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Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

The first few years, it was basically astolat's flist. Everyone was pretty well known in lj circles. That's why it really wasn't a default gen exchange despite how matching works.

The archive went down repeatedly every year, like people have said.

Five minute fandoms weren't typical. It was more likely to be requests for m/m of some historical novel or something. Treats weren't much of a thing until like year 3.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Only the first year was mostly astolat-adjacent. I participated the second year and it was already big, and I don't think most people knew her particularly well. I don't think I knew who she was at all until AO3 started getting off the ground. Also, I got a blank sign-up from someone without an LJ that year, if that tells you anything.

The rest is right, though!

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

yeah it was a bit cliquey at first - and i don't mean it in a bad way, it's just how it was. i'm glad it became a wider fandom thing though!

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

The first year was pretty much people who had Astolat friended, which isn't exactly the same thing - she was already a bnf for fic and this was the days when you had to friend someone's lj to get their fic. Most of them were not well known, or people Astolat had ever interacted with (I certainly wasn't)!