Other Yuletide-like fic exchanges?

[nikkiscarlet]

I love Yuletide and am planning to participate again this year, but a lot of my favourite small fandoms have begun to edge into too-big-for-Yuletide territory. Do any of you know of any small-to-medium-sized fandom fic exchanges that happen around the same time as Yuletide? I'd love to participate in both simultaneously, if something like that exists. :3 I've done some googling, and have also checked the alt challenges tag on the LJ comm, but everything I saw there was either very specific to particular kinds of fandoms, or wasn't running during the Yuletide season, or both. Work and school demands over the past few years have kept me a little more out of touch with fandom than I'd like, so I'm not really up on the popular challenges and exchanges that are available. Any suggestions would be wonderful! <3

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[melannen]

Most of the ones I know of deliberately schedule away from Yuletide, because so many people don't want any other fannish commitment while Yuletide is going.

Yuletart and Festivids run at the same time and they have much looser eligibility rules, but they're also not for fic, so they probably won't help. Some smallish-to-medium-sized fandoms run their own holiday exchanges, though? They're usually pretty small (...because everybody's doing yuletide) so it might take some finding, but it might be worth looking. If I know any of your too-big-for-yt fandoms I might be able to help you out.

There's also fandom_stocking which is a loose and informal fandom-gifting-fest that runs at the same time. That might do what you're looking for?

[nikkiscarlet]

Well, The Yogscast was one that really had me pouting the other night. They qualified last year, but I'm fairly sure that they're now juuuust over the 1000-in-total limit between ff.net and ao3 (unless the results I got on ff.net were wrong: I haven't really used that site since like 2002 or something like that, and kind of had to do a roundabout search just to find that fandom over there in the first place). The Mighty Boosh somehow managed to qualify last year but there'll be no chance of it this year. Same with Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. I'm not sure Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (the live action version) will qualify anymore because it seems to have been merged with the main Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon category on AO3, though it might just be a current sorting issue and they might get it fixed by the time nominations come around.

I don't mind scraping up some new fandoms to nominate/write for/request this year, but I was looking forward to some of the above ones only to find that there'll be no chance of most of them this year. Still, I totally understand the spirit of Yuletide and don't begrudge the rules at all. Sometimes it's difficult to come up with smaller fandoms I'd want to write for/request, although I'm sure I'll manage. Even if I can't think of anything to nominate, I'm sure I'll find some awesome ideas in other people's nominations and volunteer to write for those. Nonetheless, there is still that hope that I could find a challenge for slightly-bigger fandoms running around the same time, just for the extra fun of writing for some of my favourites. :3 fandom_stocking might work: I'll definitely keep my eye on it! Thanks!