[ SECRET POST #2800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2800 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Song of the Lioness]


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03.
[Genso Suikoden II]


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04.
[Gordon Ramsay]


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05.
[Outlast: Whistleblower]


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06.
[Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto]


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07.
[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]


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08.
[Johnny Wander/Lucky Penny]


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09.
[Doctor Who]


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10.
[Daft Punk]


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11.
[Discworld]


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12.
[Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci]


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13.
[The Hobbit]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[kallanda_lee]

So, it's basically for smaller fandoms specifically?

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[(Anonymous)]

You...didn't realise that until now? But people were explaining it to you and posting links.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[kallanda_lee]

I actually totally missed that when reading through the rules. But that does make me wonder - isn't that hard then if you have to sign up for several fandoms? Like it seems unlikely you'd be that knowledgeable of several small ones.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[silverr]

You OFFER to write four (not sure of actual numbers for this year) and you REQUEST four, but you'll only be matched to someone who requested one of the things you offered ( and generally you'll only receive a fic for one of the fandoms you requested.)

When you get your assignment you will see all the requests that the person you were assigned asked for -- and you are allowed to write for any of their requests -- but very often you might have no knowledge of 75% of what they asked for.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[silverr]

Yes, it's always been for rare/small fandoms -- which is why the rules for noms can get so complicated! With a few thousand people signing up each year, trying to ensure that everyone gets matched is kind of an amazing feat.

(The "in English" proviso is there to cover fandoms like Saint Seiya, which has an extremely active/popular non-English fandom: only about 8% of the fics for it on ff.net are in English.)

The complicated rules come in when people want to unclude fandoms that could fall under an umbrella - like "DC comics" or "Batman" that sometimes have unique characters or universes.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[kallanda_lee]

So, how DO you nominate?

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[silverr]

They'll open the Yuletide 2014 tagset at a certain point (I think someone said 22 Sept?). There's a nomination form on Ao3: You simply put in each fandom and the characters you're nominating in each. (Once you see the form you'll see that it's actually more straightforward than all the verbiage suggests.)

This is why there are "nomination posts" every year where people say what they plan to nominate in order to coordinate with other people who were planning to nominate than fandom: when people coordinate like this it's a way to get as many characters from that fandom in the tagset.

ETA: And participating in nominations is entirely optional ... although if you do want to request something that you're sure is rare, then usually it's a good idea to nominate it just in case.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[kallanda_lee]

Well, I'd like to, because I might have one or two things I doubt will even be requested.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[silverr]

Sometimes that works out though, because sometimes when people see something they get all "Oh yeah! I could write/would love to read that!"

There are links here if you want to see the range of fandoms that were part of last year's Yuletide.

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[kallanda_lee]

That's awesome, thank you, you were so helpful and patient explaining!

Re: Nominations are just a portion

[silverr]

no problem!

I think Yuletide is awesome, so feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.