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.

I think I listed 27, but I might scale that back to 20 before the deadline is over.