Yuletide Signups are Now Open!

I haven't signed up yet as I'm still trying to decide what to request and what to offer. I have thirty possible fandoms to offer, but I know I don't want to offer that many. I'm going to whittle down the list and keep the others in mind for Treats.

In going through the list again, I saw so many books and manga that I have on my to-read lists and was like "damn it, I wish I had gotten around to reading that this year!" There were also a couple things (Skim and Flygirl) that I really wish I had held on to after reading them, because I would have offered to write them, but I don't feel comfortable doing so without access to the source material. (I used to feel that way about a lot of manga, too, but now that I have discovered where to download stuff, it's not so much an issue.)

I think my request list right now is Aoi Hana, Glee, Koukou Debut, Modern Family, Paradise Kiss, and Psyren. Obviously two of those have to go.

Probably the one I'm least sure about is Koukou Debut, because what I really want is an AU in which Haruna and Mami realise they're in love and Yoh realises he's gay. Like, seriously, I love the story the series actually did give me, but when it started out with Haruna and Mami being tomboy softball players and Yoh offering to be Haruna's fashion coach, I just really wanted it to go in a different direction. XD But I doubt that's the sort of thing people will be signing up to write, so maybe I'd just be wasting my time with that one.

I'm wibbling on Modern Family, too. I'd like to see fic about Manny, but I don't really have any ideas.

Also check out dark_agenda, a comm whose purpose is to encourage more people to write non-white, non-English-language sources.

So I can participate in Yuletide, but because I didn't know I could during the nominations, I of course didn't nominate anything, nor have I been thinking at all this year what I would like to read or write.

Among things I would have nominated if I'd had a chance are A Softer World (so many strips make me want stories), Canadian webcomic creator RPF (especially Joey Comeau/Ryan North, but others, too!), Natural Nylon RPF (that would be Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee, Sadie Frost...), Hourou Musuko (not sure I'd trust anyone to write this, but I'd love to write it myself), IS~Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei~ (same; though hopefully by this time next year it will all be scanlated, so I can drum up a bigger audience!). Maybe Saint Young Men. Um, probably some books I've read this past year, though I can't think of anything off the top of my head. A bunch of songs, mostly likely. (Obviously I'd have to trim my list down, but still!)

Anyway, there unfortunately doesn't seem to be a way to see what was nominated this year. Just what was nominated ever. So I'm not sure if some of the stuff I'm considering is even actually available. Of course new stuff was obviously nominated this year, but I'm not sure whether some older fandoms were renominated this year or not.

Right now I'm considering these:

Aoi Hana
Azumanga Daioh
Beck
Better Off Ted
Glee
Koukou Debut
Modern Family
Psyren
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

The only one I know for sure I want is Psyren. Everything else is up in the air.

I'm always so hesitant about requesting Japanese-language stuff, not just because I fear the possibility of fan Japanese, but also because most people are getting it through a filter, often a very distorted one if all they have to go on are bad fan translations. But this year looking through the list, manga were what most jumped out at me.

I also saw some that I was interested in writing, but maybe as a treat rather than a full-length fic, such as MARU. I can't believe someone nominated Maru. I was thinking of it myself, but someone else thought of it, too!

But then cesare brought up the point that someone might think they should nominate the author's charmingly mangled English, which just...no. D: I really hope that doesn't happen.

Also I'm kind of annoyed that I already gave away my copy of Sherri Smith's Flygirl, because it's been nominated and I would love to write it. But I no longer have a copy and neither does my library, so that's out. I hope someone else writes for it, though. I'd definitely read it.

New Year's Resolutions
Well, I took a look at the NYRs and there was only one, for Yotsuba&!, I was interested in! But I'm very, very interested, so I might actually get around to doing it this year instead of just talking about it.

I was really excited at first, because I hadn't seen that she requested Torako, and I was thinking more Ena/Miura. But I am also down with Asagi/Torako, so. And of course Yotsuba herself would have to be a big part of it.

Also, damn, that's a lot of potential NYRs. It took me ages to read through the list.

( Rambling on the stories I wrote. )

After last night's Ugly Betty I am really jonesing for Claire/Yoga fic to the point where I'm thinking of changing my Yuletide submission. The thing is, I really don't want to cut out any of my requests. But I was thinking, as much as I really, really want Trumpet fic, so far no one has offered it but me, so it's not going to get written one way or the other. So maybe what I'll do is hold off til Thursday and if it's still not been offered, I'll take it off and replace it with Claire/Yoga. Because dude.

Also I am amused that as it stands, all my Yuletide requests this year are het (though admittedly genderqueer het) or gen, and if I sub this in, it'll be het, gen, and femslash. Also three of the requests focus on characters of color (and swapping Ugly Betty for Trumpet doesn't change that).