The rest of the exchange year...

[chock_coal_ate_bawks]

...is worth wanking over, too.

Discuss Chocolate Box, Age Gap Exchange, Unusual Bearings, etc.

Comments

Yeah

[(Anonymous)]

No U

[(Anonymous)]

Chocolate Box is a stupid exchange for stupid people.

[(Anonymous)]

Chocolate Box is fun.

Fandom survey

[(Anonymous)]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5s1KPFONAD_JGy7ZJgZglIACV49U_l_I1Bczn8sT0WWZAtA/viewform

So how's Chocolate Box going, anyway?

[(Anonymous)]

I've written a treat and would like to write two more. Stuff in the collection looks good!

Re: So how's Chocolate Box going, anyway?

[(Anonymous)]

I have almost hit the Variety Box challenge (6 treats with different recips/fandoms). Just need to finish this original work for someone I've wanted to treat for ages.

Mods rejecting nominations based on inaccurate fandom osmosis, part 1189398

[(Anonymous)]

https://hetswap.dreamwidth.org/8262.html

In case anyone thought the new hetswap mod was going to be better than Aeiouna.

Re: Mods rejecting nominations based on inaccurate fandom osmosis, part 1189398

[(Anonymous)]

I like their tone, actually, but I'm baffled as to why they're rejecting Pokemon for being non-sentient. Was "must be a sentient being" a criterion stated upfront?

Chocolate and w(h)ine

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have a gift for Chocolate Box yet...at this point do you think I'll be defaulted on?

Oh and no one wrote me a treat :(

Re: Chocolate and w(h)ine

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the same position, but I'm quite sure I won't get a treat and I haven't posted my gift either, so I'm not going to start worrying until tomorrow evening.

There's one born every minute (that's sixty seconds for those playing at home)

[(Anonymous)]

Exchange newbie comments on the post with the countdown to ask when fics are due.

https://chocolateboxcomm.dreamwidth.org/19957.html

Space Swap

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, who nominated "Worldbuilding: Polyamory conventions" under Steven Universe?

Re: Space Swap

[(Anonymous)]

ahahahahaha, brilliant

<3

Almost Chocolate Box Time

[(Anonymous)]

T-2 days. Anybody still writing treats/pinch hits?

My assignment's been done and up for a while, and I had started a couple of treats, but both requesters apparently defaulted, as did my assigned recipient. :( Nothing against people who default, but seeing that sapped my enthusiasm for treating them, especially since one already has multiple gifts.

I have a couple of treats I'd like to write but haven't had time to do it until now. I may try to get them in under the wire, especially since they're both on the 'didn't default but has one or no gift' list.

Re: Almost Chocolate Box Time

[(Anonymous)]

Every time I think I'll stop and write a treat, I get a new beta request.

This is good - I like beta reading - but whether I actually write a treat is up in the air.

Smutswap

[(Anonymous)]

.

Re: Smutswap

[(Anonymous)]

Can someone explain Flatworm Fuckworld to me

https://smutswap.dreamwidth.org/16474.html

Porn Battle Prompt Stack

[(Anonymous)]

Is dunzo in it current form.

https://pbam.dreamwidth.org/11343.html

Chocolate Box Reveals

[(Anonymous)]

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/ChocolateBox2018/works

Thoughts? Reactions? Petty griping?

Re: Chocolate Box Reveals

[(Anonymous)]

The author's note for this story made me :(, even though the story wasn't even for me:

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/ChocolateBox2018/works/13674768

I’m sorry this didn’t turn out shippy! I liked your prompt so much I started writing without double-checking. I hope you it enjoy anyway.

And looking at the letter, sure enough, the recipient requested / not &.

Chocolate Box winners, losers, wank?

[(Anonymous)]

Great stories, crap stories, other types of drama?

There's mild wank in the comm. about The Exorcist over the Peter Morrow/Peter Osbourne thing in a 200-word story.

https://chocolateboxcomm.dreamwidth.org/21137.html

Re: Chocolate Box winners, losers, wank?

[(Anonymous)]

It's all over on FFA, _coalie, if you're willing to read there. DNWs! Incorrectly-gendered monsters! Unrequested ships, and fic without requested ships! JordannaMorgan getting spitefic!

