Dec. 25th, 2023

dianafortyseven: Agent 47 on a background of fluttering glitter (Default)
[personal profile] dianafortyseven
The 2023 Yuletide collection is about to be revealed, and many of us love to read more than just our own gifts and treats. If gamification is your thing, why not enhance your Yuletide reading experience with a fun challenge?
Yuletide Reading Bingo
Yuletide Reading Bingo 2023 (Permanent link to the 2023 version)

With this bingo card generator, you can generate your own Yuletide Reading Bingo Card and try to finish it over a timespan of your choice. If you like, you can challenge yourself to not only reading the fics, but also commenting on them.

There are no fanfic/fandom/Yuletide-negative or bashing items in the lists. This bingo card is meant to be a positive experience and celebrate fanfiction and fanworks in general and Yuletide in specific.

Screenshot of the Desktop Version
example screenshot of the desktop version bingo card

Screenshot of the Mobile Version
example screenshot of the mobile version bingo card

Info & Instructions

How to Play
Generate a new bingo card until you're (mostly) happy with the results. If some fields are duplicates or contain items you don't want to have in your card, you can then re-roll every single bingo field separately by clicking/tapping on it.
Once you have a card that fits your reading habits (or that takes you out of your comfort zone, if you want to challenge yourself), take a screenshot of the card to keep it.

Closing the page and reloading it will reset the card.

Cross off the bingo fields on your screenshot as you read (or read and comment on) fics that you think count for a field.

Items like "Fandom with over 500 works" mean works in the fandom tag, not in the collection. There are specific versions for the number of works in the collection.
Items like "Fandom with over 1,000 works" doesn't mean qualifying works. There are specific versions for the number of qualifying works.
Items like "Highest number of hits in fandom" or similar however mean in this collection, not in the fandom tag.

If a work you read has a tag that's similar but not identical to a tag on your card, let it count. There were some almost-duplicates that I trimmed.

The Lists
  • Canon (options like canon released this year, book fandom, etc)
  • Category (the AO3 categories and their platonic versions: F/F, F & F Gen, etc)
  • Challenge (the unofficial mini-challenges like Yuleporn, Crueltide, Wrapping Paper, etc)
  • Creator (only if you checked the "After Reveals" box; options like favourite author, mutuals, etc)
  • Discovery (various ways you could've found a fic)
  • Fandom (options like previously ineligible fandom, uncategorised fandom)
  • Length (wordcounts from drabble to 30k)
  • Meta (a fic's front-end and stats, also "citrus scale for rating" xD)
  • Reader (your relationship with the fic; is it your comfort fic, or your first fic in a fandom?)
  • Style (chatfic, iambic pentameter, custom workskin, stuff like that)
  • Tag (roughly 2,000 tags from the 2023 main collection; Madness tags to be added)
  • Trope (roughly 100 tropes)

What do the Checkboxes Mean?
  • NSFW is basically what it says on the tin. If you tick this box, the NSFW tropes will be added to the mix. If you also ticked the Tags box, NSFW tags will be added.
  • Tags is also what it says on the tin. It's a list with currently roughly 2,000 tags from the Yuletide 2023 main collection. Around 250 of them are currently marked NSFW and can only be generated if you ticked both the NSFW box and the Tags box.
  • After Reveals includes items that only make sense after creator reveals, such as "work by last year's recipient" or "creator is your Tumblr mutual".
Leaving the NSFW checkbox unchecked should remove all NSFW tags and tropes, but you could still come across content you find objectionable. Leaving the Tags checkbox unchecked removes all tags, but you could still come across tropes you find objectionable.

This bingo generator can be used to generate totally safe-for-work or family-friendly bingo cards, but it was created by an adult with an adult audience in mind.

If you run into any issues or come across any bugs, please let me know.
If you find something that should be in the NSFW category, but isn't, please also let me know. It's possible that I missed a few tags when I worked through the list of over 2,000 tags in the 2023 main collection. Please don't ask me to remove content you find objectionable.
If there's anything unclear, feel free to ask! I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible, but please understand if it takes a while; it's a busy time for all of us. :D

Just FYI, the platform I'm using, Perchance, recently added AI options for their generators. This is a regrettable decision that I don't condone, and I'd like to emphasise that this generator is 100% handcrafted chaos.

