Yuletide TMI (Or: How Bipagan Ruined Christmas)
[Many thanks to a certain charitable mouse on wank_report, who I have plagiarized immensely.]

For people who don't know, Yuletide is a large fandom exchange for rare fandoms. Every year there's a nomination and review period to determine what fandoms are eligible, and participants can request and offer to write fics for eligible fandoms.

People are also allowed to write "optional details" in their sign-ups, letting their assigned writers know what they would like to read in each of their requested fandoms. Even though optional details are very much optional, writers generally try to give their recipients what they want, and recipients generally try to make it easy for their writer by being open to a variety of options. Sometimes people write letters to their writers expanding on those optional details, and post those letters to the main comm for everyone to read.



Which brings us to this letter. bipagan is not at all interested in making things easier for her writer. The letter begins with many paragraphs about extremely personal, seemingly irrelevant, and kinda offensive stuff about her life.

Did you know post-partum depression will kick your ass worse than normal depression because you suddenly remember every little slight that ever happened to you let alone the major life issues? Yeah, it sucks. I advise against it.

I am pretty sure that is how normal depression works too. Slogging all the way to the bottom gets to bipagan's actual request: a crossover between her rare fandom Blue Bloods and huge, ineligible fandom Supernatural. (Please note that this is the vampire novel series Blue Bloods and not the television show about New York cops. Making the mistake I did will leave you very confused.)

What the hell does all this shit have to do with Blue Bloods? Well, I use to find joy in paranormal romance but you will see that I only have one listed and it is extremely specific. I want that cross over. I’ve wanted that cross over for a very long time. Ever since I picked up my first Blue Bloods book I couldn’t help but think, “What the hell are the Winchesters doing right now? Does Castiel know about all this?” If you can’t write a cros over, please do not write a Blue Bloods fic. Go read one of the blogs. They are really quick reads and I promise you won’t regret it.

If the writer isn't interested in fighting through an absolutely massive canon to suit her whims, bipagan tells them to write a fic for one of her other fandoms instead, even though: 1) They might not be familiar with her other fandoms, 2) They might not be interested in her other fandoms, 3) Even if they were interested, they might not feel capable of writing for it, and most importantly, 4) They signed up to write Blue Bloods fic.

Discussion ensues on the yuletide anon meme.

Back at bipagan's house, people point out that requesting a crossover and nothing else might be unfair to a writer who is assigned to write her a Blue Bloods fic. She responds by publishing the IP addresses of anonymous commentators and then deleting all the comments. Luckily, someone took screencaps, including the unedited version of the letter and references to her suicidal impulses.

She then leaves a comment on the yuletide comm about how mean people are to her.

I've blocked commentary because I was being wanked on my own journal. I have quite enough hardship in life without being put down by strangers. As my husband said after I cried, "People on the internet are assholes. You put yourself out there and they kick you down. You could always do what I do and just not put yourself out there.

I thought it was required that I post my Dear Yuletide letter here so that my writer would be able to find the letter. I know I've had trouble finding a Dear Yuletide letter. I know better for next year. I'll just post at my journal and hope they find it.

fail_fandomanon talks amongst itself. bipagan grudgingly edits the letter, giving us the version seen up top, but it's a little late...the potential writer has already pulled out. One can hardly blame them.


TL;DR: Yuletide requester gives TMI on her life while making absurd requests of her writer and veiled suicide references, then gets defensive when people politely protest.