Fests and Fests

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What an uneven fest year it's been.

I completely failed to signup for retrotvexchange and ficinabox, despite nominating eagerly for both of them. The former's deadline caught me in a failure to read the time zone translation properly, and the latter caught me while I was hip deep in trying to complete an entirely different story.

I also signed up for the first time for fandomgiftbox. Figures that this is the year it would peter out. Did I get anything? Who knows. That's fair, since I didn't produce anything either.

Meanwhile, crossworks caught my attention. While I didn't nominate for that, the tag set had so much of what I would have nominated that I might as well have.

My gift was the wonderful My Cousin Eliot by elegantstupidity. A crossover between Leverage and Psych, the author went to town on one of my perennial requests to explore idea that Eliot and Shawn are cousins by putting Shawn and Gus on the wrong end of a kidnapping. Hello h/c.

In return, I wrote The SHAM Job for tehweechboi. On signups, I didn't think I could pull off a Leverage and Psych crossover of my own, so I deliberately didn't offer the combo. But, unmatchablity required taking a dive away from my comfort zone, and over 11,000 words later, I can cross that combo off my fandom bucket list. (Sadly, I don't think my recip liked the story.)

With that done, I'm now signed up for hlh_shortcuts. I mean, obviously.

And it's looking extremely likely that I'll also be signing up for yuletide_admin, though the final tag set will make that determination. It always comes down to: Are there four fandoms I can reasonably offer? Hopefully, yes.

How are you doing?

Comments

[impala_chick]

I heard about fandomgiftbox, that's so sad :(

Crossovers are so challenging, so congrats to you!

I'm excited for Yuletide this year! Meanwhile, I really need to make progress on my ficinabox fics.

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I've never written a crossover before where one of the fandoms didn't have a supernatural element, so that was an extra challenge. I enjoyed it, and I'd like to think I pulled it off.

What did you nominate for Yuletide? How's your ficinabox coming? The deadline is this weekend, isn't it?

[impala_chick]

Oh interesting, I do think it's easier to come up with supernatural-related plots for fic.

I nominated The English Game, the period drama mini series on Netflix. It got nominated last year but there was no fic for it, so we'll see about this year.

The deadline is this weekend but I asked for an extension.

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Did you only nominate one fandom?

Good luck getting your FIAB fic done! I had so much fun last year with that exchange.

[impala_chick]

Oh and I nominated The Flight of the Heron, a historical fiction novel that I'm currently reading/listening to - so much slash potential! I was going to go through people's requests at the Yuletide comm to fill my last slot but I ran out of time.