December Daily: fandom traditions

[resonant]

mekare -- favorite fandom traditions.

For the past three years my family has been going to WisCon, which is thrilling and exhausting and leaves me in a post-extroverting stupor for quite a while afterwards.

But my very favorite fandom tradition would have to be Yuletide.

Recently I read that when a feudal lord suspected one of his vassals of wanting to plot a coup, he and all his household would descend upon that vassal for a visit. This would be a high honor for the vassal, but incredibly expensive, and leave him without enough money to pay an army.

We sometimes talk about fandom as a gift economy, and so I began to wonder whether Yuletide drains off enough fannish energy to leave some trolls without the energy to mount whisper campaigns, attempt to "cancel" anyone, or otherwise wreak mayhem?

Well, a person can dream.



Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal mekare's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!


8 -- armadillo1976 -- What is your comfort reading? Fic, high-brow literature, commercial fiction, whatever.
9 -- exceptinsects -- favorite romantic moments...in books, movies, fic, real life?
10 -- pauraque -- your favorite movies as a kid (or favorite kids' movies as an adult)
11 -- mific -- a winter's tale. Anything wintry, good or bad.
12 -- runpunkrun -- advice you've found useful
13 -- terminally_underwhelmed -- things that change, things that don't.
14 -- watersword -- Tell me about a memorable meal.
15 -- anitac588 -- Chris Evans.
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17 -- ride_4ever -- birthdays
18 -- muccamukk -- Dwarvish things in your everyday life. (Moved from the 17th so ride_4ever could get the birthday date.)
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20 -- copracat -- memory.
21 -- rhi -- cats.
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23 -- laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
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Comments

[lunabee34]

I love Yuletide, too! My favorite part of the fannish year.

[destina]

Yuletide spawned its own cottage anon whining community. Two of them, in fact. My personal theory is that the people who are most likely to bash and cancel are not the sort that put any actual energy or thought into writing a thoughtful story for someone else, so they are unlikely to be distracted from mayhem. But a person can dream.

[resonant]

Soon!

[resonant]

Well, at least the rest of us have a lot of great stuff to read every year.

[jesse_the_k]

Next year I want to meet the amazing kidlet!

It took me a couple years to fully believe how wonderful Yuletide is. Strangers? Fulfilling other strangers' whimsies?

[resonant]

Bet we'll all cross paths again at Wiscon.