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Deliver Us From Coalptcha

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Coal, I currently have one valid recipient. I need advice on whether I should drop the fandom.

Pro-drop: I have written this person four fics, all in the same fandom (the one we could match on), and they have commented on one. It is a tiny fandom, even by Yuletide standards, and I am extremely unlikely to receive other comments.

Pro-keep: I could easily write to their prompts and (minimal) DNWs. I really love this fandom, and no one else is likely to request it. I have no other viable recipients at the moment.

Opinions?

Leave it for now, but seriously look into other fandoms, especially if they're TV or movie fandoms that you can consume before sign up ends.

The happiest scenario I can see for you is that you get into a new fandom and match to that. The second best is you write 1k of something for this person and get into new fandoms to treat, so that you have enough eggs in the infamous baskets that you're bound to have made someone's Yuletide and get good comments from them even if your reicp is a jerk and your main fandom is dead.

+1 to this, this is what I would do too.

Pick up a 5 minute fandom?

It's hard for a lot of us to get invested in something so short with so little meat.

Do you need to be super invested when you're just writing a gift for someone else? With the added motivation of 'successfully participating in yuletide'?

With a 5-minute fandom you're pretty much writing origfic, anyway.

+.5?

A short film, music video, commercial, etc that has a letter or two with really interesting and well thought out prompts is exactly the type of 5 minute fandom I love and would get into in a heartbeat.

But one where all the letters say nothing or only have the most vague prompts imaginable? That’s way worse than having the same letter for a substantial fandom, even if you only have to write 1k.

If I wanted to write original fic, I wouldn't do it for yuletide. I would do it with the hope of publishing for money.

Not super invested, but somewhat, yes.

I mean, ideally everyone would get to match only on fandoms they 100% love and are enthusiastic about writing. But no one is guaranteed that, and sometimes there just isn't anyone requesting the ~fandoms of your heart. So then yes, to participate, the writer has to lower their standards and offer something else. Suck it up and offer a music video or something even though you don't care about it - presumably your recip will, and that's the ultimate goal in writing a gift fic, right?

Idk, if you're really that limited in what you can write then exchanges like this are going to be difficult; you have to be matchable somehow or other.

Is it fun for you to essentially be writing for yourself as an audience rather than this person? It sounds as if writing for your non-commenter will be easy, but not rewarding if you'd really like a comment. At least it's a low-stress Yuletide since you can accurately judge the outcome.

Are they a perpetual non-commenter or is it only your gift fics they don't comment on? If they're the sort of person who just rarely comments on gifts in general and you're okay with the possibility of no comments, go ahead and keep your offers the way they are.

If it's specifically your gifts they don't comment on while they comment on gifts from other people, it's very possible that they just don't like your fic and are hoping that someone else will match to them. That said, no one can control who they match to and if they really want to stop getting fic from you they should just stop requesting that fandom after matching with you four times, so you're under no obligation to remove the offer if you don't mind writing for them anyways. If it'd bother you to write for someone who doesn't seem to enjoy your fic however, it's a good idea to find another fandom.

Either way it'd be a good idea to browse the sign up summary and letters app a few hours before sign ups close just to see if there might be anything else you can offer.

Drop it like a hot potato. If someone else signs up for it then write them a gift.

Drop the offer and add it back in again if you're unmatchable and the mods ask.

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