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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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BUT I WANTED TO DO IT

Me! I've got five fandoms I want, I think, but probably will add a sixth too? Not sure what that should be...the original fandom-of-my-heart is a contender, and I'm afraid this will be its last year. :/ But it's so much more huge than the other five, I don't want to make it disproportionately that much more likely that it's what I'll get.

Although I requested it both of the last two years as well and got even tinier fandoms instead, which was wonderful, so maybe nothing to lose?

http://guilty-of-this.livejournal.com/7258.html

BUT WHY?

There was an Oz letter posted today, should still be among the most recent ones.

NA but god I would love friendship soulbonding. I was just thinking yesterday that I wish there was more of it.

In the case of my friends, yeah, it's pearl clutching, and I tell them so. Anon memes are sometimes cruel therefore anon space is Bad Bad Bad, why would you ever want to be anon, etc.

DA

Because it breaks the illusion of anonymity.

da

+1

Friendship soulbonding! Reluctant rivals to friends soulbonding! Different kinds of soulbonds in the same universe, and couples have to figure out if they're a romantic bond or not complete with fail!sex! Why aren't there more of these?

Oh man, I'd love to see more of this. I may have to go edit my letter to reflect this.

Friendship soulbonding!

Different kinds of soulbonds in the same universe

The fic I'm writing now has both of these, haha. I'm a trailblazer!!

ayrt

Would you be willing to say the fandom? :D

Askld;aksjhd I really don't want to. I'll tag appropriately????

It's a movie with canon m/m that came out more than 10 years ago. THAT'S ALL I'M GIVING.

NAYRT

Mine too! :D Trailblazing high five, coalie!

I think this one's been linked before, but

http://swan-tower.livejournal.com/692760.html -- a song called "King of the World"

\o/ We're the real MVPs.

Nominations have only been on AO3 for a few years. Here are the visible tagsets:

2011: http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/131
2012: http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/167
2013: http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/221

And here are the lists of what was written:

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2011
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2012
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2013

ayrt

Haha, that's okay! I will have to use my google-fu and keep an eye out then!

I expect the characters to be emotionally linked, so they can feel what each other is feeling or pine into illness when separated/at odds with each other, etc. If there's other kinds of magic, I like them being able to draw on each other's power... which can be a bad thing if they don't actually get along. I love it when the soulbonding happens for a reason, like they're ~fated~ to do something together--doesn't have to be love, though I have a totally unironic fondness for Fated Soulbond Love. Basically, I want the unit they form together to be something more than what they are individually. At the same time, I would read the hell out of something that talks about how messed up it is to have your spirit tied to somebody else's like that.

I suspect the letter was changed, after coal looked at the "I don't want gen" followed by the gen prompts and went WTF?

+1 We're an anon meme not a known name meme.

Not sure where to reply-all. Thanks a ton, coalies!

Not the requester, but definitely looking forward to reading this.

The mods seem to be using GMT for things this year, so be careful on that.

Although that may not prove anything. If you offer different characters than are requested, you still won't have a match.

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