Mid-Nominations Notes
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yuletide_adminThanks for all your nominations so far! 2732 fandom choices have been submitted so far (note that if two people nominate the same fandom, that counts twice towards that total).
Nominations will close at 9pm UTC 26 September. If your fandom requires evidence, please also submit it by that time. We can't give a decision on all fandoms on the Evidence Post by close of nominations, but the sooner you make your case, the better your chances of a swift answer.
We've seen some very large fandoms among the nominations! Yuletide is an exchange for rare fandoms. We will reject all of the fandoms below, so if one of them is your nomination, please choose again:
We also won't approve "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms". If you've nominated any of the following fandoms, please either pick a specific piece of media, or argue your case on the evidence post.
We've seen nominations for relationships, original characters, or Reader characters. Please only use the Character field to nominate specific characters who appear in a canon. For exceptions, see the eligibility post.
We've also seen many well-formatted nominations and nominations we are excited about! Please keep them coming.
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Nominations will close at 9pm UTC 26 September. If your fandom requires evidence, please also submit it by that time. We can't give a decision on all fandoms on the Evidence Post by close of nominations, but the sooner you make your case, the better your chances of a swift answer.
We've seen some very large fandoms among the nominations! Yuletide is an exchange for rare fandoms. We will reject all of the fandoms below, so if one of them is your nomination, please choose again:
- Baldur's Gate (Video Games) - I & II will be approved, as per evidence, but this label will be rejected
- Actor RPF
- Andor (TV)
- Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
- Black Sails (TV)
- 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
- Deltarune (Video Game)
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
- Downton Abbey
- Gravity Falls
- Horizon (Video Games)
- House M.D.
- 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
- The Pitt (TV)
- プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
- 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Undertale (Video Game)
- Warframe
We also won't approve "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms". If you've nominated any of the following fandoms, please either pick a specific piece of media, or argue your case on the evidence post.
- Ender's Game - All Media Types
- History Boys - All Media Types
- Midsomer Murders - All Media Types
We've seen nominations for relationships, original characters, or Reader characters. Please only use the Character field to nominate specific characters who appear in a canon. For exceptions, see the eligibility post.
We've also seen many well-formatted nominations and nominations we are excited about! Please keep them coming.
We are happy to answer questions about nominations.
Please either sign in to comment, or include a name with your anonymous comments, including replies to others' comments. Unsigned comments will stay screened.
Today's Adventures
Sep. 19th, 2025 11:50 pmysabetwordsmith posting in flaneursToday we went to the Autumn Fest in Marshall. It was an evening event, and the day had cooled off considerably, so it was quite pleasant. We were lucky to miss the rain there -- it rained a bit at home and we drove through several showers. This event continues on Saturday and Sunday if you want to catch it, and it is well worth attending if you're in Illinois this weekend looking for something to do.
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New Worlds: Camp Followers
Sep. 19th, 2025 05:03 pmswan_towerAs part of its current tour of military topics, the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at all those other people involved: not the soldiers, but the secondary army of people who support and/or profit off them. Comment over there!
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/FceDbY)
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/FceDbY)
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The long sewage nightmare is over
Sep. 19th, 2025 03:48 pmcimoreneThe plumber and the digger have left after tamping the dirt back down and pouring some new gravel where the car parks! The septic tanks have been removed and the separate rainwater drainage is in place!
The sewers from the tenant side do not empty into the tank under the garage anymore (that's still there though, but it shouldn't be able to give us any trouble unless we get like a month of flooding rains and a leak)!
It's all brown dirt and gray gravel again now, but here's a few pictures Wax took of the excavation earlier.
We have lost a few bushes and possibly some hostas, as well as a little flat cement pad that we didn't want, to the piles of dirt and digging. We will need to buy a few baby bushes (rhododendron maybe?) and a bunch of clover seed which hopefully might manage to outcompete the grass. And set the cement paver path back in place. All that has to be done during the autumn, before the frost, so... here's hoping. Also a city tree on the corner of the lot had a lot of its roots cut off and unfortunately a lot more on the other side last winter when the city dug up the street to fix the pipes. It's probably not gonna survive that, I guess.
I have been feeling full of anxiety and suspense when actually a lot of things are going well. This stupid open septic tank issue has been oppressing and terrifying us for a year. Monday and Tuesday are my last driving lessons and then I take the test (tons of anxiety) but my teacher and I agreed I've been doing pretty well. Wax and I have managed to cook together a bit more often, even.
The sewers from the tenant side do not empty into the tank under the garage anymore (that's still there though, but it shouldn't be able to give us any trouble unless we get like a month of flooding rains and a leak)!
It's all brown dirt and gray gravel again now, but here's a few pictures Wax took of the excavation earlier.
We have lost a few bushes and possibly some hostas, as well as a little flat cement pad that we didn't want, to the piles of dirt and digging. We will need to buy a few baby bushes (rhododendron maybe?) and a bunch of clover seed which hopefully might manage to outcompete the grass. And set the cement paver path back in place. All that has to be done during the autumn, before the frost, so... here's hoping. Also a city tree on the corner of the lot had a lot of its roots cut off and unfortunately a lot more on the other side last winter when the city dug up the street to fix the pipes. It's probably not gonna survive that, I guess.
