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Nominations: 12th to 21st September
Sign-ups: 10th to 21st October
Assignments go out: Between 22nd and 25th October
Madness opens and prompts are visible: After assignments
Posting deadline: 18th December at 9am UTC - may be the 17th in your time zone
Story reveal: 25th December
Author reveal: 1st January

Ao3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018
Letters LJ: https://yuletide.livejournal.com/1315417.html
Letters DW: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/139157.html
Tagset/letters app: https://tagset2018.firebaseapp.com/

Latest regular view: https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/10641.html?page=1000
Latest flat view: https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/10641.html?view=flat&page=1000

Comments

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

Not quite an answer to your question, but if you click up to the parent collection and look at the fandoms page you can get total numbers for fics written across all Yuletides and Madnesses combined. So if I haven't missed any, the most-written Yuletide fandoms of all time are:

- Greek and Roman Mythology (189)
- Discworld - Terry Pratchett (160)
- Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold (139)
- Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers (122)
- Tortall - Tamora Pierce (121)
- Young Wizards - Diane Duane (106)
- Arthurian Mythology (100)
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (95)
- Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (95)
- Parks and Recreation (94)
- The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones (93)
- Community (TV) (93)
- Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper (91)
- Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey (91)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV) (89)
- Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (87)
- Temeraire - Naomi Novik (87)
- The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner (86)
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (84)
- Elementary (TV) (81)
- The Sandman (Comics) (81)

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Thanks for these stats! I would never have predicted Greek and Roman Mythology at the top.

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oops, turns out I actually missed the top one because I didn't search for high enough numbers, so it's actually Greek and Roman mythology in second place and fairy tales on top. Amended list:

- Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms (250)
- Greek and Roman Mythology (189)
- Discworld - Terry Pratchett (160)
- Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold (139)
- Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers (122)
- Tortall - Tamora Pierce (121)
- Young Wizards - Diane Duane (106)
- Arthurian Mythology (100)
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (95)
- Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (95)
- Parks and Recreation (94)
- The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones (93)
- Community (TV) (93)
- Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper (91)
- Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey (91)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV) (89)
- Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (87)
- Temeraire - Naomi Novik (87)
- The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner (86)
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (84)
- Elementary (TV) (81)
- The Sandman (Comics) (81)

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ah, that makes more sense! And it puts Greek and Roman Mythology into context.

There's something comforting about ancient folktales and myths still having that hold over communal storytelling.

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

At first I was surprised that this was mostly book fandoms, but then I realized it makes sense, because book fandoms grow slowly enough to be eligible for Yuletide for a long time. Anyway, this is a cool list!

Re: Biggest Yuletide fandom ever?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! That's definitely an interesting list. I guess some fandoms burn brightly for a year or two, but others become mainstays that amass lots of stories over the years.