Oct. 13th, 2023

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 Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of color. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.

Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of color.

(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of color" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of color; please just use your best judgment.)

What you must include:
Your AO3 name
Whatever fandoms & characters of color you're requesting

What you should probably include:
Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
A brief description of your canon or a link to a canon promo, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people & you want to boost interest in it

If you write for one of these requests, you can tag your fic with Chromatic Yuletide so people can easily find it.
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 Three Turtle Doves is a mini challenge to help people who like poly, threesomes, and more find one another's requests. Though the challenge title includes the word "three", moresomes are welcome to join in. The more the merrier!

If you are requesting these, please let others know by dropping a comment here. Interested writers can browse and see what's out there that they might not have known about. This is also a great place to discover new fandoms with poly possibilities.

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Fandom(s):
Rating(s): (here's a good place to put your ideal and maximum ratings)
Groupings Requested: (list all combinations you're interested in in all fandoms)
Prompts!: (as many and as detailed as you like)

Please tag any works you end up making for Yuletide with 'Three Turtle Doves' so interested people can find and enjoy your work!
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Are you interested in text adventures, CYOA, Twine games, or other sorts of interactive fiction? Do you want to let your writer know you'd be happy to receive something along those lines? Are you looking for someone to write IF for? This post is for you.
 
 
(This is copy-pasted from previous years! Let me know if there's anything that needs updating!)
 
 
What is IF?
 

Interactive Fiction (IF) covers everything from text adventures through to visual novels, by way of all sorts of experimental works. It can be mostly a game, or mostly a story; it can be a way to immerse the reader, or to play around with the concepts of storyteller and audience; it can be an exploration of chance, or of fate; it can be a straightforward story, or something else entirely. From Healy's post:
 
 
[IF] is a term used for games which are made up primarily of text, like Adventure, Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and other text adventures, or more experimental hypertext works like My Father's Long, Long Legs, or even visual novels. Interactive fiction these days is generally divided into two groups based on how you interact with the game: parser-based IF, and choice-based IF.
 
 
Parser-based IF, more commonly known as text adventures, are controlled by typed in commands, like "GET KEY", "OPEN DOOR", "GO NORTH", "LOOK UNDER BED", and stuff like that. Not every command you type in will work, though, so they're hard to get used to if you haven't tried them before. To make things easier, here's a card of most of the common commands. Some good parser-based IF to try first would be Ryan Veeder's So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, Admiral Jota's Lost Pig, Andrew Plotkin's The Dreamhold, and Adam Cadre's Photopia.
 
 
Choice-based IF is simpler; you just pick from a number of options. This can be done through hyperlinks and other clicky selections, though more rarely you may have to type a number from a list. Good examples of choice-based IF include Anna Anthropy's Star Court, Alan DeNiro's Solarium, the various games hosted by Choice of Games, and most every given visual novel.
 
 

Writing IF for Yuletide

 
IF is considered opt-in for Yuletide - please don't write it for people who don't want it. If you aren't sure whether it would be welcome or not, ask a mod to check with the intended recipient.
 
You are still required to follow the normal rules, such as focusing on requested characters (unless the recipient has said you needn't include them all).  

It can be hard to figure out what word count an IF story really is - what you've written is full of code that doesn't count, and what your recipient sees may vary in length depending on their choices. If you're posting to the main collection, try to overshoot the minimum requirement a bit, just to be on the safe side. Say a minimum of somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 words. Or probably about 10 to 15 minutes play through.
 
If your post to the main AO3 collection is under 1,000 words (e.g. you're just linking to an online playable version elsewhere), please drop the mods a note so they know it isn't someone posting something under the minimum, and provide them with an estimated word-count.




If you're writing a treat, unless it includes over 1,000 words of text and you're also sure your recipient would be happy with it as a main gift, please post it to Madness

Your recipient does need to be able to access what you've created! Please link to a suitable IF interpreter if required, or if possible make a web-playable version.
 

Requesting IF for Yuletide
 

If you would be happy to receive IF this year, please leave a comment below, following this template:
 

 
 

IF Canons Nominated for Yuletide

 
Plenty of IF canons get nominated for Yuletide! While it's still important to ask before writing IF for someone, someone who consumes IF already will probably be more interested in getting it. (Some of these canons were adapted into other mediums, so it's possible that someone who's interested in one of those isn't at all into the IF side of things. Thus why it's important to ask.) Consider requesting or offering one of these if you're interested in IF for Yuletide. I haven't had time to compile a list of tagset IF canons, but if you have any in mind, consider posting them to the comments so other people can see what you're thinking about!
 
