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.

[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?

[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]

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.