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

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

I signed up for a slender 16 fandoms this year, and I am quite proud of my restraint!

There are many, many reasons to love Yuletide. One is that I genuinely love the challenge combined with the joy f writing for someone else. The other is that you get so caught up in writing, you forget that you get OMG five hundred presents on Christmas morning! Eeeeee!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I signed up for a slender 16 fandoms this year, and I am quite proud of my restraint!

*applauds*

I signed up for 30 and am quite proud of my bravery. We'll see if that bites me on the butt in, oh, a week or so.

(But I am insanely proud of fandom as a whole. Have you seen how many gold and green fandoms are on that list? We have, collectively, volunteered our asses off. You name it, we've got someone who can write it, pretty much.)

One is that I genuinely love the challenge combined with the joy f writing for someone else.

That's it for me. Reason one is probably the excitement, but it's neck and neck with the challenge and joy of writing for my recipient. (The excitement wins only because I'm always afraid I'll fail my recipient.)

The other is that you get so caught up in writing, you forget that you get OMG five hundred presents on Christmas morning! Eeeeee!

I forget until the night before. And then, inevitably, I stay up all night, hitting refresh like a trained rat on crack until the archive goes live. It is magic.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Also, as a data point, I wrote in fandoms I didn't sign up for -- the first one,she'd asked for an incest pairing in the fandom I'd signed up for, and in the second, she wanted this one fandom SO badly that I figured I'd help her out.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Wow. You win at Yuletide graciousness. (And, yikes, incest pairing - that's one of my big fears. I try hard to adjust my sign-ups so that it can't happen, but with "any" it's always a risk. I figure in that case, I will have to accept that I'm going to disappoint my recipient a bit, and just write gen. *hand gestures of helplessness*)

I'm actually considering co-writing (with Best Beloved, believe it or not) a story for a certain rare fandom whether I get assigned to it or not, just because I happened upon the Santa letter of the person who requested the fandom last year, and she sounded so nice and she so wanted this one pairing. And didn't get it last year. If she doesn't get it this year, either, we're going to write it for her.