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Reading through the 300-someting public Yuletide prompts in the surety of having already done one's bit(s) causes various reactions:
1.) Fandoms I'm interested in but haven't offered to write for:
"Ohhhh, I hope someone will write that! Hm, maybe next year I'll offer? Or do a treat? (Not this year, this year Darth Real life prevents it, and also, I've done two treats already.) Huh, all the prompts for this fandom ask for precisely the aspects I'm not interested in, so it's a good thing I didn't offer.
2.) Fandoms I'm interested in and have offered to write/have actually written for:
Oh, so many prompts in FANDOM X! All potential readers, I hope. Also, I hope other people will write the other prompts as there can never be enough FANDOM X fic, but dammit, I'm feeling competitive this year, I want mine to be the most popular this Yuletide.
3.) Fandoms I know about but don't feel strong about one way or the other:
Okay, that and this and that looks sort of interesting. What the hell? Why would anyone request *insert AU scenario removing anything that formed characters into who they were*`? Oh, this qualified as a Yuletide fandom? In that case, wouldn't Y also - must nominate that next year.
Next: checking the fandoms of stories already posted: oh, several already in Fandom Y! Excelllllent. Hang on, must check character tags. Ah, okay, figures/oh, really, that's a surprise! What tags - hang on. Should I tag for circumstance B as well in my story? But I don't want to, because then people will asume it happens in the story, and it doesn't, it's just referenced that it happened in canon, but it is a thing. Okay, never mind, stop shaking gifts, go back to Darth Real life.
In non-Yuletide readable matters, Simon Callow about being gay in Britain through the decades, what changed, what didn't. Compelling article.
On the air/internet for five days more for everyone to listen to: How the Marquis Got His Coat Back, a radio play based on Neil Gaiman's short story taking place after Neverwhere, starring the original Marquis de Carabas from the Neverwhere tv series, Patterson Joseph. Co-starring Adrian Lester as a character who is most definitely not Mycroft Holmes, honest.
1.) Fandoms I'm interested in but haven't offered to write for:
"Ohhhh, I hope someone will write that! Hm, maybe next year I'll offer? Or do a treat? (Not this year, this year Darth Real life prevents it, and also, I've done two treats already.) Huh, all the prompts for this fandom ask for precisely the aspects I'm not interested in, so it's a good thing I didn't offer.
2.) Fandoms I'm interested in and have offered to write/have actually written for:
Oh, so many prompts in FANDOM X! All potential readers, I hope. Also, I hope other people will write the other prompts as there can never be enough FANDOM X fic, but dammit, I'm feeling competitive this year, I want mine to be the most popular this Yuletide.
3.) Fandoms I know about but don't feel strong about one way or the other:
Okay, that and this and that looks sort of interesting. What the hell? Why would anyone request *insert AU scenario removing anything that formed characters into who they were*`? Oh, this qualified as a Yuletide fandom? In that case, wouldn't Y also - must nominate that next year.
Next: checking the fandoms of stories already posted: oh, several already in Fandom Y! Excelllllent. Hang on, must check character tags. Ah, okay, figures/oh, really, that's a surprise! What tags - hang on. Should I tag for circumstance B as well in my story? But I don't want to, because then people will asume it happens in the story, and it doesn't, it's just referenced that it happened in canon, but it is a thing. Okay, never mind, stop shaking gifts, go back to Darth Real life.
In non-Yuletide readable matters, Simon Callow about being gay in Britain through the decades, what changed, what didn't. Compelling article.
On the air/internet for five days more for everyone to listen to: How the Marquis Got His Coat Back, a radio play based on Neil Gaiman's short story taking place after Neverwhere, starring the original Marquis de Carabas from the Neverwhere tv series, Patterson Joseph. Co-starring Adrian Lester as a character who is most definitely not Mycroft Holmes, honest.
