Yuletide writing and wrangling

[dbskyler]

For the first time this year, I wrote for a 5-minute fandom for Yuletide. In fact, it's really more of a 1-minute fandom; the whole thing is contained in this Tumblr post. The name of the fandom is "Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters," and the conceit is that since Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) had multiple mishaps growing up, there must have been time-travelling saxophone haters out to kill him before he invented the saxophone, who must also have been incompetent because they didn't succeed.

thisbluespirit told me about the fandom when I was looking for something else to offer, and at first I was sure that I couldn't write for something like that, but after giving it some thought, I decided to offer it. I knew it would mean writing original characters, which I don't usually do, but I kind of like when Yuletide gets me to do new things, and as it turned out, my recipient's prompt really inspired me and it was one of my easiest Yuletide writing experiences ever. I also really like how it turned out: From the Desk of [Insert Mad Scientist Name Here].

Ironically, the fandom was originally wrangled with a parent tag under "Celebrities and Real People," and I was really afraid for awhile that I was going to have a repeat of last year, when I wrote Five(ish) Doctors Reboot fic that got wrangled as Doctor Who RPF, so no one could find it as its own fandom. I had visions of Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters being renamed to "19th Century Belgian Musicians" or something equally obscure, which would also have been very ironic as Adolphe Sax isn't even a character in my fic. So I emailed the mods for the first time ever, and they were super nice and super helpful, and as a result, the fandom also got "Other Media" as a parent tag, and in the Yuletide collection the fandom actually appeared as it was nominated, which was a huge relief. Because, to be honest, I'm still not over what happened with my Five(ish) Doctors fic last year.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I've no idea! You may be able to do it via settings or skins or you may need one of those thingies that people design to do stuff like that. (I forget what you call them this morning. It's early.)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It tooks like it will just display the fandoms I've written most often no matter what, so the solution is to write one more fic in three more fandoms -- that will take up all the slots and keep "Doctor Who RPF" showing up unless I choose to "expand fandoms."

So, now I just need to write more Press Gang, Red Dwarf, and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

(And, thanks for indulging me in this thread. I got in a mood where I was all worked up about it, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not something I should let bother me so much, and I usually don't. But sometimes in a certain frame of mind it does really get to me. Perhaps I need to go read a whole bunch of cracky historical RPF to get over my bias against the label.)

[thisbluespirit]

Well, hey, if we get more fic out of you, I shall just go tell the Yule mods to make sure they label you RPF at all costs in future! ;-p

(No, not really. It's not as if they would listen to me anyway!)

(And ♥ We all get like that sometimes.) I'll have to see if I can find you some fun RPF to read!