Yuletide, oh Yuletide, Why can I Understand Thee Not?

Every year around this time the Yuletide madness starts, and every year I sit and watch in amazement, because I do not get it. It's not that I dislike Yuletide, or that I want it to go away or anything. I just do not understand it.

So my daughter is far away at school, which means we talk constantly on gtalk, and I mentioned in passing to her that lj is being taken over by Yuletide. My daughter has an lj and reads btvs and Jane Austen fanfiction, and once in a while dips into Supernatural stories, but she is not involved in the social part of fandom; I think mostly because she is in a lot of groups -feminist, QSA, and other leftist stuff- on campus, and just feels all socialed out at the end of the day.

me:I feel so left out
( I don't understand yuletide and it's like a huge deal )