As Samhain Day Fades Away

FANFIC FESTS VS. LIFE

It's definitely been frustrating to see so many cool things slipping by over here in fandom land, and barely having time to glance at them as they whiz past, let alone even think of participating!

Holmestice sign-up season came and I was so tempted, but I couldn't see how I would possibly have the time. The Remus/Sirius Games are now posting, and it's all I can do to skim the entries and maybe bookmark one or two for sometime later. I'm not participating this year, not even a pinch-hitter.

And Yuletide! I did consider trying to learn the ropes and do Yuletide (back before my time – or lack thereof – went completely nuts) because, how cool. It's a fest for small fandoms, and people can nominate any fandom as long as it's below a certain number-of-existing-fanworks limit, which means you get stuff like:

–Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (surprised that made the cut-off, actually)
–Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
–the Lord Peter Wimsey books
–the Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters (that series about the medieval mystery-solving Welsh monk)
–that book On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta that I liked so much recently
–or even Norse mythology!
–...or John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme! (writing about the actors and not the characters, I assume, given that it's a sketch show and the characters are different each time?)

Then there are really, really small fandoms included, like for specific board games or TV commercials or blogs. Or fandoms that consist of anthropomorphizing cities, or wines, or varieties of cheese. What? But cool.

But... No time.

( ...and why is that...? )

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