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

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

And we have smashed that barrier! Woo!

And how. We're at 629 as of my last compulsive reload. Yow.

I feel like I should send flowers to the Yuletide mods or something. I mean, I'm excited, sure, but I don't have to wrangle 630 participants.

I was tempted by Heroes, another fandom I've only d(r)abbled in, but I can see that it's going to be a big fandom, and I want to keep to the genuinely tiny ones, not just the tiny-because-just-beginning.

I know. Looking at Heroes' stats on the fandoms list, I realized that I really need to get Best Beloved some downloads of the episodes, because there could be a real fandom there before long, and it sounds like just my sort of thing.

Most of what I'm offering are things that I have (or can get) the source, but I had never thought fannishly about before. And then I looked at the fandom list and thought, "oh, cool! That might be fun!"

Pretty much exactly my strategy, except I also subtract anything that makes me think, "Oh, cool! That might be fun!" and then, "But OMG it could be very scary, too."

I am not a brave Yuletider. Or, okay, I am, but my bravery consists of signing up at all.

And the recipient apparently liked it too, because she made artwork for it!

That is the best Yuletide response ever. Whoever she was, I love your recipient from last year.

But what's really cool is that one other person has requested it, so maybe we'll get lucky this year.

*eyes you*

Now I am intensely curious. I am so asking you what that fandom was after this is all over.

(Actually, I'm kidding myself. I have a hard time remembering what day it is; remembering that for two months is really unlikely.)

Yes, it's dS, it's a sort of genderfuck bodyswap thing (Hi! I have an oeuvre!) and it's currently just over 22,000 words and something like 2/3 done.

Hi! I LOVE YOUR OEUVRE TO PIECES! And, um, is it done yet?

How 'bout now?

How 'bout now?

Okay, seriously, I will stop my imitiation of a small child on an interstate car trip, but - I cannot wait. Just the words "dS genderfuck bodyswap" make my heart sing. Although I maintain that that's true of pretty much anyone. I mean, show me someone who isn't excited by dS genderfuck bodyswap, and I will show you a person who is missing out.

Which, tangentially in a ps, do you still use your other lj at all? I originally friended it rather than this one because of complex reasons having to do with preferring to avoid rec journals (yet being interested in what you have to say otherwise) but then you haven't posted there in over a month, and you're posting interesting meta over here more frequently, and oh! the dilemma!

At this point, I would totally merge the two LJs - the original reason for having two was secrecy, which it turns out I totally suck at. I would much rather have everyone in the world know I write mediocre FF than have to log out and log back in to answer comments. But it's not easy to see how to merge them, especially when I'm sometimes posting RL rants and suchlike; those things really don't fit here.

So. I can't help you, exactly, except to say:

Recs + Meta + FF rants + all polls (since I can't do those anywhere but here) = thefourthvine
My own FF + RL rants + the very occasional meme + random crap = littera_abactor

Um. Does that help?

Basically, I see TFV as my real LJ. LA is my satellite LJ, for the stuff I don't feel comfortable posting here, for whatever reason. As I grow more comfortable posting stuff here, less stuff goes over there, although stories and memes will always go there. But I have to warn you: the primary content of this LJ will probably always be recs, so if you want to avoid them, maybe LA would be the better fit for you.

So I guess the short answer is: I don't know. I mean, if I understood my own posting strategy and boundaries and hang ups and so on, I wouldn't have to have LJs all over the place. *hand waving gestures of helplessness*