a post-reveal fandom poll!

[healingmirth]

I've been wanting to ask this question since assignments went out, when I decided (for the second year running) to write in a fandom where I was not already familiar with the source material. And now that the authors are revealed, I can!

Poll a post-reveal poll!

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[hhertzof]

I wrote a crossover between the fandom that I offered and a fandom I didn't know until their Yuletide letter inspired me to read it.

[blienky27]

Your icon makes me happy.

In the pants.

[hhertzof]

Somebody had to do it. :)

[entropy_house]

I didn't sign up (I'm not flexible enough in enough fandoms to enjoy that type of challenge).

But I wanted to participate (and not steal anyone's thunder) so I read the Dear Writer letters, and made a list of those I thought I could do, and then waited until after the deadline to check which ones still hadn't been used before I started writing. I managed two stories that pleased me and the recipients, so YAY.

[gehayi]

I wrote one story for a recipient in a fandom I offered, two stories for recipients of pinch-hits in fandoms that I didn't offer, and five treats for people whose letters just sounded interesting.

[merriman]

This year was unique for me because I usually offer more fandoms in my signup. Last year I wrote a few treats on the last day and only one was for a fandom I didn't sign up for but got inspired to write.

This year I wrote two treats and neither were for fandoms I signed up to write, but both were fandoms I'm very familiar with and have written in the past. I didn't offer them because I don't feel comfortable the "any character" option and that limited my slots. I wanted to offer things I hadn't written before.

I've never written a Yuletide story for a fandom I wasn't familiar with. Offered or not, everything I've written for was something I knew well.

[eustacia_vye28]

This was my first Yuletide. Yay!

I wrote a story for my assigned recipient in the fandom that we matched. I wasn't planning to partake in Madness because of family and holiday stuff, but I was unexpectedly online Christmas Eve night. I went through the massive list of prompts (with the find feature) looking for fandoms I was familiar enough in to write, and wrote the first two things that had prompts for fandoms I knew that called to me. I hadn't offered to write in them, but I knew them pretty well.