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Yuletide sign-ups are open!!!!

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[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

!!! I know !!! Eeeeee !!!

And I'm already slightly terrified of what I've signed up for. But I assume that's totally normal yuletidiness...

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Yup. Perfectly normal.

I don't have time to sign up tonight - I'll probably wait until the weekend. Despite having been planning my requests since last December, they still need a little tweaking... *g*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I'm excited! And nervous! And trying to decide how on earth I'm going to narrow it down to four fandoms!

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Hah. I kind of have the opposite problem: I say to myself, what do I really, really want? And at the moment I have only three answers to that question. Specifically: Spirited Away, Wallace & Grommit, and seaQuest DSV.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to watch Spirited Away. I hear nothing but lovely things about it.

I love Wallace and Grommit! I don't have the skills to write them, but I'll be very pleased to read it if someone writes it for you.

I have no idea what that other fandom you mentioned is. ;) But I'm sure it's cool, as you are cool.

Question: the part where you fill out the "other" and you can prompt. Is it okay to list like three or four different vague prompts? Or do you only have to choose one?

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Oh, you must see Spirited Away. I don't even care about the story so much, I just love the complexity of the world. It's the sort of place where you can see so many more stories standing at the edges of the plot, yanno? Ripe fanfic material.

I know what you mean about the skillz. I have no idea how one would go about writing fanfic for W&G, and I'm going to say as much in my "Dear Yuletide" letter. I plan to encourage funky narrative structures. :)

SeaQuest was the TV show of my youth, my very first TV love. It's basically Star Trek: TNG but in the near future and on an Enterprise-size submarine. It's not that great, actually, but in my case it has a huge nostalgia factor going for it, and there are a few characters I still like quite a bit (even though in most cases they aren't the ones I liked the first time around).

You can prompt however you like. They range from extremely detailed to, yanno, not. (One 'memorable' prompt I noticed last year was for Anne McCaffrey's Pern universe. The characters were "Any" and the prompt was, "slash." Because yah, as long as you've got the boy-on-boy action, who cares about fiddly details like rating or tone or which boys they are. *rolls eyes*) Keep in mind, you don't have to put everything ever in the prompt field - many people also write "Dear Yuletide Santa" letters that go into more detail about what they like about the characters and the fandom, what their squicks are, etc. You can then link to the letter when you sign up. Like, here's my "Dear Santa" letter from last year, with the requests in italics.

Things are pretty flexible, really. And it might help to know that according to the rules, the 'prompt' is technically optional for the author. Most authors try to accomodate them, but they don't have to.

So, short answer: three or four vague prompts is just fine. :)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I love good world-building! I shall add it to my list.

Aw! That's cute! Yay for nostalgia!

Because yah, as long as you've got the boy-on-boy action, who cares about fiddly details like rating or tone or which boys they are. *rolls eyes* I know that there are thoughtful slash fans who use the genre to, say, examine gender stereotypes and such, but when I think of slash fans, I have to say that it's those sorts of people I think: the ones who just care about the pretty boys. Blech.

And it might help to know that according to the rules, the 'prompt' is technically optional for the author. Most authors try to accomodate them, but they don't have to. I thought that was the case. Thanks for the info!

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Am I going crazy, or did your last post disappear? It was in my flist, I clicked on it, but then when I went to reply... poof.

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Nope, not crazy. It was something I needed to get off my chest, but then I had gotten it off, and it felt like a bit too negative to keep up. That's all. :)

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Oh. Too bad, because I was all set to totally agree with you. :) So clearly I didn't think it was too negative, lol - in fact, I was extra-puzzled because it didn't seem like a particularly controversial post that would need to be locked up.

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Eh. Not controversial. Just... I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings? It wasn't exactly constructive crit. I dunno. So you think I should put it back up?

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It's up to you. It kind of is constructive crit, since you're pointing out an overused cliche (and if people see it, hopefully, they'll be less likely to use it in their fic). But even if it's not concrit, you're allowed to express your opinion on your own LJ. It's not like you picked on a particular author. But there are some people who take any kind of general "I dislike X in fic" comments personally. (I generally think they're being too touchy, but it's possible I'm a mean person.)

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Okay. Should be in your flist page again, now. :)