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

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

I never knew I was the kind of person who held fandom grudges until Yuletide, but the first year I tried to sign up, I was deeply in love (the first blush of love) with the rps fandom Afflection. This is a weird fandom, because if you go to the archive it looks big. However, that is entirely an optical illusion, as most of the stories there are UNDER 500 WORDS.

*cries bitter tears of disappointment*

Anyway, the year I tried to sign up, Afflection was disqualified as too big, while NCIS (which I had also chosen and also loved) was allowed, even though it was already a bigger fandom. I immediately dropped out. See, it wouldn't have mattered if I hadn't got my Afflection story, but the unfairness of it gutted me.

Sadly, my bitterness has never faded.

I read Yuletide though, and still love it from the outside. It's just that all my passion to sign up is dead. Luckily, there are so many great writers involved that I'll never be missed. :)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Huh. Interesting. What year did you try to sign up?

If it was 2003 or 2004, Afflection (Affleck/Damon, right?) was DQ'd not because it was too big but because it was RPF, and RPF wasn't allowed until Yuletide 2005. (The rules on what's allowed sort of flex from year to year, as the mods figure out what works best. They have a hell of a task, and I do not envy them at all, so I am completely behind the figuring-out-what-won't-make-them-crazy rules modifications.)

I'm pretty sure Damon/Affleck was in last year, but as an option under RPF - Miscellaneous Actors. (Like I said, last year was weird for RPF. It's tough to categorize.) Just, last year they clumped all the actors together and didn't have separate fandom categories for each pairing. (Now they half do and half don't, which is weird. Next year, when they start clean, it will probably be easier to have consistent categorization.)

At any rate, it is definitely not considered too big this year; it's in, as RPF - DamonAffleck, and there are two requests for it and four volunteers. So, hey, if you still read in the fandom, there might be stories in it this time.

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure rps was allowed (I remember checking), as that was the whole reason I was signing up. It may have been disallowed later in the process. I'm pretty sure I picked NCIS and BSG78 and maybe Professionals as my other fandoms (all of which I adore), but without the possibility of damon/affleck I just couldn't do it; I was too gutted to be able to face it. Entirely unreasonable, I know, but such is the heat of fannish love. In the end, I went and started the damon/affleck new year story exchange instead, so it ended up being okay.

I really don't bear a personal grudge towards the mods, because god, what a task! I'm full of admiration for the way they handle it so smoothly every year.

It will be lovely to have new afflection stories to read this year, hopefully even from some new writers, although that fandom is no longer my first love.