Yuletide nominations

[kindkit]

Due to the new restrictions on nominations, I thought I'd post about what I'm going to nominate so anyone else who might be interested in the same fandoms can plan accordingly.

1) Tintin [the comic, not the film; if you want to nominate the film, I think you'd need to do so under its title "The Adventures of Tintin."]

Characters: Tintin, Haddock, Milou|Snowy, Tournesol|Calculus

2) Points - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

Characters: Nicolas Rathe, Philip Eslingen, Istre b'Estorr, Hanselin Caiazzo

3) Doug Anthony All Stars RPF

Characters: Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler, Paul McDermott, Flacco|Paul Livingstone


These are all definite, so if any of my choices match a fandom/characters you were thinking of nominating, it's taken care of and you can safely nominate something else instead. However, if you want a character I haven't included, you'll need to nominate the fandom yourself with the characters of your choice. According to the new rules, you cannot add characters to a fandom you haven't nominated. (In other words, if you want to request a Tintin story about Bianca Castafiore, the Dupondts|Thom(p)sons, and General Alcazar, you'll have to nominate Tintin yourself and ask for those characters.)

Incidentally, I really hope someone nominates Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré [this is bookverse, not movieverse or the miniseries] and Bas Lag - China Miéville.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

That's a really odd system. I'm thinking about doing Yuletide this year, but I'm feeling quite intimidated by it...

[kindkit]

Well, characters need to be nominated so that people can request specific characters, or offer to write about certain characters but not others. It's essentially the same thing that's done informally in a lot of ficathons, just more systematized.

Yuletide used to allow people to nominate six fandoms and as many characters as they pleased (including adding characters to fandoms they hadn't even nominated) but the result was a bazillion nominations and a lot of hard (and often unnecessary, since only a fraction of the nominated fandoms were even requested, let alone written in) work for the mods.

You don't have to nominate to participate in Yuletide, although only nominated fandoms can be requested or offered. All you have to do is sign up with a request (three nominated fandoms and characters you'd like stories about) and an offer (some number of nominated fandoms and characters--I think it may be four this year) that you're willing to write. Then requests are matched to offers. The person you're writing for may include additional details in their request besides fandom and characters (a story idea, or a request for a pairing or for gen, or a tone) but all those details are completely optional and writers are not obliged to provide them. All the writer has to produce is a 1000+ word story in one of the requested fandoms that includes the requested character(s).

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you (clueless n0ob is clueless...)

[kindkit]

For full official info, the place to look is the yuletide_admin community on LJ.

Because Yuletide is popular, it's attracted a lot of subsidiary stuff (Yuletide Madness, Dark Agenda [don't know if that's happening this year], Yuletide RPF [yes, really], the candy and book exchanges) but Yuletide itself is fairly straightforward.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, cool, I hadn't found them - just the yuletide comm itself, which is mostly fic recs (great, but not what I wanted!)

[delurker]

I was just wandering past, but I had to stop and say - Points series! Yay! I hope there is some Points fic this Yuletide.

[kindkit]

Me too! It's almost a Yuletide-only fandom, so every year I hope we get some.

Did you know that Melissa Scott is working on new books in the series? It's very exciting.