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yuletide.
If you have no idea what that means, join the club. I joined last year, after all the hoopla about it on various Flist entries (most of whom don't even regularly post here anymore), and am now getting bombed with entry after entry of heavenly-hashtag geekspeak about what it's all about.
They really need to make it easier for us n00bs to understand it without all the lingua obscura. I'll try to boil it down here the way I understand it.
At its core,yuletide is a Secret Santa fanfic project. You offer to write a fic for someone and you get one in return. In time, though, as with all good ideas on the Internet, this one acquired mods, and tech-manual FAQs, and threats of the banhammer for not playing nice (which this post probably invites because I'm sure there's something in there about You Don't Talk About Fight Club yuletide). And much of it, to me at least, seems intended to be inclusive to a fault, so as not to make the Bronies feel marginalized by the masses of more conventional 'verses.
What it's evolved to is this: you not only have to offer to write for a specific fandom, you have to offer to write specific characters IN said fandom. If you don't, and just say, WILL WRITE STAR TREK, you are then obliged to write on whatever odd pairing from that fandom you might get assigned, no matter how well you know them or how "odd" it might be. ("Congratulations! You're doing a Trek fic with Major Kira, the Doctor from VOY, Miles and Keiko's little kid, and the Horta!")
So to ensure you can say NO WRITE I to that, you have to be specfic in what you WILL write. And THAT means a Sunday morning cuppa database engineering- finding your show, and then your characters, in the Seventh Level of ExcHell that it's all been packed into. Of which there are billyuns and billyuns: almost 3,000 top-level domains, if you will, then all drawn and quartered into infinite combinations of infinite diversity for your pleasure.
Of which I need to pick at least four. By tonight. As always, best beloveds, I turn to you for suggestions.
It won't get you a story specially selected Just For You, because (a) THAT. WOULD. BE. WRONG, and (b) the chances of my actually being assigned it are only slightly less slim than your chances of getting the output assigned to you. Still. I'm dyin' here. If you and I are in the same neighborhood of Clueless (not the Alicia Silverstone one) about how this works, here are some rough cuts of what I think I could do. Just shows and a couple of their spunoff films, for now. We'll talk about specific characters later. And this list may grow during the day as I think of various Shiny things I've forgotten:
( The much shorter, yet still growing, but now corrected Ray fandom list )
That's just total top-of-mind. If you've read this blog for more than a few weeks, you can probably think of others I could do justice to (or deserved injustice to, for that matter).
So let's tawk. But today. I've already missed one deadline and I don't need more Reactant Bias in my life;)
ETA. Awwwwkwarrrrd.
Thanks immensely to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kouredios, I now understand more of the focus and lots more of the basics. It's not just INCLUSIVE of orphanish fandoms, it's more-or-less exclusively intended for them- and yes, if I'd RTFM'd, I'd have known that. Their FAQs are highly higgeldy-piggeldy, though (hmmm, wonder if THAT's a fandom), and it took three jumps to finally get to this much user-friendlier list of what is and isn't included, (Which includes dozens of more conventional fandoms preceded by the letters "rpf," but no indication anywhere in the FAQs I can find of what "rpf" means.)
I'm getting better! Lalalalalalalala!
ETA2. Neverminnnd. They're in. No hints, clues or clever icons. There's still time till 8 EST to get in on this (you can even jump the queue to get onto the main uploading/archival site before then), and latecomers can also offer to "pinch hit" for folks who have to drop out of their assignment for one reason or other. Pre-Merry Christmas!
yuletide.If you have no idea what that means, join the club. I joined last year, after all the hoopla about it on various Flist entries (most of whom don't even regularly post here anymore), and am now getting bombed with entry after entry of heavenly-hashtag geekspeak about what it's all about.
They really need to make it easier for us n00bs to understand it without all the lingua obscura. I'll try to boil it down here the way I understand it.
At its core,
yuletide is a Secret Santa fanfic project. You offer to write a fic for someone and you get one in return. In time, though, as with all good ideas on the Internet, this one acquired mods, and tech-manual FAQs, and threats of the banhammer for not playing nice (which this post probably invites because I'm sure there's something in there about You Don't Talk About yuletide). And much of it, to me at least, seems intended to be inclusive to a fault, so as not to make the Bronies feel marginalized by the masses of more conventional 'verses.What it's evolved to is this: you not only have to offer to write for a specific fandom, you have to offer to write specific characters IN said fandom. If you don't, and just say, WILL WRITE STAR TREK, you are then obliged to write on whatever odd pairing from that fandom you might get assigned, no matter how well you know them or how "odd" it might be. ("Congratulations! You're doing a Trek fic with Major Kira, the Doctor from VOY, Miles and Keiko's little kid, and the Horta!")
So to ensure you can say NO WRITE I to that, you have to be specfic in what you WILL write. And THAT means a Sunday morning cuppa database engineering- finding your show, and then your characters, in the Seventh Level of ExcHell that it's all been packed into. Of which there are billyuns and billyuns: almost 3,000 top-level domains, if you will, then all drawn and quartered into infinite combinations of infinite diversity for your pleasure.
Of which I need to pick at least four. By tonight. As always, best beloveds, I turn to you for suggestions.
It won't get you a story specially selected Just For You, because (a) THAT. WOULD. BE. WRONG, and (b) the chances of my actually being assigned it are only slightly less slim than your chances of getting the output assigned to you. Still. I'm dyin' here. If you and I are in the same neighborhood of Clueless (not the Alicia Silverstone one) about how this works, here are some rough cuts of what I think I could do. Just shows and a couple of their spunoff films, for now. We'll talk about specific characters later. And this list may grow during the day as I think of various Shiny things I've forgotten:
( The much shorter, yet still growing, but now corrected Ray fandom list )
That's just total top-of-mind. If you've read this blog for more than a few weeks, you can probably think of others I could do justice to (or deserved injustice to, for that matter).
So let's tawk. But today. I've already missed one deadline and I don't need more Reactant Bias in my life;)
ETA. Awwwwkwarrrrd.
Thanks immensely to
kouredios, I now understand more of the focus and lots more of the basics. It's not just INCLUSIVE of orphanish fandoms, it's more-or-less exclusively intended for them- and yes, if I'd RTFM'd, I'd have known that. Their FAQs are highly higgeldy-piggeldy, though (hmmm, wonder if THAT's a fandom), and it took three jumps to finally get to this much user-friendlier list of what is and isn't included, (Which includes dozens of more conventional fandoms preceded by the letters "rpf," but no indication anywhere in the FAQs I can find of what "rpf" means.)I'm getting better! Lalalalalalalala!
ETA2. Neverminnnd. They're in. No hints, clues or clever icons. There's still time till 8 EST to get in on this (you can even jump the queue to get onto the main uploading/archival site before then), and latecomers can also offer to "pinch hit" for folks who have to drop out of their assignment for one reason or other. Pre-Merry Christmas!