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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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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.