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It's that time of year again!
Oct. 13th, 2010 08:30 pmYuletide nominations are open!
If you've got a book/movie/tv show/commercial/poem/whatever that you love, and would like fic of, but there exists little/none anywhere on the web? Yuletide is the ficathon for you! It's all about sharing the love for the fandoms that get lost in the shuffle. It's also a lot of awesome fun.
Me, I'm excited because they've dropped the rule that small subfandoms of major fandoms are ineligible. So, for example, in the past Birds of Prey and Batman Beyond were ineligible because they were part of the larger Batman fandom, even though neither Birds of Prey nor BB gets hardly any fic at all, and there's very little character/situation overlap. And now they're eligible again! Yay!
So, Batman Beyond, definitely going to nominate it. And I usually don't bother to nominate, because usually I look at the list of fandoms once it's compiled and then have problems narrowing down what I want to request. However, this year I already have two desires that struck me out of the blue: one is 16th Century Protestant Reformation RPF, and one is for Donovan's Reef, a cheesy John Wayne 1960s romantic comedy ... that also has some quite pointed things to say about prejudice and racism (okay, there's still a lot of fail, but when you remember that it was the 1960's, it's amazing).
And someone has, predictably, nominated Harry Potter. Which is idiotic, because if you want HP fic you can go anywhere, and the mods weed out fandoms which are too big and while somethings that are borderline might slip through, I can guarantee you that Harry Potter ain't gonna be one of them.
Also, Yuletide is being run through the AO3 archive again, of course (hardly surprising as the deterioration of the old Yuletide archive was one of the main driving forces behind the shaping of AO3 and the timing of its debut). If you would like an AO3 invite, I have a couple; just let me know. I love AO3; I have such fun tag-surfing. In the mood for new mpreg stories? I can search by tag! (Which I may or may not have been doing this evening before choir.)
If you've got a book/movie/tv show/commercial/poem/whatever that you love, and would like fic of, but there exists little/none anywhere on the web? Yuletide is the ficathon for you! It's all about sharing the love for the fandoms that get lost in the shuffle. It's also a lot of awesome fun.
Me, I'm excited because they've dropped the rule that small subfandoms of major fandoms are ineligible. So, for example, in the past Birds of Prey and Batman Beyond were ineligible because they were part of the larger Batman fandom, even though neither Birds of Prey nor BB gets hardly any fic at all, and there's very little character/situation overlap. And now they're eligible again! Yay!
So, Batman Beyond, definitely going to nominate it. And I usually don't bother to nominate, because usually I look at the list of fandoms once it's compiled and then have problems narrowing down what I want to request. However, this year I already have two desires that struck me out of the blue: one is 16th Century Protestant Reformation RPF, and one is for Donovan's Reef, a cheesy John Wayne 1960s romantic comedy ... that also has some quite pointed things to say about prejudice and racism (okay, there's still a lot of fail, but when you remember that it was the 1960's, it's amazing).
And someone has, predictably, nominated Harry Potter. Which is idiotic, because if you want HP fic you can go anywhere, and the mods weed out fandoms which are too big and while somethings that are borderline might slip through, I can guarantee you that Harry Potter ain't gonna be one of them.
Also, Yuletide is being run through the AO3 archive again, of course (hardly surprising as the deterioration of the old Yuletide archive was one of the main driving forces behind the shaping of AO3 and the timing of its debut). If you would like an AO3 invite, I have a couple; just let me know. I love AO3; I have such fun tag-surfing. In the mood for new mpreg stories? I can search by tag! (Which I may or may not have been doing this evening before choir.)
