go space station fandoms, go!

[nenya_kanadka]

Babylon 5 has been accepted for yuletide this year!

\o/ \o/ \o/

When I tried to nominate it as "Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms," it told me that someone had nominated Delenn, Susan Ivanova, and John Sheridan under "Babylon 5." So I changed my fandom nom to that, and my characters to Jeffrey Sinclair, Lennier, Talia Winters, and Lyta Alexander. So far, Talia has been approved. (I assume she went through on the same ticket as the person who submitted Susan.) All approved! :D

Star Trek: DS9 is apparently also small enough that it has been accepted too! Joy. Someone else got Garak, Julian, Jadzia Dax, and Kira Nerys approved, so I submitted Ben Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kasidy Yates and Ezri Dax. Captain Sisko's They have all been approved. \o/

Also I put in (of course) for CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series. (Bren Cameron, Jago, Banichi, Algini...there really ought to be five spaces for this fandom, to fit in Bren's entire aishid! Poor Tano. <3) Other people have nominated Cyteen and the Company Wars.

Spreadsheet for accepted Yuletide fandoms here, for the curious.

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

I'm not *completely* sure of how Yuletide works, myself. :P This is the first year I've done anything at all with it besides hunt through the archive after it's all over for pretty, pretty fic.

The way I understand it is that it's a fic exchange for small (read "tiny") fandoms, so someone has to decide what fandoms count as "small fandoms." The mods also have no way of knowing all the fandoms people will want to write in, either (there are literally thousands of fandoms in Yuletide!), so what they do is, people nominate fandoms that they are interested in seeing fic for and that they think qualify according to the rules post. If mods think, "Nope, that's too big a fandom" (ie, you can probably get your fic fix elsewhere for it) they can veto it, but if fandoms are included, they go on the list for people to write & request stuff for the exchange.

The reason one has to nominate *characters*, I believe, is for the stage where you offer & request fic. For example, if I offered to write B5 fanfic but didn't want to write Londo or G'Kar, I would say on my submission form that I was willing to write for Babylon 5 and, say, Delenn, Sinclair, Sheridan, Ivanova...etc, but not say Londo or G'Kar. That way they match the Centauri and Narn writers & fans with each other, and not with someone who wouldn't be able to give them the fic they want.

I think. :P

[seriesfive]

I've done some research on my own, along with filling in my own nominations.
Yes, you've described it pretty well. :D

I've decided to sign in as well. What I've been told is that the sign on phase will be pretty interesting, too.
The numbers of requests and offers for any given fandom most likely will be noted down publicly (though without
any mentioning of particular characters).

So, just as with nominations you can take a peek during sign in. (That's how it worked the last years I've been told.)
That also means you can change both your requests and offers according to demand, or not and just wait for the outcome.

I'm pretty much excited by now, though I have a real problem with coming p with a request. Picking fandoms to offer is
far more easy somehow.