Poll: Yuletide! Yay!

[thefourthvine]

I am very excited about yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)

Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)

But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.

And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)

Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!

[Poll #855532]

Comments

[30toseoul.livejournal.com]

Man, I really wish I could do stuff like that, because it makes me so happy to read the fic that results from it. But I can't. Any kind of deadline abruptly makes my fun fandom writing seem like un-fun obligatory homework.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I can totally see that. It's also a tough time for anyone who is in school; I'm not sure I could've handled Yuletide + finals for some of my semesters of college.

Hmmm. I'm trying to think about why I love Yuletide so much, and it's actually - when I first signed up, I imagined the writing would be agony, but I didn't realize what the Yuletide gestalt would be like. Yuletide just makes me happy, I guess. Even if the writing is kind of terrifying. (OMG will my recipient like it? OMG can I even do this?)

(In truth, Panic is also part of my Yuletide process. As is Despair. There are times when I am quite, quite sure my recipient will hate my story. But then, for me, part of what's so great about Yuletide is that I have to push through and finish the story anyway, instead of giving up, which is what I'd normally do. You don't seem to have a finishing/posting dysfunction, so I can see why it'd be less tempting for you.)

[30toseoul.livejournal.com]

*nods* Possibly, sometime in the future, I'll be ready to try a ficathon again, and I think Yuletide sounds like the most fun. (My one and only participation at a deadline ficathon was in Ocean's 11 fandom -- I finished my story, albeit a few days late, but the writing process was so stressfully unsatisfying that I haven't wanted to try again.)

Absolutely not while I'm in school, though; you're right about that. Maybe next year at South Pole, which is pretty much the textbook definition of "most low-stress environment possible, short of actually being dead." ;-)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Maybe next year at South Pole, which is pretty much the textbook definition of "most low-stress environment possible, short of actually being dead."

DO NOT SPEAK TO ME OF WORKING AT THE SOUTH POLE. IT MAKES ME SICK WITH ENVY.

(That said, though, Antarctica seems like the perfect place to start with Yuletide. You'll be bored, you won't have new TV canon - a perfect time to try writing something in a mutant old fandom! Although you'll have to be cautious about signing up for things, and maybe pack with Yuletide in mind, since you will have the textbook definition of "difficulty getting access to canon" for a lot of fandoms.

I am making a mental note to pester you about Yuletide next year. Although, I have to warn you - for me, anyway, sweating blood is part of the process.)