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Righto, after waffling back and forth on it for months, and weighing various opinions...no Yuletide for me.
In the end, while I'd like to do it (despite a few concerns), my issues are three-fold and strictly personal:
- In the past, my choices for YT have been kidlit or lit-based fic, and I like it that way.* I like to write it and I like to receive it. But while I know my rare sources, they can be a massive pain to track down for a refresher, especially seeing as I am no longer North America-based and not connected to a library system like Milwaukee County's (which is, frankly, really good).
- I'm already doing two year-end exchanges (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
festivids and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
where_no_woman's New Year one), and I've lost two weeks to feeling like toasted crap from the flu.
- My name for YTs past is one I'd rather not use for fic writing anymore.
So! Not saying don't do it. Do do it! Just that I think I can't do it myself and produce good work. I think some of the suggestions for rarefic/rare pairings exchanges at a different time are good, and I hope to see something come to fruition.
* Slightly stunned to see The Lone Gunmen on the list this year, I remember when we were HUGE. I should write LGM fic again someday, KICKING IT OLD SCHOOL.
In the end, while I'd like to do it (despite a few concerns), my issues are three-fold and strictly personal:
- In the past, my choices for YT have been kidlit or lit-based fic, and I like it that way.* I like to write it and I like to receive it. But while I know my rare sources, they can be a massive pain to track down for a refresher, especially seeing as I am no longer North America-based and not connected to a library system like Milwaukee County's (which is, frankly, really good).
- I'm already doing two year-end exchanges (
festivids and where_no_woman's New Year one), and I've lost two weeks to feeling like toasted crap from the flu.- My name for YTs past is one I'd rather not use for fic writing anymore.
So! Not saying don't do it. Do do it! Just that I think I can't do it myself and produce good work. I think some of the suggestions for rarefic/rare pairings exchanges at a different time are good, and I hope to see something come to fruition.
* Slightly stunned to see The Lone Gunmen on the list this year, I remember when we were HUGE. I should write LGM fic again someday, KICKING IT OLD SCHOOL.
