Woohoo! Yuletide's back!

[marycrawford]

(Suddenly realized I need a Woohoo! icon. All my present ones express, at the most, mild pleasure. I know I'm in a rut, but sheesh. Aaaanyway:)

The Yuletide challenge will return this year! Also known as While We Tell of Yuletide Treasure or the Obscure Fandom Challenge.

I participated last year and it was terrifying tremendous fun. I wrote, I beta'ed, and I was presented with not one, but two wonderful stories, plus a whole archiveful of others to read.

For anyone who doesn't know what in Tartarus I'm talking about: WWTOYT is a cross-fandom story challenge on the Secret Santa model. You submit a bunch of obscure pairings you would really really like someone to write a slash/het/gen story about just for you - and yes, some of those pairings can get pretty damn obscure, which is half the fun - and a second bunch of pairings which you venture to write yourself. The intrepid organisers, tzikeh and astolat, will match up one of your requested and offered pairings. You receive notice for whom you are writing a story, so you can go read that person's LJ or website and see what sort of things she likes, if you want; but you don't know who is writing a story for you, or about whom.

And then the stories go live on Christmas morning, still without the writers' names attached, and everybody starts reading and posting recs and trying to figure out who wrote what, and it's just joyful madness all round.

I am urging everyone on my friends list to join in this year, especially the H:tLJ fans - our fandom is so small by now that there is no pairing that doesn't qualify for this challenge, as far as I know. (Xena/Gabrielle is another story.) And of course this is a chance to ask for other pairings, crossovers, anything you've secretly always wanted to read. The more the merrier.

For news updates and further info, I direct you to yuletide. Go join, please. :-)

ETA that it's not only a cross-fandom challenge but that, as tzikeh pointed out, slash, het and gen are all equally welcome - it's pan-fannish, in other words. Woohoo!

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You submit a bunch of obscure pairings you would really really like someone to write a slash story about just for you

Just a quick errata - WWTOYT is gen, het, and slash -- not just slash. We try to please *everyone*. ;)

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Ack! Thank you kindly. I will fix rightaway. (And of course, this makes the challenge even better. :-)

[mythdefied.livejournal.com]

You know, I've always wanted to see a James Bond/Ethan Hunt fic. I wonder if that would qualify. This sounds like fun all around. I think I may join. Thanks for pimping it!