30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 22

22 – Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?

I’ve never done a Big Bang, but I’ve done a lot of exchanges; Sutcliff Swap and Yuletide are probably the two main ones that I’ve done over the years. I love Sutcliff Swap because I've made some lovely friends through the fandom and because the overall quality is generally so high (particularly for the art; I recall beautiful drawings by motetus and alby_mangroves in particular). Yuletide, on the other hand, is less tight-knit (though I've made some friends through it, too; hi, entwashian!), but has this huge fandom-wide participation aspect that I find so appealing. People have been nattering about possible nominations since at least August - or rather, they’ve kicked into high gear about it; people bring up possible noms for next Yuletide basically from January 1st on.

I’ve gotten a bit less apt to sign up for exchanges, but I love to write treats. I’ll trawl through exchange letters to pick up good prompts; I’m working on a few ficbits for trickortreatex right now, in fact, even though I didn’t sign up.