Yuletide nominations

[wendelah1]

Yuletide nominations are open. Is anyone here definitely planning to nominate The Americans? If you are, what characters are you nominating?

I was hoping we could coordinate our efforts.

This probably should have its own post but I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in a single fandom gift exchange, not this calendar year but the next. I was thinking about an exchange modeled along the lines of fringe_exchange, which would be open to writers, artists, podficcers and vidders.

I thought it would be fun to slot it between the first of the year and the beginning of the new season. Alternatively, it could help fill the long hiatus between the end of season three and the start of season four.

Comments

[sistermagpie]

You don't need to nominate characters to write. The whole process seems confusing but when you actually go through it and do it it makes sense. If you have a AO3 account you can nominate characters/fandoms whether or not you wind up joining the exchange. You don't need to have an lj at all--some people use lj for certain things about the exchange but you don't have to have one.

This is the link to where you nominate--there's a button on the side that says nominate to start entering things:
http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/479

They have a faq that I think is pretty good here:
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2014/profile#faq

One of the things on it covers signing up for a challenge on AO3, Yuletide included:
http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/40

But if you have any specific questions I (and probably other people too) would be glad to answer them. I've only been doing it a few years so I well remember how confusing it seemed before I went through it.

[katiac]

Thank you. I managed to submit characters this time around (Claudia, Elizabeth's mother, Philip, Henry, if anyone's tracking.) Hopefully this bodes well for me not mucking things up when it's time to sign up. It seems like last year there was some kind of crazy spreadsheet? Or am I having a memory lapse?

[sistermagpie]

There is a spreadsheet but you don't have to ever look at it at all! The spreadsheet is for people to keep track of things they know have been requested so they can look for things they want to offer or write treats for or whatever. It's totally a side thing being done by people participating, though, not something you need to think about. You just have to look at the fandoms list once it's finished and offer/request ones you want!