The post is about to change over, but these two subthreads have most of it:
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/301112.html?thread=1711282232#cmt1711282232
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/301112.html?thread=1711628088#cmt1711628088

Also, the recs subthread has recs:
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/301112.html?thread=1711364664#cmt1711364664

Matching woes! Tune in soon to see the conclusion!

[(Anonymous)]

I have three potential matches! The first two are totally right up my alley and I'd love matching with them! The other one is... different. I could write something they'd probably like, I'm sure, but their letter is rubbing me wrong. They upfront demand that anything that is given to them be vanilla femmedom, which makes me side-eye a bit. Although it doesn't apply to what I'd match on, they've also requested underage ships and DNWed underage. Plus it's super obvious that they tacked on fandom Z to make the minimum and that they really want fandom X or fandom Y, both of which are big canons that I have exactly 0% interest in.

Re: Matching woes! Tune in soon to see the conclusion!

[(Anonymous)]

Dodged a bullet and got the best of the lot! Yay me! \o/

GREAT start to HetSwap

[(Anonymous)]

No letter, no pairings mentioned, no likes...ARGH!!!!

Re: GREAT start to HetSwap

[(Anonymous)]

Write what you like!

Wah, wah, muh podfic

[(Anonymous)]

https://space-swap.dreamwidth.org/16483.html?thread=261987#cmt261987

Podficcer gets sanctimonious in space_swap, as podficcers do.

Reading words that someone else wrote is not the same as creating a brand-new piece of fiction or art.

Re: Wah, wah, muh podfic

[(Anonymous)]

I agree someone's being sanctimonious about podfic, but it isn't the podficcer.

(The mod and the podficcer are being perfectly reasonable about this. You're the one trying to force wank about it.)

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone doing Smutswap? What do you want to receive/write? What letters/requests look good?

[(Anonymous)]

I am! I don't think I should say what I want to receive though haha

[(Anonymous)]

Don't know why I'm so surprised to see FFA eat their own like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Threadfail, oops -same coalie

IT'S MARCH FFS

[(Anonymous)]

Why is this place so dead? Only seven months until nominations!

Re: IT'S MARCH FFS

[(Anonymous)]

I realise why you had to say that, but ffs, hang out on Discord like a normal person.

Paid account

[(Anonymous)]

Expired, I think?

Because I can't use the search function D:

Re: Paid account

[(Anonymous)]

You're right, coalie - should be sorted out now, at least until next year!

need canon review for smutswap

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be ok to mention it here, or is the risk too great that my recip would be hanging out here too?

Re: need canon review for smutswap

[(Anonymous)]

Are you hoping to ~obtain~ the canon?

If so I'd go ask on FFA without saying exactly what for.

Poly Trolley

[(Anonymous)]

A new poly ships exchange has stepped up to hopefully be as not-terribly-modded as Holly Poly. Nominations are open now!

https://polytrolley.dreamwidth.org/

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2253

/not the mod, just excited about poly ships

Re: Poly Trolley

[(Anonymous)]

SC

* to hopefully be not as terribly-modded, even

Fandom 5K

[(Anonymous)]

Signups open tomorrow! Anyone in?

Last year was astonishingly free of wank.

Re: Fandom 5K

[(Anonymous)]

I'm definitely signing up. Last year was great.

Signups are open now: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Fandom5K2018/

hetswap shaking

[(Anonymous)]

I just shook my hetswap gift and got a fandom I really wanted! YAY!

Re: hetswap shaking

[(Anonymous)]

Niiiiiiiice!

Alexseachai is modding an autism exchange

[(Anonymous)]

along with mlraven.

https://autisticexchange.dreamwidth.org/945.html

“This exchange is for autistic people and autistic characters, by autistic people.”

“Keep in mind while nominating, requesting, and offering characters that those characters must be autistic in the fic. Self-diagnosis is acceptable. Medical diagnosis is acceptable.”

“Nominate characters who are canonically autistic, such as Kevin Blake from Eureka or Lou Arrendale from The Speed of Dark, or who you think of (or want to read fic about) as autistic, such as Belle and Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991).”

Coalies, are you going to be signing up?

Re: Alexseachai is modding an autism exchange

[(Anonymous)]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA