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

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I volunteer for a) things I know the canon for well enough to write, and b) things I wouldn't mind getting to know the canon for well enought to write. I *don't* volunteer for: things I don't have access to canon for (like video games), things it would take to long to learn (like TV series I don't know yet) and thing I don't particularly want to live in for two months. And I, um, didn't count how many that turned out to be, but it was lots.

And I picked two seasonal challenges, but that's only if NaNo counts as one. :P

And I have a list of fandoms that I'm going to keep asking for until I get 'em, but every year one drops off the list, so by now there are a few that I'm willing to swap around.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I volunteer for a) things I know the canon for well enough to write, and b) things I wouldn't mind getting to know the canon for well enought to write.

Wow. So how well do you have to know the canon to sign up for it? Like, "Oh, I've read that and liked it - I'd have to read it again, but that's fine," or, "Oh, I know what that's about and I wouldn't mind reading it, so that's fine"?

(I'm awed by your courage, there. You sound ripe for the Extreme NYR challenge, invented by I-forget-who: when the random NYR script goes live, go to it, hit refresh three or four times, and that's your challenge. Learn canon as necessary and write a story.)

And I have a list of fandoms that I'm going to keep asking for until I get 'em, but every year one drops off the list, so by now there are a few that I'm willing to swap around.

Likewise. I have a mental list of fandoms I want, and although there is one guaranteed slot (until I get it, anyway - and I'm not expecting that to happen), the others can be swapped around pretty painlessly, especially since two have dropped off the list now.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on the fandom. Like, if I kind of know the canon, but have no strong feelngs about it, but I get the impression that there's people out there who know it *really* well and love it, I might give it a pass (Like, say, Dorothy L. Sayers.) On the other hand, if I see the name and go, "Wow, that book's in my to read pile, and I didn't know anybody else had even heard of it", I will almost certainly sign up (Like "Biting the Sun".)

Also if somebody did a really awesome story in a marginal fandom last year, I'm less likely to sign up for it this year and see my poor contribution look pitiful next to it. (Like, say, the Robot Series.)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Also if somebody did a really awesome story in a marginal fandom last year, I'm less likely to sign up for it this year and see my poor contribution look pitiful next to it. (Like, say, the Robot Series.)

*whimpers sadly*

Last year's story was indeed wonderful - Dorinda never fails to deliver awesomeness in job lots - but, but, as soon as I saw it, I was afraid.

*selfish mode ON*

Because, see, that's the one fandom I request every year no matter what. But the pairing I want is Powell/Donovan from the I, Robot short stories, and I think I'm the only person on earth who wants that. So I keep requesting it, and after last year, I was really afraid no one at all would even consider the Robot series, even though there is still a perfectly good pairing waiting to be written.

*pathetic mode OFF*

But the great part is, there's always next year. By next year, the aura of awesome will have worn off a bit. And in the meantime, I have three other equally wonderful requests in. I mean, wonderful to me. There's a small chance (okay, 98%) that whoever gets me will cry when she gets my list, because I think I came off as both manic and very much the bad kind of crazy in the details area, but stories in any of the four fandoms will make me SING WITH JOY, because I came up with the best fandoms ever this year.

*insanely excited mode ON*