Yuletide!

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Yuletide sign-ups are open! In case you somehow missed all of fandom talking about it. Important note: if you have been disqualified from Yuletide before, you can still sign up! That's right, all bans have been erased. So come and play!

Sign-ups are open until Thursday the 12th at 9pm EST. I haven't signed up myself yet, as I'm still looking at my requests and offers and deciding what I want. I usually sign up to write for every fandom I've ever heard of, but this year I've decided to narrow down and only offer things I feel passionate about. Also, True Blood is in Yuletide! I feel like it's probably too big, but it's too late to change now, and so I am excited.

Other neat links: Dark_agenda, a Dreamwidth community for the 'Diversity in Yuletide 2009' challenge. You can read more at the community, but the basic idea is: request and offer fandoms with chromatic (aka PoC) creators and characters.

Comments

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Yuletide!!!

Also, dark_agenda has really made me ponder the problematic aspects (and there are a lot of them) of my beloved Moulin Rouge. Yeah, yeah, historic accuracy of attitudes blah blah, but it's not like the movie is exactly an example of rigorous realism otherwise, so. My request is Satine-centered, and I honestly think the source is too problematic to suggest for the lists being kept for dark_agenda, but I hope I'm not the only white chick now really looking at background characters like Arabia, China Doll, the Unconscious Argentinian, and Chocolat.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's been a couple of years since I watched Moulin Rouge, but now that you point it out, um, yeah. That is very true. Maybe you'll get signed up to write a story about it?

Also, Yuletide!!!

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

but now that you point it out, um, yeah

I still love it, but this last time I watched it, I was like, "...Wow. Umm, yay worldview progress?" *facepalm* Also, I can neither confirm nor deny rumors of my offered fandoms, but let's just say, dark_agenda made me think about the way I signed up for a few of them, and the range of stories that are possible.

Yay, Yuletide!