Yuletide

[rushthatspeaks]

I have a whole gigantic list of productive things I need to do today, but it started with 'sign up for yuletide, and now I am exhausted.

As usual, it's a melange of 'Hmm' and 'Oh, cool' and 'you want what with the which, now?' I think the winner in the final category this year was pretty scary, and I hope that the person who wants fanfiction of Also Sprach Zarathustra does not have her heart set on it.

Did not see anything requested from authors who have publicly stated that they would be very unhappy if fic happened, and I was checking; of course there may be some I don't know about, but I wanted to make sure that for example papersky was not going to have to deal with it later, and it looks fine.

I feel vaguely guilty about signing up for a fan-thing when I've got original stuff on backburner, but the writing-to-deadline aspect means that I will at least get some damn wordage-- last year's fic was one of only two things I finished in 2004, and jump-started a spate of actually writing, so I'm hoping the same will happen again.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I think the default should be to check whether the author has given permission, not assume there is permission in the absence of death threats.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It probably should, but there are a lot of authors out there who've made no statements on the matter, and I'm not one of the moderators, so the best I can do is try to bring to their attention the people I'm aware of who don't want their stuff involved in fanfic.

[eredien]

What is yuletide?