Yuletide!

[brigdh]

I just signed up for Yuletide, whoo! Remember: you need to sign up by 9pm EST tonight.*

Also, man, I have so much else I need to post about, but hey: Yuletide!



* Of course everyone needs to sign up for Yuletide. That part is assumed.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a bit sad too- I had been under the impression that Yami no Matsuei was going to be an option again, but apparently it was still too large of a fandom, alas. (Or I suppose no one submitted it, but I find that option less likely.)

[gamera.livejournal.com]

Yami no Matsuei as a Yuletide fandom would be great (it's so weird to have seen it cycle from tiny and obscure because it's not translated to translated and somewhat more popular to tiny and obscure because there's no new canon being released).

I mean, there were still plenty of fandoms to choose from (I had ten or twelve, and I only pick ones I know I can write enthusiastically without doing a review of source canon!), but more options are always good.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had plenty of options regardless, but it would have been nice to look forward to a new batch of stories.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

It's my fault. It was on the list for this year, and then I went and queried it and the mods dropped it. Even though when I queried it, I went out of my way to say that it was pretty much a dead fandom now, no matter how lively it was four years ago. Damn their modly discretion, anyway. Now, of course, I wish I'd kept my mouth shut -- but then, Rana would probably have warned them if I hadn't, because she's a responsible adult that way.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. I could see the argument going either way, so I can't hold it against you. Certainly it's a smaller fandom than Supernatural or Harry Potter or Firefly. But then, it remains much larger than Peanuts or RPF: Food Network or Mona Lisa Smile (which is my vote for weirdest fandom choice this year. I can understand watching it, I suppose, if it were on TV late at night and one had particularly reasons for not changing the channel. But who saw that movie and said, 'you know, I must have more'?) It all comes down to the endless question of what, exactly, makes a fandom rare.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Well, I have hopes for it next year. If it doesn't make a mysterious spontaneous revival, anyway. It's not as if there's much being written for it now: less than for Swordspoint, I think.

Although ciceqi's still writing it from time to time. Did you see her little Halloween snippet, "Corbies"? (The tenth piece in this entry (http://ciceqi.insanejournal.com/380428.html), if you haven't. It was really gorgeous, and she did say something about wanting to maybe expand it some day.