Yuletide, yay!

[marycrawford]

As you could tell from my previous post, I'm really excited about the Yuletide challenge. I haven't signed up yet, I'm still deliberating my choices (which, OMG, are hard) but astolat has contrived something wonderful this year: on the fandoms master list, you can now see how many people have requested or offered to write stories in each fandom. With Christmas-themed color coding, even.

I keep looking at that page. The numbers are interesting - it's not always the fandoms you expect that have gathered the most people in so far. And it's more offers than requests, because you can't request more than four fandoms, but you can offer as many as you want. Right now, it looks like this:

• Twenty-three people offered to write Neverwhere? Wow.


• Seventeen people offering Temeraire! (Okay, that one I did expect. *g*)


• Ten people offered to write Iliad or Odyssey fic.


• Four people offered to write something in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser series. I wrote a Fafhrd & Grey Mouser story for a previous yuletide, and I did some mighty Googling afterwards, but I never found any other fanfic for it anywhere. So if any of these offers get matched, that means the Leiber fanfic will have increased by 100%, eee!


• Eight people have offered to write something set in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Despite my LJ nick, I don't think I'm that brave; go them!


• Invisible Man has eight people offering, and three people already put in a request.


• A stunning twenty-nine people offered to write Princess Bride stories.


• A single brave, wonderful person has offered to write something in Martha Wells' Ile-Rien series. Woo! I hope there'll be more.


• Seven people have already asked for Lord Peter Wimsey, and ten people are offering. Yay!

ETA: And now there are two people offering Ile-Rien, yay! Must. Be. Strong. Must Not Keep. Refreshing. Page.

Comments

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

It's fascinating, isn't it? Although I keep thinking requested fandoms should be blue, since requested-and-offered are green and not orange. *g* I made a list of things to offer last night, which is very conservative and thus only has 13 items on it. I might shorten it even more. I mean, there's being familiar with something, and then there's being able to imagine actually writing a story about it (see above comment re: Willis). And my list of things to ask for still has five items on it. What to do, what to do...

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I knooow!

I'm going at it from the other direction - keeping my list down to things I know well and think I could do a decent job on really narrows it down, and so far my offers list only has 5 items on it. We'll see if I'm brave enough to expand. *g*

My list of things to ask for still has seven. And counting. Oy.