I think I have to do something unwise.

Normally, one ficathon at a time is all I can manage.

Maybe two, if they don't overlap--if one starts a couple weeks earlier than the other, I can do that one and then switch. When deadlines are similar, it's a bit much.

But.

But, dear reader, I don't think I could bear to choose between worldbuildingex and blackisbeautifulex.

You know me. Worldbuilding is my jam. It's where it's at. I sometimes write fic so that I can have a place to show off my worldbuilding. So worldbuilding exchange is catnip for me. It's, like, amazing and perfectly tailored for me. And it is currently in the middle of nominations. And besides the things I nominated, there are a ton of fandoms where I look at the freeforms that have been approved so far and go "oooooooooooooh."

And then there is blackisbeautifulex which is also in the middle of nominations. I have, for the last decade, consciously worked to read and write more fic about Black characters in an effort to retrain my brain out of white prioritization. (This is not, for me, an exercise in self-flagellation or anything; I don't force myself to read or write stories I don't like or try to care about characters I don't care about. Rather, it's about leaning in to the affection and interest I already have and where I have a choice of what to write or focus on, to choose the one the dominant culture would tell me to ignore.) But in addition to that, I have always tended to really like the rare pairs and side characters. It's one of the reasons I've never had a mega-hit work and never will. And the thing is, when you take my love of side characters and rare pairings in general, and the tendency of Hollywood to fill their diversity quotient by putting in Black side-characters ... a ficathon about Black characters is naturally going to include a ton of characters and pairings that I love but of whom there is never enough fic. I looked through the tagset, incomplete as it is and ooohed and aaaaahed over so many characters whom I am normally the only one to nominate and/or request that other people already nominated, and am just so thrilled at it.

It is probably really stupid to sign up for two exchanges with overlapping schedules.

But, oh, dear reader, I do not think I have the willpower to resist ...