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Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

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It's not yuletide unless you've changed your sign-up form at least five times.

Only offer things I can review quickly: movies, short TV shows (or TV shows where the characters i'm offering have a short, specific run), single books, plays, 5-minute fandoms, etc. I'll treat lots of longer things, but I need my assigned canon to be something I can get through in a weekend if necessary.

Also, attempt to write at least one porn treat every year.

They're not stuck together, but boy do Hannibal Barca and Scipio Africanus respect each other. Any time a general tells another "if you hadn't defeated me, I would have been greater than Alexander" and is totally okay with that, that's respect. (http://hannibalbarca.webspace.virginmedia.com/hannibal-scipio-ephesus.htm)

It lacks the meeting at Ephesus I paraphrased above, but you should still watch Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare (with Alexander Siddig as the titular Hannibal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BKxeKtieM

Never request something that you suddenly got enthused/re-enthused about a couple of weeks before noms - stuff you've been in long-term fannish love with only. (Learned this one the hard way in a previous year. I was super into that fandom! ...Between October and November. Gah.)

Only offer sets of characters that you could write paired in every possible combination.

Only offer fandoms that you have had at least vague thoughts of writing for outside of Yuletide, so you've got something to fall back on if you get the dreaded 'write me anything!'

If you ever have to ask yourself, 'Should I add this fandom?' the answer is no. If it wasn't on your list going in (and doesn't trigger a passionate 'zomg how could I have forgotten that?' as soon as you think of it) you're going to regret adding it. And almost certainly get matched on that one.

I like this one: http://linndechir.livejournal.com/55968.html
What they like about the canon is what I'm enjoying too, and the prompts are amazing.

http://www.viki.com/tv/1058c-the-great-doctor-aka-faith?q=faith

Faith aka Great Doctor

It's historical fantasy with a time-traveller in medieval Korea.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfzaLS_KCWuq5s81ZpktthBjRcJZJ_4MhBy4RMYwrjo/edit

Hmmmm.....I've requested and offered in two, but I don't have a sock and couldn't get matched to myself. What are other reasons for not requesting and offering in the same fandom?

1. Don't be a dick.
2. If in doubt, refer to 1.

AO3, fanlore, they publish an academic journal, lots of legal work, some preservation of old archives and shit.

I don't even like OTW (I like some of their projects but not the whole org overall) but they do a lot of stuff and it makes sense they'd have a big budget. Frankly I think they should stop relying on an all-volunteer base to run their stuff and hire a CEO with more experience running nonprofits. It'd be worth boosting up their budget for that expense.

Big Eden coalie is starting to feel like a broken record. But it is a gay love story with an adorable ending, and it's my happy place, so you should watch it even if you don't write fic. I know at least two other people besides me have requested it this year, though there aren't any letters yet besides mine.

Shelter is another movie with canon gay, and though I haven't watched it I've been assured it's really cute. Though someone on _coal thinks it's boring. Who can say!

Paris Je T'aime is a series of shorts set in Paris, one of which is a gay soulmates story and is nominated and requested again this year. Good candidate for soulbonding fic, actually.

How to Get Away With Murder is five or six episodes into its first season and has canon gay relationships (or hook-ups, anyway) along with a whole bunch of courtroom drama and intrigue, if you're into that sort of thing.

Peaky Blinders, Backdraft, Les Revenants, Henry IV, The Good Wife, The Red Tent, and The Lion in Winter.

Personally I hate feeling like I'm competing with my gift for attention. I wouldn't be able to compare the fics obsessively and it would sour the experience.

The only reasons for avoiding it other than trying not to match with your sock are dickish. Self-obsessed people worrying that their own fic is going to be better than anything they receive in the same fandom, and equally self-obsessed (in the other direction) people, who are self-conscious that their fic is going to be direct competition for their gift and that this is somehow uncouth.

Why is it dickish to want to avoid ruining one's own Yuletide? I doubt my writing is so amazing I'm ~depriving a small fandom from irrepplaceable resources.

It's dickish to think of all your fic as competition for other fics.

NA

In my case, it's to avoid fandom burn-out. I can get VERY obssessive with canon-review.

lol it hurts literally no-one coalie. Take a deep breath.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I naively didn't think it would get so many offers, and it's outstripping my other fandoms by a LOT. But I really like my prompts for it, so I'm gonna take the risk anyway.

So far I have 4 requests, but only match a writer on one.
That fandom is kindof big for yuletide and has a lot of similar requests.
Now I am thinking of pulling that request, and try to force a match/pinch hit on the other three.

How much of a dick would that make me?

lol, I'm not angry about it, coalie. I don't need to take a breath just because some people are dicks.

One problem would be if you've matched with someone who also matched with you and if you had incredibly similar prompts. (Didn't happen to me in Yuletide, but in a different exchange a few years back. We had different takes on the same idea but it was still pretty awkward.)

I'll toss in Design for Living - it is actually a poly film(!) from the 1930s(!!), with two guys who fall in love with the same women. They come up with a bargain where they can both have relationships with her as long as they don't have sex. Of course this fails hilariously; hijinx ensue.

The movie is great and, outside of the love triangle depicted, the two guys are slashy as heck.

Not a dick movie. This is your chance to get the fic of your heart, and if you think there's a chance of getting it anyway through someone else's request, you're within your rights to request the other 3.

Still, if you're still unmatchable at the end of signups, prepare yourself that the mods might approach you and ask you to change your requests.

Community and Parks and Rec have been near the top of the most requested/offered a couple of times, as has The Mindy Project. I think whenever a sitcom has a strong not-yet-requited romance and/or a good ensemble, it gets requested a lot. And don't forget a bunch of sitcoms (Community again, TBBT, The Office, HIMYM) are too big for Yuletide, but weren't always, so sitcom fandoms can definitely be toward the top.

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