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Yuletide has opened sign-ups until October 23rd, 9AM UTC. Find out all the details and links this way. Also if you would like to participate but not sign-up, details on how to be a pinch hitter are here.

rarepairficexchange has opened sign-ups until October 24th, 11:59 PM CDT for the Rare Pair Madness. More info can be found here.

I've never participated in Yuletide before, and I actually hadn't planned on signing up this year. Between the 'and' matching and the inability to see the requests, I wasn't sure it was for me. Especially since there are some shippy exchanges, like Mistletoe, that are running around the same time and I already am in neck deep with assignments. And it was working too- until I saw the summary and man, there are some appealing fandoms in there with sign-ups! Of course they would be for fandoms I haven't written for before, but they are tempting.

So far, still holding strong though! We'll see how long that lasts. :D

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I think it's probably easier in smaller exchanges, like up to maybe 30 people. If only one or two other people are asking for your fandom, it's simple but when it comes to bigger fandoms, it is probably more complicated. Then again, I'm definitely going to attempt to game for Mistletoe so we'll see how it goes. And I totally caved and signed up for Yuletide btw so I will let you know how it works out. I don't know why they don't let you see requests. I saw the 2020 and there are like, 300 pages so maybe it is just too many. I never asked or found out. This is my first time. I wasn't in the Exchange scene when I was in fandom last and I only knew of Yuletide after when I saw people on Tumblr posting their letters. There is an app and a place where you can post your letters/requests early but you still probably only get a small sample size.

Makes sense. That is true around America too. Ted Lasso is set in London (Richmond?) but there are players from different backgrounds. One character is from Manchester and there are others from Nigeria, etc. I have such a paranoia about just going off others fics because I worry about copying by accident but that is good advice, thank you. LOL that is definitely a different style but I'm glad you were able to work it out!

For sure. You do see them a lot and from different parts too. As a reader, I honestly rarely even notice the spellings- the only thing that usually stands out to be is the mum/mom word choice. And it is interesting for sure! You're right about fandom having an American slant and also a lot of Americans tend to assume others are also from here. Wow, I didn't know that a comm like that existed but I'm not surprised. I remember with Harry Potter, there was definitely some advice out there on how to write British characters but I never got around to writing fic for that fandom so it wasn't relevant.

You should definitely write more British characters! I've only written one, with Peggy, but there's no time like the present lol

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Lol! Good luck with Yuletide! I don't know how you do all these exchanges at once, lol. I'm signed up for one at the moment and I've barely worked on it, can't imagine having 3-4 all at once!

I might not bother with the mistletoe exchange after all. So far, I can only write for one thing that's been requested and nobody is offering anything I'd want to read so far.

Ted Lasso seems like a mixed bag character wise. I would just wing it, lol. Practice makes perfect!