while we tell of yuletide treasure

This community is for participants and enjoyers of the annual obscure fandom fiction exchange project, "while we tell of yuletide treasure."

Read the 20120Yuletide FAQ

You can watch watch yuletide_admin for announcements, which are posted in full at http://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org.

Posting Guidelines

Welcome content in yuletide includes:

• Yuletide story recommendation sets. (Please tag with "recs"!)


• Discussion about the Yuletide experience, suggestions.


• Fan art/icons and other fannish creations inspired by Yuletide stories. (please cut-tag!)


• Links to additional content for Yuletide stories (eg, deleted scenes, soundtracks) posted in your own lj.


• Links to other fandom challenges (please keep this to 1 announcement + 1 pinch hit post as needed). We will approve these during quiet periods in Yuletide, at our discretion.

To keep volume to a reasonable level, stuff not to post here (totally fine to post these to your own lj, of course!) includes:

• Anything not related to the Yuletide challenge.


• Questions that can be answered by the FAQ, or should be directly addressed to the mods. The latter can be sent by email to yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or in a comment responding to a post to yuletide_admin.


• Your own stories.


• Thank-yous to your individual author(s) and/or individual commenters. Feel free to tack these onto a different post -- ie, if you are posting a recs set, it is totally fine to include the story you received and thank your own santa for it while you are doing so.


• Single-story recs. If a rec is long and meaty, we won't be too picky about this, but in general, please try for a minimum of at least three or four stories in a recs post.


• Offers of fandom source. Feel free to do this in a Dear Yuletide Author post in your LJ, but we ask that you not post it here.
• Critical discussion of Yuletide stories.
  We are actually huge proponents of the free discussion of fanfic, but this comm is about sharing delight and keeping everyone excited about the challenge, so not here, thanks!


• Multiple announcements or promotions for the same fandom challenge.

Posts that are off-topic or are specifically not allowed may be deleted, with a message to the poster as to the reason.

We discourage locked posts, as not all of our participants have LJs. In the same vein, when anonymous commenting is enabled, please sign your comments with a name.

If you post a NYR story, please DO NOT announce it here: it will be announced to the list for you in the next NYR post. Your recipient will also receive an email notifying them of the story.

The volume here is pretty seasonal, so we will not spend a lot of time enforcing guidelines when the comm is relatively quiet, but during peak times (nominations, sign-ups, reveals), we'll be more aggressive about it to try and keep the comm manageable for all (including us!).