Some IF Tools

 
A * means they can make web-based games.
 

Parser-based

Inform*: One of the biggest development tools for making parser-based IF. Has an English-like code. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Quest*: Another big IF development tool. Has a click-and-point editor with the option to check out the code. For Windows and web.
TADS*: A long running engine for writing interactive fiction, though generally not as easy to use as Inform. The latest version can make web-based games, although they need to be hosted on a non-https address or on the IFDB.
 

Choice-based

Twine
*: Very popular tool for making choice-based IF. Has a visual editor, with some code-y bits for variables and the like. Can be extended with some Javascript passages. Available for Mac and Windows, and Twine 2 is web-based. See this comment for more notes.
ChoiceScript*: Used by the fine folks over at Choice of Games. Uses simplified Javascript to make games. It's very stat heavy. Requires a text editor. See this comment for notes.
Ren'py: Engine for making visual novels. Uses a simple scripting language. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can make games for all those platforms.
Inklewriter*: A completely web-based engine for making CYOA-style games.
 
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A compilation post for poems and short stories, available in either written or audio form, in the tagset with links on where to find them (or more information about them) if possible.

Please comment with ones I've missed or if a different translation or version of a canon is preferred. Generally speaking, I've gone with writer's digest definition of a short story being under 30k words.

The Art of Deception - Stephanie Burgis

The Attic - A. M. Burrage (promo post comment)

Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black — Isabel J. Kim

Christopher Mills Return to Sender - Isabel J. Kim

Der Stiefel von Büffelleder | The Boots of Buffalo Leather (Fairy Tale)

The Deepwater Bride - Tamsyn Muir

Eye of the Beholder - Trudi Canavan

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns

Farmer Giles of Ham - J.R.R. Tolkien

Growing Things - Paul Tremblay (Short Story)

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

Hey Diddle Diddle (Nursery Rhyme)

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - Alyssa Wong

Hymn to Hermes - Homer

The Lady or the Tiger - Frank Stockton

Leaf by Niggle - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Magician's Apprentice - Tamsyn Muir

Mrs. Number Three (Chinese Folk Tale)

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace

nad and Dan adn Quaffy - Diana Wynne Jones (promo post comment)

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up - spit_kitten (AO3 Work, originally posted here)

Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Fairy Tale)

Prince Ahmed and the fairy Pari Banu (Arabian Nights)

Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang (pdf, audio version)

Skyggen | The Shadow - Hans Christian Andersen

Smith of Wootton Major - J. R. R. Tolkien

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

This Is New Gehesran Calling - Rebecca Fraimow

Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges (one pdf version, a second pdf version, an online version in both English and Spanish, and an annotated version)

Top 5 Rat Movies I Made Up - John Paul Brammer: Legends of the Great Below (newsletter with plot descriptions/short reviews of the made up movies)

The Vicars of Lower Squashby Series - Jared Pechacek (twitter thread, originally here, accessible through nitter here)

The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom (McSweeney’s)

We Can Get Them for You Wholesale - Neil Gaiman

Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe

Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker

Wulf and Eadwacer (old English version, modern English translation one, two, three)

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow (Three short stories - "Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal to Bluma Zilberman", Shaina Rubin Keeps Her Head Under Circumstances Nobody Could Have Expected, and Gitl Schneiderman Learns to Live With Her In-Laws)

Смерть Кощея Бессмертного | The Death of Koschei the Deathless (Fairy Tale)

木蘭辭 | Mùlán Shī | Ballad of Mulan (promo post comment with various translations linked)

Kids book:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton
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Not every story is pleasant. Not every story has a happy ending, and not all happy endings come without a dark and painful journey. And sometimes, those are the kinds of stories that we really, really want to read.

If you're one of the many people interested in either writing or receiving darkfic or horror, then Crueltide is here for you!

The short version
  • Read the comments to find people to treat with darkfic.
  • Tag your yuletide darkfic with 'crueltide'

The long version is beneath the cut.

Why Crueltide? )
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It's letters time! If you're writing a letter along with your Yuletide sign-up, you can comment here with a link to your letter and also enter the details in the 2023 tagset app. For browsing convenience, the app also generates a google spreadsheet you can access directly.

