuletide should possibly come with a warning label that says, "All sanity abandon, ye who enter here."

[eredien]

Can someone please explain to me how to sign up? I read the website last year and I don't understand the procedure.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Go here (http://yuletidetreasure.org/signup_page1.cgi) and follow the directions. The only really tricky bit has to do with what characters you're willing to write, or want to request, in a given fandom. When you click on a fandom in the request boxes, it should give you a pulldown list of characters; hit control to highlight multiple ones. Those are the characters you want the fic you receive to focus on.

The top box in the fandoms offered bit is for fandoms in which you would be willing to write about any character. Check every fandom you would be willing to do that for. The boxes below that are for fandoms in which there are a few characters you would want to write about and others you wouldn't; highlight as with the request boxes to indicate the characters you would be willing to write about.

The 'additional notes' section of the request boxes is where you say what you actually want as a story. Some specificity is good, but leaving flexibility is also a good idea. For example, if I were requesting a Hunter X Hunter fic, I might say something like 'I think that Gon and Killua are a really awesome pair, so fic about them, whether it's romantic or not, would be great; I'm also intrigued by how their dynamic with Hisoka affects the way they deal with each other. But if you're skeeved out by Hisoka's intentions, well, the only character in this fandom I really don't want to read about is Kuroro'. This way the writer has some idea what you want but you haven't plotted the story for them.

Make sense?

[eredien]

Aww, I missed out by like 5 hours. :(
Maybe I will do a New Year's story.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

EEEEEE Yuletide!

... now I get to wait a week or so for the 'what was I thinking when I offered xyz fandom' to set in.

I so very much hope there is L.J. Smith fic.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

There is!