This generator is based on my Fanfiction Reading Bingo I made as a little practice piece. It's responsive, which means it should work on desktop and mobile. The mobile layout isn't ideal yet; I'm trying my best to make it better (but I'd also still consider myself a newbie and I'm learning by doing).

The background image is an edited version of this photo by Berny Steiner on Unsplash.

I hope you'll find as much fun in using this generator as I found in making it! Happy Yuletide! <3

11 recs

Dec. 25th, 2023 11:49 am
sarajayechan: Utena and Anthy sharing a moment in the greenhouse ([RG Utena] Utena/Anthy)
[personal profile] sarajayechan
Fandoms: Babysitters Club, The Brady Bunch, Cowboy Bebop, The Golden Girls, Josie and the Pussycats, A Muppet Family Christmas, Roseanne, My So-Called Life, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Westing Game

the fics )

6 Recs

Dec. 25th, 2023 01:40 pm
misbegotten: A skull wearing a crown with text "Uneasy lies the head" (Mood: Uneasy Skull Crown)
[personal profile] misbegotten
6 recs with minor commentary from Spider-Gwen, Jane Eyre, Hogan's Heroes, Galaxy Quest, Wars of the Roses RPF/Moby Dick, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Some canon knowledge probably necessary for everything except the Wars of the Roses piece (but you'll miss a number of the jokes).
morbane: three exclamation marks, one of which is formed out of two guinea pigs (guinea pig)
[personal profile] morbane

Recs: in general

The main collection is almost open, so it's time to think about recs (recommendations)! It's traditional to kudos or comment on works and tell their anonymous creators that you liked them. It's also traditional to tell other people about the Yuletide stuff you like. There are many different ways to share your recommendations for works.

On AO3 itself
You can bookmark a story and save the bookmark and its notes to the Yuletide Recs collection. (Note: This is not the same as the main Yuletide collection.) Detailed tutorials can be found here and here.

In Discord
At the Yuletide Discord, you can post recs with very brief comments in the #yuletide-recs channel.

At Dreamwidth and LiveJournal
You are welcome to post recs to the Dreamwidth Yuletide community (aka this community) or the LiveJournal Yuletide community. If posting to either of those communities, please follow these guidelines:
  • Any individual post to the community must contain recs for at least 3 separate works.

  • You can put the full text of your recs post in a post to the community, OR you can post your recs on some other platform (tag: yuletide-recs (?)), then put the link in a post on the community or in a comment to this post.

  • If your post is long, consider cut text code (LJ, DW).



Recs: central/index post


This post can also serve as a hub for recs. If you can't make a rec post to the community because you don't have a Dreamwidth account, you're welcome to comment here with rec lists. Or you can ask for recs that follow a theme, or just make a comment linking to a recs post elsewhere. Collect Your Recs Here!

Bonus - if you're looking to read further afield, a participant has made a reading bingo.
[personal profile] idleflower
 My interests often lean towards femslash and female friendship, and I try to bring up things that might get less attention than the funny stuff which gets shared a lot!

Post is here

Fandoms: The Last Unicorn, Lower Decks, My So-Called Life, Princess Tutu, Roseanne
shadaras: A phoenix with wings fully outspread, holidng a rose and an arrow in its talons. (Default)
[personal profile] shadaras
Seven Recs at my journal
(my gifts + five other fics I've loved so far!)

Fandoms:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Witch King - Martha Wells
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke crossovers (one with The Green Knight (2021), the other with Earthsea - Le Guin)
The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow
Link Click (TV)
misbegotten: A Christmas ornament in the shape of a star (Winter Star Ornament)
[personal profile] misbegotten
More recs with some commentary in:

Nursery rhymes, Gilda, The Thin Man, Bulgari commercial, Oppenheimer, Dimension 20, Abbott Elementary, Gilda again, My Fair Lady, The Hunt for Red October, The Addams Family

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