of potential interest to some of you

[meretricula]

if you are a football rpf writer and are planning on signing up for yuletide, some things to keep in mind. first of all, Football RPF as a fandom is definitely out. it hits three out of four strikes on the "one strike and you're out" list. HOWEVER. I asked and it sounds like RPF for a football team would be okay. so for example I would nominate "FC Barcelona RPF" and "Victor Valdes, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez, Pep Guardiola" as characters, cross my fingers and hope that anyone else under the sun is going to nominate Leo, Pique, Cesc, etc.

side-note: please do not be a dick and nominate (or, god forbid, request) three different football teams. that is not what yuletide is for. aside from the fact that I have no guarantee that this will work and all Football RPF nominations may get summarily thrown out.

probably going to nominate Tennis RPF and Georgette Heyer's Frederica as my other two options. I still want fic about Marat and Dinara having post-retirement shenanigans and Frederica's creepily intense relationship with Jessamy.

all I have done today is eat cupcakes and read fanfic. I am kind of a disgrace.

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[zanoranna.livejournal.com]

all I have done today is eat cupcakes and read fanfic. I am kind of a disgrace.

If by a disgrace you mean 'be fucking excellent and induce other people into cupcaked throes of jealousy.'

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

they were pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. all homemade. just fyi. :D

[mardia.livejournal.com]

all I have done today is eat cupcakes and read fanfic. I am kind of a disgrace.

Oh, please. All I did today was a) sulk over Liverpool (this club is turning me into such a brat) b) get my hair done and c) scowl at my Big Bang. Compared to me, you're productive as hell. But I'll second the cupcake jealousy.

[cafune.livejournal.com]

a) sulk over Liverpool (this club is turning me into such a brat)

if yew are a footie fan, you automatically subtract a decade from yr age. or at least that's what i tell myself as rationale whenever i throw a tantrum.

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Football has turned me into the sulky pre-teen I never actually WAS. FFF.

[tinymich.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what is this yuletide challenge? Is its objective "Write weird stuff that would otherwise never get written"? I don't know anything about it!

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's a rare fandom holiday fic exchange. so they have a nomination process in which people suggest fandoms they want to read/write and the ones that are too popular are thrown out, and what remains make up the list you can choose from when you're making your requests and volunteering to write. everybody gets matched up with a writer who volunteered for one of their requests and a recipient who requested something they volunteered for, and so everybody writes and receives at least one 1000-word fic. it's huge and it's a lot of fun!

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Basically, it's the largest tiny fandom challenge of all time. You nominate a few small fandoms, request about three for your gift, and offer to write as many as you want. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it before!

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

I think we're in a year that I don't have interests other than football, so I'm happy to waste all my nominations.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

idk really, I just... are you not planning on requesting or offering anything other than football either? because I sort of feel like that veers uncomfortably close to gaming the system. football RPF is really not something that should be a yuletide fandom. I'm justifying it to myself in my head that some bits of footie are rarer than others, etc etc it's worth a try, but if football does get thrown out I'm still going to participate, you know? I know nominations are not a binding contract but...

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

Well, nothing else is appealing to me right now. I honestly can't think of any media I've enjoyed this year that would qualify and that I actually want fic of, you know? I guess there's still time to think but I really am just uninterested in most things in a fandom way, I guess.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

not even your weird Dutch soap operas? XDDD

idk, I usually go for book fandoms if I'm totally uninspired, but think outside the box! webcomics! commercials! Eurovision! I think the weirder stuff tends to get the best fic, haha.

I also tend to recycle requests and offers from previous years, which helps when I can't think of anything. I know you got goalkeeper fic last year but I can't remember, did you write a Dear Santa letter?

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

hahaha! They're not actually Dutch soap operas, they're American soap operas on Dutch TV. I don't think I could keep up with Dutch soaps, the genre is so talk-heavy that you do need to understand the language. And I don't really feel like I need fic for them, if that makes any sense? Like, I only really want fic for a small portion of my media interests. I have to both be involved and feel like there's something missing that fic could fill. Football is great for that, but not all of my other favorites fall into that category. (Take The Venture Brothers, as an example. One of my favorite shows, with interesting, complex characters, but I don't feel entirely like there's something in that narrative that I'd like to see filled in with fic. I'd rather see how the creators of that show take it. Although last year Yuletide there was a great Shoreleave/The Alchemist fic.)

