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

[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.