Yuletide ponderings

Yay, the Yuletide challenge is on again! Now it feels like autumn.

Since there was such a humongous fandom list last year, the organisers are defining 'rare fandom' this year as a fandom that has less than '500 stories at any online archives *combined* (including ff.net)'.

I'm not quite sure if Hercules: the Legendary Journeys can reach 500 stories. The fandom feels tiny to me, but it was bigger once: a lot of writers and fannish attention drifted away from it before I even entered the fandom. Most of those stories are still online. And I don't read all the various pairings: I've no idea how many Ares/Joxer stories there are, for example.

So I was a little sad, thinking of my tiny wee fandom perhaps not being wee enough for the yuletide challenge, and then I got a grip and realized that while there was Hercules fic for yuletide last year, it consisted of me writing a last-minute story for ltlj and ltlj writing a story for therienne. Which...we could do any time, really. I mean. I know who you guys are. *g* Perhaps a small Solstice challenge for the hxyh_challenge comm?

But then, if I want to join in the Yuletide challenge, I have to find other fandoms I dare write for, which is a puzzler. I'm not sure if I can find something as challenging and as fun to write as Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser or the Wee Free Men. I hope the fandoms being suggested will spark ideas.