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This whole thing with Yuletide is really bumming me out. Which is incidentally a marker of my own privilege (b/c I wasn't personally affected by it being tied to Christmas in the first place), but at any rate, son I am disappoint. Should anybody who knows how/has the inclination to start up an alternate to Yuletide -- which is the hint I'm getting from the "love it or leave it" wording of that post and the follow-ups from BNF pals in the comments -- I would totally be on board to help out.

Anyhow, I realized I never linked to this, and have to make up for that oversight because homg, a while ago

gloss wrote me the Marge/Manjula of my DREAMS for the femslash challenge:

. very deliberately waiting by gloss | the simpsons -- "our children are conspiring against us, did you know that?" {no warnings}

It is awesome not just because it's Manjula and Marge, pitch-perfect and rounded and warm and womanly, but because they're older and there's such a delicate smoke-and-blush feel to all the hard-earned realizations they've come to, the ways they've let themselves settle. I love it so much. I wish all Simpsons fic was like this, EVER. ♥

Also, I posted something I wrote for the horror meme that was going around that was inexplicably 98% Supernatural prompts, but anyway the one I filled was this:

. see you real soon | classic disney -- donald leaves smudges of white and orange wherever he goes. pluto melted long ago, and mickey only has half an ear. they try to redraw themselves with what they can, but is it worth it anymore? {gore, madness, cannibalism}

Er

Sometimes I don't know what's wrong with me, ahahahah

At any rate, DW Inception Kinkmeme! Already 60% more Yusuf and Saito prompts than on the lj version, whoo-hoo! It's good to be a DW academic elitist ivory tower PC-policing offense-taking squee-harshing art-hating overly-demanding censorship bitch.

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I said it last year, and I'm saying it again this year: there is nothing better than Yuletide to remind me that the real answer to the question of "why can't fandom have nice things" is "because fandom".

I have been sort of tempted for AGES to start something that's small fandoms AND/OR rare cahracters/pairings in big fandoms (for instance, Inception would be allowed, but Eames/Arthur wouldn't). The main thing I worry about is that I think to make it manageable I'd have to, like, cut off signups at 200 people or something, just for the first year or so, and I don't want to start ~exclusivity~ wank. Maybe do sign-ups for a week and then, based on how many there are, figure out how long sorting/checking for actual obscurity will take, and then work out an end date from there, with an eye towards Blue Monday or something in February. Or maybe I should do them as two separate challenges, one for small fandoms and one for rare characters/pairings, at separate times; that might make things easier.

There are plenty of fests that take only a limited number of participants. The Harry Potter holiday exchange, Merry Smutmas, always picked names out of a hat, and things like McShep Match are limited to the first 25 people who sign up per team. This is fandom, so I'm sure there has been some wank somewhere about fests like that being exclusionary, but it's certainly not anything new.

True! And I find that as long as you're pretty up-front about doing it from the beginning, there's a lot less potential for wank -- tbh, that's sort of what's bugged me most about some of the Yuletide Things of the past couple of years, but that is a whole other ramble of my own and I will spare you the tl;dr.

Yeah, vague modding is nobody's friend.