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thefourthvine) wrote2006-10-28 10:59 pm
thefourthvine) wrote2006-10-28 10:59 pm
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Poll: Yuletide! Yay!
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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]
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]
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Interesting. My requests mostly stay the same, because most of my requests are from canons I've loved for a very long time, and my love for them (and my complete inability to understand why other people don't love them OMG) doesn't change from year to year, even though my other fannish interests do. It's just a question of putting down the one I always do, then picking three others from the larger list of Yuletide wants that I keep in my head.
I do sometimes add to the larger list, though.
I spend the entire year figuring out what I'm going to ask for when Yuletide comes around.
Ha! I had a question about that on the poll, but I cut it, for reasons of not inducing total exhaustion in poll-takers. Because I keep a list all year, adding and subtracting and considering, and sometimes turning to Best Beloved and saying, "Yuletide fandom! Remind me!" And I know MMWD has known what she would request for Yuletide this year since Jan 2. So I was wondering how other people worked it.
Oddly, I assumed that people whose requests were all new each year were less likely to keep a list. I'm not sure why I assumed that, now.
I offer fandoms when I know the canon; when I could comfortably write genfic about any of the major characters; when none of the most plausible/fannishly probable pairings horrify me; and (most importantly) when, at the time of signup, I feel like writing something in the fandom.
This is remarkably similar to my own algorithm (which, coincidentally, also resulted in me offering precisely 30 fandoms this year). I do try to eliminate fandoms where I'm not comfortable with the likely pairings, but sometimes I have a hard time figuring out what the pairings might be.
When I saw that certain fandoms had more than one requester and more than one offerer, there was chair-bouncing and squealing.
Oh my god, I know. Although for Certain Fandoms, I wanted to be able to, like, get the names of all the people who offered to write them, and then promise them my first born or something if they'd just please write a story now OMG.
It's remarkably cool, though, being able to see for sure what's been requested, and how many people have requested and volunteered for each one. I am in love with the new site features.
*goes back to refresh the fandom list again*