Fandoms Promotion Post

[bridgetmkennitt]

Nominations are just around the corner (in April, but it takes time to review canons) and if you'd like to promote your fandoms in order to entice fellow participants to offer/request, this is the place to do it.

Please keep discussions of each fandom in separate comments with the subject of it as that fandom. Please also put in the subject warning for common triggers (in the canon and especially anything that is in your comment).

Our guidelines for a medium sized fandom is a) a fandom that isn't listed on the recent Yuletide nomination list (or Signup Summary) and b) isn't a fandom with over 20,000 fics available (megafandom list on LJ and on DW). RPF is allowed within Not Prime Time and is the only exception to the requirement of "a fandom that isn’t listed on the current Yuletide nominations list" though we ask that participants keep to the spirit of the exchange and do not nominate/request very rare RPF. It is still held to the megafandoms requirement, however.

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Comments

Suits

[jain]

It was eligible for Yuletide this past year, but now has 400+ AO3 stories and won't be eligible next year, which makes it okay for not_primetime, right?

I'm mostly in the fandom for gen and 'ship fic (het, femslash, and mixed-gender threesomes) featuring Jessica and/or Donna. Anyone else interested in Suits, whether they're fans of these fierce ladies (which would be awesome!) or fans of the more generally popular Harvey/Mike (also awesome, though not my cup of tea) or fans of some entirely different Suits pairing (also also awesome, and please feel free to share what pairing(s) you love best)?

Re: Suits

[bridgetmkennitt]

We'll definitely keep a watch on Suits over the coming months to see if/when it officially grows too big for Yuletide since there's plenty of time for that to happen. So for now, Suits is a potential yes.

Re: Suits

[jain]

Isn't it already officially too big for Yuletide? Well, not officially officially since that's determined by whether or not it's put on the list of ineligible fandoms during sign-ups next year; but it's too big according to the fourth criterion used to determine eligibility: "Does it have 200+ stories of 1000+ words on the AO3?" (from this post on Yuletide eligibility).

Of the 400+ Suits stories currently on the AO3, 300+ are over 1000 words. And those stories aren't the work of a handful of individuals, and the fandom isn't old and inactive (quite the contrary, in fact), which are the common mitigating factors that I'm aware of the Yuletide mods using in borderline cases. Is not_primetime following more stringent guidelines than that?

Re: Suits

[kantayra]

It doesn't meet the third criterion, though: "Does it have 1000+ completed stories of 1000+ words on fanfiction.net?"

There were a number of fandoms let in last year that didn't pass #4 but did pass #3, so I think you have to fail both to make the ineligible list.

Re: Suits

[bridgetmkennitt]

not_primetime doesn't follow more stringent guidelines. The precaution is only because we want to give more time for the fandom to grow since it hasn't been that long since it was eligible for Yuletide.

Suits can be promoted within this post in hopes that it entices more growth until nominations.