thefourthvine | Poll: Yuletide! Yay!

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!

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I love yuletide so much. It's one of the best things about this season, for me.

The proper answer to What is the single biggest reason you do Yuletide? is probably "peer pressure," but the excitement really does play a big part!

Also I really am hoping I don't end up writing for someone I know in either yuletide or dwnoga -- I got

astolat two years ago and

merryish the year before that, and while I'm all about making my friends happy, the lying and dodging really goes against my essentially honest and forthright personality...

I love yuletide so much. It's one of the best things about this season, for me.

Yes, totally. Yuletide basically is the magic of the season for me.

The proper answer to What is the single biggest reason you do Yuletide? is probably "peer pressure," but the excitement really does play a big part!

It stands to reason that your peers would want to suck you into Yuletide. I heartily salute them, and support them in their pressuring endeavor. I would sign a petition for this, even, so it's just as well you're prepared to go quietly.

Also I really am hoping I don't end up writing for someone I know in either yuletide or dwnoga -- I got astolat two years ago and merryish the year before that, and while I'm all about making my friends happy, the lying and dodging really goes against my essentially honest and forthright personality.

Yikes.

makesmewannadie and I actually coordinated requests one year, just to make sure we wouldn't get each other, because it would be hard to hide your request from someone who is, for example, usually one of your beta-readers. I would probably end up letting it slip no matter how much I tried not to. And that would suck.

*joins you in hoping for a recipient who is a stranger*

*grins* True story: I wrote a few thousand words of a fake-out story with a different pairing to distract Merry with while I was writing her actual story. Then I strategically left town and went offline until the reveals. But I would prefer not to have to do it again, you know?

That is the best exchange story ever. Oh, god, I love it so. The true spirit of holiday exchanges is writing a fake story and then leaving town so as not to ruin the surprise.

...But now I'm curious. Did you ever finish the other story?

No, I never did -- I ran out of steam, and now it just sits all forlorn in the popslash corner of my WIP folder, being severely dated in its canon references, poor thing.

You know, I never considered how, with RPF, the whole overtaken-by-canon-events thing would go to a whole new level. I mean, it's a lot easier to say, "c. season two" and have people mentally hit skip until they're back before ascension and so on, than it is to say, "c. 2002" and have people mentally erase the intervening years of blind items and interviews and CDs and massive fanon speculation and so on.

Or, hmmm. That could just be the way it looks to an outsider. Perhaps someone in RPF could easily say, "Ah! Set in 2002, before-" and, wow. I fail at even being up on what was happening in 2002, RPF-wise.

But possibly my point is clear anyway. (Or quite possibly it is not, but I don't think clarity is going to be my deal today, so it's as good as it's gonna get.)

I think it depends on the fandom -- I don't know much outside of popslash, but actually, yes, you can say "Germany era!" or "NSA tour!" just like you could say "season three!" or "AU post-episode whatsit!" in another fandom. But for me, at least, that works better if you know at the point of writing that you're taking a left turn from canon, and have a specific reason for choosing that point in time.

But I suppose I could always revamp it and make all the references current, project it into a new hypothetical near-future, the way it was supposed to take place in a hypothetical near-future back then that has now been severely jossed by life. *g*

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