Dear Yuletide Writer: 2017

[paradisi]

Yuletide letters are an optional, but traditional, part of Yuletide.

 

When you sign up to Yuletide (on AO3, beginning 1 October), you will pick between 3 and 6 fandoms to request. On the sign-up form, you can also enter prompts for each of these fandoms. Many people stick to that, and don’t write a letter. Many people choose to also write a letter, and put the link in the sign-up form. Writing a Yuletide letter makes your prompts more visible. It gives people some idea of what’s being requested in a fandom before they offer to write it, and it gives you space to talk at length about your likes and dislikes. 

 

If you want tips on how to write a letter, try Yuletide IRC chat or Discord (invite link), or perhaps browse other people’s letters and think about whether they would be helpful to you as a writer.

 

If your letter isn’t done yet, don’t panic. We will keep adding letters to the spreadsheet whenever you comment. I strongly recommend finishing your letter before October 15, because otherwise, your writer will be waiting to see it instead of starting on their story for you.

 

(However, that’s only if you’re writing a letter. If you don't want to, you don't have to.)

To announce your letter to the Yuletide community at large, please comment to this Dreamwidth post or to the parallel post on LiveJournal.

 

Format & Posting

• Please make sure your letter is complete/unlocked before you comment.
• Please only comment to this post or the LJ mirror, not both. Commenting to both is confusing.
• Please use the 2017 tag set as a guide to formatting each fandom name.
• Please format your comment as below for the ease of the spreadsheeting team.

Comment Format:

AO3 name

Link to your letter

Another link if your letter is in more than one place

Fandom name

Fandom name

Fandom name

 

That is, please write it like:

 

triplesalto

https://triplesalto.dreamwidth.org/1954.html

The Crown (TV)

Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Ngaio Marsh 

Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 

Spy Kids (Movies)

Doctor Who RPF

Political RPF - US 21st c.

 

NOT
 

AO3 name: triplesalto

Link to your letter: https://triplesalto.dreamwidth.org/1954.html

Fandom name: The Crown (TV)

Fandom name: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Ngaio Marsh 

Fandom name: Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 

Fandom name: Spy Kids (Movies)

Fandom name: Doctor Who RPF

Fandom name: Political RPF - US 21st c.

 

Faster for you, and faster for the lovely spreadsheet volunteers copying it to the spreadsheet!

 

If you want to add your requested characters in your comment, please feel free! Just please write them below your AO3 name, letter link, and fandom names.

 

You can have 3, 4, 5, or 6 fandom names - that is the number of possible requests this year.

  

Please do NOT link an placeholder or a locked letter. We won’t tabulate those until they’re available.

 

Corrections

 

If you need to correct your details, please reply to or edit your comment, AND post a reply to the correction comment, one of the first under the post. (If you have any technical issues/comments, that's the best place to post them as well.)

We highly encourage you to double-check your information once it's been entered on the spreadsheet.

 

Yuletide Links of Interest

 

The google spreadsheet is here. Thank you to wishandripen, Isis, and molybdomantic for helping keep it updated! 

Our friendly neighborhood coding anon is adding DYW Letters to the one-page app that also contains the filterable tagset/character nominations with the option to bookmark individual fandoms OR individual letters. ♥

 

Previous DYW Posts: 2016 (DW/LJ), 2015 (DW/LJ), 2014 (LJ)

2017 Sign Up Summary
2017 Tag Set

Yuletide 2017 Schedule

Yuletide IRC chat or Discord (invite link)
2017 Yuletide Master Index Post

 

This post is also on LiveJournal.

Additional thanks to Morbane for letting me copy & paste her DYW system pretty much verbatim and triplesalto for letting me use them as a test subject! 

Comments

Corrections Comment

[paradisi]

If you are changing something about your letter information, please reply to your original comment, and also reply to THIS comment to help ensure I see the change.

Re: Corrections Comment

[eirenical]

Oh no. I knew I was forgetting something. :P Sorry, spreadsheet people!

I've changed one of the fandoms I'm requesting (Dark Visions to Dark is Rising). Here is the new information:

eirenical (chibi1723)
https://rchan.livejournal.com/tag/dear%20yuletide%20author
https://rchan.dreamwidth.org/tag/dear+yuletide+author
All Seeing Eye - Rob Thurman
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop
Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Ephemera Series - Anne Bishop
Tir Alainn Trilogy - Anne Bishop
The White Mists of Power - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Requested Characters:
All Seeing Eye - Rob Thurman: Hector Allgood, Jackson Lee Eye
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop: Rainier (Black Jewels)
Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper: Bran Davies (Dark Is Rising), Will Stanton
Ephemera Series - Anne Bishop: Danyal (Ephemera), Lee (Ephemera)
Tir Alainn Trilogy - Anne Bishop: Morag (Tir Alainn Trilogy), Padrick (Tir Alainn Trilogy), Ashk (Tir Alainn Trilogy)
The White Mists of Power - Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Abington Byron Adric, Seymour (The White Mists of Power - Kristine Kathryn Rusch)

Re: Corrections Comment

[hauntedd]

I added Sweet Vicious (TV) as a 5th fandom on my letter.

