My signups are complete. I probably could have offered more, but I'm coming around to the opinion that offering only fandoms in which I already have at least one idea is the way to go. I don't think that leads to brevity, but it does lead to much less head-desking later on.

My requests were like My secret desires, let me show you them, for values of gen and incredibly vanilla. (The secret secret desires remain secret, or at least stay in backchannel.)

Hmm... I didn't do it last year, because I was going to be out of the country, but... should I? Decisions...

I think I am not doing it. My ability to write in a given fandom is generally not something I can predict, and I just hate the stress of a ficathon assignment. Challenges are great, but I think I choose to pick my own.

But I will be happy to beta, thus contributing to the great yuletide tradition.

I'm doing it. I'm chosing a minimal range of fandoms, though, this time. And nothing I've done before. (Which only eliminates the one, as last year was Baby's First Yuletide.)

I just don't know what I'll offer. Or ask for. Yet.

I offered 30 fandoms this year. Apparently I'm feeling more reckless than last year.

Jilli, I really enjoyed that.

Deena, I'd beta for you. I'd beta for any of you guys. I say, with the confidence that I'll be around for the Christmas hols. (I'm not going home.)

The most challenging thing I find with Yuletide every year is to pick the requests. There's just so much choice! For about three years, I did the same three fandom requests in a row--The Dark is Rising, Narnia, and something else I can't cross-check because the archive is closed, and a wild card. This year, all I know is that I want a Hollycrack story. I don't know what else to pick!

Usually I offer at least a few dozen fandoms to write, mostly because I can stretch myself pretty far, but that's not an approach that works for a lot of people. I think it's probably more sensible to be very limited about what you are willing to write, because that's something you *do* have control over.

I signed up for the due South fic exchange, and I will sign up for the popslash one, because although it's becoming smaller every year, I just love it too much to let it go. But I let Secret Slasha go last year, and this year I think I'm not going to do JBBS either. Unless another one catches my eye, I'm going to stay pretty minimal this year.

I offered up 18 fandoms to write in this year, and for half, I strictly limited which characters I would write for.

For requests, I listed two books, one comic, and one manga/anime. It was tough trying to whittle things down, and I have a feeling that my character requests for one of them will pretty much mean that I won't be getting that story.

I offered 30 fandoms this year. Apparently I'm feeling more reckless than last year.

...dude, you're making me feel inadequate.

I offered 9.

But one of them was entirely on crack. I could do it, and it would be fun, but I'm mostly shocked that it even made the list. So.

...dude, you're making me feel inadequate.

A lot of them are books. Several others are musicals.