Bandomstuffsit

Stuff it for bandom (hosted on the bandomstuffsit comm, which became the colloquial name for the challenge) was an annual Bandom holiday fic exchange on LiveJournal that ran for three years from 2010 to early 2013. After signing up, participants were assigned someone to write a story for and given roughly two months to produce a "stocking stuffer" story for their recipient. Stories needed to include warnings and be at least 1,500 words."you MUST warn for non-con, dubcon, death, incest, self-harm, eating disorders, violence and gore." , livejournal post, 2010-11-16. These stories were posted over a period of 12 days in late December anonymously by the bandomstuffsit mod account, and the authors were revealed in early January.
bandomstuffsit was discontinued after the 2012-13 exchange. untappedbeauty, the moderator of the exchange, noted in a final post that "My time in bandom has passed, and LJ as a venue for this exchange is becoming outdated and unstable" noting that an Dreamwidth backup would be created if LJ ever became unsuitable.stuffitmod. , livejournal post, 2013-01-06. Accessed 2 May 2023. That dreamwidth backup was created in April 2017, at a time when LiveJournal users were concerned about the site's TOS being changed to comply with Russian law, and other fans started bandom_holidays on dreamwidth as a replacement.
==History==
bandomstuffsit, the LJ comm for the exchange, was created 26 Sept 2010 with the rules and sign-up instructions for the first event being posted two days later on Sept 28 and left open for roughly two weeks.stuffitmod. , livejournal post, 2010-09-28. Accessed 2 May 2023. Assignments went out over the next few days, and participants had roughly two months to produce a fic at least 1,500 words long for their recipient. The 46 stories produced for the exchange were then posted from 22 Dec 2010 to 3 Jan 2011 by the stuffitmod, with a week between when the posting finished and the authors being revealed. In the interim, people were encouraged to guess who wrote what fic by the mods.stuffitmod. , livejournal post, 2011-01-03. Accessed 2 May 2023.
The second exchange's rules and sign-up post went up on 2 Oct 2011, with sign-ups being open for two weeks.stuffitmod. , livejournal post, 2011-10-02. Accessed 2 May 2023. The exchange was more or less the same as the previous year, however there was one slight change: participants were allowed to know who their recipient was instead of it being kept anonymous. Once again, 46 stories were produced and these stories were posted from 23 Dec 2011 to 6 Jan 2011.
Because of the delay in some stories causing them to be posted slightly late, authors were revealed later in the evening on Jan 6 instead of a week later as in the previous year.stuffitmod. , livejournal post, 2012-01-06. Accessed 2 May 2023. This delay may have been due in part to a downsizing in the mod team. The first year, bandomstuffsit seems to have been run by three moderators (untappedbeauty, boweryd, and fallintosilence) but for the second and third years the mod posts are only signed by untappedbeauty. The biggest culprit, however, seems to have been untappedbeauty being lenient with deadlines as the rules and sign-ups post for round 3 went up on 30 Sept 2012 with a new section:
The second round change of participants being able to know who they were writing for was also reverted as it apparently caused problems for untappedbeauty. bandomstuffsit's third round generated 30 stories, posted from 22 Dec 2012 to 2 Jan 2013. Authors were revealed a few days later on Jan 6, with untappedbeauty announcing that the challenge would not be running for a fourth year. As of 2018, the LJ community had 185 posts and 2,716 comments., accessed 3 January 2018. 
===Eligible Bands===
Like many other pan-bandom challenges in the wake of the Bandom Terminology Debate, bandomstuffsit specified which bands could be included in sign-ups:
This falls into the definition of "bandom" as Decaydance+ or "Big Three and Friends" rather than simply "a fandom about bands." For the 2012 challenge, a few of the bands were removed from the list, and The Used and The All-American Rejects were added:
==Participation==
46 stories were written for both the 2010 and 2011 challenges. 30 stories were written for the 2012 challenge.
Masterposts:
* 2010 (DW version, Archive version)
* 2011 (DW version, Archive version)
* 2012 (DW version, Archive version)
== Example Fanworks ==
=== 2010 ===
* Left Foot First, Right Foot After by northern
* The Only True and Certain Thing by sabrina_il (marina)
=== 2011 ===
* Hold It In by mistresscurvy
* Pas de Trois by eledhwenlin
=== 2012 ===
* Halloween-on-Christmas by sunsetmog
== Resources ==
* 2012 collection at Archive of Our Own
==References==
Category:Bandom Journal Communities
Category:2010 Gift Exchanges
Category:2011 Gift Exchanges
Category:2012 Gift Exchanges