Re: Corrections Comment

[notkingyet]

notkingyet
https://notkingyet.dreamwidth.org/1836.html
Ripper Street
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (TV)
The Last Kingdom (TV)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens

(Had to change requests after reviewing tag set.)

Re: Corrections Comment

[fabrisse]

Fabrisse
https://fabrisse.dreamwidth.org/355000.HTML
Easy Virtue (2008)
Undercover Blues
Hellspark-Janet Kagan
VR.5
The Illusionist (2006)

Re: Corrections Comment

[athersgeo]

Removed a fandom, sorry - this is why I should never do these things when I'm half asleep.

Atherseo
https://athersgeo.dreamwidth.org/292912.html
Madam Secretary
Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits
Star Wars Legends: X-wing Series - All Media Types
Crossing Lines

Characters
Madam Secretary: Dmitri Petrov, Stevie McCord, Elizabeth McCord, Henry McCord
Tunnel of Love: n/a
Star Wars: Plourr Ilo
Crossing Lines: Eva Vittoria

Re: Corrections Comment

[notearchiver]

My fandoms were entered incorrectly on the spreadsheet. In fact, my letter link is next to fandoms that I don't have in my letter, and my fandoms aren't listed on the spreadsheet with my letter by them. It seems that whoever updated the spreadsheet did a bad c+p job. If it could be fixed, that would be lovely.

Here is the link to my comment:

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html?thread=631245#cmt631245

Thank you!

Re: Corrections Comment

[middlecyclone]

Added Neo Yokio to my requests. Sorry, and thank you!

Re: Corrections Comment

[shadowsapiens]

I added a new fandom to mine! New addition:

Karneval (Anime & Manga)

Re: Corrections Comment

[alectorine]

(pyrophane) Changed BIRDMEN - 田辺イエロウ | Tanabe Yellow to Night World - L. J. Smith. Thanks!

Re: Corrections Comment

[gonergone]

Added fandoms:

Project Runway (US) RPF
Longmire (TV)

Re: Corrections Comment

[snickfic]

I added a new fandom to my letter:
Stranger Things (2016)

Re: Corrections Comment

[zaluzianskya]

I removed Kamen Rider Ghost from my signup: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html?thread=715981#cmt715981

Re: Corrections Comment

[oxymora]

I have added another fandom. My updated thread is here: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html?thread=659661#cmt659661

Sorry for the extra work!

oxymora (oxymoron)
https://oxymora.dreamwidth.org/17778.html
Calvin & Hobbes
Philosophy RPF
Finnair Panda Commercial
Dixit (Card Game)

Re: Corrections Comment

[extrapenguin]

I have added a fandom!
The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

My letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/82899.html

Re: Corrections Comment

[straightforwardly]

I've added a fandom to my sign-up:

straightforwardly
https://straightforwardly.dreamwidth.org/53451.html
Child of Light (Video Game)

Re: Corrections Comment

[damalur]

Added one fandom!

damalur
https://damalur.dreamwidth.org/824661.html
Sicario (2015)

Re: Corrections Comment

[jiokra]

Added a fandom

jiokra
Iron Fey Series - Julie Kagawa

Re: Corrections Comment

[beckymonster]

Beckymonster
https://becky-monster.livejournal.com/339945.html
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Singin' In the Rain (1952)
Gravity (2013)
EDIT Star Trek: Discovery

I'm on page 16, so I don't know if mine has been picked up yet - however, I'm posting here justincase!

Re: Corrections Comment

[rosefox]

Removed: Persuasion.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Re: Corrections Comment

[alien_writings]

aliencupcake
https://alien-writings.dreamwidth.org/27705.html
Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab
バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Miracle Examiner

Requested characters:
Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat: Erasmus, Torveld
Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab: Holland Vosijk, Kell Maresh
バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Miracle Examiner: Hiraga Josef Kou, Lauren Di Luca, Roberto Nicholas

I'm not changing any fandom information in my letter, but I wanted to let you know the links to my Yuletide letter instead go to my comment on this post rather than the letter itself.

The links currently look like this on the spreadsheet: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html?thread%3D776397%23cmt776397&sa=D&ust=1507478568178000&usg=AFQjCNEgz9Tw5695wNrZs4ihw5tgk4RGzg

Thank you!

Re: Corrections Comment

[forodwaith]

Removed: Station Eleven.

Re: Corrections Comment

[blueteak]

Edited to add The Lion in Winter (1968) to my requests. Thanks so much!

Re: Corrections Comment

[gwyn]

I removed The Good Place from my sign-up here: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html?thread=802765#cmt802765

Thank you!

Re: Corrections Comment

[themidnightgirl]

I messed up link-pasting, and have posted as a reply-to-a-reply the correct link (there's also a redirecting comment at the top of the incorrect page)

Apologies.