yuletide question

[pentapus]

Hey, does anyone know how yuletide feels about fandoms that were once big but have been defunct (fic-wise) for years? I feel like I had this hallucination several years ago where yuletide was going to include old, dead fandoms.

Fandoms are now closed and decided, so this is more of a retrospective question looking at the rejected fandoms.

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[pentapus]

Ok, cool, thanks.

Here is a arobably unwanted explanation, but: 3 years ago, the old, dead 80s anime fandom of my heart made the cut. I've nominated it both times since, but the next year, it was rejected. Someone told me to monitor the comm so that when fandoms were rejected I could make my case. So this year it stayed on the eligible list (yay!) right up until the final list was posted, everything was closed, and it wasn't on there anymore. :(

Should I email really early next year? Should I ask this year to get it off the permanent 'previously rejected fandoms list' (which is what I think snuck up and killed it this year)?

[torachan]

Oh, that sucks. :(

Yeah, I guess next year I would say try to be proactive about it and if they put out a call to challenge stuff that's been dropped, email them even if your fandom is still on the list, saying it was dropped at the very end before and you don't want to risk that happening again.