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Current mood:

confused

Babylon 5 and Crusade in Yuletide!
I've been an enthusiastic reader of the Yuletide ficathon for years, but I never participated for various reasons, mostly having to do with time limitations pre-Christmas and the fact that rare fandoms mean brushing up on my canon before writing in same. But but this year, both Babylon 5 and Crusade have just become eligible and I'm pretty firm there, what with b5_revisited and brushing up on my canon for two other ficathons earlier this year anyway. Plus I'm probably able to swing one of the usual Yuletide fandoms - Greek mythology or Sandman as a third option. (Or one of jo_graham's novels.)

On the cautionary side: if I do get a B5 assignment, I could get requests for Sheridan/Delenn or Marcus/Ivanova. (What with them still being the most popular pairings.) Or bloody Galen if someone actually asks for Crusade fic. It's not that I'm not willing to go outside of my Centauri comfort zone with characters - writing the B5/BSG crossover this year with Garibaldi as a pov character and the Matrithon entry about Lochley was very enjoyable - but complete indifference is the one obstacle impossibly to overcome, and the two pairings in question leave me utterly cold. Hm...

(My idea of fannish hell: being locked up with nothing but shipper fic for the most popular pairings of most of my fandoms to read and being forced to write same. If you ever need to torture me, skip the waterboarding and have the Jack/Ianto, Kara/Lee, Roslin/Adama, Sheridan/Delenn, Marcus/Ivanova, Doctor/Rose, Jack/Kate/Sawyer fic ready.)