Festy Thoughts

[alisanne]

So I should be writing my Snarry First Time Fest fic (which is due very sooon!), but of course I'm procrastinating, hence an impromptu poll. :)

Seeing all the Holiday fest pimping gone on, it occurred to me that I have some (perhaps) odd criteria for which fests I participate in over the holidays.

I always seem to go for a couple of big pairing fests. This year I'm doing hd_erised and, prolly, one of the Snape Potter offerings (depending on what I think I'll be able to manage since they are based on anticipated fic length, something I am not always able to accurately predict, lol).

In addition, I still have a leftover WiP from last winter's slythindor100's holiday prompt which I am hoping to finish before sassy_cissa put up the new picture prompts in December *rolls eyes at self*.

Anyway, what other fests will I likely do?
daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas is always fun so that's on the list. :)
mini_fest is so low stress that it's also high on my list, too.
adventdrabbles will be running again this year, and naturally I plan to participate in my own com!
Ditto for dracoharry100's holiday drabbles. :)

In addition there are a ton of new (or at least new to me) fests advertising right now, so...what will you guys be choosing to do and why?

And, just because I've been thinking about this, here are my criteria for picking fests.
1) It has to be run by mods I trust
2) It should feature characters or concepts/prompts I'm interested in exploring
3) It needs to be something I think I'll have time to participate in (for me participation means both writing for it and doing my best to comment on all the submissions)
4) I'm more likely to sign up if there are people whose writing/art I enjoy also participating (so that matching has a higher chance of working smoothly if it's an exchange)
5) For established fests - I consider if it has a good 'reputation' (which is really mod based, IMO)
6) If it's low stress that's a plus.

How about you guys? Do you have different criteria? Tell me your thoughts. :)