Pollute the Air

[heavensqueen]

Did your favorite fandom get rejected because it was one fic over the limit?
Have you just fallen in love with a new fandom the day after nominations ended?
Or are you morbane?

Tell us all


Also:
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Comments

Re: Tag Set is OPEN!

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen this issue come up before. Some people read Oryx and Crake not realizing it's part of a trilogy (or not wanting to read the rest of the trilogy), so the fandom is split up.

Re: Tag Set is OPEN!

[(Anonymous)]

Although I didn't nominate it and don't plan to offer/request it, I'm one of those people. I found Oryx and Crake to be satisfying on its own and tried to read Madaddam, but couldn't get into it. Like The Giver and Gathering Blue. *shrug*

Re: Tag Set is OPEN!

[(Anonymous)]

Some people read Oryx and Crake not realizing it's part of a trilogy (or not wanting to read the rest of the trilogy), so the fandom is split up.

Isn't this true of lots of series, though? Just skimming the list of book fandoms in this year's Yuletide, I see the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin (tons of people have read the original trilogy without reading the more recent sequels), the Giver series by Lois Lowry (with The Giver as the most-read book), the Howl series by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle), the Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), the Riverside series by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman (Swordspoint), the Warchild series by Karin Lowachee (Warchild), and the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire (Wicked).

Yet all of those series--and no doubt many others that I've missed--are treated as single fandoms in Yuletide rather than being split up. It seems strange and rather unfair if the MaddAddam trilogy alone gets to play by different rules.