nine days of brooklyn nine-nine day 6: favorite scene: Terry Jeffords vs the Fairy Princess Castle
Yuletide 2014 - I guess I need a tag for that
I did my Yuletide nominations on the first day, which I think is the first time that’s ever happened. And then I didn’t update anywhere saying I made them, which is definitely the first time that’s ever happened! I suppose it’s easier when you can only nominate three fandoms and four characters in each fandom. So much compartmentilization that you have to make some decisions.
I nominated:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Jake, Amy, Holt, Terry (Rosa and Gina have also been nominated by someone who’s not me)
Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater - Blue, Gansey, Adam, Ronan
Friday Night Lights - Coach, Mrs. Coach, Julie, Tim (and someone else nominated Landry, Tyra, Matt Saracen, and Jason Street, which made me super duper happy)
Does anyone who follows me not know what Yuletide is? Well, I guess just in case anyone’s dying of curiosity, it’s a multifandom fic fest with reveals on Christmas day. It’s ostensibly for small fandoms, but it really works out to be for small, medium, and all new fandoms in practice. If a fandom has fewer than 1000 fics of over 1000 words, complete, and in English on archiveofourown.org (AO3) and fanfiction.net combined, then it qualifies for Yuletide.
Fics just have to adhere to the recipient’s requested fandom and characters and be over 1000 words, and you get to pick which fandoms/characters you’re willing to write. Easy peasy! Plus, you get a fic of your own right back! Anyone with an AO3 account can play, and anyone can get an AO3 account, so really anyone can play.
Full list of rules are here, though don’t be intimidated by them unless you have a borderline fandom. I don’t really pay much attention to them.
Important dates are here.
Nominations can be done here.
You can see a good chunk of the nominations that have been made already here, and you can add to that sheet yourself here after you’ve made your nominations. The post about that sheet is here.
That’s a lot of links. Just follow Yuletide’s official tumblr instead.
If you have any questions, my ask box is open, but I’m not a mod or anything, just someone who’s participated in it for so many years that I’m not even sure how many it’s been. I think this might be my eleventh time????? DDDDD:
ellen what the fuck happened in 1998
ellen degeneres came out in 1997
yeah but ellen what happened in 2014
ellen page came out in 2014
wow!
Yeah, but what happened to the y-axis labeling?
Literally NONE of those names are in the actual Top 5 US names for girls! (It hardly needs pointing out, I guess.)
Lol tumblr.
Also, psst, Rachel and Hannah are Hebrew names, and Ellen’s not in the Bible, so I’m not sure what constitutes a Christian name in this context??
Names OF Christians??? but who tracks that? I NEED MORE SOURCES IF I’M GOING TO ACCEPT THIS DATA.
PS Ellen is a Greek name deriving from Helen
Also names data for 2014 hasn’t been released yet. You know, because it’s still 2014.
Click here for more of Jon Stewart’s coverage of the recent House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing.
One of the highlights of the weekend was kellysue and mattfractionblog party where great comic artists filled in their hallway comic panel wallpaper.
that’s Matt Wagner, skottieyoung, tony moore, Matthew clarke and many others.
Hey, look, it’s our hallway.
Edited to add:
This is the wallpaper we used: http://www.grahambrown.com/us/product/52050/taylor-wood-frames
I have nominated Kings for Yuletide.
We’ve seen a couple of people say they’ve made their nominations for Yuletide. That’s not possible, as nominations won’t start until tomorrow. Please come back and nominate properly on AO3 when nominations open - we’d hate for you to miss out on your preferred fandoms.
OK! What are the comments on the main posts for, or just to drum up support for our fandoms?
It’s a place for participants to coordinate their nominations (see if there’s interest in their fandoms from other people; offer their character slots if they don’t need all of them in a fandom they’re nominating; for less clearly delineated fandoms, like RPF, it’s also to talk about what name to nominate under).
As a reminder anything that goes on at yuletide.livejoural.com is not official — the official announcement go on yuletide_admin.livejournal.com and yuletide_admin.dreamwidth.org.
The American pronunciation and spelling of “squirrelled” make it the longest one-syllable word in the English language. Source
I pronounce it with two syllables. Jersey accent 4 lyfe.
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