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Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Yeah, I think the reason it is such a big deal huge annual event of an exchange is because it's so casual that people can basically just sign up with whatever. A no-characters blank signup is completely within the letter and spirit of the rules, and so is filling a request with anything you feel like writing that includes the nominated characters and respects DNWs. It's always been geared more as a "generate more fic for these fandoms and characters that have so little people will hopefully be delighted to see almost anything" event than a "produce fic very closely tailored to the recipient's desired ship dynamics and preferred tropes" event.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

It's always been geared more as a "generate more fic for these fandoms and characters that have so little people will hopefully be delighted to see almost anything" event than a "produce fic very closely tailored to the recipient's desired ship dynamics and preferred tropes" event.

I don't think this has been any kind of consensus in a while. People can and do get their rare fandom fic outside of Yuletide, and in turn this means some of them are a lot pickier in Yuletide.

For instance, meme just had a massive wank about whether fic featuring two requested characters but not much interaction between them would be a bad gift.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

meme will wank about whether the sky is blue, though. "meme just had a massive wank about X thing" means very little about X thing.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

DC

And that wank was especially ridiculous when you go into the written-down official Yuletide rules and the first rule clearly says: "If your recipient selected characters, you must make significant use of all of them" - but then FFA still has a long-winded conversation where about a dozen people seriously insist that it's actually within the rules to write a story about one requested character and have the other one make a brief appearance at the end. So either they don't read the rules or think it's fine to bend them at will, because this doesn't fall into ODAO and people still do it because the chance that the recip will actually complain to the mods about it is not that high ... but this isn't really something that makes the exchange feel more "laid back" to me.