Hi, I saw this linked somewhere, and would love to participate! Speaking as someone who doesn't ID as an anime/East Asian fan, but really wishes she had an actual hope in hell of finally getting Captain Tylor or Sally the Witch or Kingyo Used Books fic for yuletide.
I want to point out a problem with C; other people have mentioned the issues you might get with the first half of that, but you'd get related problems with the rare characters/rarepairs half: I can tell you that my experience the first yuletide was that I requested a rarepair and got an ensemble gen fic that had extremely background rarepair (I mean, I still liked my fic and enjoyed the fest, but I suspect that sort of thing is part of why yuletide dropped the rarepairs part.) You'd need to be able to enforce how much of the rare character/pair counted as "about" and I suspect that would be really difficult to do in a multifandom context.
ETA: Also, I would like to note that one thing I'd love is a rare fandoms fest that was for the English-speaking community but was limited to not-originally-English-language sources *only*.
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I want to point out a problem with C; other people have mentioned the issues you might get with the first half of that, but you'd get related problems with the rare characters/rarepairs half: I can tell you that my experience the first yuletide was that I requested a rarepair and got an ensemble gen fic that had extremely background rarepair (I mean, I still liked my fic and enjoyed the fest, but I suspect that sort of thing is part of why yuletide dropped the rarepairs part.) You'd need to be able to enforce how much of the rare character/pair counted as "about" and I suspect that would be really difficult to do in a multifandom context.
ETA: Also, I would like to note that one thing I'd love is a rare fandoms fest that was for the English-speaking community but was limited to not-originally-English-language sources *only*.