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[thuviaptarth]

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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[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought about that! But I'm nervous about committing to future code controlled by someone else whose functionality I don't yet know, and also if I run it through PHP/mySQL, I will be able to mass-generate assignment emails through the server, etc. (Although I imagine that's also functionality they have planned for AO3.) In any case, I've already got a useful chunk of it working, and it can't hurt for me to work out the code. Even if we end up going through AO3 instead, I've been wanting to learn PHP/mySQL for my own reasons, so the time won't have been a waste. (I learn better when I'm trying to do a project anyway. :-D)