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So I was reading my flist and there was a post lamenting the lack of fic for a festivids pairing and two posts mourning over post-VVC vid block, and of course there is also my post whining about how it is SO HARD to do festivids and Yuletide at the same time, and anyway this is my MAD GENIUS PROPOSAL which I suspect will go over way better with people who vid and fic than with people who just vid:

So this is my proposal: In 2010, we should start Festivids RIGHT AFTER VVC. Or maybe a little after. Like, September nominations and signup and November delivery. This way people can break the post-VVC block because PRESENTS! IN TINY FANDOMS! WITH A ONE-MINUTE MINIMUM! And this way also when you are requesting fiction for your teeny-tiny fandom for Yuletide, you can point to an illustration of just how awesome your teeny-tiny fandom source is. People who have not previously encountered your teeny-tiny fandom source may be inspired to try it out and/or sign up for it. (That was the year I finally got a Revengers Tragedy story for Yuletide. It's worked at least once! That is totally scientific proof.)

More vids, more fic, widely separate deadlines. It's the best of all possible worlds.

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I am sort of preferring an earlier signup date (not possible this year, but possible next year if all goes well) but with a similar golive date as this year, so that people basically have more time to vid. But my perspective is admittedly cockeyed on this by virtue of (a) running the thing and (b) being both a writer and a vidder (if more of the former).

I can see how an earlier sign-up date would be useful for some people, and one hopes that it would make your life easier as well! What really matters to me is the due date, because I can't count on having time to vid until Dec. 22 or thereabouts (when grades are due), and so I can't in good conscience sign up for anything with a deadline prior to January 1: the probability of having to default is simply too high.