DaisyNinjaGirl

 Yuletide, the rare fandom exchange, has again lumbered into friendly, slightly obsessive in a good way, life.  The thing is, while the bare bones of the exchange are you write and receive a story of at least a thousand words, there's all this discretionary activity that fans put in before or after in which they're busy making and organising spreadsheets, making recs, writing extra treats, making sure everyone gets at least one positive comment, and getting intensely precise about the exact format that tags should be to best fit in the taxonomy tree.

My current favourite is the incredibly learned and good natured discussion in the Nomination Comments section here on the competing merits of whether the Three Witches from Macbeth should be tagged as First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch, or as a collective group "The Three Witches", or whether there should even be a set number of witches at all.  Competing editions of Shakespeare and the various staging decisions of live performances over the years are getting cited.  It's glorious.

Fanfiction writers are library nerds.  Oh my, oh yes, I have found my tribe.  :-)