A (HOPEFULLY) COMPLETE GUIDE TO YULETIDE STUFF BEYOND YOUR ASSIGNMENT

[adaptationdecay]

Yuletide doesn't have to be complicated.

1.) Write a fanfic of 1,000 words or more in a fandom of your recipient's choice, including all characters that they select.

2.) Turn it in before the deadline.That's it. That's all you have to do. If you can tick those two items off your to-do list, then you're doing Yuletide right. Not everybody has the

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[sleepfighter]

I'm not doing a kitten exchange. I swear. Really.

[emily_shore]

:(

[sleepfighter]

I mean, how would you send them? Couriered envelopes?

[entropy_house]

Prrrr?

[kittydesade]

This is a helpful post and you should feel helpful. Also, now I am prematurely excited for Yuletide.

(Is there such a thing as premature Yuletide excitement?)

I may have to write some NYRs when I get home from work when I should be writing my Original BigBang oops

[crantz]

Me too. It's like being wound up by someone before the sports game starts, but relevant to my interests.

[alixtii]

I don't think late October counts as premature.

[crunchy_salad]

So excited! This will be my first Yuletide, so thank you for taking the time to make such an informative post.

At the risk of being really annoying, as I'm sure you guys are working hard on this, but is there any update on nominations?

[desert_vixen]

Just curious, where did you find out about only nominating three fandoms?

This is an awesome post, by the way.

[adaptationdecay]

That part is still very new. The mods explain it here, but basically it's to make the matching process quicker.

[kouredios]

There was an announcement in the admin comm, back in September.

[kouredios]

Whoops! Too slow! :D

[lanna_kitty]

This was an awesome post! I did my first yuletide last year and there were still things I didn't know quite what people were referring to, even by the end. I'm trying to get more of my flist to participate and I'll be sending them here for the primer :)