Nooo. Gina (gmth) decided that Smutmas would end after five years, in 2007. It was the big slash exchange for the year in general during the five years it ran (check out the archive; stories used to get 100+ comments easily!), but also for the holiday season. (I don't know the history of hd_hols, but it seems to me that even the biggest H/D stories of the season always came from Smutmas, not pairing-specific fests). So, when she decided to close it, others stepped forward to run new, different slash-centric exchanges for the holidays. Apart from filling that niche, there is no tie to Smutmas or Gina, afaik. I can't bring myself to participate in yule_balls, tbh, because it's just not Smutmas. Heh. Possibly unfair of me, I know...
*dinosaur's it up some moar*
Yes, the 'current tradition' of anon exchanges types of things.
*nod* I can't find it now, but I do remember a 'fandom history' post of Gina's that summed all this up and went into the backstory of Smutmas that I hadn't known about. She and a few of her friends were chatting one night and everyone had ideas about fic they wanted to see but didn't think they could write, and thus the idea was born, so innovative at the time, about doing a small exchange where someone else writes for you. History tidbit: she was also the first mod to put in the "no smart quotes" rule that is now widely copied, too, heh, and only because smart quotes personally annoyed her. I love that.
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Date: 2010-01-05 10:26 pm (UTC)Nooo. Gina (gmth) decided that Smutmas would end after five years, in 2007. It was the big slash exchange for the year in general during the five years it ran (check out the archive; stories used to get 100+ comments easily!), but also for the holiday season. (I don't know the history of hd_hols, but it seems to me that even the biggest H/D stories of the season always came from Smutmas, not pairing-specific fests). So, when she decided to close it, others stepped forward to run new, different slash-centric exchanges for the holidays. Apart from filling that niche, there is no tie to Smutmas or Gina, afaik. I can't bring myself to participate in yule_balls, tbh, because it's just not Smutmas. Heh. Possibly unfair of me, I know...
*dinosaur's it up some moar*
Yes, the 'current tradition' of anon exchanges types of things.
*nod* I can't find it now, but I do remember a 'fandom history' post of Gina's that summed all this up and went into the backstory of Smutmas that I hadn't known about. She and a few of her friends were chatting one night and everyone had ideas about fic they wanted to see but didn't think they could write, and thus the idea was born, so innovative at the time, about doing a small exchange where someone else writes for you. History tidbit: she was also the first mod to put in the "no smart quotes" rule that is now widely copied, too, heh, and only because smart quotes personally annoyed her. I love that.
/ramble