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I redid my Yuletide signups and am offering only 24 fandoms! I feel marvelously restrained. Fastidious, even. Picky.

I am trying to guess which fandom I will get, but the ways of the yuletide algorithm are mysterious (okay, except to

astolat).*

* I did not try to game the system to get any particular fandoms. I am just guessing. I would be happy with them. I would be happy with any of my 22 other choices. I would be happy with things I didn't volunteer for but may end up pinch-hitting anyway. I am easy to please. While simultaneously being fastidious and picky. What? Like yuletide, I contain multitudes.

Since I am going to have a yuletide assignment and am already late on my Sweet Charity and Eid Fic assignments, I won't sign up for

spn_holidays. That would be a bad idea, right? Right?

... I need support in this, guys.

This post was longer and more interesting before I got paranoid that I might have given too many hints about fandoms offered and edited it. Okay, I'm lying. It was just longer.

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You shouldn't sign up (even if I want to read what you won't be writing) because you're as behind as me on fic assignments, and neither of us should sign up for something else just yet.

We will be strong together!

I will be strong in not signing up either!

Bah. You are always strong in not signing up.

Hey, I signed up for

spn_xx and

apocalypse_kree last summer! ... which, um, totally stressed me out and reminded me forcefully how I hate being stressed to write creatively.

So, yeah. Not signing up anymore.

Be strong, Mely! Be strong!

...of course, you mention

spn_holidays just as I am getting back into the show, but I won't be caught up enough to read anything anyway. Sigh. ;-)

Don't sign up for spn_holidays! You need to write Chalice & Bone.

Oh, I wasn't planning to; I couldn't do Supernatural fic in good conscience without getting caught up on S1-S2 anyway. But yeah...*shifty eyes*...in fact, I think I'll go do some typing after I take the lizard out to buy chocolate.

...I was about to mourn that B&C has no cars in it, but just realized that it has feral bicycles. And that I can give a bicycle to one of my characters! Yay!

*has not been obsessed with feral bicycles ever since stupidly failing to buy The Bicycle in Wartime: An Illustrated History when I saw it in the Cornell Campus Store about 8 years ago, not really*

I would rather you wrote Chalice & Bone than that you write me Angel Sanctuary fic. That is saying a lot!

*falls over dead*

I'll get right to it, ma'am! *snaps salute and rides off into the sunset on a half-tame bicycle*

...now I'm thinking that I need to redo my Yuletide signup again. I mean, I already redid it on Sunday and somehow ended up going from 27 fandoms to 30.

Or maybe I should just leave it alone in case I end up volunteering for more fandoms again rather than scaling back as I'd originally intended.

Now I'm worried. 24's enough, right? It's not miserly?

Dude, I offered eight. You are three times as generous as I am, or three times less miserly, if you like.

It's clearly a sign that I don't read enough scanlated manga, or something. :-D

Weirdly, only two of them are scanlated manga, and they're *not* the ones with the fewest requests.

Fandom: An unending surprise.

Heh.

One of the fandoms I requested has two other requests but only one person offering. I could cry. I would offer it myself, except it would literally mean the possibility of rereading a couple thousand pages of source, and I just can't commit to it this year.

(This is not to say that the other requests would not also make me happy! But I just feel sad that I cannot do my duty here.)

Incidentally, I keep (not very seriously) trying to persuade Joe to sign up for Yuletide. He shows every sign of resisting. Man, if only I could get him to write fic for me. I would totally write fic for him, but he says it's not the same. :-D

Don't cry! Everyone gets 3-4 requests. It will work out.

24 is a good number! And you're happy with all of them! I am thinking that I should get rid of a couple fandoms that I am ambivalent about, because ambivalence is not exactly an inspiring state of mind.

I started off by checking to see if fandoms I was ambivalent about had a lot of volunteers, and most of them did. And then I thought: Wow, I am so much more excited about Fandoms A,B, and C than Fandoms D, E, and F that ... I am going to strike D, E, and F anyway. And then I checked them just to be sure, and they had more volunteers than requests even without me. Win/win!

This seems like an eminently sensible system. I think I will employ it if I can convince myself to face the Yuletide signup process again.

Unfortunately, I have profoundly ambivalent feelings about everything in existence, including the desirability of romantic relationships in general, my family, and every single fandom I offered for Yuletide (20). Except for homemade whipped cream, which is always unequivocably desirable.

Oh, my old friend ambivalence! For my Yuletide signup, though, there's a difference between "I guess maybe I could do something with that fandom..." and "Ugh, I guess I could do something with that fandom, if I have to."

I try to minimize the number of things in my life that make me react like a sullen teenager.

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This is a valid and entertaining way to experience Yuletide!

hahaha sucker

Changed it on the grounds that if I actually asked people to send help, they might try.

and then I would have such guilt

... I seem to have offered eighty-seven fandoms.

How did that *happen*?

Watching everyone sign up for Yuletide makes me wish I had a creative bone in my body. It looks like such fun.

Oh well, I'll get to read the end results, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I got down to fifty! I am so proud of myself! You are so marvelously restrained!

I poke at my Eid fic, since it's not cooperating. Also, I should do minor things like work and grad school apps and paying bills, but bah!

I'm resisting signing up. *nod* I've got Yuletide, the Eid fic in progress, a few other things, and I know the fannish wishlists are soon going to start circling. I want free time to write fic for friends and such and if I sign up for holiday exchanges, I am *SO* not going to be able to do that. I keep trying to declare a challenge/ficathon moratorium, but people keep dangling awesome ones in front of me. SO hard to resist!

Okay, you people offering in the double-digits always make me feel like mud.

I am mud! I don't care! I offered seven fandoms, and that's all!

...I'm also not doing spn_holidays, but that's mostly because I don't trust it to avoid my squicks for me. So I will be a responsible (if muddy) girl and avoid them myself.