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

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

I look at it wistfully (oh, how I would love some fic for my tiny fandoms!) but as I have only just begun to feel capable of writing things, I don't think I am particularly dependable and so have refrained from committing myself. I did however sign up to pinch hit, as that way I figure I can know if I feel up to writing for a prompt before I commit to it. Still! I am excited by the whole thing, even if I don't wind up writting anything. And I may write something as a NYR.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's any encouragement - the first year I signed up, I had written, I believe, two stories. Total. I didn't feel capable of writing things at all. But I so wanted to do it - I mean, I love small fandoms, so Yuletide is kind of my holy grail. And Best Beloved and several friends were very supportive, and so I did it, although I was still mostly convinced I was insane.

But! I wrote a story! And my recipient seemed to like it, even!

So it can work out. I'm not saying you should push yourself beyond your comfort zone, of course (although that's kind of what Yuletide is about, but that's a whole different story), and it is really scary when someone else's request - their Yuletide request - is relying on your writing ability. But I think you'll do fine. And pinch hitting is a perfect way to get a feel for the challenge. (Advice for pinch-hitting: stay on top of your fannish email address and commit fast. Last year, pinch hits seemed to get snapped up in, like, seconds.)

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

I think I might sign in to msn and get email notifications that way. I'm not sure if living in a seperate time zone is an advantage or not...

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Ah. Right. With typical Amero-centrism, I never even considered that factor.

Hmmm. Looking at the emails from last year (ah, Gmail, where it's more trouble than it's worth to delete *anything*), Ellen seemed to send the notices out mostly in the daytime - but all over the map, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m or so, her time, which is -5. Melbourne, where I think you are, is +10.So I guess you should check your email before you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning?

In any case, the big flurry of pinch hit requests comes right after the due date (the day after, last year), because that's when the non-notifying defaulters become obvious, so it'd be a good idea to check pretty often then.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, probability probably is on your side re people being from America, although I find the issue of location in fandom interesting (it's global! but not global!).

*hugs you* That is awesome, thanks! I am indeed in Melbourne! (Lovely city!) And it pains me to admit I already do that (I went though a period of time when my incentive for getting out of bed in the morning was to check my email, but that was getting a bit scary so now I have breakfast first. See! I am balanced!)

And yes, I shall stalk my email then. (My god, there are squillions of pinch hitters! It is heart warming, except for how it will be a bloodbath.)

And! Very exciting! I had thought that Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow series was a fandom (or at least a good writing slash fandom) of 2! So even though I got delurker to request it for us, I was not expecting much! But *someone has volunteered to write it!* Eeeeeee! It has turned green! *bounces* I'm not sure what's more exciting - that there might be a story in it (a story! a real story in my tiny tiny fandom!) or that *someone else is a fan*! There is no bad here!

The only slightly sad thing is that now that Yuletide is off google to discourage spam, it is not the first thing that appears when you google yuletide, which always gave me a warm glow. Because I liked the idea of people looking for christmas traditions and finding one of ours.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

*reads post* *waves at icon weakly*