I haaaateee being sick

[nonesensed]

All weekend plans after the LARP went to hell because I woke up Sunday morning with the mother of all colds ;_; And then I was stupid enough to go pole dancing Monday evening (...totally worth it XD)

In my feverish state I realized that Yuletide nominations are coming up soon. So therefore I must write down a reminder to myself on what I want to nominate, because my mind always goes blank when the moment comes.

Yuletide nomination ideas

The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Characters to nominate...good question, might have to coordinate with other people on this.

The World of a Charm of Magpies - K. J. Charles
Characters to nominate: Hmm, I know I'm going with Jonah and Ben, not sure who else.

Killjoys (TV)
Characters to nominate: Alvis Akari, Fancy Lee

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Characters to nominate: Thara Celehar

Have a ton of other fandoms I'm hoping get nominated (like The Magnificent Seven and Sapphire and Steel) but these are my "must haves" and I think we only get to nominate four fandoms...

Comments

[paintstrokes]

Aww, hope you feel better soon. What are the Yuletide nominations for?

[nonesensed]

Thanks! I'm getting better and will hopefully be back to 100% if I spend this weekend mostly sleeping :)

The Yuletide nominations are for the Yuletide Fic Exchange. If you haven't heard about it before, it's a yearly event where thousands of writers nominate their tiniest fandoms for fic writing. In short, you nominate fandoms you think are small enough to qualify as tiny, then the mods make a list of approved fandom and you sign up with wishes for what fandom you can write in (and which characters you can write) + what fandoms you'd love got get fic for.

After sign-up, you're given a prompt to write for and need to write at least 1000 word worth of story and upload to the AO3 collection, with 18th of December as final deadline. Then on the 25th of December you get a gift (sometimes more than one!) in the form of a personal fanfic in your teeny-tiny fandom :D It is great fun, both giving and receiving stories! I do it every year~! It's basically one of those huge Secret Santa exchanges.

Which reminds me, ack! I wanted to nominate The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley too. Aaaah, now things will get difficult!

[paintstrokes]

Oh that's a cool idea! I don't know if many of my fandoms are tiny, but if stories like the Stars are Legion are getting fic that's really amazing! :) It was such a unique story.

[nonesensed]

It is a lot of fun, I highly recommend it :D Really hoping for some Star Are Legion fic~!

Pretty much anything can be nominated as a fandom, so while it might not be a place for one's most active or closest fandoms it's a great place to go for that one really good book you read this year, or that weird commercial (yes, there are generally at least some commercials nominated XD)

The rule for which fandom you can nominate goeth thusly:
"Fandoms will be approved if their total number of stories on archiveofourown.org and fanfiction.net, added together, is less than 1,000."

There are some exceptions that can be made (like if a character from a bigger fandom has 0 fic about them), but that's the basic rule. Oh, and you can nominate stories even if you don't plan to participate in the exchange (though it is of course encouraged that you also participate).