The Coalies Are Back In Town

[coalcube]

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Re: Why and How You Participate In Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I sign up for yuletide mostly to write. I've learned that I engage with fandom two ways - either I hyperfocus so hard I filter out everything else, or I'm too scattered to focus on a single fandom long enough to write anything in it. By assigning me a small fandom, Yuletide cracks me out of both of those things long enough to finish a fic, at least temporarily! And by having a fairly low bar for output (and by me needing to keep my streak going), it pushes me to actually finish and post even in years when I am convinced I am a miserable ball of crud who should never even attempt to write something someone else will read.

Also, I did the first yuletide, and then skipped the second one, which is just as well because that's the year my father died right before Thanksgiving. But ever since then, Yuletide has been part of every winter season that my father hasn't, and I don't honestly know what I'd do without a small fandom or two to focus on for that month.

Getting a gift is a great bonus, as is giving one, but not at all the point for me - I would probably still do Yuletide if it just assigned a fandom and prompts and wasn't a gift exchange, though admittedly the exchange aspect does also help push me not to default!

Re: Why and How You Participate In Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

My brother died Christmas Eve, and the last seven Yuletides have been an excellent distraction from missing him as the end of the year comes along. Plus he loved fandom, and Yuletide reminds me the good times we had talking all sorts of different fannish things.