and soon the chocolate santas will appear...

[ratcreature]

I'm seeing the announcements for holiday exchanges start cropping up (mostly HP, that fandom always seems rather early and well organized with them), and I wondered whether there is one for X-Men: First Class somewhere. If it was open to fanart I might consider signing up, but I haven't seen any mention of one. But then I tend to miss stuff a lot.

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[astridv]

and soon the chocolate santas will appear...

Now there's a depressing thought. >_<

[ratcreature]

It is, but iirc last year the Penny across the street from me started in September with the Christmas cookies and such stuff, so I expect to see that any day now. I keep hoping that the commercialized Halloween might catch on a little more, so that at least there would be a more noticeable inbetween pumpkin phase, but it still seems very marginalized and not enough to displace the super-early Christmas products.

At least the fandom exchanges have a reason to plan this far ahead to give production time.

[astridv]

Yeah, you're not wrong, last year they started September 14 at the latest. *shudders*

I'm with you in hoping the Halloween thing kicks in for real. I actually like that holiday and it would be nice to have something to ease us into the winter holiday mood.

[lilacsigil]

There's two ficathons posting soon, but I don't think either took art? Apart from that, there's an X-Men Big Bang, but I don't know of any further exchanges.

[ratcreature]

I know of the Big Bang and the Summer fic exchange on erik_charles, which includes artists, but which is the other ficathon posting soon?

[lilacsigil]

Good old XMM Ficathon! Posting date September 20th.

ETA: Actually September 30th, hooray!