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The distinguishing feature is, of course, that Andor and Agatha All Along are both oh so perennially acceptable Western Live Action, while the Yakuza games are video games from Japan.

Video games, comics, or tbqh anything else that isn't live action (preferably Western) or certain subsets of written literature (also preferably Western) will always get the short end of every Yuletide stick because Yuletide springs from the same fannish pool as the OTW and even DW itself.

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Personally I don't think either of those should be accepted either, because I can't imagine most Andor or AGA requesters would be happy with a genuinely Star Wars or Wandavision-blind fill that (say) went completely canon-divergent on the worldbuilding and background (such as who the Empire is or what whatshername was doing before she got amnesia... sorry, I haven't seen AGA and don't know what its exact relation to MCU canon is but my point is, there are many ways to fill those gaps.)

Especially when something like Andor is not even feature-complete. The final episode is a bunch of cryptic nonsense if you haven't watched Rogue One.

I don't know the pirate game but it sounds like most requesters of it would however be happy just receiving amnesia pirate AU stuff that's got nothing to do with Yakuza.

CYRT

Yeah, if anything I think the pirate Yakuza game sounds more Yuletide-eligible than Andor or AAA.

And maybe this is me being unfair but TBH I feel a lot less charitable about on-the-edge nominations that lean heavily on juggernaut fandoms like SW or MCU compared to a Japanese videogame franchise. The former just feels far more "against the spirit of Yuletide" than the latter.

Stalking their bluesky it looks like they want something about "the lady pirates"

I can see the OTW, but why does it matter about DW? The OTW founders were on LJ and I don't think they really went to DW, OTW was started from astolat's LJ.

Denise was and is up to her eyeballs in similar western live-action canons, like SGA, and the cohort that followed her to DW initially was more of the same. It's all the same kind of fans that have always pushed back on and excluded "feral" aka not from western fandoms fans and what they like.

OK but for real, how did we get to "this is all the same kind of fans excluding ferals!" from the Yuletide mods rejecting *checks notes* one (1) spinoff video game?

Maybe take the time to read the comments that have been made and the dumb shit the mods tried to claim about the game? Pretty sure it would be clear then.

Mmmm no

Given Denise has also written a ton of Final Fantasy I'm pretty sure she's aware of jrpgs.

In fact fully half the fandoms on her ao3 are jrpgs. She's definitely written way more Stargate than anything else but I think final fantasy is second by wordcount.

Denise was and is up to her eyeballs in similar western live-action canons, like SGA, and the cohort that followed her to DW initially was more of the same

Hmm I think you're wrong on both counts there, though.

You're so right, thank you for saying this. This is one of the reasons why I left most of the fandom "communities" I once tried to be part of.

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