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Another person doing the same thing here:

https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/124620.html?thread=3006668#cmt3006668

I guess this is the year of nominating your own fanfic for yuletide, huh.

lol

That person's been around long enough I'm surprised they don't have more shame

GC's always been a little off-kilter with social norms and has needed them explained to him in the past. He means well but it's not my turn to explain to him why we don't do this.

No. NO. Oh my god. I am half horrified, half in awe of this person. Also, why not just nominate the actual image at the end of the credits? Why nominate your fic about the picture. I have so many questions.

I can't believe someone's unironically doing the adjective!ProperNoun naming convention in the year of our lord 2025.

Fun fact: that cat is the logo for Mary Tyler Moore's production company, and the cat's name is Mimsie. Mimsie was often doing a special little thing in the credits for individual series.

https://mtm.fandom.com/wiki/Mimsie

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvwCHNfGK2M

On the series finale, Mimsie (possibly portrayed by another cat) is shown unconscious and dying on screen, connected to an IV, a heart monitor, and medical equipment; as the credits roll the heart monitor beeps and then as the credits end the heart monitor flatlines marking the end of St. Elsewhere and Mimsie's death. Coincidentally, Mimsie died shortly after the airing of this episode at the age of 20.

In conclusion: I think we've really been sleeping on Mimsie as a fanfic subject, guys. A rich text!

...wait, is the whole St. Elsewhere universe actually Mimsie's dream? I think you might have broken something open here

Ok now I kind of want to nominate Mimsie as a canon, nothing to do with this promoters fic, just having Mimsie running the production company, or having show producers having to bribe her into okaying their storylines, with every weird canon plot being down to Mimsie being cranky

She wears a lot of hats! Also may or may not have once been shot by a gunslinger in the Old West!

Someone (not me) who wants to work closely with them should suggest to the nominator that we do a general Mimsie nomination....

Ok, this as a fandom, I’m into.

I'm sold too. Who wants to try for Mimsie Verse?

So when I submitted the story as a treat, I made it clear I was hoping for sequels and follow-ups, and indeed a couple of further stories turned up in the subsequent round.

But since then, it's been quiet on the Bartholomew Street Animal Shelter front, and so I still want more about these characters. As a micro-fandom, the needed canon is quickly reviewed, and I have high hopes of being showered with more adventures this coming Yule.

From the promo post. I want someone to write me 1K+ long sequels to my 700 words long fic because I can't be bothered! Ok lol.

I love “I made it clear I was hoping for sequels and follow-ups”. Yes, that’s how fandom works. I create a fandom and them try to subtly coerce people into creating fan works for it.

It reminds me of Aja and their shenanigans verse - very look at my fanwork, full of quirkiness and banter and all the things fandom says it wants. But trying to force a weird thing into a viable fandom never works, sometimes things like snake fighting thesis take off, but it's not something you can get fandom to do on demand

This is bringing back a very old memory of vaguely something like this that she created. The details are elusive but yes, that does ring a bell.

Oh my God, it is Shenanigans all over again, except I think even Aja didn't try to shoehorn that into Yuletide.

I have zero issue with someone wanting to promo a thing they made, but the framing is offputting. If SH were Yuletide-eligible (lol) then the way to go about this would be to frame kitten!Holmes as a prompt in your letter - but of course, that would make it optional, wouldn't it. I'm guessing optional isn't good enough for them.

A denial and an appeal and a repeated denial!

[excerpted]
mods: After reading the story, we feel that it doesn't stand alone; it relies heavily on the reader knowing the Sherlock Holmes canon, which is not Yuletide eligible.

nominator: I hope I can persuade you to change your minds and approve the nomination - or failing that, at least to more clearly articulate how this decision aligns with broader Yuletide policies.

mods: We appreciate this is disappointing, but are firm on this one. We hope that this discussion has served your goal in one small aspect - bringing the concept to the attention of a wider audience.

LOL keeping it real, mods. It certainly has a much broader reach than it did two weeks ago!

SA also, I love that the mods clearly articulated why it’s not Yuletide eligibility. It requires Sherlock Holmes knowledge which is way too big for Yuletide. The would be requester then asks the mods to explain why it’s not Yuletide eligible. Amazing.

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