What's the deal with letters?
Letters are an optional tradition of Yuletide. When you sign up to the event, there's a space in the form for linking to somewhere in your own space (journal, tumblr, etc) where you can go into detail about what you like in fic and fandom. This post collects these links. The prompts on AO3 are hidden through sign-ups, but letters are visible as soon as you want them to be.

Letters are an optional extra in Yuletide. If you only post a letter here, you haven't signed up. To get an assignment and a gift, you need to sign up at the collection - open roughly October 13-21.

Sign-ups are now closed.


What makes a good letter?
Mileage varies. We encourage you, at minimum, to include your AO3 name, the fandoms and characters you're requesting, and your Do-Not-Wants. Read through other letters and follow the styles that work for you. Additional tips: here & here & here (DNWs specifically).


How to post your letter
  1. Finish your letter and make sure it's publicly visible. Here's the tagset to check what you can request

  2. Enter it in the app*! You can edit your letter after submitting it - save the key, or ask the mods for the key if you lose it

  3. Comment below! Include:
    • Your AO3 name

    • A link to your letter

    • The fandoms you are requesting (3-6)

    • The characters you are requesting in your fandoms (1-4, or Any)

    If you post to the app first, it will spit out a handy chunk of text with all these details for you to use when commenting.
*Please reach out here if you're having trouble with the app! Characters can be selected by clicking on them.


!!! We ask you to add your letter both places to make sure it gets to people who are excited to read it. If for whatever reason you can only comment on a post, then please include the following line in your comment:

Mods, please add my letter to the app.



We will sweep the post occasionally and add letters to the app.

Warning: Locked or placeholder letters will be removed. You can add your letter when it's done.

If you have a question, contact a mod on Discord or comment here


Mini-challenges
As mini-challenges are posted, they will be added below.
See links to this year's mini-challenges under the cut. )


The opening (and closing) of sign-ups will be announced at the admin comm.

Enjoy! And thank you to karanguni for the app!
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Here’s a list of all poems (including ballads and traditional songs) in the 2023 tagset, with links to texts as best I can find, and a notation of original language if not English. Please let me know of any additions or corrections.

cut for list / it can't be missed )

ETA: BTW, poets in the tagset include Du Fu & Li He (both in Tang Dynasty RPF), and Goethe (in 19th CE German Literature RPF).
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Do you love receiving or writing end of year holiday stories? Are you prompting a snowed in Hanukkah celebration or an Australian New Year's beach party? Season's Treatings may be for you!

This mini-challenge is all about November, December and January holidays, traditions, and cultural celebrations big and small and all over the globe--and perhaps some fantasy worlds, who knows. If you want to prompt it, someone may want to write it.

When you comment, please include:

AO3 Name:
Letter Link (if applicable):
Holiday(s) Requested:
Fandom and character(s):
Prompts:

When you upload, tag it as Season's Treatings so we can all find them
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Sonnets, blank verse, ballads - if you love writing or reading them, this is for you! This post is for people who would like to receive poetry as a gift for Yuletide.

This challenge was proposed five years ago but never brought back, so I would like to suggest it again.

If you would like to receive poetry as a gift, please post the following below:

AO3: ao3 username
Letter: (optional)
Fandoms for which you would like to receive poetry:
Prompts (optional): Prompts, pairings, favorite types of poetry, or anything else you would like to put down.

Guidelines for writers:

1. Please do not gift poetry to people who have not indicated here or somewhere else that they would like poetry.
2. Please remember that anything that goes into the main collection must be 1,000 words long, even if it is poetry.
3. Tag your entry "yulepoem" so people can find it.

And if you're looking for fandoms that ARE poetry, they are listed here.
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This is a list of romance novels and romance-adjacent works in the 2023 Yuletide tagset. I use the RWA definition of the genre: a romance novel has (1) A central love story with (2) an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending (HEA or HFN).

Please let me know about any errors or omissions! There are quite a few books here that I haven't read for which I am going on Goodreads's notion of genre which is...imprecise.

Wow! So many folks have commented with additions that we are now well over 100 works, which is way more book than that since many are series. Go Team Romance!

Read more... )

There is also a list of works I consider romance-adjacent: love stories without happy endings, meta works about romance genres, non-romance novels by romance writers, and just plain stuff I think romance readers like.

Read more... )

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