Three-fandom Holiday Ficlet and Drabble Exchange

Assignments have just been emailed to all participants! Please reply to the email to let me know that you received yours. If you didn't get it, please comment here on LJ to let me know so I can resend and/or verify your email.

Also, if for some reason you cannot write the assignment you've been given, again, let me know ASAP.

Ficlets will be due in four weeks, on December 11. I will put up information on headers etc. in the next couple of weeks.

Sign-ups for the 2009 exchange end Wednesday at midnight PST - the sign-up post is here on LJ!

Comments are screened, so you should be able to see your own (and only your own) after signing up.

So... you've finished (or are well along with writing) your fics for other fests. Or maybe you didn't sign up for any, and are now wishing perhaps you had. Perhaps you would like to dip your toes into less-familiar fannish waters, but Yuletide is just too big and full of fandoms you've never even heard of.

Fear not! 3fan_holidays to the rescue! All you have to do is be willing to write a drabble or ficlet (100-2000 words) in one or more of these three fandoms: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and/or Pirates of the Caribbean.

Sign-ups will continue through midnight on Wednesday, November 11. I anticipate sending out assignments on the 12th or 13th. Ficlets will be due by December 11, giving you four weeks to write. Posting will run from approximately December 12-24, depending on the number of participants. Posts will be made on LJ, although I will put links from the IJ comm mirror. Author reveals will be made on or about December 31.

Given that the number of participants has always been small, I do NOT expect to have to close sign-ups. In the unlikely event that more than 25 people are interested, I may reconsider.

Sign up at LJ!

Congrats to all the participants this year for doing such a great job, both in writing lovely fics and in thanking your givers! You made modding very easy. *g*

( Authors and results of guessing poll, over at LJ )

I'll post the reveals this evening, so now is your last chance to guess the authors!

Just for fun, I thought I'd set up a poll to guess the authors of this year's ficlets. I'll offer a ficlet in any of the fandoms (except Dr Who, which I don't know) to whomever guesses the most correctly. The poll will be open until the reveal on Dec. 31, and you don't need to have been a participant to play!

( The poll, over on LJ )

Title: Avuncular Affection
Recipient: emiime
Fandom: HP
Author: TBA
Pairing: Percy/Albus Severus
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: incest, possible chan
Summary: Percy and his nephew get on well when they see each other at the Weasley holiday parties.
Notes: 100+300+200+400=1000 words exactly.

( Avuncular Affection )

Title: =/= Legolas/Gimli, or, "Hair"
Recipient: thevina
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Author: TBA
Characters or Pairing: Gimli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Gimli wants to set the record straight.
Notes: Humor, inspired by too-many hours listening to cast commentary. For best results, plug in John Rhys-Davies voice.

( NOT Legolas/Gimli, or, 'Hair' )

Title: Prise de Fer ("take the steel")
Recipient: just_ann_now
Fandom: Swordspoint
Author: TBA
Pairing: Richard St. Vier/Alec Campion
Rating: Adult, but not totally explicit [R]
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Alec attempts to celebrate Richard's birthday, and succeeds at making it up to him.
Notes: For the dear just_ann_now who was interested in long hair tied back (or untied) and massages/backrubs. My gratitude to my betas, pillars of prose-guidance and insight. Thank you!

( Prise de Fer )

Title: Second Chances
Recipient: circeniko
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Author: TBA
Characters or Pairing: Norrington, Elizabeth, Jack, Bootstrap Bill, Will
Rating: G
Summary: Post-AWE, Norrington isn't quite as dead as he'd previously thought.
Notes: *hugs fabulous beta*

( Second Chances )

Title: Capable of Melting Hearts, Too
Recipient: alisanne
Fandom: HP
Author: TBA
Pairing: SS/NL
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: Never challenge a Gryffindor at their own game.
Notes: I hope this pleases you! I thought pr0n around the sharp leaves of the mistletoe entirely too much risk – I feared putting Slytherbits (of which I am notably very fond) in harm’s way. :P

( Capable of Melting Hearts, Too )

Title: Friends of Narnia
Recipient: celandineb
Fandom: Narnia
Author: TBA
Characters or Pairing: Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Jill, Eustace, Polly, Digory
Rating: PG
Summary: After returning from their Silver Chair quest, Eustace and Jill join the other friends of Narnia for dinner.
Notes: I guess I'm stretching the “celebration” thing a little, but only a little. Happy holidays, Cel!

( Friends of Narnia )

Title: Not So Predictable
Recipient: juniperus
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: TBA
Characters or Pairing: Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: G
Warning(s): Highlight to read * non-epilogue compliant; Snape is alive *
Summary: Severus takes a temporary position at Hogwarts.
Notes: My first time writing McGonagall… I hope you enjoy it! Thanks to E for beta.

( Not So Predictable )

Title: Christmas, Christmas, and Christmas Again
Recipient: torn_eledhwen
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: TBA
Characters: the Doctor, Martha, Donna, Wilfrid
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: Christmas is repeating itself, and the Doctor doesn’t know why
Notes: I’m really glad to have been given the chance to write Doctor Who fic. *grins* This story practically wrote itself.

( Christmas, Christmas, and Christmas Again )

Title: Winter Treasure
Recipient: geekmama
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Author: TBA
Characters: Elizabeth Swann Turner, Hector Barbossa
Rating: PG
Summary: Bored and lonely in England, Elizabeth receives an unexpected visitor.
Notes: Thanks to celandineb for this fest, and for beta-on-demand.

( Winter Treasure )

Title: Adult Literacy
Recipient: thrihyrne
Fandom: Swordspoint
Author: TBA
Characters or Pairing: Richard/Alec
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Alec has something special to show Richard.
Notes: The poem that Richard recites is "Autumn Song", by Sarojini Naidu.

( Adult Literacy )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Recipient: curia_regis
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: TBA
Word count: 100 x 13
Characters or Pairing: Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Lord Voldemort, others mentioned.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild horror/dystopia.
Summary: Harry wakes up to a changed world.
Notes: I’ve been meaning to try this story format for a while, so thank you curia_regis for affording me the opportunity to do this. Thanks to my beta readers, who shall remain nameless for now, and to celandineb for hosting the fest again this year.

( Another Brick in the Wall )

Title: a kiss before growing up
Recipient: angela_snape
Fandom: Narnia
Author: TBA
Pairing: Caspian/Edmund
Rating: G
Warnings: slash implications
Summary: Edmund wants another chance; Caspian wants to give it to him.
Notes: Takes place at the end of 'Prince Caspian.'

( a kiss before growing up )

This year I'm going to cross-post headers and links, though the actual fics will only be posted on LJ and I will disable comments on IJ.

Title: For Auld Lang Syne
Recipient: cruisedirector
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: TBA
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Summary: New Year's Eve, 1981.

( For Auld Lang Syne )