Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2023: Week 31

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. 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the exchange, noted in a final post that "My time in bandom has passed, and LJ as a venue for this exchange is becoming outdated and unstable" noting that an Dreamwidth backup would be created if LJ ever became unsuitable. 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.