Friday open thread: Yuletide
Oct. 16th, 2020 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12Another week has passed, and it's time for another Friday open thread!
I still have a lot of prompts remaining from your suggestions, but I thought, given sign-ups have just opened and I've seen a number of Yuletide letters appearing among my circle, today might be a good day to do a Yuletide open thread.
Please interpret this topic as broadly as you'd like. If you are planning to participate this year, you might want to talk about your requested fandoms and why you're choosing them, whether you have any ideas (obviously don't provide specifics) for gifts/treats already based on the letters you've seen so far, your own writing goals this time around, or any other topic.
If you're not planning to participate this year (or ever), is there a reason? Are you going to sit this Yuletide out but maybe write some treats or pinch hits?
Basically, use this open thread to ramble away about anything Yuletide-related in the comments.
Yuletide is pretty much an exchange geared towards how I do fandom. I read and write fic almost exclusively in tiny fandoms — the idea of doing so in a megafandom is stressful and overwhelming. This makes participating in fannish activity a rather solitary affair — until Yuletide comes around, and suddenly everyone is writing and reading fic in the types of fandoms that interest me!
I don't think I've ever requested fic in what was a 'big for Yuletide' fandom — generally it's tiny microfandoms of the heart — and over the six years I've participated so far, I've been delighted with the gifts I've received in those tiny fandoms. Writing fic for similar fandoms is also incredibly liberating — it may be something that only interests a single person, but if you put in some effort and get things right, the happiness brought to that person is far, far more satisfying (in my opinion) than writing something read by thousands of people.
This year my requests cover two dear old favourites, perennial requests of mine that I've been seeking year after year, and this year's shiny new-to-me fandom. None are what you would call big, even by Yuletide standards — they have 80, 23 and 6 fics on AO3 respectively (and in the latter case three out of the six were written by me!). I'm really happy with my choices, and the idea of a gift in any three of these fandoms fills me with delight.
As far as my own goals for Yuletide, they remain similar to in previous years: I aim to write a minimum of four fics in total (i.e. the main assignment, and at least three treats), and to comment on at least fifty fics in the main collection and at least 20 in Madness. I try to be a good Yuletide citizen, and that, for me, means doing more than the bare requirements of the exchange. December has the potential to be extremely busy and disruptive for me this year, so we'll see how realistic those plans are when 25th December rolls around...
I still have a lot of prompts remaining from your suggestions, but I thought, given sign-ups have just opened and I've seen a number of Yuletide letters appearing among my circle, today might be a good day to do a Yuletide open thread.
Please interpret this topic as broadly as you'd like. If you are planning to participate this year, you might want to talk about your requested fandoms and why you're choosing them, whether you have any ideas (obviously don't provide specifics) for gifts/treats already based on the letters you've seen so far, your own writing goals this time around, or any other topic.
If you're not planning to participate this year (or ever), is there a reason? Are you going to sit this Yuletide out but maybe write some treats or pinch hits?
Basically, use this open thread to ramble away about anything Yuletide-related in the comments.
Yuletide is pretty much an exchange geared towards how I do fandom. I read and write fic almost exclusively in tiny fandoms — the idea of doing so in a megafandom is stressful and overwhelming. This makes participating in fannish activity a rather solitary affair — until Yuletide comes around, and suddenly everyone is writing and reading fic in the types of fandoms that interest me!
I don't think I've ever requested fic in what was a 'big for Yuletide' fandom — generally it's tiny microfandoms of the heart — and over the six years I've participated so far, I've been delighted with the gifts I've received in those tiny fandoms. Writing fic for similar fandoms is also incredibly liberating — it may be something that only interests a single person, but if you put in some effort and get things right, the happiness brought to that person is far, far more satisfying (in my opinion) than writing something read by thousands of people.
This year my requests cover two dear old favourites, perennial requests of mine that I've been seeking year after year, and this year's shiny new-to-me fandom. None are what you would call big, even by Yuletide standards — they have 80, 23 and 6 fics on AO3 respectively (and in the latter case three out of the six were written by me!). I'm really happy with my choices, and the idea of a gift in any three of these fandoms fills me with delight.
As far as my own goals for Yuletide, they remain similar to in previous years: I aim to write a minimum of four fics in total (i.e. the main assignment, and at least three treats), and to comment on at least fifty fics in the main collection and at least 20 in Madness. I try to be a good Yuletide citizen, and that, for me, means doing more than the bare requirements of the exchange. December has the potential to be extremely busy and disruptive for me this year, so we'll see how realistic those plans are when 25th December rolls around...