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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!
I am very excited about ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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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Eeee! You have officially just made my day. :D Wow, I don't know that I've ever had anyone say "omg, you wrote X?". It's very exciting!
And yeah, I think to fully appreciate it, you'd have to be familiar with the characters. It might be somewhat funny even without that, but I think a lot of the fun of it is that I did manage to make it feel like it could be an episode of the show (certainly the situation is one I'm amazed never happened in canon).
So there were a few fandoms I stared at for several long minutes and then deleted from my sign-up spreadsheet on the grounds of total inability to even imagine a story in them.
Yeah, and there were also a few where I could see what would be requested, but am utterly unable to see it in canon myself, so didn't think I could write it convincingly.
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Yay! You made Best Beloved's day, too, with that story; I got the whole thing explained to me, with much helpful backstory about the Seinfeld characters and the canon, and all I can say is: Seinfeld is complicated. But apparently the story was just right for the canon and a perfect fit with the canon's style, and that is really tough to do, so I congratulate you.
Yeah, and there were also a few where I could see what would be requested, but am utterly unable to see it in canon myself, so didn't think I could write it convincingly.
I'm never sure what might be requested. I know what I would want from a given fandom, but I'm very aware it's not the same thing. Like, I took one fandom off my volunteer list because - okay. It's a funny YA series about a family, and I would love to write something for it. But then I realized: the recipient might not want gen. And since every potential pairing would be incest, and I can't write incest, I took it off.
OMG. I just thought of one pairing in that fandom that wouldn't be incest. And it would destroy my childhood, and yet it would be so awesome I might have to request it next year.
*inexplicably fascinated*
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