Yuletide!
Yuletide sign ups are open: http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/signup_page1.cgi
Eep! It's going to be a really tough choice this year. Made even worse by the fact that B5 is eligible this year. At first I was "WTF?" about that, until I remembered how frustrated I've been about the fact that I found the Internet too late to join in the B5 ficcing. Most of the websites that hosted B5 fic have gone, there is only a smattering on the big archives, and very little new stuff is coming out. So, er, B5 actually does qualify as a rare fandom now.
*sigh*
I've only got four request slots available and, including B5, seven that I'd love to request. So I need to sit down and think carefully, not just about which fandoms I want fic from but also what fandoms I can think of good prompts for. Last year I got really luck with two lovely Bend It Like Beckham Jess/Jules stories (after three years of not getting BILB at all even in femslash challenges) but I'm greedy and want more. Then again, there's Press Gang. And my beloved Holby City. And Chalet School. And Casualty 1909 is already up as requested/offered, so there's a possibility. And Young Wizards seems to get some lovely stuff written.
The thing that's not going to be as difficult this year, I think, is working out what I can offer. I made notes of which fandoms I was considering at nomination stage and even in the ones that I didn't nom, there are several that I feel I can offer. I'm trying to make sure that this year I only offer for things that I have easy access to source material for :-) So that I don't get asked to write fic for one of the Chalet Schools that I don't have...
I think that I need to have a good, long think about this and do my sign up at the weekend.
Now, is there any kind of Doctor Who Santa type thing out there? After all, two deadlines is better than one. Um.
Eep! It's going to be a really tough choice this year. Made even worse by the fact that B5 is eligible this year. At first I was "WTF?" about that, until I remembered how frustrated I've been about the fact that I found the Internet too late to join in the B5 ficcing. Most of the websites that hosted B5 fic have gone, there is only a smattering on the big archives, and very little new stuff is coming out. So, er, B5 actually does qualify as a rare fandom now.
*sigh*
I've only got four request slots available and, including B5, seven that I'd love to request. So I need to sit down and think carefully, not just about which fandoms I want fic from but also what fandoms I can think of good prompts for. Last year I got really luck with two lovely Bend It Like Beckham Jess/Jules stories (after three years of not getting BILB at all even in femslash challenges) but I'm greedy and want more. Then again, there's Press Gang. And my beloved Holby City. And Chalet School. And Casualty 1909 is already up as requested/offered, so there's a possibility. And Young Wizards seems to get some lovely stuff written.
The thing that's not going to be as difficult this year, I think, is working out what I can offer. I made notes of which fandoms I was considering at nomination stage and even in the ones that I didn't nom, there are several that I feel I can offer. I'm trying to make sure that this year I only offer for things that I have easy access to source material for :-) So that I don't get asked to write fic for one of the Chalet Schools that I don't have...
I think that I need to have a good, long think about this and do my sign up at the weekend.
Now, is there any kind of Doctor Who Santa type thing out there? After all, two deadlines is better than one. Um.