chock_coal_ate_bawks ([personal profile] chock_coal_ate_bawks) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal2018-01-29 09:52 am

The rest of the exchange year...

...is worth wanking over, too.

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

Re: Less than a month to nominations

(Anonymous) 2018-08-18 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
People do. I side-eye people who whine about not having enough nomination slots because of all the things they may want to write but not to request themselves. When the time comes to write for your recipient, it's not about what you want. This rant brought to you by a Yuletide acquaintance who used to sock up and fill the tagset with her favorite old shows, not because she had any intention of requesting them, but because she had stories written and wanted other people to request them so she could gift her unposted fics to strangers for treats. She also bragged about posting picklefic for her own assignment at deadline and doing all her writing during Dead Week every year. Not everyone who plays the system sucks, but some people suck hard. Be circumspect if you do go against the rules, and don't brag to your friends how you're putting on over on the mods.

Re: Less than a month to nominations

(Anonymous) 2018-08-18 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a bit about what you want. You need to offer and to match. The latter depends on what other people are requesting, but there do need to be things in the tagset you're comfortable writing first.