This year's Yuletide has over 3,000 nominated fandoms... but people only have to sign up to write three or four. And as fascinating as the really obscure fandoms are (wow, someone else read An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden?), there are plenty of relatively well-known fandoms that just don't have much online support... the Vorkosigan series, Burn Notice, Anita Blake books, Dr' Seuss's The Lorax, and so on. (Not that anyone thinks Seuss is "a fandom" except in the sense that "umm, sure, someone could write fic about that.")
It's just easy to get dizzy looking at the BIG list of "all those fandoms I've never heard of," and not notice, "hey, there's about forty here that I kinda like and could maybe write for."
But that's different from the whole signups and deadline issues.
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Date: 2009-10-24 03:38 pm (UTC)This year's Yuletide has over 3,000 nominated fandoms... but people only have to sign up to write three or four. And as fascinating as the really obscure fandoms are (wow, someone else read An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden?), there are plenty of relatively well-known fandoms that just don't have much online support... the Vorkosigan series, Burn Notice, Anita Blake books, Dr' Seuss's The Lorax, and so on. (Not that anyone thinks Seuss is "a fandom" except in the sense that "umm, sure, someone could write fic about that.")
It's just easy to get dizzy looking at the BIG list of "all those fandoms I've never heard of," and not notice, "hey, there's about forty here that I kinda like and could maybe write for."
But that's different from the whole signups and deadline issues.