I have been feeling full of anxiety and suspense when actually a lot of things are going well. This stupid open septic tank issue has been oppressing and terrifying us for a year. Monday and Tuesday are my last driving lessons and then I take the test (tons of anxiety) but my teacher and I agreed I've been doing pretty well. Wax and I have managed to cook together a bit more often, even.
The beauty (?) of pre-streaming TV
Sep. 18th, 2025 12:05 pmjo posting in tv_talkApologies for the post title -- I am very bad at coming up with titles for entries.
This topic arose out of a discussion on Bluesky and I thought it would be interesting to post it here. The premise is that before streaming, scripted television had to react to its own reality. What I mean is, shows that had to pump out 20+ episode seasons *every year* had to deal with actual real life things and work them into the script. For example, a character becomes pregnant because the actor gets pregnant, or a lead role had to "go missing" for part of a season because the actor was off doing a movie or dealing with a real life issue, or a character had to end up in a cast or otherwise accommodated because the actor injured themselves in real life, or the "filler episodes" that exist because of budget concerns, or the finales that were written because they didn't know if they'd be renewed for another season, etc.
This topic arose out of a discussion on Bluesky and I thought it would be interesting to post it here. The premise is that before streaming, scripted television had to react to its own reality. What I mean is, shows that had to pump out 20+ episode seasons *every year* had to deal with actual real life things and work them into the script. For example, a character becomes pregnant because the actor gets pregnant, or a lead role had to "go missing" for part of a season because the actor was off doing a movie or dealing with a real life issue, or a character had to end up in a cast or otherwise accommodated because the actor injured themselves in real life, or the "filler episodes" that exist because of budget concerns, or the finales that were written because they didn't know if they'd be renewed for another season, etc.
With streaming, because the wait between seasons is so long, we no longer get these (admittedly sometimes rather demented) workarounds anymore. Or as one person on Bluesky put it: "If you can just tell the story you want to tell with the actors you have with whatever running time you want, it's not TV, it's a movie."
Thoughts? Do you miss the imposed responsiveness of pre-streaming TV? Do you have any favourite (or not so favourite) examples of plot lines that came about because of real life events involving the actors or other aspects of the show (e.g. budget issues)?
Two Sad Elf Fics, Coming This Fall to an AO3 account near you.
Sep. 17th, 2025 05:12 pmanneapocalypseWith Harsh Light at 81,318 words, and Gentle Dark at 91,740, I have two complete drafts in front of me.
I've been working on these two FFXIV fics for... something like a year and a half, I guess? Because all of my fic for Ariane (my player character) lives in one scrivener project and I've had that going basically since I created her, I don't have a file creation date to go on. I was going through an old journal recently and thought I found the page where I first jotted down the concept for this fic project, but that was only a little over a year ago and the word count spreadsheet I keep doesn't check out with that. Digging up some tumblr posts tells me I was probably first digging into it seriously in April 2024, and for that I think the word count from my spreadsheets checks out. Old dreamwidth entries tells me I had the concept in mind least as far back as December 2023 and was probably already jotting down some snippets as they came to me. April 2024 was also when I finished Endwalker, so it tracks that that's when I'd start working seriously on longfic.
Safe to say, I have been working on this for a lot of the past two years.
There is revising and editing and beta reading and more editing still to do, but it's WRITTEN! It's written!
Sad though they may be, I've enjoyed writing these so much. I'm really excited to share them when they're ready.
The Brownstone Scrabble Championships (Elementary)
Sep. 17th, 2025 08:51 amsanguinityA few of you may remember "Score: Q to 12," in which Sherlock refuses to confine himself to the Scrabble Official Club and Tournament Word List, and Joan refuses to spend any more time trying to make him. (Elementary, Joan & Sherlock, 453 words)
At the prompting of a friend, now there is a sequel, "Score: i√2 to 𓅧," in which the game has continued to evolve. (Elementary, Outsider POV, 221b ficlet)
While I was posting last night, I also archived the DVD commentary I did for "Score: Q to 12" back in 2014. Last month,mific in fan_writers was bemoaning the death of the DVD commentary on AO3. And I thought: I've written a bunch, they're just not on AO3; they're all on tumblr and DW. I usually link the main story to them, but I haven't been actually archiving them on the archive site, as I haven't wanted to clutter up the main story with a bunch of extraneous material. But based on that fan_writers convo, I thought I'd pull this one over as an experiment. Depending on how it goes, I might pull over the rest of my "DVD extras" -- commentaries, deleted scenes -- for other stories, too.
