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yuletide2017-09-13 12:07 pm
aunt_zelda) wrote in yuletide2017-09-13 12:07 pm
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Character Coordination
Hi all!
This is a post I've been meaning to make for a few years now. Every year we have great challenges and collections, such as Misses Clause (promoting fics that pass the Bechdel Test) and collections for characters of color. However, the posts for those come during sign-ups, when people only have the tagset to work from. If nobody nominated any women or characters of color for your favorite small fandom, you're out of luck.
Look over your own nominations in these next three days. Look at the spreadsheet and the nomiations post on DW and LJ. Are these the characters you want to make requests for, write for, or both? Did you have a free slot and are you nominating them after looking at the requests tab on the spreadsheet? Are you already coordinating with a friend, or friends, to cover a big cast list?
Consider coordinating with fellow fans using the nomiantions posts and spreadsheet in these final days. Who is your cast list comprised of for your fandom? Are there women, are there characters of color, are there characters with disabilites? If someone who likes this fandom wants to participate in Misses Clause, will they be able to? If someone who likes this fandom wants to participate in a chromatic challenge, will they be able to? (Obviously not all fandoms can do this, some fandoms only comprise of a few characters at all, sometimes no one can find someone else to help with nominations. I mean this in general terms.)
I know every year only about 1/3rd of people nominating end up using the nominations coordination posts and spreadsheets. This year, why don't some of us help each other out to make the tagset more inclusive?
Edit: tl;dr: If you want to nominate more characters from a fandom, it's best to coordinate with fellow fans on the nominations pages I've linked above. If you don't want to, you don't have to.
This is a post I've been meaning to make for a few years now. Every year we have great challenges and collections, such as Misses Clause (promoting fics that pass the Bechdel Test) and collections for characters of color. However, the posts for those come during sign-ups, when people only have the tagset to work from. If nobody nominated any women or characters of color for your favorite small fandom, you're out of luck.
Look over your own nominations in these next three days. Look at the spreadsheet and the nomiations post on DW and LJ. Are these the characters you want to make requests for, write for, or both? Did you have a free slot and are you nominating them after looking at the requests tab on the spreadsheet? Are you already coordinating with a friend, or friends, to cover a big cast list?
Consider coordinating with fellow fans using the nomiantions posts and spreadsheet in these final days. Who is your cast list comprised of for your fandom? Are there women, are there characters of color, are there characters with disabilites? If someone who likes this fandom wants to participate in Misses Clause, will they be able to? If someone who likes this fandom wants to participate in a chromatic challenge, will they be able to? (Obviously not all fandoms can do this, some fandoms only comprise of a few characters at all, sometimes no one can find someone else to help with nominations. I mean this in general terms.)
I know every year only about 1/3rd of people nominating end up using the nominations coordination posts and spreadsheets. This year, why don't some of us help each other out to make the tagset more inclusive?
Edit: tl;dr: If you want to nominate more characters from a fandom, it's best to coordinate with fellow fans on the nominations pages I've linked above. If you don't want to, you don't have to.
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I don't know where people are getting this "you're forcing me to nominate things I don't want to!" idea from. I didn't say that anywhere! All I said was that people should use the nomination coordination posts more if they're interested in the challenges and collections later, and want to coordinate with other fans to nominate big casts. Every year I see people forget about this, and when the challenge/collection posts go up I see regret from people that they didn't know or forgot to coordinate.
For big casts it makes sense to reach out to fellow fans. People who are newer to Yuletide tend not to know about this, or hang back unsure of what to do with their nomination slots. I just wanted to encourage people to reach out a bit more during nominations is all.
Good luck with your final slot! That's always the trickiest I find.
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I don't think that's what you're saying here, but your language is... similar enough that I think it's got a lot of people cocking their heads and trying to tell if there's a dog whistle in there or what.
The other thing I was thinking of after the Discord thing is that there's been a lot of uncomfortable crossover between efforts to try to get fandom to be more inclusive, and fans who are from marginalised groups trying to find a space where people don't tell them what to think. I mean, I don't know about you, but I get pretty strong daily messages about what I should and should not think/enjoy/feel as a queer woman, which some sections of fandom coughtumblrcough are pretty happy to run with, so I'm at the point of baring my teeth and hissing at the suggestion these days.
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