Miscellaneous fanfic things

[maggie33]

Yesterday was creator reveal for Night on Fic Mountain exchange, so I can finally admit that I wrote a treat for lynndyre - SCI fic with Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen pairing:

Stay (I need you here)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Additional tags: Episode Related, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss

Summary: Bai Chi helps Zhao Zhen deal with the aftermath of the events in episode 15.



I started tentatively, very tentatively, thinking about maybe signing up for Yuletide exchange this year. For the first time I have 4 fandoms I could write in (that never happened to me before, so thank you, Asian dramas :)). But only if Guardian would still be eligible. When I apply filters on AO3 the result is 1159 works, but of course many fics are still wrongly tagged with Language: English – I counted 8 only on the 1st page.


Last, but not least, my first Guardian fic „Kiss me the way I like it” reached 100 kudos a day before yesterday (102 today). Woohoo!

Comments

[naye]

Guardian should still be available! When I did a roundup of all fic actually in English at the beginning of the month (posted here on sid_guardian) there were 520 stories over 1k in English. But of those not all were complete. So we'd need another 500 or so 1k+ stories in the next... what is it? Three months? Which seems highly unlikely!

[maggie33]

Ah, yes, so Guardian will definitely be eligible. Now I have 3 months to find the courage to sign up. :)

[trobadora]

Yuletide is a lot of fun! I'm really looking forward to it, and planning to request Detective L, among other things.

It would be great to have you on board, too. And like naye says, Guardian should still be eligible.

[maggie33]

I want to try doing Yuletide this year. I'm scared, but I want to. Guardian exchange convinced me that exchanges can be fun (even if sometimes it's a nerve-wracking fun :)), so big thanks for that. :D

[bonibaru]

Yuletide is so big that it takes a lot of the pressure off. You can kind of go in knowing that normally very few people will see your story right away (because, small fandoms and lots of fics being posted) so as long as the recipient likes it, it's a win. Plus it's nice to flex writing muscles. Plus you're contributing to a small fandom which needs more works. I wrote for Monstress last year and at the time there were literally 3 fics in the archive. Mine then became 25% of all the posted work (lol). So any Monstress fan checking the archive would have 25% more fic to choose from!

We can start a Yuletide support group for hand holding and cheering! There's a Discord, but it's big and moves fast and is too much for me.

[maggie33]

I'm all for Yuletide support group, it's good to know that if I will take the plunge there are people here that would cheer me on. :) And I tried Guardian discord, a few months ago, but yeah, Discord is another platform not for me.

And I've just saw you post about Guardian eligibility and I empathize so much. But as naye wrote above it's highly unlikely that it will reach 1000 stories in the next 3 months.

[trobadora]

Yay, glad you enjoyed the Guardian exchange! FWIW, Yuletide isn't all that complicated, despite the culture around it that comes from the sheer size of the thing. But if there's anything I can help with just hit me up. :)

[maggie33]

If I'l decide to take part in Yuletide this year I will probably need all the help I can get. So thanks for the offer, I'm keeping it in mind. :)

[tinny]

You can use naye's gdoc - it should be linked from sid_guardian somewhere. It has the correct number of English language fic. It's definitely still way below 1000, but no idea what it'll look like in December.

[maggie33]

According to naye's gdoc there is less than 600 fics. So I think it's safe to say that Guardian won't reach 1000 fics till October, when the nominations start. It will still be eligible this year. :)