I had The Tudors last year, but I'm sort of over it now, and also I did get a Henry/Francis fic that was nice in addition to my goalkeepers. I'll think about it, but I'm not really wanting a lot right now, at least that isn't already out there.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

well, it's just nominations now, you can always nominate whatever you have in mind and think about it some more before requests take place. :)

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

totally just thought of something. :D one always must think, yes.

[distira.livejournal.com]

just curious- are they counting ladies football under the umbrella of football rpf? because the amount of fic for lady ballers/teams is so low that would wonder if it could be considered as a separate fandom

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

so the way I think this would work is you would nominate the ladies team in question (USWNT is the example I used when asking). it's not just for qualifies/does not qualify reasons; the mods vastly prefer for choosing to offer "any character" in a given fandom to be a possibility, and obviously in a really diverse fandom like team sports that's hard to do if the "umbrella" fandom has been nominated rather than the subset. like, if someone volunteers for football rpf in general, chances are they aren't thinking about ladies. so you request/volunteer the specific team and then you only get people who are interested in that specific team.

[distira.livejournal.com]

hmm okay. that makes sense, i guess. (although now this means i have to choose between the leonas, the france nt, and the uswnt when making my requests!)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

you get three nominations but four requests ;) so I'd say you could probably get away with two out of three. check in with the girl who wanted USWNT and see who all she was going to nominate - if you overlap entirely you could leave that up to her and nominate the other two. (I think you're more likely to get USWNT than anything else but you never know!)

[distira.livejournal.com]

ohhhhh good call! where can i find this girl? (i'm totally more likely to get USWNT than anything else but my heart desires louisa necib fic SO BADLY)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

you are in luck because I then thought, god who was that I've never seen her before and went looking through the fandom pimp post. here (http://yuletide.livejournal.com/982579.html?thread=9327411#t9327411)!

[distira.livejournal.com]

you are glorious.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

:D

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

uswnt is totes covered (http://yuletide.livejournal.com/986388.html?thread=10271764#t10271764). leonas leonas leonas!!!

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

I just used this as an alert to people at the "tell us what you're nominating" post.

If I *can* get away with Bayern or die Mannschaft RPF I totally will (though I'd only nominate one due to the immense overlap). I'm willing to use my noms for USMNT, USwNT, and Chelsea as well. My other noms will all reflect my immense nerdiness. XD

I'm definitely pinch-hitting this year, even if I don't necessarily sign up (though I probably will.) It's looking good. :3

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

fair enough! you know we can only nominate three fandoms this year though, right?

yuletiiiiiiiiide I can't wait for assiiiiiiiiiiiignments

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

Yup. My noms are Ghost in the Shell (the TV series version), Bayern (or maybe die Mannschaft, probably Bayern), and a third, which will be filled with anything from certain video games to other clubs to Food Network shows, depending on demand. XD

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

tbh I think anyone who would offer Mannschaft is just as likely to offer Bayern (except the Sami/Mesut shippers, I guess) so I'd say either one would work. I'm going through the noms post now, it's always amazing how many fandoms there are that I've never heard of before in my life!

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

Sami/Mesut, or any of the inter-club pairings (Schweinski still has supporters, after all! Polish Bros too, and that's been inter-club for a while. Also Per/Arne, and Benni/Mats, and Manu/Benni now counts as inter-club....)

It'll defintiely be interesting to see how it turns out :)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

if someone requests Schweinski for yuletide... ~judging from afar~

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

I'll probably nominate Barca RPF as one of mine too. Still weighing up the other slots, though. Currently thinking Romance of the Three Kingdoms and maaaaaybe State of Play (TV).

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

not the only one yesssssssssssss

so would you take care of nominating the bb dream team, or is there someone else you have in mind?

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

I'll nominate the bb dream team, no problem. Nominations start this week, right?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

who the hell even knows tbh. XD hopefully soon...