Yuletide unofficial chat

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.

Recs: in general

Since we're nearly ready to read, it's time to talk 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).

Away from the main Yuletide communities, there is also yuletide-recs on LiveJournal.

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!

One of the great traditions of Yuletide is recommending works to others - there are so many good works in the collection and you want everyone to know about them! We have several suggestions for how you can share recommendations at the admin LJ and admin DW.

This post is the catch-all recs post. Use it as:

• an index - if you make a recs post of your own to the Yuletide LiveJournal community or Yuletide Dreamwidth community, consider also linking your post under this post's index comment.


• a place to ask for recs - comment with themes, ratings, or tropes you want recs for!


• a place to post your recs if you don't want to make a post to the community. Put your recs, or a link to your tumblr/Pillowfort/twitter/?? recs, in a comment, if that is your preference

Please use subject lines when commenting to this post, and rec 3 or more things per individual rec post. You do not need to rec three if you are replying to a specific rec request.

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