wherein Liz signs up for Yuletide

[edenfalling]

When the signups opened, I spent several hours browsing through the tagset, both to see what I could offer and to find things I wanted to request. These do not always overlap, you see -- there are a lot of childhood literary fandoms I love to pieces and am thrilled to write for, but that is not the same as a burning desire to read a particular story.

I have been in the habit of carrying over all unfulfilled requests from year to year, but I was unable to do that this year because nobody nominated The Lions of Al-Rassan. Dammit. Okay, maybe this year I will start a file for things I would like to request and then actually participate in the 2014 nominations.

I did carry Lucifer over, because I live in hope. I also decided to carry over The Dispossessed even though I received an awesome fic about Odo last year. Maybe this year I will get a fic about Shevek, or world-building in general, or even Odo again -- I think it is very unlikely I will ever not be pleased to get a fic about anything in that corner of the Ekumen.

Then I added three new fandoms, because why not. In Macbeth, I asked for a story about Lady Macbeth and her husband in happier days, because I love how they work together (even if toward bad ends) and wanted to see more of that partnership. In Villains by Necessity I asked for world-building about religion, because if ever a world needed (and deserved!) some thoughtful building, that one does. And in Black Jewels, I did something wildly out of character and asked for a fic in which Karla has a happy and fulfilling sex life, goddammit, and went so far as to outline my tastes in femslash porn because when I say sex life, I do, in fact, mean sex life. *resolve face*

You can find my Dear Yuletide Writer letter here. (Now I just need to go get it onto the spreadsheet...)

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[akatsuki210.livejournal.com]

If you like the Lucifer series, you might be interested to know that Neil Gaiman is going to be releasing a prequel series to Sandman called Sandman: Overture. I think the first issue is slated to come out at the end of this month. *squeeeeeeeeeee*

[edenfalling]

Ooooh. I vaguely knew Gaiman was doing some new Sandman thing, but was not aware of the details. I will wait to buy the collected TPB edition, but I will wait with great anticipation!

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Sign up always makes me panic, a bit. What if I don't write a good enough prompt?

[edenfalling]

Even though I have misspelled canonical names in past prompts (*hides face in shame*), I tend to panic a bit more on the, "But why did I offer THAT fandom to write?!" side of things. Thus far, nothing terrible has happened -- even the year I discovered, upon rereading the canon I was matched on, that I now hated the main character, I was able to get hold of canon for one of my recipient's other requests and successfully write a fic -- but you never know... So here is hoping all goes well for everyone! *crosses fingers*