At the prompting of a friend, now there is a sequel, "Score: i√2 to 𓅧," in which the game has continued to evolve. (Elementary, Outsider POV, 221b ficlet)
While I was posting last night, I also archived the DVD commentary I did for "Score: Q to 12" back in 2014. Last month,
mific in fan_writers was bemoaning the death of the DVD commentary on AO3. And I thought: I've written a bunch, they're just not on AO3; they're all on tumblr and DW. I usually link the main story to them, but I haven't been actually archiving them on the archive site, as I haven't wanted to clutter up the main story with a bunch of extraneous material. But based on that fan_writers convo, I thought I'd pull this one over as an experiment. Depending on how it goes, I might pull over the rest of my "DVD extras" -- commentaries, deleted scenes -- for other stories, too.(no subject)
Sep. 16th, 2025 10:40 pmamazonvunemployed day 11
September 16 Tuesday
Up early (7am) for the job hunting like a hacker class
Which now means I need time to set aside to do all the things *ssigh* good long term but gotta do that, but so much going on
class 8-2 something
then some pokemon, tdi urgent emails
shopping at costco for groceries
made pasta with meatsauce and garlic bread for dinner, ulla has shingles in her mouth and can not eat
then bsides nail, nait signs, lead scanner email
job applications, old style, i should have done new style but exhausted from not sleeping all night to finish that book
quickbooks for bsides edmonton and TDI
11pm, trying to go to bed?
September 16 Tuesday
Up early (7am) for the job hunting like a hacker class
Which now means I need time to set aside to do all the things *ssigh* good long term but gotta do that, but so much going on
class 8-2 something
then some pokemon, tdi urgent emails
shopping at costco for groceries
made pasta with meatsauce and garlic bread for dinner, ulla has shingles in her mouth and can not eat
then bsides nail, nait signs, lead scanner email
job applications, old style, i should have done new style but exhausted from not sleeping all night to finish that book
quickbooks for bsides edmonton and TDI
11pm, trying to go to bed?
Overlooked Again
Sep. 16th, 2025 05:06 pmyourlibrarian1) Some interesting posts at Henry Jenkins blog about the Peabody Awards process and disruption in the entertainment industry. "So, Peabody meets 3 times face-to-face. And it is an award that is decided across genres and platforms: television, radio, podcasting, and interactive, which is games and VR, etc. And across genre: entertainment, news, documentary, etc. But in particular, it's decided by a unanimous vote of a board of 18...who represent lots of different facets. There's critics, which include academics and TV critics, media executives, writers, and showrunners. ..which is different from a campaign for 26,000 voting members, in which you have no control of what they've watched and what they've not watched...Aziz Ansari was famous for coming to our show and saying, “You know, this is pretty cool. It's like you watch all of our shit, and you just decided it was good, and we didn't have to go to a bunch of weird-ass parties and stuff"
Two other factors: "It's not just celebrating entertainment. It's trying to talk about the ways that popular culture and entertainment can deeply shape who we are and want to be as a people, as empathetic citizens in the world" and "also...is it a story that matters? So, sometimes the craft can be brilliant, but it may not be a story that matters." ( Read more... )
2) A few more notes about Silent Witness as I move into S26. S23 seemed a really unusual season, enough so that I wondered about its production dates. ( Read more... )
3) Watched a documentary on the BeeGees which, like a lot of documentaries, goes very light on the time after their popularity peaked. (That was one thing the Billy Joel and Bon Jovi ones avoided). ( Read more... )
4) A Spy Among Friends was well written and interesting to watch but I kept constantly thinking about the 2003 Cambridge Spies which I saw last year and suspect it's much closer to the truth. ( Read more... )
5) Just a few comments about the Emmys, mostly in how unsurprising it was that Stephen Colbert finally won an Emmy for Best Show more because voters were jolted into a show of support. Yet John Oliver won yet again, twice. (Particular irony given the broadcast was on CBS).
Otherwise can't say it was entertaining and I wish a lot of stuff not involved in handing out awards had been cut. The tribute to Gilmore Girls seemed to really exemplify "too little, too late" since it and so many shows from the WB had been overlooked through sheer snobbery decades ago, when the attention would have done more good.
Two other factors: "It's not just celebrating entertainment. It's trying to talk about the ways that popular culture and entertainment can deeply shape who we are and want to be as a people, as empathetic citizens in the world" and "also...is it a story that matters? So, sometimes the craft can be brilliant, but it may not be a story that matters." ( Read more... )
2) A few more notes about Silent Witness as I move into S26. S23 seemed a really unusual season, enough so that I wondered about its production dates. ( Read more... )
3) Watched a documentary on the BeeGees which, like a lot of documentaries, goes very light on the time after their popularity peaked. (That was one thing the Billy Joel and Bon Jovi ones avoided). ( Read more... )
4) A Spy Among Friends was well written and interesting to watch but I kept constantly thinking about the 2003 Cambridge Spies which I saw last year and suspect it's much closer to the truth. ( Read more... )
5) Just a few comments about the Emmys, mostly in how unsurprising it was that Stephen Colbert finally won an Emmy for Best Show more because voters were jolted into a show of support. Yet John Oliver won yet again, twice. (Particular irony given the broadcast was on CBS).
Otherwise can't say it was entertaining and I wish a lot of stuff not involved in handing out awards had been cut. The tribute to Gilmore Girls seemed to really exemplify "too little, too late" since it and so many shows from the WB had been overlooked through sheer snobbery decades ago, when the attention would have done more good.
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